Year 1997 - 372
Between the Fist and the Stove 1997
Between the Fist and the Stove is a hilarious, fictional film, a melodrama and a tragicomedy based on clips from old Finnish films from the 1940s and 1950s. It is a synthesis of Finland’s Bold and the Beautiful – of a time when the swing of the haystack band made the public wild. Passion, jealousy, lust and forgiveness meet in the surges of the rapids and at the gates of heaven.
La storia di Esterina 1997
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 documentary, but it's also a poetic tale.
Un baúl lleno de miedo 1997
Esteban, a writer of mistery novels, must finish his new work, so, looking for inspiration moves to an isolated cabin in the woods with his wife, Cristina, and his male secretary, Federico. Secretly, Federico had been renting the cabin to a mysterious woman who is urged by him to leave the house before Esteban and Cristina arrive. While leaving, the woman decides to keep one awkward thing inside the house.
O Places! O Trees! 1997
A film by James Otis
Die Zeit heilt alle Wunder 1997
A film by Günter Zehetner
Actions in Action 1997
This first work in the HalfLifers' Action Series plunges into a world of frantic heroes trapped in a continual crisis of dissolution and reification. An ordinary domestic setting is recast as a psychoactive landscape in which the concept of function becomes situational and fluid. Only through the strategic application of organic and inorganic “devices” can this zone be successfully navigated and the mission be saved.
Gunpowder 77 1997
Kidana, a young Eritrean man is arrested while contemplating to join the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. He is accused of being a member. He is imprisoned, tortured, and interrogated by the Ethiopian soldiers. Kidana is being rescued by some EPLF freedom fighters posing as Ethiopian soldiers.
Embargo 1997
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.
Feeling My Way 1997
What goes around comes around: the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint. Layered and luminous with in-sight. An account of a journey from home to work as seen through the filter of the conscious and subconscious mind. Through the use of moving collages and painterly animation laid over Hi-8 footage, the viewer is able to share the traveller’s experiences and his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of urban existence. An animated account of a two mile journey made from home to work on foot. Hi-8 video footage digitized and printed out using an inkjet printer is combined with drawings, text and paint. A subjective representation of how visual information is filtered and processed by the conscious and subconscious mind. We share the traveller’s experiences: his idle thoughts and repetitive neuroses and see his mental reactions to the trials and triviality of daily life.
Waiting For The Stork 1997
Waiting For The Stork takes us to three countries where the gay and lesbian Baby Boom is in full swing, France, the Netherlands, and the US. It introduces us to lesbian mothers, candid children of gays and lesbians, and the ecstatic gay father of a newborn.
Casta Diva 1997
‘Casta Diva’ is the famous aria for soprano and men's chorus from the opera ‘Norma’ by Vincenzo Bellini and marks one of the high points of the Italian bel canto repertoire. The film tells the passionate love of a Gallican priestess for a Roman proconsul and expresses passion as a universal and timeless emotion by using abstract paintings-in-motion.
L'arbre de Julie 1997
High in the tower sits Julie in a dark cell. Her only way to escape is her fantasy.
Almost the Cocktail Hour 1997
A hybrid experimental narrative/biography that interprets Jane Bowles as a woman paralyzed by conflict – an expatriate, lesbian, alcoholic, and wife of the more celebrated writer Paul Bowles.
Luftloch 1997
Short film by Gertrude Moser-Wagner
La malédiction de Doktor Schnitzel 1997
The dishonourable Dokter Schnitzel uses the energy of young people to make his deceased mother live again.
Marisma 1997
The Way 1997
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?
