All Films

Chutney in Yuh Soca

1996 • 21 min • United Kingdom

An arts documentary examining the phenomenon of "chutney soca", a musical hybrid from Trinidad & Tobago which blends the traditions of the islands' two biggest ethnic groups - Indian and African. As much political as musical, "chutney soca" seems to offer a way for the two cultures, often perceived as being mutually antagonistic, to come together in a new exciting fusion of sounds. (Synopsis by Karen Martinez)

Lepădații

1996 • 10 min • Romania

Student short film

The Ten Commandments Number 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill

1996 • 3 min

The short tells about one Uncle Josh from Arkansas, who loses his family rapidly, in Job-like fashion. As a reaction he commits suicide, flies to heaven, where he’s kicked into hell by God himself.

The 1964 World's Fair

1996 • 53 min • United States of America

Relive the dazzle, wonder and fun of The 1964 World's Fair, an extraordinary documentary that takes a fresh look at the sights and sounds of this once-in-a-lifetime event. So jump in that old station wagon and take a ride back to the 1964 New York World's Fair!

Outdoors with T.K. and Mike: Bass Fishin'

1996 • 33 min

The duo uses their fishing expertise to try and win a fishing tournament but instead, they enlist the help of an unlikely fishing professional.

Treasure Attic - Forever Friend

1996 • 26 min

Join "Uncle Jim" and delve into the Treasure Attic, follow him into his enchanted closet with fabulous costumes and learn about Jesus through song and video. This particular installment features music and videos that delve a bit into into Christ's "lost years" growing up in Galilee, all set to catchy Afro-carribean style sing-alongs. Treasure Attic was a direct-to-video series modeled after fairly typical religious programming for children.

Hope/Microcosmos

1996 • 3 min • France

Experimental short.

Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor

1996 • 56 min • Canada, Portugal

The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to corporate interests in Indonesia.

The View Never Changes

1996 • 6 min • Canada

Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory ... an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this ... a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child.

Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A thin oval of green-tinged light in thick darkness persists, then gradually descends below the bottom of the frame and, after a pause, rises again to its original position. Out of the surrounding darkness a figure slowly emerges, a woman in a purple robe who moves with stately steps back and forth across the screen, finally fully apparent in the "line" (or circle) of light. She throws off her robe and appears in her white shift, lies prone upon the floor, then rises into a dance of rhythmned postures which subside to a kneeling and bound-down position from which she retrieves her robe, enrobes herself again, circles the "pool" of light and is obliterated by four yellow flashes of light (simultaneously, at the four corners of the frame).

Companions: Tales from the Closet

1996 • 55 min • Sweden

A heartwarming and humorous documentary about lesbian love. Five elderly Swedish women discuss their lives during a period when homosexuality was considered a perversion. They trace their personal development from self-loathing and forbidden love to a hard-won sense of emotional liberation and social openness. An internationally acclaimed and awarded documentary.

When Shirley Met Florence

1996 • 27 min • Canada

This short film offers an intimate portrait of two women in their mid-sixties--one lesbian, the other heterosexual--whose love for one another and the music they create together, transcends differences.

I

1996 • 12 min • France

Me and My Matchmaker

1996 • 55 min • United States of America

Feature-length documentary pits an Orthodox Jewish matchmaker versus a charming half-Jewish bachelor who is unable to settle down.

Legacies

1996 • 30 min

Four gay ex-Mormon men tell of their experiences growing-up and coming-out in Mormon families and about their conversion therapy, attempts made by the Church to change their sexual orientation.

Vicious Cycle

1996 • 1 min • Portugal

Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )

Pussycat with the Blue Eyes

1996 • 11 min • Denmark

Misse the cat is searching for the country of the many mice. He meets five green-eyed cats. They think that Misse is strange with his blue eyes.

Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World

1996 • 28 min • Canada

Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, healthworkers, educators, artists, community activists, and people living with AIDS are mixed.

The Lims Live in Ottawa

1996 • 25 min • Canada

George Lim arrived as a young man in 1913 in Ottawa. He lived there the rest of his life except for visits to China. Typical and extraordinary, his life and the lives of his family are cast in the history of the migration of overseas Chinese and the history of Canada. With the help of an interpreter, Melina Young interviews members of the Lim family who recall events in their lives and speak of aspirations in this country.The Lim family's story is embedded in contexts - past and current immigration policies, rallies, remarks by Members of Parliament, the reflection of friends - that make sense for the videomaker at this time in her life.

Partially Buried

1996 • 20 min

Partially Buried asks, “How do we reinterpret the past? What do we choose to remember or discard?” Green looks to the year 1970 and the campus of Kent State University where she spent time as a child. It was here that artist Robert Smithson produced his site-specific work Partially Buried Woodshed. It was also here that four students were shot while demonstrating against the US invasion of Cambodia. Shortly afterward, someone painted “May 4, 1970” on Partially Buried Woodshed, and the artwork took on another meaning. (Video Data Bank)

X-Mix: The Electronic Storm

1996 • 41 min

Mr. C provides the mix for the sixth installment of the X-Mix series.

Ichido hashitai tonari no nyôbô

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Michida Yazo is an ordinary office worker who has no interest in alcohol or gambling. His wife, Tomomi, is a nurse and prefers to work the well-paying night shifts, so the couple only have sex when Tomomi is tired after a night shift and Yazo has morning wood. One day, Mitsuki and her husband move in next door. However, soon after getting married, her husband, Motoharu, goes on a business trip overseas. Mitsuki has such poor taste that people say, "Your body is delicious, but your cooking is inedible." While Motoharu is away, she attends "Mitsu Keiko's Cooking Class" to learn how to make delicious food, but the instructor, Mitsu Keiko, is not only greedy for food but also for sex...

Myth Makers 33: William Russell

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

After fifty years ‘in the business’ William Russell may well have thought he’d seen it all… but not a Myth Makers! As William travels around London with Nicholas Briggs to the few locations used in the early years of Doctor Who, Nick draws out William’s memories of working with Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford and William Hartnell at the very beginning of the world’s longest running science fiction series. Admittedly it was an unusual means of transport… but at least they didn’t have to pay a fare!

37 Stories About Leaving Home

1996 • 52 min

Explores the relationships among grandmothers, mothers and daughters in a changing Japanese society.