Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

A gay sex video, directed by Charles Atlas under the pseudonym ‘Jack Shoot,’ was created as part of a series featuring artists in porn, though it was the only one produced. The film was shot in a brothel on Staten Island and was nominated for Best Porn Comedy at the AVN Awards. The plot humorously ends with characters disappearing and leaving their sneakers, inspired by the Heaven’s Gate cult, The X Files, and the murder of Gianni Versace. Notably, the video includes women, which is unusual for gay porn.

Created in 1571 by Akbar, the greatest of the Mughal Emperors, Fatehpur Sikri, laid the foundations of a culture whose impact still reverberates in North India. His free thinking, open minded and innovative attitude is expressed in the design of the main mosque, in the innovative roofscapes, and in the unique composition of the palace complex, based on a delicate system of a series of balancing axes. Exquisite Miniature paintings from the imperial atelier evoke the court and the events linked to the creation of Fatehpur Sikri. Three Hindustani classical ragas, which are said to have been composed by Tansen, the legendary ” jewel ” of Akbar’s court, go with the images.

From the creators of Surviving Edged Weapons comes a new instructional film for police officers dealing with office hostage situations.

Eric is a secret agent, a liar, and a loser, who is struggling to come out of the closet.

On a road like any other, returning from a weekend, a couple separate. Patricia decides to take advantage of a lengthy delay at a border crossing for a brief moment of escape. A breath of fresh air. With this short graduation film, Aragno was immediately selected for the Cannes festival.

The Pshavi people of the eastern mountains of the Republic of Georgia perform a ritual which can be characterized as a syncretism of ancient polytheistic beliefs and Orthodox Christian faith, but which is qualified by city habitants of Tbilisi as "pagan". The ritual of Tamar and Lashari celebrates queen Tamar (12-13th century) and her son Lasha, deified by the mountain dwellers. Each year, and for three days, on the hillside of a Caucasus valley, pilgrims consecutively meet at two sanctuaries consecrated to these deities and worship them through prayers, songs and sacrifices, enjoying at the same time food and happy chats with friends they have not seen for a year. In addition to prayers and sacrifices by a shrine priest, religious songs are an essential part of the ritual.

HBO produced animation for UNICEF international rights of the child.

The Venus Project's video, Welcome To The Future, presents an attainable vision of what our world could be if we intelligently apply science and technology with environmental and human concern--a future where war, poverty and hunger could be but a distant memory. It advocates surpassing the monetary system by introducing a resource-based economy, in which all of the world's resources are utilized for the common heritage of all people. With the advent of newer technologies, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology; and by nurturing individuality and creativity we could create abundance for everyone; not just a selected few. It presents future cities (on land and sea), architecture, efficient transportation, clean alternative energy systems, interviews with project founder and director, Jacque Fresco, and much more. It is an in-depth explanation of the direction and aims of The Venus Project.

Documentary short written by Seamus Heaney.

There is reflection on the passing of time, transience, yesterday and tomorrow, the images show memories from trips in the Canadian wilderness, without the travelers beloved family, the loss of the daughter from her first marriage, a strange new country, strangers passing by, a quarry in Sardinia and the finality of days. Paths of no return. The text runs past without images, the film moves from the end back to the beginning. (Moucle Blackout)

Pastel has been reduced in size after eating a batch of cookies containing a formula made by Dr. Mardock. There's little time before the "Miss Donburi" contest starts, and the cloud bells, which have the necessary power for restoring Pastel to her normal size, have been stolen by the legendary island ghost. The TwinBee Team sorts to retrieve them before time runs out!

Addresses concerns of relatives of victims and locals at paedophiles such as Sidney Cooke being released into their areas.

The 'summer generals' are the clouds that rise in the summer sky. The languour and excitement that one feels only in summer, are symbolised by the clouds that disappear so bravely and so fleetingly. The boredom and freedom that one feels only at certain times of life. The strength and vulnerability to the loneliness that only girls feel. The film succeeds in visualising these uncertain and subtle moods in a delicate way.

This video, edited initially in a 48 hour turnaround, became a fundraiser and helped save a human being. The story is of a Mexican transsexual woman's struggle to immigrate to Canada, in order to live her life with dignity and be with those she loves. This video has been described as instrumental in helping to secure her safe passage back to Canada.

Glimpses and sparkles of childhood memories.

A man lives to serve as a security guard in Berlin.

The Former Page Three sensation gets down and 'dirty' as she displays her world-famous assets, for the first time in two years, in a variety of glamerous settings.

Martin painted the LES ghetto with the most enigmatic realism of bricks to be seen. In 1992 Martin Wong invited Charlie Ahearn up to his Ridge St apartment as he began his autobiographical Chinatown series reflecting his youth in San Francisco and later New York. After he was diagnosed HIV he returned to SF where he later passed away in 1999.

In a small yard in Beijing Hutong, the Zhao family gave birth to a son named Zhao Xiaotao in the cry of babies. In order to cultivate his son's prosperity, Xiao Tao's parents made all kinds of efforts to create a better learning environment for him. Unexpectedly, Xiao Tao did not follow the blueprint that his parents had already drawn. As Xiao Tao grew up, he gradually understood a lot of truths, and his parents also reflected on their education methods. With the joint efforts of a family, Xiao Tao changed from a poor student to an excellent student. Parents love their children. Children understand that parents constitute a picture of human affection.

Little Brother, Little Sister tells the story of the Lows, an Australian family living in Sydney, who adopt Ethiopian orphan brother and sister, Sisay and Eleni. They already have two teenage boys — one is their biological son and the other was adopted as a baby from Papua New Guinea.

Dio at Festivalna Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria 01 - Inro 02 - Evilution 03 - Staright Through The Heart 04 - Dont Talk To Strangers 05 - Holy Diver/Drums Solos 06 - Heaven And Hell 07 - Children Of The Sea 08 - I Speed At Night 09 - We Rock 10 - Neon Nights 11 - Stargazer 12 - Misstreated 13 - Catch The Rainbow 14 - Last In Line 15 - Rainbow In The Dark 16 - Mob Rules 17 - Man On The Silve Mountain 18 - Long Live Rock N Roll

Mid-Life crisis explored through the hair-loss of New Jersey dry-cleaning magnate Joey Greene (Jay Thomas), who's affair leads to his wife Beth's (Tess Harper) counter-affair with her black chiropractor.

A breezy look into an illegal database from a CD-ROM, which contains personal data of Estonian citizens.

Drama film released in 1998

The film mixes fiction and documentary in an unconventional cinematographic style, to narrate a poetic adventure that encounters the mythical universe of the writer and the Paraguay of yesterday and today. Augusto Roa Bastos, the greatest Paraguayan writer and 1989 Cervantes Prize winner, author of "The Thunder Between the Leaves", "Son of Man", "Yo el Supremo" and "El Fiscal" among others, returns from exile and undertakes a geographical journey and at the same time dreamlike to Iturbe, his childhood town, searching for the land and the characters of his literary fictions to write his novel titled "Contravida." The writer thus participates in a dual condition: as an interpreter of Paraguayan reality and as a protagonist of his own imaginary universe.

In the video installation “Again & Again” Melhus tells—not without humor—the story of a person engaged in an inner dialogue on the subject of reproduction, only to be rejected by the clone whose qualities are superior to his own. The possibility of multiplying oneself ends in a loss of subjectivity. While in this case Melhus questions the identity of the self set before a genetically-altered living situation, in his preceding works he exposed the self as being the projection surface of medial images. Curiously on the theme of cloning a single channel video is multiplied on 8 screens.

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Men and Little Miss help him?

Documentary about Bad Blue Boys, the fans of Dinamo Zagreb football club.

Jean tells, in an ironic way, the story of a French banker and his troublesome marriage with the adorable Jean. We hear his thoughts on love, death and marriage. The film is in English with strong French accent.

Gravure Idol VHS released in 1998.

Ymako Teatri, a theatre company based in the Ivory Coast, uses street theatre to question some contemporary West African problems. Their originality consists in using the ‘invisible theatre’ method in order to surprise the public and thus make it react itself to its own problems. This documentary shows how a local theatre company efficiently uses fiction to problematise today’s African reality. This film presents two performances, one criticises the current proliferation of religious sects, the other deals with the awakening of villagers towards AIDS. Ymako, in Bambara, means ‘our concerns’.

A young colla leaves his Salta community to travel to Buenos Aires and Become a boxer, with the dream of becoming like this. of poverty. His father makes a journey from the humility of the interior to the big city to find the boy and demand the return of his lands usurped many years ago.

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.

A collection of 6 gay-oriented short-films. Two main themes are explored here: The homo-eroticism of "Twilight of the Gods", "SPF 2000" & "Dirty Baby Does Fire Island" (the latter follows a plastic-doll as she explores sex & drugs on the beach) --to the campy and outrageous humour of "My Body", "Boot Camp", and "Karen Black Like Me" (the latter follows the plight of a gay-man and his possessed sex-toy).

A short Bosnian film.

A long-term film documentary about the Vietnamese Do Sanh, who lost his parents as an eight-year-old boy in the Vietnam War and was critically injured by a grenade. Grabe accompanied and filmed him from 1970 until his death. This film is the fifth and final documentary in this series.

Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, The Queen's Monastery is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed man. Using a highly individual watercolour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession and guilt.

Variations is a 1998 American short silent avant-garde film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It is the second film in a set of "Four Cinematic Songs," which also includes Triste, Arbor Vitae, Love's Refrain.

Italian short film

Footage and interviews of those who live around and who visit around Area 51 and surrondings in Nevada.

Travel with mythology expert Joseph Campbell as he explores shared iconic imagery that marks the human experience and influences our ability to dream and find our spiritual center. Campbell suggests that all religions share the same path to enlightenment, but it's up to us to make the actual journey. Evidence of the commonality of mythological symbols is investigated in the ruins of Ajanta in India, Delphi in Greece and Stonehenge in England.

Through the microcosm of an old coffee shop in Metaxourgeio, in the late 1980s, we witness a neighborhood that is changing radically. The camera records the slow rhythms that govern life in the coffee shop, the rituals of the patrons, the petty conflicts between regulars and non-regulars that can lead from fistfights to hugs, the confessions after drinking, the great friendships, in other words, everything we don't see and don't do in today's "coffee shops".

Steve Davis teaches his skills

“Drawing on archival footage, fragments of interviews, and scenes from his films, this newly constructed portrait of Sergey Paradjanov was composed by the highly accomplished Armenian director Don Askarian (Komitas, Avetik). According to the director's synopsis: "The year is 1989. The place is the film festival in Rotterdam. Farewell at the Hilton Hotel. And Paradjanov says, ‘Help me make Confession’. I answer, ‘As a child of two fathers, the film will be born a bastard’."

This multi-image work is based on Le Grice's longer, color-field film-loop installation Joseph’s Coat (1973).

Indian Marathi-language family drama

It tells the story of an old fisherman who remembers the intense love of his youth for Rosinha, who one day disappeared at sea.

It is a comedy film released in 1999.

Feature film released in 1997

A child has been locked in a closet for eight years. We discover his world, his fears, and then, at the same time he does, we find out about his story which is revealed by his "charming sister".

Computer animated short about a strange tribe made of junk.

A wounded gangster comes into a bar and starts talking to another gangster. They tell each other different versions of the last job of a yakuza killer.