All Films

The Bogey Man

1996 • 18 min • Denmark

The first of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen. Ida and her little brother are visiting their strict grandmother who threatens them with the bogey man if they are not kind. When Ida's little brother gets a toy dog from her grandmother, Ida becomes jealous and lures the brother to show the dog for the bogey man.

Disappearance at Sea

1996 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Disappearance at Sea (1996) is a 16 mm colour film with sound shot on location at the lighthouse on St Abb’s Head in Berwick-upon-Tweed in northern England.

For Goodness Sake II

1996 • 17 min • United States of America

An instructional video about the issue of race and diversity in the workplace.

Close-Up Long Shot

1996 • 44 min • France

Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).

Silent Film

1996 • 11 min

Being brought up by deaf parents did not hinder director Malcolm Venville. Instead, it opened his eyes to a whole new world of vivid images. Silent Film is an 11-minute film documenting his parents' romance.

Cartoons Go To War

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – the psychological warfare of the USA. America’s trusted cartoon darlings from the studios of Warner Bros., Paramount, and the “big animals” of the Disney family were supposed to give courage to the people at the homefront, to educate them, but also to simultaneously entertain them. Out of this mixture grew a genre of its own kind – political cartoons. Insightful Interviews with the animators and producers from back then elucidate in an amusing and astonishing way under which bizarre circumstances these films partially came into existence.

Dancing, Some Days

1996 • 7 min • United Kingdom

The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy story, with a spark of purely Glasgow magic.

Kathy Griffin: HBO Comedy Hour

1996 • 29 min • United States of America

Stand up special

Claire Denis, The Vagabond

1996 • 50 min

In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks about her films, her career, the directors she admires - such as Renoir and Ozu - the writing of Frantz Fanon, and her convictions in regard to light, sound, montage, tracking shots, and the role of dialogue, which is subordinate to image in her films.

This Way Up

1996 • 15 min • Canada

What happens to all of those little things that you lose throughout your life? When Gorman (Gary Jones) misplaces one of his socks, he must struggle to maintain his strict schedule. Preoccupied with the simple challenges of his life, he doesn't notice the moving men and their large payload until it's too late...WHAM! He is struck by a heavy box, catapulting him into his bizarre past.

Wild Australia: The Edge

1996 • 37 min • Australia

From beautiful but dangerous waterfalls to canyons and underground rivers carved into stone millions of years ago, Wild Australia is a stunning look at our fragile world and how it relates to Earth of ninety million years ago

The Minute of Silence

1996 • 9 min • Canada

Two astronauts, Benny and Manny, are launched aboard Space Shuttle DK7-821 on a mission to the Kubrick Orbital Station, but they experience complications along the way. Martin Villeneuve's first student film.

Over Me

1996 • 18 min

A lady came back to home. While rest in home, she fell in a phantasmal dream. A dead man's soul came to her and she witnessed his death. She felt sympathized to him and recognized his death.

Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell

1996 • 50 min • United States of America

Short documentary about Jean Harlow's life and career. Episode of A&E's Biography series.

Inquisitor

1996 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Space Marine Captain Darius of the Dark Angels and his command squad join Inquisitor Krieger in solving the mystery of a strange key.

Buy One, Get One Free

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

A man named Reilly gets a cat named Flinch to impress a female cat lover named Sofie and threatens the cat that if there is a scratch on anything while he's away, he will send him to the violin factory. It won't be easy when Sophie leaves Flinch a feline playmate named Fix that only wants to party.

Gary Hemming, le beatnik des cimes

1996 • 25 min • France

The American mountaineer Gary Hemming marked the era of the 1960s. The story of this "exceptional" character is intimately linked to that of the rescue of the two German mountaineers on the west face of the Drus, in 1966, a rescue which he had took the initiative. While the official emergency services of the EHM try to reach them from above, a pirate rope made up of Gary Hemming, René Desmaison, Lothar Mauch, Gil Bodin, Mike Brurke, François Guillot, the filmmaker Gérard Bauer organizes to join them from below and succeeded after a fierce struggle the rescue. The press seizes the event and elevates Gary Hemming to the rank of national hero. All the newspapers feature this big guy with a cool attitude, mismatched clothes, jovial smile and long blond hair on the front page. From then on, he was nicknamed: "the beatnik of the peaks".

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

1996 • 46 min • United States of America

A snyposis of the legendary actor's career, narrated by Liam Neeson.

Plympmania

1996 • 7 min • United States of America

The best wacky, surreal pieces made for the Fox TV show "The Edge."

Burn Your Phone

1996 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Andy works at the Hastings Telephone Exchange. All day, every day he copes with emergencies, from squashed seagulls to suicide attempts. Buton this particular day he takes a series of calls from someone who is threatening to murder him.

Michael Jordan: Above and Beyond

1996 • 54 min • United States of America

"Michael Jordan Above and Beyond" provides a much-needed look at Michael Jordan's fantastic return from retirement in 1995. The first 20 minutes or so recap his retirement, attempt at minor league baseball, and his dealing with his father's murder. It picks up when it starts looking at the huge frenzy that was his return to the NBA in the Spring of 1995. It covers his mediocre first game back against the Pacers, his Friday night Chicago return against the Magic, and his subsequent return to form with a game-winning shot against Atlanta, and a career night dropping 55 on the Knicks.

Under Wraps

1996 • 56 min • Canada

A film that tackles the taboo subject of menstruation. A compelling source of information that is essential for all teachers, mothers, daughters, and the men who love them. It challenges society's thoughts on such issues as safety, Toxic Shock Syndrome, tampons, pads, different cultures, and misconceptions. Author Judy Blume and The Museum of Menstration curator are featured in the film.

What Time Is It?

1996 • 17 min • Mexico

Based on Elena Garro's short story, it's a story where love and loneliness are linked through a hotel room, where a woman awaits for an old and impossible love.

Dirty Laundry

1996 • 30 min • Canada

Dirty Laundry speculates upon the buried narratives of gender and sexuality in Chinese-Canadian history of the 19th century, when Chinese communities were almost exclusively male. A story about a chance late-night encounter between a steward and a passenger on a train interweaves with documentary interviews with historians and writers and historical documents brought to life. The tape poses nagging questions about the personal and political stakes in the writing of history and in our interpretations of the past.