All Films

Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse

1999 • 27 min

"Victor and Sally Ganz: Discovering Eva Hesse" documents an intimate visit to the couple's famous art collection in their New York City home. The Ganz's describe how they began to collect art in the 1940's, citing Picasso as their first passion. The couple soon became infatuated with more contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. On a serendipitous Saturday afternoon in 1968, Victor Ganz came upon the work of Eva Hesse in New York's Fischbach Gallery. He was immediately attracted by its freshness and spirit, and together Victor and Sally not only became major collectors, but also soon thereafter close friends of the artist. While recalling the chaotic comfort of Hesse's studio, Sally states, "In her mind, there was certainly no clutter.

Fancine

1999 • 4 min • Norway

Six ideas for movies that will never be made.

Old Spice

1999 • 17 min • Denmark, Iceland

There is an old barbershop in the center of town. This is where Einar has cut hair for half a century or so. He has seen good times and bad times but independent from contemporary tendencies, he has always maintained his own style, but in recent years he has had to deal with the inevitable, his customers grow older, and one by one they slowly disappear. One day they simply don’t show up for their scheduled haircut. But what happens when one of his customers keeps coming after he is dead.

Mapungubwe: Secrets of a Sacred Hill

1999 • 51 min • South Africa

Governed from an impenetrable hilltop, Mapungubwe became the business centre for all of Africa’s trade which, between the years 950 AD to 1290 AD, had become well integrated into the world economy and thrived on trade with the East Indian Trade Route attracting traders from as far afield as Persia, Arabia, India and China. Join John Matshikiza is his investigation of these mysterious archeological ruins.

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires

1999 • 56 min • France

A doumentary of the life and career of French actor, Jean-Pierre Aumont.

The Blue Cavalier

1999 • 11 min • France

The blue horseman, born in the kitchens of hell, escapes and sets off to discover, a strange, dreamlike world. Caught up in all kinds of manipulations, he ends up becoming a legend himself.

Jorge Luis Borges, the Mirror Man

1999 • 48 min • France

The lifetime of the great Argentinian man of letters Jorge Luis Borges through narration and interviews of such key players in his life as Leonor de Acevedo —his mother—, María Kodama —his second wife—, and Adolfo Bioy Casares —his best friend and collaborator for decades.

Nobody Knows My Name

1999 • 58 min • United States of America

A film about women who love and make hip-hop music. These artists strive through the erasures and obstructions of a heavily male-dominated industry.

Shift

1999 • 56 min

SHIFT tells the story of the volatile relationship between Melanie, a waitress in an airport coffee shop, and Louis, a telemarketing prison inmate in a new prison labor program. Stars Chris Meloni (Oz, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit), Alethea Allen and Eric Thal (A Stranger Among Us, The Wedding). Funded by the Independent Television Service for public television.

Troubled Waters

1999 • 9 min • France

Inès shares her apartment with Laura. Everything would be perfect if she had not fallen in love with her.

Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

1999 • 30 min

Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful. She speaks of her way of looking, the impact of landscape, and a new sense of narrative and composition. A legendary teacher at Harvard, her compelling account introduces us to her highly original work.

Thanks a Latte

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

Droopy pursues a rude customer for a tip

Tiger: The Elusive Princess

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom

After 25 years of the Project Tiger Scheme operating in the Madhya Pradesh, these magnificent animals have become more trusting, permitting an extraordinary intimate film which follows them from sunrise to sunset, in monsoon rains and in shimmering heat

Clover

1999 • 7 min • Japan

Suu is a Four Leaf Clover. Her power is unrivaled, yet all she has known her whole life is loneliness. One day, a man named Kazuhiko appears and accompanies Suu for her first and last journey, to the place where she can find happiness.

Brambly Hedge: The High Hills

1999 • 25 min

Wilfred's Rafting Expedition: Wilfred joins Mr Apple and the Weavers to the High Hills. Mr Apple and Wilfred do some exploring, getting lost and stuck up ridges. Primrose and the Weavers search for them.

A Day in the Life of Greg Watkins

1999 • 19 min

Caveh Zahedi films the making of A SIGN FROM GOD (a film in which he starred).

Dream a Little Dream

1999 • 28 min • Germany, Greece

As his wedding day approaches, the architect Yannis keeps having a recurring dream that leaves him shaken when he wakes up. The girl in his reverie is stunningly beautiful, a blithe spirit who taunts him with her smile, her shapely figure, her sensual persona - all that a man would want as a companion for life. The real world, however, offers him someone entirely different. Anna is sweet, attentive, down to earth - all that a man could wish for in a normal marriage. The right decision, it appears, is made. And then it happens: Yannis's dream comes true - on his wedding day.

Constructing a Psychological Horror

1999 • 13 min

Archival behind-the-scenes documentary of the SOV horror film Limbo (1999).

Snowden's Christmas

1999 • 21 min

When the moving truck hits a bump in the road, a quartet of toys stuck in Ohio decide to trek down their owner, who is moving to New York City.

WCW/NWO Superstar Series: Diamond Dallas Page - Feel the Bang!

1999 • 54 min • United States of America

The officially produced biography of WCW wrestler Diamond Dallas Page.

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

1999 • 35 min • United States of America

Jonas Mekas reflects on summers spent in the late 1960s and early 1970s with Jackie Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill, and their families. Blending personal footage with diary narration, the film captures intimate moments of friendship, cinema, and healing in the years following John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Prism

1999 • 20 min • Japan

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Chop, Chop, Chop, Chopin ...

1999 • 13 min • Poland

Original animated film made for the International Chopin Year. The soundtrack consists of Fryderyk Chopin's music performed by Justyna Steczkowska, Tomasz Stańko and Michał Urbaniak. The author rejects the pompous, exalted, pathos-laden, obligatory admiration that paralyses the possibility of hearing Chopin's music in a fresh way.

Örjan – Den höjdrädde örnen

1999 • 21 min • Sweden

Regal is an eagle who is afraid to fly. A little bird offers to help him, but Regal does not believe he can. Will the eagle finally learn to fly?