All Films

Shining Pearl of the Snowland: China Tibetan Culture Exhibition

1999 • 32 min

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

Kau Faito'o: Traditional Healers of Tonga

1999 • 27 min • Tonga

This is a documentary which not only shows the ancient traditional art form of healing, but also tries to capture the essence of being a traditional healer in an ever-changing environment. Traditional healers are shown collecting, preparing and administering herbal remedies that they have passed down from one generation to the next. Healers discuss where, why and how they gained their knowledge and why they choose to carry on age-old customs and practices despite the fact that Tonga is becoming a nation increasingly dependent on western medicine. Tonga's traditional healers are adapting to niches such as prenatal care and physical therapy. Interspersed throughout the film are beautiful scenes of water, agriculture, rainforest and people, all of which comprise current island life in the Kingdom of Tonga.

And the Bamboo Blooms

1999 • 21 min • India

This film is a study on the relationship between the tribal and the bamboo as a relationship from birth to death. It investigates further into the flowering of bamboo in Manipur and Mizoram which has got environmental, economic and political dimensions.

Banned: Crashing Thru the Century

1999 • 60 min • United States of America

Follow the cameras as you witness first hand never before seen footage of the chilling, the forbidden, the shocking reality of death and misfortune at its worst. Although this is exactly what the networks don't want you to see, here it is right before your eyes. This is not just Halloween Drama. This is Red Hot Reality. The Grim Reaper with devilish conclusions. So be careful considering yourself welcome to this forbidden zone.

Pride in Puerto Rico

1999 • 17 min

In 1991 Puerto Ricans held their first-ever LGBTQ Pride march. Eight years later, director Jorge Oliver documented the 1999 Pride March, now an annual event on the island. Together with footage from the festivities are interviews with prominent Puerto Rican activists, including the first openly gay Puerto Rican candidate for the House of Representatives, working for social change. Pride in Puerto Rico also celebrates the strength of the community while also addressing the ongoing struggle against discrimination and ignorance.

Extracts

1999 • 5 min

Short by the collective Carloni & Franceschetti.

Shadow Procession

1999 • 7 min

In KENTRIDGE’s cross-disciplinary, cross-media world of artistic creation, images are not merely background supporting characters for theatre or installations, but are seen as an important intermediary to understanding the world. Taking Plato’s ‘Allegory of the Cave’ as an example, he feels that the prisoners in the cave believed the shadows on the wall represented reality not because they were controlled by hallucinations, but because silhouettes projected onto walls by firelight were the beginning of mankind’s understanding of the meaning of the world.

Family

1999 • 15 min • United States of America

A fusion of first person documentary and experimental art video, Family details the coming out experiences of the videomaker Foery—from discussing his sexuality on Philadelphia’s public radio show, "Gaydreams," at age 18, to finding an influential gay man on the internet, to ultimately coming out to his father in a tense on-camera interview.

Nothing, Nobody, Nowhere

1999 • 10 min

16mm film by Zack Stiglicz

All the Way... A Decade of Song

1999 • 45 min

All the Way... A Decade of Song is the second one-off American television special by Canadian singer Celine Dion that was broadcast by CBS on 24 November 1999. The special was a promotion for her first English-language greatest hits album of the same name, All the Way... A Decade of Song. The special was filmed on 7 October 1999 at the reopening of Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Chile: My neighbor is a torturer

1999 • 43 min

In the 1970s, Colonel Moren Brito ran Villa Grimaldi, one of the main torture centers of the DINA, the political police. Today, he leads a discreet life in a residential area of Santiago. But his past is catching up with him. At the local supermarket, he is stopped by one of his former victims. In Chile, as elsewhere, the scars will only heal once justice has been served.

Mohican Cop

1999 • 28 min

A Mohican Cop with a microchip implanted in his brain is being hunted down by an evil organization run by a cyborg.

Luz

1999 • 8 min • United States of America

Childish wonderment gets a fresh treatment in this gentle portrait of a young girl, who wanders, like Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, through the post-apocalyptic world around her.

Left Handed

1999 • 18 min • Mexico

This is not only the story of everyday life in the big cities; it is a reflection on the change of human, social and aesthetic values.

The Beast People

1999 • 38 min

Bathe / The Discovery / The Birthing / Leg / The Larva / Hallucinations

Letter to Emma

1999 • 52 min

The premature death of a 12-year-old girl, Emma, moved the filmmaker to reunite a group he had filmed ten years before. Filmed both as children then as young adults, the film questions the very nature of what it means to be a teenager.

Marriage

1999 • 5 min

Using a mirroring technique, the bride and groom appear as floating cyclops, or one-eyed creatures. A contemplative piece which visually de-construct the ceremony of marriage.

Static

1999 • 6 min

Degenerated video and sound collage.

What About Us?

1999 • 15 min

A lonely HIV+ man sleeps with an HIV- man. Although they had safe sex, when the HIV- finds out his date's status he panics and then both react badly. Together they must decide if the realtionship can continue.

Monica's Trip To The Moon

1999 • 50 min • Australia

Monica's Trip To The Moon

Energy Energy

1999 • 7 min

A found footage film is a collage of documentary and training films from the first half of the 20th century. What connects them is the idea of progress and technological development and exploitation of the natural and human resources. The film is congenially complemented by the mechanical rhythms by a French composer Pierre Bastien.

Renaissance

1999 • 9 min

A film of lyric abstration, with spirituality as its subject matter...

Voidoid

1999 • 41 min

Janice Inskeep's mind-bending ACTV late night classic "Voidoid".

Barry Hilton (the cousin): Live (& switched on)

1999 • 57 min

Barry Hilton's First Stand-up Special, Recorded live at Berties - Randburg Waterfront!