All Films

Goosebumps: My Hairiest Adventure

1996 • 22 min

After Larry and his friends use the contents of an expired bottle of instant tan, strange things start to happen: Larry begins to grow hair on unusual parts of his body, and his friends start to disappear.

Morfing

1996 • 30 min

Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...

Peter and Petra

1996 • 50 min • Slovenia

Peter is fed up with his father’s unfulfilled promises to visit his friend Zoran, who moved far away with his parents some months ago. He forces his father to sear he will fulfill his promise. Peter immediately tells his friend the good news, and because Zoran doesn’t believe they will really come, Peter swears he will come if he has to do it alone. The next day, Peter’s father postpones the visit once again and rushes to work. But Peter doesn’t want to break his promise and sets off to visit his friend alone. Peter’s younger sister Petra attempts to reveal what is right and what isn’t in the events that follow - and when she finds the solution - it’s a surprise for everyone.

Ero-ban kisha

1996 • 43 min • Japan

1996 Japanese movie

Eternity

1996 • 11 min • Canada

“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in boats and water.” San Francisco International Festival Catalogue, 1999

411VM Issue #15

1996 • 47 min

Chaos Switchstance Profiles: Chet Thomas, Laban Pheidias, Gershon Mosley, Andy Macdonald Wheels Of Fortune: Tyrone Olson, Satva Leung, Ryan Kenreich Tampa Am Contests Industry: ATM Southside Skatepark Spot Check Japan Switzerland France World Report Board Aid 3 Transitions

Shinsô no reijô: Reipu-gurui

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Yuka, a female college student, is obsessed with delusions of herself being raped and is unable to go to university. She cannot escape the feeling of intimidation that the men around her are attacking her. Her mother, Kikumi, sends her Yuka to her psychoanalyst, Kurahata. Based on what Yuka says, Kurahata deduces that the biggest cause of Yuka's mental imbalance is likely to be her conflict with her mother, Kikumi. Kikumi is flashy and stands out no matter where she is, and apparently she has taken Yuka's first love, Kunisaka, a masculine schoolteacher, as her mistress...

Dear Madonna

1996 • 5 min • Canada

Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

Holding Ground

1996 • 59 min

HOLDING GROUND is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative went on to gain national recognition as residents fought to close down illegal dumps, gain unprecedented control of land from City Hall and create a comprehensive plan to rebuild the fabric of their community. Through the voices of committed residents, activists and city officials, this moving documentary shows how a Boston neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change.

Hitozuma pachinkaa: Tama korogashi

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Noriko and Kyosuke got married despite their parents' objections. Kyosuke was saving money so that they could go on a trip abroad together, instead of having a wedding ceremony. When he finally saved up enough money, he tried to fulfill his promise to Noriko, but in fact Noriko was addicted to pachinko and had spent all the money...

Disorient Express

1996 • 30 min • United States of America

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print Collection, Library of Congress. Optically copied by Sam Bush, Western Cine Lab., Denver, from l6mm to 35mm letterbox format to allow double-image mirroring in 1:85 ratio projection.

Fantoosh

1996 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he's eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he's hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language.

The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth: The Brush in the Stone

1996 • 33 min • United States of America

Timmy gets a case of the itchy polka dots on the day of the Flossmore Valley Fair. It's up to Mr. Wisdom to read Timmy a medieval story about the origins of the childhood disease.

Pilot Brothers Show Each Other New Year's Magic Tricks

1996 • 6 min • Russia

The action takes place in the boarding house of the Red Cross Landscaping Society.

Group Groper Train: Plain-Clothed Prey, Uniformed Prey

1996 • 55 min • Japan

Megumi, a high school girl, had a playboy boyfriend, Mitsuru. On the train to a date with him, she was attacked by a group of men. Although she was late for the meeting, the intense pleasure changed Megumi.

Kotoba de nureru hitozumatachi

1996 • 60 min

A married woman who is dissatisfied with sex with her husband. And Sayuri, a divorcee who has never felt deep ecstasy, although she can only feel it like other people. At the "classic reading club" that the two of them attend, Katsumata, a university lecturer, introduces Ehon (picture books) and erotic poems (baraku), which are known as pornography from the Edo period. What will happen to the married women who are inspired by glossy books and glossy poems and become lewd?

A Christmas Card from Branson

1996 • 48 min

Have yourself a merry little Christmas with some of your favorite country music stars from Branson, Missouri.

I Bring You Frankincense

1996 • 35 min • United Kingdom

"A rites of passage drama about a mixed race boy called Sunshine who leaves Guildford in [the] 1970's and moves to London." - BFI

Catch a Fire

1996 • 29 min • United Kingdom

This award winning drama/doc tells the story of Paul Bogle, leader of the Morant Bay Rebellion 1865. This rebellion had a major impact on attitudes to race and empire in Victorian Britain, still present today.

Oriental Elegy

1996 • 45 min • Japan, Russia

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.

The Making of '96 CM

1996 • 60 min • Japan

This Road Will Never End

1996 • 25 min

A documentary tribute to River Phoenix stressing the impact that River Phoenix had on gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals.

Twilight of the Gods

1996 • 15 min • New Zealand

A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle to find that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. His wishes to avenge his fallen countrymen by finishing off this helpless enemy but the gods won't allow it (as conveyed to him through a spirit bird). Anguished that he must instead treat the soldier's wounds, he's further repelled by the soldier's incessant homosexual advances. Slowly and surprisingly, a change comes over the warrior to accept the soldier's advances, but the war all too soon intrudes upon them.

Pilot Brothers Drink Tea in the Evenings

1996 • 5 min • Russia

Southwestern Sahara. The North Hotel, where Karbofos is hiding. He waits impatiently for a phone call, gets furious at the conditions of the hotel (flies, an idle fan) and goes crazy from the heat, as a result of which he refreshes himself in the refrigerator, from where a dazed penguin runs out due to sweaty fumes.