Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Sisters Jaya and Vijaya decide to take revenge on Dhanumjayam, the person responsible for their father's death. They marry Dhanumjayam's sons, Gopala and Janaki, in order to punish their father.

An energetic visual world that is just like riding a roller coaster in circles while taking in the scenery. As the camera pans around from an excellent vantage point, taking in objects like garbage bins in the park and power line towers, it zooms in with a violent enthusiasm. A second sense of motion is added with a further 360 degree rotation in that area. A road sign walks across a pedestrian crossing ― the humor is also fun.

In the event of Amnesia the city will recall... explores the relationship between the individual and the metropolis. These works are not structured events for a traditional audience, they are questions proposed to the site. Open actions which rely on the surrounding dynamics to embellish them. The city as audience, collaborator and performer is emphasised in this piece.

Ramakrishnan (Sathyaraj) has two wives. Sivagami (Ambika), his first wife, is sterile while Parvathi (Kovai Sarala), his second wife, has a daughter, Indhu (Ravali). Indhu falls in love with, Ramakrishnan's nephew, Subramani (Sathyaraj).

One of Ortiz’s final computer-laser-videos, marking a significant point in his career as an interdisciplinary artist and pioneer of the Destructivism movement.—Yesenia Perez

From the Bagdad School (14th century) to the Qadjar School (19th century), Persian painting has always preserved an extraordinary vitality. Court art essentially involving book illustrations, it had its schools, its royal ateliers, its secret techniques, its great masters. The focus of this film is one of the finest work from the department of oriental manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a collection of Five Poems (Khamse) by the great 12th century Persian poet Nezâmi. The examination of papermaking techniques, make-up, calligraphy, drawing and painting affords an opportunity to discover a fascinating civilization

Dedicated to one of the major paintings by Auguste Renoir, created in 1876, this documentary combines a meticulous analysis of the artwork with engravings and photographs showing the true “face” of Montmartre Hill at the end of the 19th century.

Blue period, blue traces, blue sponges... Yves Klein deserved his nickname of "Yves the monochrome". Even though he used many other colours, it is the colour of the sky that he chose above all, used over and over again and that he made into not just a mode of expression but a sort of spiritual energy. Klein had the idea of using directly the naked bodies of his models as "living paintbrushes", inventing by his strange sessions, between ritual and striptease, a whole catalogue of new forms. At the same time, intuitively, almost naively, he went through both the history of legendary pictures, the history of the peculiarities of nature and the noble history of nudes in painting. The Anthropométries are both a meditation on imprint, trace, disappearance and coloured variations on the theme of incarnation.

Making Of made for the program “Así se hizo” of Spanish TV (TV2)

A knife-wielding maniac in a George Bush Sr. mask wrecks a poolside party.

Apocryphal super-8 videoclip of the song The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon by Current 93.

East meets west in a blaze of technology.

The human body has millions of specialised cells. The bloodstream itself is host to a variety of specialised cells, this is the story of one of them. Dr. Amoeba is a frustrated single-cell looking for sex. He decides that his only cause of action is to have sex with himself. But if he is going to have sex with himself he must treat himself right, before the act. Ultimately things go wrong and the good Doctor cannot control the rampant sexual activity of his clones.

Maria, a young woman driven by unrequited love, hits the road to Sydney. She finds herself reluctantly in the company of Doug, an eccentric academic. In an emergency on the dark stretches of the Hume Highway they face death together and find a human connection.

After the war, about 200,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors lived in Allied camps in Germany, unable to return home or stay in Germany. Many wanted to go to Palestine, but legal immigration was limited. Jewish organizations organized illegal immigration, including in Lübeck, where Benjamin Gruszka, known as “Bolek,” helped send refugees to Palestine. The ship Exodus, carrying 4,500 people, was seized by the British in June 1947 and returned the passengers to German camps, including Camp Pöppendorf in Lübeck. A filmmaker, inspired by photos of Jewish orphans in the camp, traveled to Israel to find them.

A brief glimpse of life with friends from the ZI atelier.

Pura Vida, Spanish for the pure life, is a 16mm film documenting the lifestyle of skiers and snowboarders who search the globe living for deep snow and big mountains. Shot on location at: Chamonix France, Whistler Blackcomb BC, The Great State of Alaska, and Crested Butte, CO.

In a gloomy stone universe, a guard with cannibalistic tendencies "nurtures" a passionate love for Lisa, a lodger...

A young man and a girl met in a church. He had returned from a business trip and was lighting a candle in front of an icon to commemorate his deceased mother. She was the church bell ringer and was about to go home. That's how they met. In the thick of things, it turns out that they're not just a couple in love, but a cold-blooded killer and a beautiful prostitute. The transformation is unbelievable, though totally cinematic. But that's not all... Filming is done. The actress takes off the luxurious fur coat she rented for the shoot. The actor changes his clothes too. Now they look nothing like their characters. Their daughter runs up to them. Real life, away from the screen, begins with its worries and cares.

The last journey of the postal workers, a profession disappears... Men sorting mail on the Paris-Brest line, every night, as the train rolls along. Upon arrival in the early morning, the mail is ready for delivery. It is the last journey, the end of a job, the end of a way of life for these men who sometimes lead double lives, in Paris and in Brest...

Three-channel installation. Videos capture the process of a person eating from 3 different angles simultaneously. One stationary camera shows a close-up of the person's chin; another stationary camera zooms in on the food container in color; lastly, a black-and-white surveillance camera is attached to the person's hand, recording the eating process in motion by moving between the mouth and the food container.

You've never seen Frankfurt like this before: The mighty airship glides majestically over the landscape. Fascinating aerial shots of industrial complexes and historically significant buildings. Enjoy the unique, gentle ride in the airship and gain a completely new perspective of Frankfurt.

Documentary film produced by CCTV and directed by Hao Yuejun.

Amateur horror film by More Blood Productions from the year 1997 from New Boston, NH

This short film illustrates the Canadian national anthem through the use of contemporary and archival footage. A stunning rendition of the anthem is performed by a 57-piece orchestra, and the film features English subtitles with the anthem’s complete lyrics.

Aired as part of People's Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television, a story of the wife's 14-year wait for her husband to get out of the jail.

All hell is breaking loose in an elegant Basel villa: the owner is terrorized by his wife and her arrogant father. He unceremoniously throws the disgusting couple out into the fresh air. But revenge follows hot on their heels. By Basler Häbse-Theater.

A Hebridean fisherman attempts to find romance on the internet.

A bonus video intended as a companion to Sailor Moon - The Eternal Legend.

Its 1845, The animals in England are sick. The only person who can care for them is Dr Dolittle. The only way he can save them is to find a cure. For that, he must travel through time. Join the rollicking, frolicking, fun filled quest as Dr Dolittle, with the help of his new friends, Colin and Elizabeth and a menagerie of wild and wonderful zoo creatures, search for a cure to save the animals of England and all over the world!

Alone. In an empty space. Dancing and then laughing? Having fun passing and re-passing time. Compressing, stretching, wringing out space and time. Discover the charge of a rather banal reality. Enter the folds of reality. Seeing between the lines.

Namskyi Velikden is the widespread Day of Dead in the Polesie. According to the old legends it is believed that souls of the dead ancestors come back to earth.

Tanya Weinberger short film.

A critical satirical play that deals with the state of the popular and social situation, the street movement, daily events, and is presented in the form of café talk, what is happening on the ground, how the simple citizen thinks, and how governments think in their own way

Karmi Soren’s, a Lodha Tribal, struggle to establish a school in her village

Documenting the theyyam rituals of northern Kerala

The Newars of Kathmandu celebrate Indrayani and sacrifice of live serpents into the sacrificial fire.

Lives and struggles of women in the mountains of Pakistan

A conniving muscleman with the strength and appetite of a dozen men; a prince kidnapped as a child returns to claim his throne disguised as a beast; a beautiful princess whose swordplay defeats all. Each autumn, the Bodo tribespeople act out legends from an ancient tradition under the open night sky. Songs, dances, and fighting scenes set against lively music entertain... and provide a marked contrast to the day shots of tension in the conflict-stricken region

Chronicling the life and times of dancer Tehreema Mitha, the camera examines the role of traditional Hindustani and modern dance in the contemporary Pakistani society.

Rural peasant women in India struggle to maintain traditional farming practices in defiance of the spread of technologically-based cultivation in this documentary exploring the changing meanings of healthy land use

By taking the audience through a Chinese girl's search for a place to have supper one evening, "Where Shall I Eat Tonight?" foregrounds feeling of loneliness and cultural isolation in America.

From childhood memories to recurring nightmares, Nine Fish explores the indecision and confusion surrounding euthanasia and care of the elderly in the United States. In this deeply personal video, Fulbeck chronicles his Cantonese grandmother's physical decline and its continuing impact on his family. The shifting complexities of personal identity, family communication and cultural assimilation are explored through nine semi-fictional stories.

Through personal anecdotes, metaphor, and straight talk, Balancing Act examines how Asian American women relate to each other, and by extension, how all women relate to one another. Investigating themes of appearance, image, social competition, identity and cultural negotiation, the film ponders adopting individual identities amidst larger gender and cultural context.

Narrates the encounter and misunderstanding between Marcel Proust and a prostitute who returns from Paris in search of the survivors of the explosion of the Cerro de Montevideo.

In 1980, 33 people were blinded by police in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. The police claimed they were criminals and that the measures were necessary to curb the soaring crime rate in that area. This 16 mm film was an enquiry into the suppression of civil and democratic rights in India and revealed the reality of Indian poverty, flagrant corruption and socio-economic exploitation in a caste-divided society.

"June 30, 1997. Hong Kong. Tourists flocked to expensive gourmet parties with a harbor view, or got drunk on the streets, embracing British or Communist flags. All media coverage described how happy the local Hong Kong people were about being taken over the next day. I was invited to a private gathering at Hong Kong Arts Centre to watch television and the fireworks together. It turned out to be a gathering of local artists singing sad songs and telling angry stories, against a room decorated in words of bright red: 'Reversion 1997: I am very happy.' Later I went to the Central part of town to find thousands of people rallying in Victoria Square. At midnight they released multi-color balloons, tied a huge yellow ribbon around the Legislative Council, where the directly elected Democratic Legislators were being kicked out, as of July 1. The action was illegal in the new Hong Kong law. The police blocked the area around the Council soon afterwards, calling it 'private property.'"

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

1996 saw Budapest's famous Sziget Festival christened Pepsi Sziget '96 with a bigger budget, more star performers and a broader selection of cultural programs than ever before. This film provides a short taste of Budapest's famous pop pageant where the atmosphere is always something out of this world. It does its very best to capture the marvellous madness enjoyed by anyone lucky enough to have been there in person.

Zined! documentary film created by Marc Moscato from Buffalo NY in 1997. The tape features interviews with Mykel Board from MRR and Ethan Minsker from East Coast Exchange and Psycho Moto zine. It also has snippets with zine makers from Ape Fanzine, Riverside Art Scene, Highest Population of Rock Stars, The Salivation Army, Free Fixin's and many more. [Overview Courtesy of Raccoon Tyson]

Japanese horror movie from 1997.