All Films

removed

1999 • 6 min • Mexico, United States of America

Starting with a piece of vintage porn, filmmaker Naomi Uman painstakingly removed each female figure from the footage using nail polish remover, leaving a striking absence where there's usually a fleshy presence. Uman's celebrated film is a smart retort to pornography's obsessive gaze at the female body.

Curbside

1999 • 23 min

A parody of late night talk shows hosted by Terrytoons characters Heckle and Jeckle, accompanied by three brand new Terrytoons shorts.

Doraemons: Strange, Sweet, Strange?

1999 • 16 min • Japan

A Doraemons film. It premiered on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe and Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding .

Toilette

1999 • 18 min • Italy

The guests of a birthday party divulge their intimate side. The bathroom mirror affords us with a view of the personal catastrophes of the party guests.

Fall 1990

1999 • 35 min

Freshman Year brings a romance between two very different young men.

Triunfador

1999 • 13 min • Peru

Marvin, an actor in cheap television commercials, is secretly in love with the beautiful Jenny and attributes his rejection to his very short stature. Depressed, he wanders through a park where a Harlequin encourages him to take control of his destiny with a magic pill.

Ghost Taxi

1999 • 49 min • United States of America, Canada

Forty years ago Daredevil Dan Donovan was sent to the dark abyss. He has now been given one last chance to reenter the light. He must exchange his soul for the souls of thirteen other deserving candidates.

The Golubovic's Chemist

1999 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

The plot of the film is set in 1964, in a small provincial town, inside the Golubović pharmacy, which was once famous. Immobile Gustav Golubović spends his last days of life in the attic of the house.

Crawley

1999 • 7 min

A boy is afflicted by obsessive-compulsive disorder in a serious way. Dark and hauntingly funny, Crawley was co-directed by Lisa Hammer and Ben Edlund (The Tick).

The Paperboy

1999 • 55 min

Elliot is The Paperboy, an amateur newspaper enthusiast who adds a personal flare to his work: every paper he delivers is different. No one paper is the same.

Loyalties

1999 • 57 min • Canada

When Dr. Ruth Whitehead meets graduate student Carmelita Robertson, who had come to do research at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, the women realize both their ancestors come from South Carolina, and that their names sound shudderingly familiar. Embarking on a journey to Charleston in search of their connection, Ruth and Carmelita encounter a modern South where the Klan is on trial for burning black churches and where they must come to terms with the thunderous cruelty of the past.

The Shape

1999 • 3 min • Argentina

A murder is shown in three different points of view in La Plata.

Arisa☆Good Luck

1999 • 29 min • Japan

Arisa, a 16-year-old high school girl, accidentally has an extreme fighting suit that her brother invented implanted in her body. It's a slightly embarrassing suit that makes her emit an H voice when she transforms. Moreover, from that day on, Arisa is forced against her will to fight a secret society of evil. "Oh, I want to tell my feelings to Matsumoto-senpai, the man of my dreams, but only when I do so, I transform into an H battle suit."

The Last Subway

1999 • 23 min • Italy

A young man enters the Rome Metro with a friend, where they notice a woman who has just left the restroom with her dress accidentally tucked into her panties. They tell her about her inadvertent exposure, after which one of the boys boards a train, leaving his besotted friend standing on the platform - totally smitten with the lovely young lady. The two are waiting on opposite platforms, where they await the last train. The young man proclaims his love at first sight - telling her she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Obviously flattered, the woman reciprocates in a way the young man will never forget...

Eviction

1999 • 12 min • Ireland

Set in 19th Century Ireland, the 'Molly Maguires' take revenge on an old man who has been telling tales to the Landlord.

Jingle Bells

1999 • 48 min • United States of America

A family with very little money worries about not being able to buy presents for each other, until they receive a little inspiration from a Christmas legend.

Bangers

1999 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Julie-Anne comes home from a hard day at the office to discover her mother has locked the cat in the house all day (again) and that she is expected to cook 'bangers' for dinner. Preparing the meal becomes a manifestation of all the repressed tensions in Julie-Anne's work and home life.

Digimon Adventure

1999 • 20 min • Japan

Two children receive a strange egg that hatches into their very first Digimon, leading to the night that would change their lives forever.

Cousin

1999 • 4 min • Australia

Adam reminisces about the time he spent with his older cousin who suffered from cerebral palsy. Revisiting his eighth birthday celebrations, Adam talks about a tragedy that separated them forever.

El Rodeo

1999 • 17 min • Argentina

A couple of hunters have the mission of murdering a horde of zombies in a town in the province of Buenos Aires.

Wind

1999 • 34 min • Australia

Australia, 1867. In the bleak high country, a young black tracker and his elderly sergeant follow the trail of a killer, a traditional Indigenous man.

Quattro

1999 • 33 min

'Quattro' is set on the eve of the new millenium: New Year's Eve, 1999. To celebrate the beginning of a new century, two men and a woman have a wild night of passion together in a hotel room.

Offerlamm

1999 • 29 min • Sweden

Daniel is a hitchhiker who arrives at a slaughterhouse for some temporary work, the owner of the slaughterhouse Gunnar decides to kill Daniel when he realises he is having an affair with his wife.

Dream

1999 • 28 min • Italy

In 'Dream', a beautiful woman falls asleep on an empty beach and starts dreaming about bizarre sexual encounters, which then begin to merge with reality.