All Films

On Aesthetics

1999 • 9 min

Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.

Johannes - mitt i stan

1999 • 58 min • Sweden

A documentary about the Johannes Church in central Stockholm and the quaint neighbourhood surrounding it in the middle of such a big city.

Marée haute

1999 • 16 min • France

She worked all summer in a small restaurant on a Normandy beach. It's the end of the season, season of work, season of love ; he dumped her, in any case it looks like it. She has good reasons for talking to herself, all the more so since there's hardly anyone else around.

Catherine

1999 • 12 min • Argentina

In the search for a woman, someone may still turn out to be different.

The Tower of Babel

1999 • 13 min • Poland

A documentary focusing on Polish 60-year-old Henryk Kowalczyk who is deaf-blind and being taught sculpture. Working with clay and other materials is therapeutic light in a world of darkness

The Hat

1999 • 6 min • Canada

An exotic dancer recalls an incident from her childhood where she was physically abused by a male visitor.

Brown Women, Blond Babies

1999 • 30 min • Canada

Thousands of women leave their homes and families in the Philippines every year to work abroad as domestics. Thousands have made their way to Canada, forming part of “the Third World in our living rooms.”

Lexi-Con

1999 • 4 min • Canada

A mockumentary of TV business and market reporting. The hype and style of TV business stations belies basic market information and is akin to sports and lifestyle reporting. Numbers are everything and reporters rely on forecasting tools like chicken-entrails and numerology. Stories ignore social consequences of market action.

Joaquim Bravo, Évora 1935, Etc. Etc. Felicidades

1999 • 58 min • Portugal

Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive Portuguese galleries, the 111 in Campo Grande. Its doctrinal influence and its enormous capacity for enthusiasm would mark in the early sixties Évora's group of painters (Lapa, Palolo) and, in the 80's, artists such as Xana and Cabrita Reis. At his death, a moving tribute was paid to him by a huge and varied group of artists ranging from João Vieira to Miranda Justo. His work is scattered in a large number of private and institutional collections.

Kalighaat Fetish

1999 • 22 min • India

The film attempts to negotiate with the duality that is associated with the ceremonial veneration of the Mother Goddess Kali. It ruminates on the nuanced transness that is prevalent, in the ceremonial performance of male devotees cross dressing as Kali. This is interwoven with grotesque elements of a sacrificial ceremony, which forms a vital part of the worship of the Goddess.

Pinocchio

1999 • 6 min • Italy

Where Disney's version marginalized the darker elements of the novel, Gianluigi Toccafondo's adaptation brings them to the center. It's a film he cursed over and which took him three years to complete.

Gratian: The Real life Romanian Werewolf

1999 • 45 min

The people in Izbuc, a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains (Transylvania), think that their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf. According to an old custom, when a child is born, the midwifes call upon the spirits, to make the child hard working, beautiful, loveable or wise. It is said that when Gratian was born, the umbilical cord broke only after the midwife called forth the werewolf. This crucial moment was to influence his whole life.

Coupling

1999 • 5 min

A hand-painted work prepared by my imagination of the sex act affecting internal organs of the human bodies.

Two Pictures

1999 • 12 min • Canada

Canada's king of visual alchemy teams up with France's mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of cinematic abstraction. Tactile and textured, luscious and luminescent, Two Pictures is a singular statement embodying a powerful dichotomy. This is a film that is simultaneously about nothing and about everything.

I, Socky

1999 • 8 min

A sock monkey enjoysg a night on the town.

Tamentai Telepathy

1999 • 41 min

Short documentary produced by Space Shower TV. First broadcast two months before the release of the "Honnou" single, it is mostly an hour long interview with Sheena Ringo, and mostly shot in b/w.

Dream Girl

1999 • 55 min • Russia

A young guy constantly sees a vision in the form of a beautiful girl. Thanks to this, he remains a "pure" and incorrigible romantic.

The Ticket Inspector

1999 • 7 min

A ticket inspector working in Stockholm's underground collects words and thoughts that he passes on to the passengers.

Le Cuoche

1999 • 35 min • Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Filmed on location at the Macchiascandona restaurant, Grosseto, Italy, October 1998.

Realm of the Bizarre

1999 • 59 min

An SOV horror anthology of three shorts by Herb Henderson. The Strange Case of Ezra Bumble (1994) Bothered (1993) Homecoming (1999).

Animal

1999 • 9 min • Spain

One morning a man see in his coffee cup a world of ancient ritual scenes. After that, he goes to his job...

The Adventure of Iron Pussy, Episode II, Bunzai Chaiyo

1999 • 23 min

The Iron Pussy ventures down Thaniya to save poor Thai girls being held as sex slaves by the evil Japanese.

Hôpital

1999 • 37 min

What kind of habits does one develop when confronted with extreme situations on a daily basis ? In a geriatric department, the management of this borderline state becomes the structuring element of everyday life. The staff focuse on technical gestures to keep bodies at bay. Nurses use a specialized vocabulary, which serves less to express a feeling than to domesticate the violence of it, reducing the disorder of emotions to a reduced number of formulas. Patients use devious means to assert their independence. A woman fiercely refuses to take a shower. This is an ultimate form of resistance, to feel that she still has decision-making power over her body. Raymond withdraws to an inner world. He creates stories about the objects he sees in his room, confusing past and present, dreams and reality.

Födelsedagar och andra katastrofer

1999 • 28 min • Sweden

Alice's birthday is not exactly as she expected. Suddenly she gets a secret she can't talk about ...