All Films

Llorenç Soler: dues o tres coses que…

1996 • 21 min

Martí Rom presents a monograph dedicated to the figure of Llorenç Soler, who was his colleague during his time at Central del Curt and a collaborator on several works in his filmography.

Help! Barbarian hordes at Pratello

1996 • 51 min

This documentary aims to demonstrate the vitality of the squatted house at 76/78 Via del Pratello in Bologna, and to highlight the stark contrasts, including visual ones, of everyday life.

Barba Lounger

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

An CGI Short about Talking Chairs.

We Await

1996 • 54 min • United States of America

A con artist is held captive by an unhinged cannibal family that ingests copious quantities of hallucinogenic, green fungal goo covertly harnessed from an otherworldly, sentient crystal housed in their third floor apartment of horrors.

Passages

1996 • 12 min • Austria

Lisl Ponger creates an imaginary map of the twentieth century on which the stories of emigration are engraved like well-worn tracks of occidental memory. The pictures, made by observant tourists, are revealed, in their tensile relationship to the soundtrack, as a post-colonial journey. A journey through exactly those countries which long ago have been shrunk together in space and time. Finally the wonderful neon signs of the “Hotel Edison” and “Radio City” remind one of the origins of this form of appropriation of the world, of the time of great expeditions, of Benjamin‘s shop-windows and passages, and of the time when technical apparatus and means of transportation fundamentally altered the perceptions of modern man.

The Appearance

1996 • 40 min • Germany

An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign. The logo submitted is examined from every angle: it must simultaneously express both the company's dynamism and its reliability. A fascinating, dispassionate glimpse behind closed doors, where every detail is dramatized to win that lucrative contract.

The Trip to Ragnar

1996 • 38 min • Sweden

Sonja and Clary take the bus to Café Norrköping and get to meet Ragnar Dahlberg.

E=mc²

1996 • 5 min • France, Ukraine

4 minute sandanimation about love, life & death.

Cosplay Encyclopedia

1996 • 60 min • Japan

What is Cosplay? Well, Cosplay is short for costume play, and it occurs when thousands of anime fans crowd a convention center dressed as their favorite anime characters. This encyclopedia gives Western anime fans a detailed experience of this slightly bizarre phenomenon. Features characters from series like Magic Knight Rayearth, Sailor Moon, Sorcerer Hunters, and Evangelion.

Abductees

1996 • 11 min

Five tales of alien abduction told using a wide range of animated techniques.

Prelude 9

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression of The Statue of Liberty – and, then, impressions of Toronto with its architectural particularities appearing, midst hurrying people – shapes (almost as if photographed at times). This segment is Double-Printed (i. e., two frames for every painted one).

Twisters! Nature's Fury

1996 • 58 min

Join storm chasers, scientists and video camera amateurs as they film the fury of tornadoes. In the first part of the video, it features scientists using "Project Vortex" as they place instruments around the twisters to record data and following storm chasers with their best video sequences on the dangerous cyclones. In part two, watch as amateurs capture video sequences and witness the damage after the storm is over. It also features a countdown of the top ten most destructive video sequences.

Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life

1996 • 18 min • United States of America

A short documentary about the life and art of photographer Ruth Orkin.

From Unfinished Tales of Jerusalem

1996 • 26 min

The film is like an essay. During spring, the village is soaked in flood. It’s Easter Eve. The villagers are gathering for a strange old ritual in order to watch over The Crucified until the dawn. However, the stillness is being shaken by performers/villagers who are trying to steal The Crucified, as well as a nearby factory noises that remind of space rocket take off site. The film is based on a strange old pagan tradition, which is still preserved only in one village in Samogitia (a part of Lithuania). The tradition goes back to the archaic space of the magic’s of folk theater.

Today We Are Going to Build a House

1996 • 28 min • Russia

This movie is about one day on the construction site.

Prelude 17

1996 • 2 min

Double-printed thinnest possible lines and multiple dots of pale color interwoven with sweeps of linear tones in swiftly transversing motion, all deepening from this almost white field of flitting activity to some solidification of forms.

Acrobatics

1996 • 16 min

Jim Loves Jack

1996 • 52 min

A documentary telling the story of Jim Egan, an outspoken champion of gay rights in Canada since the 1940s and 50s. Egan and his partner, Jack Nesbit, took the Candian federal government to court in a historic attempt to win legal recognition for same-sex partnerships. An intimate and moving portrayal of a relationship that spans nearly 50 years of gay history in North America.

Moda

1996 • 8 min • United States of America

Hauntingly beautiful preparation for the fashion show followed by the show itself.

Island Adventure

1996 • 40 min • France

A journey through the most inaccessible and amazing places of a volcanic island. Three characters are looking for a "missing photographer", confronted with the wildest rainforest, giant waterfalls and unexplored canyons, the adventurers end up right in the heart of a volcanic eruption.

Time Out For Sport

1996 • 18 min • Australia

A short piece of found footage is optically reworked as text versus imagery versus the spoken words of a 'narrator' telling the audience a story of a famous golf player.

Public Astaire

1996 • 3 min

"The gesture of making a film is as simple as that of appropriating what one has at hand, including the old principle of recovery that is practiced here shamelessly (...)".

B/Side

1996 • 37 min

B/Side is a poignant and intelligent exploration of the urban homeless, combining sensitive footage of their exterior situation and entering imaginatively into interior deliriums. Framed by footage of the encampment locally known as Dinkinsville on New York's Lower East Side, where some of the homeless of Thompkins Square Park settled after the riots of June 1991, the movie begins with the encampment's first night and ends with the fire and subsequent destruction of the lot in October of the same year. Applying rhythmic construction, poetic license and a generous eye to bodies in poverty, B/side documents beautifully a gritty vision of late 20th century urban life. —Kurzfilmtage - international short film festival Oberhausen

Nous voulons du chômage

1996 • 6 min