All Films

Billabong Challenge: Nine 9 Lives

1999 • 55 min

The last of the BILLABONG CHALLENGE series; Challenge Four, in Indo, and Challenge Five, in Australia. Indo did not deliver the surf necessary to complete one round so it was cancelled until the following year. Starring Rob Machado, Kalani Robb, Luke Egan, Shane Dorian, Tom Curren, Sunny Garcia, Mark Occhilupo, Taylor Knox, Pancho Sullivan, with appearances by Margo and Kelly Slater. Winner of "Surfer Magazine’s Video of the Year Award" 2000 Best Cinematography Award.

The Argument

1999 • 14 min • United States of America

Sometimes viewed as a companion piece to Lucifer Rising, Cammell’s 1972 short was left incomplete by the director and rediscovered and finished by his editor and close collaborator Frank Mazzola in 1999. The result is a visually stunning piece of work, shot in Bryce Canyon by the great Vilmos Zsigmond in glorious color and Cinemascope, with Myriam Gibril as Aisha the Witch and Kendrew Lascelles as the Director shouting a philosophical dialogue amidst the echoing rock formations.

A Tribute to Victoria Park

1999 • 60 min

Farewell to Victoria Park.... After more than a century, the most feared home ground in football will be a place of memories. It is the heartland of Collingwood. The ground at which the Coventrys and Colliers, Richards and Roses, Twomeys and Shaws all made their first footballing steps. From President Eddie McGuire, coach Tony Shaw and special guests we look back on Victoria Park.

Shonky Golf

1999 • 45 min

Australian comedian and actor Mick Molloy hosts a very educational instructional video on his interpretation of the game of golf and its tactics.

El séptimo día

1999 • 14 min • Argentina

During a Bar Mitzvah the power may be cut off, but not the celebration.

Lo stronzo assassino

1999 • 29 min • Italy

A movie about radioactive poop as the villain.

Kaerajaan

1999 • 9 min • Estonia

A student animated film by Mikk Rand

Kaandorp Zingt Kaandorp

1999 • 51 min • Netherlands

TV adaptation of Brigitte Kaandorp's theatre tour 'CD Opname', in wich the Dutch comedian Brigitte Kaandorp sings a selection from her songs, accompanied by 9 musicians.

The Trey Billings Show

1999 • 30 min • United States of America

A late-night cable access show goes to hell!

Where Lies the Homo?

1999 • 35 min • Canada

Documentary/Fiction/Experimental film about coming out of the closet.

Small Change

1999 • 15 min • Germany

Herr Hoffman parks his late-model car in a lot across from his corner office on the top floor. Each day, he puts a coin in the cup of a beggar who stands in front of the building. One day, Hoffman looks out his window and notices the beggar washing his car - no one else's in the lot, just Hoffmann's. That evening, when he gives the beggar a coin, Hoffmann tells him not the wash it. But the next day, it happens again. On the third morning, Hoffman drives his car back and forth in a mud puddle; the beggar washes it carefully. That evening, Hoffman has no change and no small bills, only 100 DM. He tries to evade the beggar, who gives chase, cane and all. More than wills collide.

My Femme Divine

1999 • 52 min

Skilfully combining personal memoir with performances and lively group discussion, Everett reveals the complex dynamics at play in contemporary relationships between butch and femme lesbians. Drawing on her encounters with religion and psychology she poignantly recounts the spiritual reawakening she experienced while weathering the storms of an explosive love affair with a beautiful femme—an affair which precariously straddles the boundaries between obsession and passion, and yet is told with a disarming humour. Woven into this narrative are the insights of lesbian women talking butch-to-butch and femme-to-femme about yin/yang chemistry and a love that borders on worship.

Love

1999 • 14 min

Cesare used to be a star, a long time ago. The venues have become smaller and the audiences more cruel. Cesare is on his way to his next performance with his keyboarder Joe but their way ends at a fork in the road.

Slide

1999 • 7 min • Japan

The sensation of forward movement is taken for granted. Lateral motion, however, is a more recent phenomenon. Due to the inventions of the mechanical age, our perception of speed has grown faster. Now with visual information taken over by increasingly powerful computers, a strange spectacle arises. (Image Forum)

Mrittur Opare

1999 • 47 min • Bangladesh

A man decides to kill his loving wife on his birthday, but the consequences are beyond his imagination.

Slaves in Paradise

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A close look at the Austrian far-left Friedrichshof Commune which was set up in 1972 by artist Otto Muehl. It was dissolved in 1990 when Muehl was convicted of the abuse of teenagers who lived in the commune.

Candidly Koversada

1999 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Koversada is the oldest nudist resort in the world. It has 7 restaurants, 2 supermarkets and several snack bars, various sports facilities ncluding water sports and a 2 km coastline. Join Charlie, Holly, Chloe and Angie as they explore this glittering gem of naturism.

Qarrab almaw'ed

1999 • 60 min

Behind the scenes of Fairuz concert at MGM Las Vegas in 1999, showing the legendary diva during the rehearsals and touring around Las Vegas.

Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye

1999 • 34 min • Estonia

The mirror image of a pop star falls in love with the singer's wife and enters the world of people through the mirror. What to do if your own reflection becomes life-threatening to you?

Jeanne

1999 • 35 min • France

Portrait of a woman and her disappearance.

The Untold Story

1999 • 60 min • Canada

The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999) is a docu-drama celebrating the thirty year struggle by the women of Newfoundland to win the right to vote.

Tristan and Isolde. Three Stories About...

1999 • 28 min • Latvia

The film combines three short stories: Der Mond, "Tristan und Isolde" and "Aida". The themes of these short stories are sin, duty and love.

Surface of Memory, Memory on Surface

1999 • 24 min • South Korea

This film is based upon the form of an individual’s diary. Jangwook created new images using several chemical treatments on the film surface while using footage of his daily life. These serial works begun from trials that Lee had communicated, seeking to re-construct his own memories, where the ‘mind’s eye’ become connected with the ‘camera’s eye’ and with film itself. In doing so the film is a conversation with personal documentary and everyday practice at the darkroom.

Automatic Writing

1999 • 8 min • United States of America

Trying the surrealist notion of automatism as a practice of exploring the mysterious zone where light and non-light mingle in an unstable and fertile equilibrium.