All Films

Girls on Film

1996 • 2 min

GIRLS ON FILM is an experimental film that captures the fleeting images from countdown leaders of old film prints. The "china girls" who appeared in these unseen film frames were posing for far less than aesthetic purposes and more for technical reasons. Their fleshtones and accompanying color-charts helped the film lab technicians calibrate the color-rendition of the film stock. The soundtrack is the 1981 new wave hit "I'm In Love with a German Film Star" by The Passions.

The Principles of Karma

1996 • 20 min • Canada

A young man, bored with his monotonous daily routine (which includes being pushed around at school by jocks and holding a loaded gun to his head), joins an organised group of rebels (led by a cable-TV repairman) who abduct teenagers who have become complacent with their mundane existences.

Viy

1996 • 19 min • Ukraine

Three friends lived in a Ukrainian village. They were not rich, so they were happy to take up the proposed small job. They had to go to another village at a dark night. On the way, they saw a small farmhouse and a cottage, where they decided to spend the night. Thus very strange mystical events began.

François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

1996 • 38 min

A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.

Footy's Wild Men

1996 • 50 min • Australia

In the history of Aussie Rules footy, the games Wild Men have become a legend through their on-field antics. From the greats of yesteryear to the champions of the modern era.

Hover

1996 • 10 min

Sex. Blood. Life. On a misty evening, a mysterious young man looks to satisfy his desires.

Cinema Is Not 100 Years Old

1996 • 4 min • United States of America

The real history of the cinema is the invisible history – history of friends getting together doing the thing the love – for us the cinema is beginning with every new buzz of the projector. With every new buzz of our cameras our hearts jump forwards, my friends! ―Jonas Mekas

Taking Pictures

1996 • 56 min • Papua New Guinea, Australia

Before the 1970s, the Commonwealth Film Unit represented the people of PNG in a paternalistic way, as curiosities. The unit used pompous voice-overs telling viewers what they should believe. Les McLaren and Annie Stiven are two of a group of Australian filmmakers who have lived and worked in PNG during the past 25 years and who see their roles rather differently. Through their films, they have endeavoured to reflect Papua New Guineans' complexity of thought, language and culture, using a wide variety of filmic styles and techniques. The film features interviews with a variety of Australian filmmakers who have worked extensively in PNG, including Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, Chris Owen, Dennis O'Rourke and Gary Kildea. This documentary is a fascinating tracing of PNG culture and history from the 1930s until today.

Shin rei bideo I: Shinrei shashin-shuu

1996 • 45 min • Japan

Documentary directed by Norio Tsuruta.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Wendy Liebman

1996 • 28 min • United States of America

Stand-up comedy with Wendy Liebman, the comic who is a master of the one-liner with the subliminal afterthought.

Richard Simmons: Dance Your Pants Off!

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

Get ready to dance your way to a healthier body with Richard Simmons: Dance Your Pants Off!

The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society

1996 • 4 min • United States of America

In the mid-to-late fifties the word “Rock-A-Billy” found its way into the vocabulary of America’s youth. Bill Haley and His Comets were the leaders of this short-lived musical movement. By 1962 Rock-A-Billy was all but gone. But in present day London the fashions, attitudes, tattoos and music of the Rock-A-Billy era are alive and well; if you know where to find it. In venues like The Tennessee Rock and Roll Club, Teddy Boy society still perpetuates the mores of Rock-A-Billy culture. Visually arresting in its approach, The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society offers a glimpse into this little known world of late night London.

William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama

1996 • 45 min

William Shakespeare's life produced an unmatched legacy of drama and poetry. But the Bard's own story remains mostly a mystery. Track clues to Shakespeare's identity, from his youth in Stratford-on-Avon and his marriage to an older woman to the night of carousing that led to his death at age 52. Film clips, dramatic readings and other footage provide a glimpse into Shakespeare's life and his astonishing 20-year career as a playwright and actor.

Charlie Harper, 20 Years of Chaos

1996 • 13 min

This documentary is more than anything a film about punk ideology told by punk survivors. The characters have been faithful to the 70's riot, and have developed their aggression into reflective thoughts and opinions. In making our film we have discovered the extremes within this community and how, after more than twenty years, the music is still as popular today.

Abbado: The Silence that Follows the Music

1996 • 59 min • Germany

Shot over a two-year period observing Abbado: a) Rossini, Overture to 'll Barbiere di Siviglia' b) Schubert, Symphony no. 2 B-Major, D. 125 c) Arnold Schonberg, Kammersinfonie no. 1 E-Major op. 9 (Filmed in Venice, Gran Teatro La Fenice, in February 1995, Chamber Orchestra of Europe). a) Richard Strauss, Elektra (Deborah Polaski, Karita Mattila, Marjana Lipovsek, Ferrucio Furlanetto) b) Beethoven, Symphony no 6 F-Major, op. 68, 'Pastorale' (Filmed in the Festspielhaus Salzburg on the occasion of the Easter Festival, April 1995, Berlin Philharmonic). a) Beethoven, Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3 C-MINOR, OP. 37 (Maria Joao Pires) b) Bruckner, Symphony no. 9 D-Minor (Filmed in Paris, Cite de la Musique, in August 1995, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra).

The Butterfly Over Sky-Brain

1996 • 15 min • Brazil

This short was one of the first directions / scripts made by director Petter Baiestorf. In the short, EB Toniolli plays a desperate young man who attempts the longest suicide ever shot in the history of cinema. It was recorded in 1992, but edited in 1996.

Ernst & the Light

1996 • 12 min • Denmark

The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice.

Do-inran!! Jukuzuma kurabu 'Aan, tamannai...'

1996 • 58 min

The Garden

1996 • 7 min • Israel

A guy walking down the street sees a man being kidnapped into a public garden in broad daylight. There is no trace of the man, but a few blood drops leading to a manhole cover in the ground. When the guy comes back at night to investigate, a surprise is waiting for him.

Dear Daughter

1996 • 55 min • Ireland

Dear Daughter was the first televised exposure of the horrific abuse of hundreds of children in Ireland’s industrial schools. Christine Buckley bravely recounts the extent of the atrocities she experienced as a child in Dublin’s Goldenbridge orphanage in this drama-documentary. Born in Dublin, she was the daughter of a married Irish woman and a Nigerian medical student. At the age of three weeks old she was given up to be fostered. Dear Daughter delves into her traumatic childhood at the orphanage and her persistent determination to find her parents.

Godzilla vs. the Netherlands

1996 • 6 min • Netherlands

In the middle of the computer era, Holland receives a visit from an old-fashioned Japanese film monster. A devastating tourist visit.

Pregnant, or Lesbian?

1996 • 5 min • France

A teenager comes out to her parents by asking them to guess whether she is pregnant or a lesbian.

Arne Anka - An Evening at Zekes

1996 • 57 min • Sweden

Arne Anka had been declared dead as a comic strip character since a few months back. However, by this time Charlie Christensen's (a.k.a. Alexander Barks) creation had reached status as quite a cult phenomenon, so the play must have been received with much anticipation and enthusiasm, so much so that it was filmed and subsequently released on video-tape.

Shin rei bideo II: Kyôfu taikendan-shuu

1996 • 44 min • Japan

Documentary directed by Norio Tsuruta.