All Films

never confuse movement with action

1998 • 50 min

In September 1998, Kerr released "never confuse movement with action," a post-modern biography of Patrick Hemingway (a grandson of Ernest Hemingway). July 1999 was the centenary of Ernest Hemingway. There would be the publication of yet another posthumous novel. The Hemingway family hired a merchandising agent - Ernest Hemingway was now a brand name. The trust fund was secured for future generations.1999 was Ernest Hemingway's year. But when Patrick Hemingway saw "never confuse movement with action," he was less than pleased. Worried about his father's reaction, a lawyer was hired and injunction threatened against the work. In negotiations with the Hemingway lawyer, director Richard Kerr agreed to produce an alternative version, with no promises to cut the objectionable material.

American Cowboy

1998 • 52 min

Gene Mikulenka is a cowboy who helps run the Texas and New Mexico Rodeo circuits in which he competes. He's also gay. This film explores his personality and motivations as well as how he manages in this ultra macho world while planning his proposal to his long term partner.

Like a Wave in the Sea

1998 • 4 min • Brazil

Like a Wave in the Sea

The Tears of Eros

1998 • 58 min • Uruguay

This documentary examines sexuality as seen by women and men born into Catholic families and educated at Catholic schools. These people talk about the Church's refusal to face reality and how this short-sightedness leads to lies, feelings of guilt, a block on eroticism, unwanted pregnancies, deaths resulting from illegal abortions, and ignorance about AIDS that in fact helps the disease to spread.

Tales of the Rainbow

1998 • 55 min • Taiwan

In the Atayal mythology, the souls of the deceased arrive in Heaven by way of the rainbow, yet only the ones who have the traditional face tattoo would be welcomed by the Ancestral Spirits. Seeing the decline of this Atayal tradition, the filmmaker interviews tattooed tribal elders, capturing their longing for lost family, friends and homelands, as well as their feelings about their impending return to the rainbow.

Acid Scratches

1998 • 7 min

The images of this "handcrafted and DIY" film were either recovered or filmed by me. Originally in black and white, they were brutally treated in photographic toning chemistries before being re-filmed with expired film. The soundtrack has undergone the same kind of treatment: the sound is made with old vinyl records, diamond on the edge ...

This Is Hardcore

1998 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Interviews of the cast and crew behind the scene of the music video 'This Is Hardcore' by Pulp

Public Security Bureau

1998 • 55 min

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.

Pour Titus

1998 • 49 min

In September 1994 in Trappes, Abdelmohcen Asli, alias Titus, 24 years old, was stabbed in the heart by a young man from his housing estate when he intervened to prevent a fight. Three weeks later, he died of his wounds. His parents, his brother, his sisters and his friends, in shock, want to keep his memory alive. On the 40th day of his death, they each send him a declaration of love filled with images and memories. The director is the brother-in-law of the victim.

Eurasia

1998 • 26 min

Film by Keiji Aiuchi.

Signes Song

1998 • 9 min

Song of signs with chorus and verses. Superfluity or scattering of the signs confronted by juxtaposition or incrustation, in 16 and Super-8, positive and negative, black and white or colors. These various visual voices constitute a polyphony, the song of the world and of art with its cadences and pulsations of life, a song of signs with echo, reverberation, climax, leitmotif... of images...

Mahmoud Darwish: As the Land Is the Language

1998 • 48 min

Accompanying from a place to another the poet who spent years in exile far from his native land of al-Birwa, in Haifa, Cyprus, Tunis, Amman, Paris, Cairo and Ramallah.

Días de ira. Helios Gómez. 1905-1956

1998 • 28 min • Spain

Biography of the comrade Helios Gómez (1905-1956), painter and draftsman, gypsy and Sevillian, anarchist militant first and then communist.

Out of Country, In the Prison

1998 • 27 min

A film by Eva Stefani

Angelmaker

1998 • 26 min

In the shadows of a deep wood, in shadows of the soul deeper still, live 13 year-old Little Turcott and her mother. To their door is dragged a girl named A.D., prone to fits and wracked by visions, left to be watched for the day. As Little Turcott leads A.D. through chores, she is both repelled and drawn to the maddening, inexplicable girl who seems to have dropped from another world. When A.D. realizes that she's been brought to these women not to be watched, but to be murdered, she gives Little Turcott a vision of a marvelous "Elsewhere" and promises to take her there if she's set free. Haunted by this vision, Little Turcott must find the courage to outwit her mother when the day is done and she is set one last chore - to kill A.D.

Walt Disney World Resort In Florida Holiday Guide Video

1998 • 27 min • United States of America

Presenter Andrea Boardman adventures through all of the Disney theme parks, dining options, Water parks, Downtown Disney area and hotel resorts that were available at the Walt Disney World resort in 1998.

Apetitos de Familia

1998 • 8 min

The “feast” of the slaughtered swine has persisted up to our own days in the rural zones of Latin America and Europe. Such rites are performed in and by the congregation. The family –as a core emblem of union, of the notion of a people, of community– comes together on the occasion of this performance that gets replicated year after year. As recreated in Apetitos de Familia, the blood, the slaughtering, the extirpation of innards, the making of sausages, the scenes of a familiar congregation with their physical expressions of affection, all of those are proven to be part of the western iconography of the still life.

KUROAGEHA「LIVE at ON AIR WEST」

1998 • 41 min • Japan

Footage registered at the 1997-04-27 and 1997-07-11 lives at Shibuya (渋谷) ON AIR WEST.

Atalanta

1998 • 34 min

A queer, dance-film adaptation of the Greek myth of Atalanta, the girl who can run as fast as the wind. Shot and edited entirely on super-8 film, on location in mythical San Francisco locations, the film was originally presented as a silent film with live orchestra and narration.

Melons (At A Loss)

1998 • 4 min • United States of America

A performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head. Melons is a video based on images and script about my aunt’s death from breast cancer and the emotion void in my memory. The text is a construction of rituals that plays with notions of the authentic. The act of juggling too much text and imagery immerses the viewer in a third, imagined narrative.

Oasis Dance, Sipping My Desert--Santa Fe, New Mexico

1998 • 3 min

During the party offered for Halloween at the Nobel Laureate, Murray Gell-Mann in Santa Fe, Michele and Pipilotti enter a back room...

Oceans of Fear

1998 • 26 min

Andy de Klerk returns to free climb Oceans of Fear, and BASE jump off the top.

Velinhas

1998 • 11 min • Brazil

tx-transform

1998 • 5 min • Austria

Tx-transform is a new film technique that transposes the time axis (t) and the space axis (x) with one another in film. Normally, each individual frame of film depicts the entire space but only a moment in time (1/24 second). With tx-transformed films, it is just the opposite: each frame shows the entire time but only a tiny portion of space (the left side of the picture is "before", the right side is "after"). —Virgil Widrich