All Films

Målle Lindberg - pajas eller profet?

1999 • 46 min • Sweden

"Målle Lindberg - clown or prophet?" - About the evangelist and singer Målle Lindberg, a.k.a. the Gypsy Preacher. The film depicts parts of his life with archive footage from the 1950's and 1960's.

Melanie C: Liverpool To Leicester Square Tour - Live in Munich

1999 • 50 min

Single camera footage shot at Inconito, Munich, Germany in 1999 during Melanie's From Liverpool To Leicester Square Tour.

Body Double 14

1999 • 4 min

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

Mémoire(s)

1999 • 17 min • France

Mémoire(s), Gérard Cairaschi's new video, continues the work started in 1996 with the video installation ‘Quinaé’. Here again we find a predilection for images where nature and characters are as many references to the History of art (painting in particular) and to our common and individual story (myths, religions, literature, cinema...). An interlacing of images and a luminous vibration that both invade us and make a whole world in creation emerge - or reappear - from our retina and memory.

I Know a Place

1999 • 30 min • Canada

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is a small steel town on Lake Superior. Bob Goddere is an openly gay man who has lived there for years and hosts dances for the local gay and lesbian community in his basement. This is his story and the story of what gay-life in one small Canadian town is like.

See No Evil

1999 • 55 min • Hungary

The film tells the story of two young assassins' first assignments. The mysterious contractor wants his wife dead. The task seems easy, but the abandoned house of the victim's father hides terrible secrets. Vampires, monsters, and other delicacies. The two cheerful newcomers get into big trouble, but eventually the truth comes out.

Lesson 9

1999 • 14 min • United States of America

Lesson 9 is a short film about the loss of a lover to insanity. Part horror story, noir-like mystery and disaster film, Lesson 9 weaves together shards of a narrative that has been shattered like excerpts from the journal of a lover gone mad. A disaster movie after the disaster, the film uses three different definitions of possession to form its thematic structure and to explore love, loss, sexuality and insanity.

Laugh In the Dark

1999 • 47 min • Canada

Laugh In the Dark takes us into the heart of “queer family values” with an odd little wagon train of “six fags, two dykes and an old lady” who pull into the dilapidated town of Crystal Beach, Ontario in the early l980s. The “boys” dream of restoring this former resort town to its earlier glory, with a twist. They open a B&B, and stage lavish cabarets, complete with lip synching drag queens, to raise money for early AIDS awareness.

the stone show

1999 • 9 min • Canada

Visually poetic, this video diary explores the artists reunion with his family and his culture after years of separation.

Wayang Golek: Performing Arts of Sunda [West Java]

1999 • 42 min

Wayang Golék is the rod-puppet theater of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which incorporates a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs, and instrumental music. This program introduces the Wayang Golék tradition, focusing on puppeteer, musician, and puppet-maker Atik Rasta and his family. The first part of the video features footage from an all-night performance, interwoven with interviews with the artists. The second part examines the music of the accompanying gamelan ensemble.

Rinnsteine

1999 • 2 min

A film by Helga Fanderl.

Blood and Flowers: In Search of the Aztecs

1999 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A documentary charting the early years of the Aztec civilization in ancient Mexico.

Pic Pic André shoow - Quatre Moins un

1999 • 8 min • Belgium

Programme presenting 4 adventures of Pic Pic and Andre.

Zen

1999 • 28 min

Filmed in a remote Zen temple in the Japanese Alps. The images start with the magnificent mountains, before descending to one of the cities and then on into the monastery, where we follow the highly ritualised lives of the monks and nuns. Besides the landscapes, there are some truly memorable scenes, like the monastics on alms round, the unrolling of the scriptures, and even the taking of a meal, all of which become slightly surreal under the watchful eye of the camera.

Familia Fortone

1999 • 12 min • Argentina

To take care of family property, unexpected solutions are sometimes taken.

Grandpa Jim’s House Party - When Things Go Baaaad!

1999 • 18 min • United States of America

Grandpa Jim's House Party is a Party in a Package, designed for children to invite their friends and neighbors to their house and have a party. But, it's more than just a party... it's an opportunity to share the good news of Jesus.

Get Ready

1999 • 1 min • Austria

A propulsively jittering journey through the cinematic imaginary using glitchy found footage and jacked-up cyber sounds, Get Ready hits the highway hard and takes us with it.

My Postcard Collection

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

Heather McAdams documents her extensive postcard collection to the tune of Hank Snow's "I've Been Everywhere"

Ms. Fukuda

1999 • 41 min • Japan

This omnibus of four episodes depicts the daily life of Fukuda and her friends. In "Sunday", Mr Fukuda receives crabs from his parents' house and invites his friends over for a crab casserole. In "Piece", Mr Fukuda breaks his friend's precious teacup. In 'Badminton', Mr Fukuda prepares to move house and his friends come over to play badminton with a racket he once threw away. 'An Ordinary Day', in which a friend comes to visit Ms Fukuda's room and they eat sweets and drink tea together. All of these stories are told in a simple, everyday tone, but the temperature of the communication between Ms Fukuda and her friends slowly and surely warms the feelings of the viewer.

Ratrace

1999 • 60 min

Kater disembowels people for a living to give them to his employer, the doctor, and things are not going well for him. His girlfriend Maria has left him, he can’t remember the last time he won at the local rat races. He could start all over again, if he were ready to erase brains. His debts would be discharged, his honour re-established. But his professional ethos doesn't allow him to do that. He is in a dilemma.

Invisible Women

1999 • 30 min

Invisible Women follows the lives of three ethnic Indian women in Hong Kong. In the film, Cheung explores gender inequalities and looks at the lives of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

World War I: A Lost Generation

1999 • 44 min • United States of America

World War One caused greater destruction and involved more countries than any other war except WWII. An assassin's bullet set off the war, and a system of military agreements brought the main European powers into the fight. Both sides expected a quick victory, but the war lasted four years and took the lives of almost 10 million men. Extreme patriotism gave men a cause to die for and propaganda raised support for the war while making the enemy seem villainous. This fascinating 2-part documentary program chronicles the major events of this devastating period in the world's history through insightful narration and compelling archival footage and photographs.

The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

This film is a hand-painted combination of shapes which suggest, as appropriately colored, jungle, open veldt, horizontals of grasses, shag-shape yellow of lion's mane, the black & white stripes of the zebra, the eyes, the teeth, the tearing open into raw blood-red meat and curve of bone. Nonetheless the film is in no sense an animation work but rather a collection of mostly un-nameable shapes which gather round this recognizable iconography and visually dominate the image which repeats its, thus, ephemeral chase-and-catch increasingly closer, finally obliterating all but the "jewels," the multiple coloring, referred to in the title.

Fascinating Nature 2

1999 • 54 min • Germany

The warm rays of the sun bathe the blue planet in light and color. The variations of the glistening white of the icy deserts, the lush green of the plants, the warm yellow and red of the earth, the playful colorfulness of flowers and animals, the deep blue of the water and the sky transform our world into an endless frenzy of fantasy.