All Films

His Hidden Presence

1998 • 17 min

As Varela moved on from film, working with video from the 1990s to the present, the spiritual and autobiographic concerns of his work remained, evidenced in the longer works that conclude this programme, works in contemplation of sacred and profane experience. His Hidden Presence continues the multiform, ‘found’ image construction of In Progress, accommodating a collage soundtrack of electronic beats, a distorting, looping horn, and a loop of the Velvet Underground, to accompany surreal and horrific scenes of wrestling and crucifixions, as well as diaristic photography.

Star Trek: Generation Spice

1998 • 5 min • Canada

The crew of the Enterprise find themselves on a planet where they are confronted by Girl Power!

Remotely In Touch

1998 • 15 min • Canada

Poetic and surreal, Remotely In Touch explores what we perceive as an image; what is 'real'; what is constructed or science fiction; and what are our new codes of signification created by systems of information. Remotely in Touch uses images created by remote digital signals — sent via satellite or robotic camera — and juxtaposes these with analog video images encapsulating a 'visceral moment' or an 'embodied movement'.

Slasher

1998 • 5 min • Canada

Disclosure of HIV status to a lover, rejection and disgust from another, and general malaise convince a young man that suicide would be better than reality. In conclusion the angel of death Azrael bids farewell to the disillusioned youth as he slashes himself into oblivion.

Troughman

1998 • 5 min • Australia

A short documentary on a Sydney gay icon, Troughman.

1-800 Yer Mama

1998 • 6 min • Canada

She cooks! She cleans! She nurtures! It s Lesbo-Mom! Get yours today! The versatile new accessory for today's discerning dyke... An embittered little rant on the fetishizing of lesbian moms and their kids.

Daily

1998 • 8 min • United States of America

5 am she rises. 7 am she is ready. This film observes one woman's morning routine. We track this intimate ritual. She is mechanical and efficient. Her morning drill is done with precision, yet her look is vacant. Despite the clockwork, things are not as "together" as they seem. Disconnected editing and sound create an otherworldly space; her apartment is never-neverland. Time is manipulated and actions are exaggerated. Her person is fragmented. She could be a cartoon.

Crash Skid Love

1998 • 4 min • Canada

A claymation skater-boy love story that swings.

International Day of Transsexuality

1998 • 38 min • Canada

Every year, l'Association des Transsexuels-les du Québec organizes, in collaboration with Café Cléopatre, an evening of transsexual pride. Entitled "Journée Internationale de la Transsexualité," the event is an opportunity for several generations of transsexual women to get together, recognize the involvement of many in their community and pay tribute to individuals who figure importantly in their history.

Opening Closet X: A Voice for Queer Youth

1998 • 17 min • United States of America

A documentary by and about about queer youth in San Francisco intended for use in high schools to increase tolerance and decrease hate crimes and prejudice against young queer kids.

Rain at home

1998 • 4 min • Japan

The video Rain at home stages a young girl who is captured in a solitary, melancholic mood. The piece was made during a rain season in Japan and illustrates the touch of the water and the appreciation of it.

Pierre Paolo

1998 • 5 min • United States of America

Silent black and white images evoke and simultaneously erase time, as an elderly woman is shown at various ages recounting the love of her life. While braiding her hair on a staircase, she recalls the walk up the hill, the passage to look at the vista beyond the backyard, and the first time she met her husband at the ocean's edge.

As Life, As Pangcah

1998 • 27 min

Part oral history, part reflection on a culture at risk of being erased, this documentary presents a deep dialogue between a 93-year-old Pangcah chieftain and an indigenous filmmaker. Through words and songs, hunting trips and weaving of vines, the elderly chieftain lives and embodies the ways of the Pangcah people. He also recounts his frustrated attempts in defending traditional culture against Taiwan's encroaching modernity.

Hete Vuren

1998 • 50 min • Belgium

Master Gerard is retiring after a long career as a teacher. He has been fascinated for years by everything related to firefighters and at his farewell party he receives a statue of a fire truck as a gift. This gives him the idea not to just sit quietly at home and enjoy his retirement, but to try to join the firefighter squad as a volunteer

The Cormorant Scarecrow

1998 • 30 min • Croatia

It depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurd.

The Story of Jackie Pullinger; The Law of Love

1998 • 53 min

Twenty-two-year old Jackie Pullinger graduated as an oboe student at the Royal College of Music in England and then boarded a slow boat to China and prayed for guidance about where to get off. She ended up in Hong Kong. She began with no organization and no financial base, just an unshakable conviction that the same Jesus who helped and healed the hurting and hopeless can do the same today.

A metrópole e o balé

1998 • 25 min

Schist

1998 • 7 min

Silent, but often paired with Burt & Chabade's Four Possible Soundtracks for Dirk De Bruyn's "Schist" (1999).

Two Dads

1998 • 44 min

Although in recent years the Dutch government has passed or prepared several laws to facilitate adoption and foster parenthood by homosexual couples, there are still many social prejudices against the raising of children by two people of the same gender. Aad and Ron, who are taking care of no less than six foster children, are confronted by this bigotry almost every day. Things become more harrowing when the father of the multi-handicapped Michael (8), who has been living for almost his entire life with the two men, obstructs adoption on account of the homosexual proclivity of the foster fathers. TWEE VADERS candidly documents one year in the life of Aad and Ron and their foster children.

Olhar/Ver Gérard, Fotógrafo

1998 • 50 min • Portugal

Life of photographer Gérard Castello-Lopes, disciple of Cartier-Bresson.

Heartbeat

1998 • 1 min

35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

Takahiko Takayanagi

1998 • 28 min

Kenji Onishi films Takahiko Takayanagi, journalist of Yomiuri-paper, local TV. Ibaraki prefecture prefectural assembly member election. The barefoot election district.

Disney's Animal World: Penguins and Seals & Sea Lions

1998 • 52 min

Learning about animals is fun when your favorite Disney characters lead the way! Stunning live-action wildlife clips of animals in their natural habitats are combined with heart-warming footage from Disney's animated classics to introduce youngsters to the world of animals. Each segment stars a different animal, offering kids detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle.

Painting the Town

1998 • 10 min • United States of America

"Last autumn on a series of weekend nights I went to “The Crossroads of the World” with a camera and a tape recording of an Opera I love. I played the Opera and shot film for hours at a time. Later in the editing room, I removed what I merely documented and braided the sublime." – Jim Jennings, quoted in the catalogue of the 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival