Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

Pipecleaner Dad finds that Mom has dug up the backyard and converted it into an archeological site. Her latest find: a giant plastic-handled screw driver from an age long gone by. Mom's success as an Archeologist seems to fluster Dad, almost as though his job wasn't as important.

A mystic quest to an ancient temple. Exclusive to the Computer Animation Marvels DVD.

A man's frustration with his computer leads him to other ventures.

The film is brilliantly directed with a high level of tension, as if it were a gag comic straight out of a live-action comic book. The ideas are seemingly cheap, but with a speedy sharpness and sense of style, they are even gorgeous. What makes the most of it is the orthodox story section, which carefully holds down the portrayal of the characters, and the "Is this really live-action?" It is probably the workmanship that spares no time or effort after thinking about it.

Exclusive interviews with some of the U.S. military's first Black soldiers, sailors and airmen reveal how selflessly they fought against both systemic racism and foreign enemies.

A couple with a lot of free time on their hands. On a whim, they steal a car and start driving. A boring summer with nowhere to turn and nowhere to go.

ITN playing live in Hamburg, Germany at Markthalle on May 10th, 1998.

A short film by Nicole Wermers

Story The human relationship between four men and women that unfolds endlessly in the sweltering sunlight of summer.

Personal and private story of a family of Guwahati having a 12 years old boy named Ron suffering from Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, a rare disease having no cure at sight. It is shot in actual locations with real-life characters. The film is shot with the real characters acting in their life story.

An experimental interpretation, without actors, of Homer's eleventh Rhapsody, where Ulysses goes down to Hades and talks to the shadows of the dead.

Crossing-over is never accomplished when bridges crumble early as fragile ideals. In memory of Lorraine Ordaz. (SVHS; color)

A concert-based movie surrounding the Swedish children's music/rock music band Electric Banana Band - formed after the success of Trazan & Banarne, a children's TV show broadcasted in the late 70s and early 80s.

Bionda Salvatore, an 83-year-old farmer's wife from a small village in Abruzzo, had to leave her house and garden and now lives in Switzerland with her daughter-in-law and son. What is her everyday life like in emigration, how does she cope with homesickness and what must real gnocchi taste like?

Short film by Jan Peters

Documentary on the legacy of the Mexican 1968 social movements

Through video collage, Cantor sets her unapologetically fatalist observations on love and intimacy to a wide-ranging set of audio-visual quotations, including clips from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, the well-known beach scene from From Here to Eternity, the works of John Cassavetes, and more.

A 1997 live recording of Thomas Köner & Jürgen Reble's collaborative film. A separate final version was released as a digital recording in 2010.

16mm. 5 minutes. Colour.

Sonato do mar made use of the computer programme for choreographers 'Life Forms'. The film shows how three 'Life-Forms figures' perform a choreography on a backdrop of shots of the sea. They dance on the water without being limited by gravity, physical restrictions, time or place.

Tribute to the filmmaker's late father, Isadore Rudnick

Martin Radich’s graduation film at Edinburgh College of Art is an improvised, documentary style portrait of the British working class.

Magic hour in Chapala, Jalisco. A previously unseen, edited section of film gleaned from Baillie's sprawling scrolls spanning several decades that now comprise his 12-hour unreleased "Magic Box" series. Julio en Chapala was shot during the period when Baillie lived in Mexico and was filming Valentin de la Sierras.

A documentary dedicated to the memory of the Blessed Holy Elder Iakovos Tsalikis

A retrospective of art and power in the world. The life and art of Džemma Skulme as a free spirit during the regime.

Master Gerard is retiring after a long career as a teacher. He has been fascinated for years by everything related to firefighters and at his farewell party he receives a statue of a fire truck as a gift. This gives him the idea not to just sit quietly at home and enjoy his retirement, but to try to join the firefighter squad as a volunteer

A short sound work by Brian Frye

Made during the violent civil unrest that rocked Albania in the 1990s, directors Nova and Faja have handcrafted a searing vision in which a demonic appearance brings chaos to a quiet hamlet.

The film compares the development of three children from their 4th birthday to school enrollment.

A writer pitches his "big Hollywood script."

Beginning with an evocative and disturbing look at a young girl’s first communion, Divorcing Jesus gives new meaning to eating the body of Christ.

Disneyland Paris VHS Presentation

A brief moment of two women kissing, reclaimed from the lesbian subtext of a popular science fiction television program, is transformed into an epic of queer desire.

In Sailor Half-Breed the narrator flies like a super-heroine through a landscape of difference, investigating the nature of half-and-half-ness.

Documentary look at a transgender man and his queer family.

She cooks! She cleans! She nurtures! It s Lesbo-Mom! Get yours today! The versatile new accessory for today's discerning dyke... An embittered little rant on the fetishizing of lesbian moms and their kids.