Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

A look into the perspectives of Hungary's post-1990 'new rich,' following the lives and motives of two busy entrepreneurs.

Simple words and glowing faces depict the story of three women social workers who triumph over personal loss and tragedy to empower themselves and other women in need, in the face of complex discriminatory mechanisms in Madhya Pradesh in India.

Exploring the rice markets of South India from a socio-economic perspective

Ashgari Bai is one of the oldest exponents alive of the dying art of Drupad, the most orthodox form of Hindustani Classical music. The story about the only woman to have espoused this austere and invocative form of music and she has been conferred national awards including the Padmashree. Ironically however, she remains a curiously anonymous and lonely figure today, battling against insurmountable odds in a small town of Madya Pradesh in India. Showcasing her wit, her forthrightness, her charm and her indomitability, this documentary is a portrait of a precious gem of India who insists on living life on her own terms.

Johnathan Watson live

Preview of Disney's One Saturday Morning

A soum elephant with many daughters dreamed of having a son, and became close to a neighbor's family with only sons.

The first documentary film ever made about psytrance. It tells the story of “Drugless Festival”, better remembered in Israel as “Huga Festival” that took place in Ganey Huga, a water park in the North of Israel, for 3 days, back in the summer of 1997.

Based on the life of the Lima crier Don Leónidas Gonzales in charge of the production of the traditional Revolución Caliente crispy cookie. He says that with a kerosene lamp in his hand at six in the afternoon he toured the squares of Miraflores, Magdalena and Barranco, shouting in a singsong voice: “Revolución Caliente, music for the teeth; sugar, cloves and cinnamon, to grind the teeth. perhaps he is the last vestige of a tradition.

A series of images with commentary by Zoë Lund

Their son had disappeared on the front two years ago. When he finally calls them at home, they want to forget the suffering of the past. It is an allegory about the human need for past, present, and future.

A strange series of cinematic doubts.

The main character of the story is 12 year-old Denis, a fan of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a faithful admirer of his films. The summer holidays begin. Most of Denis’s plans for the summer fall through. He regularly goes to the movies, gets together with friends who have remained in town, and unenthusiastically, but nonetheless, takes cake of his dog Arnie when his mother, a television journalist, is too busy. Taking his dog for a walk one evening, Denis witnesses the loading of harmful substances at a local chemical plant. A series of slightly unusual circumstances, holidays with boy scouts, a new friend - private detective Emil, his mother’s environmental contributions in TV shows and a longing for adventure lead Denis to follow the perpetrators, who unload the wastes in a national park. Denis’s adventures end happily for him and for all his family members, while the criminals are punished - as they should be.

In this work the experience of driving a night is abstracted as colorful and energetic bursts and patterns of light in three dimensional darkness. The work was create using 35mm film stock by painting on clear emulsion with markers and paints, and also by painting onto black emulsion with diffrent dilutions of nitric acid. The original sound score is by Bill Haslett.

Even more snack bar and concession stand intermissions mixed with clock countdowns, local ads and coming attraction cards from the 1950s, 60s & 70s just the way you like them! We’re serving up B-B-Q beef, delicious pizza, popcorn, sno-cones - the works!

During the 1996/97 protests in Serbia a group of 200 students walked from Novi Sad to Belgrade to support students and citizens of the capital. A photobook by the same name, with photos from the same protests was published in 2016.

A Marxist/feminist critique of capitalism and consumerism.

Today Shunde is a short documentary about the economic development of Shunde—a tiny and famous city in Pearl River Delta, China. Although to some extent it is official propaganda by CCTV, it has contained some rare and old footages about Shunde in the 1990s. It is worth mentioning that the former Estonian president and documentary filmmaker Lennart Georg Meri visited Shunde and this footage has been used in this short documentary too.

Ion Garnica is a Spanish dancer from the William Forsythe ballets. Naked, he dances at my house, for my camera and me. So it's not a typical dance film, it's more about a symbiosis between the movements of the camera and those of the dancer.

Ion Garnica, sweating after dancing, goes to take a shower.

Ghali is disabled and confined to a wheelchair. He studied in France where he also found love, Christine. On their return to Morocco, Ghali comes up against the difficulties of his handicap. In his situation, it is impossible to find a job, whilst Christine finds a job. Ghali decides to write his memories of childhood.

The film is based on live show of the band in Minsk, Belarus in 1994 and shooting at DDD Studios in St. Petersburg in 1997

A documentary on the photographer Jan Saudek

Imagine growing up knowing you were different, not quite knowing why and feeling like you were the only person in the world like you. Meet Angela, David, Heidi, Tom, Mani, Cheryl, Max and Hida as they tell their stories of growing up intersexed. Share their joy at finally meeting other people who are intersexed. Be amazed as you witness intersex people speaking out for the first time in their lives!

The mirror in a ladies' restroom becomes the focal point for a Turkish-German wedding.

Men, seen from afar, driven by the dynamics of work. The machine is no longer an extension of the bodies, of their strength. Man is now driven by the machine. The alienation of humanity is accomplished.

Ichiro Karikura is the second generation of a prestigious pharmaceutical company. On his father's deathbed, he is informed that he is a descendant of the "Emperor Caligula"...

In this video, you will learn that being seduced into a cult is easy and the steps you need to take before it is to late.

The very first film in which Maya Yonesho tried to show her thoughts. Even just circles may be able to show emotions as a person in animation. The main circle (character) is slightly pinker than the other grey circles (people) and she thought she was very special. But she is very grey in a colourful world. She will find out that grey is not just a boring colour.

The entertainment giant has turned its back on traditional values and sold its soul to the dark side. What price will society pay for Disney's dirty profits?

In this stop-motion made in the chiaroscuro style of German Expressionism, a poor man sells his face to a pawnshop for a penny, hoping to use it to buy a single lottery ticket.

A story about the everyday life of five lonely friends filmed in an ironically grim documentary manner. Each of them has their own separate world of loneliness, but when they are together, they complement the company with their individual quirks. Having the same friends, they don't feel alone.

The rough voices of men (from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Accatone ) open the film soundtrack, they banter in Italian about taking flowers to the cemetery. Filmed in Granada and Seville during Holy Week. The soundtrack mixes a cacophony of the music of the marching bands recorded live on location, the ambience of the crowds and the sung laments. The centre piece is The Silence, a totemic hyper realist effigy from the 17th century which processes at midnight in total silence along the streets where the lighting has been turned off. After it passes, we cross over into the light and noise of a new day – where people throng the streets, sit in cafes and enjoy life. Popular devotion is expressed in death intertwined with the applause for life in the energy of the Baroque.

To ancient Egyptians, crocodiles of the Nile were river gods. In modern times, a young female takes risks to mate with the biggest male in the group.

Super Mario Kart Perfect Video

The hero of this play, Liane Jokkemöller, runs a Cologne travel agency that specialises in adventure travels: her desk is sitting on elephant legs, the walls are papered with zebra stripes. The dernier cri are weekend safaris to Africa, including a photo-op with Tarzan and Jane. Gerhard and Christel Pfuscher, sexshop-owners from Bergheim, splash out and spend a small fortune on it. But then there is word of the jungle heroes getting run over by a herd of elephants, and the travel agency owner is in a fix. With her husband Harald, zookeeper in the monkey house, she travels to Africa to don the leopard fur herself for once. But at first, Liane must help Harald in return by riding the killer whale in the zoo’s aquarium. Finally, in the jungle, things are going crazy. Starzahn has to decide between two women, for cleaning lady Eloise Pütz is also in on it. A haunting of the jungle ghost, a frenzy of the instincts.

Froglight is a film about having faith in the unknown

Árni Egilsson is considered to be among the finest double bass players in the world. Jón Páll a guitarist and a natural born talent. Skúli Sverrisson, an electric bass player, who at the age of 30 has gained recognition as one of New York's finerst young talents. This creative documentary in three parts is shot on location in California and New York. Fine cinematography an those three strong individuals result in a unique and entertaining television program.

Five Icelandic boys formed a jazz-rock and fusion band called Mezzoforte. Soon they made their hit single "Garden Party" and ahead were days of adventures, travelling and big city lights.

One morning, Papa transforms into a giant insect in the futon, emerges instantly in front of the astonished family, breaks through the window and flies into the sky. Short animation by Keita Kurosaka for MTV Japan.

One of four computer animated short films in the series Open Mike Night. An amateur poetry-reading night at an out-of-the-way hotel features a hip young dude who pays tribute to a perceived admirer.

A jack-in-the-box comes to life, leaves his box and dances around. He accidentally strikes another toy, a drinking bird, and breaks it. He then finds himself trapped back in his box, filled with anguish at what he has done. But was it all a dream?

One of four computer animated short films in the series Open Mike Night. An amateur poetry-reading night at an out-of-the-way hotel features a big-haired woman's grown-up version of the classic children's verse Jack and Jill.

Jimmy Neutron Prototype 2

A bouncy music-video burlesque shot in and around Santiago, Chile, entwines reminders of U.S. corporate presence and of past political terror, with national and international musical strains. Chile, at the southernmost end of South America, was in 1997 on the fast track to admission into the economic alliance known as the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Chile was enjoying its reputation abroad as a free-market success — a reputation promulgated by those who aided or supported the fascist coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, which had violently overthrown the elected government and led to the deaths of the President, Salvador Allende, and thousands of others, and the exile of tens of thousands of political refugees.

Three children play football near the fence of the national army barracks. A bad thing happens - the ball flies over the fence. To retrieve the ball, the children seek help from the men of the "Emergency Brigade". Soon their car is there. The children explain what happened. The guard thinks that the flagged "Emergency Brigade" car belongs to a diplomatic mission, but as Bembelat is about to enter through the barracks gate, the guard is startled and sounds the alarm. The underground passage is ready and the men of the "Emergency Brigade" disappear into it one by one. Things get crazy in the barracks training area...

Stop motion disco crime-drama crossed with a commercial for a fictional beer.

The story of a clown who had everything (women, money, power, ruby-studded clown noses), then lost it all.