Cinematic Era: 1999 Vintage

Young gay and lesbian Norwegians share their experiences of coming out. As a counterpoint, the candid opinions of a number of their less enlightened peers are also included.

a live concert tour by Meat Loaf which one concert was played on the channel VH1. Meat Loaf told humorous stories of his career as a singer and how he unfolded into rock stardom. The DVD version has two additional songs. Some songs on the CD are taken from Meat Loaf's Hard Rock Live performance (also for VH1). Others were taken from the pre-show soundcheck.

This tale that takes place in a village where people are dying randomly. The Igwe calls a meeting of the elders and the witch doctor. One elder has a story to tell: The story of Amadioha. The secrets of the story hold the key their misfortune.

A documentary film following several years in the life of Jan Potměšil who has become a very popular actor at an early age, representing the type of a young sporty intellectual. After a serious car crash in 1989, he ended up on a wheelchair. He was 23 years old at the time. After a year of rehabilitation, he returned to the stage. Excelling in “Flowers for Algernon”, he continuously acts in the production in front of sell-out crowds across the country. He also lives his personal life, experiencing new loves and breakups, is engaged in civic affairs and returns to the hospital now and then. The film aims to give a non-pathetic image of a life lived to the full despite adversity.

An animated tragic comedy about a man with an unfortunate problem.

Super8 short film by Klaus Schreier.

Documentary by Janko Baljak.

"I began this project with no concept other than to see what might come of shooting some film over the course of a year. I ended up with a sort of travelogue consisting of ten sections edited in the order in which they were shot, beginning in spring and ending in winter. Some of the footage documents my travels over that time period, some documents travelers visiting places I called home at the time of filming. Additionally, some of the footage is made with actors playing travelers for the camera. Towards the end of the edit I decided to throw in some older footage I had in order to round out the picture. Originally a silent film, I have added a soundtrack mix by Sean Byrne of Bugskull." -SD

One day, the elephants stage a protest by jumping off tall buildings.

A young married couple living year round on Cape Cod face the winter season uncertain of their future, apart or together.

Blood flows and bullets fly in this hyper violent film from director Charles Cullen. Fighting crime in a city of death, a destructive bounty hunter must contend with an array of fearsome and surreal villains in a ferocious attempt to rid the city of the criminal element.

Film by Koji Miyashita, 1999.

"Bri(n) d'images is composed in the form of a mosaic. Playing on the transparency effects of the film and the color inks used, it is more like a stained glass film. This work of plastic composition is accompanied by music itself made of fragments from 'Amériques' by Varèse" — Vincent Deville & Pip Chodorov

Oscar winning animator, Borge Ring (Anna and Bella), uses his expertise in animation to weave the tale of a young boy from a happy family who falls victim to a drug dealer who exploits the boy's curiosity about drugs with a disastrous result. Without the use of dialogue we see the boy exists inside a transparent bubble. His peers grow up to active social lives, while he continues to fly inside his bubble, isolated, within an insular world that the boy's increasingly desperate parents are unable to penetrate.

Somewhere in a subtropical country white visitors crowd around dark-skinned plantation workers emptying their harvest baskets. They look curious, as if wanting to test the quality of the tea leaves. Everywhere tourists take out their cameras ­ whether in front of large animals in the wild or camel riders, whether in the face of decorated human bodies or daily work routines. Now and again they look into the camera themselves. For later, for when they will proudly show their 'exotic' finds at home. This posing contains a model of western travels and picture making which is over a century old. The fascinated gaze on the foreigners fixes them in pre-formed frames. Lisl Ponger follows the trail of that gaze by taking amateur found footage material and linking it together in new ways.

For decades, agent Werner Mauss managed to work in secret. There were no film recordings, no photos of him. He even managed to keep his name secret for a long time.

Wayang Golék is the rod-puppet theater of Sunda (West Java), Indonesia, which incorporates a vibrant mixture of storytelling, songs, and instrumental music. This program introduces the Wayang Golék tradition, focusing on puppeteer, musician, and puppet-maker Atik Rasta and his family. The first part of the video features footage from an all-night performance, interwoven with interviews with the artists. The second part examines the music of the accompanying gamelan ensemble.

Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Dusty Springfield.

This documentary presents different perspectives around a boxing gym in the Bronx: the founder, who hoped to keep troubled boys off the streets; his protege; and two young trainees.

In 1964's Freedom Summer, a white housewife from Chicago was killed fighting for Civil Rights, leaving behind a young son. This is the story of his journey, as a man, to find out who his mother was and why she died.

Twenty-something West Cordova is trapped in a waking nightmare. His overbearing mother is bent on molding him into a MD. His crazy, "wannabe-a-supermodel," Japanese girlfriend craves blonde hair and round eyes. And his long lost, jock brother just returned home having traded his high tops for high heels. If young "Doctor" Cordova can pass pre-med, mend his fractured family and revive his romance, he may just discover the cure for his own unraveling identity.

Find out the truth about the terrible fate of three documentary filmmakers who journeyed deep into the woods in search of the legendary Hair Witch... and never came back. One week later, their footage was found... then lost again. Then somebody found it and bootlegged it on the Internet. Then it got lost again, and then it was found and sold to Hard Copy and then they lost it and we found it.

A boy witnesses his father lose his temper in the face of a stranger.

One morning a man see in his coffee cup a world of ancient ritual scenes. After that, he goes to his job...

An overview of the museum's collection and the man responsible for it.

Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing ever seems to work out the way Wade hopes it will. At least she has a job (calling out Bingo numbers), a loving family (although her father's new wife is just a few years older than Wade), and a social life (if answering an emergency hotline on a Saturday night counts). So what if her sister gets all of the dates and her father is finally getting the son he always wanted? Wade is armed with her camcorder, and the result is a honest and painfully humorous video diary that captures a changing American family in the 1990s.

Chicago comedy about a mad family.

An accumulation of 180 different perspectives of a bank’s skyscraper. Each perspective takes just one frame.At first there is chaos, then systems of visual organisation develop. The sound consists of a sampled phrase meaning: “Our power is boundless and our means are inexhaustible”. The editing plays with the relationship between the words and the images creating different meanings in breaking the succession of the words.

Hermann Maier regenerates on the ergometer. Alexander Wurz regenerates with jogging. Roland Düringer regenerates on the stage.

The story is based on Czech fairy tales, which depict water sprites as creatures indistinguishable from humans. They can help humans and form deeper relationships with them. A humanized water sprite also helps the fearful Florianek find happiness. However, as it turns out, Florianek would not have won his beloved without his own courage...

"I can't believe that I have to start every day from a state so feverish, full of intentions, even before doing anything." Fragments of a performer's body and movements that comes from an interior state of feeling: indistinct state of langor before standing up, before dancing, before going on stage... The need of a condition in which you are just thinking, with an empty mind. Needing space, needing silence, needing to calm down (going back to sleep, damn!).

In 1987 in Arkansas two high school seniors were brutally murdered, their bodies strewn across train tracks to be dismembered by a speeding train. Upon further investigation, the evidence of this crime leads to the heart of a massive C.I.A. drug and weapons smuggling operation based in Mena, Arkansas, and raises questions about past C.I.A. involvement in drug and weapons trafficking worldwide.

Starlake Amphitheater, Burgettstown, PA - June 12, 1999. Pro-shot video with soundboard sound. The DVD copy I've seen from this show is from a VG quality VHS source that looks to be several generations down, but I've seen some excellent quality copies listed (can't confirm these though). The soundboard audio from this show that is circulating in CD-R format was taken from this video. Set List: Intro-Sabbath Medley, War Pigs , Bassically -> N.I.B. , Fairies Wear Boots, After Forever , Electric Funeral , Sweet Leaf , Into The Void , Iommi/Nicholls intro, Snowblind , Black Sabbath , Iron Man , Embryo -> Children Of The Grave , Supernaut [intro] -> Paranoid .

Félix Trinidad vs. Oscar De La Hoya, billed as The Fight of the Millennium, was a boxing match held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF's world Welterweight championships.

A killer in a pig mask goes after anyone who gets too close to his processing shack.

A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual S&M relationship with her lover, and "evil" queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames.

An episode of the anthology series 'Alfabeto italiano'. Meditation about the concept of Fatherland and its evolution through the last 50 years comprised of footage from RAI archives.

A digitally engineered life form struggles with a belligerant operating system. In a skewed look at human/computer relations a belligerent digital light blinds our hero into desperate measures. The only way to stop the incomprehensible blinding pain is to opt for physical disablement. Meticulously hand-made on Silicon Graphics computers and Alias-Wavefront software.

The life and work of composer Geraldo Pereira.

From the Sanskrit, ‘gentle gazing brings liberation’, the title is also the name of the particular body of water which is the image-subject of the film. Landscape as inscape, not inertly present but beckoning an active perception; a seeing and a seeing into.

Music for Hangovers is a live album and DVD by the rock band Cheap Trick. The album is a compilation from the band's four nights at The Metro in Chicago, Illinois in 1998. On each of the four nights, Cheap Trick played one of their first four albums in their entirety to open the show, coinciding with the reissues of the albums. Track listing "Oh Claire" "Surrender" "Hot Love" "I Can't Take It" "I Want You To Want Me" "Taxman, Mr. Thief" "Mandocello" "Oh Caroline" "How Are You?" "If You Want My Love" "Dream Police" "So Good To See You" "The Ballad of T.V. Violence" "Gonna Raise Hell"

After witnessing an attack on his boss, member Takeshi froze, unable to act amidst the escalating conflict. Six years later, he'd sunk to being a pimp-like thug. But when the current boss's mistress suddenly crashes into his room, Takeshi's fate takes a drastic turn.

Stan Monteith reveals the shadow rulers that cause wars and revolutions; the origins of communism and socialism, and their covert motivation to create world government. He also explains the Rhodes Scholar secret society created in 1891 by Cecil Rhodes.

Other than Freud, no psychologist has been so discussed, critiqued and, at times, maligned as B.F. Skinner. Using both archival and new film, this video takes a new look at who the man was, and what he really said in his twenty books. Like other thinkers who broke new ground, Skinner had to invent his own vocabulary to describe the phenomena he was studying. In this film, his terms are introduced in context so the student understands how they were intended to be used and the research that produced them. The film lays to rest some myths and credits Skinner with contributions not often attributed to him. Understanding the complex man behind his work enables students to better evaluate the importance and relevance of the work he inspired. Murray Sidman, Ph.D., colleague and thoughtful practitioner of behavioral analysis, narrates.

Mason was born a girl and has for some time taken hormones to develop his masculine traits. A documentary about the gender-bending in San Francisco.