All Films

Behind Walls

1999 • 20 min

A 16mm black & white film about Josie, a homegirl from the hood, who feels alienated ever since her brother Alex and "papi chulo" cousin Papo became lovers. As children, they made a promise to stay together. The promise read: "Cousins Forever". As adults, they share an apartment. The boys are unaware that Josie has drilled a hole on the wall. She feels that peeping is pathetic but it's the only way to feel included.

Ouvertures faciles

1999 • 4 min • France

A panel of people representing nothing at all tries to open supposedly easy-open packages.

Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit 1999

1999 • 48 min

Enjoy a peek behind the scenes of the 1999 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue with cover model/host Heidi Klum on a tour of paradise: an exotic private island brimming with the world's most beautiful women. Newcomers Amber Noelle Ehresmann and Anouk Voorveld join supermodels Niki Taylor, Eva Herzigova and many more--plus see SI Swimsuit's most revealing effort ever: models wearing nothing but body paint.

Hiroshi and Rolan

1999 • 12 min

Hiroshi brings a foreign woman to his small apartment after a student party. The woman soon falls asleep from drunkenness and the sexual fantasies of the man left alone begin.

Framed

1999 • 19 min

Slade: It's Slade

1999 • 49 min • United Kingdom

With special guests and stories and from those who where there, see, hear and feel the music from first-hand accounts of the Glam Rock Kings of the 1970s: Slade.

High Pain Management

1999 • 24 min • France

Laurent, twenty, found, thanks to his father, a first job: security agent in a sports shop. The arrival of the young man disrupts his superior, Thierry, who immediately takes aversion.

Inside-Out

1999 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Girl cleaning windows of an Oxford St store catches the eye of a guy in the street who larks about much to her amusement.

Jolly Roger

1999 • 12 min • United Kingdom

After marauding and sinking another ship, a band of pirates capture a female passenger, then send her overboard as punishment for her defiance. She vows revenge, and fortunately is rescued by a small passing ship carrying only its captain, his first mate and a cat. They cross paths with the pirates, but both sides - after seeming to have victory within their grasp - meet a fate neither could have predicted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Abe Sada in the Heisei Era: I Want You

1999 • 59 min • Japan

Saki, a full-time housewife, feels dissatisfied with her monotonous life, but continues to play the role of a faithful wife. Her husband, a university lecturer, is satisfied with Saki, and he spends his days having fun with one of his students as his mistress. One night, Saki is captivated by a gay man brought home by her husband's friend...

13

1999 • 15 min

When Jesus looks into the eyes of Magdalena, she thinks her fate is to become a nun. Until an angel tells her what God really wants: she must give birth to 13 children each of whom have to be born on the 13th of the month. So Magdalena sets to work.

Stop

1999 • 9 min • Norway

A boy witnesses his father lose his temper in the face of a stranger.

Deep Freeze

1999 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Michelle's father has left her his super deluxe refrigerator. Its unexpected arrival at the apartment she shares with Ron puts the deep freeze on their love.

Love Bites

1999 • 13 min

A suspicious mind gets more than he bargained for when he attempts to catch his girlfriend in the act.

Dream Kitchen

1999 • 8 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

A tale about isolation and lack of communication, the gap between the reality a teenage boy lives, and how he would like it be. He has a secret that he would like to tell his family, something that he has come to terms with and is about to affect the rest of his life. But how will they react?

Maxmillian Tarzan

1999 • 8 min • Finland

The authorities are after a time-traveler identifying as Maxmillian Tarzan.

Voodoo

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

A little girl uses a voodoo doll to get rid of her mother's date.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

1999 • 46 min • United States of America

Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for decades, the building is filled with countless discarded artifacts from the past. The girl is discovered by the old caretaker, who uses the ghosts and spirits that inhabit this long-abandoned world to turn her life around.

Little Man

1999 • 40 min

Trollkarlen

1999 • 56 min • Denmark, Sweden

In this sober and moody documentary, director Anders Østergaard explores the life - and death - of Swedish wonder kid jazz pianist Jan Johansson through a rain-soaked windshield.

Slim Pickings

1999 • 5 min • Australia

In a hungry world, remember who your friends are. Painstakingly crafted with elastic clay animation, this tale of survival tells the story of Snork, a lonely green thing, and his best friend, an excitable green plant. Featuring expressionistic lighting and shot in glorious grainy 35mm with in-camera effects. Any scratch, sparkle or dust is real! This golden oldie is a stop mo festival favorite.

Toy Boys

1999 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.

Thin Air

1999 • 42 min

An extremely rare and hard-to-find documentary short by director Ashim Ahluwalia. Thin Air chronicles the lives of three magicians against the backdrop of contemporary Bombay and offers a refreshingly complex vision of urban life through three illusionists who have little option but to confront reality.

A Man's Heart, Swinging Love

1999 • 60 min • Japan

Tetsuro spots a cross-dressing monster in the street one day, he is overcome by dizziness and loses track of who he is or where he is. He also finds that the bicycle he was supposed to be riding has disappeared. Mibu, who was in a nearby car, tells Tetsuro that the monster has taken his bicycle and urges him to get in if he wants to chase after him. Mibu takes Tetsuro to a place where he is sexually assaulted. However, he suddenly wakes up, it was all a dream? The next day, Tetsuro heads to a gay bar where the monster is said to frequent.