All Films

More Than Love

1999 • 52 min • Hungary

A film about the love between a blind man and a sighted woman, a subject that always promises success on the big screen. Can prejudice, new diseases and financial problems be overcome? How much of oneself can one give and how much of the other can one accept? We see the contradictions of a relationship, the depths of a relationship that may not be fully explored, alongside moments of joy and happiness.

The Psychic Connection

1999 • 56 min • United States of America

People talk about their psychic connection between animals.

Pavement: Live on Reverb

1999 • 25 min

Pavement's rare second performance on Reverb

The Himalayan Kingdom of Light

1999 • 26 min • Japan

In a small village overlooking the scenic Himalayas, a young boy, Suruya, receives a letter from a princess. It's a heartbreaking cry for help. Suruya, who is not the most courageous of boys, sets out to rescue the princess, managing to find the courage to carry out his mission along the way.

30% Fat, 70% Meat

1999 • 33 min

Three-channel installation. Videos show processing meat with a mincer from three different angles simultaneously. One of the two videos in color shows the feeding funnel of the meat mincer where slides of meat are stuffed in; the other video in color captures where meat comes out from the mincer and is collected in a bowl. A third black-and-white surveillance video is attached to the hand operating the mincer, which gives a revolving motion to the images captured.

Porter Springs 4

1999 • 15 min

A “remake” of my first film, Porter Springs 4 (1999) is composed from footage shot over 20 years (reversal, negative, 8 mm, super-8, 8mm video, mini-DV, & old photos), with an audio track composed from the video sync, ambient recordings, and a tape I made in highschool of my uncle telling stories and playing piano & of selections from his record collection that we listened to on family vacation in my childhood. My father growing old & feeble, my only footage of my dead sister and grandmother (Gonga) and of my log cabin (the Bug House) which was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in 1990, memories of my two ex’s, eternal nature, endless walks in the woods, building my new cabin and dream time there, the rotting boathouse, and various typical family scenes, assembled and presented in the rhythms of my mind and body. (Henry Hills)

The Life and Death of Owen Hart

1999 • 44 min • Canada

"The Life and Death of Owen Hart" chronicles the short but eventful life of pro-wrestling superstar Bret "Hitman" Hart's brother Owen Hart, May 7, 1965 - May 23, 1999.

Suet-Sin's Sisters

1999 • 8 min • Hong Kong

Explores issues facing Chinese women in same-sex relationships. Interviews are intercut with archival footage of a classic Cantonese opera singer known for being a "mannish" woman.

Spetsnaz: Inside The Russian SAS

1999 • 53 min

Spetsnaz is the Russian for Special Forces. In this series this highly secretive organisation will be laid bare. Since the mid-seventies the unit has seen active service in Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia and the crime-ridden streets of Moscow. The films follows some of the different units on operations in Chechnya, Angola and Moscow, as well as their competitive selection process. This film delves inside the domestic counter-terrorism unit ALPHA GROUP, the KGB's foreign commando force, VYMPEL and the special police commandos, OMON. For the first time, our cameras record how new candidates to Spetsnaz units are put through their paces at Balashikha, the joint KGB/Interior Ministry training centre outside Moscow. We will get to know the men and women who aspire to make the transition from regular soldier / policeman to fully-fledged Spetsnaz.

Predators of the Animal World

1999 • 45 min

A real and detailed insight into the cruel and vicious world that is the natural way of survival of the fittest. This program follows predators from all areas of food chains of a varying list of geographical ecosystems. Footage from around the world shows a face of nature that in rarely seen and even less rarely caught on tape.

Think About This

1999 • 5 min

This unique production from ERI Safety Videos encourages workers to be safe at work so they will come home at the end of the day. The custom music score contains many safety messages and concepts. Read along on-screen if you can't make out all the lyrics. Enjoy!

Rumba

1999 • 6 min • Russia

Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.

The Sound of the Violin in My Lai

1999 • 32 min

A short film that examines the history and legacy of the My Lai massacre, an incident of the Vietnam War in which hundreds of Vietnamese civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers.

Clara & Rubinstein

1999 • 12 min • Latvia

One day a common man finds himself in a hell of family life. How did he get there? It all started with such a romance – they met in a museum of contemporary art…

City-e-scape

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

Quick Draw McGraw goes to the big city to wipe out crime, but it really wipes him out.

National Geographic: The Filmmakers

1999 • 55 min • United States of America

National Geographic Wildlife Filmmakers Go Eye-to-Eye with Danger! They swim with sharks, confront venomous snakes, and stalk hungry lions. They're National Geographic filmmakers, and for these remarkable adventurers, capturing unforgettable footage in the wild is not just a job, it's a way of life. Join a cinematographer in the rain forest canopy as he goes to incredible lengths - and heights - to film the world's most powerful bird of prey. Witness the frustration of a filmmaker who just misses the scene-stealing shot of jackal pups greeting their mother in the Serengeti, and feel the exhilaration when he finally captures the event to perfection. Meet the talented professionals who go behind the camera every day and sometimes risk their lives to bring us extraordinary images of nature's most amazing creatures.

Hose

1999 • 5 min • Canada

Mixing cyberporn and “basement porn” footage together, Hose juxtaposes the revolutionary promises of sexuality of the '70s with the cybersex reality of the '90s. This rich visual examination of queer sexuality would not be complete without its sly piss-take (literally) about the fun of watersports.

Wrestle Mania

1999 • 60 min

Oujin, Ebizuka, and Dr. Gyosei repeatedly kidnap playboy celebrities and perform sterilization surgeries on them to make them incapable of bearing children. They declare that homosexuality is the correct 21st century ideology on the basis of their insistence that the population of the earth should not increase any further. Butterfly, their new prey, is actually gay, and says he agrees with their ideology and wants them to join him... Slippery, slippery, and slippery.

How I Became a Ramblin’ Man

1999 • 9 min

In How I Became a Ramblin’ Man, shot in widescreen format, Rodney Graham casts himself in the role of a cowboy roaming a pastoral British Columbia landscape on horseback. The opening minutes of the soundtrack evoke the surrounding nature: lapping water, clip-clopping horse hooves and leaves rustling in the wind. Then Graham dismounts to sing a song about a solitary man. At the end of the ballad, he gets back in the saddle and disappears into the tall grass, with his guitar on his back. In this film, the artist revisits the lonesome cowboy myth perpetuated in western movies and country music.

School Prayer: A Community at War

1999 • 56 min

Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, is forced to sue her public school district in order to have The Bible removed from her childrens' classrooms.

Okumade bishonure: Hoshino Mai

1999 • 60 min • Japan

Straight to video

Oh no

1999 • 1 min

Begins with a low-angled, handheld close-up of a young woman trudging forward with panicked breath. She moves through the interior of a small apartment, repeatedly whimpering the phrase, ‘Oh no’.

Movement of the Earth

1999 • 20 min • Belarus

A film about folk performers of Polesie and Mogilev region Stepan Dubeyko and Mikhas Basyakov.

MALICE MIZER: merveilles ～cinq parallele～

1999 • 28 min

A home video release of five Malice Mizer music videos from their third studio album "merveilles".