Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

16mm short by Kazushi Ozawa.

Short film.

Short film by Kirsten Geisler.

A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

Are there still unknown lands to discover and rare birds to save?

A reclusive performer grants an interview on the eve of his retirement from the stage.

A short animated Super 8 film made at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative.

In this film, skeptical city people from the information society who are surrounded by high technology meet mythological beings from the legends of their ancestors in intriguing and comical situations.

The image shows a large, splendid tree standing in a green field, filmed on a summer’s day. The leaves move in the wind and the sun’s rays glide over the tree. After a moment of contemplation it seems to the viewer as if the tree is performing a kind of theatrical dance that contrasts moments of sunshine and shade.

A documentary short about Aishah's Black feminist lesbian exploration of her coming out process through self reflection, and candid conversations with her father, Michael Simmons, her younger brother, Tyree Cinque Simmons (DJ Drama), and Yvonne Marie Jones, one of her best friends from high school.

A film by Stephanie Barber.

Stewart and Miguel break up when Stewart can't deal with Miguel's being HIV positive. To assuage his guilt, Stewart gets Miguel a dog which leads to the unexpected.

"The warrior of the asphalt against the radioactive pirates" this short film was never edited, only its "raw" material was left on a cassette from the old Sony Video 8 cameras, a camera that stopped working and this was buried there forever... .until now.

Nananabik... sa 'yong pagbabalik: Directed by Neal 'Buboy' Tan. With Amy Austria, Edgar Ebro, Tonton Gutierrez, Odette Khan.

An archival record film of life at the small Madarrpa clan settlement of Bäniyala on Blue Mud Bay, some 200 kilometres south of Yirrkala.

Isla Paradiso ; Director. Roger Baruelo ; Writer. Jojo Lapus(story and screenplay) ; Stars. Lawrence David · Sheila Ysrael · Janet Diaz.

A 1996 drama featuring Eddie Garcia and Jun Aristorenas.

Alienation in academia beneath the chandeliered opulence of a political correctional facility that caters to clashing cultures with chicken fajitas and carefully worded alphabet soup. Features George at the Flaherty Seminar and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

The setting is an island peatbank, far from any habitation. The time is bright early summer. A man and a woman enter this empty landscape to cut peat for winter fuel. Before the sun goes down they will encounter shadows from the distant past and begin to come to terms with the troubling realities of the present.

Janky and strange computer animated adventures of a pyromaniac admiral.

Super 8 document of the inflatable tunnel project by the October Group during the Metro Days of Action. A 150' long building was inflated using the air vents in front of Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square. The October Group action references both public institution and temporary home to protest the erosion of the city.

Japanese mondo film primarily shot in Thailand. Various murders, suicides, and accidents are displayed.

This sensualist's dream follows Louise Brooks look-alike Rodney O'Neal Austin on his search for the Beloved. From the cabaret to opium dens and dancing graces this homage to early sound film explores a world teeming with the mysteries of longing and death. Winner Best Black-and-White Cinematography (Cork International Film Festival 1996).

Movements of the Body is an animated trilogy illustrating movements of the mind through movements of the body's parts. 2nd movement: The Drawing zeroes in on one still image after another, highlighting the complexity of each figure drawing.

A special program that first aired on the Fox Network showing a mysterious film purported by a mystery photographer to be actual footage of an alien autopsy performed by the government after an unexplained crash occurred in Roswell, New Mexico. Two versions are available, including this one with the uncut autopsy film.

′Dowsing′ refers to searching for a vein of water or ore with a rod. This film sketches one strange day in a child′s life, when all daily routines seem condensed into one. She loses her sense of reality, but is not exactly fantasizing, doing and feeling things unexpected and atypical.

A sentient desk fan yearns for escape.

Based on porn, the poem! Based on porn, the poem!

Seeming to move forward in time and space, we exist in perpetual cycles, both creating and being created by our televised environments, which in the end are only reflections of our dreams.

The indigenous Huaorani people of Ecuador manage to preserve their isolation from the outside world, until American missionaries and a Texas oil company threaten their very existence.

Love is thick "I don't love you, but I'm going to have sex with you. But I'm going to have sex with you." A man really loves a woman who declares so. A woman gradually becomes obsessed with a man who asks her to go out with him. People who are caught up in love lose themselves between pride and possessiveness and end up acting foolishly. The object of their love and hatred is also a person who is unable to hold onto his own superiority in love and just stands there. Those who have been wounded by the knife of love, even wounding themselves, however, before the scab has even healed, begin to love someone again. What love does do to the human spirit and body? The camera struggles to see it all.

A delightful environmental tale for young children. Two children create an entire world in their sandbox. Their imagination soars, until rampant growth and pollution overcome their playful antics. Fortunately, their lost teddy bear comes to the rescue.

A motorcycle gang takes a wild and crazy ride down a desert highway.

Jackie Mason takes his side-splitting comedy act on the road to Israel and gives a no-holds-barred performance featuring many of his funniest bits and gags. In this show, Jackie gives his uncompromising-- and incredibly funny -- view of the world.

Who keeps drinking all the booze?

Two clerks dream of appearing in the newspaper and becoming famous.

Swinging between pleasure and torment, Cantor narrates an autobiographical story of a doomed love affair over scenes from The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974). Wittily and ingeniously cutting between parallel sequences from the iconic Hollywood musical and the equally iconic slasher film, Cantor draws out the familial and sexual tensions and terrors underlying both. At one point, in Within Heaven and Hell, Cantor relates a time her lover said to her, “You sound like a movie.” As Cantor would later note, both "The Sound of Music and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are based on true stories.”

"French television came up with the idea of Se Deus Quiser (but they didn't carry it through), which consisted in inviting six European directors to describe their homeland in a film. When my friend Jacques Dercourt contacted me - he had seen Nós Por Cá Todos Bem at Cannes - I told him I like the idea a lot and I proposed a to Várzea and to my mother, that is, a confrontation between images and sound, memory and sentiment" (Fernando Lopes).

Partially Buried asks, “How do we reinterpret the past? What do we choose to remember or discard?” Green looks to the year 1970 and the campus of Kent State University where she spent time as a child. It was here that artist Robert Smithson produced his site-specific work Partially Buried Woodshed. It was also here that four students were shot while demonstrating against the US invasion of Cambodia. Shortly afterward, someone painted “May 4, 1970” on Partially Buried Woodshed, and the artwork took on another meaning. (Video Data Bank)

In 1996, the publishers of zines Exile Osaka and Thora-Zine convinced a giant Japanese entertainment company to bring the scum band Concussion to Japan (even though they had never played a show before). Many of the best bands in the Japan underground scene appeared at Bayside Jenny, a now-defunct club in Osaka.

The story of the creation, disappearance and reappearance of one of the most mysterious paintings in Western art.

Inside a federal women's prison a German born theater artist encourages a racially mixed circle of women to find their own voices through poetry and creative expression, and meets their children on the outside. The prisoners share their life stories and experiences of prison life. Voices from Inside shatters stereotypes about crime, criminals and race. An inspiring experiment in breaking the walls with love!

Created by Anishnabe Videographer Joe Beardy and trainee Darlene Naponse, Aboriginal Radio Waves Part I is the first part of a two part series about community radio. Through interviews and visuals, the video shares with you the voices of station managers, volunteers, DJs, and community members.

The film examines the case of Yakov L (Yankale), a minor civil servant who one day fails to show up for his job. We will learn more about the hero, his life, childhood and relationship with his mother. And in contrast to the sharp square figures depicting office life, rounded objects from the hero's childhood, we see the image of the conflict between the world of our desires and our responsibilities.

Dr. Pepper Schwartz documents the lives of one gay and one lesbian couple. She uses a case-study approach that explores their views on handling conflict, work and communication, the influence of their families and friends, and how gender and society influence personal relationships.

Short film directed by Geng Jianli.

Short film directed by Chen Shiaixiong.

Anaphase is the performance of Ohad Naharin, the famous choreographer and artistic director of Batscheva Dance Company from Israel, which had a successful international tour in the 90s. By integrating dance, theatre, rock music and film in short fast scenes this choreography exceeds the limits of dance. ANAPHASE. THE FILM is an effect of a creative collaboration between Ohad Naharin and Levi Zini, film’s director who managed to bring the experience of watching a live show to the cinema audience. The film isn’t a registration of a performance, but an electrifying translation of the choreography to the film medium.