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Repulsive Force: Ma Gen Ma

Repulsive Force: Ma Gen Ma

1999 • 45 min • China
Documentary on Feng Tianyue, who developed a computer input method "码根码" (Ma Gen Ma) for Chinese and used an extreme method to promote it by doing graffiti on Beijing streets.
Graffiti

Graffiti

1999 • 9 min • Ukraine
The naive, pure protest of two young souls against the dullness of the world.
Myth Makers 44: Donald Tosh

Myth Makers 44: Donald Tosh

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom
Donald Tosh joined the Doctor Who production team as Script Editor (then titled Story Editor) in 1965. He and John Wiles faced the formidable task of taking over from Verity Lambert and building on the success she had made the series. Thrown in ‘at the deep end’, Donald found himself faced with a cast under pressure as William Hartnell’s health deteriorated and his performance suffered. Despite these problems, Donald supervised some memorable stories including Galaxy 4 and The Dalek’s Master Plan. He was also the first to consider ways of writing William out of the series…
Just for You

Just for You

1999 • 6 min
Ten-channel installation. Videos capture people of different ages and identities singing the song, 'Happy Birthday,' in different styles. Each video shows the close-up of the face while singing. The scenes switch between solo singing and singing in unison, and ends with an elegant and standard children's choir.
Endless Dancing

Endless Dancing

1999 • 33 min
Eight-channel installation. Shows a waltz-dancing scene recorded simultaneously with 8 camcorders, taken from 8 different angles in a ballroom (Set A); and clips from Revolutionary songs from the 1970s and popular music of the 1990s (Set B).
Angstel

Angstel

1999 • 19 min • France
Angstel is a film-performance. The character was born one boring afternoon. He embodied the energy we had to spare, as much as he embodied our inability to take action. A manifesto of the limits to be overcome, Angstel was constructed through a series of disorganized performances in public spaces, culminating in a written and staged performance (which was ultimately lost).
La Taza de Té de Papá

La Taza de Té de Papá

1999 • 13 min
A woman recalls a special event from her childhood, when she sat at the dining room table in her home, enjoying a rather unusual and repetitive feast. It included the usual mashed potatoes, guava juice, and Dad's mysterious and intriguing cup of tea.
Crossroads

Crossroads

1999 • 15 min • Ukraine
An industrial documentary.
Rockets and Fates

Rockets and Fates

1999 • 3 min • Ukraine
Dnipro local television in the 90s as a hidden gem, an outlet and complete creative freedom for several avant-garde geniuses, lost in the annals of history, the peak of editing and directing ingenuity.
BREAK QUEEN 飯島みゆき「Bitter&Sweet」

BREAK QUEEN 飯島みゆき「Bitter&Sweet」

1999 • 30 min • Japan
1999 release
Emily's Eyes

Emily's Eyes

1999 • 52 min • Australia
John and Jenny Wu are a Chinese couple who run a takeaway pizza shop in Sydney's inner west. Their four-year-old daughter, Emily, was born with profound disabilities. EMILY'S EYES is a poignant and compelling story of love and survival. At a time when tolerance in Australia is being eroded by a proportion of society frightened by inevitable change it is also a passionate plea for acceptance of a difference and a celebration of social change and cultural diversity.
Mountain Rivals

Mountain Rivals

1999 • 52 min • Netherlands
In the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa, the black eagle rules the skies. The solitary caracal is a night hunter and one of the most efficient cats on earth. The rival predators compete for the same prey. When an early spring brings the promise of abundance, a pair of black eagles takes a gamble. With a two month-old eaglet still on the nest, Emoyeni and Quatele mate again. For the first time ever recorded, black eagles attempt to breed twice in one season. The second clutch will be born as the summer grows hotter and hotter. The following winter, we return to find that nature has restored itself. Our pair of eagles is on the nest with not two but three newly hatched chicks. Last season, they were the first black eagles known to attempt double-brooding. Now, they are the first on record to have three chicks in one clutch. Emoyeni and Quatele are very ambitious birds.
Mute (Silence)

Mute (Silence)

1999 • 45 min • Japan
A video filmed in the Specimen Collection Room at Chulalongkorn University Hospital, showing various specimens with different deformities.
Paris From Behind

Paris From Behind

1999 • 25 min
A detective-mystery movie adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'Purloined Letter' that purposely forgets the central premise of the story: the invisibility of hiding something obviously in plain sight. Using anything and everyone at hand - an art dealer, a fashion editor, an actress, a poet, a museum of natural history, a junkyard dog, pigeons, a defunct ferry - the video takes the potential impatience that lurks behind every act of plotting and atomizes it into a frayed network of fleeting thoughts and impulses, a delicate narrative that ends like a magic trick in a puff of smoke.
Jet Li: Li-Thal Weapon

Jet Li: Li-Thal Weapon

1999 • 59 min
Hollywood martial arts star Jet Li is profiled in a series of interviews. In footage from 'The Jay Leno Show' and various Hong Kong television shows, Jet discusses his childhood, fame, fortune and film-making. Also included are clips from 'Lethal Weapon 4'.
Aretha Franklin - Live at Park West 1985

Aretha Franklin - Live at Park West 1985

1999 • 58 min
Aretha Franklin's seductive voice and irrepressible charm have been delighting audiences for more than three decades. Now, from the critically acclaimed PBS series "Soundstage," Aretha gives one of her most memorable performances and demonstrates why "The Queen of Soul" is loved throughout the world. Songs: Love is the Key, Love All the Hurt Away, Day Dreaming, I Say a Little Prayer, See Saw, Rock Steady, Something He Can Feel, Think, Ain't No Way, Respect, Sweet Bitter Love, It's My Turn, Freeway of Love, Didn't It Rain, Jump to It.
Cabbage Patch Kids: Vernon's Christmas

Cabbage Patch Kids: Vernon's Christmas

1999 • 45 min • United States of America
The Cabbage Patch Kids are putting on a Christmas play at school and Vernon's younger cousins Amy and Henry are visiting for the holidays. When Missy & Prissy inadvertently imply that Santa is on vacation and will not show up for Christmas, Amy and Henry go to Vernon for reassurance. Vernon promises them that Santa will visit them on Christmas night. As time goes on Vernon becomes worried that Santa may be delayed and decides, with the help of the other kids to hatch a plan to ensure that Amy and Henry do see Santa.
New York: The Power and the People (1898–1918)

New York: The Power and the People (1898–1918)

1999 • 52 min
As the city starts building the skyscrapers that would make its skyline iconic, 10 million immigrants arrive in New York. The immigrants lived in frequently squalid conditions and worked in the city's most undesirable jobs. In 1911, when 146 female Jewish and Italian immigrants died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the city was largely unified in the successful demand for legislation on new factory safety reforms and labor laws.
Music Of Your Own

Music Of Your Own

1999 • 2 min
This is a collection of rarely seen early avi films - primarily using relatively primitive techniques of scratch video then Adobe Premiere editing, resulting in a particular lo-fi look which isn't particularly intentional, but reflective of the process. "Music Of Your Own" and "Burning" originally existed as audio-only pieces on the "Thermos Explorer" album (2000), and since the audio was originally sourced from film it was later possible to recreate the stories in visual form.
The World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed

The World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed

1999 • 42 min
Bigfoot videos, Alien Autospy videos, Loch Ness videos, and Billy Myers' UFO films, is this footage really real? Documentary which exposes the world's greatest myths. Lance Henriksen takes an in-depth look at Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and UFO sightings. Lance Henriksen Narrates An In-Depth Look At Bigfoot,The Loch Ness Monster, The Alien Autopsy And UFO Sightings Never-before-seen footage and new technological evidence will expose the truths behind the most sensational of legends -- Bigfoot,the Loch Ness Monster, the Alien Autopsy and Flying Saucers -- in the original special. For many years, believers and sceptics have debated the fact or fiction behind films and videos supposedly showing legendary beings and unexplained phenomena -- on earth and in space. This special details the who, why and how of the most sensational material ever caught on tape. In each case, informants, experts and modern technology expose the truths behind these myths.
Multiplication Rap

Multiplication Rap

1999 • 50 min
Everyone loves rapping along and learning multiplication with D.J. Doc Roc, the Hip Hop Hamster. Positive lyrics, fun music, and high-energy action make these multiplication rap songs irresistible. Multiplication facts through 12 are easy to learn and remember with a different song for each set of rap facts. Also includes an informative "What is Multiplication" section and skip counting songs.
Pillars of Faith - Martyrs to Christianity

Pillars of Faith - Martyrs to Christianity

1999 • 48 min
For nearly two thousand years, history has recorded the dramatic and moving stories of those who were prepared to pay the ultimate price for their faith. For these martyrs to Christ, nothing could deflect them from their chosen faith - even as they faced the hangman's rope or the licking flames of a burning fire.
The Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls

1999 • 50 min
Even as scientists work diligently to authenticate the Dead Sea Scrolls, a historical and momentous find for archaeologists, questions surface about their true origin. Who wrote them? Did they truly know Jesus? And what do the scrolls mean for modern-day Christianity? This riveting documentary aims to find the answers to these and many other questions and shares new information about this important archaeological artifact.
Organics

Organics

1999 • 16 min • Austria
Organics begins with the observation of a Zorro mask and a distorted / veiled woman's face. A shot of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris develops into a women's foot scene which leads to a longer kiss scene punctuated by an explosion, falling leaves, a tank, touching hands, a hand in a plaster cast, bunches of grass and a dark cellar door. After observation of a skeleton detail, the found footage actors become involved in slowly feeling each others body. A man swings a necklace back and forth like a pendulum, a head being bandaged, attempts at face make-up, details of operations... in a flickering, pumping screen light until, in the end, "Hey Joe" centres the picture briefly with his penis. After the hand movements which follow, the veiled face of a woman appears again, longer this time, to be observed by "Hey Joe" until the film floodlight is turned off.