All Films

Flâneur III: Benjamin's Shadow

1998 • 40 min

A documentary on Walter Benjamin and his Passagenwerk.

Juliette

1998 • 40 min • United States of America

Magic hour 16mm film, shot in Huntington Park, San Francisco. Sound by Tarrl Lightowler and Matthew Swiezynski from that same year. Music involved modifying a 78 rmp record with a reel to reel deck.

I Love Nola

1998 • 2 min

Nola was born in New Orleans and lived most of her life in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She finally returned to her hometown in 2001. Filmed in 16 mm.

Hepa!

1998 • 7 min

Hepa! ' translates the haunting rhythm of Afro-Brazilian percussion into images, combining live performance images and hand-painted animations. The film explores Afro-Brazilian dance through these colorful animations, made from paintings on glass filmed frame by frame.

Jazz Slave Ships

1998 • 15 min • Canada, United Kingdom

Jazz Slave Ships was a site-specific performance collaboration between Vancouver artist Jan Wade and London-based performer Vanessa Richards that involved the creation of an ancestral altar. It took place in two U.K. ports in October 1996: on the West Coast in Whitehaven, Cumbria (the last English slaving port), in an 18th century bonded warehouse used to store liquor and guns used in the slave trade; and on the East Coast in Hull, Yorkshire in Wilberforce House, the birthplace of the anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce and now a museum of anti-slavery. The production took place over a 3-week period that began Sept. 30, 1996.

Riddim & Hardtimes

1998 • 10 min

Documentation on the work and performances of dub poet Lillian Allen from early in her career and beyond.

Thomas Bernhard, 1931–1989

1998 • 48 min

This film reveals, under the image of the provocative, misanthropic Austrian writer whose life was peppered with scandals and altercations, a funny and cheerful character, a "ruthless anarchist".

Sonata do mar

1998 • 6 min • Netherlands

Sonato do mar made use of the computer programme for choreographers 'Life Forms'. The film shows how three 'Life-Forms figures' perform a choreography on a backdrop of shots of the sea. They dance on the water without being limited by gravity, physical restrictions, time or place.

How to Break the Six Strongholds of Satan

1998 • 48 min

In this remarkable video, Bob Larson teaches critical principles of spiritual warfare, including how demons enter and maintain strongholds on their victims. Discover why unresolved emotions related to fear, abuse, rejection, despair, anger, and self hatred are demonic doorways to the soul. You'll also see startling real-life examples of people who were possessed by demons but found freedom when Bob performed exorcism on them, in the name of Jesus.

Tabula Smaragdina

1998 • 25 min

A 1997 live recording of Thomas Köner & Jürgen Reble's collaborative film. A separate final version was released as a digital recording in 2010.

T-Square Farewell & Welcome LIVE 1998

1998 • 56 min • Japan

The iconic concert from T-SQUARE in 1998.

Toys Killer

1998 • 23 min • Italy

Part One of the Toys Killer quadrilogy

Up to West House Alone

1998 • 2 min

Short film by Cao Kai.

Le Seuil

1998 • 8 min • Canada

A touching reflection on leaving home, this animation film is an impressionistic look at a son's departure from his mother's house. He hesitates in front of the chest of drawers and his old toy box. Objects turn back the clock, reminding him of childhood, his father's departure, adolescence... His mother also remembers while watching him through a half-open door. Will he succeed in wrenching himself away and crossing the threshold into a new life? An animation film made up of subtle touches that evoke emotion. A sigh, hesitant footsteps, a tinkling of piano notes, a tremor.

Transfigured

1998 • 6 min • Canada

Butterflies, totem poles and satellites. Incisive lines and slashes of colour. Images inspired by West Coast Aboriginal art, by nature and by personal experience. Welcome to the world of Canadian painter Jack Shadbolt, and to Transfigured/Transfiguré, Stephen Arthur's brilliant animated homage to his work. Using computer technology, Transfigured/Transfiguré portrays Shadbolt's shamanistic vision by animating a large number of his paintings into a seamless flow of interacting, transforming figures.

America's Black Warriors: Two Wars to Win

1998 • 50 min

Exclusive interviews with some of the U.S. military's first Black soldiers, sailors and airmen reveal how selflessly they fought against both systemic racism and foreign enemies.

Into the Light

1998 • 5 min

An abstract Super-8 film made by shooting directly into the beam of a projector through a distorting lens. Shards of coloured light pierce the blackness, accompanied by electronic music from customised circuits.

My Wife and My Daughter

1998 • 30 min

The film chooses the relationship between a photographer and his wife and daughter as its main line, and introduces the daily life experience of the only daughter of a family in Beijing. In the process of filming, the story of this family's life becomes an almost universal story; the films has been appreciated as an important work for analyzing the processes of Chinese families, children, schools, and education today.

Sissou-1998

1998 • 45 min • Japan

This film was the first acting experience for a woman in heels and a tight skirt, who ran, climbed over walls, opened manhole covers and walked endlessly through sewers in eighty-odd shots. It is also quite unusual to have a heroine who does not laugh at all, but she responds well to the demands, which must have been mentally and physically demanding. There is no spectacular action, but rather the endurance-style escapades convey the seriousness of life. The opening episode, in which Kay discovers that her lover is cheating on her, is a fairly well put-together romantic drama, although it is often forgotten because the second half of the film is entirely an escapade. Note that the director's name, the Yokogawa brothers, refers to one person, not several.

Hardcandy

1998 • 18 min • Japan

A Little Bit of Freedom

1998 • 34 min

This film is set in a traditional household in Nepal and documents a servant girl, Nani; a married woman, Sarita; and a mother-in-law, Ama. In interesting mixture of entrapment, duty and tradition unfold.

Breaking Leaves

1998 • 20 min

In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves that they need for healing. We then follow then home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion. Narrated by the people themselves –and with beautiful songs about the importance of leaves woven throughout – this poetic film gives unique insight into the culture.

雪狐

1998 • 6 min • China

Cheap Blonde

1998 • 5 min • Australia

"A famous filmmaker said 'Cinema is the history of men filming women.'" These 12 words are rearranged in Cheap Blonde 22 times, to alter and corrupt the original meaning of the statement. This work aims to highlight the contrived nature of every filmed image.