All Films

The Geometry of Beware

1998 • 7 min • Canada

One-minute of found footage of Mutt and Jeff from 1926 is literally reconstructed via paper prints from photocopies and pen and ink drawings.

Sketches After Halle

1998 • 13 min

A collision of separate pasts, this film pieces together fragments of the director’s own images and text from the East German town of Halle with those produced by Bauhaus painter Lyonel Feininger in 1930.

Shokuki

1998 • 22 min • Japan

Japanese horror movie from 1998.

Dalton McCrary's Secrets of the Flat Stick

1998 • 33 min • United States of America

Disembark onto the greens with golfer Dalton McCrary as he teaches you the art of putting. This will be "the only putting lesson you'll ever need".

The Bottom Line

1998 • 44 min

A 1998 surf film by Poor Specimen Productions.

Cult of Beauty

1998 • 11 min

Experimental short film

Dispatches: Sidney Cooke

1998 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A dispatches report about dangerous British pedophile Sidney Cooke.

Bunkie & Booboo

1998 • 3 min • United States of America

Booboo has trouble building her sandcastle until her big sister Bunkie comes to the rescue.

A'uwê Uptabi - O Povo Verdadeiro

1998 • 33 min • Brazil

Documentary that shows and explains in detail the characteristics of the culture of the Xavante Indians, such as ceremonial, work, social organization, artistic practices, etc. It also reveals the tribe's struggle to preserve their lands and customs. Historical archive images of the first contacts with the white man.

Riding for a Fall

1998 • 4 min

Referred to as the Golden Mile and shot in slow motion on the beach in Margate, the town Emin grew up in, the artist rides on a horse at sunset while Delroy Wilson’s 'Riding For a Fall' plays.

Under Chad Valley

1998 • 8 min

In a murky, subterranean butchery, obscure tensions grow between two burly butchers as they hack apart slabs of flesh and bone.

Hail Mary

1998 • 3 min

A woman’s voice obsessively uses numbers to tell us something while handling a set of rosary beads. This allows her to keep her memories alive and to give meaning to the traces left by her life.

Igor

1998 • 53 min

Igor lives in an apartment that he shares with Sabine, who uses and sells drugs. Igor, who also uses drugs, provides her with a roof over her head in exchange for her needs, but he is also in love with her. As drugs become scarcer, their life becomes more difficult. One crazy night when he goes looking for her, he has an accident and ends up in the hospital with a broken leg. During his hospitalization, Sabine is arrested and imprisoned. At the hospital, his family discovers that he is HIV-positive and that he is using drugs. His mother decides to take the problem in hand and takes him to the countryside for several months to get him out of his world. For a while, they are very close, but then slowly the space between them begins to grow again. Tired of the countryside, Igor returns to Paris, looking for an apartment and to resume his life.

My Child, My Land

1998 • 4 min

A shocking film about antipersonnel land mines and a barbarous complacency. Every year hundreds of men, women and children are wounded or killed by antipersonnel land mines. My Child, My Land denounces the use of this hideous weapon. It particularly denounces the complicity of the industrialized nations. If such a horror exists, it is because someone has invented it, and someone else has manufactured it. Can we imagine such barbarity behind the faces of our neighbour? our father? ourselves? This hard-hitting animation film demands that we ask ourselves these questions.

Hitwoman

1998 • 60 min • United States of America

Kassie Karr stars as Natasha, a hitwoman for hire, who has 17 hits to her credit. Natasha is hired to get rid of a cop by the name of Jack Ellis (Dean Paul Fragola), but before she can do that, she must eliminate Serena (Michelle Caporaletti), a witness the mob wants dead! But Serena isn’t who she appears to be, and Natasha finds herself in a pitched gun battle with her quarry from which the only one will walk away alive. And then if Natasha survives her first encounter, then she must face Jack gun to gun. Also starring Dawn Murphy as Ellis’ partner and Lori Klugman and a go-go dancer with whom Ellis becomes infatuated.

House

1998 • 8 min • Norway

Hus is a film which attempts to reveal the private and hidden layers of our habitation. It is a live animation film shot on location which incorporates both pixilation (stop motion) and time-lapse photography. Every single shot opens up a hidden layer of the house and exposes it to the passing light. Within the accelerated time of the film the house gradually breaks down piece by piece and frame by frame. Once the house is completely dismantled it is reconstructed in a different location.

Inside the Space Shuttle

1998 • 52 min

From launch to landing, Inside the Space Shuttle takes you behind the scenes for a rare glimpse into NASA's world of high technology and goes nose to nose with the world's most amazing flying machine. We'll peel back the layers of this legendary space transportation system to reveal how it works and what it has accomplished, highlighting milestones over the last twenty-six years.

Science Please! : The Wind

1998 • 1 min • Canada

In the collection Science Please!, the first clip, entitled The Wind, explains the phenomenon of the wind with the help of archives, animation and narration.

When the Stars Came Dreaming

1998 • 9 min

Around a campfire, a young Aboriginal girl asks her grandfather "Where do the stars come from?" As the grandfather answers her question, the tale unfolds through petroglyphs coming to life.

Flying Blind

1998 • 12 min • Iceland

One day a heavy smoker finally quits his habit exactly when the clock hits noon. After years of thinking about it, he has reached a point of no return. During the next hour he has to face a series of unexpected irritations. Can he resist the temptation of the seductive cigarette? Has he picked the right day for such torture?

Blue Fish

1998 • 60 min • Japan

Ryoko, a bored 18-year-old hairdresser, becomes attracted to an enigmatic young man, not realizing that he is a drug dealer involved in a conflict between rival gangs.

Film(emend)

1998 • 5 min

A man polishes his shoe.

Aleppo... Maqamat of Pleasure and Delight

1998 • 52 min • France, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

In this documentary film, Malas explores the life and music of the classical Aleppan singer and composer Sabri Moudallal (1918-2006). "Maqam" is the melodic system of traditional Arabic music.

I Wanna Drive You Insane

1998 • 60 min • Japan

To miss the last bus home from work can be fatal. A businessman encounters leering hookers, a crazy cafe owner, and a gang of sadomasochistic nurses. And then things get really crazy. The anonymous main character floats around in an insane post-war Japan that defies definition, and tries in vain to get home.