Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Byography about Tennessee Williams' life.

A brief tour of the Louvre in Paris.

An old man receives a letter from his son and goes to the train station to meet him. He waits, but his son doesn't arrive. He then decides to go and see the stationmaster.

Fantastic characters rule in this charmingly offbeat and campy cautionary tale. Can power and vanity freeze-out Courage, Honor, and Love?

What lies behind those eyes? What does that smile hide? What do models really think about love and life? Original quotes from beautiful people in fashion catalogs prove that even perfect-looking models suffer from heartbreak just like you and me.

"When speaking of light, in connection with black, this sounds paradoxical. However, in reality, black is a colour of light. You cannot imagine there to be light without black being there, also", Soulages explains - one of the most important French artists of the post-war period. Not only his paintings, but also his glass window works for the abbey in Conques and his self-designed house in Sete, seem like poems made up of light and space. Using 80 specially selected works, the brilliant artist talks about the individual segments of his creative period and provides an insight into the philosophy and aesthetics of his poetic work.

Haunted Places explores some of the most remarkable haunted places in America. This companion piece to Hauntings Across America investigates some of the most baffling cases of ghostly activity ever recorded, and offers answers to some of the most vexing questions facing mankind.

Australian Short Film

Song of signs with chorus and verses. Superfluity or scattering of the signs confronted by juxtaposition or incrustation, in 16 and Super-8, positive and negative, black and white or colors. These various visual voices constitute a polyphony, the song of the world and of art with its cadences and pulsations of life, a song of signs with echo, reverberation, climax, leitmotif... of images...

Eric Buford (Eric Streit) was willing to do just about anything to break out of his small Southern town. When Andrea Patterson (Andrea Griffin) arrives to oversee the opening of a huge corporate mega store, Eric thinks that he finally has a ticket out of "Small town USA". Eric's plans change when he discovers Food Demon's plot to destroy all of the Mom & Pop businesses on Main Street, including his grandparents' grocery store. Before Eric knows it, he is thrust in the middle of angry mobs, shady land deals and greedy businessmen that consider murder to be all in a days work. After his grandpa is slain before his eyes, Eric joins forces with his fellow Main Street merchants in a quest to save their town. Their mission: Run corporate America out of town on a rail..and live to tell about it.

One of three short animated films based on the comic strip.

Short film by Marian Dora

Using the metaphor of suburban architecture, Homogeneity archly critiques the desire for conformity within the queer community.

Using a Super8 camera, Henricks employed time-lapse photography to document the interior and exterior of his apartment. Inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, this video uses writing as a metaphor to examine temporality and impermanence. Time Passes is part a series of works that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.

After 40 years of the premiere of the social film "Tire dié", we know the characters of that film and how they continued their lives.

A radio DJ contemplates her memories surrounding the story of Pamela Ferguson, a 23-year-old waitress who went missing after a shift at the Entre restaurant in Winslow, Arizona.

The romantic experiences of Leo, an eleven-year-old boy who finds it hard understanding emotions.

The second in the instructional skateboarding video series.

Features performances from Michael Manring, Andy Gonzalez, Francis Rocco Prestia and many others. Special Feature: A comprehensive photo gallery of this historic event.

"A second 20-minute reel is more staccato mad chicken-scratch calligraphy fluttering out of a yellow void, sketchy lightning bolts or fireworks interrupted by a sudden field of turquoise." - J. Hoberman

Chris (Tina Krause) is house sitting on a hot and sweltering summer night. Bored and unable to sleep, she ends up reading an ancient text. But she fails to heed the warning at the beginning of the book and her actions begin a chain reaction that will have terrible consequences for all those involved! As she reads the 2 stories, she imagines her friends as the characters in the book. In the first story, a gypsy whose sister has been murdered vows revenge against the man responsible and his wife who has lied to protect him. The second tale follows two explorers as they search for Vlad, the Impaler’s tomb. As Chris continues to read the stories within, the spell becomes stronger and stronger until the curse can no longer be contained and Chris finds herself transformed into a demon vampire out for blood.

“’Psych-Burn’ was what musicians call a ‘contract-breaker’. ABC had given us some coin to make a few short films for a TV Pilot. “Love-In Tonite” was to be a psychedelic rock variety show with live performances, skits, and whatnot to cash in on the emerging hippie demographic. Even pre-Disney, the network was riddled with a bunch of out-of-touch, pencil-pushing buffoons, so I quickly realized the show would be a disaster. Imagine if “Midnight Special” was produced by Aaron Spelling. Then cast Charles Nelson Reilly as emcee. That would have been a far more lively show than “Love-In Tonite”. So I decided to deliver the suits a farewell kick-in-the-butt called ‘Psych-Burn’. The best part was that they presented my film sight unseen at a board meeting about the new Fall Season. I heard some heads rolled over that one.” —JXW

Christianne Tisdale (Broadway's +Beauty and the Beast) headlines this stage musical adaptation of the Cinderella story, produced by the New York State Theatre Institute in 1996. It recounts the familiar tale of a minor and inconsequential scrubgirl who longs to meet the prince of her dreams but is constantly thwarted by her vile and manipulative stepsisters and stepmother - until her colorful Godmama (Lorraine Serabian) shows up. George David Weiss and Will Severin composed the music to lyrics by Weiss, W.A. Frankonis wrote the book, and Adrienne Spagnola Posner choreographed.

Eric is a ten-year-old boy, left with his grandparents while his parents travel to America. He is unimpressed by their modest but hardly primitive country home, disgusted and disheartened by their unpalatable fare. So begins "Guttaperc," a film by Barbados-born producer/director Andrew Millington. But the Caribbean world Eric finds himself in is not as simple as he thought. Indeed, it is one caught in a struggle, represented by the two figures that dominate his life: his grandfather (played by Clairmonte Taitt), a local supplier of construction materials, and Sister Pam (Leonie Forbes), an elderly woman with her feet and gnarled cane firmly planted in the past.

Go with Armin and the blue garbage can through Munich and discover what happens to the garbage: Let us show you how 365 cans fit into just 16 water bottles. See how new paper is made from an old newspaper. Watch how waste from the organic waste garbage can is turned back into potting soil.

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

An unusual love triangle. Julia marries a scientist, a biologist, who discovers an unexpected passion... for a flower.

While Ken defends their dream home against a drunken intruder-doll, Barbie runs off with her Harley-riding, shaved-head, leather-clad girlfriend. By the end of the film's two minutes, Ken and his male friend have paired off too.

About the art explosion in Amsterdam during the 1980's when artists of all sorts found spaces and places and the legendary club RoXY (1987-1999) was created.

First piece of material documentation of Neurobot has been created in the project Normal Subjects, which centered on the futility of brain-mapping procedures and long-forsaken science of phrenology, as opposed to "normal" daily postures and routines by various subjects shown in 3-minute video loops, accompanied by 3-minute compositions.

An animated short directed by Benjamin Quabeck.

Tailor-made for fighter jet aficionados, this high-flying documentary lifts up the hood on the subject of jet bombers and reveals fascinating facts about the technology that gets them off the ground. Over the course of four segments, you'll explore the inner workings of the B-1 Bomber, the B-2 Stealth Bomber, the infamous B-52 and the Canberra, and see each of these state-of-the-art fliers in action.

This hard-hitting meeting opener will capture your employees' attention and show them just how easily accidents can happen. This video is an ideal way to start any safety meeting and features 10 accidents accompanied by victim testimony to set the tone for your next training session.

Marilyn Monroe is undoubtedly a sex symbol. In the vast territory of Russia, no woman was born in the 20th century who could claim this title. However, there were many male heroes. Vladimir Mayakovsky is undoubtedly the most prominent figure.

Three Holy Weeks: Seville, Calanda and Verges, dedicated to Lorca, Buñuel and Dalí. A trilogy straddling experimental non-conformity and auteur documentary.

A small page from the life of the brilliant actor Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka, captured on video during his stay in Lviv while on tour.

Unaired Pilot for Fox Television from Will Vinton Studios. Claymation.

A queer, dance-film adaptation of the Greek myth of Atalanta, the girl who can run as fast as the wind. Shot and edited entirely on super-8 film, on location in mythical San Francisco locations, the film was originally presented as a silent film with live orchestra and narration.

Beirut after the war. In a house from a time gone by, a mother listens to a letter from her son, a sniper, who tells her the detailed story of his killings without showing the slightest remorse.

Experimental short film

A love poem, set to Big Star's song "Thirteen".

Despite or perhaps because of his position at the public television channel ZDF, Hans-Dieter Grabe has developed his own unmistakable signature style which falls between journalism and documentary (similar to Klaus Wildenhahn during his time at the TV channel NDR).

This film was made without a camera, using the primitive technique of pinhole photography. The film is all about light, the absence of light, and the development over time of these fundamental elements of cinema. The simple succession of these two states creates an Energetics of Movement that replaces the traditional scheme of narration and representation.

Retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky A unique retelling of the story of Rapunzel, the girl with the long, golden hair.

They have overcome many lives. Each full of struggles and unimaginable hardships. The illusion of wealth, success and fame crumbles into worthless dust in their minds. The history of Tibetans is the story of one of the greatest spiritual civilizations in human history. Its culture was valued and respected by scholars far and wide. Despite this, the Tibetans were pushed to the brink of extinction. In 1951, Tibet became part of China and suddenly the traditional culture was subjected to the pressure of an unknown ideology. The Tibetan landscape began to acquire a new face. Even Lhasa, the place of the gods, has changed beyond recognition, but the words of the Buddha, translated long ago into Tibetan, have preserved their message to this day: the path to liberation begins in each of us, and each of us has the prerequisites for achieving lasting happiness. (distributor's official text)

This is a story of a friendship between two characters that have obviously had too many differences. The first one is a doctor and an Orthodox, and the other is a peasant and a Muslim. Both of them share the same dedication to their work. The one who is a peasant can not harvest the meadow due to the health difficulties. In spite of the doctors' disagreement, he decides to harvest the grass.