All Films

Legend of the Blue Wolf

1996 • 46 min • Japan

It is the year 2199 A.D. and overpopulation has forced mankind to go to other planets. For close to one hundred years, the human race has thrived happily in their home. But that soon change when humans took over the planet Pluto, as a new race was discovered, The Apocalypse, a creature that can use the human brain as a source of knowledge for their mechanical bodies. Now the humans have to fight to survive, Jonathan Tyberius and Leonard Schteinberg, two gay men fall in love but have to go their separate ways due to the war.

Grazie Lia

1996 • 43 min

Ciprì and Maresco are fierce critics of post-modern society. They bear witness to the colonization of the imagination attributable in part to the omnipresence of mass communications and the globalization of neo-capitalist values. Their works, scatological in the literal but especially in the metaphorical and etiological sense, denounce social institutions and practices thought to be at the root of injustice, inequality and criminality.

The Flower Prisoner

1996 • 44 min

Svend Aage is an aging prisoner. His son, Max, is doing well in the world "outside" - or so Svend Aage's wife tells him - and is quite unaware that his father is in jail. One day, a new inmate arrives at the gates to serve the most severe sentence ever handed out for violence and drug-related crime. It's Max.

Funk Me Up, Scotty

1996 • 14 min • United Kingdom

JP takes us on a 15-minute trek through the musical careers of assorted crew members of the Enterprise (and others). Broadcast in 1996 as part of a BBC Star Trek Night.

Pictures at an Exhibition

1996 • 45 min • Austria

What does modern art mean for ordinary visitors to an exhibition?

It's Now or Never

1996 • 44 min • Denmark

On the windswept planes of the Burren, fifty-something bachelor Jimmy McEvoy spends his days constructing dry stone walls and waiting for a call from the matchmaker, as he muses on life and love.

The Bristled Dagger

1996 • 20 min

Artists with brushes need light to paint a picture, but human feelings function just as well in the dark.

Bibleman: The Six Lies of the Fibbler

1996 • 29 min

The Fibbler is feeding lies to Ashley, making her friends turn against her. Will Bibleman save the day and defeat the Fibbler and his six lies?

The Making of… Barb Wire

1996 • 16 min

Pamela Anderson Lee hits the screen in her new sci-fi action thriller that’s got everybody… talking. Now you can get a look at her in never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes footage.

Clown TV: Wish a Little Wish for Me

1996 • 29 min

In a world where everyone is a clown, the CLOWN-TV station programming and behind the scenes hijinks get pretty zany.

The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Hotel Who-Done-It

1996 • 30 min

There's trouble in paradise! Join the twin detectives, Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen ("Full House"), and their sidekick dog, Clue, as they check in for excitement at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel.

The Anatomy of a Provocation

1996 • 46 min • Latvia

A film about the attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1991 when Latvia was regaining its independence from the Soviet Union. Several people were killed in the attack, including two cameramen, Andris Slapiņš and Gvido Zvaigzne, who were part of Juris Podnieks's team. Who was behind the attack, and why has this matter not been solved yet?

Little Match Girl

1996 • 10 min • Belarus

Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Incorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a documentary which chronicles the life and works of the black, openly gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs whose controversial body works exploded on the scene with his landmark 1989 film "Tongues Untied" (USA). Riggs specialized in films dealing mainly with African-American males and the nuances of sexuality as it relates to their cultural, religious, and social identity. A teacher and prolific documentarian, the outspoken artist, Riggs, eventually succumbed to an AIDS-related illness in 1994.

Indecent Acts

1996 • 51 min

Primetime documentary looking at the legal, cultural and social legacies of Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment, broadcast to commemorate the centenary of his conviction.

Seal: MTV Unplugged

1996 • 44 min

Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, April 9th, 1996. 1 Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix) 3:41 2 Prayer For The Dying (Gus Isidore, Seal) 3:46 3 Future Love Paradise 5:14 4 Blues In E 4:27 5 Crazy 5:13 6 Quicksand (David Bowie) 5:02 7 Kiss From A Rose 4:34 8 Violet 5:24 9 Deep Water 3:31 10 Don't Cry 3:16

Dear Diary

1996 • 22 min

A New York magazine art director, a married mother of two who just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Bibleman: Silencing the Gossip Queen

1996 • 24 min • United States of America

The Gossip Queen's "beams of bitterness" turn Bibleman mouthy and menacing when he attempts to protect the church kids' group from same.

Liszt's Rhapsody

1996 • 49 min

In this edition of the award-winning composer series from HBO, Franz Liszt, portrayed wonderfully by Geordie Johnson, is one of Europe's finest pianists, rich and famous beyond compare, but he is frustrated by his inability to find the inspiration to compose his own music. But when Liszt takes Josy, a young violin virtuoso, under his wing, he awakens his own creativity. Features music from Carnival in Pest, The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and The Mephisto Waltz. Historically accurate and musically adept, this video is a valuable resource for music appreciation programs.

The Kids In The Hall: Laughing Ourselves Sick

1996 • 23 min

A half an hour doc shining light on the KITH during the making of their feature film, Brain Candy. Interviews go through the troupe’s formation, their eventual tv show and future with the making of the film.

I'm Your Number One Fan

1996 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Professor Paul Mullen looks at the way in which admiration can slip into obsession and in some cases, life-threatening behavior.

Historias Breves II: ¡Ratas!

1996 • 18 min • Argentina

A new neighbor arrives at the building with a strange suitcase. He doesn't receive visitors or talk to anyone, but a light flashes under his door. Only Lila knows his secret: she spies on him from her window and every night they share the ritual. The neighbors are scared: mysterious noises invade the building. You have to call the fumigator.

Gramps

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

Gramps tells his grandchildren about his battle against invading aliens.

Moving House

1996 • 21 min • Singapore

Documentary about the exhumation of my great-grandparents's grave at Lorong Panchar, off Sixth Avenue in Singapore in 1995 because of a compulsory exhumation order. This video, completed in 1996, provided the basis for a later version of Moving House, 2001. My great-grandfather arrived from Xiamen, China in the late 1800s and opened a crockery shop at Clive Terrace, no longer extant, off Beach Road. My grandfather grew up at Sheik Madrasah Lane off Ophir Road.