Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Coastal scenes filmed with an energetic pattern of two frames image/two frames black, intercut with Ivor Cantrill’s painting of the scene. Sounds of the sea are mixed with vigorous violin improvisation. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Because he wandered onto 42nd Street one night and met Slacks, a taxi-driver is sentenced to death.

A short film acknowledging the efforts of those responsible for installing the exhibition “Sean Scully 1987-1997” in Malaga. Equally important, the film captures Scully's parents dancing their beloved 'paso doble' in the midst of their son's work.

Padre Kalibre (1997) The story is about a priest named Father Lazarus who boldly stands up against the selfish plans of an evil congressman in a small town.

In a satirical comedy framework, the events of the play deal with the political and economic situation in the State of Jordan, its relationship with neighboring countries and the impact of global political and economic events on the reality of life in general

In December, Armando and Rim invite me to their wedding. I miss the ceremony but film the reception. Maurice Lemaître is the witness. Later in the evening, I go to a concert by Katie O'Looney where Rose Lowder screens her films. We see other friends who are visiting Paris in December, and the film ends with an image of the first snowfall of the year.

Student film about a school marching band.

Four-Mations longform documentary, which includes many full length animated short films.

It is a filmmaker's odyssey in his trouble-torn homeland. The film symbolizes the narrator;s search for his past, present and future; a compilation of his experiences in Kashmir over the last few years. On a much more personal level, the film reveals the ultimate desire of the narrator and his exiled minority community to return home one day.

This half-hour film coincided with the opening of the Log House Museum in West Seattle in 1997. For the first time, the story of the pioneers was told alongside the stories of Duwamish people during the mid-1850s. Historian David Buerge, pioneer descendant Brewster Denny, and Duwamish tribal member James Rasmussen share their perspectives.

The Milkman Movie

The film tells the story of the early 1960s when a three-year-long natural disaster swept across China. Thousands of orphans were brought to the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia, where they were assigned to live with local herders to get through the difficult times. Su Rina, through frugality, ensured the children could attend school. For the sake of the children, she rejected the sincere love of Kaba. One snowy night, the children were awakened by a faint sound. They ran out of their yurt and rescued a dying little white camel. From then on, the white camel grew up alongside the children.

For more than 50 years, the history of the unprecedented resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses was concealed under the Nazi regime. Thanks to the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., as well as the support of the board of trustees of young German film and the cultural film funding of Lower Saxony, this film was created. It tells the story of Jehovah's Witnesses, who placed the principles, commandments, and prophecies of the Bible, above the laws of the National Socialist State.

A short film by Rezza that should make you want to smoke.

TV documentary film about the life of New Zealand poet James K. Baxter.

Japanese horror movie from 1997.

Ordo Virtutum is an allegorical morality play, or sacred music drama, by Hildegard of Bingen, composed around 1151, during the construction and relocation of her Abbey at Rupertsberg. It is the earliest morality play by more than a century, and the only medieval musical drama to survive with an attribution for both text and music.

Nusrat has Left the Building... But When? is a film made on the metamorphic career of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the famous sufi qawwali singer from Pakistan.

Not even the beam is perfect

A psychic self-defense video fully supervised by Ikeda Aristocrat, a well-known musician with a strong psychic sense. Includes shocking moments such as expulsion and purification of spirits, as well as training for strengthening one's chi.

A fox tries to obtain a crow's cheese by flattery. An adaption of Ivan Krylov's version of Aesop's fable, "The Fox and the Crow", and a parody of avant-garde opera by the Ukrainian vocal duet, Duo Zikr.

About the fate of the wandering poet Alexander Brunko.

A polyphonic conversation about love with juvenile prisoners, in which the main creative principles of the director immediately manifested themselves: endless tenderness for the characters and the rejection of any form of moralizing. Rastorguev accelerates and slows down reality, cuts it up with animation, but never enters the territory of video art, occupying some special place — between the realism of the "Theater.doc" and pure poetry.

In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.

Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 is a groundbreaking documentary film that comprehensively examines the events that resulted in the creation of over 700,000 Palestinian refugees and the destruction of approximately 400 Palestinian villages at the end of the first "Israeli-Arab war" in 1948. Featuring historian Benny Morris and drawing on his book “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949,” this film is conducted in both Hebrew and Arabic with English voice-over. It is widely regarded as the first film to seriously tackle these historic events.

Join Anna and her friend Colby, the mouse, in an online adventure as they encounter the Mastodons: Musclehead, Tangler, Blazer and Crusher. They are fighting a fire that threatens two children and a nearby school!

The story of Anna Anderson who thought that she was Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar. This film is about memory, the nature of identity and a life remembered but not lived.

Nino, a baker's apprentice from the kingdom of Lailonia, has a very beautiful face. He notices that wrinkles are appearing on it. He borrows money from the court and buys a trunk of immutability. He hides his beautiful face in the trunk and henceforth lives without a face. He claims that only by storing his face in the trunk of immutability can he ensure its eternal youth and immortal beauty. The neighbor demands the loan back. So Nino pawns his beautiful face in a pawnshop. He receives a sum less than he borrowed. He cannot repay the debt and is thrown in jail for many years. The owner of the pawnshop, not having lived to see Nino's return, takes his beautiful face out of his trunk and gives it to the children to play with as a ball. Only the imprisoned Nino thinks he has the most beautiful face in the world.

A look at the scenic beauty of Alaska's great parks.

A 30-minute inside look at Purvis Young, believed by many to be one of today's most intriguing self-taught American artists. Documentary film director David Seehausen explores a day in the life of Purvis Young in the intimate setting of the reclusive artist's warehouse/studio in Overtown - Miami's inner-city. Footage never before shown unveils a "Poet of the Paintbrush" passionately obsessed with painting history's "Real Truth".

Stop motion animation using bananas, who take a trip to space.

Bad Habitus Project collates images and ideas about the city of Newcastle. It is a portrait of the city built out of the stuff it has discarded: junk, used machinery, decaying vegetation, and is activated by the presence of the artist. Crow feels out its atmospherics, reproduces and reflects the quality of the city's space as it metamorphoses into its bicentenary, making visible its invisible sense of place.

A strikingly colourful, surrealistic, animated film, inspired by the work of female Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. A tragicomical story of a little boy who dies and goes to heaven, only to be seduced by an operatic angel who takes him to hell.

Directed by Neal 'Buboy' Tan. With Glydel Mercado, Rita Magdalena, Tonton Gutierrez, Emilio Garcia.

This was filmed on November 1, 1997 at Anthology Film Archives during a tribute to Joseph Beuys. Nam June Paik destroys a piano.

Dimas at Magdalena: Directed by Dante Pangilinan. With Rommel Padilla, Glydel Mercado, Bernard Bonnin, Ramon Christopher.

In our vision of the future, everyone has received a neuronal interface, also called a brainchip. This chip enables direct mental interaction with external computers. A legal pathway into cyberspace is paralleled by illicit forms of virtual reality. The main character in this film is a "terminal addict", a cyber junkie in the grip of this electronic drug. In the course of the story, the borders between the real and the virtual are obliterated.

In Buddhist architecture, the pagoda symbolizes Nirvana, the state of enlightenment. In Radio Island, this metaphor is expanded to include the entire built environment and the whole of ordinary consciousness. Mutating images of ancient and modern Japanese structures develop within a complex electronic score of radio signals and data transmission. Unusual editing techniques weave these images and sounds into a dense field of improvisation. The resulting texture becomes the raw material for totally new forms. Through a sea of noise, Radio Island charts a course from architecture to music; from the referential to the absolute.

A rough ride through the rocky terrain of modern day baby-making.

Baby is a tiny doll who lives in the perpetually dark Niteworld. The only light place left is the theme park Welcomeworld, the creation of Baby's long lost father. Baby travels to see him and wreaks havoc with the help of her special powers, a supply of jelly beans and her mysterious friends. Can she destroy the ultra-powerful, mega-rich 'nice-guy-in-a-sweater'? This film takes place in a dystopian world slightly different from our own, where houses are made out of candy, Michael Jackson is an ice-cream man, and Reality TV stars face consequences for their actions.

Sa iyo ang itaas, sa akin ang ibaba... ng bahay: Directed by Efren Reyes Jr.. With Izza Ignacio, Rita Magdalena, Berting Labra, Danny Riel.

Max is on the run from a quasi-military posse. Outnumbered and caught in a pickle between the posse and the enemy outpost, the odds are not in Max's favour.

Virgin Island: Directed by Augusto Buenaventura. With Maricel Morales, Rey 'PJ' Abellana, Eric Fructuoso, Jojo Abellana.

Swiss archaeologist Eric Huysecom and cameraman Bernard Augustoni work with 13 master smelters to recreate the building of a traditional furnace for smelting iron in Mali. There has not been any traditional iron smelting in Africa since the 1960's, in part due to the importing of cheaper substitutes. The building of the furnaces and the work involved in the actual production is deeply entwined with ritual, symbolism and gender. This film describes in great detail every aspect of the event, from the selection of the site of the reconstruction - which is the oldest remaining furnace site in the region, last active in 1961 - to the final result.

As two buff men kiss to the song "America the Beautiful" this film sounds the call for "Nelly Nationalism" from sea to shining sea.

Zev Asher's fascinating collage documentary "RAT ART: Croatian Independents" focuses on artists working in Croatia, a nation devastated by the war in the former Yugoslavia. Many of these artists, working in the capital city of Zagreb, were relatively distant from the war zone, while others fought at the front lines, but all were equally aware of the war's effects on their nation.