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Modest meditation on youth, life and mortality made up almost entirely from professionally made family films. What is more heart-rending than seeing pictures of people who have died? The aim of Mort à Vignole is to transcend the pain of a certain family and to come to terms with sensitive memories and family bonds.
Documentary about British comedy legend
A film about fatal love, bad dreams, normal madness and unnecessary death.
Beautifully shot in black and white, this almost wordless film follows the last day in a man's life. A detailed, attentive, and contemplative study on self-loathing, loss of human dignity, and hopelessness.
The Wets perform tracks from their album '10', along with a selection of their greatest hits, in this concert filmed live at Celtic Park, Glasgow, on 7th September, 1997. Tracks include 'Sweet Little Mystery', 'Wishing I was Lucky', 'Goodnight Girl' and 'Love is All Around'.
Take an incredible excursion to unseen parts of the Earth, including the highest summits and the core of the planet in this imaginative journey. The program also explores geographic disturbances and takes a look at the future of Earth.
A Swedish film which takes a look at the struggle against apartheid in South Africa from 1929 until the present day, focusing in particular on the participation of women in the fight.
Short documentary about political prisoners struggling to come to terms with haunting memories, produced for the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The film presents a reflection on the effects of prison in general and on the theatre director Ghassan Jbaii in particular. The artist used his work to come to terms with his haunting memories and regain the world outside the prison walls.
One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998)
Freestyle skit starring director Necro as a pimp holding sh*t down.
The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.
Hungarian Thriller Film
Short shown at Frameline.
What happens when you suspect that your partner likes the house guest more than she likes you? A droll drama of unstated intentions in black, white and grey.
In the seventies, in the slightly envious country, you come to the cooperative sawmill, the Štefan season, which gets entangled with an older village girl, Anica, so she gets pregnant. This obstructs his life plans: get a quick start to get enough to travel to Australia. Jože also comes to Slovenia with Štefan, who is a native but lives a distant life of a special person. Anika's older sister, Marta, is married, but without children. It turns out that they used to love Marta before, and then Jose escaped to study the theology, which he never completed. Anxious Anica succumbs to her sister's escalating hatred of men, so poorly crap Martin's advice is to close Stephen somewhere until forced into marriage. The events in the temple where Štefan is closed is culminating in a mission in a village church. At the time of the death of the old Martnjakovka, Aničina and Martina mothers, the events went wrong in the crime ...
An elite police squad in Mexico fights against crime.
Decaying nitrate film: cinema as an incendiary explosive bomb of memory.
Egyptian film directed by Adil Adib.
Follow in the tracks of the explosive cheetah, a man-eating tiger and the king of the jungle, the African lion. Travel with roaming hunters as they stalk their prey, with such weaponry as night-vision and enhanced hearing capability. Added bonus segment includes the mystery behind the legend of the infamous saber-toothed tiger.
A white horse and his cowboy are riding into an old Western Towm in the hot Utah desert. The locals return from a hanging and are looking for more trouble. A shootout seems inevitable, but.... This film is a drawn hommage to the traditional Western and to the horror movie, creating a whole new genre: the drawn horror western parody.
Five untitled episodes: a businessman visits prostitutes before returning to his wife; an extra falls asleep at the cinema; a farmhand faces an Eastern European bully; a woman foresees the death of her lover; a small-time criminal feels the eyes of the mafia on him.
Page & Plant: MTV Live On The 10 Spot. Bucharest, Romania 3-1-1998. Setlist: Heartbreaker Tangerine Walking Into Clarksdale The Wanton Song Going To California Whole Lotta Love How Many More Times Most High Rock And Roll
Arms dealer Sayed competes with Mahmoud, who works in the same trade, and both are subject to a foreign American/Israeli organization based outside Egypt. A terrorist incident occurs in which the child Shaimaa was killed in Cairo, so Sayed remembers his daughter and carries out a suicide operation in which he blows up the organization's building outside.
Japanese horror movie from 1998.
From the Adventures Beyond, an exploration into the world of the paranormal.
A short mockumentary about recently discovered animals.
A glimpse of the Greek Civil War, which followed soon after the end of WW2, as it was experienced in the remote and rather peculiar island of Ikaria. After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece on Samos island, several men attempt to escape certain death at the hands of the Greek government. The loose film plot does incorporate many local stories and legends from that dark period, as well as older tales.
A young girl whit a messy life gets involved in an adventure in cat kingdom.
A modern Aphrodite – how is it possible to be super sexy and successful at the same time? A career woman faces the conflicting demands of her parents, social life, and her husband. Driven by their off-camera voices to become ever more efficient, Lisa becomes a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The short combines live action and animation in a film with a slapstick tenor that is a colourful, but by no means rosy depiction of the future pressures women will face in a digital working environment.
Chihiro, a married woman disillusioned by her husband’s infidelity, suddenly receives a mysterious letter and a large box. By means of that letter from an unknown man, Chihiro avoids a misfortune, but she grows suspicious. In fact, the sender of the letter was hiding inside the large box, peeping at the sex lives of women. And the true identity of the man is… Set in Tokyo shortly after the war, it depicts a world of abnormal lust between men and women.
These 131 video monitors stacked in a grid present simultaneous, continuous footage of the German artist during the last year of his life. In this filmed diary-project that Dieter Roth executed while convalescing in Reykjavik and Basel, we see him not only working in his studio but also while he sleeps, bathes, and uses the bathroom. It is nearly impossible to pay attention to only one video without becoming distracted by an unexpected sound or movement coming from one of the many other screens. Each monitor broadcasts a different point in the artist's daily routine, while the gridlike arrangement of monitors reinforces a sense of order and chronology.
The successful, popular British soul and pop band perform their hits for a celebrity audience.
A very serious instructional piece about Father Kneipp's turn of century research on water therapies. With the help of cold water and a trained professional, you could be cured of all your illnesses!
This 1940’s artifact is coupled with music by Nino Rota to expose the existential skeleton in the closet: our perilous journey on the planet Earth. A readymade film with the barest of interventions.
Bang Bang was an experiment in animating positive and negative Rorschach-like bilaterally symmetrical ink blots. It is at heart a flicker film, where black-and-white images are smacked on the screen in rapid intervals in pursuit of afterimage effects. It is best viewed wide-eyed focusing on the center of the screen.
"This work is a study in understanding the entanglements of gender. Described as invading, difficult and repetitious, the artist struggles to break away from its confines." — Deirdre Logue. Made at Phil Hoffman's Film Farm, 1998.
Tragicomic gangster drama about a young man who robs a gas station and takes the place of the attendant during one night, with the intention to take off to paradise with the money.
This feature-length documentary gives fans of "Field of Dreams" a look behind the scenes at the making of the classic film about a farmer in Iowa who receives a calling from the spirits baseball's past. It features interviews with director Phil Alden Robinson, stars Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, and many other members of the cast and crew who share their experiences on the set and give viewers a glimpse of the work that went into bringing the project to completion.
The writer's intimate diary from October '96 to March '97, to the rhythm of animated sequences from day to day, according to events, sensations, memories, moods...
Documentary chronicling the sensational life and death of British footballer Justin Fashanu. Broadcast as part of the BBC series "Inside Story".
Depressed druggy Misha Faybisovich nods out and has a nightmare where demons tease him with drugs. He's fiending and that's where the devil comes in. In this goon infested exploitation flick which takes place in the 70s, you never know what's going to happen next. Gene Milman plays a stressed out Faybisovich and the charismatic cast knows exactly how to torture a fool, from Faybisovich's crazy faces to its twisted ending, The Devil Made Me Do It is steaming hot entertainment. Dealing with the devil is risky, sometimes you're just dying to get high, literally!
A middle aged worker does all he can to provide his wife and daughter with good living conditions. They are ungrateful and do not return his affections. When he has an accident at work and goes home in the afternoon, he finds the time to think about how to solve the communication problems in his family. This takes however an unforeseen route.
Nine famous photographers from the world of fashion and the new talents of 1998 tackle the upcoming edition of the prestigious magazine Vogue Italia, in and around the majestic cadre of Castle Square, Piazza Castello, No. 27, Turin, Italy.
A look at Paul Taylor and his dance company over several months in 1997. Preparation of Taylor's piece, "Piazzolla Caldera," from conception and rehearsals to opening night at City Center, frames the film. The troupe's trip to India falls in the middle. Included are black and white footage of rehearsals, and, in color, interviews with Taylor, his dancers, dance critics and scholars, and those who manage the business side. There is also footage of a younger Taylor dancing and film of the troupe performing a dozen Taylor pieces. His genius, his roots, his method of working with dancers, and his sometimes difficult nature draw the attention of those who comment.
The makeup, stunts, special effects, and production design of 'Blade' (1998) are discussed.
Comedy whereby a man accidentally enlists himself to go on three dates with different unhinged women.
A woman encounters problems with a child she has taken in after devoting her entire life to humanitarian missions.
A few minutes before a man wakes up, his dead lover returns to him for one final reunion.
Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998 programme)
Al Jarreau with his band live in Munich at Klaviersommer 1998.