All Films

Trip to France

1996 • 8 min

Photographs and videos from the European travels of Vietnamese travelers are set to an upbeat techno track.

Miracles and Visions: Fact or Fiction?

1996 • 60 min

Over 70 percent of people on Earth believe in miracles. Evidence shown through actual footage and eyewitness accounts, seem to prove that miracle are real.

5 Balls

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

A girl's mom can dribble 5 balls.

Myth Makers 34: Verity Lambert

1996 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Directly involved in creating the very basis of the programme’s success and steering it through the first years of production. In this rare interview, Nicholas Briggs chats to Verity about the challenges and limitations involved in producing such a technically difficult programme in the early 1960’s and the behind-the-scenes struggles she faced to get Doctor Who on air the way she believed it should be. This is a Myth Makers every Doctor Who fan should have.

Why America Hates the Press

1996 • 57 min

FRONTLINE offers a tough, insider's examination of the culture and tactics of the national press corps. With public respect for the press at an all-time low-----on par with public regard for politicians----journalists have begun to break ranks to probe what has gone wrong. FRONTLINE follows the nation's top political journalists along the 1996 presidential campaign trail and behind the scenes of the weekly talk shows where reporters are transformed into celebrity pundits. Through the eyes of a few key journalists, this report explores the dynamics of the news business and its troubling impact on American politics.

Teacher's Pet

1996 • 6 min

All the films in "Experience the Experimental" program are from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative collection and reflect an overview of filmmakers who broke with the taboos and censorship of the mainstream popular culture of The United States. These short experimental films focus on the cinematic body and embrace an alternative perspective on gender and sexuality. The various techniques include found-footage filmmaking to hand-processed film as well as cut out animation.

Means of Grace

1996 • 58 min

Ann Clements Conger was an ambitious journalist in the 1940's. In the 1950's she became a mother, and torn between her domestic roles and her career, she began a frightening journey into the world of hallucinations, tranquilizers and institutionalization. Diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia, she, like thousands of other American women, was committed against her will, and given electric shock therapy. Through the use of home movie footage, archival footage and dramatizations, Means of Grace raises questions about social control, definitions of madness, the nuclear family, women's roles and the Cold War. We meet her daughter, the filmmaker, as she wrestles with questions of doubt, shame, understanding and resoultion.

The Barrens Quest

1996 • 44 min • Canada

This feature documentary examines the destruction of the tundra barrens of northern Canada for mineral mining, including that of Canadian diamonds. Many species have been threatened by this development, including the caribou and the Eskimo Curlew, a bird that flew the sky in thousands which is now nearly extinct. This film makes a compelling case for planned conservation in one of the last unspoiled wilderness regions left in the world.

Kinbaku jûjika zeme

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Kinbaku jûjika zeme

Killing Heinz

1996 • 3 min • Germany

Heinz rents an exciting looking film from a video store and makes his way home, which is peculiarly filled with obstacles and dangers. When he reaches the comfort and safety of his home and takes his place in front of his television, things take a dangerous turn.

An Ordinary President

1996 • 54 min • Belarus

A political satire which exposes the shape of totalitarianism in the presidency of Alexander Lukaschenka, admirer of Hitler.

The Adventures of Dandy the Elephant

1996 • 13 min • Russia

Resourceful Dandy saves the city from a rat invasion.

Home Alone

1996 • 4 min • Japan

It's the first time for the Cat to be all by itself at home. This Cat does not have a name yet and nobody knows whether it is female or male. And it has two faces, one is very sensitive and the other is rather naughty.

After the Bath

1996 • 45 min

Expose into how the news story of a kiddie porn bust was fabricated / sensationalized / distorted by police officials, journalists and social workers to create the specter of a "province-wide child pornography ring"

Geography of Hope

1996 • 27 min • United States of America

A visually stunning aerial journey throughout the American Southwest with Robert Fulton, filmmaker/pilot extraordinaire accompanied with a mystical soundtrack by Joakin Bello. Never has there been such a diverse and highly original view of an America that is mysterious and spiritual. Visit the high desert plateaus, the river canyons and Rocky Mountain wind-swept peaks with Fulton as he takes your breath away and renews your sense of timelessness.

Body Double 7

1996 • 3 min

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

Gerdinand & Corline

1996 • 5 min

All the characters in this short visual poem live in their own confined worlds and their means of expression are lost to everyone but themselves and the almighty viewer, who in this case is represented by a young girl.

Castle Ghosts of Scotland

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

As is generally known, ghosts mostly dwell in the ancient gloomy locks built five-six centuries back. In similar places during centuries there are quite a bit bloody dramas. Scotland is famous such locks.

Shake a Lizard Tail or Rust Belt Rump

1996 • 28 min

Video of techno dancers mixed with old horror footage, Detroit late-nite TV commercials and Japanese monsters, with original, unreleased soundtrack from Detroit cult band Destroy All Monsters.

Leather

1996 • 10 min • United States of America

“Bondage is freedom.” Leather demonstrates that this seemingly self-contradictory statement holds true for aficionados of BDSM. The testimonies of several members of the leather community explain the attraction; the freedom that surrender can provide, the sense of well being that the trust implicit in the activity promotes.

Dike

1996 • 9 min • Canada

A tongue-in-cheek look at compulsory heterosexuality. The film recounts the story of a girl whose attempts to hide her sexual orientation are put in jeopardy by her excessive perspiration whenever her female friends hug her.

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging

1996 • 55 min • Canada, Israel, Palestinian Territory

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging is a hybrid documentary which includes questions around Arab Jewishness, negotiating Palestine, gender, belly dancing and memory. This video essay, formed by personal narrative and including a return to Israel/Palestine, engages issues of: Jewish racialized identity, Arab/Jewish dichotomies and the way these come together in Iraqi Jewish culture, and the personal implications of the politics of Palestine and the Jewish holocaust.

Law of Averages

1996 • 15 min • United States of America

In a lush garden two lovers meet and begin a relationship that is complicated by a lack of exact compatibility, daily compromise and occasional sensuousness. The temptation in this garden is an interactive theatre called The Big Ghost which stars a wild and addictive creature named Vinyla.

Drifting: Rob Machado Chronicles

1996 • 43 min

Family man. Style master. Traveler. Artist. Filmmaker. Loyal friend. Deep thinker. Musician. Weirdo. Afro. Surfer. Rob Machado is many things. And this 1996 biopic touches on them all. A goofyfoot classic.