All Films

Like a Dream that Vanishes

1999 • 39 min • Canada

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal nature of film, as the stuff of life echoed on the energy, life-force in rhythmic light pulses (Your life is like a candle burning). Imageless emulsion is inter-cut with brief shots of natural elements and mise-en-scene of the stages of human life: a little boy runs and falls; teens hang out together at night smoking; sun shines through tree branches; men pace, waiting; flashes of lightning; an elderly man speaks philosophically about miracles.

Project Flesh

1999 • 36 min • Switzerland

Claudia's family is brutally slaughtered, and she definitely plans to find the perpetrator or perpetrators - and then take revenge with a bloodbath...

Swingers' Serenade

1999 • 24 min

A character referred to as "The Professor" introduces and comments on a filmed version of a supposed script from a 1960's home movie-making magazine. Even though the target audience would presumably be making the film at home and casting their friends and family, the script is an extremely suggestive tale of a housewife being seduced by a traveling salesman.

The Night

1999 • 6 min • Portugal

It's the story of a child and her mother, two lives that don't communicate with each other. Is that loneliness that sometimes reaches the size of the night. Dark is the night. Dark is the mother. And dark becomes the entire Universe when you are alone and abandoned.

The Queer Reveries of James Bidgood

1999 • 32 min

A French television documentary about Pink Narcisus, one of the earliest openly gay art house movies from the early 70’s.

Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt: Painter

1999 • 15 min • Sweden

Portrait of the painter Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt by Håkan and Sture Dahlström.

Home Hole Horrors

1999 • 6 min • Latvia

A raccoon and his wife are having a regular nice day in their home in a tree. That's until they hear the noise of a woodchuck attacking their lovely abode...

thirtyfour

1999 • 15 min

Events happened to a teenager hitchhiking on a deserted highway in the middle of the night. Selim, who decides to go to his uncle’s summer house in Bolayır to prepare a term paper on death in the cinema, is hitchhiking on the highway at night, when an interesting man picks him up in his car.

Не упустите убийцу

1999 • 38 min • Russia, Greece

A contemporary tale about the ghost of a modern city.

Inner New Moon

1999 • 7 min

Experimental short film by Teruo Koike.

Fugue

1999 • 7 min

A work of visual art that borrows from music the principles of the fugue, with the sudden flight of a man to his hotel room as its main theme. Where he dreams.

La Véritable Histoire du Père Noël

1999 • 49 min • France

Johnny Panic

1999 • 46 min • United Kingdom

Within this film Lahire deftly combines the fictional aspects of Plath's writing with the stark reality of her life.

Escape from Hell

1999 • 9 min • Australia

Caught having sex with another man, this 17 year old has an angry fight with his father which comes to a tragic end when he sets himself on fire.

The Name of the Game

1999 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

Summer of 1999. Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. After the NATO air strikes on the city, a group of young people are playing football. It seems like everything is in order.

Lalia

1999 • 15 min • Spain

Lalia is a Saharaui girl who lives in a refugee camp in Algiers. She has only heard her grandmother and grandfather talk about her country, about the Sahara, that was taken away by Morroco. She dreams of one day seeing the ocean, seeing her real country. The reality she lives in is different... the uncertainty of the refugee camps, the political unbalance... but she is strong... and she knows that there can be change... she won't stop dreaming, and she won't stop longing..

255 Hits

1999 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

An experimental documentary made up of footage of NATO's bombing of a refinery in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1999. The refinery was bombed in 13 separate days, and a total of 255 rockets were fired at it.

The Death of Nekojiru

1999 • 56 min • Japan

A documentary on the suicide of manga author Chiyomi Hashiguchi, commonly known as Nekojiru.

Juan Diego: Messenger of Guadalupe

1999 • 30 min

In 1591 Juan Diego found himself between two worlds…that of the Spanish conquerors and that of his own Aztec heritage. Because of his love for his people and his strong faith, Juan Diego turned to Jesus and His Mother, Mary for help in uniting his people. The answer to Juan Diego’s prayers has become one of the greatest events in the history of the Americas. JUAN DIEGO: MESSENGER OF GUADALUPE is the true story of how the Blessed Mother chose a hero for a key role in a beautiful miracle that would united diverse peoples and change the course of history. In the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City the miracle of the tilma of Juan Diego may still be seen, just as it was seen by the bishop in 1531.

Thomas & Friends: Cranky Bugs

1999 • 30 min

Cranky the Crane gives little engines Thomas and Percy a lot of grief in the title story. To make matters worse, big engines Gordon and James side with the ill-tempered lifter and the little guys get nervous and begin making mistakes on the job. They redeem themselves, however, when Cranky topples in a storm and Thomas and his buddy put him back upright. Other stories feature twin engines Bill and Ben having "teething troubles," Toad the brake van's forward-thinking ambition, grumpy Gordon crashing through a station wall, and storyteller Alec Baldwin adopting a falsetto as Lady Hatt, Sir Topham Hatt's wife and birthday girl. In lieu of a seventh story, a chorus of kids sings "Night Train" while the model trains steam through darkness in a series of dramatic scenarios.

Rapture

1999 • 9 min

The installation features two black-and-white projections. One depicts a group of men dressed in Western suits and the other captures a group of women veiled in chador. In the work, Neshat takes on entrenched gender stereotypes by placing the men in a structured, architectural fortress and the women in a wild, natural desert. The viewer is positioned between these dichotomies, with the videos displayed on opposite walls, and is forced to shift attention from one to the other. The installation shows how established beliefs and presumptions can flourish in social and religious systems, emphasizing that these deep-rooted dynamics profoundly impact all people, indiscriminate of gender.

The Earthsong of the Cricket

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

This is a hand-painted work whose shapes are scratched on black leader filled with varieties of color: the resultant shapes tend to suggest insect-like movements, a rub of bent-lines together suggesting the electric hind legs of the cricket, whose movements engender (thru elaborate step-printing) quick pull-backs within frames of the film, so contrived as to create visual agitron lines within the zoom-like effect whose rhythm approximates a cricket's repetitive sound. This effect is echoed ephemerally later in the film as it nears its end of muted pull-down shapes and approximations of the earth-clod-likenesses and/or autumnal leaf-likenesses which begin the film.

18 en el parque

1999 • 25 min • Chile

Diversity of Chilean flora and fauna reunite on the intercommunal park of La Reina to celebrate the 18th of September.

Leda and the Swan: Nailed

1999 • 42 min

A young woman begins to have flashbacks to when she was a young girl, and sees visions of herself in a lesbian/sado-masochistic relationship with her playmates--but she's not sure if she's remembering things as they were or as she would like them to have been.