All Films

Landscape

1996 • 7 min

Short film directed by Chen Shiaixiong.

Gay Couples: Nature of a Relationship

1996 • 50 min

Dr. Pepper Schwartz documents the lives of one gay and one lesbian couple. She uses a case-study approach that explores their views on handling conflict, work and communication, the influence of their families and friends, and how gender and society influence personal relationships.

The Sad Robot

1996 • 2 min

A dejected homemade robot wanders through a bright and sunny landscape, only to encounter some bad luck.

A Hard Life

1996 • 57 min

Kalliopi Kalogerou has spent her whole life in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia where she was born in 1900. Simple witness of the century, she lived through Turkish domination and successive occupations linked to different wars. Most of her family stays elsewhere, in Greece or abroad (USA, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria); her shattered family world is representative of the Greek diaspora. The film is exclusively devoted to her life story, told to a young Epirot friend, Eleni Pangratiou-Alexakis, and to her daughter, Evguenia, both of whom have settled in the States. The result is a rich, yet austere film where nothing distracts the viewer from the dialogue and the face of the storyteller. It also constitutes an ordinary yet important testimony on this long and painful page of Greek history (1900-1983).

Aboriginal Radio Waves Part I

1996 • 16 min • Canada

Created by Anishnabe Videographer Joe Beardy and trainee Darlene Naponse, Aboriginal Radio Waves Part I is the first part of a two part series about community radio. Through interviews and visuals, the video shares with you the voices of station managers, volunteers, DJs, and community members.

The Perfect White Wall

1996 • 8 min • United States of America

An avant-garde film set in an art museum. Dated 1996, likely a regional or student film.

Kae, Act Like A Girl

1996 • 47 min

In Kae, Act Like A Girl, Idemitsu continues her experimental narrative exploration of women's roles in contemporary Japan with a tale of women's liberationist awakening. Here she presents a young female artist's conflict with the traditional, patriarchal expectations of women in Japanese culture, in which men are privileged and women are groomed to be wives and mothers. Within Idemitsu's narrative, video screens and images represent the protagonist's inner struggle — memories, conscience, familial pressure — as she subordinates and then ultimately achieves her personal and artistic desires.

Terrafirma 3

1996 • 42 min

The 3rd installment of Terrafirma continued to build on the formula of great footage and iconic riders with the perfect soundtrack. The T3 opening scene features helicopter footage of desert racing legend Johnny Campbell pinned wide open on a Honda XR 650 on a dry lake bed. This dynamic footage set the stage for the balance of the T3 video which includes 1996 Supercross footage of McGrath’s near perfect season a road trip that captures an initial look at Mike Metzger free riding Jeff Emig’s outdoor title and the 1996 MXON event in Spain.

Binary Lives

1996 • 47 min • France, United States of America

A short documentary on the life and art of Steina and Woody Vasulka, produced in 1996. The Vasulkas speak candidly about their work and worldviews, and the piece features excerpts from their early works and a glimpse into their '90s output.

Borough Market

1996 • 4 min

A four-minute 16mm film of one of London's fruit and vegetable markets, made in 1995/96, a little while before its transformation into a temple of gastro-consumerism/gastro-tourism.

robinson or me (From the Far East)

1996 • 11 min

Cho continues his imagistic exploration of the psyche of the solitary individual. Using a combination of meditative static shots and frantic camera movement, he leads the viewer into a realm of extreme isolation, where self-regard and self-observation begin to mutate into a kind of voyeurism. Solitude and silence allow the objects and rituals of daily life — drinking a cup of tea, taking a shower — to take on significance. Lines of text from Karl Krolow's 'Poems Against Death' obliquely comment on this beautiful and reflective assemblage of domestic images.

9 St-Augustin

1996 • 52 min

Raymond Roy is a 64-year-old idealist, an energetic social activist ready to give everything he has to those living on the edge: the alienated, impoverished and exploited members of society. Raymond is also a priest, doing what he has wanted to do ever since he was a teenager. Filmmaker Serge Giguère paints an intimate portrait of a man who has spent 30 years fighting for an alternative vision of life in his community. The film is a blend of cinema vérité and social history that provides a view of the man and his work from without and within, from the poetry of his personal diary laced with doubts and self-criticism, to the many achievements of the community groups he helped. Filming over several years, Giguère gives us a sense of the changes in values and attitudes of those who run our society, along with the role of the community groups who provide solutions, inspiration and a sense of renewal.

Within Heaven and Hell

1996 • 16 min

Swinging between pleasure and torment, Cantor narrates an autobiographical story of a doomed love affair over scenes from The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974). Wittily and ingeniously cutting between parallel sequences from the iconic Hollywood musical and the equally iconic slasher film, Cantor draws out the familial and sexual tensions and terrors underlying both. At one point, in Within Heaven and Hell, Cantor relates a time her lover said to her, “You sound like a movie.” As Cantor would later note, both "The Sound of Music and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are based on true stories.”

Your Mom’s A Lesbian. Here’s Your Lunch, Have A Good Day at School.

1996 • 27 min

Your Mom’s A Lesbian. Here’s Your Lunch, Have A Good Day at School

Dream Bunny in Dream Land

1996 • 24 min

Dream Bunny is a story of a magical stuffed animal that comes alive in Dreamland. Children go there when they're asleep and Dream Bunny teaches them to sing, dance, read, and confront their fears.

Herts

1996 • 2 min

Two machines running amok, the camera and a street paving machine.

The Cookie Jar

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

Who keeps drinking all the booze?

Choo Choo Christmas

1996 • 30 min

Trains and the Holiday Season go hand and hand, and this unique video is just the thing to get you in the holiday mood. Enjoy watching trains in a variety of winter settings with a pleasing mix of live train audio and holiday music. See steam, diesel, freight and passenger trains in the US and Canada. There’s also some fascinating scenes with snow plows!

Trinkets and Beads

1996 • 52 min

The indigenous Huaorani people of Ecuador manage to preserve their isolation from the outside world, until American missionaries and a Texas oil company threaten their very existence.

The Last Fish in the World

1996 • 3 min • Philippines

People around the world try doing bizarre things to have fish and in the end, the last fish decides to leave them.

A List of Things That Makes the Heart Beat Faster

1996 • 9 min

Based on porn, the poem! Based on porn, the poem!

Flyby2

1996 • 4 min

Originally found on a crusty old Windows 95 computer originally belonging to Lockheed Martin, this 3D aircraft screen saver featuring planes from the Blue Impulse aerobatic demonstration team was rediscovered in 2022 by Clint from LGR.

Fan-Tasy

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

A sentient desk fan yearns for escape.

Dreamaker

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

Psychedelic computer animated visions.