All Films

Rumi

1999 • 27 min • Argentina

Images from the texts of Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet.

Sea Song

1999 • 4 min • Canada

This animated film flows through a vibrant underwater landscape, shown at night time. Sound and picture are drawn directly on film - cameraless animation.

Forest-Views

1999 • 17 min

Abstract film in which the maker processed television fuzz using software thereby creating a new visual language.

Bizarre Magazine Presents Bizarre Sex

1999 • 58 min

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

Summer in My Veins

1999 • 41 min • United States of America

A personal documentary of the director's struggle to come out with his homosexuality to his mother who is visiting him in the United States from India for his graduation.

Amazing Incredible Helicopters

1999 • 59 min

Seeming to contradict the rules of nature, the helicopter still fascinates and thrills people all over the world. This special reveals some of the newest technology employed in these amazing machines, including a new helicopter that will even fly upside down!

Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing

1999 • 26 min

"Linked together by the texturality of forgotten objects and frayed (or physically manipulated) imprinted text images, the film represents a thematic collapsing of distinct objects that further erases the bounds between image (and text) from meaning, where recursive shifting of once seemingly separate entities become alternate presentations of a visible (and invisible) continuum - a decontextualized mood piece where absence and emptiness become increasingly tactile - an impression."

Las claves de Compay Segundo

1999 • 60 min • Spain

Television interview with Cuban musician Compay Segundo.

Hot Irons

1999 • 50 min

In Detroit, hair styling isn't just a matter of personal grooming, it's a way of life, and Andrew Dosunmu's documentary Hot Irons offers an inside glimpse at Motor City hair salons that turn the tresses of their African-American clientele into remarkable works of art. Dosunmu takes his cameras to Detroit's annual "Hair Wars" competition, in which stylists compete to see who can create the wildest and most outrageous hairdo. Offering a stark contrast between the unique aesthetic of the stylists and the grinding poverty of inner city Detroit, which never fully recovered from the 1968 riots, Hot Irons shows how events like "Hair Wars" brings a sense of art and purpose to a community where both are often lacking.

Built To Spill: Live on Reverb

1999 • 25 min • United States of America

From May 30th, 1999 at Irving Plaza in NYC. Aired as part of HBO's music series, "Reverb."

Dhiava: The Autumn Journey

1999 • 51 min

The film takes place in the Pindos Mountains in North Western Greece. We meet two brothers, Tsiogas and Steryios Anthoulis with their flocks of sheep on the mountains, then the third brother Vassilis in the village of Samarina. Tsiogas and Vassilis tell through interview the history of the Dhiava and its significance for them today, in a Greece that is changing rapidly. The journey is the last remaining part of the tradition of transhumance that used to be commonplace all over Europe.

To the Beach

1999 • 10 min

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.

Learn to Ride Like a Pro

1999 • 60 min • Canada

Mountain Bike video instruction with Bruce Spicer : Bruce shows you how to ride gnarly singletrack, navigate switchbacks, launch big drops, hurdle obstacles and ride steeps, plus much more!

Stage Fright

1999 • 5 min

The curtains are drawn, a clown stands in the spotlight, the reception is dismal. Before s/he can even begin to perform, debilitating fear takes over. Both sad and humorous, this film explores how one can be manipulated by the depths of fear.

Yo Zone

1999 • 35 min

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.

Dirty Handz - Destruction on Paris

1999 • 50 min • France

Released in 1999, this 50-minute video opens the trilogy. It focuses only on graffiti in the railway world. There are various activities such as the interior degradation of metro wagons (bomb marker and marker, window scratches), but also that of subway station. You can also see different scenes where the exteriors of metros, RER and trains SNCF are painted. Long passages are dedicated to the exhibition of his works when the trains roll. We can also see how graffiti artists get into train depots. The various crew (strips of graffiti) that can be seen in activities are 132, GAP, SDK and CLM.

Stereoscope

1999 • 9 min

Soho Eckstein is portrayed as interconnected with both images of the social injustices and upheaval of South Africa and his own sort of primal, fractured existence.

Nipi (Voice)

1999 • 51 min

From the Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers) Series. A film by Isuma Productions.

Kansas Avenue

1999 • 2 min • Mexico

Dorothy doesn't reach her dream of the Emerald City. Rather, she will have already been over the rainbow by the time she arrives at the worst corner in Kansas.

TotalitÉ

1999 • 7 min

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.

Getting Dressed

1999 • 5 min • United States of America

This video is from a series of photographic and video works that attempt to imagine what a body would be like as pure physicality, just mass and weight, without a self, without an identity, without individuating characteristics or even structure. How would you react if you encountered such a body? Would you recognize it or would it be completely alien? Would you embrace it or push it away?

Prostian Neurosis

1999 • 5 min

"This film is a collaboration with friend-filmmaker, Mia Roozen Separately filming footage, unknown to the other, and splicing it together to create an abstract prosaic, a symphony of sight and sound, a subconscious exploration of neurotic origins"

Princess Plum P-udding

1999 • 35 min • Japan

In 19th century Europe, photographs of the “grotesque” such as deformed bodies and corpses were popular and enthusiastically traded and collected. In contemporary Japan, a video about voluptuous little Sayomi who loves to collect Mickey Mouse paraphernalia—how do people look at her as she sways to Baroque in a white negligee? Do modern-day cavaliers court her? Will her domineering mother save her from evil eyes? The director hands her the video camera and attempts to present the world through her perspective. She dresses her up in extravagance, shows off her glamorous presence, and proves that she is no sissy object or victim—she is larger than life.

The Third Eye

1999 • 5 min • Japan

Ice/ink on white, then into black and red explosive figures, a finger appears.