Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

In the video Kan Xuan! Ai! (1999), Kan runs through a pedestrian underpass in Beijing’s Fuxingmen subway station, repeatedly shouting and responding to her name as if searching for the lost self. Against a surging crowd, Kan’s anxious calls to the self amplify a common tension between one’s subjective experience and mainstream values or social norms.

The animated adventures of "Tonka Tom" a gay plastic cowboy. Hitch-hiking, two-stepping at the local gay bar, and enjoying a campfire with a friend and his trusty dog.

A film about sound, a film about words, a film about interpretation and misunderstanding.

This film has been shot one image after another, based on already existing images, paintings, photos : Vésale’s “the écorchés”, drawings by Agipa de Nettesheim and Leonardo da Vinci, photos by Muybridge, Marey, Londe, architectural plans… These still images are knocked together to give the movement, rhythm and echo necessary to refer to these times where Man has tried to find through research, science, philosophy and art the concept and sentiment of Totality. The editing image by image allows us to explain the connections that link each image, their contents and their symbols. Like a synthesis, through the prism of Totality, the film shows all these questions and researches about Man and his world.

Kevin Atherton leads us through a computer-generated exhibit as inventive as it is satirical. The museum is appropriately impossible in its scope, as Atherton playfully acknowledges the imaginative space of virtual worlds. The fantasy exhibitors have free rein in their show, “Four Rooms and a Toilet,” even to the point of cutting windows in partitions, exposing the building’s masonry, and breaking down the wall between the sex-segregated toilets. Atherton, as the gallery guide, justifies each of the artists’ disruptive requests in high-art terminology as we “move” through the rooms.

A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. This imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere.

When talking about missing people we are talking about a virtual death, with no body. But we need to see the corpse of those people to whom we want to bid farewell so as to be able to do it.

America is going to war and nuclear holocaust is an inevitablity. A group of friends retreat to a bomb shelter and try to come to terms with the changes in their lives that will occur after the bombing ceases.

This is a summer memoir of two personal intertwined love affairs; one with Salisbury Beach and the other with a strange and charming drifter the filmmaker met randomly through a friend. It is highlighted by melodramatic journal entries from his teenage years lamenting the difficulties of a homosexual life and ultimately exposing a deeply rooted internalized homophobia that kept him fumbling though uncertain places and relationships.

Enter the Yomega Yo Zone with Guinness Book record holder Chris Ciosek, current World Champion Jennifer Baybrook and hot new talent Eric Mitz. These champs with teach you all you need to know to become the ultimate yo-yo player.

One hears in the call of the sea the feeling of a promise made to us before birth, that we can know the world not merely as an atlas of things seen, but rather as a continuum of felt experience in which it is impossible to distinguish between our selves and the world around us: self and other are melded into one. To the Beach explores this feeling from three vantage points, filmed (respectively) near, in, and under the sea using a variety of techniques, and registers the resulting images onto hand-made film emulsion. I. Approaching the Shore: in which the ocean first offers its irresistible salty scent. II. Swimming: in which we become again what we are. III. Seeing Stars: as above, so below.

A filmmaker and an architect view their respective roles in chronicling (and glossing over) the German sense of guilt in modern Berlin.

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System performances feature a unique double-analysis projector set-up, deriving 3-D from standard 2-D film, most often with archival and other found footage.) Jacobs' own narration guides the viewer through his manipulations and performance strategies, revealing his cinematic shorthand in this brief improvisation on an archival film from 1900.

After a bitter argument, a mother and her teenaged son each have a moment of quiet contemplation in Frazer Bradshaw's affecting portrayal of a fragile relationship.

Student Film

A look into some of the weirdest turn-ons in the world.

This unique production from ERI Safety Videos encourages workers to be safe at work so they will come home at the end of the day. The custom music score contains many safety messages and concepts. Read along on-screen if you can't make out all the lyrics. Enjoy!

Acoustic Session recorded live at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, the Netherlands on November 22nd 1999. 00:00 Intro 02:52 Ain't The Life 09:04 Everlong 14:14 This Is A Call (Jam) 16:19 Floaty 25:08 Next Yeah 35:58 Sister Europe (Jam) 37:34 Learn To Fly

This delightful silent short parodies feature films that flash the names of the big stars ("Liberty," "Justice" and "Death") before the title card, STUPOR MUNDI, appears. In something of a cross between a Keystone Kops comedy and an Edwin S. Porter melodrama, Lady Liberty, Justice (with her blindfold and scale) and Death form a love triangle, with fickle Death getting his comeuppance in the end. The marvelous musical soundtrack by Nik Phelps and live audience reactions to the film make this a warm and fuzzy experience, despite the archetypal gravity of the main characters.

A film by Andréas Lang.

A series of short vignettes featuring a cast of toys and antiques.

Setlist: Breadfan Master of Puppets Of Wolf and Man The Thing That Should Not Be Fuel The Memory Remains Bleeding Me Bass/Guitar Solos The Four Horsemen For Whom the Bell Tolls King Nothing Wherever I May Roam One Fight Fire With Fire Nothing Else Matters Sad But True Creeping Death Die, Die My Darling Enter Sandman Battery

War Pigs N.I.B. Fairies Wear Boots After Forever Electric Funeral Sweet Leaf Into the Void Snowblind Black Sabbath Iron Man Embryo Children of the Grave Paranoid

A boy and a mute carry a sacred text with them following the fall of their village.

Christophe Otzenberger spent a year running the streets with one question: "How do you live with misery? An angry journey to meet the excluded and what excludes, because apart from the brutal poverty that condemns you to the street, work, indifference and precariousness also generate other forms of misery.

Using time, memory, and the texture of everyday experience as his mediums, Pierre Huyghe conflates the traditional dichotomy between art and life. Working in an array of cultural formats—from billboards and television broadcasts to community celebrations and museum exhibitions—he reformulates their codes and deploys them as catalysts for creating new experiential possibilities. A mode of perception that lies in the interstices between reality and its representation is the subject of his two-channel video, The Third Memory (2000), which reenacts the 1972 hold-up of a Brooklyn bank immortalized in Sidney Lumet's acclaimed film Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Almost 30 years later, Huyghe provides a platform for the heist's charismatic mastermind, John Wojtowicz, to relate his version of that infamous day in a reconstructed set of the bank.

Directed by Jamie Lee.

US 1999, Super 8, color & b/w, sound on cassette, 13 min

Divorced mother Jess (Siobhan Redmond), distraught over her son's violent death in a fiery car crash, finds passion and companionship from the unlikeliest of people: Rob (Paul Bettany), the young drunken driver responsible for killing her son. Facing her family's shock and outrage over the affair, Jess must also cope with her young daughter's blossoming relationship with a much older man.

Collin is destined to get a top management position in his family's mining company. He gets a company assignment to buy a piece of land for mining. To avoid causing bad feelings with the town community, the plans are kept a secret. The longer Collin stays in the little town, the more he likes the town and in particular one woman, Tommy. He now has to choose between his work and his heart.

Part of the "Secrets of the Millennium" series and narrated by acclaimed actor Orson Welles, this documentary explores primordial predictions about earth and its inhabitants. Delving into whether Biblical passages prophesize the future of Israel, the coming Apocalypse and the return of Jesus Christ, this program also asks questions such as, Is humankind alone in the universe? Has earth been visited by aliens in the ancient past?

Emmy-winning PBS documentary series "The American Experience" chronicles the dramatic highs and lows of the Kennedy dynasty, beginning with Joseph P. Kennedy's success on Wall Street, involvement in the New Deal and political missteps. As host David McCullough talks to Kennedy friends, colleagues and experts, what unfolds is a dramatic portrait of how America's most famous political family sought the highest seat in the land.

Following death-metal band Six Feet Under on their 1999-2000 tour in support of their album "Maximum Violence," this video captures the boys thundering through songs such as "Beneath a Black Sky," "Torture Killer" and "Human Target." The quartet also performs "Shortcut to Hell," "Revenge of the Zombie," "Feasting on the Blood of the Insane" and more. Behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the group's life on the road.

A small package provides a big musical experience in this video from one of reggae's most influential figures. The first Jamaican artist to achieve international stardom, Bob Marley introduced the world to the music of his country. Featuring three versions of Marley's hit "Sun Is Shining," also included are two music videos -- "The Ibiza Allstars/Island Mix" and "The Messy Boys Remix" -- and the audio track "Island Mix - Extended Version."

Think of how hard it must be to fly an F-16. Now, imagine the feat in almost complete darkness just a few hundred feet above the ground. That's the challenge that awaits test pilots Kevin Christensen and Kevin Prosser in this delicate mission. Watch the fliers as they soar at speeds of up to 500 mph, relying solely on their instruments to guide them. Alec Baldwin narrates this heart-pounding account of aviation at its most daring.

Film with a soundtrack featuring Jyothi & Kushal, Majula Gururaj and more!

Two years in the making. The film features the legendary Glen Plake and his prediction two years before the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics that Jonny Moseley would win the gold medal. He was spot on. This two year adventure ensues not only hilarity and great cinematography but an even better soundtrack to accompany it. This, quite simply, is a tribute to mogul skiing.

Useful for both skeptics and faithful Christians, this informational program presents the top five subjects that discourage belief in Christianity, countering with classic Christian responses to the issues raised. Segments focus on hypocrisy, intolerance, science, suffering and sacrifice, answering questions such as why does God permit innocent people to endure pain, how old is the Earth and are all nonbelievers condemned?

Bigfoot videos, Alien Autospy videos, Loch Ness videos, and Billy Myers' UFO films, is this footage really real? Documentary which exposes the world's greatest myths. Lance Henriksen takes an in-depth look at Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and UFO sightings. Lance Henriksen Narrates An In-Depth Look At Bigfoot,The Loch Ness Monster, The Alien Autopsy And UFO Sightings Never-before-seen footage and new technological evidence will expose the truths behind the most sensational of legends -- Bigfoot,the Loch Ness Monster, the Alien Autopsy and Flying Saucers -- in the original special. For many years, believers and sceptics have debated the fact or fiction behind films and videos supposedly showing legendary beings and unexplained phenomena -- on earth and in space. This special details the who, why and how of the most sensational material ever caught on tape. In each case, informants, experts and modern technology expose the truths behind these myths.

Chronicling the events surrounding Japan's Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, this documentary also covers Japan's strategy and order of battle, the commanders and the attack's crippling effects on the United States Pacific Fleet. Using archival footage, this film sheds critical light on the strike that sparked America's involvement in World War II and what President Roosevelt described as "a day that will live in infamy."

A convicted felon is set free by the FBI to unknowingly take part in a political assassination.

This passionate documentary follows Mickey and Negra as they train some of their most promising young proteges for the biggest tournament in amateur boxing.

Chronicles the life and work of renowned Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg

A Documentary about Alco Locomotives on the Minnesota Commercial Railway, shot from 1995-1999. This exciting video features yard switching at the Midway and Hiawatha yards. Locals that travel north to Fridley, northeast to Hugo and east to Bayport. Also you'll see transfers with long trains going north to the WC at New Brighton. Southeast to the UP at St. Paul and west to the BNSF's Northtown yard. Exciting cab rides are also featured on two Alcos and a GE, plus connecting railroads of the BNSF, UP, CP, TC&W, WC, and Amtrak.

This is part of a collection of rarely seen early avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process. "Music Of Your Own" and "Burning" originally existed as audio-only pieces on the "Thermos Explorer" album (2000), and since the audio was originally sourced from film it was later possible to recreate the stories in visual form.