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Mud

Mud

1998 • 24 min • Bulgaria, Canada
A foreign visitor to Bulgaria finds himself accidentally involved in a chase for a stray child. The latter seriously injures him, but will also try in his own way to save him.
A Video Visit with Lynne Cherry

A Video Visit with Lynne Cherry

1998 • 15 min
Lynne Cherry is an author, illustrator, environmentalist, and naturalist. This documentary covers an assortment of her books and activism to save the Belt woods.
Mr. Nude Universe

Mr. Nude Universe

1998 • 50 min • United States of America
Male exotic dancers compete in the buff for the Mr. Nude Universe title.
Georges Franju - Le visionnaire

Georges Franju - Le visionnaire

1998 • 50 min • France
Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. Interview with Georges Franju (1912-1987), a figure of immense importance in the history of French cinema, not primarily for his films (exceptional though many of these are) but for being the co-founder, with Henri Langlois, of the Cinémathèque Française in 1936, France's most famous and important film archive.
In My Car

In My Car

1998 • 6 min • Canada
A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...
The Life and Times of Sara Baartman

The Life and Times of Sara Baartman

1998 • 53 min • South Africa, France, Belgium
In 1810, 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat from Cape Town to London, unaware that she would never see her home again, or that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black female sexuality for the next 100 years. Four years later, she became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about BFS. She died the next year, but even after her death, Sara remained an object of imperialist scientific investigation. In the name of Science, her sexual organs and brain were preserved and displayed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris until as recently as 1985. Using historical drawings, cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians and anthropologists, this documentary deconstructs the social, political, scientific, and philosophical assumptions that transformed one young woman into a representation of savage sexuality and racial inferiority.
The Dark Side of Hollywood

The Dark Side of Hollywood

1998 • 54 min • United States of America
Behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry. It is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. B-pictures have long been the spawning ground of today's and tomorrow's stars. They started the careers of Jack Nicholson and Sylvester Stallone among many others, as well as now super star directors Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, Ron Howard and James Cameron. The film examines the evolution of starry-eyed newcomers arriving in Hollywood and discovering the harsh reality of getting into pictures.
Song of Avignon

Song of Avignon

1998 • 9 min • United States of America
Jonas Mekas reflects on a 1966 trip to Avignon that offered solace during a period of personal crisis. Combining diary texts read by Angus MacLise with images of place and memory, the film becomes a lyrical meditation on pain, survival, and the restorative power of reflection.
The True Meaning of Crumbfest

The True Meaning of Crumbfest

1998 • 23 min • Canada
Children's animated special based on the Prince Edward Island tale of a mouse named Eckhart who sets off on a quest to discover the truth behind the annual appearance of crumbs at his farmhouse dwelling. The event coincides with the human inhabitant's celebration of the Christmas holiday.
Kathy Griffin: Hot Cup of Talk

Kathy Griffin: Hot Cup of Talk

1998 • 60 min • United States of America
Kathy Griffin stand up special on HBO
In the Future

In the Future

1998 • 4 min • Canada
Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
Honey Moccasin

Honey Moccasin

1998 • 47 min • Canada
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s. Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, aka “Reservation X”, HONEY MOCCASIN combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and ‘whodunit’ to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative. A comedy/thriller complete with a fashion show and torchy musical numbers, this witty film employs a surreal pastiche of styles to depict the rivalry between bars The Smokin’ Moccasin and The Inukshuk Cafe, the saga of closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachary John, and the travails of crusading investigator Honey Moccasin. This irreverent reappropriation of familiar narrative strategies serves as a provocative spring-board for an investigation of authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
Helter Shelter

Helter Shelter

1998 • 8 min • United States of America
This parody of Friends is a untypical sitcom that features three totally different people living together
The Greatest Places

The Greatest Places

1998 • 40 min • United States of America
A journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth. The film features spectacular land forms, diverse wildlife and the people and cultures indigenous to these places. Distinct geographic places include the great island of Madagascar, home to unique limestone pinnacles and the playful lemur; and the greatest desert—the Namib—home of the largest sand dunes in the world that tower majestically over its western border, the Atlantic Ocean. Other locations featured are the great icecap of Greenland, Iguazu Falls in Brazil, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet, and the Amazon River in South America.
Po Mo Knock Knock

Po Mo Knock Knock

1998 • 3 min
Who says experimental films can't have a sense of humour? A pair of artistes confront the impossibility of communication by telling post modern knock knock jokes.
Justin Fashanu: Fallen Hero

Justin Fashanu: Fallen Hero

1998 • 49 min • United Kingdom
Documentary chronicling the sensational life and death of British footballer Justin Fashanu. Broadcast as part of the BBC series "Inside Story".
The Female Closet

The Female Closet

1998 • 60 min • United States of America
The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. Utilizing groundbreaking research, newly discovered home movies, and archival photographs, and other visual sources, The Female Closet is a cultural interrogation of the closeted and not-so-closeted lives of three women artists.
Camões - Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano

Camões - Tanta Guerra, Tanto Engano

1998 • 54 min • Portugal
A play directed by Silvina Pereira and filmed by Paulo Rocha.
Degas and the Dancer

Degas and the Dancer

1998 • 56 min
A struggling Degas finds inspiration for his art in Marie, a young ballerina. Degas helps Marie tap into the talent she doesn't believe she has while she convinces Degas to persevere despite criticism from the art establishment. An artist and model, they become friends and find in each other what they need to follow their dreams.
Leonardo: King of the World

Leonardo: King of the World

1998 • 52 min • Australia, United States of America
Now for the first time, this long awaited biography takes an up close and personal look at the star of Titanic, including exclusive interviews in Hollywood with his childhood friends, accompanied by never before seen photos! This is a rare and special opportunity to meet the real Leonardo!
Vampire's Seduction

Vampire's Seduction

1998 • 55 min • United States of America
Dracula's daughter, Dracoola, ends her self-imposed exile, seduces women into offering her their bodies for all time and enslaves Wally Van Helsing the simpering descendant of the famed vampire hunter to do her bidding.
HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Jeff Garlin

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Jeff Garlin

1998 • 28 min
For guaranteed laughs, check out this comedy special featuring an uproarious stand-up set by future 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' star Jeff Garlin.
Mah-Jongg: The Tiles that Bind

Mah-Jongg: The Tiles that Bind

1998 • 32 min • United States of America
A light-hearted yet deeply moving portrait of the Asian- and Jewish-American women who play this centuries-old Chinese game, shedding light on the common and uncommon experiences of the players that simultaneously define and transcend cultural boundaries. Along the way, it proves again and again to be a bridge connecting seemingly unlike individuals, spanning generations, continents and cultures, and transcending classification as merely a game.
Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt

Clinton: His Struggle with Dirt

1998 • 30 min • United Kingdom
A mockumentary taking a comic-look at how the Lewinsky scandal is perceived in the year 2028.