Cinematic Era: 1997 Vintage

This performance is (most of) what was used for the legendary Swans Are Dead live album. This specific version is from a tape of the VPRO broadcast of the concert.

A short film by Jayne Parker

An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room.

This is a concert film filmed on the 1996 "Welcome to the Freak Show" tour in support of their 1995 album "Jesus Freak."

The fourth disgusting Lloyd's Lunchbox animated short, this time he prepares for a date with a beautiful lady.

Marcel Duchamp kept a secret for over 20 years: while the art world had wrongly assumed that one of the 20th century’s most important artists had given up creating art, Duchamp was building his final masterpiece, Etant Donnes (“given”). Duchamp didn’t allow the piece to be viewed by the public until after his death in 1968. This left him shielded from the questions that developed after the piece debuted. Simply described, it is a peepshow. Through an old wooden façade, one looks through to see a sculpted open-legged nude lying in a field. The critics were stumped. What did Duchamp leave us with? This BBC documentary from 1997 dissects and examines the pieces of this assemblage.

A look at the various problems regarding "child development" in the background of rural and urban Pakistan.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Roveros Manthoules, one of the most important mediators of cultural relations between Greece and France in the audiovisual field, created this documentary in 1997 for the French cultural channel Arte (in co-production with FR-3 and NET), which makes use of rare film footage (from the Democratic Army's film crew, the BBC, and the archives of both opposing camps), as well as testimonies from individuals who fought on one side or the other.

The story of a Jinn who tried to get back his child.

Follow a brand new, musical adventure of Enid Blyton's intrepid Famous Five as they come up against a dastardly spy, bumbling crooks, deserted cottages and secret passages. Central to the plot is the secret formula devised by the hapless Uncle Quentin and a horde of smugglers' gold. Filmed during the nationwide tour of the acclaimed musical.

Author, educator, and philosopher Dr. Timothy Leary was wildly controversial throughout his life, so it came as no surprise he would also choose a controversial way to die. Timothy Leary's Last Trip documents Leary's life and career, from his days at West Point through his years as an LSD guru (he coined the phrase "Tune in, turn on, drop out") to his final days as he prepared for his death by broadcasting his last days over the internet.

A documentary about the Pentecostal groups in New York City.

"The thrill of a sudden summer rainstorm inspires me to jump, naked, into my friend Maria‘s pool . From there, I film the fallen leaves and the ones that blow past…" —Milena Gierke

A short self-portrait introduces Pavlatova's interest in combining animation and documentary live-action work.

In this constructed world of paper animated on layers of glass, a young woman leaves home for the first time. As time and space fluidly shift and narratives reflect and overlap, she overcomes solitude and adversity in an attempt to find a comfortable way through a city full of strangers

An Axolotl is held hostage for a lawnmower, and the misguided blackmailer and the neighbour's wife find true love.

A look behind the scenes at the making of Walt Disney's magnum opus: Mary Poppins.

Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when it comes to sex, the truth comes out.

Live performances and interviews with Bev Bevan's ELO follow-up act, ELO Part II.

Blanquette, Mr Seguin's pretty little white goat, has only one dream: to frisk in the mountains. But in the mountains prowls the wolf, and the little goat will have to be very brave to run away from her enemy's traps. Unaware of danger, she goes to the mountains, where she meets Blacky, a lovely ibex, with whom she shares beautiful adventures.

Over a period of several months, director and writer Mariana Otero has been looking through the uncompromising lens of her camera at the realities of life behind the scenes at a commercial TV station: the Portuguese channel SIC.

For more than nine hours, Francis Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it completely melts.

All best buddies Scott and Chuck wanted was a quiet weekend of fishing at their remote summer cabin, but when Scott reels in a note bearing the ominous message “People Eating People,” their weekend in the sun takes a dark turn.

This is a home-movie horror film. Its heroine, Stretch, adopts a severed head as her companion and hijacks her own story to investigate it for herself and for her audience.

Donnie Munro's lasts concert as lead singer of Runrig. The band bid a tearful farewell to lead singer Donnie Munro in this live performance at Stirling Castle, recorded in the summer of 1997. Tracks include 'The Greatest Flame', 'Precious Years', 'Loch Lomond' and 'Hearts of Olden Glory'.

Nanna and Lil' Puss Puss Wishes to Thanks to Spike and Mike Animation Festival for 20 Years.

Documenting the dying cremation ceremony of the Lyngngams or Megam sub-tribe of Meghalaya

A teenage lesbian's attempts to form friendships with older lesbians leads her on a disturbing ride through the ageist terrain of the lesbian community.

During the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, a Geography student who is writing his thesis on this very astronomical phenomenon is constantly disturbed in his work by various factors that he tries to resist in order to be able to concentrate on his study. But when an unknown young woman appears at his door, the student ends up spending the moment of maximum intensity of the eclipse with her.

Nearby windows frame and illuminate four years of voyeuristic observations lyrically woven into a time-lapsed tapestry of light, unsuspecting neighbors, and street drama. At the intersection of private and public space, does a glance become The Gaze? Does the eye become a recording device?

Musician and singer Frank Woehrle performs ten classic songs and you can sing along too! Featuring guest vocalist Linda Kilty.

Shot in the style of a silent film from the early twentieth century, WILL/We Must is a satirical reflection on the state of affairs in the Chinese art world in the late 1990s. (M+ Catalogue Notes)

A concert to benefit the family of Mykel and Carli Allan, the founders of the Weezer Fan Club who, along with their younger sister Trysta, passed away in a car accident in July of that year. This was Weezer's final performance for three years (Goat Punishment shows don't count), and the last to feature bassist Matt Sharp before his departure from the band. Before the encore, the Mykel and Carli's father, Wayne Allan, delivered a speech.

Rezza presents a series of ironic tributes to various film titles (such as Dances with Wolves, Dancing Alone, etc.), featuring an unlikely critic who periodically calls on different experts to discuss each film. Both the critic and the experts are played by Rezza.

Fox’s BAFTA Award-winning documentary about artists Gilbert & George, whose lives have been made ‘living sculptures’, provides a compelling insight into their working processes. Filmed around their home in East London and documenting their lives first hand, this is a fascinating film that engages with their challenging and witty art.

A mail order, shot-on-video short from Paul Shrimpton's 'Home Made Films'.

The film's protagonist is Colonel Jerzy Ryszard Kukliński of the Polish People's Army, one of the most controversial figures in modern Polish history. For some, he was a national hero who saved Poland from Soviet invasion, for others, he was just a spy and a traitor. The documentary shows his career path: from joining the army in 1947 at the age of 17, through his appointment to a high position in the General Staff in 1964, his graduation in 1976 from the Military Academy in Moscow, where top-ranking officers were trained, to his promotion in the same year to head of the strategic defense planning department. After the West learned of plans to impose martial law in Poland, Kukliński, who was in danger of being exposed, was evacuated by the Americans to Berlin in November 1981.

The Lunar Tics are moon-based creatures who are sent on a school excursion to discover new and exciting things on Earth’s largest island, Australia. They show their excitement for learning by breaking out in spontaneous educational songs.

Peverell Press, respected London publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, is taken over by new management. Gerard Etienne, new yuppie CEO, wants to implement radical changes. Soon he is found dead under bizarre circumstances. Commander Adam Dalgliesh, policeman in charge of the investigation, is convinced that the reasons for the death lie in the sinister past.

To many of us they are a figure of fancy on par with the unicorn. To scientists, however, the seahorse is a fascinating object of study. Unlike other animals, in seahorses it is the male who get pregnant and gives birth. But to populations around the world, the seahorse is something else again; considered a source of sexual prowess to proponents of traditional Chinese medicine, the magical seahorse is also a crucial source of income to fishermen in the Philippines who harvest and sell them to that burgeoning trade.

A mother feeds her son to the point of possessing him.

16mm live action/stop-motion animated film

Idea approaches the figure of Idea Vilariño, considered as one of the greatest Spanish-language female poets. Her literary work, especially her poetry, is acclaimed by critics and public alike, a rare case in the Uruguayan culture scene. With her own testimony, pictures, poems, songs and archive footage, this documentary offers an in-depth look at the essence of Idea Vilariño's poetic universe in a frank adherence to her literary and human posture. Her childhood, her ghosts, her desolate vision of a godless world, the stormy burden of suffering from her relationship with Juan Carlos Onetti and the commitment assumed with the issues of her time define the various facets of this woman.

Cornered is a four to five minute film made for the BBC series Dance For Camera, in which experimental filmmakers and dancers ‘explored the relationship between movement and technology’ through modern dance

Mobarakeh Steel Complex

1997 Peter Rose short film

The life and art of Ukrainian-born Puerto Rican photographer and artist Jack Delano.

Filmed in the Deep South, this foot-stomping documentary features solo performances of some of the great Blues icons, and includes the final concert performance of James Booker.

The non-profit organization, Colors United, teaches drama to a group of inner city kids. The culmination of the theater education is a musical called Watts Side Story.