All Films

Kirby: Living the Dream

1996 • 60 min

From the housing projects of Chicago to two World Series championships, "Puck" lived a storybook life. But when tragedy struck, this champion showed what true heroes are made of.

Taiga

1996 • 8 min • Slovenia

Tajga was shot after the performance of the same name, performed at the international festival of contemporary arts City of Women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, passing anthropomorphic and waxy zoomorphic figures, and camera movements. When the author establishes the landscape, she places a wrestler and a drowning woman in it, and with these scenes she further increases the suspension. At the height of the dramaturgy, the set stage collapses. The waxen guard dogs dissolve and the soldiers retreat. Naked female characters appear, announcing the transition to a period of warmth and peace, accompanied by softer music.

Dave Attell - HBO Comedy Half-Hour

1996 • 27 min • United States of America

Dave Attell brings us more of his good old stand-up jokes about cow sex and trash trucks in this half-hour comedy special.

Behind the Scenes with King Kong in Special Effects

1996 • 32 min

Making of documentary for the King Kong segment of the in the 1996 IMAX movie 'Special Effects: Anything Can Happen', featuring stop-motion animation created by the late great David Allen.

Playboy: Twins & Sisters Too

1996 • 51 min

Sugar and spice or naughty and nice? They’re all that and more as Playboy shows you in this very intimate look at twins. Two-of-a-kind they may be, but you’ve always wondered just how identical they really are. Are the stories true that they trick teachers, swap boyfriends and switch identities on a clever whim? Do they know each other’s thoughts and desires without saying a word? Do they dress alike and share alike? You’ll discover the sizzling truth to the mysterious bond between twins as these matches made in heaven take you into their private world. It’s double exposure of the most delightful kind

Abducted By UFOs

1996 • 47 min

A look at the abductee phenomenon and America’s 50-year fascination with all things extraterrestrial. It focuses on the experiences of a group of people who claim to have been abducted by UFOs. Directed by KIrk Wolfinger.

Wheel of Life

1996 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Draws on Old Testament text, a mix of live action and animation to tell the tale of original sin and destinies controlled by the forces of nature and man. Images of creation and destruction, of pre-history ...

Spirit of Hiroshima

1996 • 54 min

Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable testimonies to reflect on how these people continue to overcome the atomic bombing of 1945.

Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green?

1996 • 6 min • Portugal

Edmund Husserl observed: "All perception is a gamble", which Robert Anton Wilson expands upon when he suggests that "[others] just have a different reality tunnel, and every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we are willing to listen." All seen through the mirror of João Queiroz’s art.

Marn Grook

1996 • 45 min

MARN GROOK explores the history, achievements and struggles of Aboriginal sportsmen involved in our National game, 'Aussie Rules'.

The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility by Walter Benjamin as told to Keith Sanborn

1996 • 4 min

An attempt to problematize ownership and authorship in the age of digital reproduction. Inspired by the Walter Benjamin essay of the same name and the activities of the Situationists.

New Paths Breaks New World Out

1996 • 11 min

The product of a collaboration with writer Karin Schöffauer, who reads her own text, the film was made as part of the Text&Film project. An epic language of solitude, mourning and rebellion against it, accompanied by repeated entrances into the uninhabited space. (Moucle Blackout)

The Hillmen: A Soccer Fable

1996 • 55 min • Australia

With Greek and Turkish communities moving out of the area, the Clifton Hill Soccer Club must recruit from a newer wave of Asian immigrants or face extinction.

Pocahontas 2: The Return of John Smith

1996 • 40 min • Spain

Continuation of the full-length cartoon about the adventures of Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian chief. In 1614, John Smith returns to Jamestown, where he meets Pocahontas again.

And the Show Goes On

1996 • 54 min • India, United Kingdom

The 'Century of Cinema' is an 18-part series produced by the British Film Institute to celebrate 100 years of cinema. The series includes films directed by Scorsese, Oshima, Godard, among others. Mrinal Sen directed the Indian chapter of the series.

The Saturn Avenger vs. the Terror Robot

1996 • 24 min • United States of America, Canada

Saturn Avenger. Terror Robot. Whadaya need, a roap map?

Departure on Arrival

1996 • 22 min

An attempt to communicate the feeling of evaporation, of disappearing and slipping away of the fragile material which is called time.

A Beach Near Belfast

1996 • 39 min • France

Antonio Carlos Gomes

1996 • 13 min • Brazil

An Italian actress arrives in Belém do Pará, to stage the last moments of Carlos Gomes, author of “O Guarani”.

The Little Mermaid

1996 • 27 min • Ukraine

“A lyrical story, with dark humor. It's a movie that you want to come back to all the time - a fairy tale for adults, naive art. There are postmodern moments in The Little Mermaid that resonate with Ukrainian poetic cinema; certain allusions to Parajanov and more.“

Burrp!

1996 • 35 min • Spain

Dust

1996 • 3 min • Belgium

Dust was originally part of the stage performance "Bereft of a Blissful Union", from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus. It was also performed live on stage in "Mountains Made of Barking", from the same company.

Angelou on Burns

1996 • 48 min

This award-winning documentary tells the story of the American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s journey to Ayrshire to visit the birthplace of fellow poet Robert Burns​. As a child, Angelou read Burns’ work and discovered similarities between her own life and his, which she explores throughout this documentary, filmed at the time of the bicentenary of Burns’ death.

Territoire(s)

1996 • 27 min • Algeria

Based on Alge­rian proverbs and sayings, Terri­to­rie(s) reviews Alge­rian history in this century. The french colo­ni­sa­tion, the paci­fi­ca­tion of 1957 and the ulti­mate inde­pen­dence in 1962. The poli­ti­cal leaders are consi­de­red in cleverly edited sequences: Boudiaf, Ben Bella, Colo­nel Boume­dienne and figures from the Isla­mic move­ment like Ali Belhadj and Fara­khan. The french and Alge­rian intel­le­gen­tias are also inclu­ded in this kalei­do­sco­pic image of a coun­try that thanks to its event­ful colo­nial past, still has diffi­cul­ties deter­mi­ning its own iden­tity more than thirty years after its inde­pen­dence. Barba­rism is all its forms, inclu­ding the mili­tary forms it can assume with follo­wers of the FIS, is set against the domes­tic warning of those who plead for keeping eyes open, and keeping society open.