All Films

Paradise Bent: Boys Will Be Girls in Samoa

1999 • 51 min • Australia

An exploration of the Samoan faafafine, boys who are raised as girls, who fulfill a traditional role in Samoan culture. In the past they have shared women's traditional work but today are becoming more westernized and look more like drag queens. Several anthropologists comment on the phenomenon examining issues of culture and gender and the complexities of sexual identity.

Quiet window

1999 • 20 min

One of the hidden works of Hiroyuki Sekine. A quiet requiem for his alma mater “Tama Art School” [多摩芸術学園], which was closed down. This film was shown only once at a private screening, and was never shown to the public again.

Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey

1999 • 57 min • United States of America

This award-winning PBS documentary sweeps viewers into a seafaring adventure with a community of Polynesians, as they build traditional sailing canoes, learn how to follow the stars across the open ocean, and embark upon a 2,000-mile voyage in the wake of their ancestors.

Tom Merritt

1999 • 6 min • Denmark

Based on Edgar Lee Master's "Spoon River Anthology" from 1915, this is the story of Tom Merritt.

Night Navigation

1999 • 27 min • Estonia

A group of young people goes for a walk on a summer night which stirs the imagination. They begin telling stories about a girl named Paula, who isn’t among them, but with whom each of them has had a meaningful encounter in the past. This is a romantic drama, structured as a road movie, with a deliberately fragmented narrative style that mirrors the wandering of free thought.

Backstreet Boys: Backstreet Stories

1999 • 50 min

Meet Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Nick Carter and cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell, otherwise known as the multiplatinum-selling Backstreet Boys. This intimate, unauthorized portrait tells behind-the-scenes stories from the people who were around for the group's meteoric rise. Includes interviews, profiles of each band member and lots of great video footage, including film of the boys' first trip to New York.

Bizarre And Outrageous #2

1999 • 59 min

The second in a two-part series. You’ll find yourself saying some or all of the these things while watching this video: OH MY GOSH! OH NO! NO WAY! WHAT THE HECK? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! AWESOME! WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT? THEY'VE GOT TO BE CRAZY! You will witness fantastic and unrestrained events, people going beyond all standards of what is decent, outrageous outcasts, behavior in good taste and in bad taste, unbelievable freaks, and much, much more... We went through great means and efforts to get you this rare footage, but don't count on not rewinding and rewinding and rewinding your VCR over and over and over again to see if you're really seeing what you think you are.

The Blair Witch Phenomenon

1999 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the impact of the film The Blair Witch Project, hosted and presented by film critic Mark Kermode.

The Cosmonaut Cover-Up

1999 • 52 min • United States of America

It turns out Yuri Gagarin was not the first man in space, but was preceded by another Soviet cosmonaut who crash landed, was severely injured and his identity kept secret -- until now.

Happy Hour

1999 • 12 min

A man and a woman get to know each other at night in St.Pauli and spend an unforgettable hour together.

Riot

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom

John Akomfrah’s seminal Riot traces the riots in Liverpool during July 1981 in a climate of economic recession under Thatcher’s regime. Akomfrah captures this turning point in Britain’s struggle towards multicultural democracy through interviews revealing the ghettoisation and racial abuse in Toxteth that escalated with stop-and-search policing tactics following the “sus” laws.

Remembering Stanley Kubrick

1999 • 35 min • United States of America

Interviews with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven Spielberg about Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut.

6ix

1999 • 11 min

A man wakes up in the morning to discover he has a weird mark behind his neck; the number 665. He tries to find out what it means, discovers that his fathers number was 664 and he fears the worst for his child..

Evil Hill

1999 • 12 min

Think of this as "Austin Powers:Episode One" A nine minute spoof of Notting hill and Austin Powers. Set six years before the events of the original Austin Powers. Mr. Evil, younger, not yet a Doctor, and not yet the Evil world dominator that we now know, runs a small childrens bookshop somewhere near Bavaria. It is the story of how Dr. Evil became Evil, and his unlikely and doomed love affair with the biggest movie star in the world.

Atom by Atom

1999 • 8 min • Sweden

Year 2061. Everyone has left Earth. A figure is sent back to Earth to check on the situation. Are they the same elements, do the history chips work? Slowly, something begins to happen, a ritual to evocative rhythmic music. There is a threat... - it comes from within. Gradually, a trance-like state arises, where the figure meets its dark side.

Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants

1999 • 4 min • Denmark

A bizarre adventure in which a young boy is chased by a masked phantom holding a severed arm in a graveyard. A man with one arm appears and is handed the severed arm by the phantom. Then a giant woman appears enveloping the boy. An unsettling and delirious apocalyptic atmosphere pervades the movie, designed as a trailer for a "film of the future."

Sheena Ringo: Kyoei Branko

1999 • 46 min • Japan

"Kyoei Branko" was a one day performance in Club Asia, Tokyo, very soon after "Manabiya Xstasy."

Polêmica

1999 • 13 min • Brazil

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.

Mylène Farmer: L'âme-stram-gram

1999 • 8 min

Twin sisters and soul mates are confronted by a Mongol horde and use their superpowers to defend themselves to the death. The song title is a play on words for a French counting rhyme - "Am stram gram". The French word "âme" means "soul" in English.

A Challenge

1999 • 21 min • Japan

An educational short film about bullying.

News from a Personal War

1999 • 57 min • Brazil

A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily war that knows no winners.

The Cliff

1999 • 18 min • Morocco

In a small village near a beach, Hakim and his little brother Saïd do odd jobs (whitewash a tomb, resell empty bottles).

The Mouse

1999 • 9 min • Macedonia

A man hides in the fireplace of a house like a mouse in a hole, afraid of the war going on outside.

The Kidnappers

1999 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Doctor Who spoof by Mark Gatiss and David Walliams.