All Films

Dea Marina

1996 • 6 min • Norway, Sweden

Dea marina is an ecological music film about myths, mankind and the sea. It tells a story of environmental pollution and the gimmicks of today's society. Based on the fairytale Den lille Havfrue by H. C. Andersen.

The Jewel Mountain

1996 • 27 min • Iran

In a bazaar, a poor young boy sees precious stones behind the shop window. The merchant invites him to enter, then takes him to the mountain, where he will have to face multiple dangers...

The Powder Room

1996 • 50 min

From behind the closed doors of women's washrooms, The Powder Room reveals women sharing intimacies in the privacy of each other's company. Originating from the director's observation that women trade secrets with friends and strangers in public washrooms, this innovative and candid documentary takes us to high school bathrooms, seniors centres' powder roooms, Newfoundland dance halls, New York nightclubs, a sauna in Copenhagen, a Casablanca hamman and country-and-western bars in Texas. In each location, as women are filmed in verité sequences, they confess their joys, their frustrations and their pain about love, sex, relationships with men and friendships with each other.

Behind the Scenes of Memories

1996 • 30 min

A look at the making of Katsuhiro Otomo's MEMORIES, a 1995 Japanese anthology film.

Sin

1996 • 36 min • Finland

Synti, is a wry film about themes like sense of guilt, sin and the role that morality plays in choices that people make every day. By setting day-to-day events against the background of the seven mortal sins: pride, wrath, jealousy, lechery, stinginess, idleness and gluttony.

Jim Davidson and 'The Boys' Live

1996 • 58 min • United Kingdom

On September 15th 1996 Jim Davidson, 50 Crew Members, 4 articulated trucks, 1 ton of scaffolding, 200 lights and a 20,000 watt rock sound system arrive at Drawske Pomorski, Poland where Jim put on the biggest and most outrageous outdoor comedy event ever staged for our boys in uniform.

Body Double 6

1996 • 1 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blood Sisters

Body Double 4

1996 • 6 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho as Donna Summer in Bad Girls

Third Reality 2

1996 • 14 min • Russia

Cinematography in allegory. Film is dedicated to the memory of Svyatoslav Valov, the director of documentary films and Kobrin’s colleague.

Tokyo····

1996 • 7 min • Japan

A journey through time in Tokyo.

Stunder av lycka

1996 • 35 min

A documentary about the caravan campers of Tofta Södra, Gotland, Sweden. A high dose of swedish summer.

Granular Synthesis: Sweetheart

1996 • 7 min • Austria

Granular Synthesis are the new media, video art, and music duo Kurt Hentschläger and Ulf Langheinrich, who take their name from the practice of sampling "microsounds" (audio clips lasting 1 to 50 milliseconds) to create new compositions. Part of a series of video and installation pieces, "Sweetheart" features a single close-up of performer Akemi Takeya. It was produced for the Austrian T.V. network ORF.

Ai Rotoli

1996 • 6 min • Italy

A visit to the Rotoli cemetery in Palermo, while film director Carmelo Bene reads a fragment of Antonio Pizzuto's book "Signorina Rosina".

Passage(s) de Nature

1996 • 52 min

"It's me ! I'm the friend of nature ! " The number of those who break into this fashionable tune is growing. But it's rather paradoxical as, while this statement reaches the charts, the "artificial" (images, machines...) progress rapidly. Between hi-tech and virtual, the concept of nature holds its own, but has become rather confusing. What his happening to the notion of nature today ? The purpose of this documentary is to answer that question through many stimulating encounters with the genetician, Mr Albert Jacquard, the philosopher, Mr Pierre Lévy, the chemist and Doctor in philosophy, Ms Isabelle Stengers and the "anthropologist of the sciences", Mr Bruno Latour.

Critical Mass

1996 • 50 min

Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm for a dreamlike effect, CRITICAL MASS is a strange, poetic vision of childhood. From its first vision sequence to its consequential conclusion, the film follows one boy's wanderings, both internal and external, as he tries to make sense of his world. Life, death, time and place become interchangeable when he happens upon a dead crow, a barren hilltop and a small boy who serves as a catalyst for his actions. CRITICAL MASS explores the power of childhood imagination that makes play become reality.

Calypso!

1996 • 5 min

Divers find an undersea grotto inhabited by strange men.

Kings and Cabbage

1996 • 52 min • Russia

Stop motion movie made in Russia.

Text Videovoid

1996 • 35 min

The tape surfs the interface sense / nonsense… Starting in the gap of the unsynchronized signal it insists itself into existence through the mirroring process of selfreflection. The deadline breathes its last gasp, sufficient for the transit of a migrating signifier. / I will make a poem of pure nothing.

A Sky Full of Stars

1996 • 19 min

The life of a young Greek man who has contracted AIDS is shown through a series of short vignettes.

Alex Katz: Five Hours, a Film by Vivien Bittencourt & Vincent Katz

1996 • 20 min

When Alex Katz paints one of his large, signature paintings, it is an act of the utmost concentration, a performance in which he draws on years of experience as well as preliminary sketches, painted studies, finished drawings, and a large charcoal cartoon, as he transfers the bare bones of the image to his canvas.

Windows

1996 • 4 min • Germany

"The window of a flat in New York: curtains dance in the wind. One of them casts a shadow on the velvet sofa, which, in close-up, takes on an entirely new dynamic." —Milena Gierke

In A Tree’s Shadow

1996 • 2 min • Germany

"1st Part: the tree‘s bark, leaves, branches and shadow on the ground and on wooden houses. 2nd Part: An abstract composition of alternating images. Green leaves, and the blue sky. Gradually, the rhythm of shooting changes." —Milena Gierke

Hull to Hornsea

1996 • 5 min

Following the old route of the train line from Hull to Hornsea.

Sun Moon Lake

1996 • 20 min • China

A long time ago, there lived the brave young man Dajian and the beautiful girl Shuishe on the treasure island of Taiwan. They loved each other and often met under the big tree. Suddenly one day, the whole earth fell into darkness. It turned out that the demon dragon living in Blackwater Pond had stolen the sun and moon.