All Films

Prelude 20

1996 • 2 min

Prelude 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared.

The Office

1996 • 30 min

Middle manager Norman is preparing an address to senior management. When an interview with his new boss leads to an awful misunderstanding, Norman finds himself naked in the wrong office with minutes to go until his presentation.

Prelude 13

1996 • 2 min • United States of America

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until there's an evolution of hard-edge autumn leaf patterns which dissipate into patterns similar to the beginning of the film.

Pharmacist from Hell

1996 • 45 min • Japan

A trio of bad boys comes across some ghosts and monsters. They decide to visit a pharmacist in their town to ask for his advice because he is said to have power to communicate with the spirit world. The mysterious old man says “if you meet ghosts and they attack you, you should show the cards and chant some spell which I will give you...” . Then gives the trio three cards which have odd spells written on them. The boys bravely fight against the monsters following the pharmacist’s instructions, but...! Why do the ghosts and monsters appear only in front of the boys?

The Hitman

1996 • 8 min

After breaking up with her boyfriend Greg, Mary wonders if her new career might not be what she expected.

Nattbok

1996 • 23 min • France

A portrait of a day in Paris shown from the perspective of the sanitation worker.

Jungle Boy

1996 • 45 min • United States of America

Loose animated adaptation of "The Jungle Book".

Prelude 7

1996 • 5 min • United States of America

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of nervous feedback, sometimes influenced by the colors of inlet waters, sometimes the wave movements, but more ordinarily by the cellular shifts and shapes of the optic system receiving exterior imagery.

Triste

1996 • 19 min • United States of America

Compilation of footage shot from 1974-96, developing on Dorsky's theory of polyvalent editing.

The Transformation

1996 • 53 min • United States of America

Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. Today he is a churchgoing, married man, "saved" by a Dallas ministry. He has renounced his homosexuality, but is his conversion complete? Susana Aiken and Carlos Aparicio offer an intimate look at Ricardo's transformation.

Les Mains

1996 • 20 min

Charly, René, Katiga, Zinedine and Madeleine tell in a few minutes the story of their hands, filmed in a static shot, placed on a table that is familiar to them. Five acquaintances of the director are invited to present their hands, and nothing else, to the camera. The stories that this unconventional situation elicits reveal sensual memories and buried pain. The hands, restored to a certain independence, join, move and dance.

Anastasia

1996 • 31 min • Germany

Ascha, a little girl, is standing confused in front of the destroyed czar palace in Russia. None the Czar-Family seems to have survived. An old man has compassion on the little girl, who can remember nothing, not even her name. He decides to take Ascha with him to his home.

Blight

1996 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.

Starbound

1996 • 59 min • United Kingdom

The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and dealing with very effective herbicide.

Knackered

1996 • 5 min

1996 Sam Taylor-Wood video art piece focusing on a naked singer

Wordless

1996 • 9 min • Italy

Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.

A Summer Dress

1996 • 16 min • France

It's summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. As for Frédéric, all he wants to do is work on his tan.

Undressed For Success

1996 • 40 min • Japan

Softcore video with japanese cult movie queen Kei Mizutani. Kei romps through a series of locales, changing from one sexy outfit to another!

The Ringer

1996 • 44 min • Mexico

Film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Sambolico

1996 • 29 min • Germany

Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. He finds it hard to forget an encounter with an extraordinary woman at the hotel.

The Hunt

1996 • 38 min • United States of America

Tina Krause is an 18th Century huntress who’s after some very dangerous game. She thinks she’s in control, but learns how wrong she really is! The hunter becomes the hunted! Tina starts out dressed in a very proper skirt, jacket, hat, and blouse only to find herself struggling for survival dressed only blood splattered and shredded undergarments. This is a supernatural thriller not to be missed! 

Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business

1996 • 56 min • Poland

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.

The Dadshuttle

1996 • 23 min • Canada

A father and his gay son use the opportunity of a car ride to have a sometimes uncomfortable conversation.

Survival Island

1996 • 42 min • Japan, United States of America, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Standing almost alone in the great Southern Ocean, South Georgia island plays host to some of the largest concentrations of animals anywhere on Earth during the spring and summer months. This is the story of these vast animal cities, and of the order that lies beneath their seeming chaos.