An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts.

Colonel Kwiatkowski Trailer (1996)

10 May 1996

Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB.

BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century.

Rigoletto Trailer (1996)

05 October 1996

Paris Opera, October 1996. New production Jérôme Savary

Fareb Trailer (1996)

28 June 1996

A doctor and his wife move to a new city where they plan to start a new life. However, trouble strikes in the form of a police inspector who gets completely obsessed with the doctor's wife.

Matilda Trailer (1996)

02 August 1996

Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact.

Robo en el cine Capitol Trailer (1996)

13 July 1996

Beautiful Funerals Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.

Zone 39 Trailer (1996)

04 May 1996

In a time of misery and fear two enemies come together to prevent an apocalypse conspired by their leaders.

Autsch!!! Trailer (1996)

17 June 1996

Chris and Peter live and work in the apartment belonging to Birgit, Peter's former girlfriend and Chris' present girlfriend.

Historais Breves II: Juntos, in any way Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

An old tango singer tries to contact his teenage son. A woman who is death or the Devil appears to him and asks him to sell his soul to connect with his son again.

Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait Trailer (1996)

19 October 1996

Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.

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