1997 Movies

Today Shunde is a short documentary about the economic development of Shunde—a tiny and famous city in Pearl River Delta, China. Although to some exte...

Animation by French historian, archivist and archaeologist Michel Fleury.

A short documentary on San Franciscan ranchera singer, sex worker, and transgender activist Alberta Nevarez, AKA Teresita La Campesina.

"Honouring the tradition of optically-printed films, 'We Are Experiencing ...' is a visual treat that manipulates, combines and recombines to dazzling...

Completed in 1900 with British financing, Canadian contracting and American engineering, the White Pass & Yukon Route was the engineering marvel of it...

The film tells the story of Esterina Zuccarone, seamstress and pioneer of film editing, through photographs and the protagonist's own words; it's a do...

Paris, Latin Quarter. A small cinema that is both famous and marginal, Action Christine. The cashier has taken her camcorder and takes us to this pu...

The grand themes of Albert Camus' work and life are documented in three chapters: the Absurd, Revolt, and Happiness. His novels The Stranger, The Plag...

Director Peter Webber's dramatized exploration of the tumultuous life of Austrian composer Franz Schubert exposes the stark contradictions of the lege...

Amar Kanwar’s A Season Outside is a thought provoking quest to investigate the futility or validity of violence. The film employs several codes of con...

An excruciatingly tender look at the frayed lives of the family and friends of Jesse Rahim Hall, a promising young hip hop artist from East Oakland, C...

The girl isn't bad. She's just taken her life into her own hands.

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 (Indon...

Barkha returns to her parents house. Her arrival brings some relief and confusion in Chaman's life. Chaman, now in her mid-twenties is stuck in a smal...

Formerly classified, this motion picture material documents Operation Tumbler Snapper, which detonated small yield atomic weapons to determine their e...

Mabanan is an Atayal settlement in Miaoli County, where the filmmaker was born. During the Japanese colonial rule, most of the indigenous community's...

The smell of a lover lingers on well into the evening.

In spring 1997, after several delays, The Video Dream Mixes was released. It features music material from The Dream Mixes, combined with films of US l...