All Films

Cine Mambembe: Cinema Discovers Brazil

1999 • 56 min • Brazil

Laís Bodanzky and Luiz Bolognesi travel around the small cities of Brazil, exhibiting short films in public squares. From the south of Bahia to the farthest parts of Amazon, this documentary discovers a country that watches a movie and sees itself on the screen for the very first time, in the turning of the 21st century. What’s seen and heard is truly surprising.

America

1999 • 15 min • Greece

A man sees a poster of an old movie that he claims to have acted in

Graduation M: Our Carnival

1999 • 48 min • Japan

Kato, Shimura, Arai, Nakamoto, and Takagi are friends at an all-boys boarding school. After they get tricked by their school government president, the five must put on a performance of the play "Little Women."

Les plugs

1999 • 10 min • France

Beyond the Screams

1999 • 28 min

Mas alla de los Gritos (Beyond the Screams) is a 1999 documentary film featuring the Latino/Chicano punk movement from the late 1970s up until the early 1990s. Martin Sorrondeguy, singer of hardcore punk bands Los Crudos and Limp Wrist, and a prominent figure in both the straight edge scene and the queercore scene, illustrates the repurposing and remixing of punk music in the major Latino cities on the U.S. This one of a kind documentary sheds light on the political D.I.Y. philosophy which aims to empower youth to emancipate themselves from society's oppression. The film is composed of interviews and live performances. The film focuses on the struggle of Latino/Chicano against globalization, poverty, and identity.

Wildfire: Feel the Heat

1999 • 40 min

There are over 20,000 wildfires in a typical year; we follow crews to a few of them. First, we see the preseason physical training and a prescribed burn, which burns the flammable underbrush before the trees themselves are flammable. But since these burns can't do the whole job, we see how firespotters pinpoint lighting-caused fires that smokejumpers then have to parachute into. In the open wilderness of Idaho, the job is relatively simple. In California, where forests are closer to civilization and the chaparral forests are much more flammable, access to the fire is easier, but fighting it is harder. And in Australia, where the forests are full of eucalyptus and tea, the flammability is compounded by the acrid smoke.

...and Half the Kingdom

1999 • 6 min • Sweden

Behind a fairytale castle grow three beautiful flowers well loved by bees

Rainwoman (I Am Called a Plant)

1999 • 1 min

This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.

Nicht auf den Mund

1999 • 12 min • Germany

When Tom first meets Daisy, she scandalizes him, but he is also drawn to her. Over time, Daisy tells Tom about her secret sexual fantasies, while he confides his inhibition to his video camera.

The Glider

1999 • 17 min • Belgium

Bruno pursues Fabrice, runs without calculation, to fly away with him, until the end.

The Well

1999 • 8 min • France

A small creature travels through a well, hanging on a bubble and encountering various other strange life-forms.

Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working - Rare Performances 1968-1978

1999 • 54 min

Muddy Waters peforms in various taped clips during his later years as an elder statesman of the Chicago Blues.

Combat

1999 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A group of friends go out to the pub for a drink and a flirt, but things don't go quite as planned.

Nebulosan

1999 • 57 min • Sweden

A film about sound, a film about words, a film about interpretation and misunderstanding.

Scattered Showers

1999 • 9 min

Made in the final year of his life, Rudy Burckhardt’s Scattered Showers begins its journey in the city he so scrupulously documented in photographs and film for the greater part of his career.

Chainsaw Zombies

1999 • 28 min • Germany

A group of young metal freaks sets out to camp on a nice weekend. One of the boys injured his hand and his blood drips on a buried corpse. Awakened by the blood, the Undead sets out to destroy all the living. His first victim is an unsuspecting forest worker ... whose chainsaw becomes a tool of hell.

Border Land

1999 • 15 min • Japan

Jun Miyazaki sees himself as a film-maker-hunter. On the frontier between where one ends and another starts, he tries to get hold of his film prey. Waiting patiently and watching minor changes is the motto.

Carried by the Wind

1999 • 52 min • Russia, Finland

600 km north of Arkhangelsk on the shore of the White Sea is the fishing village of Shoyna. In winter there is an endless night and an icy desert, in summer there is an incessant sun and salty winds that cover the houses with sand up to the roofs. The film is a metaphorical reflection – about Russia, about the eternal trials that have fallen to its lot, about the coveted freedom and about the paradoxical attraction to unfreedom that exists in every Russian person…

Over Canada

1999 • 60 min

Aerial views of Canada as you travel from east to west

The Art of Survival

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

A painter discovers an unusual chameleon who takes the art world by storm.

El Proyecto del Diablo

1999 • 25 min • Colombia

Experimental film about a lonely marginal man and his demented, personal visions of the apocalypse.

Islands of the Vampire Birds

1999 • 50 min

The story of Darwin's finches and their relationship with other creatures of the Galapagos; tracing their evolution, how the islands were formed and how it's main inhabitants got there.

Understanding the Law: The Coat

1999 • 3 min • Canada

A fashion-conscious shopper sees beautiful coats advertised in the newspaper. The next day, he's the first in line to get his at the store. But they won't sell him one! "These are women's coats," the store owner says. "For women only!" On the grounds that the newspaper ad constitutes a contract, the customer takes the vendor to court to win his right to the coat. Understanding the Law: The Coat is episode one in a series of short, funny films designed to demystify everyday aspects of Canadian civil law. Wry humour and a whimsical style make this informative series lively and memorable.

Electric Earth

1999 • 15 min

In Doug Aitken’s cinemascope-like, walk-in, multi-sectioned, video installation, the public is transported into the atmosphere of an airport by night. A flaming car and an abandoned shopping cart compliment the eerie scenario while, in a parallel world, a noiseless, black rapper sashays through an urban landscape.