All Films

Skinhead Farewell

1996 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The bizarre truth behind the enigma of Jim Moffatt, alias Richard Allen, author of the cult classic Skinhead series of novels for the New English Library pulp fiction publishers of the 1970s.

Enough With The Salmon

1996 • 6 min

A look at family vacations growing up in the 1960s.

Jonas Mekas, Friday 13th October

1996 • 6 min • Germany

Jonas, Birgit and Anja are leaving for the Brooklyn Bridge. By taxi, buying beer, drinking in the street, joking, running, dancing on the bridge. It was a very funny afternoon.

Spindrift

1996 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A story of humour, energy and friendship, Spindrift chronicles a day in the life of two Soho drifters who work as rent boys. Combining documentary style material with expressionistic sequences, the film builds up a series of snapshots which encapsulate the boys' desire for freedom and love.

Speak English or Die - The Cosmic Jerk-Off

1996 • 13 min • Brazil

This short film is an attempt to explore "Star Wars" (sic) style interplanetary wars. It stars Marcos Braun and Carli Bortolanza, with interpretations in the best "low budget" style possible.

Tales From I-5

1996 • 6 min

Kelley’s commute from Portland to LA in his 1979 Toyota Corolla with special commentary by the Tappet Brothers of NPR’s Last Chance Garage.

Sepultura - Live at Pinkpop Festival 1996

1996 • 47 min

Sepultura Live at Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands.

The Magic of Flight

1996 • 40 min • United States of America, Canada

Take a technological thrill ride The Magic of Flight takes you on a technological thrill ride faster, higher and wider than modern science or even your imagination! Relive the first flight of the Wright Brothers, then soar with the Blue Angels as they defy the laws of gravity. Narrated by Tom Selleck.

The Belly of America

1996 • 25 min • France

The United States is not only New York, San Francisco, Hollywood, it is above all the two hundred million inhabitants of deep America. Des Moines (Iowa), emblematic city of deep America, serves as the first test during the presidential elections and saw the birth in its suburbs of John Wayne and Jean Seberg. Belly is the key word in this obesity capital.

Peter and the Wolf

1996 • 19 min • Germany

It was winter and as every year Peter was allowed to visit his Grandpa. At first everything seemed normal. But then a woman heard a wolf howl. It was very far away, but the people in the village came into bright excitement. They sent the hunters on the search for the wolf. But the hunters had not been successful. So Peter, Grandpa, and their friends considered how they could protect themselves against the wolf. And they have had an idea...

The Tears of AIDS

1996 • 8 min • France

A bisexual married man meets a gay man whilst bathing in a small deserted creek and they fall in love even though the gay man has AIDS... He describes this sudden passion in simple words. Paul Vecchiali contribution to omnibus film 'L'@mour est à réinventer'.

Hypnothesis

1996 • 24 min • India

A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.

Artaud and the Tarahumaras

1996 • 50 min • France

This film is a confrontation between the texts Antonin Artaud wrote about the Tarahumaras and the films Raymonde Carasco made with the Tarahumaras (from 1977 to 1994) on the track of Antonin Artaud, in Norogachic, the only place explicitly mentioned by Antonin Artaud.

Shari's Passover Surprise

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to Shari's for Passover... a fact he conveniently forgets to pass on to Shari until the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, everyone else is getting in on the action... Dom Deluise gets an education on the Seder plate and the significance of each item it holds, and neighbor Robert Guillaume delivers a song and dance explanation of the history of Passover.

Danielle et Miranda

1996 • 5 min • Japan

Animation with hand-drawn illustrations by Makoto Tezuka. The images of "NUMANITE" were arranged by the author himself and remade into this short work.

Scream Queens Naked Christmas

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Scream Queens celebrate Christmas with no clothes on.

Scant Sanity

1996 • 11 min

An exploration into the nature of the mind, the brain and reality. A person seeking job counselling receives psychiatric treatment instead, and thereupon becomes convinced of the reality of his own internal world. This may be the tale of an abused student, or the bizarre and unlikely reminiscences of an aging cowboy. On the other hand, it could be the musings of a bored actuary. By presenting the life of the filmmaker as multiple levels of insanity, this film challenges the commonsense interpretation of the universe.

Barflies

1996 • 3 min • Australia

Two drunk flies drink beer, smoke from a giant cigarette and become attracted to a bright light in this adult claymation comedy.

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien

1996 • 35 min • United States of America

Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California. The documentary explored his spiritual struggle coping with his disability; he had to use an iron lung much of the time due to childhood polio. O'Brien died on 4 July 1999, from post-polio syndrome. It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject.

Junior Lieutenant

1996 • 52 min

The moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.

A Dive into the Guts of Existence

1996 • 12 min • Brazil

A desperate gore short created by reusing scenes from the feature "They Eat Your Flesh" that the director was filming at the time. The short was edited for a Spanish gore film festival and to help raise more money to finish the main film.

Babsan and The New Neighbour

1996 • 3 min • Sweden

Babsan wants to invite her new neighbor for coffee. This is easier said than done since the neighbor seems to be a strange type.

Children of Jerusalem: Gesho

1996 • 25 min

This short documentary tells the story of 13-year-old Gesho, one of the 14,000 Ethiopian Jews who left Northeast Africa for a new life in Israel during a massive refugee effort initiated by the Israeli government in 1991. In Ethiopia, he and his family lived without running water or electricity, and Gesho had to drop out of school in grade 6 to help his father. Now his family lives in a trailer equipped with basic conveniences in a temporary community for new immigrants on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

Round Eyes In The Middle Kingdom

1996 • 51 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel Epstein.