Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Blink, blink, flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker.

Hugh is an elderly man keeping himself active in retirement. His hobbies include teaching children to play the piano, carpentry and driving into town to preach sermons on the evils of homosexuality.

Meet the two greatest straight men on the 70's Northern comedy scene; Gary 'Rubber-Johnny-Faced' Rhodes and Dougie 'Bit-Mongy-Round-the-Mouth' Rivers This light hearted comedy features racist jokes, rape jokes, cripple jokes, AIDS jokes, animal slaughter jokes, defecation jokes, wanking vicar jokes also some dead babies, back street abortions, wheel-chair stunts and reptilocide. But beneath the hilarity there is a tear in the clown's Jap's eye as Gary and Dougie begin to suspect that death dwells in the domain of dark dreams..or summat like that! Quotes - 'An unapologetically offensive piece of low-grade British trash cinema' Tony Earnshaw, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - "Unique & original style combined with biting wit & stunning satire:" Elliot Grove, Raindance Film Festival On the big Screen - 'Something Weird Weekend' National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 2005 - Raindance Film Festival Sept 96 (Special silent screening)

Un Beso was made in the mid-90s and represented, for obvious reasons, a thematic transgression at the time of its presentation in the Spanish context. The video travels through different spaces, among which are the contradictions implicit in personal relationships or collaborative work, and it does so through a minimalist image composition that alludes, through the use of black and white, to the first performative videos made in the 60s/70s. A heated discussion between the two artists, the topic of which is irrelevant, serves as a sound frame for a close-up of a long kiss. During the action, faces seem to fight to occupy the center of the screen while escaping the gaze. The video is a kind of game in which a fiction with hints of reality and a reality with hints of fiction merge, causing a paradoxical ambiguity.

A video CD starring Yuko Sakaki, featuring original interviews, and recorded in Los Angeles.

In August 1996, the word on the street was that one of Melbourne's best known pubs - The Prince of Wales in Fitzroy, St Kilda - was about to change forever.

Luciano Pavarotti performs on the beach in Miami in this TV special.

The “constants” that describe the real world. That sequence of numbers, like an incantation, guarantees this world that feels undeniably real to us. And while sustained by them, we observe the world. Within the diffuse reflections of our countless gazes, the world is constructed inside us. The constructed world, in turn, begins to weave its own “constants.” To be observers; could that not be the very reason for our existence?

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

The "1968" movement in Italy and around the world represents an extremely complex and nuanced event. The curator attempts to unravel some of the main threads of an intricate web of events, figures, processes, and cultures. From the first signs of the new youth movement in 1966 to 1969, the narrative unfolds non-chronologically, exploring emotion as well as historical reconstruction.

Experimental short by Olivier Fouchard.

The film is based on the novellas written by Jolita Skablauskaite, Petras and Povilas Dirgelos. Three different plays are about people who can't find their place in society and who keep living in the world of their fantasies.

Two Crimplene cushions sit inert on their sofa, unperturbed by the ringing of a telephone. Their comfortable oblivion is interrupted by the appearance of a heavenly Crimplene angel; a celestial being who reveals a world of possibilities…

Shows a basement sweatshop's sewing machines powered by the aerobics machines of an upstairs health club.

Imprisonment as seen through the eyes of common criminals' wives. Relationships, financial support, visits, waiting, emotional states.

A deep dive look at all the fun things you can see and do at the Mall of America!

A documentary from Eleanor Coppola has her traveling through China.

Yuko Kawakami makes her debut in the first AV suspense drama!

Adaptation of “La nera signora” by Alfonso M. Di Nola on scenes from “Blutgeil” (or “Zurich Cop Eaters IV”). Experimental essay-movie based on the film Häxan, by B. Christensen.

A dark filiation between two documents of low moral standards: a trial scene (from Jacopetti’s Africa Addio, 1966) and a phone conversation between Lady D. and her lover.

This visionary documentary, produced for the program L’Oeil du cyclone, examines what we now call fake news—the explosion of the wildest rumors in the public sphere and the speed at which they spread virally.

A documentary by director Kristen Schultz.

Short Italian film starring Giuseppe Battiston

Tells the story of a reunion between father and daughter fifteen years after the accidental death of her mother. We watch the development of their relationship from a nervous and frail fondness to a growing and bitter understanding of her father as the girl, Rabbit, pieces together what really happened on that night many years ago

Struggling to secure a job and make ends meet after her graduation, a young woman slowly gives way to advances made towards her from a well-off company director.

Zé Luís is 81 years old. This elderly man has always lived in the village of São Martinho in northeastern Portugal. His life has followed in the footsteps of his ancestors. He owns land, has worked it, and has been able to provide a modest living for his family. Things began to change when overpopulation and poverty led to families breaking up. His children had to emigrate. Now nothing will ever be the same again. Zé Luís is one of the last representatives of a way of life that is now gone. His children are no longer there, and the opening up of the region means that working methods have to be rethought.

The collective heroes of the film represent the Chinese Korea society: its past, present and future. The director examines the particular experience of the ethnic group without dramatization, as he paints their portrait with genuine respect for the tragedy of the subjects.

This documentary aims to demonstrate the vitality of the squatted house at 76/78 Via del Pratello in Bologna, and to highlight the stark contrasts, including visual ones, of everyday life.

Disco polo, the most popular as well as criticised music genre of 1990s Poland, is discussed in this film by its creators and major stars.

Adaptation of J.M. Simmel's novel. We meet the main characters of the story, aspiring writer Richard Mark and his brother Werner. In a retrospective narrative, we return to the years of World War II, to a polarized society. Against the backdrop of history, we discover the emerging animosity between the two brothers, not only because of their professional motivations, but mainly because of the object of their shared interest—the attractive woman Lilien.

Amateur drama about a homeless person.

Fate did not spare him trials and tribulations. It is impossible to imagine a more shameful punishment than being deprived of the right to write and paint, than years of exile as a soldier in the Orenburg Corps. However, military service did not destroy Taras's faith in God and people.

A short educational film.

Based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

Three-channel installation. (Meant to displayed on three 'faux walls' covered by wallpaper, each wall fitted with a 14-inch TV screen hidden behind a double-sided mirror with frame, which functions like a mirror reflecting the videos' viewers' faces when the videos show black screens intermittently.) The three videos were recorded without sound at the artist's home and the following contents are displayed throughout: 1) A breath directed towards a mirror, which blurs it, followed by a wiping clean of the mirror surface; 2) An opening up of a mouth followed by a sticking out of the tongue; 3) A close-up view of an eye-roll.

Dust was originally part of the stage performance "Bereft of a Blissful Union", from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus. It was also performed live on stage in "Mountains Made of Barking", from the same company.

Live at YOKOHAMA ARENA on July 31, 1996.

single channel video (shot on Super 8)

A trip to the heart of Cambodia's jungle unlocks the secrets of the ancient city of Angkor--75 miles of gilded palaces and stone temples constructed over a span of some 400 years.

A short film directed by Joseph Stalin's great-grandson Besarion Jugashvili. It won the top prize at the 1998 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.

The second skate video from Creature Skateboards. Editing and art direction by Creature team rider Al Partanen.

Set in Australia, a little girl speaks about her pet called Sammy. All that is seen of the pet is the shoebox he was kept in.

Time and again a man will stand before a hardware store window eyeing the tools arrayed behind the glass; his mouth will water; he will go in and hand over $2.65 for a perfectly special kind of wrench; and probably he will never, never, use it for anything. -Walker Evans

A companion video to Sailor Moon - Sailor Stars with behind the scenes footage.

Can the immortal soul live in the body of immortality? The existence of the soul and its immutability can be equal to the body and soul. Various themes are followed by a metaphor called a movie.

Mr. C provides the mix for the sixth installment of the X-Mix series.

Transfinite Loops is a reflection on the mind's tendency to create metaphysical order in the face of chaos. The piece is both a model and a metaphor for that process. Nighttime images of carnival rides appear, mesh and then dissolve into blackness, accompanied only by the sound of wind. The work unfolds like a series of thoughts, as time and space are unraveled and woven back together into intricate knots. "As gorgeous as any fireworks display, Van McElwee’s Transfinite Loops invents dazzling astral patterns." -Stephen Holden, The New York Times "Vivid video origami erupts into a blizzard…leading out of time & space" -TL Reid, Afterimage "Transfinite Loops is infectious, life-affirming and beautiful. It makes you feel good." -David Bonetti, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

About the favorite hero of Turkmen fairy tales, Hudaiberdi the lazy, and his adventures.

An CGI Animated Short Film

Santa is kidnapped by a couple of unruly villains and the Ballonatiks come to his rescue.

Independent documentary film by Chinese director and cinematographer Lu Wangping.

In a satirical comedy framework, the events of the play deal with Jordan's position on normalization with Israel after the end of the Israeli-Palestinian war with the Oslo Accords, and discusses many important political issues in the nineties