All Films

Monochrome Head

1997 • 10 min • Japan

Without warning, the image of a girl wildly waving a baseball bat that slices through the air leaps to my mind. Such speed also reminds me of the rhythm of the filmmaker's previous works. Or is it a symbol of teenage madness? A ceremony to summon some creature from a legend? -Takashi Nakajima

Cyberscape: A Computer Animation Vision

1997 • 45 min

Computer visionary Beny Tchaicovsky presents a new dimension in digital imagery in this fast-forward trip through human existence. The oddities of our species -- from primitive to modern man -- are on full display in this surreal history. Accompanied by Peter Bernstein's soundtrack, the video zips from the Garden of Eden to quantum mechanics with detours to explore the human obsessions of time, money and the opposite sex.

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

1997 • 44 min • United States of America

Documentary on the life and career of actor Vincent Price, best known for horror film classics such as "House of Wax," "The Fly," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Labour's Old Romantic

1997 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.

The Cat on Boots

1997 • 30 min • Germany

The youngest of the miller's three sons sits sadly in front of his cabin while his brothers inherit their father's mill and donkey, and all he'd gotten was an old tomcat. But what he did not know: it was a quite gifted tomcat. A tomcat that can speak and walk like a human on two legs!

A World Of Differences

1997 • 35 min

When we encounter people from other societies or cultures, we may fail to understand them for many reasons, including differences in language, values, gestures, emotional expression, norms, rituals, rules, expectations, family background, and life experiences. This extraordinary documentary shows that cross-cultural communication can be successful if we manage to understand the powerful differences that separate people who come from differing cultures.

St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral

1997 • 50 min • Austria

St. Stephen’s Cathedral ranks amongst Austria‘s most famous cultural monuments. Yet, one would not think of that Cathedral being one of the most astonishing natural areas in Austria.Georg Riha and his team have explored the Cathedral from its foundations to the top of its 136 meter spire and discovered a true botanical and zoological garden: wild animals, exotic butterflies, kestrels, moss, lichen and even trees.

William Wegman's Mother Goose

1997 • 30 min

Mother Goose tries to teach her son, Simon Goose, how to rhyme using some of her famous nursery rhymes.

In Living Memory

1997 • 14 min • Canada

In Living Memory is a bittersweet dialogue between father and daughter, challenging traditional notions of remembering and forgetting. This video explores the loving and sometimes stormy relationship between the two and explores the father's life as an artist and communist, who at age 93, is losing his memory.

Fast Driver

1997 • 5 min • United States of America

A Parody cartoon of Speed Racer.

Anti-Hero's Fucktards

1997 • 20 min

Anti-Hero's Fucktards video featured John Cardiel, Bob Burnquist, Julien Stranger, Eric J, Sean Young and friends.

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

1997 • 45 min • United States of America

Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "12 Angry Men."

Savour Me

1997 • 22 min • Canada

A sensual and erotic short drama about secrets and desires. By covertly watching the most intimate moments of each other's lives, two neighbours discover their mutual longing for each other.

The Fake Van Goghs

1997 • 52 min

Was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction, a fake? This documentary explores the authenticity of the "Sunflowers" painting by Vincent Van Gogh, bought in the late 1980s for a then record sum by a Japanese insurance company.

The Trick

1997 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Three talent scouts are auditioning for the best eponymous 'trick'. After kicking out a magic chef type, a guy comes in who unfolds a magic door from a pen.

Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings

1997 • 56 min • Poland

A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve concert, but his shot at fame is threatened when, against his better judgment, he goes out on a rainy night and gets a cold.

Japanese-style Paella

1997 • 26 min • Japan

A woman who aspires to be a makeup artist meets a country girl at an old farmhouse.

Hogarth's Progress

1997 • 51 min

Satirical, critical, talented – William Hogarth was one of the most original British artists of the 18th Century. The son of a poor schoolmaster made a name for himself as a portraitist and became best known for his satirical etchings. In strange and graphic tales, such as A Harlot's Progress, he denounced the social and political injustices of his time. Often pirated, Hogarth fought for the first image copyright law. Together with illustrators and writers from today, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores Hogarth's birth city London and recounts the life and work of a man who is regarded as the forerunner of modern caricature.

The Film to Come

1997 • 9 min • France, Switzerland

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison. It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence “independent from humans. Cinema, they said, is the primeval soup of a new life form. There from were to emerge pure screening creatures. Which is to say, non-topical beings.” - n+1

Greater Than a Tiger

1997 • 18 min • United States of America

Boney D

1997 • 3 min • United States of America

An amusing chase short starring a hipster dog named Boney D.

My Pretty Little Girlfriend

1997 • 7 min

An innocent lunch at a diner between a lesbian couple turns sour when a hamburger becomes the catalyst for a heated argument about weight. A nontraditional short which scrutinizes the annoying nuances which create tension in any relationship.

In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine

1997 • 54 min • United States of America

Examines the step-by-step process that led German medical professionals down an unethical road to genocide.

For Ella

1997 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one of the actors from The Way Steel Was Tempered, hear of Ella Fitzgerald's unexpected death. Jovica is desperate; he plays the piano all night long and cries. His wife threatens him saying that she will throw him out of the house unless he gets rid of the piano.