All Films

Erratic Angel

1998 • 50 min • Canada

Are erratic angels fallen angels? When we meet forty-eight-year-old Colin, the main character of the film, he is walking under the flyover of a motorway. He is on foot while those who play the game by society's rules whizz by a few feet above his head at the driving wheels of their Cadillacs. He dropped out long ago and lives alone forgotten by his family. He used to be a junkie and an alcoholic, now he is a marginal and develops analytical and self-justifying arguments which sometimes turn into a flow of jumbled words. Cumming introduces us to the everyday realities of this character with honesty.

X-Mix: Jack The Box

1998 • 36 min

Hardfloor mixes the tenth installment in the X-Mix series.

Goofballz

1998 • 5 min • Canada

A serial killer stars in his own sitcom!

The Firehouse Women

1998 • 28 min

In the late 1990s, Gibson, NC, transformed its town firehouse into the Firehouse Restaurant, a place where women greeted, cooked, served, and sang acappella gospel harmonies to their guests. This story highlights the South, where faith, food, and fellowship come together, and where the past and future intersect.

ASCII History of Moving Images

1998 • 20 min

In Ascii history of moving images, Vuk Ćosić, one of the founders of the net.art movement, plays on the tension between digital and analogue formats, between code and culture. By taking up some key works from the history of moving images, he probes the way in which the question of the medium, whether old or new, interweaves with the utopias and dystopias of modernity.

Cleopatra In Concert

1998 • 60 min

Cleopatra In Concert (Disney Channel In Concert)

Haarzaak

1998 • 7 min

At Carma's hair salon in Rotterdam, ladies not only get a fresh new haircut, but they’re also closing business deals, drinking wine, and unwinding. Joyful documentary about a day in this magical place.

High, Wide and Hansen

1998 • 53 min

Former player and top football pundit Alan Hansen casts his analytical eye over soccer action of a different type - cock-ups and crazy incidents. With the vocal talents of impressionist Kevin Connelly they add a large dose of comedy to the already amusing proceedings.

Homage To Edvard Munch And All My Dead Children

1998 • 2 min

2 minutes and 48 seconds made in 1998 filmed in Norway

Paradisco

1998 • 3 min • Estonia

Original Estonian underground rave generation video art – it's cheap, it's loud, it looks like a home video, it's a manifesto against the male-dominated, post-Soviet art world. Created for the exhibition "private views. space re/cognized in contemporary art from Estonia and Britain" (curated by Mare Tralla and Angela Dimitrakaki in the Estonian Art Museum, 1998) Kiwa was the only male artist on the show and chose, quite pertinently, to focus on the space most associated with male creativity. The mythology of the artist's studio as the protected sanctuary of freedom and self-expression par excellence has risen across diverse techniques of visual signification. Access to the studio means access to a celebrated subjectivity.

Illegaalsete infopankade muusikaline esiettekanne

1998 • 9 min • Estonia

A breezy look into an illegal database from a CD-ROM, which contains personal data of Estonian citizens.

The Impression of First Gundam

1998 • 29 min • Japan

Screened together with Gundam: Mission to the Rise at Gundam's 20th Anniversary event "Gundam Big Bang Sengen" in Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall. Selected scenes from Kidou Senshi Gundam were re-edited for three giant projection screens to give the widescreen feel to the original 4:3 aspect footage. They were also computer synchronized to sweeping lights and lasers to simulate space battles. The soundtrack was remixed for six-channel surround sound.

Portrait

1998 • 11 min • Ukraine

The confession of an ordinary woman who fell in love with a young musician, her daughter's boyfriend.

Tu épouseras la terre, mon fils !

1998 • 27 min • France

"You will marry the land, my son !", is the order that a peasant mother could have given her son. The son is called Loulou, he is 40 years old and has been living alone in the farm he inherited from his parents, since their death. His pals, his work, Aurore, his confidante, who lives in the same village as him, are his comforts. However, celibacy seems to him to be his only option, his fate.

Abandon Bob Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here

1998 • 7 min • Canada

A bastard satirical mutation of Gustave Doré's Divine Comedy engravings of the Inferno and those oversized "how-to" animation books that were put out by Hal Foster. SEE the hand of Cartoon Fate! TRY to figure out why Bob Hope's skull is in this film! Dante and Doré meet Disney in Hell!

Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm

1998 • 60 min • United States of America

A cinema verité-style documentary distributed by the BBC, created by Actual Films, that provides a behind-the-scenes look at Annan's work as UN Secretary-General.

Daoist Looking Back

1998 • 7 min • Ukraine

According to the philosophical and religious tradition of ancient China, a Daoist is a person who seeks to live in harmony with the natural order of the world, following the principles of balance and simplicity. Perhaps this very idea served as the foundation for Surkov’s surreal and plotless film. On the other hand, it’s a melancholic sketch of Troieshchyna in the late 1990s.

The Good Samaritan

1998 • 12 min

A mormon short film.

Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

1998 • 35 min

Tom Waits' performance at the "Dead Man Walking" benefit concert which took place on March 29th 1998 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Mark Twain's America in 3D

1998 • 52 min • United States of America

Mark Twain's America interweaves the life and times of Mark Twain with the lives of current day enthusiasts who revel in the inventions and way of life of the 19th century. Utilizing archival stereo-optic photos, powerful images from the past seemingly come alive in a larger-than-life presentation. Archival photos representative of Twain and what he saw and experienced in his time are juxtaposed against scenes of actual present day recreations of that era.

The Sexlife of a Chair

1998 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Various sexual activities involving a chair, and occasionally, other chairs.

Recently 1

1998 • 4 min • Germany

Neulich 1 is the first part of a series of cinematic notes on everyday life.

Donald Judd: Marfa Texas

1998 • 24 min

An artist and critic, there was a considerable duality to Donald Judd (1928-1994) - he was at once a man of intellectual rigor and a multi-disciplinary conceptualist who deftly moved towards a new minimalism. In 1971, he relocated from New York, to the prairies of Presidio County in Southern Texas, twenty miles from the Mexican border.

Cherish

1998 • 7 min • Australia

A gay man has lost his lover to a fatal illness and is trying to go on with his life. If only his preparations for a night of dancing weren't constantly reminding him of the one that he lost.