Joer 1997 - 372

A film by James Otis

A film by Günter Zehetner

In Metal Cravings, Elise Hurwitz focuses on film’s emulsion.

Valdeir is an insane coroner who takes pleasure in his work with corpses. Much gore and horror in short film Directed by Dimitri Kozma and Leonardo Borelli. Totally in black and white, it is a strong movie of pure terror. Tribute and references to José Mojica Marins and Alfred Hitchcock.

In 1997, Embargo used images and sound to convey the physical suffering of the Iraqi people, who alone bore the brunt of the political punishment meted out to their leaders, the terrorism perpetrated by the international institutions responsible for such a decree, the reign of injustice elevated to the status of political strategy, and the moral corruption engendered by the embargo.

"Kerry Laitala's love of the movie process gives rise to richly crafted and oddly unclassifiable imagery. Re-inventing an antique movie technology using a revolving glass disc, projected lighy and a sequence of early black and white images, and merging it with the later technology of 16mm film, RETROSPECTROSCOPE pulls the moving image backward into a sense of wonder that is both nostalgic and strangely new. –Scott Stark

High in the tower sits Julie in a dark cell. Her only way to escape is her fantasy.

Ed and his friends have a night out. While they are out his cartoon creations come to life causing mayhem.

Short film by Gertrude Moser-Wagner

This video comprises three fictional tales of women's lives. In the first, Yasmine, a chambermaid, depicts her own imaginary world, drawing inspiration from a book of poems by Ahmed Bouanani, the director’s father. The second features a fortune teller who narrates her story using the ronda, a Moroccan-Spanish card game. The third is inspired by the travel chronicles of Isabelle Eberhardt and by Taos Amrouche’s rendition of The Song of Exile.

Fanny, a beautiful young woman, enters Fydjys, a classy jewelry store in Brussels, and asks to see an emerald ring. It is rare, explains the proprietor, found by an antique dealer in Prague...

The dishonourable Dokter Schnitzel uses the energy of young people to make his deceased mother live again.

The voyage of an old Chinese professor, living in Budapest, to his and present-day China. Can he free himself from his anxieties after years of humiliation? Can one make up for things lost?

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.