All Films

1-800 Yer Mama

1998 • 6 min • Canada

She cooks! She cleans! She nurtures! It s Lesbo-Mom! Get yours today! The versatile new accessory for today's discerning dyke... An embittered little rant on the fetishizing of lesbian moms and their kids.

Daily

1998 • 8 min • United States of America

5 am she rises. 7 am she is ready. This film observes one woman's morning routine. We track this intimate ritual. She is mechanical and efficient. Her morning drill is done with precision, yet her look is vacant. Despite the clockwork, things are not as "together" as they seem. Disconnected editing and sound create an otherworldly space; her apartment is never-neverland. Time is manipulated and actions are exaggerated. Her person is fragmented. She could be a cartoon.

Crash Skid Love

1998 • 4 min • Canada

A claymation skater-boy love story that swings.

International Day of Transsexuality

1998 • 38 min • Canada

Every year, l'Association des Transsexuels-les du Québec organizes, in collaboration with Café Cléopatre, an evening of transsexual pride. Entitled "Journée Internationale de la Transsexualité," the event is an opportunity for several generations of transsexual women to get together, recognize the involvement of many in their community and pay tribute to individuals who figure importantly in their history.

Opening Closet X: A Voice for Queer Youth

1998 • 17 min • United States of America

A documentary by and about about queer youth in San Francisco intended for use in high schools to increase tolerance and decrease hate crimes and prejudice against young queer kids.

Rain at home

1998 • 4 min • Japan

The video Rain at home stages a young girl who is captured in a solitary, melancholic mood. The piece was made during a rain season in Japan and illustrates the touch of the water and the appreciation of it.

Pierre Paolo

1998 • 5 min • United States of America

Silent black and white images evoke and simultaneously erase time, as an elderly woman is shown at various ages recounting the love of her life. While braiding her hair on a staircase, she recalls the walk up the hill, the passage to look at the vista beyond the backyard, and the first time she met her husband at the ocean's edge.

As Life, As Pangcah

1998 • 27 min

Part oral history, part reflection on a culture at risk of being erased, this documentary presents a deep dialogue between a 93-year-old Pangcah chieftain and an indigenous filmmaker. Through words and songs, hunting trips and weaving of vines, the elderly chieftain lives and embodies the ways of the Pangcah people. He also recounts his frustrated attempts in defending traditional culture against Taiwan's encroaching modernity.

Hete Vuren

1998 • 50 min • Belgium

Master Gerard is retiring after a long career as a teacher. He has been fascinated for years by everything related to firefighters and at his farewell party he receives a statue of a fire truck as a gift. This gives him the idea not to just sit quietly at home and enjoy his retirement, but to try to join the firefighter squad as a volunteer

The Cormorant Scarecrow

1998 • 30 min • Croatia

It depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurd.

The Story of Jackie Pullinger; The Law of Love

1998 • 53 min

Twenty-two-year old Jackie Pullinger graduated as an oboe student at the Royal College of Music in England and then boarded a slow boat to China and prayed for guidance about where to get off. She ended up in Hong Kong. She began with no organization and no financial base, just an unshakable conviction that the same Jesus who helped and healed the hurting and hopeless can do the same today.

A metrópole e o balé

1998 • 25 min

Schist

1998 • 7 min

Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).

Two Dads

1998 • 44 min

Although in recent years the Dutch government has passed or prepared several laws to facilitate adoption and foster parenthood by homosexual couples, there are still many social prejudices against the raising of children by two people of the same gender. Aad and Ron, who are taking care of no less than six foster children, are confronted by this bigotry almost every day. Things become more harrowing when the father of the multi-handicapped Michael (8), who has been living for almost his entire life with the two men, obstructs adoption on account of the homosexual proclivity of the foster fathers. TWEE VADERS candidly documents one year in the life of Aad and Ron and their foster children.

Olhar/Ver Gérard, Fotógrafo

1998 • 50 min • Portugal

Life of photographer Gérard Castello-Lopes, disciple of Cartier-Bresson.

Heartbeat

1998 • 1 min

35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

Takahiko Takayanagi

1998 • 28 min

Kenji Onishi films Takahiko Takayanagi, journalist of Yomiuri-paper, local TV. Ibaraki prefecture prefectural assembly member election. The barefoot election district.

Disney's Animal World: Penguins and Seals & Sea Lions

1998 • 52 min

Learning about animals is fun when your favorite Disney characters lead the way! Stunning live-action wildlife clips of animals in their natural habitats are combined with heart-warming footage from Disney's animated classics to introduce youngsters to the world of animals. Each segment stars a different animal, offering kids detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle.

Painting the Town

1998 • 10 min • United States of America

"Last autumn on a series of weekend nights I went to “The Crossroads of the World” with a camera and a tape recording of an Opera I love. I played the Opera and shot film for hours at a time. Later in the editing room, I removed what I merely documented and braided the sublime." – Jim Jennings, quoted in the catalogue of the 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival

The Yodeling Lesson

1998 • 3 min • United States of America

NO HANDS! NO BRAKES! NO CLOTHES! The True Story of the of the Yodeling Lesson, By Moe Bowstern, bicyclist: I was recently arrived in Portland from Chicago and always on my bike, delighted by this rainy city of manageable size and climate, generous, well-paved streets and hills! After the endless flat grind of the prairie city, hills were a daily thrill. I began teasing my way no-handed down Mississippi Hill, venturing further and further before seizing my handlebars. One morning I threw my leg over my bicycle with a bad case of the f*ckits, heading to the train station to bid a dear friend farewell, and I decided I just did not care. I stuck my chin into the wind and kept my hands off the handlebars all the way down. By the time I arrived exhilarated at Union Station, I no longer cared about my departing comrade; I could ride no-handed down Mississippi Hill! I was going to be fine! ...

Field Study Along the Yangtze River

1998 • 31 min

In March 1997, a teaching and research team led by Professor Zhuang Kongshao came to the Tujia area along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to conduct anthropological research, with the aim of establishing a link between anthropological academic knowledge and field studies, as well as finding valuable research points to achieve the possibility of interdisciplinary collaborative research. "Field Study Along the Yangtze River" is a synchronous film and television work based on this survey. Now re-edited and transferred to today's university classroom, it is intended to facilitate anthropology students who are preparing to enter the field study phase, and by watching this film, it will trigger them to think about the opportunity of academic docking between theory and research sites, and further transition them into their own fieldwork thinking.

Title Deed from Moses

1998 • 30 min • Palestinian Territory

A Palestinian journalist questions the expansion of Israeli settlements and the devastating consequences it brings to long-term Arab villagers. Her investigation leads her to various testimonies - by human rights activists and architects, by Israeli townspeople and particularly by suffering Palestinian villagers whose claim to land is supposedly "less ancient" than the Jews.

Juicy Danger Meets Burning Man

1998 • 54 min

Two of Canada’s most extreme cabaret performers, Tom Comet and Christine Taylor, go on a hallucinatory journey to Burning Man 1997. Amid the raw danger of the event, Juicy Danger Meets Burning Man documents the real-life love story between the two and their personal experiences along the way.

Kelly Bear Teaches Respectfulness and Friendship Skills

1998 • 20 min

Children learn to respect themselves and others, use self-control, be empathetic, and act in a kind way when someone is distressed. This features the life-size green bear named Kelly, who serves as a hero and a teacher. Kids readily identify with the green bear who makes mistakes but keeps trying to do his best.