All Films

Robinson Crusoe Island

1999 • 43 min • Chile, France

A passionate fan of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as a 13-year-old boy, Guzmán was delighted to find in his adult years that the story is based on actual events & a real place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 700 kilometres from the Chilean coast. This moves him to film & construct a kind of ironic travel journal as he sets out to rediscover the island, all the while in constant play with the fields of history, literature & imagination.

Big Brother of Christmas Island

1999 • 57 min • Australia, Christmas Island

Twenty years ago, a hard-drinking, fiery British immigrant called Gordon Bennett, came to the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island to become General Secretary of the Union of Christmas Island Workers. By the time he died in 1991, he was known as 'Tai Ko Seng' which, roughly translated, means "big brother who delivers". Every year since his death, people gather on 30 July at the Island's Chinese cemetery, to pay tribute to Bennett as they would to their honoured ancestors. Big Brother of Christmas Island tells the moving story of how the legend of the "Tai Ko Seng" was born.

The Auton Diaries

1999 • 7 min

Have you ever wondered what happens to Autons between programmes — when they're "resting"? This is the story of one such Auton and his search for a career after the BBC threw him out onto the streets... and how he found BBV!

Back Room

1999 • 13 min • Spain

In the back room of a gay club in Barcelona, the camera stalks the men (privy to their inner thoughts in voice overs), who stalk each other on a typically busy Saturday night.

Through Eyes of the Dead

1999 • 29 min • United States of America

Shocking music videos and interviews with Necrophagia. Film works as an introduction to the underground that influences this particular music movement and showcases moments of intense performances.

Korn: Woodstock 99

1999 • 60 min

Blind Twist Chi Got the Life Good God A.D.I.D.A.S. Porno Creep Shoots and Ladders Justin Beg For Me Freak on a Leash Falling Away From Me Faget My Gift to You

Akbar's Cheetah

1999 • 6 min

The Emperor Akbar breeds animals in captivity, to honour his first born son. His unsettled cheetah fails to breed. Akbar experiments with the enclosures he has built for his collection in order to induce the cheetahs to mate. After many frustrated attempts, Akbar gains a greater understanding.

Grand Theft Auto 2: The Movie

1999 • 8 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

Live-Action short film that Rockstar Games made for GTA2. It depicts a day in the life of Claude Speed, the main character of the game.

A Silent Day

1999 • 20 min • Japan

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

1999 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well

1999 • 42 min • Japan

Documentary on the life of Teruo Kawamoto, a leader of Minamata disease activism

Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)

1999 • 56 min

This is the story of one town's journey to survive the changes of a new economic era. It begins in Midwestern America ... but it's more than that. It's the story of every industrial town struggling to find its way in a new age. This PBS documentary tells a story about how one community in Ohio is trying to adapt to the historic economic crosswinds sweeping the world today. Lima is a town of 45,000 residents in the agriculturally rich northwestern part of the state. Lima's journey, through the 20' century, is a microcosm reflecting many of the economic trends that have effected millions and has reshaped this country. Lost in Middle America is a discovery process where people help tell the story of Lima through their own personal stories. This is a story of every industrial town struggling to find its way in a new age. It's a story of lost pride, enduring hope, and the strength of the human spirit.

50 Years of Cyprus: War and Peace

1999 • 45 min • Turkey

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Live at Bizarre Festival

1999 • 54 min • Germany

Filmed in Cologne, Germany, for 1999's Bizarre Festival, Joe and the band play new material as well as Clash classics for an adoring audience.

Hermit Crab

1999 • 30 min

A human-sized story about an old-fashioned man.

Everest At Any Cost

1999 • 57 min • France

In 1983, three climbers became the first French people to reach the summit of Everest. Among them were expedition leader Pierre Mazeaud and a promising 25-year-old climber, Jean Afanassieff. Twenty years later, the two legends, accompanied by mountain guide Michel Pellé, retrace the steps of their exploit and make the trek from Kathmandu to the foot of the roof of the world. This is an opportunity to retrace the history of the successive assaults on Everest and to assess the current situation of a mountain that has become a victim of its own success: while Sherpas have been able to take advantage of Western enthusiasm and thus enrich themselves and equip the summit to make it more accessible, the site's attendance poses numerous problems, both human and ecological.

Samedi, dimanche et aussi lundi

1999 • 13 min

The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

1999 • 51 min

1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

50 Years of Cyprus: Separation

1999 • 50 min • Turkey

32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!

Shame No More

1999 • 12 min • United States of America

In true 1950's educational film style we watch as high school boy Johnny wrestles with a terrible secret. Johnny is a closeted-heterosexual. What will his dads do when they discover he's only pretending to be like everyone else.

Operation Grandma

1999 • 50 min • Israel

Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury their grandmother on her kibbutz. The story takes place in Israel, in the fictional kibbutz "Asisim".

Ian Dury: On My Life!

1999 • 60 min

Autobiographical documentary in which Ian Dury, fighting a battle with cancer to which he would later succumb, recalls his life and career. With contributions from painter Peter Blake and members of Dury's band, the Blockheads.

A Bunny Girl's Tale

1999 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Intrigued by the desire to have been a Bunny Girl, the director takes a look at what it meant. Interviewing several of the original Bunnies she learns the rules and expectations on the girls as well as the more sinister side of a 1976 murder.

Dead on Time

1999 • 15 min

It's the last fifteen minutes of 1999 and Steve Armitage plans to leave his mark by becoming the first suicide of the new millennium. However, complications ensue with a busted power card, a homicidal landlord, and a very pregnant neighbor.