All Films

Hitozuma China dress: Yokujô mukidan

1998 • 59 min • Japan

Gonichi has become impotent since his company went bankrupt and he lost his job. His wife, Sakiko, tries to get him to give an erection by performing blowjobs and cosplay, but it doesn't work...

Creating Ragtime

1998 • 54 min

A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.

Videogibi: O Plano Sangrento

1998 • 34 min • Brazil

"The Bloody Plan": After beating up Cebolinha and Cascão, Mônica is frightened to see them both unconscious and covered in blood. She believes she killed them, but in reality, it's just another foolproof plan by Cebolinha. The blood is actually ketchup. "Astronaut": It seems the Astronaut's relationship with Ritinha really went down the drain! But then a crazy alien shows up, ready to find our hero a girlfriend from "another world." "In the Countryside It's Different": Chico Bento's cousin from the city, Zeca, is going to spend the vacation with him in the countryside and will have to learn that things are different in the countryside. "Comic Book Duel": Cebolinha invented a super cool comic book character, the most "powerful" man in the universe. More powerful?! Well... only until Cascão invented his own character. What now? Who will be the strongest superhero?

Chijôhôdô: Etsuhaji shibire

1998 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film directed by Yutaka Ikejima.

Forward

1998 • 10 min • Slovenia

The main heroes, or rather anti-heroes, are an inseparable unity. Their symbiosis stems from their handicap. They find the meaning of their daily lives in chasing persons of the opposite sex, which brings them to the "edge" of the world. And that’s where it all comes to an end. Or even begins? A road movie in a wheel-chair.

Glassy Ocean

1998 • 23 min • Japan

On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.

DNA Sights 999.9

1998 • 48 min • Japan

After a meteor hits Earth, traitor forces have (for all intents and purposes) taken over, and the people are suffering. In the chaos, a boy named Tetsuro Daiba, who had lost his parents in the meteor hit, is paid a visit by Mello, a mysterious woman appearing in a bright light. When Daiba comes to, he finds itself in a spaceship infirmary under observation. Stealing a fighter that he didn't know how to pilot (until he tried it), he breaks out, flying like a total pro.

Pookie

1998 • 15 min • Bosnia and Herzegovina

It’s about a girl named Ema and her snail.

Photographer

1998 • 52 min • Germany, Poland, France

In 1987, colour slides were found in a second hand book store in Vienna which turned out to be a collections of photographs taken in the Lodz ghetto by the Nazis' chief accountant. Walter Genewein boosted productivity in the ghetto while keeping costs down, a policy which led to the Lodz ghetto surviving much longer than any other in Poland. He recorded what he considered to be the subhuman aspect of the Jewish workers and he was concerned only with the technical quality of his photos. Director Dariusz Jabłoński's prize-winning film uses the photographs in a different way. He recreates for us the suffering of inmates, giving a compassionate picture of that it was like to be trapped in the ghetto. (Storyville)

Kite

1998 • 50 min • Japan

Sawa, orphaned as a child by murderous thugs, now targets the scourge of society as a trained killer for a mercenary syndicate. Coquettish and capable of unimaginable violence, she's grown into the perfect weapon — but doubt takes hold in Sawa's mind when her fellow assassin, Oburi, decides he wants out.

End of the Journey

1998 • 60 min • Japan

Hiro travels around the country playing the ukulele on the streets. A road movie depicting his interactions with various gay people he meets on his travels.

Raw Irons

1998 • 31 min

Witness the legendary Andy Irons killing it on the North Shore circa the mid-late 90s. "Raw Irons" is an MCD production. A video profile of Surfer Andy Irons.

Men's Nightless Castle

1998 • 59 min • Japan

There is Miyoshi, who is extremely attached to Billy dolls (gay toys) in Shinjuku 2-chome. Every night, he invites men with Billy doll in hand. Fellow Billy doll lovers and sadists with a fish fetish caress Miyoshi. And before Miyoshi realizes he wants to become a Billy doll...

The Real Faces of Young Men

1998 • 60 min • Japan

Hiroki and Shinji have been living together for three months. When it comes to light that Shinji met with his ex-boyfriend Takayuki, the three of them have their first fight. Misunderstanding the situation, Hiroki accuses, "You're still seeing your ex!" and storms out. However, Shinji struggles to explain his true feelings. While living apart for a while, they all realize how much they need each other. Eventually, Shinji gathers the courage to go and bring Hiroki back.

Bolivia

1998 • 5 min • Bolivia, France

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

Fetch

1998 • 7 min • Australia

A first date: he shows up at her flat, several stories up in her building. She's finishing getting ready, so she introduces him to her dog, which loves to fetch a small red rubber ball with blue stars. He tosses the ball to the dog a few times, somewhat distractedly, looks through a book ("Do I have to be me?") on her coffee table, opens the French doors to her balcony, sits down and continues to toss the ball. It takes a deadly carom, but when she emerges from her bedroom ready to go, he stays mum. Outside the building, a crowd has gathered. Will he tell her what happened, or leave it for her to put together? Is there any way out for him?

Human Remains

1998 • 30 min • United States of America

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.

New Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 3

1998 • 50 min • Japan

Japanese horror movie from 1998.

Chikan densha: Osawari tahatsu haji-tai

1998 • 60 min • Japan

On the train. A man who commits molestation. Taking advantage of the fact that the woman looks down and says nothing, the man escalates with a cucumber. The woman grabbed a tool from her bag and grabbed the man's crotch and attacked him up with all her might. A man's scream echoes inside the car... Six months later, the man who crushed one of his testicles becomes a demon of revenge and searches for the woman.

Sexy S.W.A.T. Team

1998 • 60 min • Japan

Red alert! A crime wave of women groping perverts has flooded the Tokyo train system and only a special all-female, undercover police task force can stop it! The common clue is that all of the victims see a strobing red light before they find themselves on the receiving end of public, sexual humiliation! Asses will be grabbed! Breasts will be kneaded! And crotches will be sniffed! All in the course of duty, for the Sexy SWAT Team!

1001 Nights

1998 • 23 min • United States of America, Japan

Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the ground-breaking "Filmharmonic" project, which presents original compositions created by pairs of A-list film composers and directors.

Ultra Nyan 2: The Great Happy Operation

1998 • 30 min • Japan

Ultra-Nyan's adventures continue. This time, he is tasked with finding the cause of the crows' sudden declaration of war upon the cats.

Tomoyo's Cardcaptor Sakura Video Diary!

1998 • 5 min • Japan

The first OVA of the anime series of Cardcaptor Sakura. This is a video of Tomoyo Daidouji previewing the making of the first opening video of Cardcaptor Sakura (the Catch You Catch Me video).

Call Waiting

1998 • 16 min • Canada

A man has a last telephone conversation with the lover who just left him. Call Waiting draws its inspiration from La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau.