Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

This film presents a devastating portrait of a society rife with corruption, as experienced by a young boy in Kinshasa trying to survive.

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 Animated Short Film by Bruno Bozzetto

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

the Animated Short Film by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar

An indigenous couple married young with a child when they were only 16 and 19 years old. The financial burden and challenges in life were so heavy for them that quarrels were unavoidable. As their former elementary school teacher, the filmmaker recorded the young couple’s daily life, while trying to give them a hand in their time of need.

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.

George is a homeless car-salesman and a broken man. Shattered by the events in his past, he is unable to crawl into the present.

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 is taken hostage in an forrest by his own guilty consciousness.

Laugh In the Dark takes us into the heart of “queer family values” with an odd little wagon train of “six fags, two dykes and an old lady” who pull into the dilapidated town of Crystal Beach, Ontario in the early l980s. The “boys” dream of restoring this former resort town to its earlier glory, with a twist. They open a B&B, and stage lavish cabarets, complete with lip synching drag queens, to raise money for early AIDS awareness.

The documentary Segredos de amor (Just Between Us) is a beautiful testament to the struggle of lesbian lives and loves in Brazil.

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

This is the shocking short coming-out film made by Harmsen and Woodbury for the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 film festival. It involves grown men shuffling up an electrical charge on an acrylic carpet and says more about being a homo than we would normally care to admit.

This is Just To Say was made in the summer of 1999 through a workshop opportunity offered by Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival for queer youth. This is Just to Say documents several young men and women’s first queer experiences through interviews accomplished by simply approaching strangers on a busy Toronto street on a Sunday afternoon. Through invasive conversation This is Just to Say explores personal narrative and identity politics in the "post" era; a testament about being young and queer in 1999.

Using phone personals, databases, and internet searches, a young gay man uses digital technology to remember boyfriends past, in the search of boyfriends future.

This is a Lacan feminist sexual experiment. Vive explores our sexual Eden in a time before language where there are no genders at the same time as our Mutter, Mere, Mother is our uninhibited object of desire. Three languages - German, Quebecois, French and English along with a dominatrix as a sublimation for mother to invoke this punishable paradise. Vive la DifferAnce is a title of shibboleth in reverse. DifferAnce can be translated into English from French to mean both difference and deferral. Gender is never truly present, but is only referenced through the complement of referring to the other gender's lack.

All the land has been sold and the wealthy live in mobile luxury homes, suspended from a network of cables covering the earth. With this super-sophisticated technology, the slightest malfunction can be catastrophic.

Toilet Mouth is a dirty room with a view. It locates obsession between attraction and repulsion.

It’s never easy digging up the past, especially if you can’t remember where you buried it.

Sex: M F Please circle.

Paul wants to escape the pressures of teaching his homophobic students by entering the fantasy world of ballroom dancing. After a disastrous experience at a straight dancing school, Paul's life takes a definite turn for the better when he discovers Linda, the glamorous lesbian dance teacher. But who will he be dancing with at the college Xmas party?

Images of two women making love are juxtaposed with dreamy scenes of city life, illuminating the contrast between public and private life that many women, lesbians in particular, share. A rich soundtrack combines vocals by Judea Eden with ambient elements and an original funky trip-hop score.

How to Fake an Orgasm will give you insight into your lover’s needs and expectations. With clear, concise examples, this tape will show you exactly what to do and when to do it to get you through your faked orgasm worry free. Faking it will give you instant results that will satisfy your lover’s waning ego and indefinitely postpone those uncomfortable talks about sexual fulfillment.

Unmapping Desire is an experimental video-poem exploring separation, political borders and social boundaries, which keep women from loving women. Set to evocative images and music, the poem unfolds charting the journey of two South Asian women and their victory of through imagining "borderless countries in a county-less world."

Ernie Els is one of the most established names in world golf. Since sensationally capturing the 1994 US Open at the age of 24, he has recorded a string of victories, and it's all been achieved with one of the most elegant and classic swings on tour. In this book, the two-time US Open champion offers advice to the average club golfer on the basic fundamentals of grip and posture, before teaching us how to build the classic swing for which he is so famous.

An ode to New York's East Vilage community gardens as told by three men who, amid their own personal struggles, manage to give life to these small, rare patches of fertile ground: Adam, a radical who makes earth from his own waste; Normand, who has his last summer in the garden before dying of AIDS; and Pablo, a squatter who tends his garden while facing eviction.

Video entirely made in electronic and chemical analog, it takes the cue from Librino, a neighborhood in the periphery of Catania, designed by Kenzo Tange, and made in the Sicilian Unfinished style. Deteriorated, demagnetized electronic and creative chemistry are the main instruments employed in order to convey Librino’s estrangement atmospheres.

Tour of Yosemite National Park, showing the park throughout the year.

A multidisciplinary artist who works in performance, video, photography, sculpture and installations. His field of research focuses on the topics of traditional Spain: flamenco, bullfighting, beliefs, music, folklore or crafts, about which he ironizes and transforms his works through humor, criticism, sensuality and poetry, provoking all kinds of public reactions. In 1999 she performed the performance "Tortilla a la Española" in which she violently tears her clothes and then proceeds to make an omelette with her.

Andres Kurg is an art historian who likes Danish modernist architecture and therefore wants to settle there. He argues with Danish officials to grant him a residence permit for aesthetic reasons.

This sensual, slow-motion video installation shows the artist, with her shocking-pink hair, lying naked on the rain-soaked earth.

One day a common man finds himself in a hell of family life. How did he get there? It all started with such a romance – they met in a museum of contemporary art…

Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where his mother left him. The boy grows up and becomes a feared and respected bookie—an almost mythological figure in the community where he lives. Fascinated by the story of the recently deceased criminal, journalist Caveirinha seeks out the criminal's ex-lover, D. Guigui, to gather material for an article. Her accounts of Boca reflect her emotional state.

Documentary that explores the festival known as the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), highlighting Mexican traditions and ancient ways that still exist -- all of these interpreted through Mexican cuisine. Each year during the last week of October, Mexican communities begin preparations for the age-old festival. For each family, it is a remembrance of a departed loved one. On a larger scale, it also memorializes all ancestral Mexicans and the gifts that they passed on to their descendants, especially food and culture.

From the Khorassan Ballroom, Larry Matysik takes us back to the glory days of professional wrestling. This unique 1999 documentary covers the story of KPLR's hit TV show, "Wrestling at the Chase" and the men and women who lived it.

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

American comedy horror film

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

The cycles of human occupation in one place: the rock inscriptions crystallized in the landscape as the last memory of an extinct people, the late afternoon ritual of an elderly couple, and the new times with other habits and customs brought by the dish.

"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. With some collaboration from Mike, Wrik has produced a film about the body, self-awareness, and the art of film.

Short experimental film by Amit Desai.