All Films

Crown of Fire

1998 • 29 min

Crown of Fire takes us on a journey into the cloistered world of renowned Benedictine artist, Dunstan Massey, OSB. Through his animated art work and contemplative encounter with a mysterious patriarch from the past, he tells the story of Benedict of Nursia. Benedict became the founder of Western monasticism - but not before overcoming a terrifying ordeal in the desert.

Flow

1998 • 5 min

Included in the Joanie 4 Jackie video chain letter, The Cherry Cherry Chain Letter (1998)

Ernesto, mi amigo

1998 • 14 min • Cuba

A documentary on Ernesto Dominguez, a proud garbage collector near Havana, Cuba.

Blue Sticks

1998 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about a planet whose inhabitants chew on poisonous blue sticks.

KOKODA: The Last Parade

1998 • 59 min

A group of Australian World War II diggers, veterans of the Kokoda campaign in Papua New Guinea, return to the battle site at Isurava 56 years later, to say a final farewell to the mates they left behind.

Elena Izcue: La armonía silenciosa

1998 • 27 min • Peru

The life and work of teacher Elena Izcue.

Rotation

1998 • 18 min

A journey into the threshold of pain via a symphonic onslaught of colour and sound.

Believe in It

1998 • 4 min • Japan

Our dreams will come true if we believe in them. This original film is basically about how easily we can fly, as told by a young girl in an Osaka dialect.

Pictures of Sound

1998 • 12 min

Depicting the coastal islands outside Vancouver, 'Pictures of Sound' is an enigmatic landscape portrait caught by a stationary camera. Reducing land and water into colour gradations on a flat plane, Kerr compresses and fragments temporality to focus on the gradual shifts and rhythms of light. Boats that penetrate the frame serve as reminders of the artificial world, and indeed, of the medium itself. In something akin to invading blips on a radar screen, they are rendered as computer glitches plotting their way systematically across the horizon.

She Makes Me Wanna Die

1998 • 30 min • Hong Kong

1998 short film by Rita Hui

Wild Eye

1998 • 15 min

Directed by Johanna Vaude.

Full Service Automation

1998 • 6 min

Full Service Automation is a non-narrative experimental animation utilizing photocopied photographs. Characterized by movement that is barely possible, incoherent, or without apparent motivation, it is a deliberately broken or failed animation. The body here becomes something unpredictable and unknown, unattached from the usual meanings, but also seems to feel more intensely. The result is an unsettling and ambiguous immediacy that is identified with both suffering and pleasure.

The Firm Parts - Sculpted, Buns, Hips & Thighs

1998 • 34 min

Lift, tighten, and shape all three major problem areas (hips, buttocks and thighs) with this intense workout. Three factors make these routines as effective as they are popular. 1. Performed entirely while lying down, this workout allows maximum-intensity concentration (and muscle toning) by focusing on one body part at a time. 2. Continue to grow stronger and shapelier by gradually increasing ankle weights to five pounds. 3. The FIRM's unique (but optional) trick of adding dumbbells (3-12 lbs.) to "floor" exercise adds the ultimate level of intensity and results-especially for the buttocks. Master Instructor Tracie Long leads these tested, proven routines compiled from The FIRM's acclaimed Tortoise & Hare Cross-Trainer workouts.

Floating By Eagle Rock / She is Asleep

1998 • 19 min • United States of America

The title Floating by Eagle Rock / She Is Asleep is culled from a) an image in the film that evokes the spirit of relaxed alertness, and b) the title of a quiet John Cage percussion piece that the images accompany.

The Man From Podalida

1998 • 58 min • Sweden

Pierre comes from an island that does not exist and speaks a language that is not available - he is the man from Podalida. Conversation with Pierre, Poet Katarina Frostenson and a French Linguist on Language and Identity.

Bigfoot: Encounter in Burbank

1998 • 16 min

A gigantic, hairy biped creature is caught on video as it wanders through Johnny Carson Park, Burbank. Is this undeniable evidence of the existence of Bigfoot? We sent our own crew to investigate recent encounters in a quiet Los Angeles suburb. Lead by Dr. Nic Balitas, our program presents careful and meticulous analysis of the facts enabling the viewer to reach their own conclusions.

P.s.

1998 • 8 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

An abstract portrait of a middle aged man, weaving together iconography from a range of film genres including classic Hollywood films from the 40s and New Deal documentaries. P.S. attempts to unravel the nuances of personality & character portrayal through the interaction of sound and image. As a couple engage in an argument, which carries on over the course of an evening, we watch a man, presumably the man speaking, working the land & going about his chores, smoking, walking through a forest and watching fireworks.

Chillida: el arte y los sueños (Chillida: art and dreams)

1998 • 54 min

A portrait of sculptor Eduardo Chillida.

Swell

1998 • 6 min

Desire disorients and bodily swellings result. A lovely concoction of hand-tinted and scratched film evoking a woman's flight from concrete to nature, spurred on by a kiss.

John Szarkowski: A Life in Photography

1998 • 48 min

Examining his double life as both curator and photographer, a career he abandoned and recently returned to with the publication of Mr. Bristol's Barn, this is a documentary on the man who helped establish photography for the first time as a true and different kind of art.

Man Ray monsieur machine à coudre

1998 • 53 min

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray's life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.

Kidsongs: Billy's Birthday

1998 • 28 min

It's Billy's Birthday and Ruby Biggle needs the Kidsongs Kids to help with his party in magical Biggleland. Songs include: I'm a Big Boy Now, Playmate, Simon Says, Limbo Rock, Happy Birthday to You and more!

Aves

1998 • 7 min • United States of America

A stop-motion menagerie of birds illuminate a nun’s spiritual ecstasy and terror in this experimental animated work set to the music of Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen.

The Stars We Are

1998 • 28 min • Sweden

In this slice of life documentary, Kalle, a gay, HIV-positive, wheelchair-bound skinhead and his friends Henrik and Ibrahim spend time over the Christmas holidays (Kalle's last) taking drugs, discussing life and hating people in general.