1997 Movies

"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural elementary school in Kanayama, central Hokkaido, Nort...

"Playing With Water Part II consists of reflections in a pool, shot using an automatic fade out. Playing With Water III: Algae in Maine, U.S.A., dance...

This documentary looks at women's attitudes towards beauty and sexuality in contemporary China. By focusing on women's perceptions of their bodies, th...

Experience its magnificence as you explore pitch black lava caves, walk on the still molten floor of Kilauea Iki crater and fly past fiery lava founta...

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...

Harrod Blank, who took us into the world of art cars with his epic first film, Wild Wheels, now focuses more in-depth on a few select art vehicles, th...

The film is a cinematic articulation of inculcating curiosity in classroom spaces. It urges reflection on the idea that education is not just about ga...

Peverell Press, respected London publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, is taken over by new management. Gerard Etienne, new yuppie CEO...

Comedy-horror film.

The very first deepfake film. Video Rewrite program, published in 1997 modified existing video footage of a person speaking to depict that person mout...

In 1962, America lost her first POW in Vietnam. In 1973, the last of the accounted-for POWs returned.

A short film directed by Paul Debevec made in the spring of 1997 that used image-based modeling and rendering techniques from his Ph.D. thesis to crea...

Tap Dogs, the all-male Australian dance troupe, has taken the world by storm with a unique, blue-collar style of explosive and raucous tap. Conceived...

International Vale Tudo Championships, Brazil's premier mixed martial arts organization, presents a second volume of some of the most brutal bare-knuc...

Filmmaker Don Howard's darkly comic chronicle of death, religion, and football in his home town of Waco, Texas.

Experimental film showing city street scenes, usually with a human head or detail of dress—earrings, fur collar, etc.—in extreme foreground. Uses stop...

In this constructed world of paper animated on layers of glass, a young woman leaves home for the first time. As time and space fluidly shift and narr...