All Films

Des progrès en amour

1996 • 9 min • France

In his middle management office, Dubreuil uses erotic messaging. He tries to find the excitement lost.

Multi-Thousand Picture Show

1996 • 53 min • Germany

Picture montage was a central aspect in the early history of visual media. As early as the 16th century, techniques such as the folding picture montage anticipated those used in film today. Other examples of early forms of montage are transparencies, picture puzzles and blow books, which direct the gaze towards hidden information. In the myriorame, the multi-thousand picture-show, it is possible to assemble infinite landscapes.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Modern Man

1996 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of the most significant talents to have emerged in the period from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s. He was one of the greatest, most original talents of this time and has been judged a precursor of firstly the modernist style and subsequently of the Art Deco movement. His legacy lives on all around us in his instantly recognisable style. A MODERN MAN takes a critical look at Mackintosh’s life and artistic career and the importance of the friends and patrons who provided him with regular work when it mattered most.

Deeply Deeply Trunk

1996 • 13 min • Argentina, Canada

Destiny is a fickle bastard who drives a cheap car.

Concrescence

1996 • 4 min • United States of America

"concrescence, principle of As a term from A.N. Whitehead's metaphysics refers to the drive things possess that impel them to actualization, the creative urge towards concrescence, for producing novel advances through the generation of greater interrelatedness. Many thinkers would deem this urge divine, so the principle of concrescence may be considered one of Whitehead's terms for God." - Bruce Elder

Season of Sorrow

1996 • 12 min

Ice falls from the sky as tears plip-plop onto wall-to-wall carpeting. No degree of renovation can enliven the dead that we mourn in our hearts as the storm of the centuries assails our heads with memories of the passing parade that got rained on. A weather diary of May-time misery.

The Blanket of Aco Shopov

1996 • 14 min • Macedonia

The members of the Macedonian hip-hop crew Chista okolina (Clean Environment) rap some of their tracks a capella.

Duling - Turin

1996 • 12 min • China, Italy

An exploration of the soul of a city, made for the Turin City Government in the occasion of the “European Union Inter-Government Meeting”.

The Coolbaroo Club

1996 • 53 min • Australia

Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club",  which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.

School of the Soldier - Program I

1996 • 59 min • United States of America

The one (actually two) and only program(s) for the Civil War Reenactor, and anyone who wants to know how soldiers were trained for the campaigns and battles in the War Between the States. This program has been purchased for National Park Service staff and volunteers, by museums and historic places for instruction on small arms firing, and by top-quality units who reenact the Civil War. Filmed at Petersburg National Battlefield, and historic Fort Mackinac, in Michigan, this is the only in-depth study of the army’s training manuals, with special attention paid to the variants that each side used for different units.

Jellies & Other Ocean Drifters

1996 • 35 min

Venture into the vast, fluid realm of jellies and other ocean drifters. From the restless, sunlit surface waters to dark, cold and mysterious depths of the deep sea far below, the ocean is home to strange and wonderful creatures.

Articulated Image

1996 • 3 min

short experimental film by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill

Savoniha: A Siberian "Old Believer"

1996 • 32 min

Savoniha belongs to the “Old Believers,” a sect of the Russian Orthodox Church that was exiled to Buryatia, Siberia, a few centuries ago. Since then, they never ceased to be persecuted. Savoniha, who was 95 years old when this documentary was filmed, witnessed Stalin’s anti-religious campaign, losing her father, one of the main spiritual representatives of the Siberian Old Believers.

Meeting with Mai

1996 • 10 min • Sweden

Mai Zetterling is interviewed in the summer of 1984 in her house in southern France. Seventeen years have passed since the Girls were made in Sweden and were adversely affected by the criticism. Zetterling discusses why she left Sweden and resides at crucial times in her life; The drama period, to be celebrated actress and then to move to pave his way in the male-dominated director's profession. A guiding star in Zetterling's life has been to constantly expand its boundaries.

Osijek - The Sky Below

1996 • 25 min • Croatia

Once the war is over, life becomes life again. But everything has to be done. During this degree-zero and in this crucial time, the young Zvonimir Jurić shot his first film, a powerful poem about the city of Osijek, but one of many other cities at the same time. An art testimony of great value about the people that faced a devastated present and an uncertain future; a film about their return to everyday life, their frustrations, their expectations and their escape from reality.

Outdoors with T.K. and Mike: Turkey Huntin'

1996 • 39 min • United States of America

TK and Mike enlist the help of pro turkey hunter Eddie Salter who didn't realize what he was getting into.

Nestlings of the Sea

1996 • 6 min • Russia

The artist uses old archive films in a new way by drawing and scratching on 35mm film. The original material is documentary movies produced by amateur Soviet studios in the 1970s.

Prong: Live at Bizarre Festival

1996 • 41 min

18.08.96, Bizarre Festival, Cologne Germany, TV, 41 min. Setlist: 1.Controller 2.Whose Fist Is It Anyway 3.Face Value 4.Rude Awakening 5.Snap Your Fingers,Snap Your Neck 6.Another Worldly Device 7.Prove You Wrong 8.Unfortunately 9.Beg To Differ

Historias Breves II: Al cielo, no

1996 • 14 min • Argentina

Two men in search of a mysterious briefcase that can drive them mad.

The Country Doctor

1996 • 15 min • Czech Republic, Finland

An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards.

Rocinha 76/96

1996 • 3 min • Brazil

The camera goes back through the alleys and alleys of the community, leading the viewer to compare, with simultaneous shots of 76 and 96, the little or almost nothing that was accomplished, the neglect of the State, the abandonment over the 20 years. Finishing with a virtual image of the colored facades, as part of the proposed urbanization.

SHOUT at DAWN

1996 • 7 min

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Jeff Stilson

1996 • 28 min

Stand up special

The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles

1996 • 56 min

After recording an Italian-American religious festival in Boston’s North End with her video camera, filmmaker Beth Harrington’s neighbors tell her that they see a miracle on the videotape — a statue of the Virgin Mary blinking its eyes. To Harrington’s amazement, and in spite of her lapsed religious beliefs, she must admit that her life has been transformed by the event. And when the press gets a hold of the story what ensues is a funny and touching look at what it means to believe and to belong.