Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

The centre of Britain's codebreaking activities during the Second World War, the manor house at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, codenamed Station X, was Winston Churchill's best kept secret. Not only did the work done there help defeat the Nazis and win the War, it made a major contribution to the invention and development of the computer and the digital technology which has come to dominate the world. With contributions from historians, technical experts and many of the original people in all roles, from the most fiendishly technical to the most mundane, Station X is brought back to life after more than half a century.

Forbidden Fear portrays a deaf gay man with an obsession with oranges - a metaphor for coming out

Cousin Mike explores what happens when you start fooling around with the conventions of commercial porn. The video was partly a response to a challenge from Toronto's NOW magazine -- take a porn-making course being offered by a women's sex store, make a short porn tape and write about it. The future of porn? Or dead end?

Borrowing images from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, LeFave revisits one of the most famous murder scenes in film history. In this case however, the search is for the absent female body. Is the female gaze dead?

A young gay man deals with the aftermath of a sexual assault.

A futuristic experimental film depicting AIDS paranoia.

The film features excerpts from conferences on the preservation of Holocaust remembrance, as well as authentic documentary footage from Lithuanian Jewish life.

A tragic accident which occurred September 8, 1860 on Lake Michigan took the lives of almost three hundred people. This presentation provides the complete history of this ship along with a song specially written and performed for this video recording.

Scenic tour of Colorado as seen from it's historic mountain railways. Includes the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad roundhouse, and riding the Leadville, Colorado & South Railroad, Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway and ski trains.

Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the work and engineering required to put traveling shows aboard railroad cars. The World Circus Museum at Baraboo, Wisconsin, the Great Circus Parade at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The James E. Strates Carnival, which travels the Eastern U.S., are featured.

The video « Face, the 99 Names of God » lists the 99 designations of God as they can be found in religious scriptures and as commonly inventoried by Islamic theology, and shows them one after the other on the screen, using the technique of crossfading. The belief is that reciting these 99 names is beneficial for the faithful who make the effort and that it allows them to access the perception of the essence of divinity. In the foreground, the video shows the names written in western alphabet, along with their translation. The background is a green backdrop where the names appear written in Arabic calligraphy.

Summer of 1999. Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. After the NATO air strikes on the city, a group of young people are playing football. It seems like everything is in order.

In Softer Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms, Mik’s characteristically confused, quasi-mechanically moving ‘extras’ move slowly through a building’s interior until, bit by bit, in collapses into a ruin – a little like the structures through which visitors to Mik’s work must often venture.

It tells the story of a woman who recalls her childhood at night.

A short documentary covering the battle at Gettysburg and the speech given by Abraham Lincoln.

Film by performance artist Song Dong from the Wen Pulin Chinese Avant-Garde Art Archive.

The stories of a group of students in the Beijing Film Academy.

A study on celluloid of the Siegessäule in Berlin, a series of furtive views and images. A cubist vision reduces a golden statue, by summing up its fragments, to the mere material and sculptural presence. Punctuated by interruptions in space and time, the absence of a constant visual flow makes us wait for the next image-- Retinal relief.

There are various pressures in Kampot's life. For example, he hopes that his wife will help him to have a son after six consecutive daughters; he is upset by the bank loan he owes for buying a tractor, and he is also worried about working outside. The son was not disappointed with the big money ... However, Kampot will not be overwhelmed by these troubles. Because life brought him many good friends, pleasant sunshine and quiet nights, under the blue clouds of the Tibetan plateau, spring harvest and autumn harvest, occasionally drinking and gambling with friends, and chanting songs, although the days are not rich, but they can find fun. When his wife finally gave birth to another son, Kampot gratefully praised nature and life from the bottom of his heart.

A young man has left his home village in Hunan Province for Beijing, to make a living fluffing cotton of old quilts and cushions. He lives in a makeshift roadside shack and waits for customers to arrive. The filmmaker, a student at the Beijing Film Academy, befriends the young migrant and begins to record his daily life. The video shows him in his frustration and loneliness at his destitute life in the big city. An old hometown friend, now a college student, is not terribly happy to meet him again. Poverty and power relations within his family limit his ambitions and memories of an old girlfriend leave him confused.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's third video art film. About a poet who had influenced a generation and was completely obliterated. Due to his special identity and the fate closely related to the turbulent times, the description of the characters inevitably does not involve history. But the author's interest is obviously not here, not in the poet's life experience and the social significance it may reveal. He used a variety of materials, including some symbolic historical images, old photos, interviews, and subtitles, to present the poet ’s life history and its background; he also inserted a scene drama performance: the index finger poem "Mad Dog" Obtained a visual interpretation. Through this absurd parable of survival, the author expressed his understanding of a poet and his destiny.

"Within a field of black, rows of colored pinpoint lights fly towards the screen and whiz past each side, evoking any number of scenarios: an airport's landing strip, streetlamps passing by on a nighttime drive, a science-fiction jaunt through hyperspace, or the hallucinations of a mushroom trip. These luminous atoms serve as the ultimate reduction of Fogel's artmaking: the creation of hypnotic realms of light, which seduce and enrapture viewers, leading them elsewhere, and within." —Ed Halter

8mm film by Glen Fogel blown up to 16mm

This short documentary about the history and tourism in Brunei was produced by Bruneian Promotion and Development Division & Tourism Unit, Ministry Industry and Primary Resources in collaboration with Asean Promotion Centre Japan.

Edited by Sue Wrbican, interviews by Julie Martin

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Noah Laracy-directed short film.

La bronco colorada is a very good action movie.

A stripped-down visual sonata, in which elements of Lange's habitual cinematic universe (wall, wasteland, city square, cars ...) are captured by a camera more 'documentary' than demiurgic (as opposed to the transformation of energy and vision to be found in his later films).The filmic process used is, however, no less rigorous. Urban prison transportation was filmed from the inside of a moving vehicle and is composed of lateral travelling shots, which move consistently forward, while swinging from left to right with a varying degree of acceleration. There is no double-exposure or editing-in-camera; the background consists of walls, parks, wastegrounds, stations and platforms. These compositions in movement display various degrees of depth of field; speed decreases as we retreat, diffracted by the systematic presence of the grills and bars separating us from more distant motifs.

Memory Eye is partly a personal diary and partly a visual meditation on birth. During a train trip I slip into slumber and am projected into the neither-dream-nor-reality-zone, where this short film takes place. This voyage is woven contemplation… deep, intimate, sensorial, pre-natal, pre-image contemplation.

In the film Girl is Innocent Arturas Raila used material from the Art Department archive of the autumn semester review of works by the students of Vilnius' M. K. Ciurlionis Art School held on 30 October 1998. The film presents the work of the examination board dealing with artistic and pedagogical issues.

A video featuring a trio of professional yo-yoers, dubbed "Team ProYo," as they exhibit their arsenal of tricks.

A simple question by a pretty woman to a male passenger makes him ponder why she asked it.

A boy gets trapped in an abandoned factory and tries to discover a way to freedom.

1999, 4:43 min, color, sound

Directed by Raymond Salvatore Harmon

Mary Patiernio set out to make a documentary about what she thought might be the last few years of her brother’s life when she found out about his HIV-positive status. However, as the title suggests, things didn’t quite pan out as she expected. Beginning with the video footage from her brother’s surprise marriage to his female chiropractor, following his break up with boyfriend Carlo, the documentary (which was five years in the making), cleverly unwinds to tell one of those stories you simply wouldn’t believe in a fictional film.

Trying the surrealist notion of automatism as a practice of exploring the mysterious zone where light and non-light mingle in an unstable and fertile equilibrium.

The reflections of a young woman on her balcony, shaking her laundry. The private thoughts of this woman are drowned in her own delirium, which is accentuated and framed by the film’s repetitive imagery. The camera slowly zooms out to reveal the urban décor in which the film was made. The anonymous facades of the surrounding apartment blocks push us to imagine that behind each one of these buildings hides a collection of unique lifestyles and thoughts. The artist brings this to light through a strange and almost sad sense of humor.