All Films

Phantom Ship

1998 • 10 min • Sweden

A boy's experiences on a foggy day at Öresund, the water between Sweden and Denmark.

Solitary Journey

1998 • 3 min • United States of America

An computer animated short film.

No Way

1998 • 7 min

In a futuristic world, a hold-up goes wrong… Not to worry, it's only for a laugh!

Voices of the Children

1998 • 56 min

The story of 3 people who were imprisoned as children in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II told through interviews, diaries and drawings.The survivors and their families question the need to talk about the past and explore the effect of the Holocaust on their lives.

Phantom Limb

1998 • 21 min

16mm fiction documentary filmed in Brazil, Argentina, and Poland.

RYOKO HIROSUE WINTER GIFT '98 Happy Songs & Music Clips

1998 • 30 min • Japan

Ryoko Hirosue music clip collection.

Trainman

1998 • 50 min

Plagued by his many fixations and obsessions with, among other things, the weather and sounds, 32-year-old Kees Momma tries to get through everyday life. Unexpectedly high temperatures for the time of year, doors that slam too loudly, a runny nose that is picked up loudly; these are annoyances that make the life of autistic Kees unbearable. It is thanks to his mother, who supports him unconditionally, that Kees survives in the outside world, which is so threatening to him. Subject to a strict daily rhythm, he makes long journeys every day in the autumn season as a passenger of his own model train.

Pushcarts and Plantations: Jewish Life in Louisiana

1998 • 54 min • United States of America

Documentary on the history of Jewish people in Louisiana over 300 years. Covers anti-Semitism, Louisiana Jewish culture, and other topics.

Krazy Girls

1998 • 30 min • United States of America

A mockumentary about big-hearted strippers, drag queens, and a group of rabid feminists.

Classic Commercials: Volume 2

1998 • 60 min

It is surprising to see old black and white ads for products still popular in today's world of color TV, including Barbie dolls and Coppertone sunscreen. In this collection, several products are advertised on the basis of demonstrations: a tough RCA radio is shown surviving a nasty fall; a Bulova watch sails over Niagara falls without ill effects; a line of Chevrolet trucks show their mettle as they are taken on a grueling Arctic trip. Humor is also used to great effect, as always. Spot the famous Hai Karate aftershave ad in which a man suddenly attracts more attention than he expects, and a Hamms beer ad showing people who just can't keep a grip on the competitor's drink. Color is seen in an increasing number of commercials as technology evolves.

The Burglar Alarm

1998 • 1 min • United States of America

Greek Contractor Lou installs a burglar alarm for a client. Poor Costa is the first to try it out.

Soda Pop Head

1998 • 1 min • United States of America

A man collects the the largest settlement in Akron, Ohio when a soda pop company is blamed for his head being blown off.

Passing Through

1998 • 28 min

Fresh out of college, Adolfson - a Korean adoptee who grew up in Coon Rapids, Minnesota - decides to return to his land of birth for fun and new experiences. After spending six months at Yonsei University living among drunk foreign exchange students, he relocates to a boarding house, determined to get a better sense of what life outside the dormitories is like. What he finds ranges from the painful to the provocative. He briefly participates in a student demonstration, resulting in his choking on tear gas. He is compelled to volunteer for an orphanage and muses over his own barely remembered childhood. Events culminate when Adolfson is reunited on Korean national television with his three long-lost siblings. An absorbing account of how cultural barriers can stimulate rather than hinder personal growth, PASSING THROUGH offers a unique look at a young man's coming of age.

Sonic Ching Chang

1998 • 7 min

The muffled grey world of Sonic Ching Chang is a raw authoritarian winter realm balanced by a strange natural electrical flora that emit a type of shimmering wave mist of which slightly steadies the ever domineering tragedy, and also, when ruminated into rightly, acts upon the nucleus accumbens of certain individuals, causing pheromone induced stimulated libidinal vision.

Matti Ke Lal, fils de la terre

1998 • 19 min • France

Footsteps

1998 • 25 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

車窓 -window-

1998 • 25 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Trashgirls

1998 • 10 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Atlantic Fog Area et

1998 • 10 min

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The Furies

1998 • 26 min

The Furies is a modern dress reworking of Aeschylus's classical play entitled The Eumenides.The Furies is recounted in silent film form with ambient sounds and vocalizations punctuating a musical soundtrack.

La ciutat foradada

1998 • 59 min

This documentary presents the reaction of the inhabitants of Barcelona who were attacked by massive aerial bombardments during the Spanish Civil War.

Homeland

1998 • 25 min • Russia

Henan's AntiProstitution Movement in 1998

1998 • 16 min

This "top-secret" documentary, officially produced by China's Ministry of Public Security, documents the unannounced visits of the Henan Provincial Police and their efforts to combat prostitution in 1998.

The Optiverse

1998 • 7 min • United States of America

The Optiverse is a 6.5-minute computer-animated video showing an entirely new way to turn a sphere inside out. The video captures scenes that can also be viewed as real-time interactive computer animations, on a workstation console or in the CAVE immersive virtual environment. The narration is accompanied by parambiences, which are novel experiments in scientific sonification.