Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

An erotic alien abduction.

A human body directly interacts with the fix mounted camera which takes a picture of this body every five seconds. Changing towards one another, alternating, strict disciplinary positions and poses of the whole body, and of parts of the body bring about the following: The person is simultaneously made into a multiple "optical producer of rhythm," splitting itself into many identical bodies or fusing them together to form new types of beings. The basis of composition are centrality and symmetry, which are then broken.

It's a film about young love.

A three part anthology anime film

Nanna is the most successful topless dancer at a gentleman's club. Jealous of her tremendous accomplishments, a battle ensues with another dancer. Nanna wins in the end, proving it's not the size of the tips that matter.

Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when it comes to sex, the truth comes out.

A man closes the same doors that Kafka opened.

Nadia, Teresė and Ramutė are the three heroines of this documentary. Although they are very different, they are united by their unusual work - for decades they have been making a living by posing for artists. For Janina Lapinskaite, it is not the exotic profession that is important, but the stories that have marked these women's bodies over time. The heroines of the film talk openly about their choice of work, their colourful, albeit difficult past, and their equally difficult present - they bare not only their bodies, but also their souls to the camera.

Two friends decide to make a short film, so they begin to write the screenplay. Will the characters in the film be able to survive the diabolical directives of their creators?

Milah, a satay seller, while Kadir owns an electrical repair shop. They secretly love each other. However, things changed with the appearance of Fikri, a wealthy resort owner. Fikri tries to seduce Milah, but Milah's feelings for Kadir are still strong. On the other hand, Kadir seemed hopeless. Fikri later offered Milah a bid to sell the satay at his resort. Slowly Kadir resigned and left his business. Milah is sad and realizes she loves Kadir. When Kadir returns home, he and Milah decide to get married while Fikri has to leave.

A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.

Director: Jose ‘Kaka’ Balagtas Writers: Jose ‘Kaka’ Balagtas (screenplay), Tony Concepcion (screenplay) Stars: Derek Dee, Dante Varona, Glydel Mercado, Rita Magdalena, Sharmaine Suarez, Dick Israel, Kier Legaspi, Gwen Canon, Dencio Padilla, Sonny Padilla, Zandro Zamora, Franco Guerrero, Johnny Vicar, Rommel Valdez, Renato Del Prado, Levi Ignacio, Cloyd Robinson, Ric Arellano

A battle between rock, paper and scissors takes place on a desk.

Jeremy McGrath and friends travel the world freeriding motocross

A brilliant medic must face a whole crew of drug traffickers who are led by the king of the mafia, a man who has terrorized everybody in the region.

Sounds and visuals give a “physical” overview of the Land Question, and Cuthand turns the question around regarding what it means to own or be owned.

This film is an adaptation of an ancient Japanese No play. Four card-players and one is playing for his life. However, he is unaware that he is only a puppet, as the winner has already been chosen. In the game and in life.

What goes around comes around: the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. Layered and luminous with in-sight. An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind. Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, the viewer is able to share the traveller’s experiences and his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of urban existence. An animated account of a two mile journey made from home to work on foot. Hi-8 video footage digitized and printed out using an inkjet printer is combined with drawings, text and paint. A subjective representation of how visual information is filtered and processed by the conscious and subconscious mind. We share the traveller’s experiences: his idle thoughts and repetitive neuroses and see his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of daily life.

Cyriel has died. Leonie and a few relatives are standing in the hospital room around the bed on which the bodie lies. At Cyriel's death, there won't be no more tears from Leonie, but rather one simple and pleasant memory that expresses Cyriel's unspoken love for her.

Story of a young, serious and very assiduous little girl who will feel insecure after a boy's repetitive aggression towards her, the thing that will affect her academic level and her mental stability, which prompted her parents to try to stop the abuse of their daughter, but it is difficult given the cultural level of the boy and his family ...

But happily Kerkhof the uncompromising iconoclast is back. With his newest film RON ATHEY: IT’S SCRIPTED (the original title RON ATHEY: SO MANY WAYS TO SAY HALLELUJAH had to be changed because there is already a 2 hour documentary in production under this title) he has delivered a convincing artistic achievement. Those without strong stomachs will probably find the overwhelming amount of injection needles and razor blades a bit too much, but the film is so cleverly constructed that one cannot look away.

"Once upon a time there was an old gypsy. He had never left the hill where he lived. He never went to the inn, nor read the newspaper or watched Dallas. He was a proud man who liked to tell stories. Even though he avoided the church, he knew what the fear of God was. The old gypsy was blessed by three beautiful daughters whom he loved more than anything else. The two older ones soon found husbands, but the youngest Sarolta only walked up hill and down dale. She was the apple of his eye..." This is the beginning of Romani Kris. The film shows the gypsy Lovér and the village idiot Tamáska on their dramatic and adventurous journey through a Hungarian landscape at times lush and at times barren to present a lyrical, magical and unforgettable story.

Tap Dogs, the all-male Australian dance troupe, has taken the world by storm with a unique, blue-collar style of explosive and raucous tap. Conceived and choreographed by Dein Perry, the six inexhaustible Aussie dancers never miss a step as they stomp their way through this high-octane performance that includes a shape-shifting set, a huge foot-driven synthesizer and a gravity-defying dance number on the ceiling.

Director Peter Webber's dramatized exploration of the tumultuous life of Austrian composer Franz Schubert exposes the stark contradictions of the legendary artist, whose dark personal life was often veiled by his astonishing musical feats. Despite his many unseemly affairs, shameful transgressions and eventual hospitalization for syphilis, Schubert created some of the most melodic and mellifluous compositions known to man.

A young man and woman trade stories about their scars - psychological, sexual and otherwise - in a variety of settings. Their relationship is at once immediate and immediately complicated by the depth of their revelations and their nakedness.

The Kourdic poet Ibrahim Aziz is suspected of being a member of the Kourdic Marxistic Leninistic Front and enlists the help of his lawyer Wies to receive political asylum in the Netherlands.

Monolith of Death Tour '96–'97 is a DVD by American death metal band, Cannibal Corpse. It was originally released in 1997 on VHS, but was re-released 5 years later on DVD in 2002. It features footage from various concerts during the Monolith of Death Tour.

Documentary about animator and artist Gerit van Dijk. The film follows van Dijk as he works on his film ‘I Move, So I Am’.

Shirt film by Claire Denis

Ever been to one of those tourist trap gift shops with "personalized" merchandise? Great! Now apply that idea to a videotape "made" by Santa Claus just for your child.

Man vomits and feeds on his vomit with great joy.

A teenage lesbian's attempts to form friendships with older lesbians leads her on a disturbing ride through the ageist terrain of the lesbian community.

Heung Ryul, as a result of a tragic accident, is paralyzed from the neck down. But he struggles to recover his health and to lead a normal life. With the help of his mother's prayers and the grace of God and the love of an angelic volunteer worker named Sook Hyang, he is encouraged and decides to become a poet.

One man, one hotel, room service and a towel.

A film which explores how the past influences the present, and what it means to grow up black and gay within a homophobic Jamaican culture.

Long-exposure shooting with the Fujica Single-8 is performed using a hand crank. This method of filming feels as though the reflected light of the subject is being ‘carved’ directly into the film.

A Bosnian TV war drama based on true events.

"The stars are the eyes of people who died of love…," says Solomon.

A short film by David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez about their lives before recording Dead Bees on a Cake, posted by Ingrid. It was originally supposed to be on an EPK of Dead Bees on a Cake, yet it wasn't put out as such

Body, Body on the Wall was originally part of the stage performance of the same name, from Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus/Jan Fabre.

Martin Lambie-Nairn tells us about how he rebranded the BBC in 1997 to prepare for the digital age.

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, the director forgoes voice-over in favor of a polyphonic discourse, combining more informative speeches from representatives of institutions with speeches by, for example, Sérgio Sant'Anna and Lygia Fagundes Telles, who express, in a different tone, their passion and vocation for books.

In the land of the slides, three handicapped plot against people with two legs.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The mankind, laughing, to all gets used. Slowly, but correct. It is necessary to recognize, that on a background of prompt growth counterskyscraper and other terrorism, general degradation and degeneration of tastes, the problem of former terrible AIDS is not considered now as something out of the common leaving in a turn universal bad. In comparison with all by rest of the same sort, is in it even and something positive: for pleasure suffer, instead of so that sleep, and wake up under concrete ruins, not having and opportunity to send last "forgive" over the mobile telephone. From asheses send - in ashes we will address, as teach us clever books. In film, about which there will be a speech, the alternative way which was less giving back with didactics, formalin and fatalism is offered.

Aiming to capture views of Hong Kong months before its return to the Chinese government, this Australian documentary features views of the city filmed from its historic trams on 16mm film.

The story, reminiscent in tone of a Twilight Zone allegory, involves a strange woman with an odd accent who loses her husband in a graphically depicted scene of auto-erotic asphyxiation. To cope with her loss, she seeks a virtual-reality substitute (a ‘man chip’ as she calls it). This pursuit leads her into the prurient world of tech addicts who rely on ‘chip pushers.'

The chromatic research based mainly on primary colors yearns for the incandescence of red, for strong tonal contrasts, with the gaze turned to an anti-naturalistic, subjective, internalized color, which looks to the Fauves, Munch and German Expressionists but also to Boccioni and Picasso for the metamorphosis of the human figure (here the female body) and his struggle against Euclidean geometry; to the Suprematists and Constructivists, cited in the geometric forms: sharp spiers of piercing light, flashes of lightning, triangles like blades that cut the screen and chase the evanescent bodies in the dark.

Featuring Lydia Lunch and the photography of Richard Kern. Teaser for an arté doc [Chris Habib] made as a kid