Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Black and white short film by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.

To sail down the Niger River for over five hundred kilometers to meet the populations and their music, that is the challenge taken up by a dozen African and European musicians, all soloists, traveling together in a dugout canoe which takes them along the river from village to village to play with the inhabitants and to organize common concerts.

A sensitive and probing portrayal of the filmmaker’s Korean immigrant grandparents.

Arthur Campbell, Jr. doesn't want your sympathy, he just wants what most people do: a living wage, a meaningful social life, a few good laughs and the means to get around.

Nils Jönsson wants to retire in peace and quiet but when Norrbotten is threatened by Germans he teams up with journalist Sara to save the day once again!

White-clad figures in gas masks appear from time to time. They are the Program group. It is presumably the behaviour of these characters - the population - who appear in each other's strange dreams that has triggered the desire of businessmen and politicians to call in foreign help to restore order. They have come with unknown aims, and are doing their work in terror. The film is a chain of surreal dreams, yet the feeling is familiar. We are home.

Together with many star guests, Anke Engelke celebrates Christmas and, as we are used to from her, spreads good cheer everywhere!

Two gay latinos try to develop a longterm relationship.

Epilogue to Akira Hoshino's "Closed School Trilogy".

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a slight incident that introduces a man and a woman in a quiet cafe.

Heera Deepa and Susheela work the fields, cut grass, tend cattle, and care for their families. They contribute as much as men towards sustenance of their families and the economy of their villages. But their labour is rarely recognised as work. The reason is as inescapable as it is simple ' they are women. And so, they never stop working even when they are sick, and never have their sickness taken care of till the work begins to suffer.

After their car shows signs of trouble in the middle of nowhere, four men must use their skill in 'bush repair' to make it back to town.

A series of fantastic and futuristic animations correspond to new words found in a dictionary.

Two boys ready for action head down to the Calgary Stampede, a cornucopia of rides, food and girls. “When I see the Stampede grounds through the spinning arms of the Ferris Wheel, flashing like the frames in a film, I think ‘This is my fountainhead'.”

Drunken poet declaims a surreal poem.

It depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurd.

A village is terrorised by a rich man. When the local teacher's son returns from university, he falls for the rich man's daughter.

Set to Rashid Taha's YA RAI, a song in Arabic about exile.

A claymation skater-boy love story that swings.

In three easy lessons, you’ll learn many Cantonese phrases that are useful in a gay bar, a cruising park, and a bathhouse. These three self-contained episodes can be viewed as a single video or as a recurring serial in a program of shorts.

This wonderfully sensuous and meditative work questions the conventional cross-cultural dilemma around sexual/cultural allegiances by highlighting the pleasures and richness of both forms of traditions, South Asian and North American.

With lush visual effects and evocative soundscape, this movement tape is a poetic exploration of one man's fall from grace, as he becomes disillusioned with gay ideals of beauty.

Six stories about six characters and the bond between them and their homes in Bucharest.

A Colombian Mafia teams up with a Mexican Mafia from Sinaloa and together they traffick drugsvand fight the law. Only one federal officer is after them.

Ang Joker at ang Pistolero is a 1998 Tagalog-language Action Western film featuring Chuck Perez, Daniel Pasia, Mike Gayoso, Michelle Ortega, Melissa Mendez, Jude Estrada and Ace Vergel.

A Film by Oriol Sanchez

"I guess you could say that Dysfunctional is the first film I ever completed. I had done lots of experiments before this, but I never seemed to be able to finish anything. This one really is more of a collage than a film. I did shoot alot of the footage in it, but the overall majority of this is just clips of skateboarding films and news footage that I cut together with my friend Antek." - Aaron Rose

Donegan calls into question the institutional armature that surrounds a work of art, and investigates boundaries between "high" and "low" culture.

This 1998 documentary traces the early nineteenth century American sealing history through the Australian occupation in the 1950's, and finally to the famous 1997 DXpedition.

A film about a human rebellion against the death conveyor.

A lonely older woman receives a visit from a seller at home. She uses him to materialize her dreams.

Documentary about the lives of a group of Tibetan religious dance performers.

In a peculiar combination of eroticism and design asthetics, an attractive young man pleasures himself in his living room while a disembodied voice describes the decor.

Through the montage of film fragments from the Mexican Golden Cinema, it explores the cinematographic representation of of pain, violence, repressed sexuality and Mexicanness.

In this haunting work, Santos creates an elegiac mood that suggests both intimacy and loss. Based on a poem by Sandra Penna, which was inspired by a children's song about a couple who has broken up, this tape overturns the sunny idealism and rhymes typically found in children's songs. Contradictory feelings, imperfect remembrances and the inaccuracy of time are suggested by the poignant collage of home movies, voiceover, and music.

The story of a taboo romance, a stolen keg of beer, an arranged marriage, a televised kiss, and the requisite Hindi dance number, centering on a familiar looking convenience store.

A look at the life and career of actor Rex Harrison.

The 2nd part of El Guero Estrada, now all the people believe the most worst person of the zone, was dead, but he is back to fix he life.

To restore the rule of law in Ercolano, a suburb of Naples and one of the cities symbolizing corruption in Italy, is the task that Luisa Bossa, elected mayor in December 1995, has set herself.

A full moon. A smokey bar. All Ted wanted was a drink. What he gets instead might change his life forever.

Mary, a troubled teenager, lives with her mothers Betty and Doris in a nice little house in a nice little suburb with nice neighbours. It's a nice little world populated only by queers.

It's Billy's Birthday and Ruby Biggle needs the Kidsongs Kids to help with his party in magical Biggleland. Songs include: I'm a Big Boy Now, Playmate, Simon Says, Limbo Rock, Happy Birthday to You and more!

Rain is something between Heaven and Earth...

A portrait of sculptor Eduardo Chillida.

8mm/03min.35sec./sound/1998