All Films

PJ Harvey: Benicassim Festival 1998

1998 • 46 min

Concert given by PJ Harvey on Friday, August 7, 1998, as part of the Benicàssim International Festival. Broadcast weeks later on Sputnik Concert (Channel 33).

Deep or Quiet

1998 • 25 min

It’s a story about reconciliation of a mother and a daughter. Purification water, the first menstruation, the moon, a pomegranate, a thread-ball and a flower pot of mother. These images are combined in the process of reflection through dream, memory and unconsciousness.

Drinking for England

1998 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Explores the importance of an attitudes towards consumption of alcohol in English society by following five subjects through interviews, recitals of poetry, and song.

The Nature of David Suzuki

1998 • 44 min • Canada

This biography of the well known scientist and nature program host details his early life as a child in a WW2 internment camp and the development of his environmental philosophy.

So it Doesn’t Hurt

1998 • 47 min • Poland

Polish filmmaker Marcel Łoziński revisits the farmer/intellectual Urszula Flis, subjects of his 1978 film 'A visit'. Łoziński observes the changes that have occurred over the intervening 23 years and again persuades this sensitive, secluded woman to talk through her thoughts, fears and feelings. Through this, the morality of the documentary portrait itself is called into question.

PJ Harvey: Sessions at West 54th

1998 • 28 min

Polly Jean Harvey on the PBS show Sessions at West 54th from 1998, hosted by David Byrne. Includes musical performances and interviews.

Lin­naeus’ Flow­er Clock

1998 • 27 min

A reflection on the passing of time.

When It Happens

1998 • 45 min • Iceland

A young boy is spending the summer on his uncle's horse farm. He takes care of the sheep and plays cowboy but is suddenly drawn into the world of adults when his uncle meets the woman of his dream. The boy follows how his uncle tries to seduce this beautiful lady - with both happy and tragedic consequences.

Flagpole Special

• 17 min • United States of America

Commissioned for Creative Time’s RET.inevitable in 1998, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Flagpole Special is a DV short showing John C. Reilly and Chris Penn from the waist down, riffing on pickup-seminar bravado that anticipates Magnolia’s “Seduce and Destroy.” Screened once under the Brooklyn Bridge and never released, it’s now regarded as a lost film.

The Child

1998 • 5 min

Zombietown 23

1998 • 29 min • Portugal

Terrence McKenna: "What is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears." Aleister Crowley: "I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." Pessoa: "We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone." A music-text-collage-trance.

The Telepath’s Routine

1998 • 23 min

Vincent is seventeen years old. He frequents a group of musicians older than him, who are preparing a show. Vincent wants to seduce them and tells a lot of stories in order to get noticed. One day, one of those stories irritates the group and they discover that Vincent owes them all money...

Venus Blue

1998 • 11 min

A strange woman wanders from town to town... Everyone she meets sees her in their own image of perfection. They cannot resist her, and she passes on to them a contagious virus which brings enlightenment.

Belle & Sebastian: The Black Sessions

1998 • 52 min • France

A live concert of the Scottish band Belle & Sebastian. This was recorded for the Black Sessions at Studio 105, Paris, France on 5th October 1998.

Ted - till minne av en popartist

1998 • 30 min • Sweden

A program about Ted Gärdestad and his music with archival images from his entire musical career and newly made interviews with people who have influenced and were influenced by Ted's music.

Horror Of Laughter

1998 • 59 min • United States of America

A demented producer auditions two would-be starlets for parts in a horror movie where she who screams the loudest and best, wins. Separately and together, they are bound, whipped and tickled to no end. Hilarious!

Blue Fantasia

1998 • 60 min

Wao Youka's dinner show.

Sea Horses

1998 • 18 min • Israel

Ten year-old Noam is a latchkey child whose parents have temporarily separated. While waiting for his parents to reunite, Noam fulfills a parental role to his sisters, even as he tests his own boundaries in a dangerous children's game. The family’s suspended routine will be shaken once more, when Noam’s mother announces she has important news.

®™ark: Bringing IT to YOU!

1998 • 11 min

Find out the nitty-gritty about the folks who brought you GWBush.com, YesRudy.com and Gatt.org, and who sponsored the Barbie Liberation Organization, the Simcopter boys, the etoy Fund and Deconstructing Beck. Since 1886, when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them full constitutional rights, corporations have used their wealth and power to subvert democracy and its processes. In this “industrial video,” ®™ark explains how it uses its own inalienable corporate rights to bring anti-corporate sabotage into the public marketplace.

Naked Eurovision

1998 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Richard Fairbrass goes behind the scenes of the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.

Noli Me Tangere

1998 • 4 min

The title of this piece is the well-known warning of Jesus to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. It translates to Touch me not. This biblical scene gave birth to a strong iconographical tradition in Christian art, from late antiquity to present. Here, the denial of hope and redemption is removed from its religious context. 16mm film. Dual-screen projection.

Les Mots Magiques

1998 • 21 min

A young man in his thirties goes to his father's house in the hope of telling him once and for all what he has always wanted to tell him. Then begins an endless nightmare.

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

1998 • 50 min • United States of America

Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies. And he never lost his love of the great American outdoors. Though he rarely played a villain and was an adept comedian, Cooper is best remembered for his strong, silent heroes. With his lanky country boy looks and shy hesitancy he created a unique screen presence, though his real life was one of sophisticated elegance.

Nocturnu

1998 • 11 min • Brazil

Hell on earth, devilish gods, Lucifer emerge from the bowels of a ship in search of human flesh and blood as food.