Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

16mm color found footage film about the distasteful diets that lead to cholesterol through re-editing a film about Cholesterol.

A widowed Latvian father's quest for a much-loved Dutch pen pal, whom he hasn't heard from in three decades, provides the basis of this comedy-drama. The father is accompanied by his traumatized and mute eight-year-old son whom he had to kidnap from a Riga hospital. Together, the two flee towards Holland where the father Yuris hopes to find his long-lost friend Marie, whom he remembers as a great beauty. During the long journey, father and son have several funny adventures, many of which occur because neither father nor son speak much Dutch. They finally arrive at Marie's door empty-handed. What they find, gives them little hope, for the lithe young idealist of Yuris' dreams has become middle-aged and cynical.

Four police officers are kidnapped by gang members who vow to kill one cop every hour.

Tylluan Wen is a Welsh language film produced in Wales in 1997 by Ffilmiau'r Nant and directed by Angharad Jones. It an adaptation of Angharad Jones' novel Y Dylluan Wen (The White Owl) and follows the story of a woman returning to her home town after many years away, determined to avenge her father's death.

"Carroll, Koston, Karl, Jovontae, Chico and legend after legend go off in Meza’s SF masterpiece from ‘96 that inspired generations of street skaters. This is canon". - Thrasher Magazine.

This feature documentary zooms in on Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges borough, where over 75 ethnic groups live side by side in a dizzying swirl of sound and colour. One day, filmmaker Lucie Lachapelle began knocking on the doors that isolated her from her neighbours. The result is a vibrant film about freedom and uprootedness set to urban music composed by Montreal jazz artist Harold Faustin.

A behind-the-scenes look at Rangers in 1996

Employing peep show workers, fetishists and performance artists, Peep explores the intersection of sex, fashion and peepshows.

A busy executive gets a visit from a nature loving bird and introduces the harried office worker to the joys of flora and fauna, with a surprise ending.

Space Marine Captain Darius of the Dark Angels and his command squad join Inquisitor Krieger in solving the mystery of a strange key.

A young man intrigued by the Neo-Nazi movement inadvertently takes a time-traveling trip back to the Holocaust and finds himself on a heart-wrenching, eye-opening journey with Anne Frank.

Though perhaps best known for his star turn in Broadway's "The Phantom of the Opera," Michael Crawford has more than 30 years' worth of credits to his name. He also has plenty of stories to tell, as Tony Palmer's witty documentary reveals. Clips from rehearsals, performances, films and home movies illuminate Crawford's reflections on "Phantom," the Vegas spectacle "EFX," "Barnum," his work with Benjamin Britten, international success and more.

Cemal, who went to Germany, leaves his wife with his conservative family. The young woman, who is under great pressure, looks for economic freedom and ends up in a brothel and starts working there. Cemal, on the other hand, is given a gun and said to his wife, "Clean your honor," despite his family. He takes off his wedding ring and gives it to the food, he says "Tell Him I Love You".

Film with music from Chitra & S.P. Balasubrahma

Before Survivor, Big Brother, The Apprentice or Keeping Up with the Kardashian and Ru Paul's Drag Race there was "Narrowcast", a beautifully crafted 35mm short that has been wildly praised as the most prescient film ever made about Reality TV.

From 1982 to 1996 award-winning filmmakers Mary Beth Brangan & James Heddle documented on film and video unfolding events in the fledgling island nation of Palau. When Palau's voters made it the first nation in history to adopt a nuclear free, green constitution, Washington's war planners saw it as 'the threat of a good example.' Palau became the poster child for the growing Nuclear Free Pacific movement and a cause celebre for the global nuclear free zone movement. The 10-year-long manipulation of the electoral process the U.S. then unleashed to force the rollback of Palau's nuclear ban became a text book case for subversion of the democratic process in developing countries...and at home. Their experiences covering this story made the filmmakers life-long advocates of election integrity.

A couple of bums watch many situations unfold at a home across the street.

A lonely night watchman, whose quiet routine revolves around stargazing, faces emotional upheaval when his girlfriend reveals she's pregnant and leaves him, while a troubled young man records a farewell video to his ex.

A young woman on parole sees her life go south after encountering her ex-boyfriend/former pimp.

1996 TV film of the Maria do Céu Ricardo play.

Young woman's hectic day exposed to an elderly poet, a near rape, a prophetic schizo, and retired gangsters leads to personal metamorphosis.

Borrowing its title from a campaign raising awareness for the use of forced child labor in football stitching in Sialkot, Pakistan during mid-to-late 1990s, Toe Yuen's short is a social statement protesting the exploitation imposed by sports brands.

Documentary about the VW Beetle and its origins.

Man on the Edge, Wrathchild, Heaven Can Wait, Lord of the Flies, Fortunes of War, Blood on the World's Hands, Afraid to Shoot Strangers, The Evil That Men Do, The Aftermath, Sign of the Cross, 2 Minutes to Midnight, Sanctuary, Fear of the Dark, The Clairvoyant, Iron Maiden, The Number of the Beast, Hallowed Be Thy Name, The Trooper, Running Free

A film depicting the process of weaning a criminal prisoner, Charlie, from drugs, with the help of another prisoner, Shlomo, and with the help of several key personnel from the prison service, who lend a hand to the success of the project. The film also depicts the bond of friendship that is formed between the two prisoners who grew up around different social ideologies, and the place, despite its difficult nature, manages to connect extremes, bridge the gaps and create a deep and positive friendship.

An attempt to communicate the feeling of evaporation, of disappearing and slipping away of the fragile material which is called time.

Wonderfully strange and interesting animation from the very talented animator Igor Kovalyov while he was working at Klascy Csupo Studio in 1996.

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and grays and shapes most rock-like, all of which is then shot-thru with sufficient yellow to break up all hard-edge form and give a molten aspect to the mixtures of shapes.

Based on the story of the same name by Ion Creanga, Ivan Turbinca is an old soldier to whom - for a good deed he does - God grants him a wish. Ivan prays to God to bless his whirlpool, so that he has the power to put and keep in it whatever he wishes. "Pasol na turbina ciorti!" are the words Ivan uses to put devils in his whirlpool, tricking even Death, keeping her prisoner in his whirlpool.

A 16mm narrative short shot in New York with Nick Zedd and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn.

The artist Upi Kärri is trying to find one of his works after a decade it went missing.

Created by Anishnabe Videographer Joe Beardy and trainee Darlene Naponse, Aboriginal Radio Waves Part II is the second part of a two part series about community radio. In Aboriginal Radio Waves II, Joe Beardy and Darlene Naponse detail the steps involved in obtaining a station, from procedure of applying for grants, the start up of the station, to radio programming are covered within the video, and respond to community concerns related to funding and autonomy.

At the end of the Second World War, following negotiations with the State of Israel and with Jewish organizations around the world, the German government decided to compensate the Jewish survivors of the concentration camps by offering them a spa treatment every two years. The shooting of this documentary film, which takes place mainly in the town of Evian-les-Bains, features the collective confrontation and respective testimonies of former Jewish deportees, including Solange Najman, the director's own mother.

This animated twist on Halloween memories involves the traumatic theft of a candy bag on Halloween night.

Footage from 1990 Bad Religion show at the El Portal Theater that was shut down early by the LAPD. Additional footage is included from their 1988 tour.

Paul, a non-believer in life on other planets, late one night discovers a crash-landed and wounded alien. He rescues the being and is initiated into a psycho-sexual metamorphosis.

This endearing and understated short focuses on the search for love by two gay waiters who meet while reluctantly working a Republican fund-raiser. Chronicling the changes in the lives of the two men over the course of several years, the film paints a moving portrait of gay life.

Garbage performing onstage at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne, Germany on August 17, 1996

Kajol is a star actress in Indian movies. I discovered a strange scene when I was watching a video of a movie she was in. In one scene of a musical, Kajol throws a dove into the sky, which then falls to the ground. This would not be OK on a Japanese movie set. So I thought about the differences between Indian and Japanese movies. By the way, I read in a book that there is a goddess of cinema in India. I guess she protects Indian movies. So, is there no god of cinema in Japan? Oh, but not of cinema, there is a god of dance. I started writing a screenplay with this goddess, Ame-no-Uzume, as the main character, but the Yatagarasu, the guide for nation building, fell to the ground, and the story ended happily.

A phone call can turn into an entire odyssey.

Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically titillating this avant-garde study of horrors of sex.

A superhit Tamil family entertainer

Seven New Zealand women speak about their lives during World War II: some lost husbands, some got married, some went into service themselves. The director lets the women tell their stories simply, alternating between them talking and archival footage of the war years.

Before the 1970s, the Commonwealth Film Unit represented the people of PNG in a paternalistic way, as curiosities. The unit used pompous voice-overs telling viewers what they should believe. Les McLaren and Annie Stiven are two of a group of Australian filmmakers who have lived and worked in PNG during the past 25 years and who see their roles rather differently. Through their films, they have endeavoured to reflect Papua New Guineans' complexity of thought, language and culture, using a wide variety of filmic styles and techniques. The film features interviews with a variety of Australian filmmakers who have worked extensively in PNG, including Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, Chris Owen, Dennis O'Rourke and Gary Kildea. This documentary is a fascinating tracing of PNG culture and history from the 1930s until today.

Young journalist student Mari gets a summer job in the countryside. While trying to socialise with the local people, she meets a shy young man who has the habit of going naked around the village.

Radical Act, a feature-length (and vintage) documentary about the contribution of female artists to the 1990's punk scene.

As is generally known, ghosts mostly dwell in the ancient gloomy locks built five-six centuries back. In similar places during centuries there are quite a bit bloody dramas. Scotland is famous such locks.

Yoshie, the mother and manager of popular idol Yuki Udagawa, is one of the most successful people in the industry. Yuki is tied down by her mother's tight schedule and has no time to go on dates with her boyfriend Toru. One hot and humid summer day, Yuki finally decides to have a secret rendezvous with Toru at his villa, under the pretense of practicing a new song.

1996 / U-Matic / color-b&w / sound / 1S / 12' 00

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A film gleaned via the optical printer from a home market movie made in the late 1930's about a chimpanzee's high adventures in an amusement park at Coney Island. Central weight is given to the chimp's inscrutable gaze, indicating psycho-emotional territories informed by peculiar details that haunt the original. The resulting film is a slighlty hypnotic and open-ended parable about coming of age in a shifty world of slipping terms. LAST LOST is a silent film in spirit, trying to speak without words, like some dreams. (...) The primate of Heller's confabulation brings both peace and a sword. The reviving spirits that he releases are not easily compatible with the order of things, and such newfound awareness doesn't necessarily provide the keys to the kingdom but rather a profound uneasiness with the staple amusements and short circuitry of this provisional world.

A bus of refugees from the war is stopped by soldiers. They search the passengers and take away a young woman. The villagers observe the alarming scene and look on, indifferently. The teacher is the only one who tries to show some solidarity with the young woman.

An American sergeant escapes a bloody massacre by German troops and flees into the fierce winter landscape. Wounded and seeking shelter he comes across a woman praying in a small barn. She tries to help but the German soldiers are in pursuit and closing in. What can they do?