1997 Movies

The riveting and emotionally gripping true-life saga of a talented band beset by incompetent advisors and thieving managers.

A video production made by the Yucatec PRI politician Jorge Esma Bazán on the Hanal Pixán: Day of the Dead in Yucatán.

Short art film

A Tribute to Muddy Waters - King of the Blues

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...

1997 saw the release of Oasis, the follow-up of Canyon Dreams, TD's first commercial video featuring the scenery of the Grand Canyon that had been rel...

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

This feature documentary profiles an Aboriginal community coming to terms with a legacy of sexual abuse, incest and family violence. The film follows...

Bells really turns it on for this new and unique surfing content, modelled on the Golf Skins Competitions, gathering together the very best surfers fr...

Experimental short.

CURTAIN OF EYES is an experimental film which combines Japanese Butoh dance with psychological imagery and choreographed cinematography. Over a six mo...

Hundreds of Italian men were interned as potential terrorists in Canada during the turbulent years of World War 2.

Experience the roller coaster 1997 World Rally Championship in this action-packed review of all 14 incredible rounds. Car-mounted cameras, onboard fo...

When ZAP! discovers the Number 8 has been kidnapped by the sinister Evol, he and his best friend, Teacher, must travel through enchanted worlds to res...

What darkness the film will have in No Night No Daywill not be connected to nature's night, equally light will be unconnected to 'day' as a lived conc...

BAGLIGHT, as the title implies, was inspired by Stan Brakhage's legendary MOTHLIGHT. Only this version, as the filmmaker aptly describes, is "cruelty...

A documentary about the 23-year-old Turkish woman "Berlin", who lives in the German capital with her parents. Her parents, devout Turkish Arab Alawite...

These partly diaristic, partly poetic pieces are the first three completed segments in a long series of films and videos. They all tend toward the med...

The third of Daniel Eisenberg’s thematically connected film essays about postwar Europe, PERSISTENCE, an award-winning feature-length experimental doc...