Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

The true story of 11-year-old Mary Bell who killed two small boys in England in 1968. Re-enacted by members of Barbie's extended family, this video describes a mother-daughter relation gone crazy.

A certain inhabitant of Lailonia named Tat, very much wants to become a famous man. He ponders for a long time what to do, especially since there are people more famous than him in all fields of science, culture and art. He comes to the conclusion that he can become famous by doing the worst thing in the world. However, he wins only temporary applause from the crowd or exposes himself to ridicule. Finally, he comes to the conclusion that he will gain fame by becoming the least famous man in the world. This is what he does. Soon everyone forgets about him and Tat achieves his goal.

Song of signs with chorus and verses. Superfluity or scattering of the signs confronted by juxtaposition or incrustation, in 16 and Super-8, positive and negative, black and white or colors. These various visual voices constitute a polyphony, the song of the world and of art with its cadences and pulsations of life, a song of signs with echo, reverberation, climax, leitmotif... of images...

A video by Bianco-Valente

Dir. Ryan Rivera

A man collects the the largest settlement in Akron, Ohio when a soda pop company is blamed for his head being blown off.

No Neck Joe has a Woman.

No Neck Joe VI. Joe kills a Laughing Turtle.

The Tabu Zone #2 Project (1993-1998), a production for the Festival of the Regions (in Upper Austria), was realised in the village of Münzbach: An area of approximately 1000 square metres was fenced off and excluded from any kind of cultural activity under threat of five years' punishment. A fixed surveillance camera took pictures of the zone (when it worked) at 15-minute intervals. The short film shows a fast-motion selection of the footage taken over the five years.

Big Ballers is a Southern gangster tale, culminating in the demise of the largest drug dealers and the rise of the people's pick to run the streets and serve the underworld nation. Live the story of Kilo & Cash, two inner city brothers waging war over cocaine with the Cuban drug lords on the streets of Miami.

Young man follows his sister everywhere with video camera and microphone and also accompanies her when she contact with men.

An unexpected impregnated girl falls into a weird imagination. There the world comes absurd and fearful to her. Not having any hope nor anyone to lean on, the girl abandons her baby. Suffering from the guilty consciousness, the helpless girl commits suicide to escape from the world: the world of bad and gloomy memories that she can't stand anymore.

One of three short animated films based on the comic strip.

Luxor, Egypt, meets Luxor, Las Vegas, calling into question the nature of reality through a meltdown of the real and the replica. Each world is suspended and then reborn in the realm of video as past, present and future merge into one pulsing electronic moment. Luxor is also designed as a single channel installation.

A film that allows the main character Aleksandar Jovanović, an ordinary con man from Sarajevo, to be what he always wanted to be.

In 1996, cinematographer Helge Weindler died in Almeria, Spain, while shooting his wife Doris Dörrie's new film. A year later, she set out to retrace her grief and pain in a very private film.

Doug - a couch-based, self taught 'electrical engineer' - passes on some of his painfully won knowledge regarding the mystery of electricity. This is the filmmaker's Royal College of Art first-year film.

A short film by İlker Canikligil.

The 10-year-old Badre lives with his parents in a small coastal town, Safi in Morocco. His father is a fisherman, like most men in the village. Every day, Badre waits for him to return from the sea. One day a traveling puppet theater appears. Badre is upset when the performance ends with the play's main character, a poor fisherman, being overpowered by a sea monster.

Get to know some of the people furthest down on the human rank. They have disconnected from society, which often had them written off as kids. They are gladly criminals, so they get their next fix.

NO HANDS! NO BRAKES! NO CLOTHES! The True Story of the of the Yodeling Lesson, By Moe Bowstern, bicyclist: I was recently arrived in Portland from Chicago and always on my bike, delighted by this rainy city of manageable size and climate, generous, well-paved streets and hills! After the endless flat grind of the prairie city, hills were a daily thrill. I began teasing my way no-handed down Mississippi Hill, venturing further and further before seizing my handlebars. One morning I threw my leg over my bicycle with a bad case of the f*ckits, heading to the train station to bid a dear friend farewell, and I decided I just did not care. I stuck my chin into the wind and kept my hands off the handlebars all the way down. By the time I arrived exhilarated at Union Station, I no longer cared about my departing comrade; I could ride no-handed down Mississippi Hill! I was going to be fine! ...

In this documentary, Mike Mills sits down with a diverse group of individuals to explore the seemingly simple yet profoundly personal topics of hair, shoes, love, and honesty.

Deeply personal portrait of the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård where he discusses acting.

[Installation Art Decade Series-Crossing Huashan Wall (History, Ready-made Objects 1998) The Huashan Winery in Taipei City was designated as the first installation art exhibition of the Art and Cultural Special Zone. The background of abandoned factories and warehouses brings a special atmosphere to the film and is also fully utilized by artists.]

A 1997 documentary which demonstrates the way in which art is central to the lives of Aboriginal people in maintaining their culture, expressing their laws and history and their connection to the land. Explains the effect the misuse of their artwork for commerce has on their communities. Discusses the problems with western copyright law when applied to Aboriginal art and the Aboriginal concept of ownership. Also looks at the issue of authenticity of Aboriginal art.

Originally made for "Illicit Acts", a program curated by Stephen Kent Jusick for New York MIX Festival 1998, Washington Heights Untitled is a short experimental documentary on the local community where the artist is residing. Under the administration of New York City Mayor Guiliani, blockades were set up by the NYPD in many blocks to prevent drug trafficking. Capturing the essence of the Dominican neighborhood, the video documents and comments on the changes in the community and the horror of possibly becoming a "police state".

As a couple of lesbians move from the city to their new home in the country, a pair of love birds follow them to their new home.

This project brings together five South Asian men from across Canada. Each of the men express in a short video-vignette a particular experience of their carnal body in relation to queer 'male' sexuality. This video-chain-letter originated in Calgary where Kevin d'Souza recorded a short message and then passed it on to the next participant who in turn recorded his own message and then circulated it to the next participant. The result is a series of short postcards: How to Feel Free by Atif Siddiqui, Biryani is My Business by Arif Noorani, Ghar Ke Khani by Imtiaz Popat, Devotion Desire by Himmat Shinhat, and Cancer by Kevin d'Souza. This project, through the process of self/body documentation, was transformative; leading out of the pessimism of colonial discourse by making new narratives and by exhibiting imperfect bodies in the realm of the fetishized/advertised/racialized body.

Using a Super8 camera, Henricks employed time-lapse photography to document the interior and exterior of his apartment. Inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf, this video uses writing as a metaphor to examine temporality and impermanence. Time Passes is part a series of works that explores one of the principle metaphors of video: the window.

Gustav Klimt in search of the artwork of the present. Using Klimt's paintings, "Quiet Pond" presents reasons why kitsch is art, art is kitsch, and art is art or possibly not. Who can know and who can judge?

Movie starring Pranjal Saikia, Nikumoni Boruah and Ankur Bishoya.

Little Bee learns a lesson about tardiness

The film is not only a nod to Lettrist and Structuralite films in terms of its form and content; It was while thinking of the Flux Films series initiated by George Maciunas that the original idea for this film came to me. It had to be short, concise and in black and white. I had for some time had a fascination with the figures, the accounts and the texts used for the production of the credits made on ban-titles and which, after several generations take a slight overexposure. The film was set up with the references it actually generated.

Deals are made and unmade in the underworld. "Black Trade" explores the expediency of business through a mosaic of characters and incidents centered around a criminal gang.

On a trip to Hong Kong, Ho Tam was cruised by an attractive young man at the airport. He was in the police force and also knew how to play a Chinese instrument (and play it well). He was a child prodigy who had performed around the world, but now made his living as both a businessman and a policeman (part-time). Ho Tam asked for a performance.

The 1998 New York Yankees Championship season

Widely acclaimed as one of history's most influential figures in the photographic field, Henri Cartier-Bresson, now in his 90th year, gives a revealing interview about his life, work, ideas and beliefs to coincide with three major London exhibitions. Contributors include fellow photographers Eve Arnold and Lord Snowdon, art historian Ernst Gombrich and Lord Healey.

A man stumbled upon a fat man tied to a tree, being threatened by a man with a stun gun. Next to him, a dog wearing a name tag that read “FLO” stood. Suddenly, the man with the stun gun appeared in front of him, and for some inexplicable reason, the man ended up running away with the dog in his arms.

Two people, perched on the mountain’s summit, cannot stop congratulating one another.

Two homeboys are willing to take "Penitentiary Chances" to get out of the barrio by working for some racist drug-dealers. A trip into an underworld most people don't get to see - where deals go bad and huge risks are taken for survival.

Documentary exploring the issue of Palestinians held without trial in Israeli jails. It focuses on the story of Elias Jerayesh, who has been detained without charge in Damoun prison near Haifa for three years. His wife is not allowed to visit him and the efforts of his lawyer to help him are restricted because she is denied access to secret files held by Israeli Intelligence.

A rare glimpse into the lives of two young people struggling to make their relationship work in the face of overwhelming obstacles like parenthood, gender issues and cultural and educational differences.

The sequel to BOOGIEMAN features endlessly long scenes of 'Vietnam buddies' getting loaded and reminiscing of their Vietnam days when they used to get loaded, while the Boogieman rises from the dead and runs around disembowelling people.

A couple in a car, starting with a cigarette, begins a discussion as ridiculous as interesting. The lack of communication and lack of harmony, attributes that are exploited in love (or lack thereof).

A special edition of the BBC show 'Later with Jools Holland' featuring the Mancunian popsters M People. Backed by Jools, a mini orchestra and a Gospel choir, they perform a string of their best known songs in front of a specially invited audience. Tracks include 'One Night in Heaven', 'Movin' On Up' and 'Angel Street'.

Listening to Heino

Two men stuck in a dead end job meet a woman.

In this erotic French-Italian-Spanish drama, Max (Georges Corraface), having spent a decade behind bars on a murder conviction, exits the prison a free man. Mysterious museum-worker Mila (Anna Galiena) is parked at the prison gate and speaks to him from her car. Mila is married to businessman Simon (Jean-Marc Barr), who doesn't satisfy her sexually. Later, when Max descends into a basement cafe to use the rest-room, he spots Mila at a pay phone, approaches her, and they have sex amid the rest-room urinals. Max gives her his phone number, and they rendezvous at an upscale hotel. When Max begins following Mila and spying on her, he makes a startling discovery -- her husband is his own brother.

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