Cinematic Era: 1996 Vintage

Less than twenty tattered business receipts are the only source of information on the life of Amos Fortune: in 1769, at the age of 59, Fortune bought his freedom from slavery, moved to New Hampshire from Boston, and opened a leather tanning business. Little else is known about this man, who becomes the absent center of the film "Amos Fortune Road." A roadside historical marker inscribed with his name provokes the curiosity of two fictional characters: a teacher, Sharon, and her student, Mary-anne. The film interweaves their personal lives and seemingly endless drives along rural New Hampshire roads with their investigation of Fortune’s identity. When Sharon discovers that most of the information they have gathered originated in two fictionalized biographies, one for children and one for adults, she also realizes that the 200-year-old roads they have been traveling are the same roads Amos Fortune used every day—a quotidian link to a suppressed historical subject.

A security guard battles bank robbers after stopping a bank heist.

A delinquent from the suburbs of Montevideo, fond of the guitar and singing, plans, thanks to the help of a journalist, to appear at a rock festival. The police, who have found out about his plans, hope to catch him.

Tajga was shot after the performance of the same name, performed at the international festival of contemporary arts City of Women in October 1995 in Ljubljana. The viewer enters a dark atmosphere dictated by dramatic vocal-electronic music, passing anthropomorphic and waxy zoomorphic figures, and camera movements. When the author establishes the landscape, she places a wrestler and a drowning woman in it, and with these scenes she further increases the suspension. At the height of the dramaturgy, the set stage collapses. The waxen guard dogs dissolve and the soldiers retreat. Naked female characters appear, announcing the transition to a period of warmth and peace, accompanied by softer music.

Chisato Moritaka 7th Live video 1 Opening 2 {KIBUN-SOKAI}: [Fine feeling] 3 {JUNANA-SAI}: [Seventeen] 4 {FUTARI-KOIBITO}: [We are a pair of lovers] 5 {WATASHI-NO NATSU}: [My summer] 6 {NATSU-NO HI}: [Summer day] 7 The Stress 8 {AME} [Rain] 9 {WATASHI-GA OBASAN-NI NATTEMO}: [Even if I become a middle age lady] 10 {HAEOTOKO}: [The disgusting man] 11 {WATARASE BASHI} 12 So Blue 13 {KUSAIMONO-NIWA FUTA-O SHIRO!!}: [Kick away a detest thing!] 14 Rock'n Roll {KENCHO-SHOZAICHI}: [Rock'n Roll prefectural capital] 15 {YORU-NO ENTOTSU}: [Chimney at night] 16 {KONOMACHI}: [Hometown] 17 {SUTEKI-NA TANJOBI}: [The wonderful birthday] 18 {YASUMI-NO GOGO}: [Horiday afternoon] 19 GET SMILE 20 {KIBUN-SOKAI}: [Fine feeling]

Roque and Cristian have no special plans for the day.

A man's restaurant business booms while his family falls apart.

Survivors recall the 1938-39 rescue of children from concentration camps in Germany, Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Four stories in a Mozambican village. Stories about a water can, a well that gets broken, a lonely hunter, and a bird that becomes a radio.

"Shalom Lach Sigal" (1996) is a gripping Israeli crime-drama based on the tragic life events of Mizrahi singer Tamir Gal, who stars as himself. After serving time in prison, Tamir tries to save his beloved sister, Sigal, from her drug-addicted boyfriend, Motti. When Sigal mysteriously disappears and a body is found, Tamir is wrongfully accused of an "honor killing," forcing him to embark on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about her fate.

This special presentation features family experts sharing practical suggestions on how to draw family members closer together, improve communication, positively and peacefully resolve conflict, and encourage greater understanding.

1996 Leo Schatzl video short - a world journey via fax of a self-portrait

Eva Duarte de Peron ("Evita") is one of the most controversial figures in history. A minor actress when she married Argentine president-to-be Juan Peron, her political power and prestige eventually equaled his. Was she a power-hungry Marie Antoinette? Or was she really the savior of the working poor? In this documentary, rare photographs and films tell Evita's real story, from her humble birth to her tragic death from cancer at 33.

Live at The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970. This was Hendrix's final performance in England. He died a few weeks later.

Two-channel installation. Cameras were attached to both ends of a seesaw in a playground, capturing the blurred scenic views with ambient sound coming from the opposite ends in a continuous cyclical motion of ups and downs. One video captures a perspective facing the sun, while the other has its back to it; 30 minutes footage were recorded between 4pm and 5pm on a sunny, breezy afternoon.

Main character of AZ ÖRVÉNY is cameraman György Petö. His private films shot before and during World War II document his family, and particularly his girlfriend and later wife Eva Lengyel. With hindsight, these films, mainly recorded in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged, make up an extremely wry historical document. Petö was a Jew. Slowly but gradually we notice how the anti-Jewish laws and political revolutions in Hungary take the family in a stranglehold. AZ ÖRVÉNY is a rhapsody of found footage. Skillfully edited and complemented with additional footage, it produces an account of an atrocious era and a plea for human dignity.

Hard Hat Harry takes his young friends Hillary and Mark for an up-close and personal adventure with monster trucks. They meet Frank, a real monster truck builder, and learn the secrets of how those mega machines are put together, including the frame, body and steering wheel. Then Frank shows them how to use the special high-powered super tools for putting on the huge 1,000-pound tires. Then it’s off to the races, as we watch monster trucks in action on the track and in the arena, crushing cars by driving right on top of them!

A young African salesman is trying to do business in a marketplace where a policeman, disguised as a cigarette salesman, is trying to foil a robbery in a shop.

Film about writer Malraux, with photographs portraying great moments of his life and accompanied by his most famous speeches.

See the theatrical premiere of Oscar winning BOB'S BIRTHDAY, one of 13 animated short films from four countries which demonstrates a wide range of styles and techniques, from traditional cel animation to cutting edge computer and claymation wizardry. Other program highlights include 1995's other Academy Award nominees THE BIG STORY, TRIANGLE, THE JANITOR, and THE MONK AND THE FISH. The program is topped off with an encore screening of THE WRONG TROUSERS. Nick Park's claymation masterpiece follows the richly detailed misadventures of Wallace and Gromit - an eccentric inventor and his faithful dog.

The Red Paper asserts a voice of power and interpretation recounting the devastating consequences of colonialism. The European male wears a straitjacket, repeatedly mumbling “I did not know, I did not know,” in a familiar contemporary mantra that pleads self-proclaimed absolution from guilt by reason of ignorance of history. Claxton irreverently and consciously opts for a lack of historical specificity in favour of a totalizing haunting by history in the present.

Short film by Gianfranco Baruchello.

Director Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this affecting and graceful study of family history and memory. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds -- where the past meets the present, where generations collide and where the boundaries of family life are stretched, torn and surprisingly, at times, also healed. Berliner has transformed a story of a troubled man who has sealed himself off from life's pain into a work of universal resonance.

McFarlin, special agent for global counter-narcotics, takes on an assignment in Africa. We don't investigate, we wage war is the simple motto of his superiors. The investigators use ruthless violence at the risk of their lives. After initial successes, the mafia fights back with a private army.

A constantly moving camera dives deep into Rist's mouth and pops out of her anus, only to whirl back up to her open mouth - giving you the sensation of being swallowed and expelled, swallowed and expelled, into infinity.

Shinichi admires Toru, a thinker, and frequently visits his home. The two live in harmony, spending their days together like brothers. However, their peaceful routine is disrupted when activists approach Toru, a public figure, attempting to exploit him for their own agenda. Despite Toru’s warnings, Shinichi becomes entangled in a suspicious situation and eventually seeks Toru’s help. Although Toru’s intervention seems to resolve the situation, both Toru and Shinichi subsequently disappear. Left behind, Toru’s wife and Shinichi’s sister are left in confusion and despair.

An avant garde short film by the pioneer of experimental italian cinema Gianfranco Baruchello.

In ALFRESCO we find the best of Slovakia's boys playing around in the great outdoors, enjoying their own and each other's passions as only firm young men can! It includes never before seen footage. There can be no doubt about it, our reputation for finding the best looking men for our videos remains unsurpassed. Scouring Slovakia and the neighboring Czechoslvakia and Hungary, we find amazing talent such as world famous sex symbols Dano Sulik and John Paulik.

A behind-the-scenes look at Rangers in 1996

Philip Kan Gotanada explores death, aging , and the effects of internment on a generation of Japanese Americans in Drinking Tea. A dying man leaves his younger wife to move in with an older woman and gain an personal understanding of death and dying.

When drunk one is faster – but a bit aside.

Noah is walking along a pond and discovers a lost little duckling. Following the teacher's advice, the class decides to return it to its mother.

An experimental narrative about a filmmaker who discovers what appears to be a murder on an old film he finds at a yard sale, and his ensuing quest for the truth.

Emil Barchański. A resident of Warsaw. He took part in the action of setting fire to the monument of Feliks Dzierżyński. He took part in street demonstrations. Arrested as a result of a provocation. Beaten. He was put before the Juvenile Court for printing illegal publications. In 1982 he was 17 years old. On a June day he left home and never returned. He died in mysterious circumstances. The author of the film attempts to reconstruct the last hours of the boy's life, and at the same time goes back to the events of the months preceding the tragic epilogue. Emil and his death are recalled on camera by his mother and peers. His co-workers talk about the events during martial law, drawing sometimes surprising conclusions. People involved in solving the mystery of the boy's death also talk about it. The most controversial character of the story also appears: a man who accompanied Emil during his last walk to the Vistula River.

Short documentary on the conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, produced for Belgian television.

Documentary consisting in segments: "The Ghost Soprano" Ghost haunts the Bidderford City Theater; "Grandma the Witch" Helen Batestini claims to be a witch, dies, and burns the house down; "Gettysburg Ghosts" Yginio Salazar's ghost visits his grandson; "Anger in the Attic" Chris Woodyard, Ghost Investigator and "Restless Rooms" Art Garcia moves into a free house, and quickly learns why it's free.

Erin Go Bragh, a small Connemara stallion, gets ready to compete in Combined Training, “the triathlon of horseback riding.” The three day competition consists of dressage, cross-country, and stadium jumping. Erin Go Bragh himself narrates as he and his rider, Carol Kozlowski, compete in two competitions.

An actor cast as a priest has difficulty executing a prayer scene he has to film due to his inner turmoil. He is troubled by a failed love story and exasperated by his housing situation – he lives in the same apartment as an intrusive mother. At the intersection of these events in his life, the man seems to undergo a spiritual transformation, presented in a way that is devoid of sentimentality.

Jibon Sansar is a 1996 Bangladeshi romantic film written and directed by Zakir Hossain Raju. It is the first film directed by Raju. It stars Salman Shah, Shabnur, Faruk, Babita and Golam Mustafa.

Victor Erice's contribution to Celebrate CINEMA 101

This holiday season, travel back in time to Bethlehem as the original Christmas story unfolds all around you. Journey alongside Mary and Joseph, a flock of surprised shepherds, and three wisemen—along with their camels! There may be no room at the inn, but God has a lowly stable prepared as the angels announce the coming of the Messiah! Experience MIRACLE OF CHRISTMAS as it comes to life on stage with massive sets and live animals in this cherished holiday production.

It's a film about police officers who can't do their jobs.

Based on the poem "Interview with a Sad Cow" by Maris Chaklais.

Nayat, a young Sahrawi girl, fantasizes about seeing the waves of a sea she has never known in the desert dunes. She knows that her colonized country has an immense sea and lives in a refugee camp in the Saharan desert. Marián, a young Sahrawi girl studying in Paris, returns to her village and establishes a strong emotional bond with the little girl.

Gorgeous Town is having a Pet Contest, so Badtz-Maru decides to enter his pet alligator Pochi. When things don't turn out as planned, he sends Pochi away from him. Will they make up soon?