Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

New girl in town finds her butch biker top.

A theater directed by Dariush Moadabian

More than a century ago, large scale gold mining was begun at Kolar Gold Field, Mysore. At its peak, the mines employed 36,000 workers who braved the dangerous labour and built a new life in the mining camp. Today, many third and fourth generation gold miners face the threat of not just unemployment but displacement from the area they have made their own. This film is a tribute to the "labouring lions" of Kolar Gold Field, a historical reconstruction of their work, culture and rich political traditions.

Documentary about a religious area in Yunnan and the delicate relationship between the local Party branch and the Christian church.

Chicagoans of all stripes share their stories from a time when the city served as a major war production center and a hub for soldiers on their way to and from battle. Candid interviews, personal snapshots, and archival films bring to life their stories of love, service, and survival.

A steam train’s journey during the dying days of steam travel in India

Marubhumi is about the story of water in Rajasthan, India and offers glimpses of history, policies and the development of water harvesting in ancient and modern Jodhpur.

Understanding issues related to child development in South Asia

Rural women’s successful movement in Andhrapradesh to force the state to declare prohibition of alcohol

The life of Lalon Fakir, the mysterious bard.

Seethalakshmi was born in an uprooted tribal family, now settled on the banks of a river in North Kerala, India. She grew up adhering to the traditionally well-defined roles of a girl child in the society that gave prominence to male children. About three years back, she discovered a strange transformation she had been undergoing. Her sexuality was in an ambiguous flux, and she was slowly becoming a male child. Later the feminine self in her slowly vanished and she was 're-born' a male child, now re-christened Sreedharan. With the transforming sexuality and gender relationship he had a re-defined role in his family and society.

The film narrates the incredibly moving story of the anti-arrack (state-supplied distilled liquor) movement that led to the eventual ban of arrack sales in Andhra Pradesh in 1995.

Life and struggles of the young waste pickers in Kathmandu

This video takes an exclusive behind the scenes look at the making of this unique film.

Rammstein performs Live at Hultsfred Festival in Sweden 1997. Setlist includes "Rammstein" "Der Meister" "Tier" "Engel"

Four friends struggle over a friend's death in an isolated fishing town in Alaska.

It shows how the Chinese nationalistic landowners made evil plots with the intention of inheriting Manchu's imperial rights to Mongolia, and how the people of Darganga entered the path of freedom and happiness as a result of the victory of the people's revolution.

Computer animated short film.

In 1884, Sarah Winchester moved out west and purchased an eight-room farmhouse in San Jose, California. And for 38 years, 24 hours a day, craftsmen, artisans and woodworkers were kept busy building (and rebuilding) the most mysterious mansion ever created. Just why did one of the wealthiest women in the United States spend so much time and over five and a half million dollars on her home? Watch this amazing video! You'll be intrigued by the incredible details of Sarah's architectural fantasy, and learn the secrets of this "beautiful but bizarre" 160 room Victorian Mansion. Not only will you see the exquisite master craftsmanship and the beautiful original Tiffany art glass windows, but also the stairways vanishing in mid-flight, doors that swing open to expose... nothing and stair steps each a mere two inches tall!

The very first deepfake film. Video Rewrite program, published in 1997 modified existing video footage of a person speaking to depict that person mouthing the words contained in a different audio track. It was the first system to fully automate this kind of facial reanimation, and it did so using machine learning techniques to make connections between the sounds produced by a video's subject and the shape of the subject's face.

In the last few years, thousands of Hispanic people have moved to rural Arkansas, all with the hope of finding jobs and creating better lives for their families. This documentary puts a face on Hispanic immigration in Arkansas. Taped in the communities of Rogers, Springdale, De Queen and Wickes, this documentary centers on the experiences of four families; one of them well-established and the other three just starting out in Arkansas. The AETN crew spent almost a year filming in these communities, shooting more than 20 hours of interviews with families of immigrants, native Arkansans, and city officials. Una Vida Mejor recounts the obstacles these Hispanic families have overcome and their hopes for the future in America.

After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked on a new and more subversive endeavor: a collaboration with Scott Arford called Fuck TV. Whereas The Pain Factory predominantly revolved around experimental music performances, Fuck TV was a comprehensive and experiential audio-visual presentation. This is part one in a ten part series.

Classic Israeli children's songs covered by Yael Bar Zohar, presented by a comedic pair of radio hosts who constantly bicker.

Director al-Beik's first film, shot in Damascus in 1995 at a flour mill next to his mother’s house.

One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a Tsimpsean wood carver decides to create a totem pole in his son's memory and invites the town of Craig, Alaska to help. Before he is done, the pole becomes a communal project, bringing people of diverse backgrounds and ages together.

Listen up, students! It’s time for another round of those watch-your-ass short subjects that you only thought were good and gone. Pay attention to this sixth volume of Classroom Scare Films and you just might learn something!

Japanese horror movie from 1997.

The Zambouley brothers are having a bad day, a bad hair-hook in hell kinda day. Weenie Cornutti, a slick, scum of the earth type gangster from way back in the day, stole a particular necklace created by one young artist who went by the name of Leonardo DaVinci, problem for our lads was, that this particular necklace had been created using some very dark mojo indeed.

Short film by Robert Todd.

A man has an insatiable desire for slow-cooked meat and sweet women.

A woman picks up a voodoo doll at a local yard sale and brings it home during a family get-together. What they don't realize is the voodoo doll is a demonic force, hellbent on killing anything in its path. By way of pitchforks, hammers, car explosions, and just being disintegrated into thin air... the family find themselves dying one by one....

R.E. Lee’s last offensive against the Union army around Petersburg is recreated in “The Assault on Fort Stedman.” Confederate General John B. Gordon’s elaborate plan to capture a portion of the Union siege lines is explored, including the making of white strips of cloth, used to identify Confederate assault teams during the night attack. Elaborate earthworks, including chevaux de frise, and a water-filled moat bring the action of the assault to life, as the breach succeeds beyond Gordon’s “most sanguine expectations.” But the follow-up formations fail to materialize, and the Union counter-attack in the morning recaptures the fort and two nearby artillery batteries. Union commander John Parke’s quick reaction restores the Union siege lines, virtually sealing the fate of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

Hailed at “The Biggest and Best” by Civil War News…a monumental gathering of the largest army of reenactors and spectators ever assembled came together near Hagerstown, Maryland, to commemorate the 135th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. The story is told by the people who made it happen, from the transformation of the Artz farm to the Preservation March, a Civil War wedding and Dr. Pierre’s Medicine Show. You’ll sit around the campfire with your “pards” and then plunge into the foggy mist of The Cornfield with the Iron Brigade and Hood’s Texans—assault the Bloody Lane with the Irish Brigade—and hold off Burnside’s relentless columns with A.P. Hill’s Light Division.

Let's learn about the bus!

The violence of Religion revealed from the unconscious of writing. The process of “cognitive dissonance” is the background to a disturbing confrontation between religious feelings and man’s longing for Art.

A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go? In the countryside on a sunny day a family group repeatedly walk towards the camera. The ‘home movie’ is looped and the footage is digitally manipulated so that each time they pass, the family members steadily disappear, the landscape also appearing to 'withdraw'.

A short film by Coffin Souza

This award-winning film chronicles the political events and human tragedy surrounding the 1991 military coup d état in Haiti and the bloody dictatorship that followed. It presents a searing indictment not only of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency s role in the turmoil, but also that of the powerful and reclusive Haitian bourgeoisie. Unlike the mainstream media, REZISTANS does not portray the Haitian people as helpless victims. It focuses instead on their creative and courageous resistance, and the deep roots of that resistance in Haitian history and culture.

The colors of the rainbow spill out across the screen as classical music keeps the mind working in this educational video designed to introduce babies and toddlers to the exciting world of color.

Documentary film.

A documentary about Graeme Campbel MP, an Australian federal member of Parliament.

Looking for clues about the “Chaplin of Theresienstadt”, ghetto cabaret artist Karel Švenk, Schönemann meets his acquaintances and creates an intergenerational network of memory. Laughter was a form of defence. Resistance means commemoration.

01. Celine Dion - The Power Of Love 02. Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely 03. Michael Buble - Fever 04. Jane Monheit & J. Pizzarelli - They Can't Take That Away From Me 05. Heart - Alone 06. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence 07. A.Bocelli & S.Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye 08. Sting - Englishman in New York 09. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Stay Or Leave 10. Eagles - Hotel California 11. Robbie Williams - Mack The Knife 12. Diana Krall - The Boy From Ipanema 13. Legends Of Jazz - The Panther 14. Bon Jovi - Living On A Prayer 15. U 2 - Stuck In A Moment You 16. The Police - Every breath You Take 17. Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 18. Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day 19. Pink - Please Don't Leave Me 20. Beyonce - Single Ladies 21. Michael Bolton - How Can We Be Lovers 22. Phil Collins - True Colours 23. Gloriana - Wild At Heart

Documentary filmmaker Joanna Lipper sat down with a dozen children from America, Ireland and England and let them interpret the world in this look at the internal life of children, sharing their dreams, wishes and hopes.

Short film directed by Hernán Sáez and starring Paulo Soria from FARSA Producciones.

Mamlambo is the goddess of rivers in Zulu mythology. In this tragic love story, a homeless boy in Johannesburg falls in love with a Chinese prostitute and must face up to her tyrannical father.

A music film story full of art lending and landscapes of the entire Montenegro filmed from the land, from the air, from the water and underwater, synchronized with purposely made instrumental ambient music. Montenegro is depicted through all four seasons and different times of day.

An episode from L'oeil du Cyclone, an alternative art program devoted to visual or sonorous curiosities, portraits of artists, artistic movements, but also various rarities, international archives, auteur and documentary films, musical montages, miscellaneous compilations, etc. to new images and taking the form of reports and psychedelic clips, fed images of the most diverse origins, sometimes in synthetic images.

Out of numberless stories we come across in Buddhist Literature, the life story of patachara is so grief stricken and pitible that it could be classified as a beat one's breast type of sagas. The story of Misinona also could be classed as that of a modern Patachara, who has undergone all possible lamentations torments malevolence and mournful miseries in life.

Actress audition.

"Nanjung Ilgi" (Nanjung Ilgi, Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin, Admiral's Diary) is a 1997 animated film directed by Byun Kang-moon, produced in South Korea.