Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Direct animation short film.

This fantasy experimental short film was made for ‘The awakening of the spring’, a spectacle staged by Bruno Lajara presented at the Festival of Avignon. It was shot, edited and forged in beta SP ; then kinescoped into 16mm. This film has also been screened into a part of the decoration set of the theatre piece. "After the suicide of his best friend, one of the characters, Melchior, is haunted by the ghosts of his companions and his first love." This is a silent film, without any credits. During a screening, it is planned to accompany it live by the musicians of Debout sur le Zinc.

The filmmakers seek out experts and amateurs in the field of the supernatural and ask them to explain the methods by which they make contact with the "cosmic information web". In their search for "units of sense" in the chaos, the researchers use, interestingly enough, those techniques which are presently central to popular culture - de-construction, sampling and scratching.

Description of steel cap boots, which has become fashion among skinheads. About what happens when boot kicks on different body parts, the sound and the consequences are described. The first pair of Dr.Maertens in the UK was produced April 1, 1960, by R. Griggs Ltd. Klaus Märtens was a doctor in the German army during World War II. While on leave in 1945, he injured his ankle while skiing in the Bavarian Alps. He found that his standard-issue army boots were too uncomfortable on his injured foot.

Body in the past, the present and the future.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Richard Marquand's The Return of The Jedi

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blow Out

A retired game show baron and his estranged gay son spar over old family bitterness and popular culture while testing recipes for a book on the history of cocktails.

In the rainy day, a man and a woman talk about milk and coffee in the tunnel.

In Harro & Big Barra, lure fishing legend Rob Harrison takes viewers on travels into remote Arnhemland in pursuit of big barramundi. ‘Harro’ shares his fond knowledge of these finned icons, and puts you right into the picture to show you how to come to grips with those fish of a lifetime.

Fed up with her family's taste for human flesh, sixteen year old anabelle seeks her salvation in vegetables. But when the walker family chows down on the love of her life, Anabelle takes to the streets...

With a top speed of 100 mph, the hourly InterCity trains normally cover the 115 miles between the capital of East Anglia and London's Liverpool Street Station in well under 2 hours. One feature of note is the single line swing bridge built at the time of electrification to Norwich in 1987. It is one of only a handful of operational swing bridges in the world provided with overhead line equipment. Our InterCity express calls at Diss, Stowmarket and Ipswich. South of Ipswich, Anglia trains are joined by those of GER, and at Colchester by Clacton services - all squeezed onto just two tracks signalled for bi-directional working. Relief comes at Shenfield where the Southend lines provide an additional pair of tracks. With freight traffic to Felixstowe and Harwich a wide variety of trains rush past.

Feature film.

A 16 years old school girl, Shuming Xiao married to Mosuo minority's bandit chieftain La Baocheng in 1943. She had to leave her hometown - Chengdu, moved from a modern city to Lugu lake where the matrilineal society and the "Axia visiting marriage" system still exist. Lugu Lake is about 1000 miles far from Chengdu in remote mountain area. There are no lawfully registered marriage system or patriarchy clan relatives around the Lugu Lake, and Xiao lived here for about 54 years. During this long period, she never came back hometown.

The sound of a heartbeat pumps life into Linear Dreams, a scratch animation film that moves from the simple lines of the unconscious to representational realism.

A dark, futuristic tale of society's doomed near future.

A woman sits alone in a bare white tiled bath, reading Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye.’ The bizarre events described in the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room and its accoutrements become the stage and the woman the main player. As her dreams unfold in the liquid medium of the bath, she becomes the ‘eye’ of the story and her own body the object of its gaze. With a feminine hand, THE STORY OF I plucks Bataille’s central metaphor from its original context and re-invents its erotic vision from the inside out. The eye is the vagina, seen throught he blood, urine and tears, it looks at itself in a mirror.

Documentary following the 1995 tour of the "Circus without talent" Circus Redickuless

A young black man in an oppressive urban environment finds a new outlook by embracing his African roots.

This documentary depicts the life of several child street performers in a contemporary Chinese city. These children had been wandering the country as street performers for four years and are virtual "untouchables" to most Chinese. The camera follows them in their daily rounds through the streets, performing acrobatic tricks and begging. It captures their daily struggles for survival and their dream to return home and go to school, and looks at how these children face the challenges of a harsh environment with inner strength. Through this program we have a window on a little known aspect of Chinese society today and the realities facing so many of the world's children.

This documentary tells the fascinating story of one of China's newly rich entrepreneurs, Yang Daquan, of Pengzhou City in Sichuan. Mr. Yang came from a rich gentry family and was given away as an infant when his family disintegrated at the beginning of the socialist era. He grew up in the countryside as a poor peasant and came to the city in the late 70's as a construction worker. After years of struggle he now owns a construction material plant and an ice cream factory, and is a major investor in the local real estate market. The film searches for the drives behind his determination for economic success and links his personal story to the turbulent history of China in the past several decades.

Echo with Women's Voices Their Involvement in Political Movements examines the women's movement and women's political participation in Taiwan over the past thirty years.

Artist Robert Irwin presents his approach to art and its role in the world, and talks about his lifelong process of artistic search and discovery. Shows him at work on some of his installations in various locations.

The lives of four strangers intersect in autumnal Berlin.

Short documentary

In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Brian Nash has created a tapestry of style and content as he reveals the essence of the late Canadian poet bpNichol, author of over 300 publications including books of poetry and fiction, sound recordings, television scripts, libretti and comic strips.

A short film of Emily Dickinson’s poem number 1734, which begins with: “Oh, honey of an hour”. The words of the poem appear hand painted onto the film frames.

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Story of St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and the challenge to treat patients with limited finance. The documentary enters the world of financial administrators, doctors and nurses as they plan to save money. The hospital is faced with reducing the number of operations, closing wards and justifying every expenditure.

A 28 minute minicourse covering the basics of personal self defense conducted by former world middleweight boxing champion Dave Tiberi. The production is the same instructional course Tiberi has been teaching to recruits of the Delaware State Police and other police and security agencies for the past ten years. This video is an excellent training tool not only for law enforcement and security personel but also for women and youngsters. The professionally produced and easy to follow instruction covers the basics of defensive stances, blocking a punch, making a proper fist, counter-punching and other topics.

Bells really turns it on for this new and unique surfing content, modelled on the Golf Skins Competitions, gathering together the very best surfers from around the world to match themselves against the biggest and bet waves that Bells can throw at them. This limited edition video captures the incredible tactics and skill that it takes to be among the world's greatest surfers. $5000 per wave... Big money... Best man wins... Take no prisoners!... This is as good as it gets!

Experience the roller coaster 1997 World Rally Championship in this action-packed review of all 14 incredible rounds. Car-mounted cameras, onboard footage and fascinating interviews put you at the heart of the drama in a down-to-the-wire title battle between some of the greatest rally drivers ever. The opening rounds were dominated by the new-look Subaru Impreza, with Britain's Colin McRae securing his first victory of '97 in the heat of the Safari Rally. Reigning World Champion Tommi Makinen was soon in contention in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV, and Spain's Carlos Sainz overcame early season reliability problems in the Ford Escort to join the title battle. Throughout the season, the likes of Juha Kankkunen, Kenneth Eriksson, Britain's Richard Burns and Piero Liatti couldn't be discounted.

Bizarre and unspeakable events begin unfolding at Yorktown, North Dakota Vo-Tech, where cheerleading coach Rebecca and new biology teacher Alex Sharpe "join forces" to face the evil. A pitch-forked farmer and a doom-saying Elvis foretell the outlandish horror to come when classrooms turn to bloody battlegrounds pitting teacher against pupil, leading our two valiant heroes on a hilarious, nightmarish adventure to discover the terrifying truth behind the carnage, madness and devilishly sexy goings-on.

A writer's creations come alive as he struggles with an old tale.

A film by A K Dolven

my I's is a visual journey through time, space, and memories of the filmmaker from her childhood to the present. Not parting with her Super 8 camera for four years, she accumulated a variety of images from different parts of the world and from different times of the year. She then combined these images with home movie footage of herself and her mother.

Made with Washington DC's notorious gospel-punk outfit The Make-Up. The musicians seek "creative asylum" in a subcultural womb. This road movie is, in the words of a Parisian critic, "comme si Foucault roulait avec les situationistes dans le Scooby-Doo Van". It is both a lyrical document of a time and space(s) which no longer exist as well as a record of one of the most kick-ass bands on earth.

"Across" is about the sometimes difficult journey from one psychic space to another. From a place in the abusive past, to a place called survival." - Liz Czach. Made at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm, 1997.

This DVD contains a documentary about the First World War. The documentary covers the entire war, including some background as to the state of Europe prior to 1914, the start and course of the war, the Russian Revolution and the aftermath. It comprises entirely black and white archival footage from the era, plus some animated maps used to illustrate the Schlieffen Plan.

Flat Black Films’ rotoscoping software was originally developed for an MTV contest. It is 34 animated interviews with random people encountered in NY’s Washington Square Park.

One of those wars between France and Germany. Two Lady soldiers, one German, one French, are lost in the woods. An encounter is inevitable.

For those who find listing and repetition romantic. A near perfect structure. Three acts, an auditory red herring and classic love story.

In the backlands of Bahia, at the end of the 19th century, hundreds of families went to the Santo de Belo Monte settlement in Canudos, drawn by the promises of Antônio Conselheiro. The film addresses the War of Canudos, when soldiers and generals joined forces to destroy the city he founded.

Film from Christine Laurent

Set in the industrial suburbs of Beirut, Majnounak explores male sexuality through interviews with men who recount one of their sexual relationships. Attentive to details of body and sexual language, songs, indications of each interlocutor’s erotic imaginary, the film tries to sketch a portrait of the ”male” they identify with. Patterns emerge, as do norms, but also an unsuspected map of Beirut’s sites of sexual encounters.

Journalist Fatima Jebli Ouazzani wonders whether she made the right decision in rejecting traditional Moroccan marriage.

America's desire for freedom and the open road resulted in the construction of thousands of highways during the Eisenhower administration. Through interviews, archival footage and photography, America's interstate highway system is revealed to have shaped every aspect of American life and affected the nation's history for better and for worse

In this special, writer Michael Wolfe documents his trip to Islam's holiest shrine for "ABC News Nightline."

An examination of the dangers posed by potential comet and asteroid impacts with the Earth, as well as the future plans to research and exploit these celestial bodies.