All Films

Bondage Television

1999 • 10 min • Canada

A prototype for a specialty channel dedicated exclusively to bondage. BTV takes us on a sexy ride through B-action movies and Hollywood blockbusters to celebrate the joy of being all tied up.

Beyond These Walls

1999 • 7 min • Canada

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

Viva la DifferAnce

1999 • 3 min • Canada

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.

This Is Just to Say

1999 • 7 min • Canada

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.

_X_ (Prologue)

1999 • 3 min • Canada

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?

Mr. Methane Lets Rip!

1999 • 50 min

Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, Paul Oldfield is better known by his stage name Mr. Methane. He is a British flatulist or "professional farter" who uses the same technique as 19th century French flatulist Joseph Pujol AKA Le Petomane. In this video you will witness the amazing Mr Methane and his bot-tastic barking bum firing on all cylinders... You may be tempted to say Mr Methane's act stinks...but you'll probably be rolling on the floor in stitches laughing at his lavatorial japery! Those who appreciate this breath of fresh air to comedy will soon be gasping for more...

Snailfingers

1999 • 24 min • Canada

On her immigration flight to Canada, Lailey, a young Iranian woman, encounters Snailfingers, an ancient aboriginal water-spirit. When Lailey and Snailfingers make contact, their stories become intertwined and unfold simultaneously.

The Devil Lives in Hollywood

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

Amy Lockhart,1999

Candy Kisses

1999 • 3 min • Canada

Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.

I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian

1999 • 55 min

Stuart Perkin thought he knew everything about his wife, Sue. But after two years of marriage and ten years of friendship, intimacy and life experiences, the couple divorced when Sue announced she was a lesbian. In this film, Stuart documents a journey he made from Colorado to San Francisco, which took him into his past and back into the life of his ex-wife. Stuart's interviews with friends, family and Sue herself - ranging from the crass to the sublime - explore the reasons their relationship failed and how Stuart can move forward with his life.

Tunnel

1999 • 10 min

Consider what it is like to travel through an underpass, such as you might find in any city in the western world. It is an experience that most of us have had, at some time or another. Even if we have not, it is not difficult to imagine. For we all carry around with us a mental databank of generic images of the world that surrounds us, fed by popular culture and the mass media as much as by direct experience. Tunnel is intended to evoke the idea or the memory of such a journey, rather than to simulate the experience of any actual event. It is closer in feeling to the images that form in the mind while dreaming, or when thinking about what it might be like to travel through an underpass, for instance.

To Build a Better Mousetrap

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

The mousetrap of tomorrow is here today! The Merchant of Death 2000 doesn't just trap mice, it seeks out and destroys them! Another miracle of science from Blackmire Industries.

Goofy's Extreme Sports: Rock Climbing

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

Goofy grapples with equipment, balance, and an annoying announcer as he scales to new peaks and plunges.

Goofy's Extreme Sports: Wakeboarding

1999 • 2 min • United States of America

Goofy takes to the water to master the art of wakeboarding, but his attempts at difficult stunts leave him high and dry.

Blutiger Sonntag

1999 • 19 min

Philippe wants to bring his recently deceased friend Peter back to life with the help of a new virus. It doesn't take long for zombies to populate the area ... Will Thomas and his friends manage to destroy the undead?

Formule 1 - Jacques VILLENEUVE l'anticonformiste

1999 • 55 min

Space Cat

1999 • 20 min

"The film begins within Thoreauan-Brakhage territory, with black-and-white shots of leaves in a forest. Slowly, to the sounds of electronic noise, the images transform into blotchy green, yellow and purple compositions that become increasingly abstract through an array of techniques like hand-processing, painting on the film, and multiple re-photography of projected images. Sogo’s candy-colored outer space of handmade coronae takes the viewer on what feels like a bizarre, overpowering journey through the filmmaker’s own singular, labyrinthine mind." (Ed Halter)

(the daily compromise of) My Enmeshment

1999 • 7 min

In this poignant comedy about the pickle of incarnation, the soul, thwarted in its yearning for union with God, recognizing completeness closer to home, is reconciled corporeal existence. "I found myself needing to engage with emulsion without using a lens or a splice." Part 1- Growing awareness of the futility of the yearning. A perceived origin in the crystalline motivates fruitless if understandable invocation of kindred forms. Music by Dave Hewett and J. Otis with Dave Gamble Part 2- The soul's recognition of its enmeshment in matter and time, falsely termed a Fall. Music (Dumbo's humiliation by the clown before he knows that he can fly) by F. Churchill and O. Wallace Part 3- The soul, succumbing to the siren song of matter, returns home. Music (la ci darem mano from Don Giovanni) by W. Mozart, modulated J. Otis

Murderous Intent or Suicide

1999 • 11 min • South Korea

The Age Of Pisces

1999 • 2 min

Filmed in the high atlas in Morocco. 1999

Q3

1999 • 32 min

A computer-generated video work starring Mengbo as a war correspondent interviewing a computer clone in the midst of a battle. The footage is a surreal, poignant and profound exchange on the nature of militarism and violence, both real and virtual.

9006

1999 • 10 min

Video and vocals by 0rphan Drift, audio track 'Time Artificial' by Ocosi. Raindance Film Festival 1999.

Murmur 1-8

1999 • 9 min

Murmur 1-8 is a SYZYGY avatar. It is a spirit of immersion and depths, signaling or ushering in a collapse between far outside and deep within. Our avatars were elemental.

A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen

1999 • 5 min

Neurotic housewife goes mad, in the style of 20's slapstick films