Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Video #6 "A power of perception beyond the five senses” Brad Staba, Brian Anderson, Frank Hirata, Josh Kalis, Kenny Anderson, Mike Crum

To be closer to her exam site, Emma, a student, decides to spend the night in her mother's psychiatric office. During the night, she is woken by the calls of a patient who leaves increasingly desperate messages on the answering machine.

… it's a beautiful day / people outside have come together / listening to what the other has to say…

“Sabine Massenet invented proletarian electronic ornithology.” (Marc Mercier)

1998, 00:27:42

1998, 00:27:43

A short story about the absence of the father in the life of a 13-year-old boy.

"With one foot in eternity. Arne in the boat." - About the existential everyday artist, subsistence and natural philosopher Arne Ottoson who has chosen to isolate himself in an earthen hut in the woods of western Värmland, Sweden.

A young woman's diary depicts her layered, poetic, inner efforts to deal with the world and overcome self-doubt.

Does colour exist where there is no light? The garden is a setting for colour research: random objects are laid out in changing combinations for repeated shooting and printing with varying exposure densities and colour balances. Images of Corinne standing and sleeping in a chair evoke traditional portraits in garden settings, but here the figure’s subjected to severe colour and contrast changes, and is partly obliterated by moving windblown foliage shadows in primary colours. There’s constant shifting between brief monochromes, duochromes and full colour, intercut with fragments of stark black and white negative from the original separations which contrast with the strong colours. In some of the sequences there’s a solidity of blackness, as in the background to a hibiscus flower, which seems to have a depth like thick velvet -in reality this blackness is the garden background with insufficient light to register on the high-contrast black and white negative.

A performance juggling a narrative of an imaginary cultural ritual of receiving a plate at a relatives death with the act of cutting and eating a melon while balancing a plate on the head. Melons is a video based on images and script about my aunt’s death from breast cancer and the emotion void in my memory. The text is a construction of rituals that plays with notions of the authentic. The act of juggling too much text and imagery immerses the viewer in a third, imagined narrative.

A documentary crew gains access to the 50th birthday party of László L. gypsy vajda - much, if not all of the Hungarian mafia appears at the party, seemingly without any worry about the camera filming them.

"Five years after the making of the video portrait Boys in the Backyard, the film maker returns to San Francisco to see what has become of Matt. Articulate and charming, Matt recounts some of his experiences as a transgendered FTM and changes in his life during the last five years." - Cinenova

Live on S.F. cable access in Jan. 83. 7 songs plus in-depth interview.

In March 1996 the French government decided to expel all African family who did not have papers from the city of Paris. During a six month period of time, the director followed many of the families and got there testimonials about how it felt to be discriminated against by the French on film. Eventually the documentary focuses on one man who emerges at the center of the fight to not to be sent back to Africa. In the end he is sent back to his native Mali, the director and his camera accompany him.

Drawing, literally, from the story of Daniel and Belshazzar, William Kentridge's film Weighing… and Wanting re-examines the legacy of Belshazzar's message in post-apartheid South Africa. While the political climate shared by Belshazzar's kingdom and apartheid-era South Africa is striking – in both, a ruling civilization relegates whole populations to subhuman status – Kentridge sets the scene of his film after the South African rule of oppression has been replaced by the ascent of the African National Congress. Left in the frame of apartheid's collapse is Kentridge's charcoal creation, Soho Eckstein, a former apartheid profiteer and businessman, contemplating the works of his own hand in the dissolution of love and in the building of industry.

Normal behaviour will resume after the break—but what’s normal when you split up with someone?

Video artist meets a handsome and enigmatic Marlboro Man; video artist gets a sexually transmitted disease. In a wry and pointed work that’s part Ibsen and part Danielle Steele, Vanalyne Green reworks the sex-education film to take a critical look at cherished stereotypes about romance, the American West, and cowboys. Expanding on a body of work that investigates the idea that public spaces are gendered, Green revisits the myth of the rugged outdoors, and the West will never be the same. By combining elements of silent movies and classic Westerns, the director weaves an hysterically sad tale of purity and contamination in an hysterically funny way.

A young Belgian of Maroccan decent identifies himself with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

In a documentary manner, "Amen" addresses the issues of violence and other moral principles of contemporary society in all of its layers.

Acèphale is an artistic cell of solo and group performances involving various members. It has performed internationally in such countries as the United States, Germany, Italy, Holland, Mongolia and Japan. Acèphale takes its name from the clandestine cult organization formed by Georges Bataille in 1938. Its present reincarnation was intuited by Sir Djeffery Babcock and Aryan Kaganof in 1994.

Video recording of the Zuntata Live 1998 concert, recorded at velfarre on 30th August,1998.

Creampuff is an intense and darkly romantic short film about Robert and Jack, two men snared between desperation and disgust and clinging to a destructive, dependent relationship as a last stand against despair and pain. As they prepare a birthday celebration for Jack's daughter, tensions escalate and the relationship strains to breaking point. When Jack's ex-wife, Suzanna, arrives without his daughter, Jack is devastated. Creampuff is an exploration of the craving for and power of intimacy and the grace of love beyond affliction.

The best emerging skiers pulling the sickest aerials grabs and inverts while enduring bone shattering impacts all in hopes of breaking into a new level of skiing into the upper echelon of the sport into the world of DEGENERATES.

A Black foster child raised by a White family searches for his identity.

A Chinese girl must become a warrior to fight a war and to save her village by convincing a dragon to melt the snows. She must overcome the trials of the four elements, with the help of a medallion and some magical friends.

Rio, a young fisherman, lives in the kingdom of Lailonia. He is in love with Muria, who he considers the most beautiful girl in the world. When he is called up to the army, he does not forget Muria even for a second, despite being exhausted and facing numerous obstacles. Film from the ‘Fourteen Tales from Lailonia Kingdom by Leszek Kołakowski’ series.

Radiation causes a legion of zombies to be unleashed upon the human race. A group of teenagers desperately try to stop them. Lots of blood and gore spill in the carnage that follows.

The lives of people who live by the sea, on islands, bays, marshes in the North of the State of Paraná, in Brazil and South of the State of São Paulo. Although relatively close to the big cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, they're basically fishermen who try to live in greater harmony with nature.

Kindergarteners make numerous attempts to lift a pumpkin.

Documentary on the gruesome 1993 gay-bashing murder of Nicholas West in conservative Tyler, Texas and the subsequent justice system response up to an including interviews with the killers on death-row.

In the 1960s, Okinawa was under American military occupation. Young Takeshi leads a passive go-with-the-flow existence, working as a bartender at a bar called Sekai where his ex-girlfriend Michi also worked. When Takeshi launches a flare bomb during a military blackout, expressing his frustration with the American military as well as himself, he encounters a mysterious boy with no name. He undergoes various changes living with him, but then an event occurs which will destroy Takeshi's identity to the very roots.

K8 Hardy short from the chain letter tape series Big Miss Moviola

A Calcutta Christmas (1998) is a film about a group of elderly Anglo-Indians living in a Home in Kolkata. I was moved to make this film after I visited and realised that many of the elderly residents felt a strong connection to Australia, yearning for their families who had emigrated there, even though they themselves would likely never visit. Theirs was a hidden world and yet still, some of them dreamed of Australia

On the evening of December 7, 1998, a host of stars turned out for a spectacular 50th-anniversary tribute to one of the best-loved and most influential singers of our time, Mr. Tony Bennett. Dubbed "An All-Star Tribute," The event was broadcast live on A&E Network from Sony Music Studios in New York City and comprised the 10th installment of Live by Request, the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning live music series created by Mr. Bennett in 1996.

This film was taped at the Lifestyles Convention '98 in Las Vegas.

Short western.

In attempting to deal with his HIV status, the narrator mixes his past and present to give us a portrait of friendships, family ties, and other intimate relationships.

In Vortex, the subject was the upturned image of a cyclone, in an indefinable context, between cloudy sky and desert. Vortex is an event with neither narration nor beginning nor end. A meteorological phenomenon takes place in the exhibition room. An effect for a Hollywood disaster blockbuster where everything is revealed. Bertrand Lamarche shows a particular interest in “whirlpools” and “vortices” through devices with produce effects of ambience, total-immersion, subverting household materials and hardware. He is fascinated by thresholds, openings to infinity: whirlwinds, maelstroms and tidal waters, vortices or again gigantic urban agglomerations, the cities of tomorrow sometimes calling to mind playthings or giant models. He focuses on “hollow bodies”, pockets of emptiness existing in the real: tunnels, demolition sites, quarries but also tornados, black holes and ditches or channels of smaller dimensions.

Chief physician Leo Leu is under a lot of pressure. In a few minutes, he is supposed to give an important speech at a neurology conference. If he messes it up, he can kiss his ambitions of becoming clinic director goodbye. But he keeps getting interrupted. A Christmas party needs to be prepared, rehearsals for a nativity play are coming up, and a colleague is pestering him: Doctor Leu should be so kind as to play Saint Nicholas. In the midst of this chaos, former nurse Rita Kuster bursts in and confronts her ex-boss Leu with his sensual past. Leu reacts as quickly as he does clumsily: he lets assistant doctor Blättler in on the secret, who is supposed to take the blame for him. But an overexcited teenager, a gruff head nurse, a curious police officer, and a shot of Valium throw a wrench in Leu and Blättler's plans.

Brecht′s 100th birthday is being celebrated on 10 February, 1998. A good enough opportunity to examine his life closely again. The film director Jutta Brueckner is mainly concerned here with the question of the kind of person Brecht was. We have known him until now as the brilliant author and theatre director, through his plays themselves; we also know him as the cultural flagship of the GDR along with his world-famous Berliner Ensemble.

A multi-generational portrait of pioneering Punjabi-Mexican families who settled, a century ago, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Through the use of found footage, archival and family photographs, personal and public documents, Jayasri Majumdar Hart tells the touching and inspirational story of a community that grew out of a struggle for economic survival in the face of prejudice.

Prophecies takes a discerning look at the most enigmatic prophets and doomsayers throughout the ages. Combining biographical sketches of the diviners with the in-depth interpretations of their prophecies by expert historians and scholars, the program will present a complete picture of the mystics and their messages.

Soft Apocalypse, 1998 Beppe Grillo's show on science

A few men are trying to get a porn movie shoot off the ground but are afraid of asking their main actress to be.

Pantera at Teatro Monumental, Santiago, Chile Walk A New Level Fucking Hostile Becoming Sand Blasted Skin Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks Primal Concrete Sledge Suicide Note Part 2 War Nerve This Love Domination/Hollow Mouth for War Planet Caravan Cowboys from Hell

Examines details of the lives of a rural Mexican family. The film was hand-processed in buckets to dry on the clothesline.

Ken Yunome wrote and directed this lengthy (160 minutes) cinematic psychodrama that opens with 23-year-old Daniel (Jeff Miller) telling his shrink about a childhood sexual episode. After Daniel meets 40-year-old housewife Lena (Cheryl Aden) in a NYC bar, he goes to her Staten Island house and an affair begins, ending with her murder. Her estranged husband confesses to the crime and kills himself. Daniel then becomes involved in an intense sexual relationship with their daughter Alicia (Jane Jepson), who reveals her incestuous activities with her father. Shown in the Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due, In My Darkest Hour, Wake Up Dead, Hangar 18, Reckoning Day, A Secret Place, Countdown to Extinction, Angry Again, She-Wolf, A Tout Le Monde (Preceded by Marty Friedman guitar solo), Almost Honest, Foreclosure of a Dream, Use the Man, Trust, Sweating Bullets, Symphony of Destruction, Peace Sells, Anarchy in the U.K. (Sex Pistols cover), Paranoid (Black Sabbath cover), Mechanix

After many years as a circus artiste Ben Falk takes a position as teacher. Optimistic and enthusiastic about his new beginning and, with twenty years of experience as a children's entertainer, he feels that he is perfectly equipped for the job. It's quite a blow for him when he finds himself confronted with the total chaos of life at school. Suddenly he notices an elephant in the classroom. Aided by the elephant's wise tips, Ben manages to slowly gain the trust of his pupils.

A man interrupts the making of a movie to give his own suggestions.