Cinematic Era: 1998 Vintage

An abrasive abstract film accompanied by a scratching drone.

An animated short directed by Daniel Haude and Jim Lacy.

Stories of lesbian, gay and transgender youth intercut with music video style short films starring the young people.

A gigantic, hairy biped creature is caught on video as it wanders through Johnny Carson Park, Burbank. Is this undeniable evidence of the existence of Bigfoot? We sent our own crew to investigate recent encounters in a quiet Los Angeles suburb. Lead by Dr. Nic Balitas, our program presents careful and meticulous analysis of the facts enabling the viewer to reach their own conclusions.

This is sort of a film poem it is the story of the week in the life of an eyeball. The viewer sees the eyeball darting around and also sees what the eyeball sees as well. The week has been condensed down to 9 min. This film was an experiment that worked. I shot all the eyeshots using my friend Letitia Tyler on 200ft of film and shot all the other shots on another 200ft. I then cut the negative together without ever seeing what the film looked like projected. I just wanted the editing process to be all part of the eye theme. I was hoping that it would all say something, and it does.

The Underlord and his mischievous minion leave the Underworld to enter our mundane world and wreak havoc! Only the Disaster Squad can defeat him and his army of cardboard boxes to save humanity from the clutches of pure evil.

An apartment filled with people who are junked up on heroin and running around in their undergarments performing loud rock music.

Directed by Johanna Vaude.

This film documents the large-scale migration of Chinese to California during the Gold Rush of the 1850s and the central role that these immigrants played in developing the American West by building the first Transcontinental Railroad and transforming California into the breadbasket of the nation. Their landmark legal battles to overcome discrimination helped to develop U.S. civil rights law, setting key precedents and expanding the definition of what it means to be an American. This two-part series presents the history, challenges, and lasting impact of early Asian immigrants to the Americas, from the 1700s to the 1900s. The series follows their little-known journeys and stories, reveals their pioneering struggle against racial hatred and for basic rights, and depicts their lasting cultural, legal and economic contributions to the building of the Americas.

A journey into the threshold of pain via a symphonic onslaught of colour and sound.

"Eyewitness of the Holocaust" - About Emerich Roth experiences during World War II. As a Jew, he belonged to the major group of people that the Nazis wanted to exterminate. Emerich was in detained in five different concentration camps.

Hus is a film which attempts to reveal the private and hidden layers of our habitation. It is a live animation film shot on location which incorporates both pixilation (stop motion) and time-lapse photography. Every single shot opens up a hidden layer of the house and exposes it to the passing light. Within the accelerated time of the film the house gradually breaks down piece by piece and frame by frame. Once the house is completely dismantled it is reconstructed in a different location.

A shocking film about antipersonnel land mines and a barbarous complacency. Every year hundreds of men, women and children are wounded or killed by antipersonnel land mines. My Child, My Land denounces the use of this hideous weapon. It particularly denounces the complicity of the industrialized nations. If such a horror exists, it is because someone has invented it, and someone else has manufactured it. Can we imagine such barbarity behind the faces of our neighbour? our father? ourselves? This hard-hitting animation film demands that we ask ourselves these questions.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tour name: South America 1998. Setlist: Mouth For War, Fucking Hostile, Interview with Dime and Vinnie, Walk, A New Level(cut), Becoming, Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks, Sweet Leaf (Teaser), Cold Gin (Teaser), Cowboys From Hell

Filmed on a Game Boy Camera, the blurry pictures suggest deeper than you would think.

A documentary on Ernesto Dominguez, a proud garbage collector near Havana, Cuba.

Included in the Joanie 4 Jackie video chain letter, The Cherry Cherry Chain Letter (1998)

Complexity theory.

A chilling version of the opening scene from Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella.

A father and his son appear out of nowhere and break the routine of a village lost between the mountains of Honduras. They ask for a place to stay and show the owners' of the house a strange artifact that reproduces sounds which they had not heard before, but bewitches them with pleasure.

This gorgeous film uses Paul Nipkow's disc as a rotary shutter inside a super-8 camera. Sequences were shot out the filmmaker's window and then blown up to 16mm. Positive and negative images change throughout the film by dissolving them and by enlarging the blow up.

More death-defying descents on ski and snowboard.

Black Sabbath at Bank One Ballpark, Phoenix, AZ, USA After Forever Into the Void Snowblind War Pigs N.I.B. Fairies Wear Boots Killing Yourself to Live Electric Funeral Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Lord of This World Black Sabbath Sweet Leaf Symptom of the Universe Supernaut Drum Solo Iron Man Children of the Grave Paranoid

Megadeth at Pista de Atletismo Ibirabuera, São Paulo, Brazil Holy Wars... The Punishment Due In My Darkest Hour Reckoning Day Wake Up Dead Hangar 18 Sin A Secret Place Angry Again She-Wolf A Tout Le Monde [Preceded by Marty Friedman guitar solo] Almost Honest Trust Sweating Bullets Symphony of Destruction [Extended version] Peace Sells [Preceded by drum and bass solos] Anarchy in the U.K

A normal life is out of our hero's grasp in this surreal parable on what it is to be different.

A Peruvian pornographic film involving Barbie dolls.

A Change of Seasons: I The Crimson Sunrise, A Change of Seasons: II Innocence, Puppies on Acid, Just Let Me Breathe, Take the Time, Hot for Teacher (Van Halen cover), Anna Lee, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John cover), Speak to Me, Keyboard Solo, Lines in the Sand, Caught in a Web (with drum solo), The Way It Used to Be, Peruvian Skies, Pull Me Under, Metropolis Pt. 1 / Learning to Live / A Change of Seasons

An inquisitive young boy explores the contents of the medicine cabinet and is tempted into trying the jar labelled 'Adol Essence'… He is plunged into a world of terror as his body starts to change in alarming new ways.

This video work often used by the filmmaker to introduce, in his absence, film programs scheduled in distant venues. Created also as formal Introduction to an eleven-hour archival collection of unfinished films.

Unwrap the secrets of the dead as scientists discover and learn from ancient preserved bodies.

Embark on an aerial adventure in the Marines's most famous World War II fighting plane in this two-part installment of the "Roaring Glory Warbirds" series. Warbird pilot Steve Hinton leads an exciting tutorial on the technical aspects of the Vought F4U Corsair, with help from Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Black Sheep squadron. Extras for the aviation enthusiast include an original F4U training film from the WWII era.

This behind-the-scenes documentary peers into the world of real-life gangsters, gambling and backroom negotiations. The video's first half looks at Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, whose "crazy" idea of building casinos in the desert led to the sprawling, gaudy metropolis of Las Vegas. The second half of the video tells the story of Jimmy Hoffa, who became the powerful leader of the Teamsters Union before disappearing mysteriously years later.

Achieve the harmonious balance that comes with the ancient Chinese practice of tai chi. In this engaging tutorial, hosts Sally Yasukawa and Zhang Hao demonstrate several forms of tai chi, which include the popular Yang style. You'll learn how the cultivation of Chi energy can be used to bring strength and relaxation to the mind and body. The presentation outlines the 10 fundamentals of tai chi and also explores the history of the practice

Photographic realist Chuck Close gets an up-close-and-personal treatment in this documentary that discusses Close's artistic vision and method, as well as his "close call" recovery from a spinal blood clot that almost ended his career. After suffering a debilitating seizure, Close -- the creator of groundbreaking, oversized portraits -- overcame his paralysis and continued his art. Avant-garde composer Philip Glass provides the soundtrack.

Bizet's masterful opera "Carmen" gets the illustrious treatment it so richly deserves in the talented hands of conductor Giorgio Croci, leading the acclaimed Stagione d'Opera Orchestra, backed here by the Honved-Ensemble Budapest chorus, MHS Rosenthal Eisenstadt Ballet and Flamenco Tanztheater Barcelona. Malgorzata Walewska takes the role of Carmen, with Mario Malagnini as Don Jose and Boaz Senator as Escamillo in this moving 1998 performance.

Merrily skewering everyday Mafia life, this comical send-up chronicles the aptly named but dysfunctional Vendetta crime family, headed by short-fused hit man Sonny (Derek Diorio). It seems that bungling adopted son Paulie (Dan Lalande) has a habit of botching all the clan's plans, much to Sonny's consternation. Can the Vendettas overcome Paulie's incompetence and regain their standing atop the mob's pecking order?

There's little that can compare with seeing the frenetic, electric Ramones perform live onstage. This documentary, produced by drummer Marky Ramone, captures the group on tour in the 1990s, zipping from Asia to Central America and jamming on such classics as "Teenage Lobotomy" and "I Wanna Be Sedated."

This patriotic documentary produced during World War II focuses on the definitive battles fought in the skies above England. Archival footage and exclusive interviews bring the Battle of Britain to life in this second installment of the acclaimed, three-part series. Also included is film of the battle's 50th anniversary observance, during which airplanes flew over Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to the British Air Force.

The beauty of nature's colors only becomes fully visible in sunlight, whether it is the splendid miracle of the rainbow or its various different forms in nature; none of the colors is a coincidence - not the green of the leaves, nor the red of blood or the deep black of space.

The film documents the life of a bee colony for the duration of a year. Part of the colony emigrates and becomes a «wild» colony giving an intimate view of the artistically designed beehive and the bee's cleverly organised social life: dividing labour, collecting nectar and warding off enemies.

This documentary is a behind-the scenes look at some very special Hungarian folk artists and how their embroidery, hand-painted furniture, folk songs, and dances are being revived and sold to tourists.

The rising tide of our civilisation has not yet flooded the last peaks of the Alps. The Hohe Tauern mountain range is a high Alpine wilderness harbouring natural treasures that many people hardly know about. Their intact habitats make them a Noah's ark of Alpine flora and fauna. At the same time, this is a world of mountains in the superlative, with the highest peaks in Austria, the biggest glacial surfaces in the eastern Alps and water falls that are among the highest in the world.

A lonely actor embarks upon a self-destructive path of kidnapping and revenge.

Graham Hancock is a bestselling author and journalist who specializes in ancient civilizations. He explores, amongst other things, the submerged Yonaguni monument off the coast of Japan, Easter Island, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the pyramids of Egypt and looks at astronomical alignments.

flight is a frame-by-frame re-editing of an astronaut walking on the moon into a seven-minute long meditation on technological transcendence. The unstable, stuttering image depicts the astronaut's struggle to separate from his body. Comically majestic, the astronaut enacts a late 20th Century ballet. A performance of anti-heroic stumbling, falling down, and disappearance into white light.

Join documentary filmmaker Greg Grainger on a tour of some of Australia's most spectacular natural landscape in the heart of the Blue Mountains. Often compared to the Grand Canyon for its sheer cliffs, rugged canyons and unique flora and fauna, this wilderness will have you reaching for your passport. Also included in the journey are old-fashioned dances, a vintage car race and a steam train ride -- all part of the Blue Mountain experience.

In this concert that was broadcast to an estimated 2 billion viewers worldwide, opera virtuosos Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti fill Paris's historic Champ de Mars with melodic masterpieces. Performing during the 1998 World Cup, the three masters captivate their audience with songs including "Caruso," "Lolita," "Maria, Marì," "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "'O Sole Mio," accompanied by the artful Orchestra de Paris.

Nine pop artists go acoustic in this video culled from MTV's successful series. The soothing jangle of unamplified instruments in an intimate setting shines through on songs like Bryan Adams's "I'm Ready," Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years," Hootie & the Blowfish's "Let Her Cry," Tony Bennett's "It Had to Be You," Chris Isaak's "Somebody's Crying," Duran Duran's "Ordinary World," Sheryl Crow's "Strong Enough" and more.

In this emotionally charged thriller, three young people become the unwilling victims of a fourth's obsession. Troubled Sheriff Randall pursues the trail of an unknown assailant who attempted to kill Jane Ellen, a young Goshen woman. Meanwhile, her childhood friend, Tom Lindland, accompanied by his buddy Jeff, heads west, running from memories of youthful tragedy, only to be confronted with a far greater terror than he ever imagined.

Baron Dixon truly believes that he is an alien and will soon be leaving planet Earth. Those closest to him--his two outcast hillbilly best friends and girlfriend--believe him.

Even in an eerie, black-and-white world of urban decay, bubble packing has its place. When a group of children find a body abandoned in a field, the bio-sleuths take over, hauling the remains into the lab to investigate. But it seems everyone involved is more interested in the outer wrappings than in what's inside. No words are spoken, but soulful music delivers a universal message, reminding us we're more alike than we think.

Short film by Christopher Nixon. Winner of the International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2002-2003 World Tour for Best Short Film.

2nd Omnibus to commemorate the 20th anniversary of YMO formation. Contains two shows, live in '83 and Greek theater of '79.

Artist:The Brian May Band Location:VH1 Studios, London,UK Date: Broadcast on 16.9.98 (Recorded on an Earlier Date) Quality:Excellent This is Brian's semi acoustic set from his VH1 appearance promoting Another World with wonderful versions of Tie Your Mother Down & Driven By You. 1.On My Way Up 2.Driven By You 3.Why Don't We Try Again 4.Only Make Believe 5.Tie Your Mother Down (with intro story)

This coming-of-age French-Belgian drama features Nicolas and Thierry, uneducated long-time friends, postponing an inevitable trip into military service by camping on the beach. Living next to them are Annie and Francoise, two women who help Nicolas, until events take a turn for the worse when Thierry gets Nicolas involved in a theft.