All Films

J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now

1998 • 29 min • Sweden

The Future Is Now was produced for Swedish television and has Ballard as the only protagonist and his house as the main decoration.

How Pjer Zalica Ripped

1998 • 6 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

A man blows balloons until they burst and thus expresses his accumulated aggression.

Shine On Sweet Starlet

1998 • 60 min • United States of America

JMM and his friendly elitist entourage shot super-8 stag footage of starlets and collected music from bands who played with The Sore Losers!

John's Problem

1998 • 10 min • United States of America

John agrees to house-sit for a neighbor, and things take a turn for the macabre.

Salmon's Path

1998 • 10 min • Latvia

Educational film about salmon. From caviar to a trip to the sea and a return back to the native rivers. Dedicated to the protection of salmon.

A Season for Cinema: Narrative structures and film editing in Iranian Cinema

1998 • 60 min • Iran

Part 7 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.

16 Living Clichés

1998 • 4 min • Norway

A portrait of 16 different people characterized by their own unique clichés.

Inger Christensen - The cicadas exist

1998 • 54 min • Denmark

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads excerpts from her major works.

Stanley Beloved

1998 • 19 min • Hong Kong

James and Kevin are friends and live in Hong-Kong. When Kevin finds out that his Chinese father wants to send him away to England to study, he decides to spend a summer day with his friend James. Then something unexpected happens.

Jameln Cafe Grenzbereiche

1998 • 2 min • Germany

A found footage experiment made using footage from a 50s disaster film. Slowed down audio and lots of distorted textures are present.

Yome no kokuhaku: Sugoi! Otôsan no yubizukai

1998 • 60 min • Japan

Three years after her husband passed away, the widow is still taking care of her father-in-law, a novelist, and has not divorced her husband. The widow was dozing off next to her father-in-law, who was writing an essay on a word processor, when he came to deliver her homemade strawberry jam and fell asleep while talking. The essay she was writing next to him was titled "My Daughter-in-law, Me, and Strawberry Jam" and it seems that her father-in-law is also attracted to her. She has a sex friend, but it is a man who was her husband's best friend, and she only sees him as someone to relieve her sexual frustration, but the man is in love with her...

Modern Times: Pink Parents

1998 • 52 min

A British lesbian couple with one child and looking to get pregnant again partner up with two gay men to make their expanding family a reality,

Dusk

1998 • 49 min

Dusk, Dusk of the soul, losses and drifts.

Kings of Broadway

1998 • 22 min

This documovie delves into the history of the NYC graffiti movement, tracing it thru 3 generations of well known writers. In depth conversations with ALI, BAMA, CRASH, KET, PART ONE, STAN 153yb, TERROR 161 and ZEPHYR classify this as sureshot cult classic

Kingdom of Bhutan: The Land of Hidden Treasures

1998 • 18 min • Bhutan

A documentary video about the Kingdom of Bhutan.

The Edge of the Possible

1998 • 58 min

Jørn Utzon, acclaimed architect of the Sydney Opera House, tells the story of the design and construction of his masterpiece.

The Rainbow Avenger

1998 • 8 min • United States of America

Rainbow Avenger tells of an overweight gay man who is a victim of a homophobic attack and so becomes a super hero

Perfect Mothers, Perfect Predators

1998 • 52 min • South Africa

A documentary that follows two of Africa's greatest predators -- the cheetah, who is the fastest sprinter in the world, and the leopard, a master stalker. Both mothers are followed through the cycle of seasons as they raise their cubs and teach them to hunt and fend for themselves. The cubs watch and try to mimic their mothers. When they reach independence, they join in the hunt and the cycle of life begins again

The Amateurist

1998 • 14 min

A woman observes another woman on a surveillance camera and describes her actions, with no other interaction between them.

Yello Dyno's Can't Fool Me!

1998 • 30 min

A picture is worth a thousand words...so give kids a chance to study Tricky People -- the way they act, the words they use, and the way kids can respond to protect themselves. With the help of the children's safety champ Yello Dyno and the music of the Yello Dyno Band, it's fun to learn the safe way to handle tricky situations. Kids will know in their hearts that Tricky People CAN'T FOOL ME!

Rules of the Game

1998 • 48 min

Stories of lesbian, gay and transgender youth intercut with music video style short films starring the young people.

Dialogue with the Wind

1998 • 20 min • Iran

An Avant-garde short movie of Bahram Beizai about history of Kish island in south of Iran.

One of Them!

1998 • 48 min • New Zealand

One of Them! was one of two dramas (alongside Niki Caro movie Memory and Desire) inspired by short stories collected in Peter Wells' 1991 book Dangerous Desires. It was made for TV One as a Montana Sunday drama. Set in Auckland, 1965, One of Them! follows Lemmy and Jamie, two teenage boys coming to terms with their sexuality. In the dark days before gay liberation, bullying and intimidation was rife, and while the boys flaunt their sissyness, their internalized homophobia wreaks havoc on their emotional lives — until they can admit to being "one of them".

Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria

1998 • 44 min

During World War II, Japanese scientists, led by Shiro Ishii, built a medical facility in Manchuria. It is in this place, Unit 731, that Ishii and his scientists conducted some of the most horrific war crimes of the 20th century. The goal of Unit 731 was to experiment with germ warfare, with the ultimate aim of using these weapons on the United States during the war. Experiments were conducted on Chinese civilians, soldiers and American prisoners of war. They ranged from live dissections to the deliberate infection of surrounding villages with diseases such as the bubonic plague. Now, over fifty years later, activists, journalists and historians are uncovering the story of Unit 731, and the American complicity that let these war crimes go unpunished.