All Films

Food for the Ancestors: The Mexican Celebration of The Days of the Dead

1999 • 57 min

Documentary that explores the festival known as the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), highlighting Mexican traditions and ancient ways that still exist -- all of these interpreted through Mexican cuisine. Each year during the last week of October, Mexican communities begin preparations for the age-old festival. For each family, it is a remembrance of a departed loved one. On a larger scale, it also memorializes all ancestral Mexicans and the gifts that they passed on to their descendants, especially food and culture.

Xenia of St. Petersburg

1999 • 28 min • Finland

Katariina Lillqvist's puppet animation is a ballad about 18th century St. Petersburg, Catherine the Great's magnificent courtyard and the dim taverns of the suburbs.

Moohead

1999 • 2 min • Canada

Focused on the acute pain of childhood humiliation, this works unsettling visual and audio combinations create a sinister atmosphere of mistrust and embarrassment. Part of Logue's Enlightened Nonsense series.

Leben für den FC Bayern

1999 • 45 min • Germany

They do not earn millions, yet they are happy nonetheless: Maria Meissner (87), Josef “Sepp” Schmid (74), and Rudi Egerer (65) have spent most of their lives working for FC Bayern. Maria still cleanses the trophies nowadays, Sepp still washes and prepares the jerseys of the players in the basement, and Rudi is still the bus driver. They are simple people who may have access to the glamorous world of the big stars, but who never wanted to adapt to the ‘modern times’ unconditionally. They have remained side characters and experience their club from a special angle: Being witnesses of the development from a people’s sport to star cult and commercialisation.

General Schwartzpot Hunts Pink Tigers In The Sahara Desert

1999 • 20 min • Israel

It’s the Gulf War. Two soldiers, an American and an Iraqi, find themselves lost in the desert, and the relationship between them is seen through the eyes of an iguana. The American is trying to get through to headquarters so that he can be rescued. The Iraqi flatters the American, deferring to him as General Schwarzpot, and is willing to humiliate himself just to get some food and drink. When it becomes clear to the American that the Iraqi is hiding drugs, he promises him a good, rich life in America. At the moment of truth, though, he will leave him to his fate.

The Green Cold

1999 • 60 min

Part 1 of the trilogy concerning Persian poet Farough Farrokhz. This film traces her personal life.

Circuit

1999 • 30 min • United States of America

"I began this project with no concept other than to see what might come of shooting some film over the course of a year. I ended up with a sort of travelogue consisting of ten sections edited in the order in which they were shot, beginning in spring and ending in winter. Some of the footage documents my travels over that time period, some documents travelers visiting places I called home at the time of filming. Additionally, some of the footage is made with actors playing travelers for the camera. Towards the end of the edit I decided to throw in some older footage I had in order to round out the picture. Originally a silent film, I have added a soundtrack mix by Sean Byrne of Bugskull." -SD

Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin!

1999 • 11 min • United States of America

A lone trombone playing solo is joined by a trumpet in a duet until a French horn makes it a trio, and so on, as ten instruments, one by one, gather together for a joyous musical performance.

Gone With The Wind

1999 • 11 min • Russia

The true story of a former chicken seeking to return to her past life.

Russian Avant-Garde: A Romance with the Revolution

1999 • 54 min • Denmark, Russia

The dramatic story of three great Russian avant-garde painters from the beginning of the last century – Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin – and their supporter, Nikolai Punin, the first post-revolution Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums. They dedicated their lives to belief in the revolution and its connection to avant-garde art, but the communist regime betrayed them. The history depicted on the painted canvases reflects the tumultuous period of the 1920s and 30s in the Soviet Union, in Leningrad and in artistic circles of the time. Only with perestroika have the avant-garde paintings, stored in museum archives, again seen the light of day.

Aqua Requiem

1999 • 27 min

A man finds love from a woman, and she dreams the extrication through him.

2000

1999 • 29 min • Denmark

40 people meet. 20 pairs. Each pair is a total of 100 years old. A one-year-old and a ninety-nine-year-old; a two-year-old and a ninety-eight-year-old; and so on and so forth. 2000 years of life.

Muhipiti Alima

1999 • 34 min • Mozambique

Alima wants to go to school, but her husband is against it. This film follows Alima as she finds a way to live, selling candies on the streets of Maputo and attempts to continue going to school.

Sex on the Border

1999 • 55 min

Adventure south of the Border with a journalist reporting on the intrigues of Tijuana nightlife.

A Room

1999 • 18 min

Short film from James Fotopoulos

The Hooley Dooleys: Pop

1999 • 42 min

The Hooley Dooleys: Pop

Heritage Minutes: Grey Owl

1999 • 1 min • Canada

Englishman Archie Belaney rises to prominence as a notable author and lecturer after he took on the First Nations identity called Grey Owl. Adapted from the film of the same name.

Broken Mirror

1999 • 4 min

In Broken Mirror a hammer hovers precariously, ready to break the camera’s lens; instead, it shatters what is revealed to be a mirror. Set in various locations throughout Beijing, the work charts a path through the changing cityscape. With each action, mirror fragments reflecting one scene give way to reveal another. Everyday street views of shoppers at an open-air market, historical landmarks, or sites of protest like Tiananmen Square open onto each other in a disorienting loop of illusion and reality.

Survival on the Savannah

1999 • 52 min • South Africa

Two of Africa's 'savannah giants'- one a predator and one a bovine are on a collision course of epic proportions. An injured buffalo is one of Africa's most dangerous animals but for the lions of the Savannah taking down buffalo is in their genes. One wrong move and the hunter could become the hunted- it's a constant war between predator and prey and every day is a constant battle for survival out here in the African Savannah.

Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time

1999 • 57 min • United States of America

Lamm

1999 • 33 min

Have I committed a crime? Lamm cannot answer this question. But maybe it doesn't matter. After all, a mistake has been made, and now he can leave town. He thinks not of the chandelier, not of the look on the executioner's face in the tavern, but of the woman who slapped him the night before, the woman who now lies motionless before the wall, as still as a pebble. Is that the punishment? Lamm was pardoned. But the punishment only begins now, now, when the dead city disappears forever into the woods.

Ellipses

1999 • 5 min

From one film to another, it's true that I often use the same images, to remind people, to create a universe, to show that my work basically constitutes a single work. I can also, like here, deepen a procedure used much earlier, in this case in Un film brûlé (1984). I had torn and shifted the images relative to each other (thus creating a long crack) which I had then not been able to shoot, the film being limited to a soundtrack ever since. Here, it is a question of creating in all possible ways holes and ellipses of images then of stitching these views together in an aesthetic mode in a joyous end-of-the-century apocalypse, of positives, negatives, 16mm, Super- 8, 8mm, black and white, color, enhanced, faded, but still found footage...

Blue Libido

1999 • 8 min

Unfinished 8mm work by Yukiyasu Shimada.

It's Cruising, I'm Cruising

1999 • 20 min

Home videos about the first days of the NATO bombing of Belgrade, filmed on the streets of Žarkovo.