Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

A visceral first effort, half/half finds the filmmaker pondering her dual identity growing up half Korean and half American in Ohio.

First transmitted in 1998, this is the story of four men who orbited Earth on board the ill-fated Mir space station, which NASA declared unsafe in 1991. Although Mir had been lived in almost continuously since she was launched in 1986, the joint Russian-American mission in 1997 saw unprecedented problems on board the station; from fire, power blackouts and mechanical breakdowns to a dramatic midspace collision that left everyone on board scrambling for their lives.

Deals with the childhood fears of having your tongue stick to a frozen pipe in the winter.

News on the Grégory Affair: The Villemin family requests new DNA analyses. On Wednesday, December 16, the Dijon public prosecutor’s office announced that additional investigative actions have been initiated in the ongoing case surrounding the child's murder. A look back at a tragic case that has spanned several decades...

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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.

Shot on black and white film, a sad drunk who works as a birthday-party clown laments what he has become.

Short film whereby a man learns to dance.

Jan Peters films and talks every day, every day fills a reel of Super-8 or 16mm film. He speaks to the camera, or records a commentary on the images he is filming. For a month, Jan Peters tries to reflect on different themes, and events sometimes come to upset his plans. A quasi-police investigation in Belgium interferes with an intimate relationship; technical problems of all kinds (sound, image, light, film development, automobile mechanics) force the filmmaker to invent other solutions; a debate between filmmakers on the theme of the power of images turns into burlesque; artist friends want to contribute to the film that is being made. Thus, day after day, a film is built. Some things are planned, others are not.

When night falls and everybody goes to sleep, the kitchen floor is home of the mice. In this comical short for all ages a little mouse has a musical encounter with the scared human inhabitants of his kitchen. This film is made in a traditional cartoon style but is drawn on computer, giving it a unique look.

The twenty-four hours that liberated Paris. Far from history lessons, men, soldiers or resistance fighters of yesterday, testify of these days of August 1944 which they lived with their impulses, their modesty but also their humor.

A film about a Dogon funeral and enthronement ritual. In Mali, 800 kilometers northeast of the capital of Bamako, the cliffs of Bandiagara stretch about 300 kilometers and reach a height of 300 meters. It is here among the Arou, one of the four tribes of the Dogon population, that Amma, Lord and creator of the world, chose the supreme religious chief who was responsible for fertility, rain and order on earth.

An abstract Super-8 film made by shooting directly into the beam of a projector through a distorting lens. Shards of coloured light pierce the blackness, accompanied by electronic music from customised circuits.

The film chooses the relationship between a photographer and his wife and daughter as its main line, and introduces the daily life experience of the only daughter of a family in Beijing. In the process of filming, the story of this family's life becomes an almost universal story; the films has been appreciated as an important work for analyzing the processes of Chinese families, children, schools, and education today.

The fourth film in the Red Asphalt driver's education series, presented by the California Highway Patrol, shows graphic accident footage demonstrating the consequences of drunk, reckless and unsafe driving.

Join Tab Hunter on a journey through the history of Hollywood's greatest cinematic achievements from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century.

The iconic concert from T-SQUARE in 1998.

Blues singer Nakase enters a bar, invited by the melody of the piano that echoes in the lonely dark night...

A young man, attempting to watch a VHS tape of "Love Streams" by John Cassavetes on his television, is constantly harassed and annoyed by outside forces.

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998)

An anxious and overzealous drag queen attempts to perform a lip sync of Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man, out takes and all. The videotape raises many questions on the desirability and exoticism of transvestites. It is also an homage to songstress Wynette, the queen of tragedies.

A preview of Aerlyn Weissman's unfinished documentary on gay men living in rural British Columbia.

Phoenix Is a Cunning Cunt offers a look into the life of Phoenix, a misunderstood transsexual youth navigating the trials and tribulations of everyone's worst high-school nightmares. S/he is self-assured in exploring pronouns and family roles and shows us a snippet of "hir" daily struggle toward personhood

With Tia Ciata, Freyre, Macunaíma and samba at the birth of a nation.

John agrees to house-sit for a neighbor, and things take a turn for the macabre.

Rod Ferrell the leader of a vampire cult in the bible town of Murray Kentucky drove to Florida where he brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend's parents. The film explores the impact of his actions on the friends he left behind and the community of Murray Kentucky. There is also a death row interview with Rod Ferrell who explains his actions.

A Type-A woman, Maya, hitchhikes her way through Death Valley after a fatal car crash. She is frustrated while waiting for her car to be repaired, she talks to the town's many residents (mostly childless women and a roaming ghost named Robbie). Finally she mellows and decides to stay there for eternity.

During the second world war, the United States and its allies were struggling to find a code by which to communicate across the Pacific Ocean - one that could not be broken by the Japanese enemy. The solution cam in the form of the Navajo people, whose language was as elusive as it was complex. Through their incredible linguistic skills, the Allied forces were able to convey life-or-death information to on another - information that, in some cases, altered the very course of the war. In this eye-opening documentary, renowned historians and several Navajo veterans relate how a mere handful of WWII marines devised the only unbreakable code in modern military history.

The Great Western Cotton Factory on Barton Hill was once the biggest in the South of England. Its arrival in the 1840s, following the opening of the Feeder Canal, transformed the area from a rural backwater into a seething mass of industry and terraced streets. This DVD recounts the fascinating story of a proud working-class Bristol community. Helped by some wonderful old photographs, members of the Barton Hill History Group conduct an unmissable tour of the area.

Catholic School premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded Best Bay Area Short Film at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival.

The breakdown...

Maisie, the dog who fell to earth, is on a super 8 mission: ‘To kill the cabinet!’ Will our K9 alien fulfill her assignment across the wastes of East London?

A fascinating videoclip - fascinating for those familiar with the potential energy and beauty held in minimalism. A dialogue between images and music whereby the rhythm is concentrating on the material structure of the image.

Returning home from their touring opera troupe, actress Lanh has a rendezvous with her now-married former boyfriend, Phong, while leading-lady Xoan is about to be replaced by an understudy because of her pregnancy.

The sixteenth entry in the sketch comedy series.

The red kangaroo survives in one of the harshest environments on Earth: Australia’s inland plains. High summer temperatures keep the kangaroos inactive during the day, yet these animals thrive and have adapted to various climates, creating a large network of cousins - more than 50 species in all.

A young Argentine woman comes to Cuba to make a documentary about prostitution. But instead she gets herself a black Cuban lover and the boundaries of prostitution start to fade.

By Kwame Braun. Color, 24 mins, 1998. From distributor Documentary Educational Resources: At a street festival in West Africa, a young girl is delighted to discover a video camera trained on her. But her exuberant display is quickly cut short when she recognizes that the cameraman has already lost interest in her. But all is well: he has a document of the moment. Video has tipped the balance in another human interaction, and turned it into a curio. This experimental video essay probes the complexities of video as a tool for cross-cultural research and representation: it examines, in effect, the politics of its own production. How does the intrusion of this expensive technology distort relationships? What are the ethnographic filmmaker's responsibilites towards his "subjects?" Yet perhaps these concerns are themselves distortions, preoccupations that obscure a more balanced encounter, in which human accommodation can flow in both directions.

Smokey Robinson is one of the most talented singers to have emerged from the Motown scene of the 1960s. In addition to being a great singer and songwriter, he also served as president of Motown Records for a period. This video presents Smokey performing some of his timeless hits, including "I Second That Emotion," "The Tracks of My Tears," "Being with You," "Just to See Her," "Ooh Baby, Baby" and "Double Good Everything."

Documentary about the glass art show "Chihuly Over Venice."

Motion picture directed by Tim Andrew.

Sol Ok is in love with Chol Young. when they ask for his parents' acceptance for their upcoming marriage, she is denied by Chol Young's sports obsessed family for being a mere musician. Can she learn the DPRK state sport of basketball, and win over his family?

Nostradamus is profiled in this informative video about the amazingly accurate future predictions of this 16th century doctor.

A girl, through her behaviour, tries to prove that daughters are much more caring and compassionate than sons toward their parents.

Short by Bernhard Marsch

"Special Warning is like a poem more than a narrative or story. It suggests states of isolation, barrenness, sexual guilt and sin, but even these punishing afflictions can have a humorous aspect when accompanied by horns." (Robert Nelson)

Lie back and enjoy a portion of side-splitting comedy from the Cream of Cornwall - Jethro! A hilarious mixture of live performance and sketches, Go You Ahead Hmmn...! includes some of Jethro's most frothy material ever told in front of a packed West Country audience. Hear about his nightclubbing exploits with his best friend Denzil and discover what he gave his wife on their wedding anniversary!

Shazna – Dear September Lovers Shazna Live At Budokan ‘98

Based on an act of vandalism by artist Alexander Brener, the film tells the story of an event that shocked the conscience of enlightened Europe: Brener painted a green dollar sign on Kazimir Malevich’s "White Cross." While Brener’s action sparked fierce debates among art critics and legal experts, the filmmakers declare the “joint” symbol of Brener and Malevich a cult icon of 1998.

Accounts of courtroom brawls, catastrophic acts of nature, and crashes of planes, boats and helicopters.

Film about Soccer club Ararat Armenia.

It's a film about homeless children.

A moving portrait of the 50-year marriage of renowned sculptor Elizabeth Catlett and Mexican painter Francisco Mora by their son, filmmaker Juan Mora Catlett.