All Films

My Uncle

1999 • 14 min • Turkey

“My Uncle” tells the story of a man who realizes his passion for flying one day and descends into the desert 42 years later, through his nephew’s mouth.

Mosfilm, miroir d'un empire

1999 • 53 min • France

Inaugurated by Stalin in 1931 in Moscow, MOSFILM is the largest movie studio in Europe. The most famous Russian directors shoot and edit here, and the 5000 employees who work on the gigantic sets contribute to the glory and radiance of Soviet cinema. Some masterpieces still remain vivid in our minds. Via an inventory of these studios and Russian cinema, the film recounts the history of a culture and a country traversed by a multitude of political upheavals.

My Eye Your Eye

1999 • 21 min

Filmed in Patmos in May 1999, this is Robert Lax’s last year in Greece, roughly his last year of life. For 21 minutes you see only Lax’s head and his right hand, which holds a wooden staff of sorts (a walking stick or ... a broomstick?!). He wears a navy blue knit hat. The only movement is in his eyes, and ever so slight movements of his head. Lax does not look at the camera, his eyes are mostly downcast, but he is awake and aware, watching and waiting, and you are drawn into his profound stillness. All of those who were able to meet Lax during his lifetime consider it a particular stroke of fortune. They say that from that point on he became part of their bodies and souls, as though they had met a true saint. My Eye Your Eye is like being in the presence of holiness. For 20 minutes. Watching and waiting. I've always wanted to know better what Bob Lax was like - how he was. This film does it.

Mr. Ponzi and His Scheme

1999 • 43 min • United States of America

Who was Charles Ponzi?... a scoundrel, a petty criminal, a misunderstood financial genius, a criminal mastermind, or perhaps simply a salesman extraordinaire? The fascination in examining the life of Charles Ponzi lies in trying to understand the machinations of his heart, mind, and soul as he perpetrated one of the largest frauds in U.S. history. While much opinion and speculation has been bandied about regarding this key point, the complexity of Charles Ponzi has made reaching a satisfying conclusion all but impossible.

The Psychotic Odyssey of Richard Chase

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

The true story of the killer, told in a unique fashion. (Jack Sargeant)

Hiatus

1999 • 21 min

“HIATUS is a 20-minute experimental narrative film about a young woman who plays HIATUS, an on-line interactive ‘identity’ game. Propelled through action by her Go-Go cowgirl construct Wanda, and powered by a computer corset that stores her programs in a garden interface, Maid meets Wang, a powerful take-over artist. She must learn how to use the power of her ‘organic memory’ to block his expansion and preserve her freedom.” — E.B. 1999

Calls

1999 • 9 min

A woman receives a telephone call from a hysterical woman, which she later finds out is herself.

Tommy - Lost in the Jungle

1999 • 41 min • Italy

Jenny and her baby brother Tommy were born in the Amazon jungle. Their parents, dedicated archeologists, were attacked by tribal warriors. The family was separated, Tommy was carried off by a tribal wise man to be raised among the animals and Jenny was taken to the city by her grandfather. Years later, once she is grown, Jenny returns to the jungle to find her brother. During the adventure she encounters poachers, fierce creatures, a hidden city, ancient treasure, and finally Tommy. Together they struggle to escape the dangers of the wild.

Television Under the Swastika

1999 • 55 min • Germany

A history of Nazi television programming and technology, from 1935 to 1944.

Animalicious

1999 • 52 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

A film about fate, co-existence, vanity, justice, karma and forgiveness, ANIMALICOUS comprises six stories of people and the animals that shot them, fell on them, and generally caused mayhem of one sort or another. Filmed in Kentucky, Missouri, and England, ANIMALICOUS features a bomb-diving duck, a squirrel which thinks it’s landed on Normandy Beach, a hawk that could easily work for a hair growth pharmaceutical company, a parakeet, a turkey, a hungry snake, and one tiny little dog. It’s a funny but wry account of how animals can be a way of defining ourselves. In ANIMALICIOUS Lewis displays a genuine knack for uncovering the comic and quizzical relationships that exist between people and creatures great and small.

Blondie: The Best of Musikladen Live

1999 • 40 min

Songs Include: X-Offender, Little Girl Lies, Look Good In Blue, Man Overboard, In The Flesh, I'm On E, Love At The Pier, I Didn't Have The Nerve, Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45), Kidnapper, Youth Nabbed As Sniper

Gênesis 22

1999 • 3 min • Brazil

"And God said, Take thy son, and bring him to the land which I will show thee."

Left-hander

1999 • 19 min • Russia

A young seven-year old boy has a gift for calligraphy, but one detail worries his parents: the little fellow is left-handed. What would happen if he was made write with his right hand? This is how, through the will of his father, the metamorphosis of Adolf Schicklgruber into Adolf Hitler came about.

Moon

1999 • 3 min

Early work experimenting with analog image processing.

Meathook Madness

1999 • 30 min • United States of America

A killer in a pig mask goes after anyone who gets too close to his processing shack.

El beso de la tierra

1999 • 18 min

The Biggest Quarrel

1999 • 20 min • Poland

The protagonists of the film are three brothers: Eino, Aho and Laje. The brothers live from the cultivation of the family land. Eino works from dawn to night. Aho likes to spend time playing at a nearby inn. Laje once helps Eino, and once accompanies Aho. Once Aho gets cheated by playing dice and losing his family land. The brothers set off in search of a job. They reach a road fork. Eino wants to go left, Aho to the right, and Laje agrees once with one, once with the other brother. The brothers, unable to convince each other for their reasons, start a great quarrel.

Ultimate Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments

1999 • 60 min

A retrospective celebrates the popularity of the various Star Trek" series; host Jason Alexander. Clips from the various series, interspersed with comedy skits with Jason Alexander as Captain Kirk.

Warriors of the Net

1999 • 13 min • Sweden

For the first time in history people and machinery are working together, realizing a dream. A uniting force that knows no geographical boundaries. Without regard to race, creed or color. A new era where communication truly brings people together. This is the dawn of The Net.

Secretariat

1999 • 41 min

Super Bowls are rarely super. Pay-per-view fights are hyped without money-back guarantees. And there's that old expression that applies so perfectly to horse racing: There's no such thing as a sure thing. Then there was Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont Stakes.

Welcome to Africville

1999 • 15 min • Canada

Welcome to Africville gives voice to what may have been marginalized members of an Afro-Canadian community in 1969. It's intention is to be a catalyst to thought and reflection about the lives and struggles of people from that community whose stories still go untold. It is the fictional account of a family. We listen to the stories of three generations of women and their friend Julius on the day their community is to be destroyed by the municipal government of Halifax. This story is a portrait of four individuals coping with universal uncertainties and insecurities.

One Man, Six Wives and Twenty-Nine Children

1999 • 50 min

First produced in 1999, One Man, Six Wives and 29 Children tells the revealing and surreal story of a practicing polygamist who lives with his large brood in the middle of a Utah desert. The filmmakers document the family's daily existence, and probe the controversial aspects of the fundamentalist Mormon faith which define their way of life.

Wrath Child

1999 • 29 min

Like a bottle rocket landing in mom's gas tank, WrathChild obliterates the conventional tedious moto-video norm! The result is a sickeningly beautiful mixture of intense riding serenity and balls-out motocross psychosis spanning the realms of Freeride, Supercross and Outdoor Moto-X. Edited with a surgeon's chainsaw and blasting an unconventional blend of contracting musical genres, WrathChild sets the tone for the future as it perfects the art of mayhem.

Giant Crybaby

1999 • 55 min • Japan

Film by Yoshihiro Fukagawa, 1999.