Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

In a normal street, a strange secret is hidden. Surreal and abstract computer animation.

A penguin tries out various methods of flying.

Fletch Kelley is a handsome, easy-going insurance salesman in his late 30s. On the lazy side, Fletch doesn't out much into his work or his relationship. After his frustrated girlfriend moves out of his large warehouse apartment, Fletch finds himself in need of a roommate. Enter Brit.

An experimental film that looks afresh at landscape by using the medium to explore its time and space in ways other than ‘eye view’. A rich, sensual, densely textured film poem that sets out to challenge perceptual habits without being drawn into the seductive trap of the picturesque.

American Road is a seven minute short film featuring imagery of the 48 continental United States set to the song, "You Enjoy Myself" by Phish.

A calligraphic ode to the ASIFA logo and various personalities in the International Animation Association.

An ascent to the mountain in Tyrol with the music of Mozart.

'Mozart Requiem mit dem Finger gelesen' belongs to a group of 31 films which were made for the room 'Cave of memory' at Documenta X (1997).

A girl’s determination to follow her sports dreams makes her a college basketball star and the creator of the first ever women's sports newspaper section. Using personal narrative, still photography, and stop motion animation, Donna Carter’s 1997 short film Tomboy is an imaginative autobiographical account of an African-American tomboy’s journey to success and self-acceptance.

Edinburgh’s Beltane fire festival is the spectacular recreation of a pagan celebration. Crowds of thousands watch the procession around Calton Hill, in the heart of the city, held annually on the eve of May Day. I didn’t get enough material at the first attempt so I went back the following year when I was more competent with the camera and less shy. It is a simplified, partial record of the event, squeezed into a 6 minute impression. This reworking echoes the reimagination of the ancient ritual. The film is a reconstruction of a reconstruction.

Folded projection (projection on a flat surface) or unfolded (concave / convex surface). This film is projected normally on a screen inflated by the wind. The viewer can move to either side of the concave / convex screen. When we perceive two images, the mind creates relationships of one to the other. This film plays on this ability of the gaze to build links between elements placed side by side. Filmic elements accumulated for some time took shape, gradually by juxtaposition. Material: two 16mm projectors - curved screen five meters long.

Our homage to the stupid idea of God.

Acid abstraction.

A Collection of Interviews with members of the Heaven's Gate sect shorty before their mass suicide in 1997.

A comedic illustration of the trials and tribulations of love, friendship, adulthood, and fashion that face young hip lesbians in the '90s. The story centers chart the adventures of an eclectic group of friends who inherits a bed & breakfast from their recently deceased surrogate grandmother.

The poignant and personal account of Tenzing Sonam’s first-ever visit to his homeland, from the far reaches of Amdo Province, where Tibetans have lost their language, to Lhasa, the heart of the country.

A curious compilation of images with fast-paced and funny meditations on one Chinese mama.

A documentary about Vancouver's High Risk Society, a non-profit organization which operates as a drop-in centre for street active, transgender, and HIV positive persons. This engaging video is dedicated to the memory of the transgender people who have passed away since its inception.

Crush is the story of a man who wants to turn into an animal. He employs a variety of techniques to transform himself. He cuts off parts of his body. He exercises. He wants to return to the water to speed up evolution a little. Has he gone mad, or is he just tired of being human? As the narrator descends into his private obsessions, we begin to perceive the distorted outlines of reason that guide his journey. The trajectory he takes allows us to reflect upon the correlations between the body and identity, our culture’s obsession with the body beautiful and what it means to be human.

Through the use of spoken word, two distinct stories that begin in two different times and places move toward the same event where a sailor is murdered at sea. One story follows another man's quest to win over the affections of a fellow sailor. As a whole, the video tells the story of the sometimes turbulent relationship between masculine and feminine bodies.

Passion and desire between two women is given voice through the beat of a North Indian clay pot.

This star-studded movie explicits the popular Filipino saying, ""Papunta ka pa lang, pabalik na ako"". Eddie Garcia, Joko Diaz, Gloria Diaz, Jennifer Sevilla and Glydel Mercado complete the cast of this 1997 movie.

Now the whole family can squeal with laughter at this brand new show Twin Squeaks. If you're the sort of person who wants to know what happens when you get your head stuck in a giant pencil sharpener, what's the most respectful thing to do when your local librarian dies and what exactly has the camel got to do with it all anyway, 1) you should get out more and 2) you should Buy this video! Alongside classic Joe " I know a song that will...", here's your first chance to see the "Hypno-Club of Caractacus", the "Blade of Bubble-Onia" and the long lost "Ancient Chopper of Haemerroydia". Warning: If you understand every moment of this video, get professional help immediately! "The guy only has to open his mouth and I star laughing" Joe's dentist.

Amid an ugly divorce, a husband and wife must raise money for their gravely ill daughter.

Ms. Schumann embodies 4 women from late colonial Virginia, including a slave woman and a pregnant woman alone on the frontier who faces childbirth alone.

Created for the 1997 Johannesburg Biennale, this video comprises reconstituted sequences from home movies filmed by the artist's mother. The images are superimposed with subtitles that tell a life story through the eyes of the artist's grandmother.

When we encounter people from other societies or cultures, we may fail to understand them for many reasons, including differences in language, values, gestures, emotional expression, norms, rituals, rules, expectations, family background, and life experiences. This extraordinary documentary shows that cross-cultural communication can be successful if we manage to understand the powerful differences that separate people who come from differing cultures.

Over Memorial Day weekend in 1996, filmmaker, activist and camper Anne Chamberlain turned her camera on the holiday happenings at The Pit, a lake-side, LGBTQ campground in southern Illinois. With The Pit’s gregarious owner proprietors, Hal and Billy, as her guide, Chamberlain captures a moment in its decades-long history creating community one barbecue at a time.

Director Claire Pijman portrays her father Boy Pijman who was born in the Dutch East Indies. When his children ask, Boy Pijman tells his story that he had never spoken about before; his three years as a prisoner of war in Japanese Camp during the Second World War.

In this adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story, two grave-robbers enter an old cemetery on an island and break into one of the tombs. They steal a mysterious amulet, thus, activating a centuries old curse.

A TV with a mind of its own and a man determined to stop it. Nothing is at it seems as the plasticine starts to fly - just don't get too close to the screen. A fantastical clay animation treat. The jazzy score and trench-coat wearing protagonist in this claymation short promise film noir. But it soon becomes apparent that the room for rent has something more sinister lurking in it to explain its availability and lack of furnishing. When the supernatural being attacks the man and his oversized revolver, he has more to worry about than his brain rotting from too much TV.

The life and times of George Johnston, photographer and keeper of memories for the Tlingit nation.

Researcher Barbara Zahm gives a brief history of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion in which forty-three men died, and the college prison program which was initiated afterward. After interviews with prison inmates, "The Movement for College Programs of New York State Prisons After Attica" was formed. Zahm tells of her transformation after working with the inmates and her anguish over the Congressional decision to eliminate Pell Grants for prisoners, thus ending the program and leading to the "Last Graduation". As of 1997 funding cuts had not been restored.

The story of certain "wayfarers", whose origin is linked to each of the four elements. Lucas Belvaux (Triton) is a creature of the sea and does not know the use of his legs, while Ines De Medeiros (Syrène) has already been on land for some time and is starting to get used to the upright position. Lou Castel (Vent) comes from the air and in his wanderings comes across the group of Sirens and Sirens who have become terrestrial. He is a 15th century fresco painter who goes from place to place through the centuries for his work, destined not to die and to always ask.

About ecology, hypocrisy and transience.

"Louise Bourque's 'Imprint' focuses obsessively on home-movie images of her family's house, which seems gloomily oppressive, almost filling the frame; she repeats the images with various alterations - tinted, bleached, partly scraped away - as if attacking the place, turning its darkness into light." - Fred Camper, The Reader, Chicago, April 16 1999

Tom Hayes airdrops viewers into the universe of an occupied people, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging U.S. foreign policy and the conventions of documentary, People and The Land examines the concrete realities of Israel’s conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of U.S. support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the U.S.

Serenity lets you escape into the relaxing world of nature with spectacular scenery of crashing ocean surf, panoramic sunsets, blossoming flowers, cascading waterfalls, underwater wonderlands, rushing mountain streams and more! "Serenity's" deeply relaxing original musical soundtracks and the actual sounds of nature will transport you to your own personal paradise.

Jon Raymond’s 1997 piece Battles on the Astral Plane, a clever mocking of the popular Mortal Kombat video game that shows Raymond’s crafty, self-effacing wit that can still be found in his books and screenplays (Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Livability).

A real-time video-meets-digital animation trilogy of shorts featuring the highly excited (and mildly delusional) Joe Gibbons. Brilliant computer animation by collaborator Emily Breer provides an additional layer of biting commentary.

The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and skirts are put on the balcony for drying. The wind will carry everything away, just like the noise and music or the porn we watch with him later on TV (he prefers to look at western blonde women). What will happen when the young woman in her flat will have found out soon that he is looking at her (and listening to her) via the air-conditioning system?

Depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to “clear” the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of “Maya” while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans.

"We make memories in the journey and look for the evaporative emotions in the blurry memories. Facing the illusion of exotic language, GO-RAKU-EN deconstructs the estranged and complicated feelings of lovers and tries to reflect the essence of loneliness. Eventually, the reality of the sound restruct... Wu used images and sounds taken from the trip to create the experimental piece Go-raku-en (後樂園). "It is so simple and pure. ... It's just that when you don't care that much, it's purity," said Wu, who feels that any form of art is an expression of thinking and an extension of liberty and freedom."

This movie shows the traditions of Kosovar Albanians that live in highlands and also tells a love story of two young people, a boy who lives in a village and a girl who just comes back from the USA to her native homeland.

A man on the run takes refuge in the ruins of a besieged city. Helped by a group of children, he finds refuge in an empty room. The inhabitants of the building come to question him about his identity. He gives evasive answers and says his name is Elvis. Thanks to the help of Maya, a young girl who falls in love with him, the stranger's reprieve is prolonged until it is discovered that he is not who he says he is.

OVA based on The Game Paradise!