All Films

Wrestle Mania

1999 • 60 min

Oujin, Ebizuka, and Dr. Gyosei repeatedly kidnap playboy celebrities and perform sterilization surgeries on them to make them incapable of bearing children. They declare that homosexuality is the correct 21st century ideology on the basis of their insistence that the population of the earth should not increase any further. Butterfly, their new prey, is actually gay, and says he agrees with their ideology and wants them to join him... Slippery, slippery, and slippery.

How I Became a Ramblin’ Man

1999 • 9 min

In How I Became a Ramblin’ Man, shot in widescreen format, Rodney Graham casts himself in the role of a cowboy roaming a pastoral British Columbia landscape on horseback. The opening minutes of the soundtrack evoke the surrounding nature: lapping water, clip-clopping horse hooves and leaves rustling in the wind. Then Graham dismounts to sing a song about a solitary man. At the end of the ballad, he gets back in the saddle and disappears into the tall grass, with his guitar on his back. In this film, the artist revisits the lonesome cowboy myth perpetuated in western movies and country music.

School Prayer: A Community at War

1999 • 56 min

Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, is forced to sue her public school district in order to have The Bible removed from her childrens' classrooms.

Okumade bishonure: Hoshino Mai

1999 • 60 min • Japan

Straight to video

Oh no

1999 • 1 min

Begins with a low-angled, handheld close-up of a young woman trudging forward with panicked breath. She moves through the interior of a small apartment, repeatedly whimpering the phrase, ‘Oh no’.

Movement of the Earth

1999 • 20 min • Belarus

A film about folk performers of Polesie and Mogilev region Stepan Dubeyko and Mikhas Basyakov.

MALICE MIZER: merveilles ～cinq parallele～

1999 • 28 min

A home video release of five Malice Mizer music videos from their third studio album "merveilles".

Freak Box

1999 • 2 min

What do a monkey, a robot, and two numbed out teenagers have in common? The symbiotic processes of the idiot box, as it turns out. Freak Box is a stop-motion satire of the lulling evils of television - an electro-mechanical circus where viewers lose - and find - themselves in the hopelessness of the pixel array.

Dispatches: Britain's Most Dangerous Man

1999 • 30 min • United Kingdom

An expose of Lennie Smith, the ringleader of a dangerous pedophile gang of which Robert Oliver and Sidney Cooke were both members.

Muy Lejos de Aqui

1999 • 42 min • Peru

The camera is reflected in the rearview mirror of a car sliding down a dusty desert road on the Peruvian coast. This image symbolically captures the director behind the lens, observing a vast empty space that slips from the sides, trying to escape the center: the present, which simultaneously represents memory, which is at once here and yet always far from here.

Donald's Rocket Ruckus

1999 • 5 min • United States of America

Huey, Dewey, and Louie want to go on the best ride in the whole amusement park, The Rocket Ruckus - but Uncle Donald is the ride operator, and he alters the height-requirement sign so his nephews are too short to ride. When the angry boys finally succeed in getting past him, Donald spins the ride out of control and his nephews decide to take mischievous revenge.

Don’t Take the Name of God in Vain

1999 • 32 min • Andorra

In the year 2046, a powerful gang lord assembles a group of religious leaders, demanding to know what it takes to be a true messiah. Meanwhile, lying imprisoned in a garage somewhere nearby is a man who claims to be the son of God.

Sincerely, Joe P. Bear

1999 • 5 min

Appropriated news clips from the 1960’s combine with hand-painted film to tackle the momentous issue of how polar bears cope with heartbreak and rejection.

La Petite Mort

1999 • 7 min • Germany

What if you look for death but find the 'petite mort', orgasm? A lesbian grotesque.

Everest: The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine

1999 • 53 min

NOVA documentary inquiring into the fate of early Everest explorers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine

Closing Time

1999 • 13 min • Hungary

This “Béla Tarr-esque” short presents a small pub right before closing time. The story is about a chess game which turns bad after the final move.

Pic Pic André shoow - 4-1

1999 • 13 min

Programme presenting 4 adventures of Pic Pic and Andre.

Fissures

1999 • 3 min • Canada

In making this piece, Bourque literally distorted the personal home movie images appearing on the film plane through various manipulations in the process of doing her own low-tech contact printing. The point of contact in printing is continuously shifted so that the film plane appears warped and the images fluctuate, creating a distorted space of fleeting apparitions, like resurfacing memories.

Quelque chose

1999 • 18 min

Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. A companion to his early short "Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au coeur"

Why Women Run

1999 • 46 min

This documentary offers a glimpse into the 1997 federal election in the Halifax electoral district. Two strong female politicians, Liberal candidate Mary Clancy and NDP party leader Alexa McDonough, are caught in a tight competition in one of the most contested races in the country. Director Meredith Ralston follows the two women around the campaign trail for weeks, getting inside an election that was often described as “nasty.” Both larger than life and hungry to win, in quieter moments Clancy and McDonough reveal the strains and contradictions of their chosen careers. Why Women Run highlights the accomplishments of women in politics and the problems many women face participating in the political process.

The Hair Witch Project

1999 • 60 min • United States of America

Find out the truth about the terrible fate of three documentary filmmakers who journeyed deep into the woods in search of the legendary Hair Witch... and never came back. One week later, their footage was found... then lost again. Then somebody found it and bootlegged it on the Internet. Then it got lost again, and then it was found and sold to Hard Copy and then they lost it and we found it.

Shibuya Rock Transformed Joutai

1999 • 59 min • Japan

Number Girl live in Shibuya

With Grandma

1999 • 9 min • Canada

When her parents leave her behind for the first time, Madeleine sees them off with tears in her eyes. Fortunately, her grand-mother is there to coax her out of her sadness. Grandma's house is full of surprises, including a chest full of costumes perfect for dress-up. Together they play and bake. Slowly, Madeleine discovers that Grandma seems to know exactly how to have fun. Adults will reminisce about cherished moments shared with grandparents and reflect on the nature of memory. Younger children will be delighted by young Madeleine's adventures.

Menschen am Kanal

1999 • 21 min • Germany

Documentary about a waterway in Berlin which used to separate the city into two ideologically opposed areas.