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Buddhist Ladakh

Buddhist Ladakh

1996 • 18 min
A documentary film about a country where Tibetan Buddhism has preserved its original culture. When steel birds begin to fly in the sky, when horses begin to ride on wheels, the time will come when Buddhism will begin to spread to the western countries," predicted in the eighth century the Tibetan saint and magician Padmasambhava. After many centuries of an impregnable and isolated land of monks living in countless monasteries, Ladakh has been made accessible by cars and airplanes. A unique cultural and religious heritage of the world has been revealed in the former kingdom, lying on the western edge of the Tibetan Plateau guarded by the high ranges of the Himalayas and the Karakoram. its ancient traditions and knowledge of the hidden powers of the human soul and the highest knowledge are mortally threatened. It depends only on humanity whether these riches of the world will disappear forever or become the spiritual property of a future higher civilization. (distributor's official text)
Songshu

Songshu

1996 • 4 min
Camera movements on a pine (“Songshù” in Chinese) at dusk when the light is so soft. Film with nuanced hues and Chinese painting graphics.
Ecosystem 10 ~ A Dripping Moss

Ecosystem 10 ~ A Dripping Moss

1996 • 13 min • Japan
Sunset Strip

Sunset Strip

1996 • 4 min
A day-by-day animated diary of a year's sunsets, recorded directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as magnolia petals, net stocking, lacquer and ink, to create a dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns.
FADE into WHITE (#1)

FADE into WHITE (#1)

1996 • 5 min
Experimental work with minimized black and white images.
How to Be Prime Minister

How to Be Prime Minister

1996 • 49 min • United Kingdom
It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The hours are terrible, money so-so, job security non-existent. On the plus side, there's free accommodation in central London and probably more power over your country than any other leader in the western world. With the help of the present and previous incumbents, Michael Cockerell offers the first "how to" guide to the job of prime minister.
Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

1996 • 50 min
Profile of the American sculptor Claes Oldenburg. Although born in Sweden, he was brought up in the USA and moved to New York in the late 1950s. Contemporaries Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist reminisce about their experiences with the artist. Art dealer Arne Glimcher, museum director Tom Krens, and critic Hilton Kramer, among others, discuss with the writer Coosje van Bruggen, to whom the artist is married, the development of Oldenburg's career from the early cardboard and plaster pieces to the large-scale public works executed over the past twenty years. Oldenburg is filmed drawing in the couple's Manhattan studio, while van Bruggen and Oldenburg together retrace the conceptualisation of a recent urban project, the `Torn Notebook'. The latter part of the programme is devoted to the complex installation of the nine-metre long `Giant Soft Shuttlecock' in the Guggenheim Museum in New York in October 1995, for the exhibition entitled `Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology'.
Kagami no nai ie ni hikari afure

Kagami no nai ie ni hikari afure

1996 • 57 min • Japan
Biography of Yuri Saito, who was blinded after contracting measles at the age of three and became a social activist for the blind
Damn Hippies

Damn Hippies

1996 • 55 min • Norway
The year is 1973. A sleepy small town is turned upside down in a matter of weeks. It all begins when six young men return to Norway after many years abroad. The life as hippies around the USA and Europe has left its clear marks. However, it will soon prove to be difficult to lead the same lifestyle in Norway.
Journeys to the Edge of Creation The Milky Way & Beyond

Journeys to the Edge of Creation The Milky Way & Beyond

1996 • 46 min
Imagine a "sea" of 200 billion stars. That's our Milky Way, one of the most brilliant and beautiful of God's creations. Travel deep inside to its very core. Experience its pulsars, quasars and mysterious black holes as captured exclusively for NASA by the orbiting Hubble space telescope. Marvel at the order of it all. The grand design. Only the Master Planner could have created it with such precision and loving care.
World Trade Center: Fire Safety Video

World Trade Center: Fire Safety Video

1996 • 10 min • United States of America
This video is a complete package of understanding and management of Fire Emergency at The World Trade Center Complex.
De iside ed osiride

De iside ed osiride

1996 • 16 min
Surreal dance film made up of a documentary-like introduction in color and a fiction section shot in black and white. A woman steals a statue and ends up in a story in which the reality and the myth of Isis and Osiris are intertwined.
Banjo Fishing System Instructional Video

Banjo Fishing System Instructional Video

1996 • 15 min • United States of America
A fishing instructional video from 1996.
Life of the Party

Life of the Party

1996 • 32 min • United States of America
An instructional video that teaches the viewer rad dance moves so they can become the life of the party.
Xenomycology

Xenomycology

1996 • 3 min • United States of America
Animated short.
The New Re-Animator

The New Re-Animator

1996 • 14 min
The malevolent Dr. Fronstein has managed to develop a serum that revives dead tissue. The people who hang around his house will be the propitiatory victims of his terrible experiments.
L'emulo

L'emulo

1996 • 3 min • Italy
A Japanese cartoons nerd tries to emulate his television heroes, with tragic and unexpected consequences. In fact, he will discover that he can go far beyond his simple expectations as an emulator.
White

White

1996 • 2 min
Shots inside and outside a flat. White, pure shots, with a golden conclusion.
Lovćen

Lovćen

1996 • 13 min • Yugoslavia
The movie shows the demolition of the old chapel on Jezerski vrh on Lovćen where the Montenegrin bishop Petar Petrović Njegoš was buried, and the subsequent construction of today's Njegoš mausoleum. The film was completed in the 1970s, but it was not available to the public, it was banned and it ended up in a bunker until the beginning of the 1990s, when it was shown on the Radio Television of Serbia.
Sprutor dåna, hovar stampa

Sprutor dåna, hovar stampa

1996 • 32 min • Sweden
A documentary about Gustaf Fröding's early days writing in Karlstads-Tidningen, focusing on his articles about three fires.
P.L.O.W.: Punk Ladies Of Wrestling

P.L.O.W.: Punk Ladies Of Wrestling

1996 • 60 min • United States of America
You’ve never seen actiopn like this is any arean you’ve ever been in! Watch these bitches get down and dirty! No holds barred! Their tight assed bodies clash and somersault through the air, their sweaty skin exposed for all to see!
Fences & Neighborhoods

Fences & Neighborhoods

1996 • 60 min
This documentary focuses on three communities which were damaged by highway construction and federal Urban Renewal programs following World War II. In the 1980s, residents were promised the Olympics would support economic and residential redevelopment. The program uses footage from various news reports and contemporary interviews to portray the often conflicting interests of the people wanting to see positive community development that could occur as a result of the Olympic Games being held in Atlanta. The program covers the history of Atlanta leading up to hosting the Olympics, development and construction plans, support for and opposition to the Olympic Games in Atlanta, issues surrounding Centennial Olympic Park, and neighborhood development.
Australian Biography: Ruby Langford Ginibi

Australian Biography: Ruby Langford Ginibi

1996 • 28 min • Australia
The life of Ruby Langford Ginibi is a story of triumph against the odds. She was born on a mission station, and her mother left the family when Langford was six years old. At the age of 16 she embarked on the first of four tumultuous relationships and went on to raise nine children, working as a fencer, cleaner and machinist. Three of her children died, and one son has spent almost half his life in correctional institutions. In 1984, after shaking off an alcohol addiction, Langford wrote her autobiography Don't Take Your Love to Town, which won the 1988 Human Rights Literary Award.
Washing Hands Abnormal

Washing Hands Abnormal

1996 • 56 min
In this work, shown on two stacked monitors, Bruce Nauman washes his hands with a thoroughness bordering on obsession. Each from a different vantage point, the two monitors present a simple everyday action, extended to fill almost an hour. The work is a self-portrait in which the hands serve as a metaphor for the artist’s creative potency. The camera’s unorthodox angle, the image’s shifting colors and the repetitive movement unite in giving this commonplace act an hypnotic effect. Bruce Nauman is particularly renowned for his video performances of the 1970s in which his body is the focus of improvised, repetitive acts. The works produced in the ‘90s refer back to the strategy he pursed in his earlier career.