All Films

Children's Scary Story "Kotatsu Black Hole"

1998 • 30 min • Japan

An original video featuring four short horror stories, aimed at children.

QM, I Think I'll Call Her QM

1998 • 28 min • United States of America, Sweden

An elderly female psychiatrist in New York finds a female giant monster under her bed, becomes obsessed and exposes it to various scientific investigations.

Boris the Dog

1998 • 5 min • United States of America

Boris The Dog is a short animated film that features the animation skills of Bill Davis who has done animation for Sesame Street for over two decades.

Bowl of Pork

1998 • 4 min

A man accidentally causes the Rodney King riots.

The Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein

1998 • 59 min • Germany

Eisenstein is celebrated either as the last Leonardo da Vinci of modernity or attacked as Faustus, Faustus who made a pact with the devil. Whichever is the case, neither friends nor foes are able to resist the powerful draw of Eisenstein's work. He was a person of complexity who was understood in very different ways, as a generous cosmopolitan and a stingy hermit, a cynic and yet a highly sensitive, vulnerable being. The film deals with a number of phases in Eisenstein's life, and tries to get away from the orthodox image of him by using new material to shed a different light on his biography.

Otherzone

1998 • 15 min • Australia

A cyber-punk thriller combining live action and 3D animation, set in Melbourne, Australia in the future.

Tall Time Tales

1998 • 8 min • United States of America

A film about the many faces of time as it flows from the future to the past, through cyclic, biological, curved and paradoxical time.

Kodama

1998 • 25 min • Japan

Japanese horror movie from 1998. (Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment for School Ghost Story G).

One Last Shot

1998 • 30 min

In this low-budget short film, two best buddies meet up for a night of booze-fueled fun before one of them moves to Vancouver.

The Shortcut

1998 • 9 min

After running out of gas and already late for a meeting with her boss, a businesswoman (Brinke Stevens) decides to cut through the woods. She ends up in a struggle for survival after stumbling into a patch of quicksand.

Standing by the Forest

1998 • 54 min • Estonia

We don't have high mountains or dark valleys, so the forest has become a safe haven from invaders, diseases or other people. For many, the forest is a source of income, for others something like a sanctuary or rather a clinic. Twice in history it has supported the national currency. The most diverse people think about the forest in this film; their perceptions are opposite, but for everyone the forest is something very important.

Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack and Kabutack: The Great Strange Country Adventure

1998 • 25 min • Japan

Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack and Kabutack: The Great Strange Country Adventure is a special crossover that places the cast of Robotack and Kabutack in the fictional country of Tetsuwan in Wonder World

Liu Awaiting Spring

1998 • 10 min • Australia

A video collage with images evoking what it may mean to be gay in a Chinese family.

Signal to Noise

1998 • 9 min • Netherlands

Short documentary on Japanese noise artist Merzbow by South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof. Filmed on location at the Kamakura Temple, Japan, 1997.

Streets is Watching

1998 • 60 min

Hip-hop artist Jay-Z tells a story about life in the streets, combining a narrative structure and musical numbers into an autobiographical tale of his life in Brooklyn, from hustler to performer.

Home

1998 • 28 min • United States of America

Acting as both pseudo-sequel to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly, the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.

Plug

1998 • 11 min

A man suddenly finds himself removed from his virtual reality world when a plug falls out of a socket. When he and another person notice another socket, they start a race to reach it first.

Aktörens läte

1998 • 57 min • Sweden

Deeply personal portrait of the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård where he discusses acting.

The Picnic

1998 • 17 min • South Korea

In early winter, a business man who has drown in debt gives his family a ride to commit a joint suicide. His child asks mom where they are going to and she answers they are going to a picnic…

Instant Dread

1998 • 13 min • Canada

So-Called Humanity in Madness

1998 • 60 min • Poland

A theatrical attempt to reconstruct the last, lost play by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. An amalgam of themes permeating the author's oeuvre.

God's Gift

1998 • 30 min • Russia

Nikita Dmitrievich Golovlev, a successful businessman, while celebrating his granddaughter’s birthday, receives a strange telegram: “I’m coming with my daughter Victoria. Your greatest love." A stormy showdown begins between Nikita Dmitrievich and his wife. Then the son quarrels with his daughter-in-law, and as a result, the granddaughter, whom everyone has forgotten about, leaves the house wherever she goes. Never before has she wanted to die so much... She is saved by a random acquaintance who explains what the Gift of God is.

Hollywood Ghost Stories

1998 • 54 min • United States of America

A chronicle of alleged ghosts, haunted landmarks and the otherworldly doings of Tinseltown, including a cursed script and haunted homes of the stars. A range of celebrities and parapsychologists provide interviews related to the history of Hollywood hauntings and their own experiences hosted by William Shatner.

Roy Jones Jr. vs. Virgil Hill

1998 • 52 min • United States of America

Roy Jones came into this fight as a 6/1 favorite and justified those odds when he KO'd former light-heavyweight champion Virgil Hill with a right hand shot to the body at 1.10 of the 4th round to win by KO victory.Jones landed 34 of 69 power punches (49%) and Hill landed 11 of 30 (37%). The KO was named The Ring Knockout of the Year.