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Freak Box

Freak Box

1999 • 2 min
What do a monkey, a robot, and two numbed out teenagers have in common? The symbiotic processes of the idiot box, as it turns out. Freak Box is a stop-motion satire of the lulling evils of television - an electro-mechanical circus where viewers lose - and find - themselves in the hopelessness of the pixel array.
Dispatches: Britain's Most Dangerous Man

Dispatches: Britain's Most Dangerous Man

1999 • 30 min • United Kingdom
An expose of Lennie Smith, the ringleader of a dangerous pedophile gang of which Robert Oliver and Sidney Cooke were both members.
Muy Lejos de Aqui

Muy Lejos de Aqui

1999 • 42 min • Peru
The camera is reflected in the rearview mirror of a car sliding down a dusty desert road on the Peruvian coast. This image symbolically captures the director behind the lens, observing a vast empty space that slips from the sides, trying to escape the center: the present, which simultaneously represents memory, which is at once here and yet always far from here.
Donald's Rocket Ruckus

Donald's Rocket Ruckus

1999 • 5 min • United States of America
Huey, Dewey, and Louie want to go on the best ride in the whole amusement park, The Rocket Ruckus - but Uncle Donald is the ride operator, and he alters the height-requirement sign so his nephews are too short to ride. When the angry boys finally succeed in getting past him, Donald spins the ride out of control and his nephews decide to take mischievous revenge.
Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain

Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain

1999 • 32 min • Andorra
In the year 2046, a powerful gang lord assembles a group of religious leaders, demanding to know what it takes to be a true messiah. Meanwhile, lying imprisoned in a garage somewhere nearby is a man who claims to be the son of God.
Sincerely, Joe P. Bear

Sincerely, Joe P. Bear

1999 • 5 min
Appropriated news clips from the 1960’s combine with hand-painted film to tackle the momentous issue of how polar bears cope with heartbreak and rejection.
La Petite Mort

La Petite Mort

1999 • 7 min • Germany
What if you look for death but find the 'petite mort', orgasm? A lesbian grotesque.
Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine

Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine

1999 • 53 min
NOVA documentary inquiring into the fate of early Everest explorers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine
Closing Time

Closing Time

1999 • 13 min • Hungary
This “Béla Tarr-esque” short presents a small pub right before closing time. The story is about a chess game which turns bad after the final move.
Pic Pic André shoow - 4-1

Pic Pic André shoow - 4-1

1999 • 13 min
Programme presenting 4 adventures of Pic Pic and Andre.
Fissures

Fissures

1999 • 3 min • Canada
In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing. The point of contact in printing is continuously shifted so that the film plane appears warped and the images fluctuate, creating a distorted space of fleeting apparitions, like resurfacing memories.
Quelque chose

Quelque chose

1999 • 18 min
Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. A companion to his early short "Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au coeur"
Why Women Run

Why Women Run

1999 • 46 min
This documentary offers a glimpse into the 1997 federal election in the Halifax electoral district. Two strong female politicians, Liberal candidate Mary Clancy and NDP party leader Alexa McDonough, are caught in a tight competition in one of the most contested races in the country. Director Meredith Ralston follows the two women around the campaign trail for weeks, getting inside an election that was often described as “nasty.” Both larger than life and hungry to win, in quieter moments Clancy and McDonough reveal the strains and contradictions of their chosen careers. Why Women Run highlights the accomplishments of women in politics and the problems many women face participating in the political process.
The Hair Witch Project

The Hair Witch Project

1999 • 60 min • United States of America
Find out the truth about the terrible fate of three documentary filmmakers who journeyed deep into the woods in search of the legendary Hair Witch... and never came back. One week later, their footage was found... then lost again. Then somebody found it and bootlegged it on the Internet. Then it got lost again, and then it was found and sold to Hard Copy and then they lost it and we found it.
Shibuya Rock Transformed Joutai

Shibuya Rock Transformed Joutai

1999 • 59 min • Japan
Number Girl live in Shibuya
With Grandma

With Grandma

1999 • 9 min • Canada
When her parents leave her behind for the first time, Madeleine sees them off with tears in her eyes. Fortunately, her grand-mother is there to coax her out of her sadness. Grandma's house is full of surprises, including a chest full of costumes perfect for dress-up. Together they play and bake. Slowly, Madeleine discovers that Grandma seems to know exactly how to have fun. Adults will reminisce about cherished moments shared with grandparents and reflect on the nature of memory. Younger children will be delighted by young Madeleine's adventures.
Menschen am Kanal

Menschen am Kanal

1999 • 21 min • Germany
Documentary about a waterway in Berlin which used to separate the city into two ideologically opposed areas.
Haruyama Myomi Nobujo

Haruyama Myomi Nobujo

1999 • 14 min
Experimental short film by Teruo Koike.
Miracle Warrior Cosmo Angel

Miracle Warrior Cosmo Angel

1999 • 27 min • Japan
The distortion of the universe revives the great emperor Zolder. Zolder sends space beasts as assassins to invade Earth. One after another, people's souls are pulled out and sacrificed... One day after such an incident, the owner, Mai Tenkuji (Rena Sugimoto), is given the power of light by an alien and gains the ability to transform into a Cosmo Angel. Now the battle between light and darkness was about to begin.
Life in Fog

Life in Fog

1999 • 28 min • Iran
Nezhad is fourteen years old and both of his parents have passed away. He is forced to leave school and take care of the family. To earn a living, he decides to smuggle goods across the Iranian-Iraqi border with his mule. One day, however, the mule breaks a leg.
Clan Destin

Clan Destin

1999 • 14 min • France
On a sunny day and like every afternoon, Omar joins Tchato, Moulay and Fouad on the pier of the port of Oran. Witness to a transaction between a drug trafficker and a sailor, Fouad warns his friends. Moulay and Tchato decide to seize the opportunity to make their dream come true: going to France. With the help of Omar and Fouad, they blackmail the sailor who gives in to their demands. On the evening of departure, Tchato is trapped by his ambiguity.
Im Hukim

Im Hukim

1999 • 29 min
Zaza, a kid from a family who have recently immigrated to Israel, steals money from his parents' closet. Zara wants to buy a card for his album collection, like all the other children in the area. His father refuses to accept such behaviour from a member of the family and wants Zara to confess. To test Zaza's conscience he is forced to punish Zara's younger brother Dato.
The Noonday Witch

The Noonday Witch

1999 • 6 min
The theme of Nika Papadopulosová's graduation film Polednice is a ballad from the collection Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben. The author avoids illustrative processing of the classic theme and presents its contemporary interpretation, for which she uses progressive digital technology. Actress Monika Načeva, in the role of the mother of a naughty child, moves in the virtual environment of a futuristic kitchen, where she copes with the choice between maternal duties and the entertainment of the virtual world. In contrast to the fantastic scenography and music by Jan P. Muchov, actress Jaroslava Adamová recites the traditional wording of the ballad. A professional film crew consisting of cameraman Asen Šopov, sound engineer Ondřej Ježek and producer Martin Kořínek participated in the production of the film, and the post-production of the work was carried out in the graphic studio of Nova Television.
o.T.

o.T.

1999 • 5 min • Austria
Michaela Grill's visual work makes use of a concrete wall as the smallest identifiable element of urban music culture which forms a space. The visual organization of this barely recognizable representational surface is resolved through Takeshi Fumimoto's musical structure. The images illustrate neither the tone nor the rhythm; they follow the logic of the acoustic blueprint to create new forms of hearing through the processing of the found sounds. The camera makes a parallel searching movement along the rough surface. The images, which cannot be isolated, resist a representational aesthetic, and fleeting spatial landscapes and forms which illustrate non-repeatability and improvisation appear in the tension between concentration on the cracks and fractures and the camera's movement across them. Reduction to the plastic and sensorial basis sensitizes the viewer's gaze by making the structure comprehensible.