All Films

Safe Crossing: An EGG-cellent Idea!

1998 • 10 min • United States of America

This video reinforces the importance of safe crossing and loading/unloading behaviors for primary age students. In the story, the main character goes on an adventure with his pet dinosaur “EGG” to stress the dangers of the loading zone.

Flip Light Cruiser

1998 • 11 min • Japan

The End of Unpleasant Times

1998 • 18 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Old man Zaim is alone in the world and wants to change that. He is in love with his neighbor Munevera. Munevera doesn't want him. But there are those who do.

The Push Kings - Live at Green Street Grill

1998 • 59 min • United States of America

Following their album release show, The Push Kings hit the road and continue playing a hit-filled set list - this time, at Green Street Grill.

Die Hardest 2 - For No Reason

1998 • 56 min • Sweden

Nils Jönsson wants to retire in peace and quiet but when Norrbotten is threatened by Germans he teams up with journalist Sara to save the day once again!

Gfrasta

1998 • 11 min • Austria

Four girls in a settlement on the outskirts of Vienna. An afternoon is long. Especially for Manuela.

Luxor

1998 • 18 min • Egypt, United States of America

Luxor, Egypt, meets Luxor, Las Vegas, calling into question the nature of reality through a meltdown of the real and the replica. Each world is suspended and then reborn in the realm of video as past, present and future merge into one pulsing electronic moment. Luxor is also designed as a single channel installation.

Weekend

1998 • 5 min • Ukraine

About the first friends, the birth of feelings and the first loss.

Z-z-z

1998 • 5 min • Ukraine

Behind the Veil: Voices of Moro Women

1998 • 16 min • Philippines

Three decades of war have caused untold anguish to Bangsamoro women. But they have remained resolute and strong. Now they face a dilemma: war or peace? War is bloody and costly. And peace does not always right old wrongs. As they contemplate their situation, Bangsamoro women hold on to Islam. The veil is the symbol of their commitment to their people and their way of life. It is the mark of their faith.

She's Above the Clouds

1998 • 8 min • Japan

A fantasy of love, friendship, death, and the afterlife, humorously depicted in an apartment room.

Punkilandia

1998 • 56 min • Sweden

Documentary on the Stockholm punk scene in 1997.

Desperate - An East Village Western

1998 • 52 min

A portrait of a desperate man in the East Village circa 1996.

Classic Commercials: Volume 1

1998 • 55 min

Animated characters are featured in many of these early commercials. In the simple, clean style of the era's cartoon shows, Mr. Clean and the Raid bug spray pests make their now familiar appearance, demonstrating that some advertising campaigns have an enduring appeal. Humor is another common aspect of this selection of commercials. The comedic opera singers making an epic out of a scouring pad commercial are particularly memorable! This sampling of the most popular advertising from television's early days is a fascinating and lighthearted retrospective of what was then a new commercial art form. Although dated and out of style by today's sophisticated standards, these ads possess an enduring, quaint appeal.

Gold Town

1998 • 28 min • United States of America

Before it became Alaska’s capital, Juneau was the world’s biggest gold town. This documentary by filmmaker and Gold Town Nickelodeon founder Lisle Hebert explores the history of Juneau through dramatic reenactments and visuals of the city’s lush landscapes.

An introduction of human zoology

1998 • 7 min

Short animated film by Tomoyasu Murata.

Balls & Blocks

1998 • 2 min • United States of America

a CGI Short about Balls and Blocks

Compositeurs à l'écoute

1998 • 31 min

With a musical montage created by Christian Zanessi, Compositeurs à l’écoute provides insight into 18 composers and excerpts from 18 works spanning 50 years of music selected from the repertoire of GRM.

Pavement Aristocrats - The Bergies of Cape Town

1998 • 58 min • South Africa

Looks at a group of homeless people, the Bergies, in Cape Town, South Africa. Through a series of interviews, the film traces the Bergie community back to their Khoisan roots, outlines colonial dispossession, and looks at problems with alcohol dependency. It also gives the community a chance to tell their story, by zooming in on the daily life of two couples

Philippe Sollers, l'isolé absolu

1998 • 53 min

With Sollers, the absolute isolated, André S. Labarthe approached as closely as possible “the most recognized and the most fought, the most solicited and the most secretly hated, the most turbulent and the most embarrassing, the most uncontrollable and therefore the most intolerable, in short, the least localizable of contemporary writers.” A unique Sollers, deliberately spun outside the walls and against the grain. Far from the conventional, plethoric imagery of the spectacular Parisian scene, an inexhaustible field of social observation. Few archive elements, apart from a few photos and two significant extracts where Philippe Sollers displays his Paradise seized head-on by Jean-Paul Fargier in 1983.

On the Road

1998 • 44 min • Romania

Every autumn, shepherds from Transylvania set off with their flocks in search of green grass. This Sheep Road is to some extent like the famous historic Silk Road and the Salt Road.

Situation #1

1998 • 3 min

"Bibi Calderaro invented the fishing machine. She designed a series of reins that support a Super 8 film camera, put it as a hook in a fishing rod and threw it to the Hudson River in the middle of Manhattan. [...] What is most curious is not the proceedings but the circumstances. Such a strange idea: to try finding an image in the center of a city that is an arsenal of images; to practice a displacement of thousands of miles - Buenos Aires/New York - just to end up looking for a maternal uterus in which to find shelter; to use an instrument of such extreme precision such as a camera and subject it to the chances of destiny." Ana Tiscornia

See My Self

1998 • 5 min

A fragmented self-portrait.

Shadow Engine

1998 • 15 min

Unedited reels of Loophole Cinema material used in multiple performances throughout the 90s. Faces, hands, strobes, mirror, lenses are set up for examination and experimentation.