All Films

The Real Jesus Christ

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Explore the lost biography of Jesus Christ in this doc, chronicling an untold version of Christ's life story that would have been told by those who knew him better than anyone else - his closest followers and his family.

El páramo del ciudadano. Chile actual

1999 • 55 min • Chile

This documentary is based on the bestselling book Chile Actual: Anatomy of a Myth, by sociologist Tomás Moulian. Comprised of testimonies from diverse voices in social, political, philosophical, and cultural thought, it revisits the country's transformations from the 1990s to the turn of the century, offering a critical perspective whose impact resonates to this day.

Expelling the Demon

1999 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a naked man’s disaffection with his own tongue. Tongue being the articulator of the man’s voice, has been his lifetime proxy. But it is beginning to brazenly assert itself and fly in the face of its owner. The man can tolerate this no more and a power struggle ensues during which we learn something of the tongues dubious nature.

Raul Seixas – Sexo, Drogas & Rock 'n' Roll

1999 • 7 min • Brazil

An experimental film made from a series of pictures of Raul Seixas shot by Ivan Cardoso, showing the musician in various stages of his life.

Hercules: The Invincible Hero

1999 • 40 min

Hercules, Jupiter's favourite son and his little friend cloppete, King Krinios' centaur son, are on a journey to the city of a Hundred Centaurs...what starts out as a mere stroll develops into one of his most exciting adventures! The adventure is also tainted with the prospect of Hercules meeting his true love! However Hercules must face an assortment of deadly enemies on his quest such as the multi-headed sea monster and the ferocious lion. The story delivers a series of cliffhangers where our hero is led to the dark and dangerous depths of the realm of the Dead World.

Les Baltus Au Cirque

1999 • 6 min • France

the Animated Short Film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar

For Aesthetic Reasons

1999 • 29 min • Denmark, Estonia

Andres Kurg is an art historian who likes Danish modernist architecture and therefore wants to settle there. He argues with Danish officials to grant him a residence permit for aesthetic reasons.

Theis and Nico

1999 • 20 min • Denmark

The two brothers Teis and Nico find a poster from "Gone with the Wind" and they start talking about why people kiss and the techniques behind it. Later they meet Giinjha and she invites them to her birthday-party. While they are preparing to go to the party they rehearse how to kiss in the way the poster suggested because Teis has announced that he is in love with Giinjha and will kiss her even though he is not comfortable about it.

Cirque Du Soleil: Inside La Nouba

1999 • 45 min

Once upon a time, a door opened and two worlds collided. Dreams clashed with reality. The mundane mixed with the marvelous. It was no longer possible to tell where one world began and the other ended. This new place was called La Nouba. This special presentation features highlights of the show and live interviews with the creators of La Nouba that takes you from conception to perception.

Abyssinia

1999 • 17 min • Slovenia

A sentimental, delightful journey along the former railway route “Porečanka” that connected Trieste and Poreč from 1902 until 1935. Then it was dismantled and the tracks to be used in Mussolini’s war in Abyssinia but they sank in the Mediterranean – an ironic turn of history, an ideal subject for Karpo Godina, the master of tender wit.

Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet

1999 • 57 min • Canada

"Michael Ondaatje called Gwendolyn MacEwen 'the last of the bardic poets'. In the early 60s, she astonished the nascent beat scene at Toronto's Bohemian Embassy with her exotic looks and her accomplished writing style. During her lifetime MacEwen travelled to Greece and Egpyt, married twice, wrote novels, translated Greek verse, took lovers and wrote radio scripts. Above all, she wrote luminous poetry, some of which is sensitively visualized in this thoughtful, pensive work which features insights from Margaret Atwood, Judith Merrill and Rosemary Sullivan." -- Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Transworld - Transmission 7

1999 • 38 min

Video #7 "Experience Global Skateboarding"

Your Tongue On My Heart

1999 • 4 min • Italy

An experimental Super 8 short film directed by and starring Asia Argento, which premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival.

In the Forest Hangs a Bridge

1999 • 39 min

Located deep in the forested hills of the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh, at the north-eastern extremity of India, Damro village gathers to build a 1000 foot long suspension bridge, the elegant structures of cane and bamboo, that are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe. Their only tool is the dao, a blade length of tempered steel, the size of a machete.

A Stranger Among Us: Searching for Nick Drake

1999 • 40 min • United Kingdom

The documentary follows Nick's career, his personal rise, fall and the cult that continues to grow after his death. As this is told through personal recollection with no experts or celebrity fans, it is not a tribute but a film about memory and friendship.

Normalität 1-10

1999 • 37 min

What is declared normal by some and accepted as such by the majority sometimes represents a concrete threat to others. Normality 1-10, a series of short video essays, registers everyday neo-fascist violence as being an instrument of such "normalization." In a matter-of-fact and at the same time insistent manner, Hito Steyerl offers a richly detailed report on the growing number of anti-Semitic and racist attacks - on cemeteries, monuments and human beings - in both Austria and Germany. In a sober visual language, she develops a number of forms and styles of commentary to pose questions concerning the social structures inherent to this variety of violence and their representation. From sixpackfilm.com

Towards

1999 • 4 min • Germany

The view out the window of a train toilet is reflected in the mirror, and vice versa.

La última cena

1999 • 8 min • Argentina

Woman wakes from a nightmare and has a late night snack. However, the nightmare has not ended.

Forever Bottom!

1999 • 4 min

First person short bemoaning one of the more tiresome stereotypes about gay asian males.

We’re Here to Serve You

1999 • 3 min • Mexico

Too Young

1999 • 43 min • Taiwan

An indigenous couple married young with a child when they were only 16 and 19 years old. The financial burden and challenges in life were so heavy for them that quarrels were unavoidable. As their former elementary school teacher, the filmmaker recorded the young couple’s daily life, while trying to give them a hand in their time of need.

Lily

1999 • 9 min • United States of America

Lover. Ex. Loser. Wonder. Window. Buzz. Is there any easy way to get over love?

Mnemo.Diario

1999 • 38 min

"Mnemo.Diario" is a touching and intimate work that Studio Azzurro loves very much. It testifies to an important moment in the history of the group, namely the approach to the spaces of the Fabbrica del Vapore and the discreet and profound closeness of a friend like Giuseppe Baresi.

Eggs, Fish and Blood

1999 • 2 min

A short experimental film about the sensations of pregnancy. Mainly scratched directly onto 35mm. Screened at Hamburg Short Film Festival, Bradford Animation Festival. Also screened throughout England as part of Vox Pop Puella, a touring show about the seven ages of women.