All Films

Vacancy

1999 • 14 min

Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as old as the filmmaker. Segments of amateur footage and of feature films shot on location in the early sixties are inserted in his 1998 travelogue. The utopian city as represented in "Vacancy" is a place abandoned from its inhabitants, a museum kept alive by its staff only.

Excerpts from a Work in Progress (Undesirables)

1999 • 12 min

A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started with a casual comment made by Stan Brakhage, must have been way back in the early 1970s. It stuck in my mind. Now that I think about it, Brakhage may have meant this as a joke. He said, “Someday Hollywood will probably make a film about us,” ‘us’ meaning the experimental filmmakers “and I wonder which actors will play us?” Think about that first of all: the idea that Hollywood would make a film about experimental filmmakers is totally ridiculous. The fact that one would think about which actor was going to play me at some time in the future, I think that’s very funny. Eventually it germinated in my mind and I thought it was an interesting idea… A film about experimental filmmakers, especially in the very formative period, approximately 1968 to 1972.

The Uninvited

1999 • 10 min

A French student moves into an old flat previously occupied by a reclusive old woman in this creepy short. She awakes one night to find herself scratched and bleeding, attacked by one of the wooden carvings left by the previous tenant. Bizarre events multiply, climaxing in a tour de force of animation and live action.

Magic: the Gathering - Starter Series Instructional Video

1999 • 27 min

This instructional video takes you deep into the Magic: The Gathering universe, teaching you step by step how to play the world's most popular trading card game. It's packed with all the tips and strategies you need for a fast start. Removing this video from the case is like opening Pandora's box: unimaginable monsters with razor-sharp teeth are dying t escape. This video shows you how to summon them at will and unleash them on your friends. So... ready to defeat the enemy?

Un château en Espagne

1999 • 27 min

Like every year, Inès takes the train to Mont-de-Marsan to spend a week's holiday with her grandmother. But this time around, things do not happen as usual. First, Granny is late to the appointment outside the station. And when she finally arrives, she looks strange, seems to have difficulty in finding her way back home and mostly seems to be hiding something for her granddaughter...

The Last Lost Shot

1999 • 8 min

Commissioned for the film event exibition on the subject of the "Apocalysm" in cinema, this found footage film is essentialy constructed around the strongly altered images of ball-trap sequences for a demonstration film on fire-arms, humorously juxtaposed to images of innocence illustrated by children type drawings on seasonal tales and by fragments of two advertisings films : one on a natural reservation in the Seychelles Islands; the other, a "cartoon", for raincoats, related to the biblical flood.

Sink

1999 • 4 min • Japan

Sink is set in Tomioka’s brightly coloured yet worn and grubby surreal world, where on this occasion we see commuter trains packed with deep sea divers reading pornography. Sealed off behind their protective shells from any real human contact, the commuters are clearly inspired by Tomioka’s experiences on Tokyo’s underground but perhaps represent everyone who shuts themselves away behind iPods, computers and books, afraid of real face-to-face human interaction.

Color Without Colour

1999 • 19 min

An exploration of Achromatopsia.

Foo Fighters: Acoustic Live at Wisseloord Studios

1999 • 43 min

Acoustic Session recorded live at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, the Netherlands on November 22nd 1999. 00:00 Intro 02:52 Ain't The Life 09:04 Everlong 14:14 This Is A Call (Jam) 16:19 Floaty 25:08 Next Yeah 35:58 Sister Europe (Jam) 37:34 Learn To Fly

L'enfant et le caïman

1999 • 18 min • Burkina Faso, France

Pillars Of Faith: Religions Around The World

1999 • 48 min

Throughout the world, mankind is joined - but sometimes divided - by the depth and passion of his religious devotion. This film investigates the fascinating range of major religions from all over the globe and explores their differences and similarities. The program features all new location footage, expert comment and analysis,stylish reconstructions, period images, the religions and people.

Moilsome Toilsome

1999 • 6 min

This is a photographed filmic searching-for-whales, the camerawork and editing attempting to approximate something of the rubbing up against water of the whale, of the surface foam and the hard coils of water through which it swims, of the gray-greens and blacks of its environment. And then suddenly there is the vision of many whales rolling, breeching, twisting and turning in various play with eachother, a mother and baby slapping fins together, soforth. This film is about the identification with the world of the whale and the experience of the seeing, then (at the distance of being human), many killer whales in glimpses of our given sights of them.

Fils d’Images

1999 • 1 min • France

1999, 16mm, 01'30", color, silent, France

Attraverso un vetro sporco

1999 • 7 min

Neuf et demi

1999 • 3 min • France

A self-portrait which erases itself, leaving place to a dance of luminous rhythms.

Franklin et ses amis

1999 • 25 min

Minus

1999 • 3 min • Canada

Minus is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong's first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin's Concept albums.

Haragia

1999 • 12 min

When talking about missing people we are talking about a virtual death, with no body. But we need to see the corpse of those people to whom we want to bid farewell so as to be able to do it.

White Road

1999 • 13 min

Set in a particular location, a stretch of ‘white’ – unmetalled – road in Umbria. Structured around ordered and disordered features of the landscape.

Kan Xuan! Ai!

1999 • 2 min

In the video Kan Xuan! Ai! (1999), Kan runs through a pedestrian underpass in Beijing’s Fuxingmen subway station, repeatedly shouting and responding to her name as if searching for the lost self. Against a surging crowd, Kan’s anxious calls to the self amplify a common tension between one’s subjective experience and mainstream values or social norms.

Apeshit

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

Employing footage from an obscure 8mm film trailer for Battle for the Planet of the Apes to highlight the unstable relationship between the real, historical past and the distant, imaginary future, this project revolves around a central question: Is alien-ness indeed the metaphor for the 20th Century as power relationships have been embodied within our subconscious? Is there a relationship between these forgotten formats and the discontinued political ideologies that they depict? Transferred from Super-8 and then processed using a combination of high-end digital and vintage analog processing techniques, Apeshit emphasizes the contradictory references found in both the original text and its adaptation. Serving up Battle for the Planet of the Apes as proof, Apeshit puts forth tolerance as an outmoded technology.

Quiver

1999 • 5 min

A requiem for death and a memoir of pain, where the line between consent and assault is as blurred as the line between the characters' past and present. "Quiver" is a disturbing journey into the psyche of one man's memory. It is a mirage of sexual violence in the midst of AIDS, love, regret and exoneration.

Arctic Hysteria

1999 • 6 min

"The film, which lasts six minutes, is silent and consists almost entirely of one scene: Arke crawling naked across a giant black-and-white photo of Nuugaarsuk Point, a spit of land at the terminus of a C-shaped bay. The artist lived there, outside the small town of Narsaq, Greenland, with her parents and siblings in the late 1960s. In the film, Arke strokes the artificial landscape, rolls across it, and sniffs it like an animal. Then she methodically rips the entire thing to shreds, gathers the curled shards of paper, and lets them fall across her shoulders and thighs." - Vanessa Gregory

Sparklehorse

1999 • 9 min

Shot on 16mm with a soundtrack by Sparklehorse. With "Sparklehorse", Gariné Torossian returns to the collage style of filmmaking explored in her earlier films, "Visions," "Girl From Moush," and "Drowning In Flames." "Sparklehorse" subtly conveys, with characteristic poetry, the ways in which people communicate with and value each other in a world of spiralling meditation. The film is divided into three distinct sections: "Happy Man," "Good Morning Spider" and "Hundreds of Sparrows."