All Films

New York Underground

1997 • 56 min

In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of constant complaint. On March 24, 1900, ground was broken for the Big Apple's subway; the Interborough Rapid Transit Line opened four years later, running more than 26 miles of underground track at the speed of 35 miles per hour. Soon thousands in the city were "doing the subway."

D.

1997 • 4 min

A look into the far-too-brief life of D. Montgomery, the sound recordist for Caveh Zahedi's I DON'T HATE LAS VEGAS ANYMORE.

Chapado

1997 • 31 min • Brazil

Three experimental video directors join forces to create a lysergic film written and shot only during moments of alcoholic relaxation and other substances. The result is this film.

Goulet's Sick

1997 • 28 min • United States of America

The difference between love and loneliness rests on the slightest of hinges.

Babe, He Calls Me

1997 • 7 min • United States of America

Melvin's saga continues as his partnership with Malcom is compromised by an urban superhero's intrusion. Meanwhile, Melvin's mother aids a criminal after being unable to meet with her son.

Coffee and Cigarettes III

1997 • 12 min • United States of America

This shortcut repeats the structure of Coffee and Cigarettes. This time, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet in a bar. But, again, we don't know why they agreed to do that in the first place, because they don't seem to know each other very well and they don't have much to talk about, so the conversation wanders idly and hilariously as they sip their coffee and smoke cigarettes.

The Final Insult

1997 • 55 min • Germany

This video work intermingles fiction with actuality in a poignant confrontation with homelessness.

Many Happy Returns

1997 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Mixed live-action and paper maché puppet animation. The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman’s consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting the woman’s experience of the present.

Citizen Ken Loach

1997 • 60 min

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Karim Dridi, originally aired 2 July 1997.

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

1997 • 54 min • France

Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: “The role of the author in cinema should be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

1997 • 51 min • United Kingdom

This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including archival footage and interviews with Lauren Bacall and his son Stephen Bogart.

Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung

1997 • 5 min • France

Experimental short made by Olivier Assayas for Fondation of Contemporary Art and starring Maggie Cheung.

Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age

1997 • 57 min

The future of preservation is at stake in the digital age. Into the Future explores the hidden crisis of the digital information age. Will digitally stored information and knowledge survive into the future? Will humans twenty, fifty, one hundred years from now have access to the electronically recorded history of our time?

Konaté's Gift

1997 • 32 min • Burkina Faso

When Djénéba returns from the city where she has been visiting her cousin, she brings her husband, Konaté, a wonderful gift: a condom. Konaté is furious and refuses to change his habits. Djénéba, well aware of the effects of AIDS, refuses to give in.

Lionel on a Sun Day

1997 • 29 min • United States of America

Lionel tries to get into a building through the stairwell, but are on each floor upheld by strange people.

The Few Doctors

1997 • 35 min • United Kingdom

BBC Executives are gathered to come up with a new concept for Doctor Who on television. After the Children's and Drama departments are excluded the project falls in the hands of the BBC Sports department. The classic science fiction series is changed into a sports grudge match between all the television and movie Doctors against the classic monsters - Cybermen, Daleks, etc.

Whacked!

1997 • 5 min

Deep Into Dub

1997 • 56 min

A German documentary that explores dub music, sound system culture and its influence

Vincent van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius

1997 • 44 min

The tragic story of the immortal artist whose works are among the world's most treasured masterpieces today, but who was almost completely ignored in his own lifetime.

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

1997 • 60 min • United States of America

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.

The Adventures of James and David

1997 • 11 min

James visits his young brother David who has just opened a hairdressing salon. the two brothers do not agree on how to become a successful hairdesser.

Law of Desire

1997 • 18 min • United States of America

The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode made in the Clit-o-matic: The Adventures Of White Trash Girl! series about female superhero White Trash Girl. It has been referred to as part #3 in an ongoing series.

Barney's Camp WannaRunnaRound

1997 • 51 min

After a forest ranger visits the school, Stephen decides he wants to become one too, but there's one big problem: Stephen has never visited a forest before. With a little imagination, Barney whisks Stephen and his friends, Hannah, Kim, and Chip, to Camp WannaRunnaRound for a hiking, camping, Super-Dee-Duper adventure!

The Bloody Olive

1997 • 11 min • Belgium

A murder-à-trois in every conceivable way.