Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Dream Bunny is a story of a magical stuffed animal that comes alive in Dreamland. Children go there when they're asleep and Dream Bunny teaches them to sing, dance, read, and confront their fears.

Writes Lucas: "Cable Xcess is a public service announcement/infommercial which informs viewers about the consequences of long term exposure to electromagnetic fields. I perform as both spokesperson and case study, transmitting a pirate broadcast through my body (body as satellite), educating viewers about early signs of exposure, and sharing alternative methods for coping with contamination."

View from a balcony window with details from buildingparts in a rhythmic blending technology of a Canon Hi 8 camera. Tribute to Siegfried Kracauer.

A compilation of Kawanaka's representative "Shishōsetsu" series. "The title of my film series, 'I-novel,' is easily misunderstood. The 'I-novel' is a traditional Japanese literary form in which the filmmaker depicts his or her life as if poking around in a box. That's why I didn't shoot it like a regular documentary film. I'm filming everyday life, but it's fictionalized into a scene I've never seen before." -Nobuhiro Kawanaka

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

A compilation of short videos made by and about Indigenous elders from Moose Factory, Kingston, Guelph, Thunder Bay, Peterborough, Sioux Lookout, Toronto, Rama First Nations, and Ottawa.

Stand up special

A powerful and poetic evocation of the Khmer genocide based on the views of a traditional celebration of the dead.

When two childhood friends are separated from each other, they promise to meet each year at a temple on a hill. However, they meet 10 years later when they are grown-ups.

An Audience Choice winner at Making Scenes '96, this cute short looks at language and naming.

An Old West gunman boasts about being a tough guy, and he is being chased by a beautiful bounty hunter.

An LGBT parody of The Sound of Music's "Do, Re, Mi".

A box of porno mags leads a girl down the slippery road to mannequin sex, penis transplant, and Elvis impersonation.

A campy docudrama about what makes some of the kids at Toronto's schools happy and gay.

A Japanese girl falls in love but cannot escape her abusive father. This video mourns the kids who never made it through childhood.

A short film about lesbians’ obsession with love and marriage. Using colourful imagery and an ironic voice-over, Bradley creates a playful and hilarious look at this popular cliché within the lesbian community.

About Xu Xiake, a travel writer and geographer from the late Ming dynasty.

A comedy about two feuding families

Uses actual tornado footage to explore one of nature's deadliest forces. Also, features life saving tips from an award winning meteorologist.

This is an intimate look into the Civil War as told by a Confederate soldier who recorded his thoughts and feelings on paper. Understand the Civil War like never before as you see and hear events unfold from a man on the battlefield during our nation's most divided time in its history.

After five years in prison, Marshall Kensey returns to his Mississippi home and faces a less than warm welcome. While his flirtatious sister, gay younger brother and neurotic mother seem happy to see him, tensions rise between Marshall and his older brother, T.G. - an unemployed alcoholic who may be responsible for sending Marshall to jail. As Marshall's childhood and his nightmarish prison experiences are revealed, old family secrets come forth and the party escalates into violence and ultimate tragedy.

‘Mass in A minor’ is the first computer animated film made in Croatia.

After terrorism striked, the youth of Huamanga turned to street gangs, violence and alcohol.

A gallery opening from a painting’s perspective. The painting carefully observes the curious characters passing by it. An exchange of perspectives. But a visitor decides to be more than just an observer.

A trading post in the heart of the Thar desert in Rajasthan, the legendary city of Jaisalmer inspires architects to this day. The film wonders through the city made of yellow sandstone, to the melodies of Rajasthani folk music, it explores architectural masterpieces such as the fort, the royal palace and Patwon ki Haveli, a villa of rich merchants. While taking stock of the damaging impact of tourism and industrialization on the city and its people, it also analyses this ancient city’s sophisticated urban organization and its relevance for the modern world

The life of Martha and what she thinks about life. The camera follows Martha Stelloo's day and night and listens to her positive and negative remarks, living the last days of her life.

The digital data of individual sounds created by electronic musician Pita was translated directly into geometric graphic elements. Black-and-white grids were positioned behind a round mask, which jerkily changes in shape from a circle to an oval.

Rare promotional LaserDisc sent out to select buyers as a gift for purchasing an Pioneer HLD-X0.

Reynold Reynolds create works that directly reference and use source material from the Media in order to describe how the Media creates a kind of 'shared consciousness' of how we come to understand our own culture as well as anothers.

White sheets waiting to be filled, soiled

The Evenki in Daxinganling is the only tribe in China that breeds reindeer. Liuba is one of the few Evenkis who has left the mountains and forests. She has always been the pride of the family after having been accepted into the Central University for Nationalities to study art. One day, Liuba returned to the mountain forest. At this time the Evenki people were in a transition from nomadic to settled. With the family deer, Liuba felt a little quiet, but in the forest, she already seemed to be Different. Finally, Liuba ran away from home, walked 300 kilometers in 4 days and married an old worker on a forest farm who loved her very much.

The heartfelt story of a boy, his book report and a librarian named Rose

Video documentary of a gay man's visit with his 87-year-old grandmother in a Florida retirement community.

When Alex Katz paints one of his large, signature paintings, it is an act of the utmost concentration, a performance in which he draws on years of experience as well as preliminary sketches, painted studies, finished drawings, and a large charcoal cartoon, as he transfers the bare bones of the image to his canvas.

The Fragile Promise of Choice: Abortion in the United States Today is a documentary film by Dorothy Fadiman which examines abortion rights and access in the U.S. in 1996 which was 23 years after the legislative decision, Roe vs. Wade. Dorothy narrated the film which featured interviews with abortion care providers and news clips, including one of Dr. George Tiller. It is last of three films called the Trilogy on Reproductive Rights or the From the Back-Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond Trilogy.

Ah Ming is a film student in the U.S. who returns to his hometown to try to make the first Macao movie. While using narrative to depict Ah Ming's struggles to complete his own film, the director intersperses interviews of various Macao citizens who speak about their needs and feelings about their city. The final collage expresses the diverse voices of a city that faces a turning point in 1999, when it reverts to China.

Clouded by so many violence in entertainment, two boys couldn't differ what's okay and what's not.

The tape surfs the interface sense / nonsense… Starting in the gap of the unsynchronized signal it insists itself into existence through the mirroring process of selfreflection. The deadline breathes its last gasp, sufficient for the transit of a migrating signifier. / I will make a poem of pure nothing.

Ale's Baja 1000 four-wheel drive adventure through the deserts of Southern Mexico, broadcast on NHK Japanese television.