Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Series of installation films used for multi-projection showing including architectural projections, some of those films also in 35mm.

The film is about the role of spiritual and material culture in human life. The authors of the film warn that the connection of times and generations is fragile, and once lost, it is difficult to restore it again.

Johnny Boy, a psychotic young Chicago playwright, drives to New York to run down a phantom deal. Along for the ride are a drug dealing buddy named Aristotle and Johnny Boy's self-destructive sometimes girlfriend Anita. They hit the road and the road hits back. The drug-fueled all night drive devolves into sadistic mind games, sex games and finally violence. They don't all make it back to Chicago, but they all reach the end of the road.

An intimate look at black cowboys as they gather for a rodeo and dance on the 40 acre Circle 6 Ranch in Raywood, Texas.

Documentary about the porn industry and erotic themes in Japan that describes recurring Japanese fantasies and through meetings with actors in the porn industry provides an insight into Japan's sex culture.

George Lim arrived as a young man in 1913 in Ottawa. He lived there the rest of his life except for visits to China. Typical and extraordinary, his life and the lives of his family are cast in the history of the migration of overseas Chinese and the history of Canada. With the help of an interpreter, Melina Young interviews members of the Lim family who recall events in their lives and speak of aspirations in this country.The Lim family's story is embedded in contexts - past and current immigration policies, rallies, remarks by Members of Parliament, the reflection of friends - that make sense for the videomaker at this time in her life.

The subjects of Worthy Mothers courageously share their personal, social, and legal experiences in creating lesbian-parented families. We look into the lives of two lesbian couples in Austin, Texas: Margo and Joy with their adopted daughter Felicia, and Sheila and Jo Anna with their adopted nephews Cody and Jeffrey.

Four individuals, related by birth, discuss their interweaving relationships in their queer family.

In this film, the viewer experiences, without commentary, the everyday life of a Sennen family at the end of the 20th century. The film raises the question of identity and thus tries to raise awareness of the great dilemmas in which we all find ourselves. Who am I? What am I doing?

Best Forgotten Art is Johnny Dawes' classic climbing film about the desperate art of climbing gritstone cracks. Featuring great climbing and bouldering on grit in the Peak District. Starring John Allen, Joe Brown, Johnny Woodward, Boone Speed, Chris Plant, Arthur Dolphin, Airlie Anderson, Ruth Jenkins, and Leo Houlding.

Prelude 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared.

The United States is not only New York, San Francisco, Hollywood, it is above all the two hundred million inhabitants of deep America. Des Moines (Iowa), emblematic city of deep America, serves as the first test during the presidential elections and saw the birth in its suburbs of John Wayne and Jean Seberg. Belly is the key word in this obesity capital.

Animals are killed and processed for fast food. A man is tarred and feathered. A collage of ordinary horrors on the way to the millennium.

Seven beautiful but sexually unfulfilled women don the state of the art virtual reality headset that allows them to explore and realize all of their deepest sexual fantasies right before their eyes and yours.

...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression of The Statue of Liberty – and, then, impressions of Toronto with its architectural particularities appearing, midst hurrying people – shapes (almost as if photographed at times). This segment is Double-Printed (i. e., two frames for every painted one).

Omnibus vehicle for Lisa Cook in which she recounts her disturbing dreams to a crazed phone caller.

A history of scarred surfaces, an inquiry, and an imagining: for the marks we see and the marks we make, for the languages we can read and for those we are trying to learn. Reproduced by hand on an old contact printer resulting in individual, unique release prints.

In the 1930s and 40s, American Noel Field saved innumerable lives, and his volunteer work offered hope for refugees and immigrants. A delegate to the League of Nations, Field specialized in peacemaking policies and disarmament. During the Spanish civil war, he associated with anti-Fascists, anarchists and Communists. A colleague of Allen Dulles and close friend of Alger Hiss, Field was under scrutiny for suspicious activities.

American novelist, short-story writer and journalist Ernest Hemingway served as a war correspondent before joining Paris's expatriate community in the 1920s. His writing style, characterized by terse minimalism, is exemplified in novels such as A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. Through period documents, artwork and other archival material, this program delves into the personal and professional milestones of the larger than life author.

Two bumbling detectives try to solve a crime.

UFC 10: The Tournament was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on July 12, 1996, at the Fair Park Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. The event was seen live on pay per view in the United States, and later released on home video. A fictional UFC 10, staged at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, is featured during one scene in the film Virtuosity, including an appearance from fighter Ken Shamrock.

A disciple of Buddha takes on an evil martial arts master and his gang.

In an abandoned chapel, where it seems even God has left, a man prays with faith to what remains of a Virgin. His prayers are answered, and a miracle occurs.

After seeking access for nearly 10 years, Mark and his producer Emma gained access to a painter who had always been reluctant to expose his mystery. The film explores the eroticism and latent violence of his paintings, as well as his masterly treatment of landscape and flowers. The myth of paedophilia that has hung like a shadow over his life and work is blown apart by testimony from artists and art historians, as well as by one of his former child models. Balthus is revealed to be an original, whose life and work have been driven by matters much deeper than shock value or sex.

Ligaya is presented as a prize for the year's annual bull-riding contest in her town. A rich man from the big city wins her and brings her home. Her boyfriend goes after her and takes her back to their town. The rich man feels scorned and buys the ranch where Ligaya and her parents work, and then he seduces Ligaya to come back to him.

A documentary about the life of the 93 years old actor Johannes Heesters who doesn't want to leave the stage.

A hosted horror movie show with Gerald Caiafa Jr. as "Jerry Only" and Paul Caiafa as "Doyle" who present the 1958 movie "The Hideous Sun Demon" on this 1996 direct to video presentation.

A short dance film about a hard journey from the sea to the top, and back.

Experimental animation film by José Castillo.

E. H. Gonatas, one of the most important post-war writers, is a strange case in Greek literature. It was only recently that his poetry and other works received the recognition they deserve. This documentary was filmed in an innovative way, at Gonatas' home.

Stand-up comedy with Wendy Liebman, the comic who is a master of the one-liner with the subliminal afterthought.

Imagine a "sea" of 200 billion stars. That's our Milky Way, one of the most brilliant and beautiful of God's creations. Travel deep inside to its very core. Experience its pulsars, quasars and mysterious black holes as captured exclusively for NASA by the orbiting Hubble space telescope. Marvel at the order of it all. The grand design. Only the Master Planner could have created it with such precision and loving care.

A terminally ill teenage boy sues for the right to stop his medical treatment.

The mystical world of "whishlers", or pixies who grant wishes, becomes a metaphor for heaven to a man coming to terms with a life with AIDS.

From behind the closed doors of women's washrooms, The Powder Room reveals women sharing intimacies in the privacy of each other's company. Originating from the director's observation that women trade secrets with friends and strangers in public washrooms, this innovative and candid documentary takes us to high school bathrooms, seniors centres' powder roooms, Newfoundland dance halls, New York nightclubs, a sauna in Copenhagen, a Casablanca hamman and country-and-western bars in Texas. In each location, as women are filmed in verité sequences, they confess their joys, their frustrations and their pain about love, sex, relationships with men and friendships with each other.

A remixing of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe prints.

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome.

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

Jarman was blue. Mousoulis is green.

1966, 16mm.

I think at bottom, that the structure of the film is the structure of the person's mind who made it, and if that is a mind that is striving for effect because it is striving for effect, the film will be empty, however interesting it happens to be on the surface. If it is a mind that has been able to organize its own experience, and if that experience is cohesive and of one piece, it will be a poetic film. Arthur Miller

Second part of the trilogy that approaches puberty in three Brazilian socio economic classes: A, B and C. The youngsters talks freely about their fears and projects, unveiling a broad outlook about the pre-adolescence universe in São Paulo.

White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion.

In order to avoid her boyfriend, a girl hitches a ride in a stranger's car. The car was actually stolen by the young man driving it, and he was going to sell it. The miraculous encounter... they could not help but fall into the vortex of love.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Eleatis has the plot of a detective story within which the subject of love is developed as expressed in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Hanna Bluemart, a 24 year old scholar, arrives in Athens for the purpose of "finding" her father.

Ken Shamrock versus Dan Severn for the World Superfight Title!

The hypnotic, semi-fictional diary of a young woman’s coming of age in a world which gives her no privacy.