Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

A lone trombone playing solo is joined by a trumpet in a duet until a French horn makes it a trio, and so on, as ten instruments, one by one, gather together for a joyous musical performance.

Video #7 "Experience Global Skateboarding"

A 16-year-old Russian-German girl had to relocate with her parents, who want to build a better life for themselves. She doesn't feel comfortable in her new surroundings, and on top of that, she has feelings for her boyfriend from Russia, who is increasingly losing his footing in Germany. At the same time, she feels attracted to a Moroccan boy who lives next door and embodies a foreign world.

A reunion with Mendel Szajnfeld 27 years after Grabe's first encounter with the Holocaust survivor.

Kokoro Is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel pit. When I got the footage back from the lab I was disappointed because of the periodic flipping of the image. After screening the footage several times I realised that the malfunctioning camera rendered the filmed-nature unnatural ...and this poses questions: what is nature? What is natural? Ph

Criminals have kidnapped the daughter of California real estate magnate Ricardo and demand two million dollars. Detective Steve Woodward of the LAPD is assigned to deliver the ransom, but the transaction goes awry, the money is gone and the girl is dead. Accused of being responsible for the failure and perhaps more, Woodward feels compelled to follow up the unjustified accusations with actual criminal action. His plan: a kidnapping. But things turn out differently than planned.

A bonus video documenting the Golden Week 1999 fan appreciation events promoting the revised Legend of Kaguya Island

In China the marriage ritual is not a matter of a boy and a girl who are in love with each other and want to officially confirm their relationship. The protocol consists of six stages that must be completed according to the rules: the proposal, the negotiations, the engagement, the cognisance of the birth dates of the betrothed couple to ratify the marital relationship, a visit to the fortune-teller for the most favourable wedding date, and finally the wedding ceremony. MARRIAGE follows a marriage broker during the extensive, complicated and relentless negotiations for two marriages, somewhere in the southwest of China, between Jian and Qiong, and between Yu and Zhao. In addition, the film depicts the daily life in the villages, which is filled with manual labour on the land (the men) and around the house (the women). The film ends with the wedding celebrations, when the bride is carried across the mountains to her future husband’s house in an adorned, closed palanquin.

Softcore home video. The relationship between a man becomes an AV scout to repay his debts and an actress.

In 1975 a middle-aged anarchist recruits a policeman's daughter for an attempt to blow up Emperor Hirohito's train.

A dog rushes out of a house. He crosses the road in front of a truck.

A promotional documentary television special, filmed on the set of The World Is Not Enough.

A day in the life of a walking hotdog.

Commissioned by Stephen Kent Jusick of MIX - NY, premiered at Anthology Film Archives. Deco Dawson and I drove to Regina for our first taste of optical printing at Sask Film Pool. The guitar player on the right is Serge LaCroix, a shaman friend whose been semi-conscious in a coma for a few years now. He complained a lot when I shaved his chest for the shoot, but I'm glad he's preserved on film. -Noam Gonick

A new man enters an old courtyard surrounded by walls on all four sides. He sees the people there turning into objects: a sink, a trash can, a garbage bin. He cannot leave, and together with another new man, he turns into an object like the rest: laundry.

A cousin stays overnight at a couple's place as both of her parents are missing. The husband suspects that she is a vampire as he keeps seeing corpses and her biting into them in his nightmares. Suddenly he becomes a vampire and hell breaks loose and must find a way to put an end to this.

"The mysterious Yale secret society, 'Skull and Bones', has many famous names within its ranks. How does it grant such access to power and privilege? What arcane secrets does it hide?" - from Amazon

Unbridled lust and passion boil over in W.A.V.E.’s steamy production of the JUNGLE OF SCREAMING DEATH starring Tina Krause, Pamela Sutch, and Chuck Simpson. Set in the early 1900’s, this erotic thriller follows the return of Amelia (Tina) to her now deceased Grandfather’s plantation where her cousin Karlotta (Pamela) and her husband, Hans (Chuck) now live. Amelia’s return sets the stage for a violent confrontation between herself and Karlotta over Amelia’s love affair with Hans years earlier. Karlotta’s plan for revenge leads to tragedy for all of them! Amelia finds herself stabbed, strangled and shot! Karlotta is shoved into a deadly quicksand pit and left to sink! And Hans becomes the victim of a woman scorned! Sizzling passion and erotic action make this W.A.V.E.’s sexiest thriller ever!

Premiered on June 9, 1994 at the Astengo Theater, in Rosario, Argentina. Last performance on January 31, 1999, at the Auditorium Theater, in Mar del Plata, Argentina. PROGRAM: 1 - El regreso del indio 2 - Manuel Darío 3 - Así hablaba Sali Baba 4 - El negro quiere bailar 5 - San Ictícola de los peces 6 - A la playa con Mariana 7 - Perdónala 8 - Fronteras de la ciencia 9 - Vote a Ortega Instruments premiered on this show: Bajo Barríltono Ferrocalíope. Recorded at the Auditorium Theater, Mar del Plata, Argentina, January 30, 1999.

The loss of loved ones and the tragic present become entangled with memories of the past. Hope and the struggle for survival alternate with despair and hopelessness. In the turmoil of the war and occupation, a young Turkish girl, Yasmin, refuses to stop searching for her great love, the Greek-Cypriot Telemachos, who has been taken prisoner by the Turkish occupying forces.

A short feature about a teacher caught up in a bullying scenario at his school.

Evocation of the life of Jesus Christ.

Funny five-minute short which mixes choreographed urination with the Pachelbel Canon

A severed penis flies around and kills people.

Shot in Texas, Isaac Julien's Turner Prize nominated film installation Long Road to Mazatlán reflects upon the construction of masculinity through a choreographed mise-en-scène.

In Zurich, a dealer named Mike, who is also dependent, buys a mysterious dagger in a back yard. He has no idea that it is a victim tool of a Nazi sect. That's why his girlfriend is kidnapped and brutally tortured by the Nazis shortly afterwards. But Mike wants revenge...

Explores the bittersweet process of an American artist's frenzied attempt to achieve fame and recognition through manufacturing his own hype and manipulating public perceptions of his constructed persona.

A group of young people goes for a walk on a summer night which stirs the imagination. They begin telling stories about a girl named Paula, who isn’t among them, but with whom each of them has had a meaningful encounter in the past. This is a romantic drama, structured as a road movie, with a deliberately fragmented narrative style that mirrors the wandering of free thought.

Negro is a dark film that portrays the light of its protagonist, Ortega, a meatpacking worker who finds in boxing the means to rebel against his boss's subservience. Ortega faces his last fight, the most important one, the one of honor, the one of life.

The Sanpete valley has led a sheltered, protected life since time began. Mormons and Utes met here when Manti was settled in 1849, helping each other through a long bitter winter. After Manti was settled, other towns sprang up, running north and south, Sterling, Spring City, Ephraim, Mt. Pleasant, Fountain Green Fairview, Chester, Moroni, and many more. Scandinavians, especially Danes, soon settled in large numbers, becoming legendary for their stoic persistence, their skills as stonemasons and in other crafts, and for their stories, told in dialect, that poke fun at their own poverty and the foibles of their people. The jewel of Mormon temples was in part their achievement rising majestically at the north end of Manti. It came to symbolize the spiritual center of the peoples lives. Sanpete is a special world, filled with special people, its charm enduring undiminished into the second millennium.

The last of the BILLABONG CHALLENGE series; Challenge Four, in Indo, and Challenge Five, in Australia. Indo did not deliver the surf necessary to complete one round so it was cancelled until the following year. Starring Rob Machado, Kalani Robb, Luke Egan, Shane Dorian, Tom Curren, Sunny Garcia, Mark Occhilupo, Taylor Knox, Pancho Sullivan, with appearances by Margo and Kelly Slater. Winner of "Surfer Magazine’s Video of the Year Award" 2000 Best Cinematography Award.

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Men in disguise arrive at a square where the last survivors of Carnival are ending a night of excess in style. Daybreak approaches. Véronique, Xavier, and Jochen may well get their wings burned...

A trip to Russia by two filmmakers in 1990, forms the bulk of this twin-screen projection, finished some 9 years later; Their super-8 footage mixed in with archival material (and a sprinkling of the classics such as Vertov and Eisenstein).

Kendal, an American tourist meets Shed, a fellow Morrissey and The Smiths obsessive whilst on a pilgrimage to Manchester. But is Shed really all he appears to be?

Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the moving history of the Aosta valley, which passed through many hands - from the Roman Empire to Burgundian and Frankish kingdoms - until it was acquired by Italy in the 11th century. The now busy motorway, which runs from the Po Valley to the Great and Little St. Bernhard passes, is revealed through the timeless eyes of a historian. At the same time, the documentary sheds light on cultural traditions and contemporary life in the region.

This visual postcard wishes its viewers a Happy Christmas and other good wishes one sends on a joyous occasion such as the holidays. However, this video postcard starts out with an idyllic winter scene soon transgresses into a bizarre series of appearances of a fish spitting out words, an elephant who appears to be half made out of jelly playing with a ball. All these add to the strange atmosphere of Mulloy’s Christmas card. Mulloy was inspired by the financial crisis to depict a bleak winter.

Like every year, Inès takes the train to Mont-de-Marsan to spend a week's holiday with her grandmother. But this time around, things do not happen as usual. First, Granny is late to the appointment outside the station. And when she finally arrives, she looks strange, seems to have difficulty in finding her way back home and mostly seems to be hiding something for her granddaughter...

Film starring Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Milind Gunaji and Jatin Kanakia

In 1591 Juan Diego found himself between two worlds…that of the Spanish conquerors and that of his own Aztec heritage. Because of his love for his people and his strong faith, Juan Diego turned to Jesus and His Mother, Mary for help in uniting his people. The answer to Juan Diego’s prayers has become one of the greatest events in the history of the Americas. JUAN DIEGO: MESSENGER OF GUADALUPE is the true story of how the Blessed Mother chose a hero for a key role in a beautiful miracle that would united diverse peoples and change the course of history. In the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City the miracle of the tilma of Juan Diego may still be seen, just as it was seen by the bishop in 1531.

A jornalist exposes a man's strange reality as a crash test dummy.

The documentary about the destinies of women who lived or are living in different regions of Ukraine, and explores their destinies in the present. The film tells about the fate of the heroines of the film "Declaration of Love" (1966) Tekla Barmashova (killed in 1922), veterans Elizaveta Marapulets (died in 1982), Maria Lahunova (died in 1995), agronomist Maria Molodyk-Kryvokulska, milkmaid, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR Nina Sribna-Babenko, violinist Lyubov Chaikovska and glider, master of sports Zinaida Solovei. Female heroines and their loved ones share memories, problems, talk about modern Ukraine.

Mini-documentary about women who box, where images and boxing sounds merge into a suggestive cinematic experience.

A complex editing score is applied to images and sounds gathered by a video camera moving through crowded places: a market in Cairo, a carnival in St. Louis, commuters in Tokyo and a funeral in Benares. The unique edit-form of Confluence weaves these streams of movement together like notes in a musical score. Events are broken loose from their normal flow and organized into autonomous clusters. The result is a transformation of the recorded world, and its projection into a new temporal matrix. The tunnel of time becomes porous; crisscrossed by passageways and escape routes. 14:00 minutes. ". . . an exotic mélange of visual and audio rhythms." - John Columbus, Director, Black Maria Film & Video Festival "In Confluence, McElwee jumps from one location to the next as if merging into an altered state" - TL Reid, Afterimage

Chronicles the misadventures of an inept Beverly Hills producer who believes she can ride the coattails of the original movie's success by filming a follow-up. Bankrolled by her father, she hires a documentary director, his production crew and four actors in an attempt to track down evidence related to the "West Woods Witch." Events start to unravel as the motley group encounters other film crews in the woods and end up getting lost themselves. Is the curse of the "West Woods Witch" for real... or something else entirely?

Even as scientists work diligently to authenticate the Dead Sea Scrolls, a historical and momentous find for archaeologists, questions surface about their true origin. Who wrote them? Did they truly know Jesus? And what do the scrolls mean for modern-day Christianity? This riveting documentary aims to find the answers to these and many other questions and shares new information about this important archaeological artifact.

In some chronicles, the beginning of Russian history dates back to the year 6360 (852 AD). From this ancient past, the director gazes into the modern capital of Russia, painting broad strokes of captured moments on the canvas of contemporary history. A morning in Izmailovo, the opening of a fair, the celebration of City Day at the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky, the high-rise construction of the City, a concert on the square, a religious procession at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a boat trip on the Moskva River, pedestrians walking along the streets, and the evening lights of a tired city...

Behind a fairytale castle grow three beautiful flowers well loved by bees

A local mafia don gets involved in a battle, but his fight is for control of the region and the love of a woman.