Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

A lyrical visual poem on movement, time, and wandering.

Documentary about a former engineer and motorcycle lover who has become a nun and builds a monastery in the Russian military zone

A peek behind the doors of a private all-girl finishing school of yesteryear. Head Mistress Tara disciplines sassy schoolgirl Cindy Ireland who has been caught masturbating.

"The Tree of Life" pictures the enchanting mountains of Talesh. It is a picture of birth, love, and death of the old nations living in the misty forests of this land. In a winter, when men crimson the white snow with the blood of the deer, a child is born. His mother recites him the love story of the spring, of the mystery of the flowers' colors, and of the love toward his father. And the father's restless life, gazing at the far away, finds calmness in death in the cold winter.

As Rudyard Kipling says, "He who rides the tiger finds it difficult to dismount," screams Jason Ringenberg as the band rips into "Self Sabotage," the first cut on a two-disc that captures this seminal band live in concert. Over the next 23 tracks, the Scorcher prove they're still on the beast's back, digging their spurs in its sides.

A short animation. Winner of the 1998 Noburou Oofuji award.

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.

HBO aired “The Animated Odyssey” as a four-part miniseries in the US in 2000. It was originally produced by Vilanima Studios of Lithuania and first aired in Russia as a feature-length film in 1998 under the title The Destruction of Troy and the Adventures of Odysseus (Разрушение Трои и путешествие Одиссея). As a series it was divided into half-hour episodes including “The Trojan Horse,” “The Cyclops,” “Circe, Hades and the Sirens,” and “Odysseus Returns.” The production was supervised by original Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz & took three years to complete, was lavish & ambitious, & was intended to appeal to a wide audience that included school-age children and young adults. The narrative presented was more detailed than other animated treatments of the Odyssey and stayed closer to traditional storyline. The English-dubbed version of the film is nowhere to be found online or streaming, only the Russian version and a modern Greek version are available.

A bonus video intended as a companion to Sailor Moon - The Eternal Legend (Revision) - The Final First Stage.

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 DES GRAINES DANS LE VENT, the handful of British workers tramping towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights in the “European March Against Unemployment, Insecurity and Exclusion” look pretty lost. Kramer accompanies the little group, but is overcome with doubt from the beginning: “You shouldn’t being doing something like this if you don’t want to, Robert.” Kramer leaves the group after a week, after being given advice about what isn’t working in the film that is still in the process of being made.

Self-defense/protection video with Don Goldstein, co-founder of Help Fight Crime America.

Japanese horror movie from 1998.

Regarding the make-up of man's glory....

The Optiverse is a 6.5-minute computer-animated video showing an entirely new way to turn a sphere inside out. The video captures scenes that can also be viewed as real-time interactive computer animations, on a workstation console or in the CAVE immersive virtual environment. The narration is accompanied by parambiences, which are novel experiments in scientific sonification.

Biography of the comrade Helios Gómez (1905-1956), painter and draftsman, gypsy and Sevillian, anarchist militant first and then communist.

From the Adventures Beyond, an exploration into the world of the paranormal.

A violent hatred boils up in a young man's head.

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "An Indian Shooting the Indian Act." It's in protest of the ongoing effects of the Act's legislation on Indigenous people. We then follow him back to Canada, for interviews with the artist and a closer look at his work.

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.

One day, Tiger and his friend Gārni find a lost baby bird in the forest. They decide to help it find its parents. However, this turns out to be not so easy. The friends have no choice but to take the chick to their home. Everything would be fine, but at night mysterious flying beasts with glowing eyes arrive and kidnap the baby...

A young man in his early twenties living abroad wants to explore his grandfather's past with naive enthusiasm, focusing on his political role in the 1950s. Even from the perspective of so many years later, Péter is still moved by the ideology and purity of the revolution, so he confronts his own grandfather, the former prime minister, with a series of relentless questions about his compromises, servility, and indifferent excuses. A particularly shocking part of the film is when Péter, acting as an intermediary, seeks answers from his grandfather through a tape recording of a victim of the 1956 revolution who fled to Australia.

Do not believe that God alone sees you and rather discover it as you have never seen it...

A short mockumentary about recently discovered animals.

"In 1998, twenty years after production began on William Friedkin’s 1980 notorious, gay leather underground crime thriller, Cruising, I reversed it scene by scene. The 'from behind' approach was suggested by the logic of the film itself. The narrative dissonance of the original film is amplified in Back to Front, the antinomy of law and desire patent. Moving in reverse, cause cruises outcome, with often queer effects. For instance, straight intercourse isn’t an anodyne for gay sex, but a push towards it, and hetero-normativity longs for sexual lawlessness. The act that haunts the redo is the one that incites it: Karen Allen donning Pacino’s S&M leather gear and lurking, 'dragging', up behind him on the soundtrack. Upshot: Feminized desire, non-localizable, not-all, betrays the underlying, real, phobia in Friedkin's quasi-horror film 'How would you like to disappear?'" — Robert Buck

Devil's Covenant is a 1998 film made by a group of video game players, or clan, called Clan Phantasm. Produced through the machinima technique of recording actions in Quake, a 1996 first-person shooter video game by id Software, the work is the first feature-length machinima film, a major technical achievement. The work successfully combines acting with custom code, character models, and scripts. Written and directed by Eric Bakutis with notable voice acting by Bill Benners.

In the small fishing towns of Ghana, the photographer's studio is the place to go. To get "snapped" - wearing the latest fashion, or posing with a long lost friend. Carrying the tools of your trade. For "future remembrance", to show how that dress was so becoming, how durable the friednship, how you made your living. So that everybody will remember you. Future Remembrance features photographers and artists Nelson Ankruma Events, Joseph K. Davies, Philip Kwame Apagya, Stephen Zanoo, Kwame Akoto Almighty, Yaw Nkrabeah, Daniel A. Jasper, John K. Assan, Azey, Wofa & Louis Ankra and Alfred Six. Research funding from the German Research Fondation DFG.

Freestyle MX movie

Part oral history, part reflection on a culture at risk of being erased, this documentary presents a deep dialogue between a 93-year-old Pangcah chieftain and an indigenous filmmaker. Through words and songs, hunting trips and weaving of vines, the elderly chieftain lives and embodies the ways of the Pangcah people. He also recounts his frustrated attempts in defending traditional culture against Taiwan's encroaching modernity.

In the 17th century, a young orphan boy is affected by war and the violent events of the era. The film shows his daily life and dreams, as well as his flashbacks.

A charming portrait of 90's New York dog-walking culture.

A silent film study that examines plant structures reveals the poetics of nature and the film medium. Static details of a passion fruit, a cherry blossom, onion skins with a dandelion, and tree leaves are captured on film using various techniques, playing with the opposites of light and dark and color contrasts.

Animation. Fuzzy felt. It's the future!

Gene Mikulenka is a cowboy who helps run the Texas and New Mexico Rodeo circuits in which he competes. He's also gay. This film explores his personality and motivations as well as how he manages in this ultra macho world while planning his proposal to his long term partner.

A documentary by Mary Stephen

Having escaped her all too liberal parental home, Leila tries to fill her inner emptiness by projecting the wishes and problems of other people onto herself.
On a trip through California, she invites complete strangers to a free tequila tarot card reading in her car, idealistically attempting to be a reflection of the other person and to behave in a radically “selfless” way.

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.

JMM and his friendly elitist entourage shot super-8 stag footage of starlets and collected music from bands who played with The Sore Losers!

A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and provokes the man. An unblemished composition of umblemished eroticism. Kenji Onishi's entry in the "Roji no ko" series.

Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc., and a chaotic psychedelic animation are juxtaposed.

Incarcerated sex offenders explain and demonstrate the kinds of deception they used to deflect accusations of sexual abuse, often for decades, before finally being caught. In addition, the sex offenders discuss how they set up and lived a double life, posing in public as kind and responsible members of the community while raping and molesting in private. Five vignettes are included of sex offenders who were either in pretreatment or treatment phases of an incarcerated sex offender treatment program. The videotape can be used to educate parents, teachers, therapists, prosecutors, judges, mental health workers, and others who are concerned about child sexual abuse.

Ron Lawrence has sold over Thirty million music records worldwide. Ron is best known for his earlier work of popular singles: Notorious B.I.G, producing the smash hit “Hypnotize”, Sean “Diddy” Combs “Been Around The World”, Jay Z “Where I’m From, The Lox "Money, Power & Respect", Faith Evans, "Love Like This", and LL Cool J “Phenomenon”. His achievements include over 30 gold and platinum albums, and a NARAS Governor’s Award from the Grammy's Organization.

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).

Rainbow Avenger tells of an overweight gay man who is a victim of a homophobic attack and so becomes a super hero

Documentary film.

It is an observation of the male body, sometimes solitary, especially in groups, perceived through a codified choreography.

A number of historical perverts in a pool together…

Super-8 images glued onto the frames of hand-painted 16mm leader becomes a study of movement within the frame and its boundaries.

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.

It's midwinter in Minneapolis, and rock musician Thomas (Shane Barach) can't seem to commit to girlfriend Jessica (Lara Miklasevics). At a local coffee shop, he runs into Sabina (Rose Mailutha), whom he knows casually from the club scene, and a relationship develops. But responsibilities lurk in the background since he needs to find work, and she must take care of her young son. With a naturalistic style, filmed in 16mm black-and-white, the film recalls Shadows (1959) an independent films of the early '60s.