All Films

Larger than Life

1998 • 13 min • New Zealand

A young woman battles against a series of giant spiders, spawned by toxic waste, in her new suburban home.

Drumroll

1998 • 22 min

Director Steve McQueen attached three cameras to the front and each end of an oil drum and rolled it through the streets of Manhattan. The results are projected onto three walls of an enclosed space.

Show Girls

1998 • 52 min • Canada

Show Girls celebrates Montreal's swinging Black jazz scene from the 1920s to the 1960s, when the city was wide open. Three women who danced in the legendary Black clubs of the day - Rockhead's Paradise, The Terminal, Café St. Michel - share their unforgettable memories of life at the centre of one of the world's hottest jazz spots. From the Roaring Twenties, through the Second World War and on into the golden era of clubs in the fifties and sixities, Show Girls chronicles the lives of Bernice, Tina and Olga - mixing their memories with rarely seen footage of the era.

Sirens of the Deep

1998 • 4 min

Pitch for the unproduced TV show, "Sirens", about a group of singers who have to stop an evil force of monsters.

MILF Hunting in the Sea of Trees

1998 • 60 min • Japan

After embezzling money from her company, Keiko and her boyfriend, Yamagata, flee to the sea of trees in her hometown. However, a mysterious incident awaits them there. A mysterious woman seduces Yamagata and a woman's screams come from the sea of trees. Behind it all lurks an abominable incident from the past...

Richard Lester!

1998 • 32 min

A tribute to Richard Lester, Philadelphia-born filmmaker who moved to England to direct the modern classics "A Hard Day's Night," "Petulia," and "Help!"

Radiohead: Tibetan Freedom Concert

1998 • 49 min

with Michael Stipe

Cosmo's Tale

1998 • 20 min • United States of America

Adam Shankman's directorial debut is a silent short film where the story is told through dance, expression and moody music.

Slime Adventures: Wolf Goes For It!

1998 • 18 min • Japan

A short anime directed by Mizuho Nishikubo and produced by Production I.G, which was shown at the V Jump Festival '98. The special is based on the Slime Boukenki manga by Osamu Kaneko.

The Detective Is Born

1998 • 53 min

A detective story that shows the activities of a popular cameraman who accidentally set foot in the detective business in stylish images. The director is Mitsuo Shindo, who has directed promotional videos, and this is his feature film debut.

Hotel Belgrade

1998 • 13 min • Switzerland

A couple makes love in a hotel. She lives in Switzerland, he lives in Belgrad. What’s been destroyed by war will be reborn in this hotel room.

Dorei bishimai: Shinjin stewardess

1998 • 59 min • Japan

Mika Kurokawa has only been a stewardess for a second-class airline for only half a year, but finally, Kazuta is on board today's flight. Although she is not an expert, she is a scathing critic of airline service and is known for publishing her revealing sex life...

The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly

1998 • 40 min • United States of America

Ronald and his friends going on a camping trip in the Far-Flung Forest where Ronald discovers an old house which he assumes is haunted by a ghost called the Far-Flung Phantom. The campers are forced to stay in the old house due to the stormy weather where a holographic head named Franklin leads them through a challenging game which will eventually help them to escape.

Lust in Space

1998 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Doctor Who travelled with the most gorgeous girls in the Cosmos. But was there any Lust in Space? Doctor Who is on trial - and the charge is sexism! The scene is set, the witnesses called. We expose Doctor Who’s final taboo! It’s everything you wanted to know about sex (in Doctor Who) but were afraid to ask!

Afro-Cuban All-Stars at the Salon of Dreams

1998 • 52 min

This documentary, shot entirely on location in Havana, includes many band members' insights into this revival, and features performance footage of an All-Stars' concert at the city's Salon of Dreams.

The Footprints of a Spirit

1998 • 49 min • Spain

The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

In Stillness and in Silence (Sacred)

1998 • 2 min

Rare footage of a 1998 film where David Bowie discusses the British artist Richard Devereux’s work: In Stillness and In Silence.

Doctor Who: The Missing Years

1998 • 37 min • United Kingdom

The Missing Years was a documentary containing footage from missing episodes of Doctor Who from William Hartnell's and Patrick Troughton's time as the Doctor. Presented by Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling, it was released on home video by BBC Video in 1998 and contained footage from several episodes.

I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America

1998 • 56 min

Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the country, Hurt gathers reflections on Black masculinity from men and women of a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and a host of leading scholars and cultural critics. What results is an engaging and honest dialogue about race, gender, and identity in America. Features bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Kevin Powell, Andrew Young, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, Jackson Katz, and many others.

When Ponds Freeze Over

1998 • 20 min • Canada

Mary recounts to her daughter Eva the childhood story of when Mary and her father fell through the ice on a frozen pond.

T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous

1998 • 45 min

Dinosaurs are very much alive -- at least in the mind of teenager Ally Hayden who shares her father's passion for paleontology. When a museum accident transports Ally on a surreal adventure back in time, she encounters people and makes discoveries that might help her solve the mystery of her father's newest fossil... and even comes face to face with the most dangerous apex predator on earth.

Conversations in Limbo

1998 • 19 min

A series of conversations in an alley behind a bar and a church.

Life of an Artiste

1998 • 11 min

Matt portrays Burt, an ambitious student who is dedicated to writing and producing his own opera. But many obstacles stand in Burt's path to opera glory.

Psychic Force

1998 • 60 min • Japan

This anime tale set in a dystopian near future finds a corrupt regime in control as it first persecutes and then exploits those with extrasensory skills, harnessing their special talents to create more effective weaponry. Luckily for psychic Keith Evans, he escapes from custody and in time finds an ally in young Burn Griffiths. When Keith sacrifices his freedom to save his new friend from the government, Burn sets off on a quest to locate Keith.