All Films

Washing Hands Normal

1996 • 55 min

This stacked two-screen video installation shows the artist washing his hands with a vigour that goes beyond a daily cleaning ritual. The energy of the gesture and the distortive effect of the double screen evoke a sinister prior event and a sense panic or fear. Here Nauman continues his ongoing investigation into human psychology and feelings of discomfort. The sense of anxiety is heightened by the echoing sound of the water draining away for the fifty-five-minute duration of the double footage.

Bubbeh Lee & Me

1996 • 35 min

Video documentary of a gay man's visit with his 87-year-old grandmother in a Florida retirement community.

Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

1996 • 45 min

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker, whose versatility, unconventionality, and enormous output brought him international acclaim. As a leading member of the surrealist movement, he had a great influence on the work of others.

The Goodbye Place

1996 • 9 min • United States of America

An abused child is offered escape by some mysterious strangers who may or may not know where missing children truly disappear to.

A Sahrawi story

1996 • 31 min • Italy

It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake.

Swing Diary

1996 • 13 min • South Korea

L’œil qui traîne

1996 • 33 min • France

Didier, 28 years old, is still livning with his parents. Prisoner of his own habits, he doesn't communicate with them anymore. When he casually meets his former girlfriend, Valerie, he finds again his serenity.

Tuning the Sleeping Machine

1996 • 13 min • United States of America

"Fragments of unidentified and yet strangely familiar films, pregnant with allusion and implication, drift into one another, obscured by the haze of rephotography, electricity and the residue of (al)chemical formulae, renamed time and memory. Tuning the Sleeping Machine resurrects the cinema projected on the unconscious, a series of images defined by the gaze of an eye, the presence in an empty room, the creeping darkness that shrouds a strange face." - Brian Frye

Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself

1996 • 52 min • Germany

Slavoj Zizek, born in 1949 in Ljubljana, psychoanalyst and professor of philosophy, started early on a group of theoreticians who sharpened their thinking of the theses of Jacques Lacan. The Slovenian Lacan School was a spiritual resistance nest in orthodox ex-Yugoslavia, and Slavoj Zizek emerged as a globally operating philosopher-entertainer.

Wind

1996 • 7 min • Hungary

During a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.

Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story

1996 • 60 min

A young man intrigued by the Neo-Nazi movement inadvertently takes a time-traveling trip back to the Holocaust and finds himself on a heart-wrenching, eye-opening journey with Anne Frank.

Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis

1996 • 60 min

Margo Channing's famous line, "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night," characterizes well the actress who played her in All About Eve--the inimitable Bette Davis. In fact, Davis's son comments in Lifetime's Intimate Portrait: Bette Davis that watching Margo Channing is much like watching Bette Davis. Davis's film career spanned six decades, in which she starred in 112 films, receiving 10 Academy Award nominations and 2 Oscars. Yet her life was not always the charmed one of a starlet; from a broken home, herself three times divorced, once widowed, betrayed by her own daughter's scathing biography, Davis found solace in her work, which didn't always come easy for her. When she first approached Hollywood in 1930, the studios didn't know what to do with such an odd beauty. This portrait of the actress covers a lot of ground, and leaves you wanting more.

Mother Floor

1996 • 1 min • Switzerland

A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back up to her open mouth - giving you the sensation of being swallowed and expelled, swallowed and expelled, into infinity.

How to Invent Reality

1996 • 31 min • Denmark

Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to the core of it. " Staged documentary " he calls his method.

'Weird Al' Yankovic: (There's No) Going Home

1996 • 56 min

Parody of The Disney Channel's "Going Home" music series. Features "Weird Al" Yankovic in concert from Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre performing spoofs of many popular songs, Al travelling on the bus with his band and in their hotel room as well as tongue-in-cheek interviews with Al and his family.

Historias Breves II: Fuera de Servicio

1996 • 13 min • Argentina

A phone call can turn into an entire odyssey.

The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the U.S. Space Camp Mission

1996 • 30 min

In this episode, the super sleuths are called in to help out the Space Program and Mission Control with the help of Alan Bean of Apollo XII, the 4th astronaut on the moon. Unless they solve the mystery of the unknown ticking sounds and the grounded U.S. Space Shuttle, the Shuttle cannot lift off as scheduled!

Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man

1996 • 51 min

Exploring the reputation of Stanley Kubrick by means of extracts from his work and contributions of people with whom he worked.

A Love Story

1996 • 7 min • United Kingdom

In a movie theater, a discarded popcorn kernel comes to life.

Pictures Come to Life

1996 • 53 min • Germany

The history of the magic lantern with demonstrations of moving slides, watertank or polarisation slides, followed by images on paper, which are brought to life with mechanical manipulations, with light shining through them or as panorama.

The Search for Dracula

1996 • 50 min • United States of America

In an age of science, one tale of the supernatural continues to seduce us: the legend of the vampire. At last, scientists are digging vampires out of their tombs to take a good, long look at them. What they're finding is a surprising factual side to the ancient legend. Fact may be stranger than fiction!

The Many Faces of Christopher Lee

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Christopher Lee talks about his film career, while showing clips from some of his best films.

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

1996 • 36 min

This is the first video featuring the red neck hunting duo on a mission to bag the elusive buck known as "Split Toe". The hunters use their expertise and knowledge of the Alabama backwoods to track the trophy deer.

Weezer: Unplugged at Shorecrest High

1996 • 29 min

In 1996 Shorecrest High School won an acoustic performance from Weezer in their cafeteria from a radio contest. This is around the release of their iconic Pinkerton album, some of the acoustic versions of these songs can be heard on the bonus release of Pinkerton.