Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

The journey from Knossos to Athens takes us to many of the important sites of ancient Greek history - those places which help us to understand the influential changes in Greece between the Minoan and the Classical Periods. Sites visited during the program include the Minoan Palace of Knossos on Crete, the Minoan settlement of Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Santorini, Mycenaean Tiryns and Mycenae, the Peloponnesian sites of Sparta and Corinth, and finally Athens itself.

Based on the story of A.P. Chekhov.

A documentary exploring the phenomenon of child labour in Gaza. The film tells the moving stories of four children, looking into the economic, social and political conditions that led them into the workforce at a young age, and examining the impact and implications for their families, the society and their future.

Short film by Ciprì/Maresco.

With Greek and Turkish communities moving out of the area, the Clifton Hill Soccer Club must recruit from a newer wave of Asian immigrants or face extinction.

Everything in this world follows the movement of a child, i.e. in a virtual manner with an optical angle of 360 degrees. In this way, the concept of linear perspective we have had since the Renaissance is replaced by a new system of perspective, the ‘water-drop perspective-system'. Question: is this film a sort of two-dimensional virtual reality? Answer: no, virtual reality means that we construct our artificial world. I am much more interested in the surrounding real world. In this case, it is the world of my daughter. - Tamás Waliczky

Men and women walk hundreds of miles every year on the eve of October 20, to reach the city of Portobelo and celebrate the festivity of the Black Christ.

A second video from the two actors who left 'Soldier Soldier' in search of pop stardom. The songs are interspersed with interviews and musical clips from their television show.

Ask most people who led the 1963 March on Washington and they'll probably tell you Martin Luther King, Jr. But the real force behind the event was the man many call the pre-eminent black labor leader of the century and the father of the modern civil rights movement: A. Philip Randolph. Randolph believed that economic rights was the key to advancing civil rights. A. PHILIP RANDOLPH: FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM takes viewers on a tour of 20th-century civil rights and labor history as it chronicles Randolph's legendary efforts to build a more equitable society.

Directed by Süha Arın and Hakan Aytekin, the 1996 documentary explores Istanbul’s history through the enduring motif of gold. From Byzantion’s foundation as a trading colony to its role as the capital of three empires, the film traces how power and wealth were transformed into coins, art, architecture, and ritual. Moving from icons and mosaics to the Grand Bazaar and the modern gold exchange, the documentary presents Istanbul as a city where culture, economy, and daily life have been shaped by centuries of continuity and exchange of gold.

Fathers and sons. Yaron plays junior league soccer for the Haifa Maccabees. They're having a great season, in part because Yaron lifts the team's spirits by enthusiastically broadcasting their games from a microphone at the bench. When a player is injured and Yaron plays, it's a disaster. But the one person who can't find out is his dad, Danny, whose football exploits as a youth are his favourite memory. Now a stevedore, Danny works when the games are played and thinks Yaron is a star. The Maccabees are set to play a Jerusalem team for the league championship on Saturday - Danny wants the day off and Yaron goes to the coach and begs to play. Can he be a hero to his dad?

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

Surreal dance film made up of a documentary-like introduction in color and a fiction section shot in black and white. A woman steals a statue and ends up in a story in which the reality and the myth of Isis and Osiris are intertwined.

experimental documentation

The film, dedicated to Paolo Volponi, is glimpsed through the clouds that pass over the city of Urbino. The images, immersed in a partial immobility, reveal the pain of a cultural isolation, through the eyes of a suffocating environment and obsessive reproduction of the past. Through various combinations of bricks and memories the walls of the city ooze disquieting memories oscillating between dream and reality.

In Chad, palm groves of Borkou are an essential wealth for nomads. In this desert region, a water-table has allowed the development of a palm grove composed of about 1 200 000 date palms, which produce 7 000 tons of dates per year.

Experimental work with minimized black and white images.

A big hole record adapter comes to life and fools around on the turntable.

"Fishing Miserere", Super8, 12mins,1996

The Lions of Musiara Marsh.

A season review of Newcastle United 1995 - 1996.

When the war ends, everybody is trying to wash away the blood from their hands. Is this sufficient to clear also the conscience?

Mixing photographic abstraction, simple animation and a familiar nervous system, this experimental finds its meaning in an architecture of light that defines the landscape of consciousness and alludes to a fin de siecle melancholia.

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Film by Timoleon Wilkins

Super8 Films (silence): Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1994 (Ankunft: arrival) and 1996 (Abflug: departure). All scenes were edited in the camera by single frame shooting.

A perfect Summer afternoon turns into a nightmare for Susan and David - walking in the woods.

A story of humour, energy and friendship, Spindrift chronicles a day in the life of two Soho drifters who work as rent boys. Combining documentary style material with expressionistic sequences, the film builds up a series of snapshots which encapsulate the boys' desire for freedom and love.

It's easy for a boy to feel lost when he's broke, hungry and alone. But when boy meets boy, dreams come true.

A young man receives a letter informing him that one of his ex-lovers has tested HIV positive. In a panic, he takes the HIV test and, as he awaits the results, he tries to figure out who of the many lovers that he's had, male and female, might have been infected.

Bitag: Directed by Victor Tango. With Jestoni Alarcon, Stella Ruiz, Timmy Cruz, Efren Reyes Jr.

a movie from 1996

trf TOUR '95 dAnce to positive Overnight Sensation was a nationwide tour held by trf in 1995. The shows were held in support of their studio album of the same name, dAnce to positive.

A man gives directions to a lost film crew in east Texas.

Admiral Flipside is one crazy sea-dog. Driven by a darker than black alter-ego he embarks upon a bizarre voyage of destruction and self discovery. Haunted by his subconscious he is driven by ghostly manifestations into a surreal world of circus and theatre inspired by Sebastian Brant’s 1494 book ‘Das Narrenschyff’ (The Ship of Fools). Unbeknown to him he is the leading actor in a stage play based on the ship of fools. He leads the witless fools on a disastrous voyage to find ‘Narragonia’ (Fools Utopia). Flipside finds himself the sole survivor after the ship is set upon by fire breathing monsters from the deep. He is washed up on the very beach that he left many years ago, only to discover his innocence waiting for him. Here at last, after so many long years searching, he is forced to confront the grim reality that is himself. These short films combine computer animation, traditional animation, video and concepts of theatre to produce a bizarre visual story.

L'Arc~en~Ciel live at Tokyo Bay.

In a western-style setting, two robots stand off against one another.

Pie smashing themed fetish film from W.A.V.E. Productions

The Future Sound of London video compilation released by Russian pirates.

People around the world try doing bizarre things to have fish and in the end, the last fish decides to leave them.

I want to live with the things I love and cherish. My family and I live in Ayase, and I work at a bookstore in Ikebukuro. Sometimes I open a store at a flea market with a friend. We sell tableware, which she likes, and accessories made from buttons, which I make, and they are quite popular. With the money we saved there, my friend went on a long-awaited trip abroad. My goal is to start living alone. Today is my day off, so I go out to check out an apartment. I stopped by a park and saw cats having a meeting. When I saw the old building, I suddenly wanted to see my grandmother, so I took the train... The entire film is written in monologue and with a handheld 8mm camera, and features all the things "I" like: buttons, the dawn from my room, cats, the ocean, and my grandmother. There is no context, no meaning, no great sense of beauty, but they play a comfortable rhythm and a beautiful melody. This is a fictional essay whose natural gentleness reminds us of non-fiction.

William Sheldon's crackpot body typing, based on the superficially convincing fiction of universal endo-, ecto- and mesomorphic components of the human form, gave each person three numbers from 1 to 7, one for each of these three components, interpretable as coordinates of a point in a cubic parameter space. The result of decades of obsessive recording, his Atlas of Men contained standardized pictures of 1200 individuals, obvious animation fodder. Attending to fundamental cinematic concepts of cut, shot and motion, I employed a computer to reduce Sheldon's three dimensions to the one of time. Further programs turned the coordinates of bodily form into notes, giving endomorphy, ectomorphy and mesomorphy each their own voice. Thus each point in Sheldon's parameter space implies a type of human and, by my contrivance, a frame of film and a musical chord.

Coming to grips with landscape via pseudo-hyper-stereoscopy. Your eyes are two-and-a-half inches apart, giving viscerally felt depth to 25 feet. If your eyes were 400 feet apart, you'd see solid forms three miles distant and think your grasp extended a mile. I established pairs of viewpoints up to hundreds of feet apart and jogged between, at each shooting a few frames. Since usual depth perception is only to 25 feet, we see anything in stereo as within that distance; mountains are seen as close and, hence, small. Filming took days and days: time, too, is miniaturized; shadows creep and clouds boil. Experience land as diorama and time as summary. UPPER BLUE LAKE, although not the most successfully pseudo-stereoscopic of several such wide-eyed studies, so enthralled me with its various qualities of light and atmosphere, I persevered, for five years jogging whenever I could, 12,000 feet high in the Colorado Rockies.

Around the visit of a long-lost childhood friend, Ewa is trying to pretend that she has married Marek and is carrying his child.