All Films

Ciro-Norte

1998 • 17 min • Chile

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

Playboy Video Centerfold: Jaime Bergman - 45th Anniversary Playmate

1998 • 57 min

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

1998 • 40 min • United States of America

Alaska... Here, in this vast and spectacularly beautiful land teeming with abundant wildlife, discover the "Spirit of the Wild." Experience it in the explosive calving of glaciers, the celestial fires of the Aurora Borealis. Witness it in the thundering stampede of caribou, the beauty of the polar bear and the stealthful, deadly hunt of the wolf pack.

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

1998 • 54 min • Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America

It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the best minds of its time, a problem so important that the nation that solved it would rule the economy of the world. The problem was navigation by sea—how to know where you were when you sailed beyond the sight of land - establishing your longitude. While the gentry of the 18th Century looked to the stars for the answer, an English clockmaker, John Harrison, toiled for decades to solve the problem. His elegant solution made him an unlikely hero and remains the basis for the most modern forms of navigation in the world today. This film will be both a celebration of Harrison's invention and an adventure story. An expedition on a period sailing vessel as it sails the open sea will demonstrate the life and death importance of finding your longitude at sea.

Kuper Island: Return to the Healing Circle

1998 • 44 min

This moving docu-drama explores the destructive effects Kuper Island Residential School had on the hundreds of Indigenous children sent there by government agents for almost a century. Now, twenty years after the school was closed, survivors of Kuper Island are embarking on a spiritual journey on Vancouver Island's Tsartlip Reserve to begin healing the deep psychological wounds inflicted by their residential school experience.

Forgive me for Sex at Home, Father!

1998 • 60 min

Hidekazu is invited to the house of his young lover Ami. Sex immediately begins in her room, but Ami's father-in-law watches the whole thing. Later, Hidekazu is called by his father-in-law and visits Ami's house again, and is captivated by Ami's bewitching mother, Chifuyu. It's all a trick of Ami's doting father-in-law.

Degeneration

1998 • 10 min • Mexico

A lively animated tale that draws inspiration from Michoacan craftsmanship to express the jovial spirit of Mexican life.

Grinder-Man - G-VTR01

1998 • 19 min • Japan

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

Halsted Street, USA

1998 • 57 min

This documentary takes the viewer on a journey along Halsted Street, from the southern tip of Illinois, north through various Chicago neighborhoods, to the end of the road at Broadway in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.

Miss World

1998 • 5 min • Germany

A modern Aphrodite – how is it possible to be super sexy and successful at the same time? A career woman faces the conflicting demands of her parents, social life, and her husband. Driven by their off-camera voices to become ever more efficient, Lisa becomes a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The short combines live action and animation in a film with a slapstick tenor that is a colourful, but by no means rosy depiction of the future pressures women will face in a digital working environment.

The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Drew Carey

1998 • 45 min • United States of America

First televised New York Friar's Club roast, in honor of Drew Carey.

Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks

1998 • 21 min • Canada

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "An Indian Shooting the Indian Act." It's in protest of the ongoing effects of the Act's legislation on Indigenous people. We then follow him back to Canada, for interviews with the artist and a closer look at his work.

Su’s Farewell - Eyes and Mouths

1998 • 6 min • Brazil

Experiments and improvisations in a feijoada among friends filmed not to be a short film. Edition of the duo Baiestorf-Bortolanza with unpublished / excluded scenes from the movie "Gore Gore Gays". A style exercise will only occupy your head. Synopsis: Girl leaves inland and arrives in the big city to live her dreams.

The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'

1998 • 56 min

The Stories Behind the Making of The Blues Brothers is an hour- long documentary featuring every participant from the film. Star and co-writer Dan Aykroyd explains how a joke that he and best friend John Belushi shared with friends evolved from a Saturday Night Live skit to a best-selling album and then to a film. Director John Landis covers the difficult production, from the outrageous stunts to Belushi's disappearances from the set.

Ambush in Mogadishu

1998 • 55 min

In 1993 an unsuccessful raid on Mogadishu leaves 18 U.S. soldiers dead and Somalian civil war raging.

Sable Unleashed

1998 • 48 min • United States of America

From her first appearance in the World Wrestling Federation there has been an air of mystery surrounding Sable. She narrates the story of her career from the beginning to the blinding fury of her split with Marc Mero. Plus, exclusive footage of Sable behind the scenes and in the gym as she goes through her extensive exercise routine. See Sable as you never have before.

Spice Exposed

1998 • 50 min

Discover the Geri Halliwell story in this behind the scenes look at her rocket ride to stardom as told by her friends and the men behind the cameras.

Surviving the Dust Bowl

1998 • 55 min

In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains — the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the "Dust Bowl." This American Experience film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease — even death — for nearly a decade. Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of calamities and disasters.

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

1998 • 60 min • United States of America

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

The Albatross

1998 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

The Postcard

1998 • 18 min • Belgium

The postcard obviously begins with a map. Posted in the Caribbean, it is addressed by a father to his son. We quickly understand that the mother and her child are preparing to leave for the funeral mass of the father in question. Confident in his father's life and good health, the boy refuses to believe that the coffin is occupied and, indifferent to the solemn atmosphere of the moment, he worries about a young woman standing apart from the procession.

Matrix

1998 • 7 min

The film is composed of receding planes in a landscape: a back garden and the houses beyond. The wooden lattice fence, visible in the image, marks the border between enclosed and open, private and public space, and forms both a fulcrum for the work and a formal grid by which the shots are framed and organised.

12 September: The Massacres Begin

1998 • 47 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.

Baby Doll

1998 • 11 min • Northern Ireland

1973, Heather is a 14-year old girl who is impatient to be a woman. She has one eye on her mother's baby doll nightie and the other on her best friend's dad. However, on a holiday weekend, she discovers the difference between dressing up and growing up and is forced to make a choice about what she really wants.