Cinematic Era: 1995 Vintage

SUNDAY APRIL 9, 1995 C.B.G.B NEW YORK CITY

The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.

One thousand years ago, the vikings were lost to a mysterious coast in the Northe Antlantic.Kilian, the Irish slave,stole the navigating stone,fortunately original people of Americath rescued him and helped him how to living on there.

"Minka tells the story of the friendship between two children, Minka and Kany. Minka's father and mother have died. His step-father Karfa is the boss of the village community. Karfa's brother is owner of the source of income in the village, the granite mine, where many adults and children work. Karfa is a callous man who treats Minka badly. The girl Kany can no longer bear seeing Minka treated so badly. She calls on the children of the village to go on hunger strike. Karfa is furious, the terrible consequences are for Minka." - IFFR

A year in the life of Richard, Sylvain, Nono and Calou who are squatting an unused railway tunnel in the 13th ward in Paris. They have created an entire domestic interior with television set, fridge, washing machine... With their four dogs, they live as a kind of highly organised urban tribe. But Nono is sent to prison, Sylvain meets a woman...

Explores the influence of propaganda on religion during Hitler's reign as well as his representation as the new Messiah.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Body Double

The story begins in a Russian sauna where very buff naked cadets fan birch branches on each other to stimulate their circulation. The story is of a seduction of a Russian soldier that may or may not go well.

The Father Moon Ik-hwan had been imprisoned for inaugurating the National Security Law after visiting North Korea. However Korean people’s desire for reunification heated up the whole country and Moon Gyu-hyeon and Lim Su-Gyeong visited North Korea. That means Father Moon’s visit to North Korea triggered Korean people’s desire for reunification. This film represents the Father Moon’s point of view on and people’s movement on reunification through influence of his visit in North Korea in 1989.

Documentary about the everyday life of a bicycle courier in Berlin in 1995.

Observations through a slowly gliding camera on the canals of Thailand reveal the living quarters and open lifestyles of people living right on the waterfront. A uniquely filmic spatial illusion is created, accented by an outstanding soundscape.

See 97 of the most spectacular tornadoes ever filmed including the all-time 'top-20' home videos and the 'top-20' storm chase videos.

With the roar of a thousand freight rains, tornadoes inflict the awesome fury of nature few people ever dare to experience. Driven by their life threatening obsession, storm chasers repeatedly test their courage in a brave attempt to record these natural wonders on videotape. Now for the first time, you can witness some of the most destructive, mesmerizing twisters of recorded history in this real life video. Every inch of footage in this video is real... not just a Hollywood simulation. Real storm chasers captured giant Twisters throwing real cars in the air like toys, crushing real houses in seconds, and wiping out whole communities like blades of grass. Plus, from the safety of your living room, you'll witness an extraordinary event as a stranded news crew clings to the underside of a highway overpass and a killer tornado rips directly over their heads with their camera running!

A train driver always moves at work, but in his personal life...

Leonard Nimoy narrates this tour of the solar system.

A film by Tacita Dean

Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the end.

A portrait of the actor and singer Rikard Wolff featuring some of his collaborators.

Stories from a long-ago garden that we find difficult, hard, and almost impossible to remember.

Bloody short film made in 1995 by FARSA Producciones, includes original music by Pablo Vostrouski. Inspired by "EVIL DEAD 2".

If those who knew him are to be believed, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz was always surrounded by women intrigued by this "demigod of Zakopane's Olympus." They were attracted not only by his painterly and literary fame, but also by the extraordinary beauty of the artist: tall, well-built, with beautiful gray-green eyes and very proportional features. Magdalena Samozwaniec, who knew him from childhood, recalled: "He was always and constantly in love. Just as others could not imagine life without money, he could not imagine life without love."

A film from the "Impressions" series, made using classic animation techniques – pastel drawings on paper. The director's debut and diploma at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań under the supervision of Prof. Kazimierz Urbański. The film's composition uses selected portraits by Witkacy from his "Portrait Company." The director refers to Witkacy's "cosmic imagination" by showing animated portraits on a visualization of Earth "stolen" from the Universe.

"This iconoclastic film, midway between fiction and documentary, explores the "over-sacred" side of Jerusalem. A political gamble for its inhabitants, a myth for its visitors, Jerusalem remains a universal object of desire that borders on fetishism. The film takes its inspiration from the Jerusalem Syndrome, a psychiatric syndrome, officially recognised in the 19th century, and from which the pilgrims and tourists that visited the Holy City suffered. A camera visits Jerusalem looking for a new approach to show the city. In parallel a young boy wanders the streets and discovers one night a prostitute with golden breasts. The boy, as does the camera, becomes a victim of a violently feminine Jerusalem." - DAfilms

Judgment Day was a combination Halloween party, game developer convention, informal press conference, and entertainment event for the public at large organized by Microsoft and held on October 30, 1995 - also called "Devil's Night". Primarily organized by then-Microsoft employee and principal architect of DirectX, Alex St. John, the event brought together 35 game developers, including id Software, who were given centre stage for the event via inclusion of the finals for Deathmatch '95, a previously organized and officially sponsored DWANGO multiplayer tournament for Doom and Doom II. Doom95 would play a pivotal role in the event as a part of Microsoft's continuing strategy to promote Windows 95's potential as a gaming platform. The event also served as the official release party for Raven Software's last Doom engine game, Hexen: Beyond Heretic.

Key figures reflect on the 20-year journey towards independence. Surinamese politicians Henck Arron, Jagernath Lachmon, Jules Sedney, along with former Dutch minister Jan Pronk, share their personal experiences and insights in pursuing their ideals.

As a prelude to her first concert tour in 14 years, the singer and songwriter Carly Simon and her band performed live at New York City's famed Grand Central Terminal. Carly's surprise concert made riders forget their scheduled trains and find themselves captivated by the show. Simon sings some of her greatest hits like "Jesse" and "Anticipation".

This film was made in collaboration with fellow filmmaker and friend Rasha Refaie.The film was inspired by a dream that Rasha had about a girl and a bicycle and a silver colored egg. The viewer sees Rasha peddling all over Seattle through city streets, parks, all over and ultimately ending up a graveyard were she begins to experience the nosebleed of her life. This film was going to be the first in a series of films based on Rasha's dreams; however, shortly after this film was completed Rasha moved to New York City and this was the only film that was made. Rubato composed the films sound track.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

A professionally shot performance in Palermo, Sicily of Rhys Chatham's piece for 100 guitars.

One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller observes that figures from Greek mythology live on today as trademarks for products (Ajax as a cleaning agent, Polydor as a record).

With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is dreaming about going beyond the confines of her urban surroundings, amongst thousands of flickering windows in apartment blocks, to travel somewhere over the rainbow. As she stumbles upon her yellow brick road, a bedside telephone, her communications take her far far away, becoming entangled in her obsession with connecting to this far away place. Swept into a cyclone of dizzying imagery, she becomes somewhat more realized, sceptical about who she is and her dreams. Much like the ubiquity of television, her dreams are nothing more than commodified imagination that has nonetheless shaped her life. In this fairy-tale land, she desperately tries to find her way back home.

The Virginia Woolf biography in the Famous Authors series is an original Academy Media production directed by Malcolm Hossick.

Wicked Captain Crabelane and his gang of greedy pirates have sneaked aboard the Goodship Singalong and stolen her cargo of precious Singalong Kettles. They've hidden the booty on Devil's Island and now it's up to Cilla, Artie and Gary - disguised as pirates themselves - to track down and rescue the kidnapped kettles.

Kahit harangan ng bala: Directed by Joey Del Rosario. With Romnick Sarmenta, Sunshine Cruz, Tirso Cruz III, Jorge Estregan.

Six minutes condensing four months.

Soraya, a young Iranian woman, escaped the prospect of war in her homeland by moving to San Francisco to be with her American boyfriend. However she is unable to remain in that relationship so moves on to be an au pair due to the lack of a green card. She soon finds herself an unwilling participant of a custody battle. The film is notable for being the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the internet, on The Sync (1997-2002).

A dance film by Jonathan Burrows and Adam Roberts

Filmed entirely on location in Israel, here is the epic and miraculous life story of Jesus Christ, from his birth to his crucifixion and ascension.

Caligrama is a poetic essay built from the repertoire of sounds, gestures, images, words and objects of the street men who inhabit the city of São Paulo.

A woman on her way from prison, she decides to go on. The reconnaissance of political resistance until present day.

Tupada '92 is a coverage of the 1992 Philippine national elections that juxtaposes the hysteria of the campaign season with the precarious state of 31 million Filipino voters. Unsure of what the future holds, the documentary inserts a seer’s ominous visions, including the return to power of the Marcoses.

One of the most complete of the preserved image programs of the Middle Ages, at the same time abstract and full of touching details. The creation story, which begins with the big bang, has perhaps not been recorded more precisely anywhere. Also ingenious is the mosaic of the Alypius portal, in which the transfer of the bones of St. Mark to the building in front of which the viewer stands is depicted. A wonderful archive of the development of European art between 1100 and 1290, in which the Romanesque image is increasingly supplemented by vivid backgrounds and in the “Dream of Moses” a whole landscape is already presented under a romantically lying crescent moon. In addition, you can see in the circular compositions of the domes (with partly already framed picture fields) not only an early form of cinema that reminds of the movement experiments by Marey and Muybridge, but also the prototypes of our DVDs today, a round disc with image storage in mosaic -Pixels. - K. Wyborny

Made in the style of silent films of the 1930s, this short film tells the story of two guys meeting in Paris.

SUNDAY APRIL 9, 1995 C.B.G.B NEW YORK CITY

A no budget short made for UNL (1995)

A young male hustler gets into deep trouble.

In ECLIPSE a child survivor wanders barefoot across a stunningly evocative landscape. Director Jason Ruscio expresses the profound loneliness of a decimated world through richly textured images that bring to mind the films of Andrei Tarkovsky – burned out interiors, hands grasping to hold each other, time-worn photographs and faceless soldiers in the snow. ECLIPSE is a remarkable meditation on the effects of war. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film & Television in 2016.