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Self Song & Death Song

Self Song & Death Song

1997 • 4 min
SELF SONG documents a body besieged by cancer. The amber glow of flesh suggests both victory and submission to death. Blackness surrounds the image and takes it over altogether. Furthermore, the complex grooves and patterns of the flesh struggle to maintain their focus, suggesting the obscuring and dissolving effects of cancer. In DEATH SONG the film begins with blue hues which suggest the permanent aspect of death to contrast a sequence of overexposed yellow. Within these images are microscopic organisms constantly being 'washed out' by whiteness, which seeks to dissolve the image. In this respect, we might view the purity of whiteness as being 'soiled'. By the end of the film, the image has shifted to the blue screen suggesting a comfortable aspect of death. Yet, this vision is too idyllic in Brakhage's mind, and thus he allows the blueness to bleed from the side of the frame, opening the 'blinds' to the cancerous light. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Volcano: Nature's Inferno

Volcano: Nature's Inferno

1997 • 52 min
Travel around the world for a firsthand look at volcanoes - perhaps the most dazzling but destructive natural force on earth. Massive volcanic eruption can turn day into night, releasing the power of an atomic blast, spewing toxic avalanches of lava, gas, and ash. National Geographic Video transports you to some of the world's most notorious volcanoes, including Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Japan's Mount Unzen. Join volcanologists in their dangerous quest to forecast eruptions and save lives, putting you in the middle of the explosive excitement and human drama of Volcano: Nature's Inferno.
Sammy Molco - Private Eye

Sammy Molco - Private Eye

1997 • 20 min • Israel
The story of a private eye named Sammy Molco who discovers his wife has a female lover, showing the struggles and attempts he experiences in order to keep her by his side.
Wet and Dry

Wet and Dry

1997 • 15 min • United Kingdom
The heroine is a mummy, possibly of an Egyptian princess or goddess, who in former times was executed for sacrilegous adultery and is now condemned to dusting this old house, which, like her and her mind, is falling apart .
Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook

Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook

1997 • 58 min
It was a nightmare that shocked not only New York, but all of America. The public outcry about the Willowbrook State School for people with developmental disabilities resulted from Geraldo Rivera's expose on WABC after he had entered Willowbrook with a film crew in 1972, using a stolen key.
Thomas & Friends: Thomas Meets the Queen

Thomas & Friends: Thomas Meets the Queen

1997 • 34 min
PEEP! PEEP! Welcome to the Island of Sodor and exciting adventures with Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Henry has an accident with a bucket of paint and it's up to Thomas and Gordon to save the day when the Queen visits the railway. Sir Handel learns just how troublesome the trucks can be and Daisy has to be brave when she comes face to face with a cow on the line. Come along for the ride with all of your friends - on Sir Topham Hatt's railway, the fun never ends!
The Noodlepoop

The Noodlepoop

1997 • 40 min • Denmark
Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But she doesn't have good memories of romance. The third of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
Undersea Fleet Submarine 707F

Undersea Fleet Submarine 707F

1997 • 50 min • Japan
A mysterious object attacks and destroys any ship or submarine. Submarine 707 has the mission to search for that mysterious object, when summoned by a whale to follow it. The whale leads them to the world of Mu. But on their way they meet the mysterious object. They find out , it is Commander Red Silver, who had attacked the world of Mu to get Mu's magma sources. Submarine takes up the battle to defeat Red Silver and save Mu, and the world for that matter.
Burning Man

Burning Man

1997 • 8 min • United States of America
Short documentary filmed at the 1995 Burning Man festival
Redeemer

Redeemer

1997 • 4 min • Finland
A selfish angel in a single-take.
Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs

Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs

1997 • 56 min • United States of America
National Geographic goes to Egypt to look into an underground vault that houses a ship of the Pharaoh Khufu and follows an researcher as he attempts to recreate the ancient rite of mummification.
Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

Portrait: Jane Campion and The Portrait of a Lady

1997 • 55 min • United States of America
A documentary about the making of Jane Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady'.
The Boy Business

The Boy Business

1997 • 60 min • Netherlands, United Kingdom
This documentary examines claims made by a man known as ‘Edward’ that videos have been made in Amsterdam by convicted paedophile, Warwick Spinks. Edward insists he saw five boys abused and killed on video and points out the house in Amsterdam where he was shown snuff movies. The story of Bovver Boots Casting Agency’s photographer Harry Jeffries and manager Peter Howells is confronted. Claims that the agency was a cover for tricking children into posing for obscene photographs.
Sky. Last Dream

Sky. Last Dream

1997 • 24 min • Russia
Soviet film reels were found in an abandoned cinema and decided to be projected onto a white screen like a slide film.
Blackmores Night: Shadow of the moon

Blackmores Night: Shadow of the moon

1997 • 42 min • United States of America
1.Renaissance Faire 2.No Second Chance 3.Shadow Of The Moon +Special Interview. Ritchie's Guitar Collections.
Whitesnake - Starkers In Tokyo

Whitesnake - Starkers In Tokyo

1997 • 44 min
Recorded "in the heat of the night" at EMI Toshiba Studio 3 in Tokyo on 5th July 1997.
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas

Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas

1997 • 60 min • United States of America
Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world's most popular Christmas traditions -- from the significance of December 25th and its relationship to winter solstice to the enchanting legend of Santa Claus and Prince Albert's 1841 unveiling of the Christmas tree.
Sealed With a Kick

Sealed With a Kick

1997 • 5 min
The unaired pilot episode of the MTV show 'Daria.' Its purpose was to give those at MTV an idea of what the series might look like.
The Dalmatians

The Dalmatians

1997 • 25 min • Germany
Tuepfelchen, the little Dalmatian dog is despaired. Just a second ago she had been playing with her two brothers and sisters and now they are gone. Together with Kruemel, the young half-breed dog, he starts looking for them. Soon they meet a gang of street dogs. They persuade the dogs to help them. Without success they search the whole city. All of a sudden Butcher, the clumsy Bulldog discovers a trace of the two. The small Dalmatians aren't well. The dog gang decides to act and Kruemel already has a plan.
Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece

Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece

1997 • 15 min • United States of America
Documentary about the making of Disney's animated musical adaptation of Kipling's classic.
Amsterdam Afterbeat

Amsterdam Afterbeat

1997 • 16 min
Johan van der Keuken: 'We kept the ends of a lot of shots in Amsterdam Global Village: the camera leaves the subject and pans to the sound woman, who quickly taps the microphone. These taps later in the cutting become the references for synchronising picture and sound. This film is the rhythmic sequence of these taps, in which something of a story can be seen.
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

Bill T. Jones: Still/Here

1997 • 56 min • United States of America
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
My Dinner With Oswald

My Dinner With Oswald

1997 • 17 min • Ireland
Relationships are strained to breaking point by an obsession with conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's assassination.
Three Men and a Leg: Bitter Ticket

Three Men and a Leg: Bitter Ticket

1997 • 5 min
Three protagonists, three ordinary men, are locked together inside a tram, a symbol of human existence.