Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Phantasmagoric feature film, which shows the interconnections among mental, visceral and spiritual landscapes of lost love.

Artist Nic Nicosia's staged video was filmed entirely on a suburban street in North Dallas in 1997, and includes members of the artist's own family and local residents from his suburban neighborhood.

A young refugee woman's internal journey, as she tries to come to terms with nostalgic recollections of her lost home and painful memories of the war that tore her life and family apart.

Animation by French historian, archivist and archaeologist Michel Fleury.

From a series of animated films set to classical music. A film impression set to classical music, created using combined animation techniques. Images harmonizing with the character, atmosphere, and emotional tone of Chopin's atmospheric music are created and transformed to the rhythm of the music.

The story of Kim Phuc, who was napalmed during the Vietnam War and became the subject of an infamous photo that shocked the world.

This one winter's day encapsulates a thousand years fishing and seamanship in Iceland. We gain an insight into an inner and outer world, where manual labour, man's beliefs in nature, Christianity, superstition and even magic are interwoven. We are questioned if we could imagine how this world of the rowing boat crew, wich reflects the ancient class-divided society, really looked like? How did they percive the nature around them, their God in this nature, it's unstable weather conditions, it's harshness when they go to sea to harvest its riches to make it possible for themselves as well as their nation to keep on living on the edge of the habitable world? Here we are face to face with the very foundation of fishing nation's culture.

How to Talk Minnesotan adapted from a book by Howard Mohr and provides examples of stereotypical Minnesotan speech and mannerisms.

A short film by Brad Sykes

Kahit hindi turuan ang puso: Directed by Frank Rivera. With Tonton Gutierrez, Roy Alvarez, Sylvia Sanchez, Maria Sovietskaya.

The Jean Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland, designed by Mario Botta, opened in 1996, five years after the Swiss sculptor's death. META MECANO is a poetic depiction of the genesis of this mono-graphic museum, from the builders' first plans and Mario Botta's designs to its construction and the assembly of Tinguely's fragile mobile sculptures. In interviews with Mario Botta, Tinguely's wife Niki de Saint Phalle, museum director Pontus Hultén and Tinguely himself, the film goes on to explore the mission of museums and of art in general today. META MECANO is a unique document on the significance of the artist Jean Tinguely and on the role that museums play in our day and age.

This film was made for the site specific screening Fleur Power, created by Melinda Stone. She planted a screen of sweet alyssum (also called "carpet of snow") on a mountainside and asked artists to make work for this one-time event. This short film attempts to replace the grass which she pulled up in order to create the screen, while playing with concepts of scale and time.

Yaar Maar is a Punjabi action drama movie directed by Yograj Singh and also featuring himself in the lead role. Along with Yograj Singh playing the lead protagonist, the movie also features Neena Sidhu, Simran, Bindu Jhokia, and Suksha Lahoria in other pivotal roles. Released in 1993, the movie was a success at the box office and also received accolades for the story as well as the direction. It went on to become a huge hit at the box office. Watch Yaar Maar Punjabi movie on MX Player to cherish the magic of the legend Yograj Singh on screen.

For these villagers, giving birth is a family affair; while a young girl is in labor, the birth attendant, mother and mother-in-law alternate between lending a hand and storytelling. Barbara Johnson studied documentary film and photography with Jerry Liebling and Elaine Mayes at Hampshire College from 1970-1974. She began working for the Smithsonian's newly formed National Anthropological Film Center in 1975. She was sent to Nepal to document early childhood socialization and daily life in a large farming village in the Kathmandu Valley.

Expanding on Partially Buried, Partially Buried Continued focuses on the mingling of past and present by reflecting on the photographic medium. The video reexamines slide films taken during the Korean War by Green’s father; photographs taken in Korea in Kwangju on May 18, 1980, during the democratic uprising and brutal state-sponsored response; and photographs taken by the artist in Kwangju and Seoul during a residency in 1997. Using the works of Robert Smithson and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha as touchstones, Green reflects on memory, memorials, and remembrance, while exploring the complexities of how we find ourselves entangled in relationships to countries, nationalities, and specific moments in time. (Video Data Bank)

A conversation with Toronto community activist and female-to-male transsexual Peter Dunnigan. He speaks openly about addiction, recovery, sexuality, and life as a gender outcast. More than an educational tool for a general audience, this video is a call for transsexuals, both female-to-males and male-to-females, to unite, heal, and resist.

Making out, speaking out, coming out. Queer youth gettin' busy with a camcorder at Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS).

Reflecting on the premature death of a young dancer and artist, Heaven or Montréal points to unfinished ideas, creating "outlines" of lost energy and imagination. As a finale, it summons all its desperation and asks for silence to speak and stillness to dance. Ian Middleton, its co-author, died in 1993 of AIDS related causes.

Can money buy happiness? Four men leave their lives in Michoacán to escape a crime they committed. In the United States, life will be difficult, and they will end up returning to their criminal roots, robbing a bank. Rich, they will return to Michoacán and move on with their lives, but their happiness will be limited by their past crimes.

In 1917, Division General Joaquín Tinoco, Brother of the until then President of the Republic, was assassinated. Account of the political events of the time, different theses that explain the facts.

Adukkala Rahasyam Angaadi Paattu is a 1997 film documenting tropical birds, directed by Nissar. The film stars Sukumari, Jagathy Sreekumar, Baburaj and Cochin Haneefa in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Wilson Skemurak.

At the end of the busy year of 1997, we ended up filming a documentary produced by Jorge Timm. Jorjão's restaurant was very close to the Uruguay River, on Ilha Redonda, and there was a river flood, which rose about eleven meters above the normal level - two meters less than the record high of 1983 - and displaced many people. Claudio Baiestorf, Carli and I went there to record the damage, interview homeless people and invent delusions. We arrived at the place and realized that Jorge had greatly exaggerated, via telephone, the size of the flood damage. There were not even homeless people. Thanks to warnings from the civil defense, all residents had taken precautions. We opened a whiskey and started filming anyway.

Me Nathuram Godse Boltoy is a two-act play written in the Marathi language. It has been written by Pradeep Dalvi. It is based on the book May It Please You Honour written by Gopal Godse.

“Revolt at the difficulty of being yourself in a world that reduces the individual to accept any job under any conditions. "

This documentary tells the story of an 80-year-old woman who has "...nothing else to do but to sit and think."

A poetic piece of work that tells the story of a projectionist, Hashem Hakemzadeh, as he drives up to the countryside with his son Reza in order to show films to poor villagers living in remote areas far away from the city. An emotional and essential piece of Iranian cinema by director Farhad Mehranfar; a film about the importance of cinema and the effect it has on audiences. Winner of several film festivals, Paper Airplanes celebrates life and nature in a unique and spectacular manner

The story of a baby named Srebrenica.

This 1997 film chronicles the history of the legendary Hudson’s Department Store in downtown Detroit and the debate over possible demolition of the structure after its abandonment by Hudson’s in 1983. It includes historic photos, home movies, and interviews with Hudson’s employees and customers, city planners, developers and members of city council. The Metro Times called it “truly relevant and exciting documentary film making.” Written and produced by Gary Glaser and Dave Toorongian. Directed by Gary Glaser. Narrated by David Dixon.

«CODES OF CONDUCT playfully upends the moral order by which man has historically seen fit to measure so called correct behaviour - by ironically re-positioning the rules, Rimmer uncovers their arbitrariness.» Osnabrück Media Arts Festival 1997. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Jeff krulik's favorite DC restaurant closes for good. A bitersweet farewell kiss.

A film about various library cats around the country.

Super 8mm color stop motion animated film with hand painting of painted collages of vampires from throughout 1960’s and 70’s advertising.

Mixed live-action and paper maché puppet animation. The disjointed debris of our childhood state still lurking within our adult consciousness act as a painful, disruptive force. A ghost-like little girl keeps tapping on a woman’s consciousness, demanding attention, recalling a traumatic childhood event and thus distorting the woman’s experience of the present.

Six brightly colored characters explore an old inventor's workshop. While discovering their surroundings, they also discover each other.

Shockumentary featuring uncensored footage of real-life emergencies. It captures graphic scenes involving accidents, injuries, and medical interventions, aiming to portray the raw intensity of paramedic work.

Lovable puppies, a family Christmas, and a big city full of excitement all add up to an adventure that every child should experience. Spunky, our hero begins his journey to his new home and soon discovers how much it really means to have a loving master. It also includes a bonus prayer with Sam & Terri!

After a dispute with a local dentist, a minister is thrown out of his church, and finds himself an unemployed White Afrikaner Male. Desperate for work, he accepts a job as a manager in a men's club, which allows gambling, stripping and drinking - by the customers. In an attempt to avoid his old congregation recognising him, he dons a costume straight out of the Bible. To make matters worse, the club is run by his cousin, who is also a gangster.

The film brings some of the best stories about the singer, told by his friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso and Frejat - and by his mother, Lucinha Araújo, in atouching testimonial.

A woman forced into criminality. The conflicting motives for the characters' existence are reconciled in the finale in a human-hating feminine reality.

Musings on dividing zero by zero.

Winner the dog is kidnapped and taken to New York City by a woman who thinks he is lost in the Jungle. But thanks to Arbor, the tree, Simba Jr. and the other friends manage to follow Winner's trail. After an exhausting search, Simba Jr. and his friends discover a parallel world in the New York underground where all the abandoned animals live. There they find Winner and a new adventure begins.

Charlie's back for revenge! But not before he decides to become a great movie director! And guess who his first star is going to be? Gina! And unfortunately for her, the movie doesn't have a happy ending! With never before seen shower footage.

Rare uncut footage of Pavement performing for HBO Reverb days before the release of Brighten The Corners

The little mole invites his friends to an underground trip. They end up at a beautiful beach. But the sea is not as peaceful as it seems.

When the estate of the late countess, minister, and millionaire Erna Hamilton is to be sold at auction in March this year, a 41-year-old Swede shows up in Copenhagen. He claims to be the countess's grandson and legal heir.

Two women are bonded by strange rituals; a blurred sense of blood relation portrayed through a game of domination, submission, voyeurism and cruel tenderness.

One of a collection of experimental shorts shot on VHS, miniDV or created in the computer, where the results were edited and manipulated by filmmaker Walter Ungerer with various computer software programs.

A filmic Pandora's Box full of my version of "trouble" (death, loss, cultural imperialism) as well as the trouble with representation as incomplete understanding. - Mark LaPore. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

This documentary features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. Culled from a period that spans more than 25 years of taking pictures, Goldin’s desire to make a visual diary of her friends and lovers, as well as her own life, makes for a moving, highly charged, visual experience.