Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

A drug dealer is dissatisfied with his life.

Documents the creation of an artificial white rose using original Victorian tools and techniques.

How do animals communicate? You'll discover the answer in this amazing new program. Witness rare footage of baby cubs uttering their very first words. A truly remarkable show that will entertain and enlighten people of all ages!

Animal rights documentary

Origin And Deposition arise from a fragment from the musical work The Cenci, an adaptation of the text by Antonin Artaud by the composer Giorgio Battistelli created in collaboration with Studio Azzurro, presented at the Almeida Theater in London in 1997.

A video by Bianco-Valente

The pop opera "Eugene Onegin" is an attempt by the authors to "kill two birds with one stone" - A.S. Pushkin and P.I. Tchaikovsky, making their works accessible to the widest audience.

The first part of a Magritte portrait, mainly compiled from fragments of staged enactments of situations, which Magritte recorded with, among others, Georgette Magritte, Paul Colinet, Irène Hamoir and Scutenaire, playfully described by the latter as "une histoire érotico-fantastico-iconoclaste".

Computer animation whereby a pencil plays noughts and crosses with itself.

MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation and music.

ONCE UPON A TIME, a jealous little elf named Yool felt neglected, lonely, and positively enraged. It was Christmas Eve and he knew Santa was away cavorting in other people's living rooms. The thought of Santa engorging himself on countless helpings of fatty milk and gooey cookies sent him into a rage, plus Yool knew all about Santa's secret kisses. Yool began smashing everything in sight, including his little elf friends with their upturned noses. A trusty hammer goes a long way on a lonely Christmas night.

The Sarah Balabagan Story is a 1997 Philippine biopic directed by Joel Lamangan. The film stars Vina Morales as Sarah Balabagan, an OFW who was sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates for killing her employer who was attempting to rape her.

A short film directed by Paul Debevec made in the spring of 1997 that used image-based modeling and rendering techniques from his Ph.D. thesis to create photorealistic virtual cinematography of the UC Berkeley campus. It presented a landmark new approach to generating realistic computer graphics.

Revisit the killer puppets and paranormal researchers, whose brain fluid they craved, with in-depth BTS footage and commentary from the cast and crew.

"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one of the actors from The Way Steel Was Tempered, hear of Ella Fitzgerald's unexpected death. Jovica is desperate; he plays the piano all night long and cries. His wife threatens him saying that she will throw him out of the house unless he gets rid of the piano.

After the great flood that hit Poland in 1997, Natalia LL referred to this fact through her performance on the bottom of a dried-up reservoir on the Bystrzyca River. “Menego” is a title taken from the prose of the Polish poet Cyprian Kamil Norwid and refers ambiguously to drowning in water as well as drowning in the banality of everyday life. The artist sees art as a safeguard against spiritual drowning.

In August 1997, British rock band Blur launched what is probably the most astonishing and exotic rock'n'roll tour of all times, called Next Stop North Pole. They where to play for Nordic nations not at all used to concerts by the most popular band of that time. See Iceland, The Faroe Islands and Greenland through the eyes of Blur.

A story of a transvestite in Los Angeles.

A breathtakingly beautiful valley between three glaciers, one of them Eyjafjallajökull. It may well have been the inspiration to Tolkien as he visited. Iceland before he started drawing the outlines of the famous Ring Trilogy. Thorsmork can only be reached with difficulty, hidden away between glaciers and trecherous rivers, but is still one of the most popular places in the country to visit. The film about Thorsmörk shows it’s beauty and lure. From bird’s eye view you will experience an overall impression of a magical landscape; where the deep green of lush plants meets the blackness of the wide sands lined with silvery bands of untamed rivers flowing through it. And right above rise magnificent glacier covered mountains. Thorsmörk’s flora, fauna and geography is explained by a narrator, guiding the viewer through the magical landscape of one of nature’s unforgetteble beauty spots.

A documentary of taiwanese writer Yang Kui.

Squeezils are woodland creatures that are part flying squirrel and part weasel. In the peaceful valley in which they live, they eat nuts and regurgitate golden nuggets. When the Great Shuddering Nut appeared many years ago, it told the Squeezils to collect as many of the golden rocks as they could in preparation for the Nut's return, and they would be rewarded with amazing treasures. When the Nut returned at last, Fred the pilot finds that one Squeezil has even more valuable items to offer.

A season review of Newcastle United 1996 - 1997.

A film about teenage drug use and its consequences.

A 12 years old girl is playing with her friends outside her home with the remote controlled car of her brother. The car ends up in the neighbouring garden were the neighbour grabs it and drives away with it. There starts the dangerous chase for the lost car.

Angel (Jestoni) is hired by Cong. Savedra (Bob) as the bodyguard of his lover Gigi (Mikee). Soon, Savedra earns the suspicion that Gigi is in love with Angel. When he accidentally kills Gigi, he decides to frame up Angel as the killer.

Peter Combe: Little Groover

Legendary black metal band Dissection filmed at Live Music Hall in Cologne, Germany on the 31st of March, 1997 during "The Gods of Darkness" tour.

See how some of the special effects in Star Wars became even more special two decades later! George Lucas explain and demonstrates how his team transformed the original dewback creatures from immovable rubber puppets (in the original 1977 release) to seemingly living, breathing creatures for the Star Wars 1997 Special Edition update.

"Speedies this year was almost too good to be true. We thought we'd seen it all but until this year we'd seen nothing. You can never underestimate the Mecca." Paul Sargeant, Tracks. "The waves were outrageously perfect and were graced with some of the mnost mind-blowing tube threading I have ever witnessed at close quarters." Tim Baker, Surfer. 'What we saw over the last 10 days is as good as it gets, I don't care what anyone says. It takes good waves to be able to perform and show people how rad this sport is." Luke Egan, Victory Speech, Quiksilver Pro 1997.

A film by Jim Jennings

A twisted look at mother's love in 4 chapters: "Raising a Child", "Children Grow Fast', "Two Adults" and "Young Mother, Old Child"

With the help of a journalist, a honest district collector fights political corruption.

When the ambitious dream of a guy from the province about an acting career collides with a cruel reality, most often there is a drama or tragedy. The plot of the film is based on the traditional conflict for the Russian provincial theater: everyone dreams of the role of Hamlet. But if a person is a comedian by nature? What kind of play will the dramaturgy of life push him into? In the credits, the film is designated as "a tragicomedy from the life of artists."

A twisted look at mother's love in 4 chapters: "Raising a Child", "Children Grow Fast', "Two Adults" and "Young Mother, Old Child"

With the help of a journalist, a honest district collector fights political corruption.

When the ambitious dream of a guy from the province about an acting career collides with a cruel reality, most often there is a drama or tragedy. The plot of the film is based on the traditional conflict for the Russian provincial theater: everyone dreams of the role of Hamlet. But if a person is a comedian by nature? What kind of play will the dramaturgy of life push him into? In the credits, the film is designated as "a tragicomedy from the life of artists."

Abraham is considered by both Jews and Arabs as their ancestor. Despite this common ancestry, Israelis and Palestinians keep tearing each other apart. In this second part of his investigation, Abraham Segal questions the sacrifice of Isaac. What do history, archaeology, textual criticism, psychoanalysis... tell us about the father of the three great monotheistic religions? And to what extent can they contribute to an analysis of the current problems of the Middle East?

All of their videos up to the Lets Face It era

Woman on the beach: With Ynez Veneracion, Sabrina M., Orestes Ojeda, Gina Pareño.

A story about love, jealousy and obsession. Guzman is the boyfriend who believes that the best way to keep his woman's love is to make her jealous.

Bastardo: Directed by Pepe Marcos. With Ian Veneracion, Ina Raymundo, Raymond Bagatsing, Mark Gil.

Akin ang paghihiganti: Directed by Noli Salvador. With Flor Cristobal, Charlie Davao, Dan Fernandez, Dick Morado.

This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant. Beautifully shot, it references as well as recreates a trajectory of images of women throughout history. Moving from the slow, thoughtful effect of allegorical painting to the fast paced impact of MTV, Yoni plays with the structures of stylization, narrative and montage. There is a poetic and lyrical feel to this film's investigation of representing the feminine and it manages to explore both the chains that bind as well as the threads that connect women --across time, culture and history.

A lonely postman becomes obsessed with letters sent by a woman to her boyfriend. After receiving a mysterious postcard, his daily life is completely changed.

Sakura's last live that happened on hyde's birthday at Nippon Budoukan (1997.01.29) in Tokyo as part of their Carnival of True tour.

A highly charged and smart experimental narrative that explores the relationship between sexuality, gender, and the public sphere. Waiting for a train to an unknown destination are two couples: one lesbian, one straight. As they move through the public and semi-public spaces of the train station - lobbies, stairwells, bathroom stalls - the couples and individuals exchange a series of glances (some overt, some furtive) that implicate one another in a web of desire, power, fear, homophobia, and heterosexism.

A campy spoof on various traditions of erotic representations, from contemporary commercial porn to Warhol's understated underground 16mm films, to lesbian wood nymphs. Also featured in a hilarious recurring infomercial segment is Mary Faké, promoting her special line of products for those interested in creating successful "sexual illusions."

A mock promotional film unveiling the Cybracero Program, an effort that will allow Mexican laborers to tele-commute to agricultural work in the US without leaving their homes in Mexico.

A short documentary on Australian rave culture.