Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

Japanese horror movie from 1997.

A behind-the-scenes look at a Disney's Bambi that was originally made to commemorate its 55th anniversary. It includes interviews, stills, and footage from the production and focuses on the animation process.

Flip, a good old southern boy, drives to a strange dark house to test for toxic fumes. An eager little man answers the door, starting Flip’s unusual day.

Psychic musician Ikeda Aristocrat teaches how to handle psychic photographs and what to do when you encounter psychic phenomena such as kinbaku. This is a true psychic self-defense video that shows how to properly deal with the spirit world.

A funny movie where you see Lars and I taking a bath in our dilapidated bathroom.

This is a film that I made in two months about six friends. You see them at home; the way they live, the way they bathe and shower. It's also about my life. Six short portraits on the way I approach my friends. What they say is not that important, as these are private conversations in a relaxed atmosphere. The music in the film is that of my friends or groups. The two members of my girl band The 3 Pussy Kisses are also part of the film with a long song that I sing, Oh What a Wonderful World. Manfred, Martina, Hans, Andrea, Birgit, Matthias are the stars.

Award winning film Cafe Noah is about the Jewish musicians from Baghdad and Cairo have immigrated to Israel. They were masters in Arabic music, but their music was not valued in the new homeland. Cafe Noah was the one place were their music continued.

In my bath, I am asking myself questions about how bridges hold, what love is all about... and the essence of human being is to not understand everything.

Gaby and Karla are two open-minded women who secure a contract to work in Zihuatanejo, thanks to Karla's lover, Toño. The women head to their workplace accompanied by their assistant, Mel, who is gay. Gaby becomes involved with a local resident, while Karla continues her relationship with Toño. After the contract ends, both of them wait for their lovers, but they don't show up.

1997 DCI World Championships held in Orlando, FL held on August 16, 1997 1. Blue Devils (1st Place 98.40) 2. Cadets of Bergen County (2nd Place 97.60) 3. Santa Clara Vanguard (3rd Place 96.90) 4. Phantom Regiment (4th Place 94.20) 5. Madison Scouts (5th Place 93.90) 6. Crossmen (6th Place 93.00) 7. Cavaliers (7th Place 92.80) 8. Glassmen (8th Place 90.00) 9. Blue Knights (9th Place 88.20) 10. Magic of Orlando (10th Place 85.70) 11. Bluecoats (11th Place 85.60) 12. Carolina Crown (12th Place 85.00)

Photographer Cliff Watson wants to show the transition of the sugar culture that has dominated the isolated community of Pāhala on the Big Island for over 125 years. March 27, 1996 is the last day of work at the Kaʻu sugar facility. This phasing out leaves hundreds of people without jobs. Many have never known any other life and considered this their home. Now solutions for the problems that arise need to be addressed.

On the Botel Tobago Island in Taiwan, the first months of the lunar Yami calendar (July-August) are dedicated to buildings and collective festivities of competitive nature. They are punctuated with responsorial songs which can be sung in the Karyag way, that is to say “accompanied by banging hands”.

A fun video about adorable canines such as wolf pups, fox kits and more!

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

Witnessed is inspired from the dance piece Courtyard choreographed by Allen Kaeja. Allen delves into the times his family lived through during the Holocaust of WW II, by exploring the relationships of five individuals after months of forced confinement inside the Ghetto walls. The story of Witnessed is one of displacement, unrelenting fear and community support in a time of crisis.

After e few years in the west writer Alexei decidet to revisit his native St. Petersburg.On his way there he learns that the best friend of his youth has just been killed. Nostalgic rediscovering of wintry St. Petersburg turns into a breackneck unrevelling of a tight knot of lies. Is it just lies, or a fatal chain of crime?

A bear assaults a rabbit, beginning a chain of cruelty.

The Leppo’ Ké, a subgroup of the Kenyah, an important Dayak set of people scattered in Borneo across the provinces of East and North Kalimantan (Indonesia) and the state of Sarawak (Malaysia), live in the district of Bahau Hulu, on the uppermost Bahau River, a tributary of the mighty Kayan River. The film was shot in Long Pengayan hamlet, at Apau Ping, the last settlement on the Bahau, and home to Oko’ (Grand-Mother) Asung Kiring. In the past, all Kenyah Leppo’ Ké women were potters, but today this is a dying craft, which is considered dirty work and therefore quite unpopular.

Super 8, 1997.

Experimental short by Akira Mizuyoshi.

In a mixture of performance and body art, the artist uses her own face and body as a projector screen and painted background.

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

In July we fallow puffin catchers going on small boats to uninhabited rocky islands where they catch the flying birds into nets. This hunt is very dangerous as the men have to operate from narrow ledges in cliffs high above the surfing ocean. In August we see another side of the puffin/man relationship, as the children lovingly collect helpless puffin chicks from streets and alleys and keep them in cardboard boxes at their homes for the night until the can help them to the sea in the morning.

Animated plant-like shapes, rooted in a barren desert-like landscape, wave and move in time to music.

Animal Charm's Ashley seems to develop a conventional story about a modern mother and wife with typically modern desires. But the insertion of incongruous soap opera scenes soon ensures that the seductive images take on an absurd and oppressive charge. “The antiseptic cleanliness of the imagery has a superficial appeal, but begins to feel claustrophobic — or toxic — after prolonged exposure.” — Fred Camper

Very strange animation where a bunch of men begin to fight each other, first with their fists, then with their penises. Becomes more and more absurd as it goes along.

"After Henri Duparc's setting of the poem by Baudelaire, which is heard in faint echo on the soundtrack. Rococo adhesive transparencies over hand-colored film alternate with Jenn Reeves seen in black and white negative."

Mongibello is an episode of Gérard Courant's Filmed Notebooks shot in Châteauroux, Paris, Taormina, Saint-Maurice, in the Vivarais region, in Burzet, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Deauville and Moncton, in New Brunswick, Canada.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

A newly-wed couple is on a boat in the forests of Sunderbans. The boat gets wrecked in a storm and their house help, Goga, only manages to save the woman and brings her to an isolated island. Widowed and stranded alone with Goga, she decides to start a new life in the unknown.

Short film by Marco Bragaglia.

Monica's Seaside Adventure

A conversation between the filmmaker and his mother in the purest form; cleaning with a vacuum cleaner, about the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in Peru. Calling for a delivery of noodles for lunch, but the delivery service is closed. Starting to cook udon noodles. A telephone dialling, a car ride. The noodles are cooked and people talk about Germany. The sound of the cooking appliances: rattling and sizzling. A pure focus on the conversations.

Using the same imaginative interplay of classic films, animation and research, this film tells the complex story of how we age and also shows how scientists hope to alter the genes that determine how long we live.

Using the same imaginative interplay of classic films, animation and research, this film tells the complex story of how we age and also shows how scientists hope to alter the genes that determine how long we live.

Learn the real story of George Burns’ amazing career through rare footage of the comedian himself and vintage clips from vaudeville, movies and TV.

A little girl is fed up with the starchy and old fashioned attitude of her parents' behaviour and she decides to go away and look elsewhere. That is why she wanders into the forest.

The Sundays - (live) Electric Factory Philadelphia,Pa 12.2.97

All their life two brothers have cherished the same passion for film. They brought along with them their spouse, Marinette and Marguerite. For over 50 years, in some villages from the Hérault region, they managed 3 cinemas built from their own hands.

A young corporate couple has no "quality time" for each other in their busy daily lives, but at night, their spirits carry on a playful, wonderful relationship around the house.

Batang estero: Directed by Deo Fajardo Jr.. With John Regala, Alona Alegre, Julio Diaz, Jorge Estregan.

Mabango: With Edgar Ebro, Isabel Reyes, Gardo Versoza.

Documentary film by the musical group The Dartz. The plot was mainly based on the band's songs from their debut album.

Mapanuksong hiyas: Directed by Ed Palmos. With Camille Roxas, Ricky Davao, Maritoni Fernandez, Carlos Morales.

When Emily (the daughter of Holocaust concentration camp survivors) meets Gitta (a German-raised woman who considers herself removed from the events of the Holocaust), their burgeoning passion for one another is threatened by their markedly different relationships to history and memory. Negotiating, coping with, and transcending the past are the hallmarks of this compelling drama.

Senegalese often set up a temporary stage at a street corner. It is the Guew Bi, the dancing circle where a cheerful crowd dressed in beautiful attire slowly gathers. The event is called a sabar. Soon drummers start playing and one at a time, women and men get up and enter the Guew Bi to perform the most exuberant, breathtaking dances. This film, which introduces us to an astonishing contemporary art form deeply rooted in African tradition, was shot in the streets of Dakar, with the participation of Master Drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose.

Short videoclip.

The story of caracul fur production, sheep separated for slaughter from lambs three days old, the difficulty not only for the sheep but also for the shepherds who put much energy into the birthing of the lambs.

In the Voronezh village of Kuchugury, in the Nizhnedevitsky district, on the very border with the Kursk region, Vladimir Gerchikov is filming a documentary soap opera - a series about local residents whose worldview combines the myths of the Soviet past and deep peasant wisdom in the most bizarre way. The Kuchugur chronicle includes 25 episodes in which it shows the naked truth about a modern village drowning in impassable mud, thinking aloud about Gorbachev and Yeltsin, interpreting current events as they understand them.

The protagonist is unable to balance his words and body. Kounosuke repeatedly makes mistakes by talking about things he doesn't have to say. Kuramoto refuses to explain. The confusion of the characters is a universal problem of communication. However, the final scene, in which the protagonist becomes depressed and starts talking like a machine gun in a conversation that he does not engage in, gives the film a unique contemporary perspective.