All Films

Grand Central

1999 • 15 min

This film was shot before Grand Central became a tourist attraction and overrun with their lazy directionless gait. It would be a different film if shot today, as the tourists have undermined the flow and energy of the crowd motion. (..) - Jeff Scher

Bahia

1999 • 25 min • Brazil

Softer Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms

1999 • 20 min

In Softer Catwalk in Collapsing Rooms, Mik’s characteristically confused, quasi-mechanically moving ‘extras’ move slowly through a building’s interior until, bit by bit, in collapses into a ruin – a little like the structures through which visitors to Mik’s work must often venture.

Untitled (Following)

1999 • 17 min

video installation, dual projection; Super 8 transferred to DVD, b&w, sound, 17’ 39’’ 21 Fr; Super 8 transferred to DVD, colour, sound, 17’ 09’’ 09 Fr (edition of 3 + 1 AP)

Mathematica

1999 • 5 min

3D Frottage animation. Translation between timeline and depth. Translation between 50 seconds and 2500 mm. Translation between film and lath.

Abstraction 1

1999 • 3 min • France

The North Face Expedition: Everest - The North Face, Vol. 1

1999 • 44 min

Returning to Everest for his thirteenth expedition, world renowned mountaineer Pete Athans attempts to be the first Westerner ever to summit Everest for a sixth time. In collaboration with National Geographic, Pete will measure the exact height of the rooftop of the world.

Manhood

1999 • 9 min • Sweden

Mason was born a girl and has for some time taken hormones to develop his masculine traits. A documentary about the gender-bending in San Francisco.

Hong Kong (HKG)

1999 • 15 min • Netherlands

In 1998 Kai Tak airport in the middle of Hong Kong was closed. Approaching Kai Tak was a unique experience for the passengers . «One could read the newspapers in the street» one passenger exclaimed. Hong Kong (HKG) is a film about the approach and the passing by of the airplanes in the middle of a city. An observation at the end of this century.

Fragmentos, Primera Impresión en S8

1999 • 12 min

It is a travel diary that covers the topography of the landscape, both in nature and in urban graphic and architectural details: commercial signs, door numbers, tiles, statues, pictograms, arabesques, emblems, allegories ...

Toilet Mouth

1999 • 4 min • Canada

Toilet Mouth is a dirty room with a view. It locates obsession between attraction and repulsion.

Condola DC 23 (Director's Cut)

1999 • 9 min • Canada

All the land has been sold and the wealthy live in mobile luxury homes, suspended from a network of cables covering the earth. With this super-sophisticated technology, the slightest malfunction can be catastrophic.

Search Engine

1999 • 4 min • Canada

Using phone personals, databases, and internet searches, a young gay man uses digital technology to remember boyfriends past, in the search of boyfriends future.

Electrical Discharge

1999 • 1 min • Canada

This is the shocking short coming-out film made by Harmsen and Woodbury for the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 film festival. It involves grown men shuffling up an electrical charge on an acrylic carpet and says more about being a homo than we would normally care to admit.

A Gun Makes an Awful Mess

1999 • 8 min • Canada

Contemplating suicide, a young gay man is heartbroken over his lost love.

Cousin Mike

1999 • 10 min • Canada

Cousin Mike explores what happens when you start fooling around with the conventions of commercial porn. The video was partly a response to a challenge from Toronto's NOW magazine -- take a porn-making course being offered by a women's sex store, make a short porn tape and write about it. The future of porn? Or dead end?

Animation Film Making: A Teaching Method at the Institute of Design 1968 to 1980

1999 • 18 min • United States of America

A short video documentary on Larry Janiak's time as an instructor at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he taught undergraduate and graduate students for 12 years. Aaron Siskind hired Larry in 1968 to start an experimental live action and animated film area at the school. A narrator introduces Larry's career and achievements at the school and guides viewers through the animation filmmaking area. The film primarily features footage of a beginning animation course taught by Larry.

Videozone: The Making of "Retro Puppet Master"

1999 • 20 min

From the cult horror vaults comes never-before-seen footage and outtakes of this killer puppets flick along with interviews from the cast and crew.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

1999 • 11 min

Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City made a short film called "A Portrait of Fear." The film consisted of several tableau shots of amateur actors standing in a field at night reciting painfully overwrought dialogue, apparently lit by the headlights of a car. I assume the cinematographer used an Auricon, as the sound was recorded directly on the B&W reversal original. In 1998, he sold me the outtakes, strung together just like you see them.

Terrafirma 5

1999 • 41 min

Fox’s iconic Terrafirma series continues with Terrafirma 5, filmed throughout 1998 and eventually released in 1999. By this time in the sport the age of “freeriding” had fully caught fire, and glipses of the early days of FMX competition can be seen throughout. Mix that together with the classic spread of Terrafirma goods from epic 1998 Outdoor National coverage, freeriding with Ryan Hughes & Jeff Emig at Castillo Ranch, Canadian off-road mad men Guy Perrett & Ian Pavluk, the FMX antics of the late Mike Cinqmars & Mike Metzger and pro snowboarders Mike “Tex” Devenport & Jim Rippey trading in their boards for dirtbikes in the summer. And don’t miss the inaugural US Open of Supercross towards the end. Enjoy!

Brahman: Legendary Hero

1999 • 30 min • Japan

Short indie shot-on-video tokusatsu film from Central Island.

New Paradise

1999 • 33 min • Taiwan

A group of Pangcah people left their homeland in the eastern Taiwan to seek jobs on the western coast. They drifted from one construction site to another, until they finally settled on a temporarily unclaimed clearing behind a university, building a community far away from home. Despite the instability of work and earnings, they lived life to the fullest catching fish, growing vegetables, singing and dancing, even electing leaders of their community in this 'new paradise'.

I'm 33

1999 • 3 min

Short film by Jan Peters

Mangoes

1999 • 3 min

Two expatriate Pakistani and Indian women sit and eat mangoes together and reminisce about their childhood. An otherwise touching encounter turns sour when they start comparing the range of mangoes grown in either country, a comment on the heightened sense of nostalgia and nationalism that exists in the Indian and Pakistani Diaspora. Both the women are played by the artist, stressing the idea of a shared history.