All Films

Raptus

1995 • 3 min

Confrontation between a conformist and a nonconformist smoker in the grip of a homicidal frenzy

Lyme Disease: Time for Truth

1995 • 60 min • United States of America

A look through the eyes of those who suffer from Lyme Disease and those who have chosen to fight for them. With digital graphics from DE and original music by Arte Bratton, this explores the real issues involved with this spreading disease.

Wolfen Tickle

1995 • 57 min • United States of America

This is a mystical tale of a marsupial monster mixing bondage and tickling with his midnight marauding. A sure classic horrifying tickling adventure. Watch as Wolfy binds his victim tight with rope then caresses and tickles her to pure horrifying ecstasy.

Seattle: Hidden Histories

1995 • 13 min

A series of one-minute interview-based spots Martha Rosler made with the American Indian community during her residence in Seattle from 1991 to 1995. Rosler reveals lost languages, unrecognized tribes, and the experiences of contemporary Native Americans living not on reservations but in the city.

Ramayana/Legong

1995 • 5 min • Australia

Evening performances of traditional Balinese dance-drama in Ubud, shot single frame with open shutter exposures.

Holding Steady Without Screaming

1995 • 11 min

Or, I Can't Scream Because I Have To Hold The Camera Steady. This eleven-minute video is a personal lamentation of the state of AIDS activism.

Du Salon indien au multiplexe

1995 • 59 min • France

From the first paying public screening on December 28, 1895, at the Grand Café in Paris, to the present day, this film tells the story of movie theaters over a century of existence. Accompanied by a commentary, a skilful montage of archive footage, some of it previously unseen, traces this evolution - from the golden age of the Gaumont-Palace and the Grand-Rex to the era of multi-screen complexes - illuminated by memories and testimonials from exhibitors, architects and cinema professionals.

I Will Die Young

1995 • 27 min • Russia

The painting tells the story of young people from St. Petersburg whose lives have been disrupted by the economic and political upheavals of our time.

A Letter from 1920

1995 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

A monodrama consisting of the content of the letter from the short story "A Letter from 1920" by Ivo Andrić. The story was published way back in 1946, and through the pen of his main character Max Levenfeld, a doctor who is fleeing Bosnia for good, Andrić writes about the hatred that has haunted this country and its people for centuries.

Dances of Lai Haraoba

1995 • 35 min

Yelhou Jagoi, also known as Lai Haraoba, is a ritual dance from Manipur that re-enacts the myth of creation and celebrates the harmony between humans and nature. Through 364 hand gestures (Khutheks) in Laibou sequences, it portrays creation, flora and fauna, and human endeavor. The documentation features Nungnao Jagoi, depicting a child's birth and growth; Yumsarol, showing traditional house construction; and Panthoibi Jagoi, celebrating the love story of Nongpok Ningthou and Panthoibi. The film explores the deeper, often overlooked aspects of this sacred dance tradition within its natural and cultural context.

NYPD Nude

1995 • 25 min

When New York Police Department Officer, Carol Shaya posed nude for Playboy magazine she drew the wrath of many of her female colleagues. They felt that her striptease in uniform knocked their progress back by twenty years. In another case, Sergeant Cibella Borges was sacked from the force in 1983 for appearing in a hard core men’s magazine. Her case was taken to the High Court where she was reinstated. NYPD Nude interviews Carol, Cibella and other women within the NYPD and explores the boundaries between private and professional life in the Carol Shaya case.

How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly

1995 • 6 min • Canada

The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth. They stayed up all night. And though they loved jumping off cliffs, they didn't like the landings much. The early mammals tried to warn them. "Keep that up and you'll all be extinct!" they said. But the dinosaurs just laughed... and over time, they evolved into birds.

The New Schoolhouse

1995 • 9 min

A story of village life in Ontario in the 1850s as seen through the eyes of three young children. The whole community participates in the building of the new schoolhouse and its opening day celebrations.

The Mousehole Cat

1995 • 30 min

Told through the eyes of Mowzer, a cat, this tale -- based on a Cornish legend -- follows brave Tom Bawcock as he makes his way towards the treacherous sea conditions to bring food back to the village. Luckily, his faithful cat sings a lullaby to the Great Storm-Cat of the sea, who was responsible for unleashing the terrible weather. Soothed by Mowzer, the Great Storm-Cat allows Tom to catch enough fish to feed every mouth in the village.

McLaren at LeMans: Pursuit of Perfection

1995 • 40 min

The McLaren F1 road car's story and development for the historic LeMans race of 1995. Gruesome driving conditions, the debut of a remarkable new car, and a titanic battle to the flag caused many to describe the 1995 Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans as the most exciting race in the event's long and glorious history. But this was also the year in which the ultimate road-going sports car, the McLaren F1, stamped it's superiority over the world's finest race-bred opposition... and this is the fly-on-the-wall documentary that captured the heard of the action. Made amidst the tension and intrigue of the pit lane, ride in-car with the winning drivers, eavesdrop on their conversation - and those of the opposition - witness team tactics and pit action as never before: witness the most gripping of duals right up to the chequered flag!

Wind/Water/Wings

1995 • 22 min • United States of America

An optically-printed canvas which explores the interior feel of world moving with inherent fluidity through a medium of wind and water. It presents an impressionistic portrait of unnatural forces that collide.

Seis Histórias

1995 • 27 min • Brazil

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly created in 1995) of two Brazilian cities, Blumenau and Belo Horizonte.

De Kresj

1995 • 57 min

Around 1970, director Marije Meerman attended the anti-authoritarian daycare center Prins Constantijn in Amsterdam, where children were raised by a collective of parents to become 'socially critical, creative, emancipated, pleasurable, inclusive people'. Twenty-five years later, Meerman looks for her daycare-mates, to see what became of them and what happened to the ideals they were raised with.

Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen

1995 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Vers le silence

1995 • 35 min • France

Alone and desperate, not being able to escape the "perversion" that alienates him from women, Michel wants to rest and forget. He leaves Paris...

Pfish and Chip in Short Pfuse

1995 • 7 min

Pfish the shark and Chip the cat take on a mad bomber.

Come to Me, Nice Butterfly

1995 • 36 min • Israel

Songs and stories from Fania Bergstein's "Come to Me, Nice Butterfly", "We'll Go Out to the Field", and "And it was Evening".

Me dicen Yovo

1995 • 35 min

While working as a photographer in Benin, West Africa, a two-week trip will turn into a two months personal journey. Me dicen Yovo (I'm a Yovo) is a visual diary of that experience. A Peruvian traveller is an odd presence in Benin whose ethnic a cultural identities are constantly creating unique situations, and provoking original thoughts on what it means to be from the "third world".

Gob A Goo

1995 • 52 min • United States of America

The 8mm videocassette lost footage contained in this VHS tape you are about to see was found disposed of in a Utah county thrift store dumpster. It is a true reality account of the bizarre pizza party which befell a group of three friends. They could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the strange and surreal in their party host as they would see that day. For them an idyllic party invitation became a totally bizarre outing. The events of that 1995 day would later be revealed with the discovery of one of the most bizarre pizza parties video footage in the annals of American history.