All Films

The Eyewitness

1996 • 3 min • Yugoslavia

An experimental work consisting of close-ups of eyes in motion.

Le Manteau de Michel Pacha

1996 • 16 min

Travel diary filmed in Tamaris (near Toulon), Istanbul and Marseille, “Le Manteau de Michel Pacha” is a film-essay on exoticism. How can exoticism persist beneath the documentary? Between the imagery and the experience of travel, the numerous filmed portraits experience the fixity of a mental image. “The civil war replaced exoticism”: this film abruptly intersects with History.

Hey Sailor, Hey Sister

1996 • 24 min

An artfully erotic tale of imagination and desire. The story of a naval officer who, arriving to port with just her duffel bag and leather chaps, goes looking for adventure — and finds it. Has the sailor returned home for good, or is she on weekend leave? Is the woman she meets on the docks a working girl, or a kindred soul looking for more than fun? Do they fall in love, or do they just…? In this slightly mysterious tale of fast pick-ups and safe sex, questions like these serve to heighten the erotic charge of the encounter these two women share.

Det var ju bara en...

1996 • 60 min

His real name was Gerard Gbeyo. He had been in Sweden for just over a year when he got off the bus in Skåne's Klippan one night in September last year and was persecuted by two racists,

Caught Between Two Countries: A Border School Crisis

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

On Caught Between Two Countries: A Border School Crisis, students from Palomas, Mexico travel to Deming, New Mexico to attend school. “For more than 40 years, the small agricultural town of Deming, New Mexico has allowed children from Palomas, Mexico, 34 miles to the south, to attend its schools. It is part of a unique relationship between these two border cities, but this year there may be a break in tradition.”

School Ghosts 3

1996 • 44 min • Japan

A collection of 5 shorts ranging from animated to live-action. Released by Toei Video on VHS.

Club Vanessa (The London Tape)

1996 • 15 min

'Club Vanessa' is a video about "real love" in the form of a sex tape. "Club Vanessa, a video about the present, begins with me fantasizing about what our lives will be like in the future. That we would have a lot of lovers, that there would be real love, but no jealousy. We were trying to reinvest ourselves in this 60s utopian vision and explore in which ways these ideals have affected us. Also, we were reinvesting ourselves in the feminist history of body performance, reanalyzing the female experience as an object of sexual desire." — Ellen Cantor

Menka

1996 • 14 min • Macedonia

An incredible and sad story about the bear named Menka which roams the wilderness by day and is part of the Trajkovi family by night.

The Cardigans - berättelsen om en popbandssuccé

1996 • 24 min • Sweden

The story of the new Swedish hit band The Cardigans.

london vom bett aus mit atmen

1996 • 5 min

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.

Bugz

1996 • 33 min

"Incredible," "beautiful" and "exotic" are only a few of the words (besides "eek!") that describe Bugz. Everything from bugs you'd recognize to bugs you've never seen before (thank goodness!) creeping, jumping, fluttering, squirming and scurrying across your TV screen.

More Than a Passenger - Aurora Australis Safety

1996 • 27 min

A guide to emergency regulations for Antarctic expeditioners traveling aboard the 'Aurora Australis'.

Clayboys on Monster Island

1996 • 5 min • Sweden

Probably the most brutal and outrageous clay animation ever made.

Lighthouses of North America

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

Travel with us as we visit the sandy shoals and craggy cliffs of America's seafaring monuments - lighthouses. Relive ghost stories, shipwrecks and heroic deeds. You will feel the salt spray and face the terror of a storm on the high seas as you enjoy this beautifully photographed history of lighthouses along America's coast. A must see video for lighthouse aficionados and the lovers of history.

How to Smell like a Flower

1996 • 11 min • Vietnam

A boy wants to smell like a flower.

The Selling of Innocents

1996 • 47 min

Following human trafficking from Nepal to India

Turning Virgins Into Doves

1996 • 54 min • Russia

Film of Vetrophonia band in 1996 performing a concert with Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's collages.

Winter

1996 • 30 min • China

Documentary of all 12 families living in the Xishuping village during one winter.

Sports Bloopers Country Style

1996 • 52 min • United States of America

Combine some of the wackiest bloopers ever collected, edited to country music, and you've just hit the right chord for one hour of solid, toe-tapping laughter. Humorous zanies from baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, skiing, rodeo and more-sure to entertain over and over. It's the kind of fun that everybody just has to see and share with others. It's all here. Sports Bloopers with a new song and dance!

Explorers of the Titanic

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

The story of the extraordinary salvage of Titanic, 2 1/2 miles underwater in the North Atlantic. As submersible pilots risk their lives to recover fragments of history, the expedition crew try to resolve the mystery of the coal-fire that raged with Titanic. Was this coal-fire to blame for the greatest Maritime tragedy of all time? "Explorers of the Titanic" is an extraordinary film about 'the most famous ship since Noah's Ark'.

The Plummet

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

An CGI Short about a Penguin going Skiing.

Histoire d'un prince devenu borgne et mendiant

1996 • 16 min • France

The fantastical 'The Prince who Lost an Eye and Became a Beggar' (english title) is a version of a story from the anthology proper, and provides a great example of the timeless fascination of the stories from the 1001 Nights. A prince leaves his country on a boat in search of adventure, only to find himself plunged into a series of unlikely adventures involving everything from a magical bronze horse that transports our hero to a faraway land, to a gigantic monster holding a beautiful princess captive. The forces of lust and death are forever intertwined, leading the prince to his inevitable downfall.

Satanic Vampire Lovers

1996 • 25 min • United States of America

Two frustrated musicians cross paths with a pair of deadly women.

Touch of Inga

1996 • 11 min

Okuyama made a negative print from the original negatives. As opposed to the usual purposes of film, this negative projection allows us to reconsider the various processes inherent in filmmaking.