All Films

Tokyo Picnic

1999 • 9 min • France, Japan

A 16mm time-lapse of Tokyo gives way to footage of amphibious and crustacean goings-on. Soundtrack by DJ Pangeol.

The Secret Life of Cats

1999 • 56 min • United States of America

From pampered show cats to strays in Miami, NGC explores the human bond with felines and the killer that still lives in these beloved companions.

Christ! My Grandmother Has a Boyfriend

1999 • 51 min • Poland

The family's life changes radically after the arrival of the grandmother. A supporter of physical exercise, getting up early and going to church, she terrorizes her surroundings. After an unsuccessful attempt to get rid of a troublesome guest, the family decides to find the grandmother a fiancé.

Son of Bambi Meets Godzilla

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

The Son of Bambi meets Godzilla

Minotaur and Little Nerkin

1999 • 2 min • United Kingdom

What could possibly tempt the tastebuds of an anthropomorphized bull and his tiny duck-like friend? A severed hand! Dee-lish! But be careful - we've heard that baked hand causes heartburn!

Bloodlust

1999 • 4 min • Germany

An attempt to constitute a human / machine dialogue. It shows the filmmaker’s blood as seen / heard with the eyes / ears of the machine which is a film projector with optical sound. He affixed his blood onto clear film leader by cutting into the flesh and then pressing the film leader onto the wound. Additionally he had blood taken with a syringe and afterwards dripped it on the film leader. fresh and clotted blood was used.

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

1999 • 30 min

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Simeon Soffer. It focuses primarily on the inmates experiences in the rodeo. For a lot of those prisoners, the rodeo seems to be the only thing they have to look forward to. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The Bats

1999 • 8 min • United States of America

A bat tells his story. He lives near a Mayan temple in a cave with bats of nine different pitches. His mother cares for him, teaching him to echo for worms. But all is not idyllic: his brother dies learning to fly; not everyone gets along (babies can be attacked by bats of other pitches). After three years, his sexual urge materializes, and he mates with many females. God speaks to him from time to time, giving solace and advice. Drinking water, finding worms, and enjoying sex bring happiness. But extinction may loom for his species, and regardless of his wish to live forever, death does await.

Halbdrei

1999 • 10 min • Germany

Short film by Johannes Schmid.

No Place Like Home #1

1999 • 5 min • United States of America

An animated film inspired by all the strangeness and mystery surrounding Dorothy's predicament in the Wizard of Oz: what happened to her parents? Why has she no friends her own age? Why does her fantasy consist of all those middle aged farm hands?

Elsa Kirk

1999 • 5 min

Created from contact sheets found in a thrift store in the East Village, Elsa Kirk consists of Xerox enlargements as backgrounds for a series of flat collages.

The Egg

1999 • 21 min

To his despair, the lion-king “Weogho-Naaba” has only daughters. One day, his wife lays an egg. The king sets off to find a wife for his son, but she is most disappointed to see that her future husband is an egg! – and decides to use magic to hatch him.

Aujourd'hui

1999 • 9 min

Aspirin: A Bitter Pill

1999 • 50 min

Launched 100 years ago in the Bayer laboratories in Elberfeld, Germany, aspirin was the first drug to be mass-marketed, the first to be sold in tablet form and the biggest selling drug in history. A wonder drug treating everything from headaches to heart disease, some 1000 billion people have consumed aspirin tablets.

Deep Shit

1999 • 6 min • Norway

A humorous animated short film about a fat rat, a cat and an elephant.

Fragile

1999 • 7 min • Belgium, Luxembourg

At 24 glasses per second, Jules the wine goblet and Pierre the beer mug face each other in a duel to conquer Laurence, the pretty champagne flute. It's an action film complete with breathless combats and amazing stunts where there is only one rule: Don't get broken! But sometimes the heart is more fragile than glass.

Mkomazi: Return of the Rhino

1999 • 52 min

Once found all over Africa, indiscriminate hunting and enthusiasm for decorative rhino-horn daggers has led to near extinction for the black rhino. Thanks to the passage of tight legislation and the rise of vigilant protection, black rhino numbers are finally rising. This film documents efforts at Tanzania's Mkomazi Game Reserve. It is narrated by legendary British actor Edward Fox with an original score by Nikolas Labrinakos

When Animals Nap

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

A film crew try to get footage for their new show "When Bears Attack" from a hibernating Yogi and Booboo

Hi I'm Steve

1999 • 6 min • Canada

Dissatisfied with his sex life, Steve decides he'll give gay telephone dating a try. Although he never seems to find the right person, he does discover a new fetish at the core of his sexual being.

Lesbianage IV

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

Riddled with love, guns, and heartache ... a hilarious spoof trailer exploring the underworld of the lesbian mafia.

Wilma's Sacrifice

1999 • 15 min • Canada

This film tells the tale of young Wilma's romantic escapades with Christine, a woman from the "outside" world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence. Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James, her neurotic chain-smoking Mother, and her opprobrious Father, or escape Eden, a place where one can never feel quite clean enough.

Ambush in Paradise

1999 • 52 min • South Africa

For millions of years, the annual migration in the Masai Mara has survived everything that the natural world has thrown at it. Wildebeest, Zebra and countless other species set off on this journey of enormous proportions to reach the greener grasses thousands of miles away. But the treacherous journey is filled with hardship and the ever-present threat of being ambushed by hungry predators. Crossing the Mara River will be one of the mega herds biggest challenges with crocodiles and lions alike eagerly awaiting at the infamous paradise crossing. It's a bloodbath like no other and only the lucky will make it to the greener pastures on the other side.

Old Fashion Waltz

1999 • 10 min • Canada

An old fashioned waltz. Flirting with horror cinema, here is the portrait of an aging New Brunswick population, unfolding like a found footage object equally elegiac as it is nightmarish.

The Power Stone: A History of the Kwanyama Kingdom

1999 • 56 min • Finland, Namibia

The Power Stone, like the flag of a nation, represents the Kwanyama kingdom, part of present day northern Namibia and southern Angola. The stone was protected by appointed guardians close to the king for hundreds of years. In 1917 the last king, Mandume YaNdemufayo, fell at the hands of the Portuguese and British invaders, and mysteriously the stone disappeared. Found in a Finnish museum nearly 80 years later, this is the story of 'Emanya Lomundilo WoShilongo: The Stone that represents the Fire of the Nation. This documentary takes us on a quest to find the power stone.