All Films

Flying Over the Blue Fields

1996 • 20 min • Lithuania

"After “Antigravitation” I wanted to make another step up, where disappears last prop under your feets. “Flying Over the Blue Field” – movie about loneliness in infinite sky. Man stays with himself, home-made plane and balance on the limit between death and life." - Audrius Stonys.

Bobcat Goldthwait Comedy Central "Pulp Comics"

1996 • 20 min

Woah dude! It's the Bobcat! Very 90s Stand-Up & Sketch Comedy. Lots of fun.

No Angel: A Life of Marlene Dietrich

1996 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

1996 • 55 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.

Adventure Pizza

1996 • 5 min • Sweden

A pizza baker bakes a huge horror pizza and the ingredients come to life.

My aunt is a private tutor. Teach me more.

1996 • 58 min

Eriko visited her sister and brother-in-law's country guesthouse for the first time in ages. Their adolescent son, Toshiyuki, found himself captivated by the beauty of his sophisticated aunt, Eriko. Eriko, too, was drawn to Toshiyuki's innocence, and they began to step into a forbidden world...

Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial

1996 • 60 min

Documentary following the hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee of the '40s and '50s.

A Beautiful Lawyer

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Erika Mizusawa, chose to become a lawyer due to the abuse her mother suffered at the hands of her father and the horrible memories of her school days. Now that she has finally achieved her dream of becoming a lawyer, she receives a case in which she is defending a student who was raped by a teacher. Saeka is torn between her desire for fame as a lawyer and her memories of her school days. What on earth will she do next? What on earth are the horrible memories that remain in her mind?

Valley Girls

1996 • 31 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Two Welsh women win a trip to Hollywood.

Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins

1996 • 56 min • United States of America

The struggle by a Vietnam war hero turned priest to find and reveal the truth about secret CIA torture training at a US military base.

Le Fantôme de Longstaff

1996 • 20 min • France

Wonderful short by Moullet based on a Henry James short story.

The Ultimate Guide: T-Rex

1996 • 52 min • United States of America, Canada

Learn about the king of the dinosaurs, the T-Rex. This was the greatest meat-eating machine of the dinosaur era.

Straight to Heaven

1996 • 13 min • Mexico

Two girls in love are going to discover that a bus can take you from a traffic jam in Mexico City to a celestial place.

Big Brother: Shit

1996 • 48 min • United States of America

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Postcard from San Miguel

1996 • 11 min • Mexico, United States of America

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a postcard from the picturesque Mexican colonial town of San Miguel de Allende. Underneath is the mysterious quest for the filmmaker's dream-lover.

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1996 • 10 min • Japan

A Japanese-Chinese couple hangs out and shoots each other.

Affliction

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman's Sampler of sickness, chronicling such wildly diverse and extreme personalities as G.G. Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, GLOD, Annie Sprinkle, and others. This collection of short clips and vile moments is certainly NOT for the squeamish, as these are the artists and performers who have taken the term "free expression" to it's limits--and beyond.

Viz Top Tips

1996 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Helpful hints on making life easier from the pages of adult comic Viz are brought to life by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Save money by filling a glass with marmite and topping it with shaving foam. It makes a convincing pint of stout and has the advantage of tasting nicer.

Michael Snow Up Close

1996 • 44 min • United States of America

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist. The documentary celebrates the multi-faceted shape of Snow's creative genius, including glimpses of his work in painting, sculpture, film, photo-works, performance, installations, and holography. Discussions with Snow, original documentation of his music and performance work, and excerpts from his avant-garde films, are complemented by interviews with filmmakers Jonas Mekas and Bruce Elder, Snow's dealer Av Isaacs, the architect Eb Zeidler, museum director Pierre Théberge, curator Louise Dompierre, and others. A deliberately conventional documentary about a deliberately unconventional artist.

Wabuu the Cheeky Racoon

1996 • 30 min • Germany

Wabuu, the small cheeky raccoon, goes on excursions in the forest. His mind is set on nothing but nonsense and practical jokes. Nothing is more fun than to fool the clumsy bear or farmer Alfred’s mean watchdogs. Only once Wabuu goes too far and Wuschel, the small squirrel is missing. Of course Wabuu has not intended that, but this time the other animals are real angry. Wabuu is terribly sorry. He starts looking for his friend Wuschel. But where begin and what to do, if something really mysterious has occurred to Wuschel?

Apparatus M

1996 • 6 min • Japan

A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater constructed within the exhibit space that featured photographs of Morimura playing famous foreign and Japanese actresses.

Lee and Herring Live

1996 • 60 min • United Kingdom

TV Comedy from radio award-winning writers Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.

Victor Borge: Then & Now III in Washington D.C.

1996 • 60 min

The Great Dane, Victor Borge, performs with friends at a theatre in Washington D.C. for an evening of laughs and music.

Spokes

1996 • 19 min • United States of America

A gay German tourist meets a man in New York City's central park and takes home a souvenir.