All Films

Terrafirma 6

1999 • 34 min

All the best from the greats of 1999

It's a Jackie Thing

1999 • 29 min

Based on his own video documentation, Atlas constructs a delirious montage of New York club performances from the late 1990s. Impersonators of pop-culture figures, including Martha Graham, Kurt Cobain giving a "final performance," and Sid Vicious lip-syncing to Nancy Sinatra, are emceed by two matronly (and bitingly sarcastic) upper-crust women. Featuring legendary drag, transgender, and queer artists, It's a Jackie Thing celebrates the flexibility of performance art's boundaries: "high" and "low" culture, "good" and "bad" taste, amateurism and professionalism, and, ultimately, gender and identity.

Cocktail Molotov

1999 • 3 min • Mexico

Nero Inferno

1999 • 50 min

Nero Inferno is a significant documentary which explores the 90s Milan trainbombing scene. It successfully captures some of the raw emotions of northern Italy’s underground bombing universe, collecting rare footage, photos and interviews which include writers like Bread, Rae, MastroK, Spice, Dumbo. Great sound bites from these guys, who wanted to raise their voices upon the grey murmur of the big ciy. The film shows also some action, showcasing the street bombing missions in the subway of Milan. It’s an essential video for those who were there and who was not and anyone who don’t want to forget the historical memory of a movement.

Mr. Murakami's Garden

1999 • 15 min • United States of America

Following an untimely death, a spirit encounters a very bureaucratic Death.

Blue Moon Cafe

1999 • 25 min • Japan

Film by Daisuke Miki, 1999.

Drift

1999 • 10 min • South Korea

This film is a journey taking the audience to the places that contain their memories. It may be the memory of being born or being in childhood. It may be anxiety, or loneliness of nights. It may be separation, brokenhearted, or other sadness like illness or death of loving people.

Wa-ha-ha

1999 • 48 min • Japan

In the summer of 1999, in a mountain gorge town in Yamanashi prefecture, I was holding a movie camera Bolex loaded with 16mm film.

Stambali

1999 • 53 min • Tunisia

In Tunisia, the history of stambali goes back to the arrival of the first enslaved Africans from Mali, Timbuktu specifically. Practicing their music and worship in the house of their masters, the enslaved and their musical traditions survive to this day. Stambali is a religious ritual in Tunisia, a journey with the rhythm of the "gombri" and "chkackek," traces an individual and collective hypnosis, an annual tribute that the disciples of Sidi Saad pay to their master during an initiatory journey and rite of purification that lasts three days. In "Stambali," the camera, video and film follow the rhythm of the possession, dances, and goes into a trance, in the cemetery, in an open space of grass, trees, dust and sand, in the eroticism that is released by this physical and spiritual representation.

NY 'NY'n why not

1999 • 4 min

WALK / DON'T WALK / WALK. The rhythm of the nineties. A tribute to the vital New York drag scene and the "electronic" 90's that is also a remembrance of the Christopher Street queer revolt 30 years ago.

Iron Wolf

1999 • 10 min • Ukraine

One day, a son of a king went for a ride in the woods. He fell asleep and didn’t notice he was deep in the forest, where the iron wolf lives. The angry roar and the gnashing of steel jaws awakened him, and he broke into a run to save himself from the dreadful monster.

Man With Balls On Hands and Feet - Man on Water

1999 • 7 min

The second part of the video series Man with balls on hands and feet, also including Man on air (2001) and Man on ice (1998). Man with balls on hands and feet is the name of the video series containing three films. The two first, Man on ice (1998) and Man on water (1999) shows a man venturing on the physical contradictory; to stand straight up on an ice or a water surface, with balls attached to hands and feet. In the third, Man on air (2001), the support obtained by friction is altered with a heavy stream of air. Through this very simple and obviously impossible combination of hard, spherical forms contradicting the ice, the water and the air stream, an excruciating yet human situation is stressed.

Exteriors

1999 • 5 min

"Exteriors" is a portrait of a young woman and the landscape she inhabits. It is about the walls people construct, real or imaginary. "Poignant and poetic, the work engages our notions of the 'moving image.'" - Photophobia Film Festival 2000

You would make a good lawyer

1999 • 5 min

"You would make a good lawyer" is a film about employment, and the cages we all inhabit. The title is taken from a fortune that I kept receiving from fortune cookies, which seemed to capture the irony of my predicament perfectly. (JB)

Admit One

1999 • 4 min

Into an empty movie theater comes a single spectator, a box of popcorn in hand. He tries various seats before settling down near the front. The movie starts. In comes a couple who sit down right next to the chap with the popcorn, even though every other seat in the theater is empty.

Stupid Jack

1999 • 3 min

Omelechko and His Small Family…

1999 • 9 min • Ukraine

Omelechko and his family, which counted a couple of dozen people, have a fun life. There is a wife, parents and a couple of aunts and uncles, and the girls and the lads, and feast fans who came from nowhere. Everyone has their own character and a short story to introduce with songs and dances to the viewers.

Letter from a Goddess

1999 • 30 min • Japan

Documentary, 16mm

The Electrical Farmer

1999 • 28 min • Iceland

A documentary about the efforts of Björn Runólfsson to bring electricity to the countryside of Iceland.

Heroin Kills

1999 • 45 min

Meet Jonathan. He's a 15-year old who loves to skate. He's got a nice family and a great girlfriend. He's normal in every way...except one. Jonathan is dead.

The Years of Rust

1999 • 35 min • Croatia

This is a story about workers at the Uljanik shipyard in Pula whose job is to apply anti-corrosion protection to ship metal parts. Workers on this dangerous and hard job we follow in time of privatization.

Extra Skin (Adding)

1999 • 11 min

Short film by Jeanne Dunning.

Come Unto Me: The Faces of Tyree Guyton

1999 • 29 min • United States of America

The film tells the story of Tyree's struggle to create art from inner-city rubble, even as he faces heated opposition from community and city council members who see it only as junk.

Science Frontiers: Ancient Astronauts

1999 • 52 min • United States of America

An exploration into the ancient astronauts theory.