Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Four boys willing to shoot a movie... but a killing piadina is on their way!

An abstract portrait of a middle aged man, weaving together iconography from a range of film genres including classic Hollywood films from the 40s and New Deal documentaries. P.S. attempts to unravel the nuances of personality & character portrayal through the interaction of sound and image. As a couple engage in an argument, which carries on over the course of an evening, we watch a man, presumably the man speaking, working the land & going about his chores, smoking, walking through a forest and watching fireworks.

Painted animation featuring scenes from a bordello.

The Golden Earring documentary Don’t Stop The Show was the final film on the 19th Dutch Film Festival. This documentary, a Lagestee Film B.V. production by Rogier van der Ploeg closed the film exhibitions of the 19th Dutch Film Festival on Wednesday 29th September 1999.

Santora is a metrically buildt cord of images based on the number 3 and the music of Fennesz. The video explores combinations of geometrical formes, building up corresponding sounds. Consious of their roots in historic avantgarde animation, but the same time drawing in structural cinema, the two filmmakers compose a "picture" which evolves from rectangels that appear on and disappear from the blank screen. White background, dark "windows", in which a figure seen from above passes through at various speeds. His diagonal passage, doubled and inverted, becomes another element of geometry and rhythm. The image, taken from an old film, evokes those of closed-circuit surveillance cameras by its impersonal repetitiveness. The sound obsessivily paces the variation in form on the screen.

A boy despairs when he finishes his coffee.

Verunka, a village girl, is about to marry Jakub, a kind and loving young man. And yet the girl wonders whether she should want more and whether such pure love is not too ordinary. Soon, both young people will face a difficult test of their feelings, prepared for them by the queen of the Rojenic fairies. Verunka and Jakub pass the test.

A group of Australian World War II diggers, veterans of the Kokoda campaign in Papua New Guinea, return to the battle site at Isurava 56 years later, to say a final farewell to the mates they left behind.

Documentary examining Circuit Parties, from their beginnings to the current furor which surrounds them including footage of parties and interviews with a who's who of A-list gays.

A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home movies. The opening section of Panic Bodies (70 minutes 1998).

While the plots of some films can be readily summarized, others have a spirit so unique that they defy description and categorization. Leda and the Swan is such a film. Perhaps it is a story within a story within a myth.

London 1961. Alex, a jazz musician, and Faith, a singer, share an uneasy life together. With the relationship on the rocks, Faith is willing to try to win back Alex by any means. Alas her attempts at making Alex jealous by leaving the club with a stranger backfire. Assuming that Faith has found a new beau Alex leaves their flat not knowing that Faith has been waiting for him.

Dr Darryl Jones is obsessed with Alphamale, a wily Brushturkey from the Tropics. Ex-motor mechanic Ray 'Whimpey' Reichelt loves Charlie, a shy desert dwelling Malleefowl. An extraordinary tale of two vastly different men and their love for two of Australia's unusual mound building birds.

Documentary about the ritual of the wake of souls, the nights of 1 and 2 November, in Urich, Puácuaro, Tziróndaro, Santa Fe de la Laguna, Ihuatzio Janitzio, localities on the banks of Lake Patzcuaro, whose authors examine the roots cultural and religious festival behind the Day of the Dead.

1998 short video work by Royston Tan

Tourniquet recorded live at Walker Hall in Orange, CA on February 7,1998

Corrupt dudes in City Hall try to gimmick the campaign for Mayor to make sure their puppet gets elected. Everybody dies..

Originally a text in fragments, more or less biographical, of different characters. Crossed stories, mixed times, memories and inventions. Coming from the voices encountered. They look like text like sisters. They are the voices of memory, the shadows cast by the characters, the voices of girls, the voices of indecision and evocation. We begin with this work: to read, to record (in analog, it takes breath). Here comes a place, a place found: the foliage of a vine in the South, crossed by the wind Mistral: a landscape. Where are we? Where the boy dies, would we see what he sees? Where was the child playing in the neighborhood? At the heart of the narrative, at the heart of the written word? That would happen. Harvesting images, shifting gears, Multiplying the generations with the listening of the voices, even in memory sometimes.

Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of families, leaving families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty. Sacrifice examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression.

Against the broader backdrop of modern India's political and social history, this lyrical documentary tells the story of the life of Krishna Sikand, the filmmaker's mother, from childhood to maturity. A rich mosaic of memory and impressions, DON'T FENCE ME IN captures the fragmented way in which we journey back through time. Evoking Krishna's earliest years in pre-independence Bombay as the daughter of a well-to-do Bengali family, the film also traces her post-colonial experiences--from marriage to a Punjabi army officer in the face of fierce family opposition, through the raising of two daughters and successful careers as an academic, small business entrepreneur, media consultant, journalist, and poet.

A young man travels through the streets of Manhattan in order to get to a job interview.

Lisa Lewenz retraces the steps of her Jewish grandmother who dared to film life in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany.

Abstract meditations upon temptation, murder and revenge. Hand-processed and optically printed film for your visceral pleasure.

Crowded House fan club VHS tape.

Savatage at The Meridian, São Paulo, Brazil 01. Welcome 02. Chance 03. Jesus Saves 04. Turns To Me 05. Morning Sun 06. Handful Of Rain 07. The Storm 08. This Is The Time 09. The Hourglass 10. Blackjack Guillotine 11. The Wake Of Magellan 12. Dead Winter Dead 13. Tempation Revelation / Edge Of Thorns 14. When The Crowds Are Gone 15. Believe 16. Gutter Ballet 17. I Am 18. Sirens 19. Hall Of The Mountain King

The film is a unique tribute of the director to his master. The space is empty, in the sense, there are no people there, but the items live their peculiar life until the rooster cries out. And that is be the rooster Parajanov made, God knows of what kind of improvised material at hand. It feels like the wind is a night walker here and it turns over the pages of the books. Glass breaking can be heard. The good thing is there are enough collages made of phials and luxurious tableware set fragments. The dolls sit on the frames, letting their legs hang, just like they do in daytime, but something mystical, something fateful appears in them. And Parajanov is close, built-into some other life, in epaulets or even with the people of past epochs. The lamps are switched on, even the oil stoves – everything is the way Parajanov liked. But then it is daybreak already, the rooms are filled with sunlight, and everything changes.

It starts in one room: a young man in pajamas lies down and sleeps. He agitates, turns, returns. He is recovering, sits on his bed and a cloud of smoke is coming from his skull, he loses an arm, a leg. He enters a fantasy world where all objects come to life. The swallowed pillow passes his door, a reflection of the mirror emancipates, the portrait of the table rebels and sings his dismay. Dishes and utensils are transformed into a fabulous bestiary where dragon and rhinos are fighting. Gags in cascade, anachronistic nose-feet in acrobatics, juggling on the trapeze, dancing lyric songs, James Thiérrée puts the reality upside down and takes us into a surreal and dreamlike symphony played by interpreters to staggering energy.

A man polishes his shoe.

Documentary following Zen-Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn

Documentary about religious customs in Brazil that stem from Africa.

Docu-drama about the West African artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré who invented an alphabet, after a divine vision in 1948, to fight against the French colonization in his country.

This is a documentary of Dr. Gunther von Hagens's Institute for Plastination and the first Body Worlds exhibit in Germany.

Abraham Zapruder's home-camera footage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is treated to digital re-mastering.

Welcome to the world of America's elite fighter planes! This video takes you on a journey inside the jets' cockpits and features breathtaking footage shot from the air and the ground. The program examines both classic fighting machines (such as the Stealth-like F-117 Black Jet and the B-2 Spirit) and aircrafts that haven't been built yet. Also includes footage of aircraft carriers, smart bombs and laser-guided missiles.

Savor images of Conrail action across the Pittsburgh Line, the very soul of this once mighty transportation giant, as captured during the late 1990s. See how Big Blue conquered the Allegheny Mountains and witness the diverse variety of freight it sent over the line. Huge intermodal trains powered by shiny new "Blue" diesels hustle doublestacked containers over the recently rebuilt right-of-way. Massive coal trains and high tonnage freights flow across the double and triple track of this most scenic and demanding stretch of railroad. Starting west of Pittsburgh at the massive Conway Yard, heading east through the Steel City, Greensburg, and Latrobe to Conpit Junction, we follow the trains into the heart of the Allegheny Mountains. The line comes down through Conemaugh Gorge to Johnstown. From here most eastbounds get helpers to pull tonnage over the mountains.

We Remember Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe transforms from Norma Jean, a cuddly teenager, into the most recognizable face and body in the world in these home movies, photos and film clips which span her early bit parts to her most known roles.

Inter-racial romance develops over a period of time as two down-on-their luck people, one a 19 year old midwestern man trying to make it as an artist and the other a middle-aged woman trying to take care of her children and her children's children, meet every Saturday night at the local laundromat in LA.

A family learns to cope with their developmentally disabled daughter through prayer, patience and outside support in this inspiring Christian program. Diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder, a form of autism, Hannah lives in her own world marked by constant tantrums that challenge her parents and siblings. With help from professionals and her family's faith in God, Hannah improves, and the family grows closer than ever before.

This might just be the only disc of it's kind. It contains lossless audio AND video Pumpkins, which remains something of a rarity to this day. Though the quality vary between the clips, it represents the best available source, at least as of yet, for each one of them. They are by all but stringent academic standards identical to the respective broadcasts sent out in the first place.

Maggie Hadleigh-West walks crowded urban streets carrying a video camera and microphone, trailed by one or two women also with cameras. Whenever a man harasses her, with ogling or words, she turns the camera on him, moves in close, and questions his behavior.

A fascinating look at one of the most unforgettable groups of the '70s. You'll see Richard and Karen Carpenter performing lots of their classic songs, plus rare archival footage and tributes by Herb Alpert, Les Paul, Burt Bacharach and more. Contains exclusive footage not seen on the PBS broadcast. 1997/color/75 min/NR/fullscreen.

Manowar Blood in Brazil, performed 26th September 1998, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Metal Daze Blood of my Enemies Kill with Power Sign of the Hammer Gates of Valhalla Sting of the Bumblebee The Gods Made Heavy Metal Metal Warriors Kings of Metal The Power Hail and kill Black wind, Fire and Steel The Crown and the King

Documentary that follows journalist Matthew d'Ancona as he investigates the claims of scholar Carsten Peter Thiede, who argues that the "Magdalen" papyrus, fragments of ancient texts, prove that St. Matthew wrote his gospel soon after Christ lived. The wide-ranging implications of Thiede's propositions include the belief that some gospels were based on eyewitness experiences and were not filtered through decades of revision and reflection.

Two people thrust the footsteps of Ernesto Guevara, through several Latin American countries, are the voices that explain the history and interview witnesses of the figure of Che.

The title does not refer to the American state, but to a cheap wine brand that flows liberally in this documentary. Socially, things look bad for the inhabitants of the Polish village Zagórki since the state farm they worked on went bankrupt a few years ago. It happened in 1990; since then, the 750,000-acre estate looks deserted and the former farm workers and cattle drivers are sitting at home, musing on the old days and complaining about the grievous wrongs suffered by them. From a flourishing, thriving community, the village is now reduced to a sad lot of embittered people, whose sole income is a small allowance and whose sole distraction is the muddled intoxication of the cheap Arizona wine. The camera mercilessly registers the dismal condition of the houses and streets, and the numerous candid interviews supply a poignant image of the blind-alley situation in this remote village.

A English-language remake of the German film "Nicht löschbares Feuer" (1969).

5 Years in a LIVEtime is the second home video release by Dream Theater. The video contains a mix of concert footage, promotional video clips, and behind-the-scenes and interview footage from the five years in between the release of their previous home video, Images and Words: Live in Tokyo, and this video

Goshzilla terrorizes a friend and each new friend he makes. Then there is a lovely song at the end.

A brief tour of the Louvre in Paris.

A short video satirizing queer theorists' Instrumentalization and abstraction of trans people in the 1990s.

A crooning rat with an accoutrement of gifts tries to woo the lady of the lair - a cat no less. Will he succeed where others failed, thanks to his loving ballad?

In the role of the railway engineer Bat, who shows that inseparable love can be found both in home life and in his favorite career, Minjin, a model who thinks that living only for work is not happiness. tells about realizing love.

Around a campfire, a young Aboriginal girl asks her grandfather "Where do the stars come from?" As the grandfather answers her question, the tale unfolds through petroglyphs coming to life.

1-channel video, 2-channel installation. In the filming of Scanner a short fragment of a scene out of a horror film was repeatedly shown to an actor and his face was filmed as he watched the scene and described what he was seeing on the monitor screen. Initially, the image was quite distorted through technical scrambling and was only gradually made apparent and decipherable to the actor in several rounds of viewing. With each repeated round as the distortion of the image was decreased, the horror scene conveyed via the actor’s description became increasingly vivid. As well, in the repetition of the rounds in addition to the description, the actor was directed to try to mimetically imitate the figures as they became recognizable to him. The result is a narration in fragments which circles around a dark core. The images appear only fleetingly and variably in the mind of the viewer where they gradually condense into a mysterious scene.