All Films

Mu-Lan

1998 • 60 min • Italy

Freely inspired by a poem called "Mu-Lan-Ci" narrated during the Soong dynasty (960-1279 AD). Mu-Lan is the legend of a young girl who convinces her old father to send her to war to keep the family honor intact, as there were no adult sons ready to fight at home. In his wanderings Mu-Lan will meet Chang, a nice boy who hides an incredible secret: in fact he is none other than a dragon with a heart of gold. With her help, Mu-Lan will become a brave, wise and respectful heroine in a story that will thrill you!

Dancing On Pearls

1998 • 51 min • United States of America

Nine gay and bisexual black men from Philadelphia of differing generations, career outlooks and HIV status discuss coming out, the club scene, interracial relationships, family relations and the impact of AIDS on their lives.

Battle for the Tiara

1998 • 40 min • United States of America

In California, preparations are underway for the tenth annual Battle for the Tiara, “the Miss America Pageant with eight guys.” It started in a living room in West Hollywood and is now a 1200-seater sell-out. This documentary chronicles the history of the outrageous spectacle and its creators, in particular performer/writer Alexis Pittman, who sero-converted in 1987 and credits the show with keeping him alive.

Dirtie Basterdz

1998 • 24 min • France

Sardine, ten, lives with her family in a village in Picardy. On the day of her sister's wedding, she fights with her family to allow her big brother, Ben-Hur, twenty-five, mentally and physically handicapped, to take his natural place for the ceremony : that of the head of the family who gives the bride away.

12 September: "What Days Bring That Day..."

1998 • 37 min • Turkey

Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm did not subside and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing would ever be the same again, nothing would be the same as before.

Skin Deep

1998 • 19 min • Finland

A quiet and clumsy Eki works at the shipyard and wants to be like his masculine and outspoken co-workers. To become a real man, he needs some tattoos. A real ones.

Girls at the Carnival

1998 • 23 min

"Girls at the Carnival" is an inadvertent documentary, an unadulterated look at mid-western life in the early 1990's. As this recording was never meant for reproduction or mass viewing, each scene is rich with spontaneity, each spoken word is obviously unscripted and devoid of conscious thought. Follow Jenn, Kelly and Nellie through a world of obscenity, lust and hedonism and decide for yourself how the moral fabric of America's heartland has dissolved like a pair of thin cotton socks soaking for weeks in a sink of extra strength bleach. Also included in this 'Deluxe Edition' is the short film "Bowl Of Soup", written by Derek Erdman and directed by Bobby Burg and five music videos featuring the music of The Beauty Pageant.

It's Dough That Girls Like

1998 • 14 min • Brazil

After watching an erotic animation in the movie theater, Ana falls in love for the lead character, the "macho man" Valdisnei. She tries to reach him through telephone, and she deceives him through an invitation to an audition. While in the audition, a tragedy happens.

Rabbit Hunting

1998 • 16 min • Japan

Videozone: The Making of "Curse of the Puppet Master"

1998 • 20 min

Revisit the killer puppets and paranormal researchers, whose brain fluid they craved, with in-depth BTS footage and commentary from the cast and crew.

Go Dyke! Go!

1998 • 7 min • Canada

Go Dyke! Go! is a humorous commentary on lesbian relationships in the context of children’s literature. Taking off from the popular children’s book Go Dog! Go! (by P.D. Eastman), this animation paints a sarcastic, pointed and comic picture of queer life in the 90s. Familiar pop imagery and everyday signifiers are a point of entry for a discussion of the patterns of serial monogamy and lesbian representation. Go Dyke! Go! plays with the genre of animation and poses a game of semiotics to deconstruct the tropes of children's books and heterosexism.

Appointment With The Wise Old Dog

1998 • 30 min • United States of America

David Blum, the internationally respected musician and writer, produced this film as he neared death from cancer. Blum believed that his inner discoveries and experience could help others realize their own spiritual strengths in a time of crisis.

Sommarsköj

1998 • 49 min • Sweden

Comedy show from Liseberg.

Impressions for Clara

1998 • 16 min • Brazil

Remembrance of things past.

Rituals

1998 • 25 min

A woman confides in her best friend about her deep suspicions that her husband is cheating on her. The friend is into voodoo and spirits and gives her candles and charms to have around the house when the man of the house comes home. Suddenly he changes behavior and is asking her out to dinner, bathing in the tub together and generally getting back close again. So the voodoo seemed to have worked. So much in fact that the affair he was having becomes less important, much to the surprise of the "other" woman who turns out to have been fooling herself with her plan to keep him.

A Season for Cinema: Iranian music and film music

1998 • 60 min • Iran

Part 11 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

In The Name of the Emperor

1998 • 50 min • Canada

A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed the then capitol of China and over a six week period systematically raped, tortured, and killed many of the inhabitants of that city. This is a matter-of-fact although polemical documentary, with many of the horrifyingly intense images taken from home movies made by an American missionary who was there.

False Teeth

1998 • 3 min • Iceland

In the film we meet the mystical Anna. She is an ambitious dentist with nothing on her mind but teeth and dentistry, a callous woman who seems to be living in her own world.

Adulte

1998 • 7 min • Mexico

A short film, Bergmanesque and surrealist in tone, shot in black & white 8mm. A man, a coffin, a cliff. Yet not without humour.

Straight from the Suburbs

1998 • 25 min

Mary, a troubled teenager, lives with her mothers Betty and Doris in a nice little house in a nice little suburb with nice neighbours. It's a nice little world populated only by queers.

2 in 1 car

1998 • 6 min • Argentina

A couple in a car, starting with a cigarette, begins a discussion as ridiculous as interesting. The lack of communication and lack of harmony, attributes that are exploited in love (or lack thereof).

Kranked 1: Live to Ride

1998 • 37 min • Canada

"A balls to the wall mountain bike film introducing the world to the mind-blowing, new school freeriding craze, Starring Wade Simmons, Dave Swetland, Chris Lawrence, Richie Schley, Brett Tippie, Brian Lopes, John Tomac, Myles Rockwell, Insane Wayne, Greg Herbold and a host of other sickos." Released in the spring of 1998 this film had a big impact on the sport and culture of mountain biking and set Radical FIlms up to make 7 more films over the next 12 years! And well this website pretty much shows what we've been up to. Hope you are enjoying it. Semms like I've been spending way to much time on it! Ride Hard, Ride Free!

Mike Reid - Alive & Kidding

1998 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Mike Reid's stand up performance at the Beck Theatre

Totem

1998 • 7 min • France

Here, Totem designates the representations of the phallus and of it´s power. From the beginning of consciousness to the most sophisticated forms of civilization, the conceptual correlation between phallic imagery and power has been constant. I dove into the meanders of these representations in order to testify of their relevancy and importance.