All Films

La última cena

1999 • 8 min • Argentina

Woman wakes from a nightmare and has a late night snack. However, the nightmare has not ended.

Forever Bottom!

1999 • 4 min

First person short bemoaning one of the more tiresome stereotypes about gay asian males.

We’re Here to Serve You

1999 • 3 min • Mexico

Too Young

1999 • 43 min • Taiwan

An indigenous couple married young with a child when they were only 16 and 19 years old. The financial burden and challenges in life were so heavy for them that quarrels were unavoidable. As their former elementary school teacher, the filmmaker recorded the young couple’s daily life, while trying to give them a hand in their time of need.

Lily

1999 • 9 min • United States of America

Lover. Ex. Loser. Wonder. Window. Buzz. Is there any easy way to get over love?

Mnemo.Diario

1999 • 38 min

"Mnemo.Diario" is a touching and intimate work that Studio Azzurro loves very much. It testifies to an important moment in the history of the group, namely the approach to the spaces of the Fabbrica del Vapore and the discreet and profound closeness of a friend like Giuseppe Baresi.

Eggs, Fish and Blood

1999 • 2 min

A short experimental film about the sensations of pregnancy. Mainly scratched directly onto 35mm. Screened at Hamburg Short Film Festival, Bradford Animation Festival. Also screened throughout England as part of Vox Pop Puella, a touring show about the seven ages of women.

On Aesthetics

1999 • 9 min

Short film by Swiss-American film-maker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, featuring a poem by Kenneth Koch.

Johannes - mitt i stan

1999 • 58 min • Sweden

A documentary about the Johannes Church in central Stockholm and the quaint neighbourhood surrounding it in the middle of such a big city.

Marée haute

1999 • 16 min • France

She worked all summer in a small restaurant on a Normandy beach. It's the end of the season, season of work, season of love ; he dumped her, in any case it looks like it. She has good reasons for talking to herself, all the more so since there's hardly anyone else around.

Catherine

1999 • 12 min • Argentina

In the search for a woman, someone may still turn out to be different.

The Tower of Babel

1999 • 13 min • Poland

A documentary focusing on Polish 60-year-old Henryk Kowalczyk who is deaf-blind and being taught sculpture. Working with clay and other materials is therapeutic light in a world of darkness

The Hat

1999 • 6 min • Canada

An exotic dancer recalls an incident from her childhood where she was physically abused by a male visitor.

Brown Women, Blond Babies

1999 • 30 min • Canada

Thousands of women leave their homes and families in the Philippines every year to work abroad as domestics. Thousands have made their way to Canada, forming part of “the Third World in our living rooms.”

Lexi-Con

1999 • 4 min • Canada

A mockumentary of TV business and market reporting. The hype and style of TV business stations belies basic market information and is akin to sports and lifestyle reporting. Numbers are everything and reporters rely on forecasting tools like chicken-entrails and numerology. Stories ignore social consequences of market action.

Joaquim Bravo, Évora 1935, Etc. Etc. Felicidades

1999 • 58 min • Portugal

Joaquim Bravo (Évora, 1935 - Lisbon, 1990) exhibited for the first time in 1964, inaugurating what would become one of the most decisive Portuguese galleries, the 111 in Campo Grande. Its doctrinal influence and its enormous capacity for enthusiasm would mark in the early sixties Évora's group of painters (Lapa, Palolo) and, in the 80's, artists such as Xana and Cabrita Reis. At his death, a moving tribute was paid to him by a huge and varied group of artists ranging from João Vieira to Miranda Justo. His work is scattered in a large number of private and institutional collections.

Kalighaat Fetish

1999 • 22 min • India

The film attempts to negotiate with the duality that is associated with the ceremonial veneration of the Mother Goddess Kali. It ruminates on the nuanced transness that is prevalent, in the ceremonial performance of male devotees cross dressing as Kali. This is interwoven with grotesque elements of a sacrificial ceremony, which forms a vital part of the worship of the Goddess.

Pinocchio

1999 • 6 min • Italy

Where Disney's version marginalized the darker elements of the novel, Gianluigi Toccafondo's adaptation brings them to the center. It's a film he cursed over and which took him three years to complete.

Gratian: The Real life Romanian Werewolf

1999 • 45 min

The people in Izbuc, a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains (Transylvania), think that their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf. According to an old custom, when a child is born, the midwifes call upon the spirits, to make the child hard working, beautiful, loveable or wise. It is said that when Gratian was born, the umbilical cord broke only after the midwife called forth the werewolf. This crucial moment was to influence his whole life.

Coupling

1999 • 5 min

A hand-painted work prepared by my imagination of the sex act affecting internal organs of the human bodies.

Two Pictures

1999 • 12 min • Canada

Canada's king of visual alchemy teams up with France's mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of cinematic abstraction. Tactile and textured, luscious and luminescent, Two Pictures is a singular statement embodying a powerful dichotomy. This is a film that is simultaneously about nothing and about everything.

I, Socky

1999 • 8 min

A sock monkey enjoysg a night on the town.

Tamentai Telepathy

1999 • 41 min

Short documentary produced by Space Shower TV. First broadcast two months before the release of the "Honnou" single, it is mostly an hour long interview with Sheena Ringo, and mostly shot in b/w.

Dream Girl

1999 • 55 min • Russia

A young guy constantly sees a vision in the form of a beautiful girl. Thanks to this, he remains a "pure" and incorrigible romantic.