All Films

Apuntes para un retrato

1998 • 56 min

Portrait of Spanish filmmaker Jose Luis Guerin from notes taken in 1997 during the creation of his most radical film "Train of Shadows". It´s the film debut of Abel Garcia Roure.

May

1998 • 2 min

Circumnavigation of an orchard on the edge of Maidstone. Made while a student at the Kent Institute of Art and Design.

Pomegranate Tree

1998 • 3 min

"Pomegranate Tree" is an experimental film inspired by the lush and ceremonial paintings of the Qajar dynasty from Persia and Eli Langer's violent, aggressive sketches. The film is a subtle study of sensuality. Originally shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, the film was made for the Splice This! Super 8 Festival in the summer of '98.

Santoor

1998 • 13 min

A 35 mm. experimental film.

879

1998 • 1 min • Sweden

879 is based upon 879 drawn still images from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic "North by Northwest", originally made in a transparent black and white version in 1998.

Med ett ben i evigheten

1998 • 30 min • Sweden

"With one foot in eternity. Arne in the boat." - About the existential everyday artist, subsistence and natural philosopher Arne Ottoson who has chosen to isolate himself in an earthen hut in the woods of western Värmland, Sweden.

Kidsongs: I Can Dance

1998 • 28 min

Join the Kidsongs Kids and the Biggles and learn some new dance moves with this upbeat kids' dance video. You'll be doing the Charleston, the Twist, and the Waltz, not to mention forming a Conga line and Barefootin' at the beach. Put on your cowboy boots for a line dance, jitterbug at a '50s diner, and rock it out on main street in this sing along dance-athon with tunes like "Twist and Shout," "Mashed Potato Time," "The Yellow Rose of Texas," and more!

The Demons Beneath

1998 • 44 min • France

"Les Démons" tells a rather familiar story of a young French man named Franc, who finds an ancient relic in a box hidden away in a cellar. It is soon learned that anyone who touches this relic will become possessed by a demonic entity, and Franc spends the film attempting to fight off this deadly deity.

Optimus Mundus

1998 • 60 min • Russia

It’s a documentary painted film about heroic city Moscow. With pictures, music and comments of the specialist

Kidsongs: Meet the Biggles

1998 • 28 min

You'll have lots of laughs when Billy and Ruby Biggle introduce you to the zany residents of Biggletown. Songs include: Consider Yourself, Alouette, The Muffin Man, Ta-Ta-Ra Boom-Dee-A, Let's Rock It Up and more.

Jakub

1998 • 16 min • Poland

A short story about the absence of the father in the life of a 13-year-old boy.

A Short Wait Between Trains

1998 • 25 min

During WWII, a group of black soldiers return from Italy only to be treated poorly by white MPs guarding a group of nazis POW in a small southern town

In His Loneliness

1998 • 10 min • Sweden

A short film about a long life. - A lonely old man cleans a lonely apartment, from time to time his stream of consciousness flows into daydreams about jumbled body parts of women or undaunted horse-rides to vibrant Romani music.

Martina - Mot alla odds

1998 • 56 min • Sweden

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.

Imaginary Friend

1998 • 4 min • France

"This film is close to End Memory. Under the shock of a recent break-up I built a film with similar elements: a day of nostalgia in the countryside, the picking of blackberries, the meal, having fun with friends, at the edge of the pond, the sunset, the memory of a moment when everything was fine. It's also my only film since End Memory with my own music." (PC)

Sohrab Shahid Saless: Far from Home

1998 • 16 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa interviews the veteran filmmaker three weeks before his death in an effort to introduce American cinephiles to his life and work. In addition, Saeed-Vafa skillfully uses film clips to illustrate the haunting quality of Saless' work and the impact it has had on generations of Iranian filmmakers.

Da Mystery of Kung-Fu

1998 • 60 min

Wu-Tang Clan members show martial arts movie clips and give interviews discussing their message, backstory, and inspirations.

Framed by Curtains

1998 • 12 min

Santos bases his self-described "video letter from Hong Kong" on the ambiguity of the word "frame." He refers to the picture or camera frame, as well as to the variable frame rate of digitally manipulated video, and, finally, to the act of framing as a process by which one names, describes, and in some sense colonizes, the object of perception. Images of transit — commuters, buses, boats, subways — stop and start, run backward, and flutter across the screen, yielding brief glimpses of a face or a gesture, as if they are being scanned for meaning. Indeed, by directly addressing the viewer through flashes of text ("Have you ever been framed?"), Santos suggests the colonial history that haunts everyday life in modern Hong Kong.

Sweep

1998 • 7 min

A day like any other: Brooklyn beckons so they dart out into it. Daughter and father traipse from playground to subway and back home again. The 18-month-old cackles and the 32-year-old tries his best to keep up. They stumble upon a fruit vendor, a street preacher and a wall of city sound. Negative and positive hand-manipulated images collide and shimmer as they walk and talk their way through spring in the city. Maya babbles but her father is mostly silent: he can’t believe that he’ll never meander quite this way again.

Godzilla Versus Disco Lando

1998 • 8 min • United States of America

From the maker of "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars", this short film follows the adventures of Star Wars action figures as they deal with life, love, and an attack by Godzilla.

Scaffolders

1998 • 12 min

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998)

In Search of: Navajo Code Talkers

1998 • 50 min

During the second world war, the United States and its allies were struggling to find a code by which to communicate across the Pacific Ocean - one that could not be broken by the Japanese enemy. The solution cam in the form of the Navajo people, whose language was as elusive as it was complex. Through their incredible linguistic skills, the Allied forces were able to convey life-or-death information to on another - information that, in some cases, altered the very course of the war. In this eye-opening documentary, renowned historians and several Navajo veterans relate how a mere handful of WWII marines devised the only unbreakable code in modern military history.

Tibet #1

1998 • 36 min

Short film on Tibet #1, 'Tibetan Artist Visit,' from Wen Pulin's Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art.

The Slouther House

1998 • 10 min • Ukraine

A film about a human rebellion against the death conveyor.