All Films

Spotlight on Location: The Making of Bride of Chucky

1998 • 10 min • United States of America

Short documentary about the production of BRIDE OF CHUCKY.

Jun Matsuda - Baby-J

1998 • 34 min

Jun Matsuda, an idol who is active in variety shows such as the regular of TV Tokyo's "Heisei Gakuen", VHS, 1998.

Flexcam

1998 • 2 min • Germany

"Another investigation in camera destruction. This one is more meditative, as it was shot at 64 frames per second." –T.F.

Treason

1998 • 10 min • Russia

A cute young man admires photos of his beloved. Full face, profile, close-up, medium. And suddenly, to his horror, he sees treason. She's with someone else — dancing, hugging, kissing. Fas, profile. The photos make him angry. Treason must be punished. The hero in love grabs a gun and. he wakes up.

Je taim

1998 • 11 min • France

A father returns home after leaving his little girl alone.

Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl

1998 • 42 min

A documentary cycle involving the Rarámuri or Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico. This film addresses rites of winter as well as peyote and bakaka rites. Its commentary, read by Raymonde Carasco and Jean Rouch, is drawn from texts by Antonin Artaud.

Charles Darwin: Evolution's Voice

1998 • 45 min • United States of America

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution stands as one of the most important discoveries in the history of science. Yet in his lifetime, Darwin was reluctant to reveal what he had learned for fear that it would make outcasts of him and his family. This fascinating installment of A&E's popular "Biography" series profiles the life and times of the controversial naturalist, presenting excerpts from his journals and opinions from expert scholars.

Barney in Outer Space

1998 • 45 min

It's a Super-Dee-Duper surprise when Barney and the children in the Astronomy Club look through their telescope and see someone staring right back at them! Using the power of imagination, Barney and the kids blast off into the cosmos to meet BJ and Baby Bob, and receive a visit from a real astronaut. Exploring the new world for their fun new friend, they realise what a wonderful world they live in and that friends don't stop being friends, even when they're far away.

Guess Which Person Is Crazy

1998 • 2 min

short film by Louis C.K.

Ferrailles d'attente

1998 • 7 min • Algeria

Algeria seen as a constant construction site. The eye moves through the chaos of the Algerian architecture, where most of the buildings are left incomplete. This is an essay on photography and video, but also on graphics and music.

The Queen's Monastery

1998 • 7 min

Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, The Queen's Monastery is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed man. Using a highly individual watercolour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession and guilt.

Hombres de ley

1998 • 26 min

Corrupt dudes in City Hall try to gimmick the campaign for Mayor to make sure their puppet gets elected. Everybody dies..

Rapunzel

1998 • 14 min

Retold and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky A unique retelling of the story of Rapunzel, the girl with the long, golden hair.

Art Attack - Christmas Cracker!

1998 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Art Attack - Christmas Cracker!

67 Ben Tzvi Road

1998 • 46 min • Israel

67 Ben Tzi Road” is the address of the only Institute of Pathology in Israel. 2,500 bodies arrive at the institute every year for investigation as to the cause of death. Needless to say, the bodies sent for autopsy did not die of natural causes.

Christmas Stars

1998 • 1 min • Portugal

A Christmas Song!

Ode to Dorothy

1998 • 8 min • Canada

Ode to Dorothy reexamines the relationships of the main characters in The Wizard of Oz, revealing these relationships to be much more complicated and dark then we first understood as children. Comprised of footage from The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis, two musicals starring Judy Garland, the tape takes existing, iconographic images and reinterprets the footage to create an alternative narrative to the original storyline intended by L. Frank Baum.

Thermoment

1998 • 7 min

For "Thermoment" Dore O. filmed the clarinetist Eckard Koltermann with a heat recording camera and thus translated the heat regions of the body's interior into images while making music.

Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius

1998 • 45 min

Byography about Tennessee Williams' life.

Visit from Outer Space

1998 • 4 min • Netherlands

A small UFO flies through the streets of Amsterdam one evening. No one seems to notice. In the spaceship are two aliens enjoying the view. They disappear again just as suddenly as they came. Short experimental animation film is a homage to film-maker Ed Wood.

That Strange Person

1998 • 4 min • United States of America

A bizarre trip through the thoughts of a woman who wonders who she is and who she could become.

Silencio Dei Morti

1998 • 8 min • Germany

A short film by Marian Dora which shows an unearthed cemetery.

Tears

1998 • 15 min • Australia

A teenage couple are leaving the mission on their way to new lives. As they walk to the bus stop, they discuss their reasons for leaving.

Surface

1998 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The director offers a rare glimpse of the actor and fashion muse Chloë Sevigny in the late 90s when she as an emerging ingénue. Shot on 16mm black and white, Sevigny plays air guitar and dress-up in a film that beautifully captures the spirit of the time.