All Films

Adam Sandler: What the Hell Happened to Me?

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

Live performance from June 29, 1996 in Chicago of Adam Sandler with a live backing band supporting his newly released comedy album, "What the Hell Happened to Me?". Originally aired as an hour long special on HBO.

The Magic Drum

1996 • 53 min • Germany

Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and the stroboscopic effect, such as the thaumatrope, phenakistoscope or wheel of life, zoetrope or magic drum and praxinoscope and later on, the more sophisticated flip-books such as the kinora and mutoscope.

Wind-Up Wolf

1996 • 7 min

Tired of never being able to catch the three little pigs, the wolf builds a robot to do the job.

Professor Cosmodrome's Cricket

1996 • 10 min • Lithuania

Animated short.

Seed

1996 • 17 min • United States of America

In the course of a single night, Miriam realizes that her life is worth more than the $65 price tag she puts on it.

Blue Seed 1.5

1996 • 60 min • Japan

A two-episode retelling of the Blue Seed storyline with one episode from Momiji's point of view and the other from Kusanagi's.

Collapse I

1996 • 10 min

Series of installation films used for multi-projection showing including architectural projections, some of those films also in 35mm.

The Flickering Flame

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Documentary following dockers of Liverpool sacked in a labour dispute and their supporters’ group, Women of the Waterfront, as they receive support from around the world and seek solidarity at the TUC conference.

Hanako of the Toilet

1996 • 35 min • Japan

A short movie based on the Japanese urban legend.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Laura Kightlinger

1996 • 27 min • United States of America

Stand-up comedy with Laura Kightlinger, the comedy-club headliner who's also an alumna of HBO's 'Women of the Night III.'

Derek Zoolander: Male Model

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

The short film that introduces the character of Derek Zoolander, first shown at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards.

De Tripas, Corazón

1996 • 16 min • Mexico

The coming-of-age story of young milkboy Martín (García Bernal). While his friends Jesús (Altomaro) and Roberto (Mora) are cocky and apparently they have a lot of experience in sex, young Martín is shy, quiet and virgin. Everything changes when the young cocky boys want to prove they're men and go to a brothel without Martín.

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

This documentary celebrates the ridiculous stunts used by Hollywood over the years to market its worst movies. These include the ’50s drive-in where moviegoers could drop off their dirty laundry and pick it up after the show, horror filmmaker William Castle’s vibrating seats and producer Sam Arkoff’s offer to pay for the funeral of anyone scared to death by his film. Amusing interviews with critic Roger Ebert and director John Waters, creator of Smell-O-Vision, enliven a program that has one central failing: host Frankie Avalon, who remains as schlocky as ever.

Zohra à la plage

1996 • 8 min • France

Crossroads of Laredo

1996 • 23 min

Tex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants nothing more than to marry Barbara. When Tex marries Barbara and treats her badly, Lem decides to settle the score.

Christian B.

1996 • 10 min • Germany

Love, death, lurking in the streets. Will she ever see her dead lover?

Clarkson: Unleashed on Cars

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Jeremy Clarkson drives a wide range of vehicles as he attempts to find the "best car, in the world, ever."

Garage Sale

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

When Julia thinks her boyfriend Brent is cheating on her, she sells all his designer clothes in a garage sale.

Grandmother

1996 • 10 min • Russia

Family history. About how the Grandmother taught the boy to save. Saving another creature, the boy begins to live. Personality formation is taking place (and the boy may not even know about it). Grandma did it all right, but she was tired.

Siberia

1996 • 41 min • United States of America

Take off on a ski adventure in Siberia with two of the world's best extreme athletes. The crew takes a harrowing ride by helicopter to their destination. Will the day be too extreme?

Christmas in Cartoontown

1996 • 46 min • United States of America

It's Christmas Eve, and Irv the Elf is usually the Santa's helper who helps get the reindeer in the air, but this year, things are a little different. Somehow, Irv's gotten trapped inside a plastic snow globe, and now a couple of kids named Heidi and Alex are going to have to team up with the heroes from their favorite fairy tales like Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Pinocchio, in order to make sure Christmas happens for boys and girls all over the world.

Tout doit disparaître

1996 • 14 min • France

In Paris, men are waiting for a possible daily job in an agency. Among them, two novices Jean-Pierre and Théo. They find themselves in the suburbs to make a regular move.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Adele Givens

1996 • 28 min

Stand up special

We Greeks

1996 • 8 min • Greece

A satirical, revealing and entertaining film that unmasks modern Greeks and their vices but always by sweetening the pill. The film dips into the cultural and artistic heritage of Greece with the use of historical figures and everyday common characters.