Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Man with mental health issues sexually assaults pregnant woman.

The paranormal investigations of agents Mulder and Scully have gripped millions of fans worldwide for the last four years. The X Files movie is the culmination of the television sensation of the 90s. This documentary goes behind the scenes on the movie set.

A film adaptation of James O’Barr’s graphic novel, THE CROW, was created from 1994-1998. A year after his own tragic death, a young man rises from the grave to seek vengeance for the brutal murder of his fiancée. Through painful flashbacks, he relives their deaths and remembers their life together. Donning a sinister mime-like visage, he stalks the murky alleyways and rain-slicked city streets, determined to exact a terrible and bloody revenge upon the gang that killed them.

A short film about a girl in the gym.

E NESTE NADA CABE TUDO is shot for television (already on video – thus exploring its plastic potential) and examines the work of the sculptor with a special focus on the famous and polemic 25 de Abril monument.

The Furies is a modern dress reworking of Aeschylus's classical play entitled The Eumenides.The Furies is recounted in silent film form with ambient sounds and vocalizations punctuating a musical soundtrack.

A video that covers the Hastings approach to evaluating the structural quality of puppies.

A stone-made angel decides to take off the monument where he was built to follow travelling birds. But this wish of liberty won't be so easy...

An urban sound landscape is transformed into techno music. The city moves from day to night. Drugstore crosses multiply and pulse according to their own rhythm. They are transformed into a sky of crosses.

Hilarious stuff from the Brilliant Irish Comedian, Ardal O' Hanlon.

Video Art by Tom Chomont

Volume I is based on the films of noted rail photographer Emery Gulash. It showcases the famous locations, trains, and equipment of the Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1952 to 1980. Highlights include: Alco PAs, RS3s, RSD-15 Alligators, RSD5s, and Century 636s; Baldwin Centipedes, switchers, and Sharks; E- and F-units, FTs, GP9s, GP20s, SD40s, and FP45s; GG1s, Boxcabs, MP54s, Silverliners, Decapod steam, and more! Featured are the El Capitan, Super Chief, Grand Canyon, Texas Chief, Broadway Ltd., Spirit of St. Louis, Pennsylvania Ltd., Admiral, plus other passenger and freight trains at work in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio! The footage used in this series comes from the archives of Green Frog Productions. In creating this series for PBS stations, they have selected the very best scenes and subject matter available for your entertainment!

The video is inspired by Teicologia, by Antonio Pizzuto, one of the most important and significant authors of contemporary Italian literature. The video re-proposes Palermo through "a study of the walls" in a dimension that is not dictated by the reasoned discourse of hard news, but by a "signal beyond" fluctuating in matter that is neither reinterpreted nor brought back into the light. "My aim was to make the work of this great Sicilian literary man more well-known by means of a work made from languages that are contemporary for us and for him. Further, I aim to continue the perceptive work on Palermo that was started with Palermo, In sospensione, In sospensione (su Palermo), and La cena informale (Salvo Cuccia).

The film is a recitation of assonance and contradictions through stones that hold an overhanging secret.

A child is separated from his family by evil relatives who want to invade their property. The child is taken care of by a maid, and later, when he grows up, she reveals his backstory to him. As a result, he reunites with his family.

Plagued by his many fixations and obsessions with, among other things, the weather and sounds, 32-year-old Kees Momma tries to get through everyday life. Unexpectedly high temperatures for the time of year, doors that slam too loudly, a runny nose that is picked up loudly; these are annoyances that make the life of autistic Kees unbearable. It is thanks to his mother, who supports him unconditionally, that Kees survives in the outside world, which is so threatening to him. Subject to a strict daily rhythm, he makes long journeys every day in the autumn season as a passenger of his own model train.

2 projectors 1:33, 1.37. color b/w silent. 18fps.

A short film by WIZ featuring previously unseen Super 8 footage filmed at a Boys Own party in 1989

The story of the voyage of the first Portuguese ship that landed in Japan in 1543.

Nobody ever said that being the new kid was easy, but Norma Jean shows that everyone's special when she saves the day in the school talent show.

Experimental short by Akira Mizuyoshi.

"Silent, sex-less, obedient houseboys and mystic martial arts masters are the popular images of Asian males propagated in this culture's mass media. Invisibility is the core element reflected in this single-dimensional representation of Asian men. Through the reflections and voices of Asian American men, we become privy to the manner in which racism effects their lives and personal identity."

A film by Nicholas Triandafyllidis

Legendary live by Anzen Chitai at therir peak. Recorded at Yokohama Stadium on August 31, 1985.

What happens to an ordinary Icelandic family when the father of a new-born baby gets the opportunity to stay at home with the baby for three months? Will the relationship between father and wife better, and will the distribution of household chores be any different? And what has the employer and the colleagues at work to say about this arrangement? Those questions are among other that are asked in the documentary Fathers in paternity leave. We fallow one of the fathers through his paternity leave, talk to some others and interview, among others, a sociologist and a psychologist who are experts on the matter.

DANCING IN THE DARK explores gay and lesbian lives in Australia through the 20 year history of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Through the eyes of the '78ers', a group who participated in the first Mardi Gras, DANCING IN THE DARK reveals very personal yet fascinating stories as well as the '78ers' experience during the first, now historic, Mardi Gras.

Three documentaries about astonishing buildings.

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

An Animated Short film by Dave Sidley

Short film.

Miracle Grow is a personal piece with elements of a home movie. Originally shot in Mini DV, edited and transferred to film without leaving the digital realm, the film is an inventory of a growing baby as he struggles to gain mastery of his limbs. As the father the filmmaker attempts to insert himself within this well worn and taboo subject and redefine it. As in his other works, the images are composed and structured to lead us within other realms of thoughts.

A newlywed wishing to start a family encounter disappointment and conflict. In doing so, they rediscover one another and learn what makes a true marriage: a lifelong commitment.

The portrait of a small hotel and its owner in Brittany at the most westerly point of France, the Pointe du Raz ... Marie Le Coz leads her Hotel de L'Iroise since nearly fifty years. In this time she has made a lot of experiences.

Roy Jones came into this fight as a 6/1 favorite and justified those odds when he KO'd former light-heavyweight champion Virgil Hill with a right hand shot to the body at 1.10 of the 4th round to win by KO victory.Jones landed 34 of 69 power punches (49%) and Hill landed 11 of 30 (37%). The KO was named The Ring Knockout of the Year.

In September 1994 in Trappes, Abdelmohcen Asli, alias Titus, 24 years old, was stabbed in the heart by a young man from his housing estate when he intervened to prevent a fight. Three weeks later, he died of his wounds. His parents, his brother, his sisters and his friends, in shock, want to keep his memory alive. On the 40th day of his death, they each send him a declaration of love filled with images and memories. The director is the brother-in-law of the victim.

A few teenagers who live in a suburb from which they hardly leave between the family apartment and the high school will become united, thanks to the arrival of Damir, a boy refugee from Sarajevo. By giving the young people of this suburb a look at themselves and their future, he will strengthen their unity and open, through his experience of war, the small space of the streets to the world.

Robertson filmed live in concert in Kentucky.

In one traumatic day a young man faces a fight with his lover and coming out to his family.

Violently arrested and thrown in jail, Bryan narrates his bizarre life story from the confines of his prison cell. Some kids suck their thumbs or stroke a comforter; this four year old Bryan, however, was into pockets... Spoiled by his parents, his curious obsession leads to an unnatural infatuation with other people's pockets. That's when the trouble really began.

The Hooley Dooleys: Ready.. Set… GO!

Shot in Okinawa and in Taiwan, Kamioka's latest dazzlement is her attempt to go beyond borders: geographical and political borders, borders of time, borders of gender. Nobody else could have made it, but it does feel somewhat like a woman's answer to a Kenneth Anger movie.

In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves that they need for healing. We then follow then home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion. Narrated by the people themselves –and with beautiful songs about the importance of leaves woven throughout – this poetic film gives unique insight into the culture.

A collision of separate pasts, this film pieces together fragments of the director’s own images and text from the East German town of Halle with those produced by Bauhaus painter Lyonel Feininger in 1930.

A bunch of blondes and even more pom poms make up this hysterical look at cheerleading tryouts. See what happens when a cute grunge dyke tries out for the University of Texas cheerleading squad, and find out if they take her seriously.

A portrait of Qaba Atabekov, the man who is regarded as the last great representative of the Manas Epos. This oral tradition tells the story of the Kyrgyz nomads in Central Asia. The Manas is a monumental work of 500,000 lines (the longest epic in the world). It tells the story of the heroic struggle of the Kyrgyz people led by Manas and later by his son Semetei and grandson Seitek. In addition to stories about the battle against hostile tribes, the epic also includes a wealth of information about their everyday life.