All Films

Pantera

1998 • 10 min • Argentina

A man who works in the park (disguised as the pink panther), sees and wants to approach a woman who casually walks through the same park, taking care of a child.

Naomi Conquers Africa

1998 • 41 min

Naomi and her supermodel friends travel to South Africa to hold a fashion show for Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund charity.

Terzen

1998 • 50 min

“In the day after seeing Terzen, there was a surprising sense of the film that developed for me. The rhythms were still present and helped to unify a multitude of impressions. This lead me to reconsider the general tone of the film because, as I reached beyond its quick pace and rhythmic lightness and beyond the everyday content, I realized that its Heiterkeit grows out of a serenity or courage in facing mortality. This is the surprising sense of the film, its inner music. (…) Early in the film I recall a chair held in the strong afternoon sunlight. Even though you show it from many angles, it has a potent stillness. This strikes me as a good example of how you embody an active sense of seeing in your filming, and you reflect back to us the paradox that it is in movement that we create stillness. The eye, constantly moving yet creating stillness." — Robert Beavers

12 September: On the Brink of the Abyss

1998 • 44 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.

Telefon în Strainatate

1998 • 8 min • Romania

A Romanian old man goes downtown to call his son in US from a public phone...

okay bye-bye

1998 • 39 min

In okay bye-bye, so named for what Cambodian children shouted to the U.S. ambassador in 1975 as he took the last helicopter out of Phnom Phenh in advance of the Khmer Rouge, Rebecca Baron explores the relationship of history to memory. She questions whether, "image and memory can occupy the same space." Building on excerpts from letters, found super-8 footage of an unidentified Cambodian man, iconographic photographs from the Vietnam War and other partial images, Baron combines epistolary narrative, memoir, journalism, and official histories to question whether something as monumental as the genocidal slaughter of Cambodians during the Pol Pot regime can be examined effectively with traditional methodologies.

Dinosaur - Preshow

1998 • 8 min

A paleontologist recruits you for a secret mission to bring a 3.5-ton Iguanodon back to the present. There’s just one problem—the giant meteor that wiped out life on Earth is on the way! Board a rugged Time Rover vehicle and set off on a thrilling adventure through a primeval forest filled with life-like dinosaurs

The Boiler Room

1998 • 51 min

It is a beautiful spring day as Mistress Tara pulls her ship out of the harbor to set course for Her Personal Island. Then suddenly, she is rudely interrupted by the disturbing news that there is a stowaway on board.

Loco Lucho

1998 • 52 min • Belgium, Peru

Mary returns to Perú and her family with her previous film as a gift to her father, Lucho Jimenez, an eighty year old man with a lot of vitality. She proposes a caravan trip into his past, taking him to places where they spent their lives together, asking questions he never asked about his history, his family's history and his mother's death. During the filming of the movie, Mary learns that her father has a new engagement to a woman much younger than him and that he is about to adopt his new wife's child who was given to another family.

Adventures Beyond: Witches Ghosts & Phantoms

1998 • 56 min • United States of America

From the Adventures Beyond, an exploration into the world of the paranormal.

Holes in Heaven? H.A.A.R.P. & Advances In Tesla Technology

1998 • 53 min

Holes in Heaven investigates the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program also known as HAARP. This experimentation is being conducted by our government and top scientists are concerned about the possibly drastic effects on Earth. This documentary demonstrates how we are all interconnected as electromagnetic beings.

The Dragons of Galapagos

1998 • 56 min • Australia

This is the story of the incredible struggle for survival of the dragons of the Galapagos. On the island of Fernandina, each year Land Iguanas migrate up the steep slopes of the 5000ft active volcano to lay their eggs in the warm soil. If the rim of the crater is fully occupied they have to climb 1 km down the steep crater walls to the floor below. Many are killed finding a path down as the walls are steep & dangerously unstable causing many landslides.

Little Brother, Little Sister

1998 • 53 min

Little Brother, Little Sister tells the story of the Lows, an Australian family living in Sydney, who adopt Ethiopian orphan brother and sister, Sisay and Eleni. They already have two teenage boys — one is their biological son and the other was adopted as a baby from Papua New Guinea.

Violent Femmes

1998 • 28 min • United States of America

Analog video by Sylvère Lotringer. Extended conversation between two dominatrixes, a younger American woman and an older French woman (Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writer and wife of Alain Robbe-Grillet).

Haru, Island of the Solitary

1998 • 43 min • Finland

In early 1970s, the graphic designer Tuulikki Pietilä had seen enough of stative visual art and purchased a film camera from Japan. She filmed the games and chores of the artist couple in their beloved hideout, the island of Klovharun.

Attack of the Giant Vulture

1998 • 2 min

Attack of the Giant Vulture is ashort film that appeared on Nickelodeon's Short Films by Short People series. The short involves a giant vulture chasing a group of kids down to try and eat them, culminating with the kids instead reversing the situation by capturing, cooking and eating the bird.

24 heures pour Paris

1998 • 59 min • France

The twenty-four hours that liberated Paris. Far from history lessons, men, soldiers or resistance fighters of yesterday, testify of these days of August 1944 which they lived with their impulses, their modesty but also their humor.

Me and My Friends

1998 • 14 min • United States of America

"Me and My Friends" is a live-action pilot and origin of The Backyardigans. Filmed at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida, it was written and produced by Janice Burgess and filmed from September to November 1998. It was considered lost media until being released in late June 2025.

Swagatam

1998 • 50 min • Portugal

Lisbon has the second largest community of Hindus in Europe. This film portrays this community, focusing on a family originally from Diu, who then emigrated to Mozambique and then, in 1976, to Lisbon. The film portrays the contrast and conflict between this group of Diu families, low caste with the Lohanas group, the merchants caste. A new temple is being built, however in the courtyard of his house the family Carsane still makes its parties and alternative rituals ....

SHADOW of THE SKY

1998 • 30 min

Experimental 8mm short by Akira Hoshino.

Science

1998 • 6 min • Germany

Short film by Marian Dora

Mistress Tara's Finishing School, or, The Sassy Schoolgirl

1998 • 45 min

A peek behind the doors of a private all-girl finishing school of yesteryear. Head Mistress Tara disciplines sassy schoolgirl Cindy Ireland who has been caught masturbating.

Fat Pat: Ghetto Dreams

1998 • 42 min

Documentary focusing on Houston Texas rapper Fat Pat who was shot and killed on February 3 1998. This film, which features footage dating back to 1996/7, was shot, directed by Lionz I productions featuring D-Reck a rapper in the South Texas crew Screwed Up Click, in March 1999. Members of Wreckshop Records and the Screwed Up Click all appear giving their own tributes and memories of Fat Pat to the camera.

Maurice Blanchot

1998 • 57 min • France

How to make a film about a writer? How to show in pictures the work of a man who insists on disappearing? Several thinkers comment on the figure and work of a key intellectual in 20th century literature and thought.