Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Trippy animation.

This film consists of three parts: The first part is called: The Parrot and the grocer, which is based on the poems of Rumi's Masnavi. The second part is called "Entering the world of the puppets". This section is a combination of puppetry, animation, and live action, showing how to make a puppet movie in a musical, fantasy style. The third part: In this part called "The Jewel Mountain", the story of an evil and greedy jeweler is shown.

Continuation of the full-length cartoon about the adventures of Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian chief. In 1614, John Smith returns to Jamestown, where he meets Pocahontas again.

The story of how Zonguldak miners took action in 1990-91. Opposing privatization, the miners fought a "bread war" as a result of their joint resistance. The second film in the "Work-Bread-Freedom" trilogy.

"One of the best films of this year's short film program, Sanguedolce's 59 minute movie is an audacious story that takes a unique journey into its own heart of darkness. With a nod to Francis Ford Coppola, Joseph Conrad and The Price is Right host Bob Barker, it's a story that has its own epic quality taking us from a small Sicilian village to the jungles of Thailand."

In this punkish, puckish music video for a song from Patti Smith’s 1996 album Gone Again, Frank borrows Catholic signifiers from past films like Sin of Jesus and Last Supper, including a kitsch rendering of Jesus and his apostles, a Caravaggesque closeup of Smith’s naked, dirty foot, and a discarded rosary. The producer of Summer Cannibals, Michael Schamberg, was a persuasive guy with consummate good taste, having also recruited Chris Marker, Kathryn Bigelow, Jonathan Demme, Robert Longo, and William Wegman to work on various music videos for New Order, R.E.M., Grace Jones, Talking Heads, and the B-52’s. — Museum of Modern Art

Primetime documentary looking at the legal, cultural and social legacies of Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment, broadcast to commemorate the centenary of his conviction.

This black and white short film (with hardboiled voiceover) follows canine filmmaker Quinn Hud to the dog-eat-dog world of the Cannes Film Festival to sell his latest work.

A train passes by, a boy with a sparkler in his hand leads us into the world of night. A dark, haunting portrait of the urban landscape in a nocturnal fog.

Psychedelic computer animated visions.

Freedom is a dream of every man and woman. Kero is an immigrant from Asia. Coming to Los Angeles he found himself between two fires. On the one side he is pursued by police and security service. On the other side he is attacked by drug-mafia, demanding money. But the real freedom is the only dream of Kero and a prostitute, that became his new friend.

Over 300 educational and training film prints culled from the RMIT library are compressed and wrestled into an emblematically luminous archive of odd sorts.

Short film directed by Liang Juhui.

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

For some "girls" who just don't fit in.

Short smartass video exploring the vast territories of sexuality between hetero and homo, that also serves to confront "biphobic bullshit".

This film is devoted to the artistic heritage of a personality who ranked among the most extraordinary musicians of his time, even as a child. Menuhin was not a mere musician: he was a cosmopolitan, a peacemaker and a true humanist. French filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon, who filmed this great retrospective, describes his work with Menuhin as follows: “He threw himself into it whole-heartedly, with great sense of humour and overwhelming humanity. This film also shows my heartfelt gratitude for a man who gave such decisive sense to my own existence.”

Karl Weisz, photographer of the trip, the fight, the naked life. With the eye of a survivor who doesn't want to leave the street, his home; with the eye of an ex-junkie who misses the thrill, of a friend who is led by his past.

A personal love story of the artist’s life in New York City

An animation by Roze Stiebra, Lielais Kristaps award for Best animation film 1998.

A deft and cunning re-examination of John-Boy’s near-death experience at the sawmill. A homespun midnight deconstruction of an entire era of television mannerisms. The handheld camera doesn’t stray far from the TV screen, dividing attention between the show’s action and the off-camera activity in the apartment. (Video Data Bank)

"Three Colours Cézanne" analyses the radical nature of Cézanne's painting, tracing its origins in the art of the nineteenth century and the work of the Old Masters while examining many of Cézanne's works in detail.

Based on Alge­rian proverbs and sayings, Terri­to­rie(s) reviews Alge­rian history in this century. The french colo­ni­sa­tion, the paci­fi­ca­tion of 1957 and the ulti­mate inde­pen­dence in 1962. The poli­ti­cal leaders are consi­de­red in cleverly edited sequences: Boudiaf, Ben Bella, Colo­nel Boume­dienne and figures from the Isla­mic move­ment like Ali Belhadj and Fara­khan. The french and Alge­rian intel­le­gen­tias are also inclu­ded in this kalei­do­sco­pic image of a coun­try that thanks to its event­ful colo­nial past, still has diffi­cul­ties deter­mi­ning its own iden­tity more than thirty years after its inde­pen­dence. Barba­rism is all its forms, inclu­ding the mili­tary forms it can assume with follo­wers of the FIS, is set against the domes­tic warning of those who plead for keeping eyes open, and keeping society open.

TV documentary series originally aired in 1996, entitled "Sounds Of The West", which examined the music being produced in the West of England. This particular episode named "Straight Outa Bristol" focused on the eponymous "Bristol Sound" and features interviews with DJ Milo (formerly of The Wild Bunch), Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead. Music journalist, Phil Johnson, who would go on to write a book on this same subject, also weighs in on his feelings regarding the impact that Bristol had on the rest of dance music at the time.

A vampire is taking a bite out of crime.

Two strippers decide a walk in the park might lift their spirits, which do get a big boost when they contemplate a park monument dedicated to sailors in this audacious, “beefy” romp.

"After “Antigravitation” I wanted to make another step up, where disappears last prop under your feets. “Flying Over the Blue Field” – movie about loneliness in infinite sky. Man stays with himself, home-made plane and balance on the limit between death and life." - Audrius Stonys.

A 52 minute documentary on the political history of SABC Television

The history of the GDR Super-8 scene—an underground art movement that produced films outside official channels in the 1980s—produced by Cornelia Klauss, herself a Super-8 artist. The Stasi (secret police) monitored this rebellious scene closely. Female artists Ramona Köppel-Welsch, Cornelia Schleime and Christine Schlegel, among others, talk about their art and films, their experiences as artists in the GDR, and how their work changed after the Wall came down.

White Light consists of extreme close-up shots of chrome bath taps and their reflections, including the camera lens, which becomes its own subject, as it closes in on its reflection. This material is mixed with rotoscope animation, created on various surfaces including cel and hand-made paper, where scratched lines are lit from an acute angle to create an image from light and shadow.

The novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), built a Bauhaus-style style structure (Kenwin) that doubled as a home and film studio, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland. At the time she was in a relationship with the English filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson and American poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.). The protagonists were involved in the intellectual circles that included James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. They also founded and published an early film journal "Close-up" which among other things introduced the theories of Sergei Eisenstein to the western world. This Film explores this history using historical and contemporary images of Kenwin along with readings from the letters and memoirs of the protagonists including H.D.'s daughter Perdita.

Kurt Kren records snapshots of visitors to Vienna who are photographed in front of the statue of Johann Strauss Jr.

Stand-up comic Paula Poundstone gives a comedy concert at Harvard University in Cambridge.

by Raphael MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ 1996 / color-b&w / sound / 1S / 11' 15

FROM THE NAKED EYE CINEMA - INTRODUCING MR. DIANA, a video short documenting the arrival of controversial comic book artist and illustrator Michael Diana–the hottest astral flame to scorch New York City's creative underbelly–to New York City. Mike's soft spoken, gentle character is in sharp contrast to the harsh illustrated images of bloody sexuality he creates. His persona combines the raw innocence of Melvile's Billy Budd with the lusty ingenuousness of Voltaire's Candide. The video features the "three faces of Mike": Artist, Political Scapegoat, and Object Of Desire. Explore the territory "Inside Michael Diana", as the film makers survey his surfer-buff physique.

Glaxo Wellcome Anti-Tobacco Commissioned Film. (23 Sec. )

The sexual label - gay, lesbian, bi, straight - has become a political tool which can either empower or dispossess its user. This film examines the complex tensions associated with these issues. It sets out to map the valid principles of empowerment underlying the use of sexual labels both past and present and charts the shifting relationship between the mainstream and non-straight communities.

Two men are sitting by the sea, gazing at the horizon.

Short film to promote Satyricon's song "Mother North" from the 1996 album "Nemesis Divina". Shot on location in Hekseskogen, Torsskogen & Greåker Fort, March 1996. Contains two different segments with "Mother North".

Junji Inagawa guides you through a "funeral" how-to video in a drama style. From choosing a funeral home to issuing a cremation permit, we show you everything you need to know about funerals!

This documentary provides movies fans with an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the making of Disney's classic animated work, Sleeping Beauty. Narrated by Corey Burton, this documentary includes archive footage of the animation teams and voice actors who brought this piece of film history to life.

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

"Poetic meditation around light projection [...] Selection Internationale aux Festivals d'Osnabruck, Hamburg, Odense, Moncton, Tel Aviv, Utrecht, Kiev."

Candidate Kid chronicles the adventures of Rhea Justice, a twelve-year old girl like many twelve-year-old girls - sharp and precocious at times, shy and awkward at others.

A short three minute documentary by Donald McWilliams regarding the film How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels (1996) directed by Craig Welch

An hour-long wild & wacky channel surfing ride with Mark Lowry. Including the songs: I Can Eat It All Hyperactivity TV Tunes Medley and Mary Did You Know! Forget trying to set the clock on your VCR. Just grab your remote, T.V. dinner, and 44 oz. beverage of choice, plug in REMOTELY CONTROLLED and enjoy the comedy of Mark Lowry!!!

Love, death, lurking in the streets. Will she ever see her dead lover?

A a star-studded gala and broadcast special celebrating the Kennedy Center's 25th anniversary.

The story of the residents of a small village in Israel in the 1940s, their loves, worries and pleasures as experienced by Yossi, a naive adolescent who never grows up. Yossi's day-to-day life and the lives of his relatives interest him more than grave national issues, until those invade his world and destroy it