Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

Kamay ni Eva: Directed by Ces Evangelista. With Alma Concepcion, Leo Rabago, JC Castro, Charlie Davao.

A chicken gives birth to a peculiar chick.

Alima wants to go to school, but her husband is against it. This film follows Alima as she finds a way to live, selling candies on the streets of Maputo and attempts to continue going to school.

Love is only a projection.

An anthology of tests of the Hypergonar system, ancestor of the CinemaScope, invented late in the 1920s by French astronomer Henri Chrétien. Anamorphosis-- That is, the deforming an image and then straightening it using a suitable mirror-- was once a popular curiosity. Henri Chrétien imagined lenses that make it possible to anamorphose the image when shooting, then to de-anamorphose it when projecting. Shot by Chrétien between 1938 and 1949, "Vues Hypergonées", as the film is also known, was restored in 1999 by the French Cinémathèque from a 269-meter nitrate copy, for the retrospective “Jeune, Dure et Pure! A history of avant-garde and experimental cinema in France".

"Mnemo.Diario" is a touching and intimate work that Studio Azzurro loves very much. It testifies to an important moment in the history of the group, namely the approach to the spaces of the Fabbrica del Vapore and the discreet and profound closeness of a friend like Giuseppe Baresi.

Effe, is a pretty young woman who prefers dating much older, and usually married men. Effe leaves her home to escape her mother’s criticism of her behavior and stays with her friend’s family. While at her friend Kate’s house, Effe has an affair with Kate’s father as well and ruins the dynamics of that family

WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A tribute to the vital New York drag scene and the "electronic" 90's that is also a remembrance of the Christopher Street queer revolt 30 years ago.

Follow the cameras as you witness first hand never before seen footage of the chilling, the forbidden, the shocking reality of death and misfortune at its worst. Although this is exactly what the networks don't want you to see, here it is right before your eyes. This is not just Halloween Drama. This is Red Hot Reality. The Grim Reaper with devilish conclusions. So be careful considering yourself welcome to this forbidden zone.

The rhythm of grain harvesting, including separating stem and seeds by putting the sheaves on the highway. The mood as expressed at the beginning of the film by Tajik poet Mukhammody Khichozi: “If, in the cup of our bitter life, we add a little bit of love, it will become sweet.”

Adventure south of the Border with a journalist reporting on the intrigues of Tijuana nightlife.

When her parents leave her behind for the first time, Madeleine sees them off with tears in her eyes. Fortunately, her grand-mother is there to coax her out of her sadness. Grandma's house is full of surprises, including a chest full of costumes perfect for dress-up. Together they play and bake. Slowly, Madeleine discovers that Grandma seems to know exactly how to have fun. Adults will reminisce about cherished moments shared with grandparents and reflect on the nature of memory. Younger children will be delighted by young Madeleine's adventures.

Film by Daisuke Miki, 1999.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Nero Inferno is a significant documentary which explores the 90s Milan trainbombing scene. It successfully captures some of the raw emotions of northern Italy’s underground bombing universe, collecting rare footage, photos and interviews which include writers like Bread, Rae, MastroK, Spice, Dumbo. Great sound bites from these guys, who wanted to raise their voices upon the grey murmur of the big ciy. The film shows also some action, showcasing the street bombing missions in the subway of Milan. It’s an essential video for those who were there and who was not and anyone who don’t want to forget the historical memory of a movement.

19-year-old Ewa comes to town to talk to her brother Krzysztof. The conversation is to concern the illness of the father whom Ewa is looking after. However, he does not find Krzysztof at home. Instead, there are two of his colleagues.

The film, in three episodes, shows the last years of Ignacy Jan Paderewski's life.

Narrated by Erikson's colleague, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, Ph.D. and Ruthie Mickles, Ph.D. Using archival materials and newly shot footage, this film introduces students to the rich wisdom of Erik H. Erikson. Best known for his identification of the eight stages of the life cycle, Erikson spent a lifetime observing and studying the way in which the interplay of genetics, cultural influences and unique experiences produces individual human lives. This film combines biographical information about Erikson with his theoretical proposals to give students an understanding of the relationship between the life experience of a theorist and the work that is produced.

An epilogue of the series "Captain Zeppos"

The documentary shows a little of the history of popular Brazilian football and multi-sports club Flamengo.

Mats Lundell lives in a dark apartment in Malmö.

Follow the real lives and loves of two summer-share households one gay male, the other lesbian on New York's Fire Island.

Part of Criag Baldwin's Sonic Outlaws bonus

My sister Pei-ling went through with an unexpected pregnancy. The child was nicknamed Angoo. In three years, Pei-ling broke up with the child's father, met a new boyfriend, left Angoo in my parents’ care to move in with her boyfriend, until she finally moved back in with our family due to the disapproval of her boyfriend's brother. The parent-daughter relationship was strained at first, but gradually things changed; understanding and love returned between them.

This is the story of Luis Batlle Berres, an outstanding political figure, told against the background of life in Uruguay from 1900 to the 1960s. With archive images and music from the period, this documentary pays homage to those years and to a time gone by. There is testimony from Batlle's personal hairdresser, his master of arms, his children and travelling companions in politics, and his adversaries. We witness his meeting with General Juan Domingo Perón, and we see the Graf Zeppelin with its swastika in the sky above Montevideo.

A mockumentary of TV business and market reporting. The hype and style of TV business stations belies basic market information and is akin to sports and lifestyle reporting. Numbers are everything and reporters rely on forecasting tools like chicken-entrails and numerology. Stories ignore social consequences of market action.

Filmed in a remote Zen temple in the Japanese Alps. The images start with the magnificent mountains, before descending to one of the cities and then on into the monastery, where we follow the highly ritualised lives of the monks and nuns. Besides the landscapes, there are some truly memorable scenes, like the monastics on alms round, the unrolling of the scriptures, and even the taking of a meal, all of which become slightly surreal under the watchful eye of the camera.

Edited from video diary footages shot in one day. Divided into two parts, the first part is shot mostly in blue tone, featuring everyday activities of waking up, going to the bathroom, and hanging a mirror. The second part, shot mostly in yellow, depicts compulsive eating, illustrating both the obsession of the body and the desire to escape from it.

A man hides in the fireplace of a house like a mouse in a hole, afraid of the war going on outside.

Michael and Jake are two boyfriends trying to jumpstart their failing open relationship.

Slip into a fragmented romantic journey to a swimming pool at Charlottenburg, which never actually took place.

People Like Us is a personal experimental documentary that explores the effects of internalized homophobia in a lesbian relationship.

“During the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the Canadian military undertook a series of witch hunts aimed at interrogating and intimidating gays and lesbians serving in the military. I was one of those investigated. This is my story."

A Grandmother talks to her granddaughter about her journey to the U.S. from Latin America as a child.

The innocence of creating a mirror, only to repeatedly crush it underfoot.

The film's narrative is based on a traditional Estonian fairytale, telling the story of a group of mosquitoes that challenge a horse to a contest of strength. As the film begins, it evokes an almost documentary sensibility, in part through its use of voice-over narration (in English). Though the film might at first seem to be a relatively traditional work, it is not long until this impression changes, and drastically. The character design and voice recording, along with fantastically unrestricted cinematography and editing, combine with folk songs (sung in Estonian, with English subtitles) that might be described as 'quirky' or maybe just 'really odd.' Some dialogue is presented in 'word bubbles' printed on the film as well. So much is going on, on so many levels, that the film defies its viewer to look away -- and who would want to? It's all wonderful. The Mosquito and the Horse clearly demonstrates how successful a film can be operating outside the classical Hollywood model.

The videotaped concert of legendary singer Fayrouz at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena in 1999.

This video chronicles a crucial period in the life of the great Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), when he left Moscow during WWII for the Kazakhstan capital to film Ivan the Terrible (1943). Suffering under a heavy work schedule, fighting artistic interference from the Ministry of Cinema, constantly fearful of arrest by Stalin's secret police, crushed by feelings of loneliness and forebodings of death, Eisenstein suffered his first heart attack. The video visits sites where he lived and worked, features intimate excerpts from Eisenstein's diary, rare production footage, the director's sketches and screen tests, and interviews with friends, coworkers, and Soviet journalists and film critics, including Naum Kleiman, curator of the Eisenstein Museum.

About a man and his dream, which stop for a moment, and meet each other

Samir Abdallah, the director, leads his son, Nessim, a teenager, for his first fast in Ramadan, in a spiritual quest. We are at the dawn of the second millennium. In the Muslim calendar, we are in the Hijri year 1420.

Set in 1949 Toronto, this film tells the story of Isabelle, a telephone operator who is leading a double life. She is having a clandestine affair with another operator, Alice, while her boyfriend Ricky is secretly making plans to elope with her to Niagara Falls.

Straightboy Lessons is an experimental documentary that reenacts a conversation, and a friendship, between a transitioning transman and a non-transsexual man.

Profiles of a number of gay expatriates living in the USA because of their sexuality and what they enjoy and miss now that they are living in the States.

A young gay man wants to become a father. When his lesbian best friend decides to have a child by another man, tension erupts.