All Films

Love Me Dangerously

1996 • 60 min • Japan

Narutaki is a TV newscaster. Amidst his immense popularity, his work and private life were fulfilling. However, in order to maintain his popularity, he hid the fact that he was gay and was careful not to let the public know about his boyfriend. The young man, who is a big fan of Narutaki and masturbates every day while watching Narutaki on TV, finally can't stand it anymore, and eventually realizes that Narutaki is gay, and begins a violent stalking act. Eventually, Narutaki's lover becomes involved in a crazy love triangle...

Hell Teacher Nube

1996 • 48 min • Japan

Kumiko Ijima is a very timid girl who happens to recognize a murderer still in pursuit at a park. With the help of her friend Kyoko Inaba, she warns the police about the wanted man. After trying to escape the police by car, the murderer crashes and ends up in the hospital. Some time later, a mysterious entity starts to terrorize the neighborhood in search of a girl who has the name initials K.I. and uses a red ribbon on her hair.

Feeding Time

1996 • 5 min • Germany

A lion is forced to skip its meal.

The Ritual

1996 • 28 min

Three friends -- two of them into voodoo rituals -- contemplate life and a dead body in their living room.

Prelude 11

1996 • 3 min • United States of America

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

Prelude 8

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close to pure visual music as I can make it, more inspired by The Preludes of Bach or The Preludium of Buxtehude than anything of my surroundings when I was painting.

Nerabe

1996 • 11 min

Nerabe unravels through 11 minutes the process of waiting, the ritual of motherhood through a look full of poetic resonances. She starts with a dance made of transitional steps, accomplice of maternal games, victim of fears, dreams, haste and self-absorption of those who are waiting.

Prelude 16

1996 • 2 min

Singly-printed criss-crosses of molten "brush"-(hard-edge)-strokes of black over pebbled yellow, ending finally on an intermix of all intertwined forms with increasing lightness/whiteness.

Nymphomaniac Carnival

1996 • 55 min • Japan

A sensual drama that carefully examines the crossroads faced by an elderly man who has had a spectacular career with women. Director Yutaka Ikejima, who also plays the lead role, skillfully portrays the sadness of a popular man's old age while performing various erotic scenes himself, and this is a good film that won the Top 10 Pink Award. Ezaki (Yutaka Ikeshima) was asked to divorce his wife Kumi (Satomi Shinozaki) on the day he retired due to cheating, and his partner introduces him to his friend Kaori (Yuna Kawamura), but her mother... ・Etsuko (Ayumi Taguchi) and her younger sister Yayoi (Kyoko Hashimoto) are former mistresses, and when they reunite, they develop a strange friendship.

Basketball Mozart

1996 • 57 min • Croatia

Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.

Prelude 15

1996 • 2 min

Doubly-printed striations of "brush-strokes" through multicolored "rock" forms dissolving then to blackened "mud" eliciting increasing sense of being under earth.

Prelude 24

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 24 returns to the tempo of single-frame printing. Its shapes and forms are composed of nearly black torques of ink, flickering with white and only faintly, now and again, tinged with color.

Red

1996 • 26 min • United Kingdom

In 1977, young Xiao Mei leaves China for the UK to enter into an arranged marriage. Speaking no English and feeling distant from her Elvis-obsessed new husband and his stern mother, Xiao Mei dreams of reuniting with her long-lost parents and brother.

Prelude 14

1996 • 1 min • United States of America

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.

Modern-Era Shameless School

1996 • 50 min • Japan

The hot-blooded manga of love and excitement is revived in the Heisei era!

Prelude 23

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 23 is doubly-printed hand-painted frames causing an effect almost as if wisps of tone were tinting the film intercut with sharp thin lines which "fatten," then, into thick crowded layers of paint, senses of great visual depth.

Prelude 22

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 22 is a singly-printed hand-painted thick black and gold swatches of color which evolve into forms that are horizontally and vertically sliced, smeared, cut-off until color "runs" sensuously in snake-like shapes, coils, soforth.

Prelude 21

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 21 is most characterized by the double-time of single-frame printing of extremely thick swatches of multiple colors as if in a furiously boiling cauldron.

Treasure Island

1996 • 48 min • United States of America

Hoist anchor, maties! And set a course for the grandest pirate yarn ever to shiver your timbers in this thrillingly animated, song- and –laughter filled version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling adventure classic!

Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet

1996 • 59 min • Japan

Kumiko, who goes to a culture center with her husband's permission, has fallen prey to the instructor, Oikawa. Akiko, who also attends the same class, is single but also has a physical relationship with Oikawa. When Akiko finds out that Oikawa is also having an affair with Kumiko, she quits the class and starts a relationship with Kumiko's husband...

Hoch Zeit

1996 • 18 min

An Anti-MTV-Rock'n'Roll-allegory. A comment on Grunge's corporate happy misery.

Harambee!

1996 • 60 min • United States of America

During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the principles of the holiday to combat violence in their neighborhood.

Masculine Mescaline

1996 • 25 min

A London 'wide boy' alcoholic is forced to face his responsibilities by a 'heavenly' messenger.

Famous Fred

1996 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Based on the book by Posy Simmonds. Mischievous kitten Fred grows up to be feline singing superstar, but a case of cat flu threatens to cut short his musical career.