All Films

Red Rain

1999 • 60 min

Laura Plotkin's 1998 video documents the life of boxer Gina “Boom Boom” Guidi. Skillfully intercutting diverse voices with Guidi's, Plotkin captures the woman's energy and emotional strength: the oldest child of a single mom, Guidi had to raise three younger brothers and recover from drug and alcohol abuse to become the thoroughly grounded person we see in the film. Though she's openly lesbian, she argues that her sexuality has nothing to do with her being a boxer, and while she's mature enough to ignore a homophobic slur from a magazine publisher, she's clearly hurt by it. Her vulnerability is visible in the ring too, her face registering fear and hesitation as well as aggressiveness.

Fable: I Want the World, Clean

1999 • 16 min

"Todd's poetic documentary excavates the history of a family home that has been passed down five generations. It uncovers a sort of violence done in the course of carving up the land and trying to purify one's family histories." - Chris Gehman, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2001

Amnesia

1999 • 7 min

A film that uses found footage, 19th century photographs of affectionate men, digitized video imagery, and gay ephemera to imagine a past and create a future.

We are Traffic!

1999 • 50 min

The film chronicles the history and development of "Critical Mass", the leaderless, grassroots bicycle movement from its 1992 beginnings in San Francisco to its spread across the globe to over 200 cities in 14 countries. With traffic congestion, pollution, and road rage on the rise, cyclists are advocating for transportation alternatives. Critical Mass is at the cutting edge of this mindset.

Ferment

1999 • 5 min

A momentary lapse of motion as Macmillan cuts a cross-section through the city’s day. Mobile photography or freeze film? Small epiphanies and the human trace, whatever the terms.

Aziz Shakhar, Looking for a Job

1999 • 5 min • Japan

"My name is Aziz Shakhar. I had studied the law for two years at the Cairo university. Now I'm living in Amman, Jordany..." A footage which I picked up to cite was one of a "pre-text". In this film, I tried to make a metric film just like a 60-70's structural film. I assumed the film as a set of serialized footage on time. Systematic re-editing made us new meanings and images itself.

Fountain

1999 • 6 min

Fountain is a video that originated from a live performance of drinking water from a mirror. The image of confronting one’s own image recalls Narcissus, the Greek god that fell in love with his own image without recognizing it as his own, in some way being a splitting of the interior and exterior selves. In Fountain the image attempts to become whole again by drinking in the image of itself.

Butcher Bob

1999 • 30 min • Norway

A bunch of Norwegian youths get lost in the mountains. Unfortunately for them is that these mountains are the home of Butcher Bob and his equally murderous brother Bill. Together, the brothers have a huge fervor for sadistic murders, homebrews and anal sex. This is something the youths will soon be aware of ...

Enter The Yo Zone: X-Treme Yo-Yos

1999 • 47 min

A video featuring a trio of professional yo-yoers, dubbed "Team ProYo," as they exhibit their arsenal of tricks.

Situation Leading to a Story

1999 • 20 min

Short film made out of found footage.

Orifso

1999 • 12 min

Orifso is in the form of a fable, though based upon histories of Europe, 1942 -1998, located in the picture space, on a road in France and on the streets of London.

Fragment of a Crucifixion (after Francis Bacon)

1999 • 2 min

Pfeiffer converted a moment of midgame triumph for the Knicks forward Larry Johnson into anguished isolation in a piece titled "Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon)." By simply eliminating the other players, the crowds, even the insignia on his uniform, Mr. Pfeiffer converted Mr. Johnson's arm pumps and energized jubilation into expressions of terror. The player seemed like a hunted animal or a martyr and, either way, a profoundly disturbing metaphor for the plight of the black man in American culture. -Roberta Smith

Girl is Innocent

1999 • 18 min

In the film Girl is Innocent Arturas Raila used material from the Art Department archive of the autumn semester review of works by the students of Vilnius' M. K. Ciurlionis Art School held on 30 October 1998. The film presents the work of the examination board dealing with artistic and pedagogical issues.

Brunei Darussalam: Tropical Paradise at Your Doorstep

1999 • 11 min • Brunei Darussalam

This short documentary about the history and tourism in Brunei was produced by Bruneian Promotion and Development Division & Tourism Unit, Ministry Industry and Primary Resources in collaboration with Asean Promotion Centre Japan.

Driftwood

1999 • 24 min

Documentary providing a psychogeographical portrait of central London.

National Geographic: Danger! Quicksand

1999 • 52 min

Examining the nature of quicksand, a potentially deadly combination of sand and water. Included: interviews with quicksand survivors and survival tips.

Coming Home

1999 • 2 min

"Within a field of black, rows of colored pinpoint lights fly towards the screen and whiz past each side, evoking any number of scenarios: an airport's landing strip, streetlamps passing by on a nighttime drive, a science-fiction jaunt through hyperspace, or the hallucinations of a mushroom trip. These luminous atoms serve as the ultimate reduction of Fogel's artmaking: the creation of hypnotic realms of light, which seduce and enrapture viewers, leading them elsewhere, and within." —Ed Halter

I'm Starving

1999 • 12 min • United States of America

An erotic love tale between a ghost and a woman who cohabit a small apartment in New York's Chinatown. The ghost that eats Chinese takeout menus and paper money contrasts starkly with the human, a working class African American woman, who eats only ramen.

Straight Boy Lessons

1999 • 9 min • United States of America

Hitching a ride in a pick-up, a transgender man gets a few tips on being a "real man" from the straight male driver.

Another World We Are Making: Haengdang-Dong People 2

1999 • 60 min

The sequel of "Heangdangdong People", a documentary about a struggle and dream for community of Heangdangdong people against the unfair removal of their housing. Heandangdong people in the removal region finally finished the struggle in the victory after the 3-year-struggle against the removal and they are now settled in the provisional residential building. They have gradually overcome poverty and have been establishing a local community through a production cooperative and a credit cooperative to materialize their dreams. Headangdong people's story with their successful community suggests a concrete way and hope about an alternative life.

Switch

1999 • 23 min

Set in 1949 Toronto, this film tells the story of Isabelle, a telephone operator who is leading a double life. She is having a clandestine affair with another operator, Alice, while her boyfriend Ricky is secretly making plans to elope with her to Niagara Falls.

Shipwreck—The Story of 1997

1999 • 60 min

A documentary film by Duan Jinchuan.

A Hero for Daisy

1999 • 40 min

In 1976, Olympic rower Chris Ernst and Yale's female crew protest the shabby conditions under which they had to compete.

Tulou, My Home

1999 • 52 min

The film tells a life story of Wang Shulan, who was sold to Tulou by his mother at an early age. As a woman herself, director Dai Yi is deeply moved by the fates of the women she sees living at the lowest rungs of society, and cares deeply about telling their story.