All Films

Amata nobis

1996 • 30 min • Russia

Based on I. Bunin's "Rusya".

Pepper's Pow Wow

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

A look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz.

Mesquite ISD: Stranger Danger

1996 • 13 min • United States of America

A 90s educational video detailing how to protect kids from strangers that are up to no good.

Strong Against Crime: Protect Your Family

1996 • 57 min • United States of America

Sanford Strong is a 20 year veteran of the San Diego Police Department, with leadership credentials in both SWAT and anti-sniper training. He now focuses his survival training on teaching thousands of people worldwide how to survive random acts of violence.

Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story

1996 • 58 min • United States of America

Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and her family and friends in Eastern Kentucky are among those interviewed. A 1996 KET production.

The Gingerbread House

1996 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years. The girl discovers the old mans corpse in his room, and, fearing that they might be blamed for killing him, devises a cover-up plan, which is almost foiled by a local boy.

Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight

1996 • 56 min

Live at The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970. This was Hendrix's final performance in England. He died a few weeks later.

Only Jazz

1996 • 15 min • Poland

Ignacy Szczepanski's documentary is a record of a lesson in jazz improvisation given to Polish trumpeter Piotr Bal by an accomplished musician and dean of the jazz faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The rehearsals are complemented by shots of the city and fragments of a concert filmed at the Pink Crocodile Club.

La Boulangère et le cosmonaute

1996 • 21 min • France

A baker knew the cosmonaut child who now revolves around Earth.

Plus oh !

1996 • 6 min • France

A short essay on the metamorphosis that art, beauty, love or cinema accomplishes.

Cézanne: Three Colours Cézanne

1996 • 56 min

"Three Colours Cézanne" analyses the radical nature of Cézanne's painting, tracing its origins in the art of the nineteenth century and the work of the Old Masters while examining many of Cézanne's works in detail.

Broadway Mai 95

1996 • 30 min

'Broadway Mai 95' follows the old Indian trail from Battery Park to the Broadway Bridge.

Circle of Dreams: The Making of the Seabreeze Carousel

1996 • 54 min • United States of America

Since 1926 the Philadelphia Toboggan Company #36, (PTC 36) has occupied a place in the hearts and minds of children of all ages who visit Seabreeze Amusement Park. In March of 1994, a tragic fire took the beloved carousel from this Rochester, NY community. This is the story of the aftermath and the determination of the owners of Seabreeze Amusement Park to build a new carousel in the grand tradition of PTC 36

The Brown Blues

1996 • 51 min

Documentary about the Cleveland Browns football team

Dead London

1996 • 20 min

An ironic and macabre tale of two men who have worked out a theory that allows them to predict violent deaths in the capital.

Good Citizen: Betty Baker

1996 • 27 min • Canada

Good Citizen: Betty Baker is a tongue-in-cheek mystery, full of unexpected twists. It features Betty, a civic-minded housewife who inhabits a cartoonish, 2-D, 1950s-inspired world, replete with narrow-minded peril. The story begins when Prince Philip goes missing and Betty finds a clue that leads her on a thrilling chase from her neighbour’s trash, to a strangely exciting all-girls bar, to the local chapter of 100% Women. Accompanied by the musical stylings of Marilyn Lerner, this frolicking satire irreverently unravels right-wing family values.

The Astors: High Society

1996 • 60 min

The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of happiness or stability. John Jacob Astor built an empire by parlaying a job in the fur business into a real estate empire so vast he became the richest man in the world. Follow the fortunes of five generations of Astors in this special BIOGRAPHY. From John's son William, who doubled the family fortune and earned the nickname "the landlord of New York," to the astounding charitable contributions of the Astor Foundation, the incredible story of the famed family comes to life through interviews with family members, archival footage and period accounts. Trace the feud and reconciliation that led to the creation of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and find out how the Titanic disaster forever transformed the Astors and their reputation.

Waterside

1996 • 22 min • Japan

La botella

1996 • 14 min • Argentina

A simple game can reveal secrets hidden for years.

Technicolor-Yawn-Fluffy

1996 • 32 min • United States of America

Live performances and some behind-the-scenes footage of the band Fluffy, on tour in the United States of America.

Sega Official Video Library VOL.6: NiGHTS into dreams...

1996 • 51 min

A promotional VHS for the game "NiGHTS into dreams...".

My Secret Shame

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

Super 8mm black and white film about shameful behaviors, set to the poetry of 99 Hooker and Naval Cassidy on samples.

Better Dead Than Gay

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Simon Harvey was a gay man unable to reconcile his gay feelings with his strict christian upbringing. At the age of 26 he killed himself. Simon's father said "To discover my son was gay was as bad as losing him." This film depicts the last six months of his life and examines how religious belief can be used to justify social prejudice.

Eight Point Star

1996 • 12 min • Brazil

A collection of stories and images created by Fernando Diniz, artist at the Museum of Images of the Unconscious. A film conceived and animated by Fernando Diniz, a renowned Brazilian artist who lived most of his life inside a mental institution. Marcos Magalhaes has worked closely together with Diniz for about 6 years in order to complete this short.