All Films

Puma: Lion of the Andes

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

In addition to being one of the most beautiful territories on Earth, the Torres del Paine National Park, in Chile, an area of ​​almost 200,000 hectares considered the jewel of the Andes, is home to several wild pumas, animals that due to their elusiveness behavior are difficult to observe

Holy Wedding

1996 • 54 min • Iran

Every year in the middle of winter, the residents of the village of Oraman Takht in Kurdistan hold a ceremony in memory of a mystic man for two weeks. This film is a look at this ritual.

Light Point

1996 • 9 min • Japan

"The clouds are rushing by, and the architecture of men fit so well in that movement. The bricks. The light is harsh and blue. But in the night it is different, you walk down the street and the sun turns into a light bulb again, the houses are asleep. It feels like thunder and the houses seemed to be dipped into blue and turquoise colours. And then it all turns blue again."

Blacktop Lingo

1996 • 13 min

A series of vignettes, focused on a group of young men playing basketball in Inglewood, California.

The Waltons

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A deft and cunning re-examination of John-Boy’s near-death experience at the sawmill. A homespun midnight deconstruction of an entire era of television mannerisms. The handheld camera doesn’t stray far from the TV screen, dividing attention between the show’s action and the off-camera activity in the apartment. (Video Data Bank)

Mum's the Word

1996 • 54 min • Canada

Offers a candid portrait of four French Canadian women who adopt surprising new roles as they approach their 50s. Leaving behind husbands and children, these women discuss the courage it took to embark on their quests for lesbian lifestyles.

School of the Soldier - Program II

1996 • 57 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.

Castle Ghosts of Ireland

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

The family locks of Ireland are kept in itself by the certificates of deadly feud, mean murders. In our days, still located on a tableland, locks are a living reminder about the victims of past years.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Jeff Cesario

1996 • 28 min • United States of America

Emmy(R)-winning comedian Jeff Cesario keeps a San Francisco audience in stitches with his stand-up routine.

Pańcia

1996 • 14 min • Poland, Finland

Sylwie is 13. One day, her dog accidentally wanders into a neighbouring flat, where Sylwia encounters a priest anointing the sick. She falls in love with the priest and soon decides to meet him again to confess her feeling to him.

Weezer: Live at Bizarre Festival

1996 • 42 min

Broadcasted on German TV

Beautiful Funerals

1996 • 2 min • United States of America

BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines. Finally there is a brilliant pinkish flare veined with curled blue lines which engenders a resolution between these (above described) alternating modes - colors in the straight-line sections, lines among the artifice of "flowers," a kind of dark lattice-form which knits the two modes, gray and colored "clouds" which correlate them.

The House of History

1996 • 20 min • Afghanistan

Khan-e-Tarikh (House of History), made in the winter of 1996. An essay film directed by Qadir Taheri. Script by Sher Mohammed Khara. Many cameramen from Afghan Film are credited for the film, as it made extensive use of source material from the civil war.

Empty World

1996 • 8 min

Short film directed by Geng Jianli.

October 25th & 26th, 1996

1996 • 8 min

Super 8 document of the inflatable tunnel project by the October Group during the Metro Days of Action. A 150' long building was inflated using the air vents in front of Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square. The October Group action references both public institution and temporary home to protest the erosion of the city.

Elders & Family: The Family Meeting

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

This unique video teaches families who need to care for an elderly parent how to work together to develop a shared caregiving plan. It takes an in-depth look at how one typical family comes together to assess its elder parent’s needs.

Chocolate

1996 • 4 min • United States of America

Fred the orbiting Russian monkey had tricked Worm into believing the Moon is made of chocolate. When Worm travels to the Moon and finds out it is made of dirt, he vows vengeance on Fred and zooms back to Earth to find him. But Fred has an even-bigger lie to tell Worm.

Neon Goddesses

1996 • 46 min • Belgium, Hong Kong

Three provincial girls departed for Beijing. Yu Quin works as a hostess in a night-club, leaving her two-year-old daughter in someone else's care. Hu Jin is a bit part player and runway model. Zun Ji worked as a dancer in a discotheque, but returned to her hometown after she became a drug addict.

La Gran Via de Rita Jones

1996 • 47 min • France, Spain

Bighorn Rams 2

1996 • 59 min

The harvesting of a Rocky Mountain Bighorn Ram represents one of the greatest achievements in the world of hunting today. As a sought after and coveted trophy throughout Canada and the United States, the Bighorn Ram"s status and popularity is soaring. This video will show you why.

António Variações

1996 • 58 min • Portugal

Documentary exploring the life of the late, famous Portuguese musician, António Variações.

Angst (Wilson)

1996 • 5 min • Canada

The story of the exquisite torture suffered by high school students on a daily basis. Our hero is both sullen and gay. He feels isolated and alienated but he is not alone - they're all caught up in a big daisy chain of unrequited love and teen trauma.

Yukata Wife's Inner Thighs: Exposed

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Namie, a young wife who aspires to be a writer, has applied for awards from various companies, but has had a hard time getting recognized. Then, by chance, she meets Eitaro, the author of a collection of poems she used to read. Namie takes a liking to Eitaro, who she doesn't normally meet, and she aggressively approaches him, and they have sex over and over again. One day, she learns that Eitaro not only has a wife, but also a child from his mistress, which makes her angry. Namie, who has made up her mind, asks the girls, "Would you please give me Eitaro?" But they treat her with her nose instead. However, Eitaro gradually started spending more time in Namie's room. One day, Ichiko came to Namie's room after learning about it...

Skeletons in our Closet

1996 • 60 min • Australia

As each new generation makes its mark on the fabric of Australian society, inevitably changes in lifestyles and attitudes will occur. Throughout the 20th century, the motion picture camera has recorded these changes, creating a permanent, living record of our past. This program has been compiled from Cinesound and Movietone Newsreel items, as well as advertising films from the 1930s to the 1960s. As you watch this video, some of the stories will make you laugh, others you may find distasteful, a few will seem absurd, but most of them are certain to make you cringe.