All Films

Curly - The Littlest Puppy

1995 • 47 min

Haley is bored by her life until she meets an adorable mutt puppy named Curly, who teaches her how to treasure everyday adventures.

Tokai no Butchy

1995 • 13 min • Japan

Short anime made by Tezuka Productions.

The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the Fun House Mystery

1995 • 30 min

In this episode, the pint-sized private investigators take a spin on spine-tingling amusement park rides and then team up with some hilarious pirates-of-the-midway to catch the scary monster that lurks inside the freaky Fun House.

Toy Machine – Heavy Metal

1995 • 25 min

Skaters: Ed Templeton, Jamie Thomas, Josh Kalis, Panama Dan, Satva Leung. Soundtrack: Intro – ZZ Top La Grange. Josh Kalis – Marvin Gaye Lets Get It On. Ed Templeton – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Bellbottoms. Satva Leung – The Police Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. Panama Dan – Santana Soul Sacrifice. Jamie Thomas – Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive. Bails – Metallica Whiplash. Credits #1 – Canned Heat On The Road Again. Credits #2 – Dan McLean American Pie.

Five Easy Pieces

1995 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Outlines the themes and artistic strategies that have guided McQueen’s work since he emerged in the mid-1990s. Marked by spatial, temporal, and narrative disjointedness and ambiguity, the work’s movements cohere into an orchestrated meditation on film itself. Its five "pieces" are united as experiments in cinematic form—the rhythmic exercises of the bodies throughout it are mirrored by the focus of the camera through formal experiments.

O. Ratz: Rat in a Hot Tin Can

1995 • 7 min • United States of America

Living in a trashcan, O.Ratz and his pal Dave D. Fly try to find warmth on a cold winter night. After several attempts fail - including being thrown out of a homeless shelter and crushed by a snowplow with a freshly warmed blanket attached to it, O.Ratz and Dave stumble upon an old space heater and plug it in. Unfortunately, newspapers too close to the heater cause an electrical fire leading to a gas explosion, sailing them off into the sky to possibly an even colder destination.

The Elegant Spanking

1995 • 30 min • United States of America

This nouveau, sleekly produced film features the story of a unique lesbian S&M relationship between a mistress and her maid. Enter their fantasy: a seductive chain of nostalgically hot images, shocking, amusing and dripping with sexual perversion. The masquerade of dominance and submission is performed in the spirit of decadence, sexual freedom and spiritual abandonment. Goddess Rosemary is a hypnotic dancer with a beautiful body who seduces and punishes her Kitty. She knows how to snap the desire, feed the soul and materialize the unrelenting passion of kitty.

Little Death

1995 • 25 min • France

Family ties. Paul is an artist, his current project is to take photos of the faces of men during orgasm. He lives with Martial, his lover. His sister Camille, who's running the family business, takes Paul to the hospital to see their father, who is dying. Paul hasn't seen him in six years, and all his life has believed his father thinks he's ugly and perhaps not even his child. There's no deathbed reconciliation, but subsequent exchanges of Paul with Martial and with Camille bring opportunities for growth and change to this temperamental and self-pitying young man.

Hotel Paradise

1995 • 29 min

A bride-to-be wakes up one morning next to a man chained to the bed, but cannot remember what happened the night before.

Historias Breves I: Ojos de fuego

1995 • 15 min • Argentina

The story of a boy who lives in a humble neighborhood and has problems with a police commissioner. The backdrop is the Argentine crisis experienced in the Buenos Aires suburbs, and the first scene portrays the looting of a supermarket. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).

What My Mother Told Me

1995 • 57 min • Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom

Jesse, a young woman from England, goes to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. Her mother tells her stories, revealing a troubled and violent marriage, and Jesse is forced to face the truth about her past.

Miss Sarajevo

1995 • 33 min • United States of America

Miss Sarajevo is a surreal and startling portrait of Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia, during the height of the city's seige.

Kyuss - Bizarre Festival, Weeze, Germany

1995 • 32 min • Germany

This is the first appearance on Soundaboard of Kyuss, the band from Palm Desert, California. Better late than never. A recording on the year they split at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne, Germany that also had the presence of Clawfinger, NOFX, Monster Magnet, White Zombie, Paradise Lost and others.

The Desired Number

1995 • 27 min • United Kingdom

This short documentary examines multiple facets of Nigeria’s cultural attitudes towards pregnancy, women’s productive options, and the familial structure.

Life In Medieval Britain

1995 • 55 min • United Kingdom

'Life In Medieval Britain' is the perfect introduction to everyday life during the Middle Ages. Featuring realistic reconstructions filmed at a working medieval village, this DVD helps explain the habits and customs of a people living during a turbulent period of British history. Dr Martin Lowry, Dr Robert Swanson and Andrew Brown provide expert comment and analysis on a time of great upheaval.

Xiao Shan Going Home

1995 • 59 min • China

Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to leave Beijing and returns to his home in Anyang, he goes to see a series of people from his hometown who have also been living in Beijing-construction workers, train ticket scalpers, university students, attendant, prostitutes-but no one wants to go back with him. Dispirited and confused, he searches out one after another of his old friends who are still in Beijing. Finally he leaves his wild long hair, the symbol of his life in the city, at a roadside barber stand as his offering to Beijing.

Amazon Journal

1995 • 60 min

Beginning with the assassination of Chico Mendes in 1988 and ending with a return trip to Yanomami Territory in 1995, this six year journey provides an illuminating perspective on the volatile changes of this era. Besides documenting events, O'Connor analyzes the complex interaction between semi-isolated indigenous societies and "outsiders."

Chocolate - Las Nueve Vidas De Paco

1995 • 32 min • United States of America

Set in the post Civil War west, LAS NUEVE VIDAS DE PACO, is the epic tale of six men who have been cheated. Cheated out of their pride. After loosing their horses during the night, Los Banditos set out on foot to seek revenge on their mortal enemy, “The Law”, and save their enslaved companero, Paco. What follows is a spectacular visual feast of epic cinematography in which the six fight incredible odds to remain friends. LAS NUEVE VIDAS DE PACO is the first in a trilogy encompassing the classic struggle of good vs evil (or evil vs good), with an ending that will twist your guts up. The old west extravaganza represents yet another stepping-stone in the soon to be legacy of film-making from GSF.

Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable

1995 • 13 min • United States of America

An attraction at EPCOT in Disney World which explains how damage is done to the environment and how we can prevent it.

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

1995 • 55 min • United States of America

There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his charm. A true sophisticate of deliberately mysterious origins, Yul Brynner was at home in a wide variety of languages and social environments.

Steve Reich - City Life

1995 • 60 min • Germany

Delve into the life story and professional career of musical genius Steve Reich, considered one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century. Manfred Waffender's documentary reveals how Reich's minimalist style and phrasing innovations have altered the direction of musical history. Special attention is paid to "City Life," a collection of everyday streets sounds brought together to create an aural representation of the urban landscape.

Detras del dinero

1995 • 34 min

A series of events related to a 100 dollar bill.

Alice in Russialand

1995 • 60 min • Canada, United Kingdom

Documentary by Ken Russell that shows Alice traveling through a century of Russian's history, from the period of Tsarism, through Socialism and Glasnost. Alice's original characters embody ideological conflicts crossing politics, art and cultural movements.

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

1995 • 4 min • Canada, United Kingdom

A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.