All Films

The Lost Supper

1998 • 48 min • United Kingdom

This rare film tells the strange, disquieting and protracted story of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper. Some say the results of the restoration are glorious. Others have called them tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.

Canal Street: First Stop in America

1998 • 50 min

An insider's tour of this bustling street, where immigrants are caught between the forces of the law and a street with a law of its own.

Kentucky Teenage Vampires

1998 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Rod Ferrell the leader of a vampire cult in the bible town of Murray Kentucky drove to Florida where he brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend's parents. The film explores the impact of his actions on the friends he left behind and the community of Murray Kentucky. There is also a death row interview with Rod Ferrell who explains his actions.

The Call of Mist

1998 • 10 min

A vivid meditation on cloning, death, memory and media set on an remote Scottish island. A short film on the millennium’s end commissioned by BBC TV.

Untitled

1998 • 6 min • Canada

A poignant articulation of introspection and alienation, over a crisply edited montage.

Do dia em que Macunaíma e Gilberto Freire visitaram o terreiro de Tia Ciata, mudando o rumo da nossa história

1998 • 21 min • Botswana, Brazil

With Tia Ciata, Freyre, Macunaíma and samba at the birth of a nation.

Angel

1998 • 5 min • Canada

With lush visual effects and evocative soundscape, this movement tape is a poetic exploration of one man's fall from grace, as he becomes disillusioned with gay ideals of beauty.

Our Silent Traces

1998 • 60 min

A filmed personal journal in which a woman reviews her Korean ancestry, her troubled adoption, and her arrival in France.

Holiday

1998 • 5 min • Germany

A playful, experimental musical short painted directly on black film.

O'Donoghue's Opera

1998 • 37 min • Ireland

In this mock opera infused with gallows humour, Ronnie Drew and his band of bohemian merrymakers, The Dubliners, re-enact the execution ballad ‘The Night Before Larry Was Stretched’. Larry finds himself caught in a hangman’s noose as just reward for being ‘the best burglar in all Ireland’. Made in 1965, the film remained uncompleted and unseen until its restoration in 1998.

Remember Me

1998 • 10 min

Through video collage, Cantor sets her unapologetically fatalist observations on love and intimacy to a wide-ranging set of audio-visual quotations, including clips from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, the well-known beach scene from From Here to Eternity, the works of John Cassavetes, and more.

When you’re asleep

1998 • 2 min • United Kingdom

This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read on a wall in the underground... a phrase actually taken from a Mano Solo song.

Millennium Bug

1998 • 1 min • United States of America

A series of fantastic and futuristic animations correspond to new words found in a dictionary.

2nd May, Chawotsukuru

1998 • 25 min

The scenes of the tea-making process, which he says he rarely films, are not only unusual as a record, but also have a rhythm that makes you feel as if you are working alongside the tea master, and you are drawn into the process. The film fully reflects the director's intention of "capturing the coolness of people working silently". The story is a simple one, but the care with which the scenes of tea picking, tea making and workrooms are filmed creates a refreshing atmosphere that is unique to this film. In particular, the theme and subject matter are fused together in a scene in which the "moment of sublimation", which occurs when the body is continuously focused on one thing and the mind is emptied, is superimposed on the scenery outside the window where the protagonist looks out.

Echoed Silence

1998 • 8 min • South Korea

This film is an experiment on editing, deconstructing and reconstructing, a game of collision between frames. As a narrative body disintegrates, it gradually becomes possible for viewers to pay attention to the phenomena of intra-frame intervals.

U&I dOt cOm

1998 • 19 min

U & I dOt cOm is an experimental narrative/documentary hybrid about Zoey, a teenage girl who negotiates her identity in cyberspace. Dreaming about the perfect true love, she secretly navigates 3-D worlds to find romance. A web contest sweeps her into a dreamscape of desire and deception as hidden mechanisms of e-commerce, online data-mining, and real-time consumer profiling monitor her every move. When Zoey finally rebels, her sense of self, her home, and her relationship with her mother are forever transformed in the new cyber-cultural domain.

The Pool: Shooting with Tom Bianchi

1998 • 55 min • United States of America

Erotic photographer Tom Bianchi trains the lens of his camera on a handful of attractive and muscular male models in this posing video. The Pool: Shooting With Tom Bianchi offers insight into Bianchi's creative process as he stages a photo shoot at a swimming pool with a group of well-proportioned male models, including several bodybuilding medalists from the Amsterdam Gay Games.

Jockey, professor och folkkär målare

1998 • 29 min • Sweden

Documentary about the Swedish artist and painter Philip von Schantz.

Chiasa Is The Best!

1998 • 40 min • Japan

Gravure Idol VHS released in 1998.

Per Oscarsson - Bakom rubrikerna och replikerna

1998 • 54 min • Sweden

Documentary about the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson mostly consisting of long interviews with him in his home on a farm.

Automaton Flavour

1998 • 6 min

MS-DOS demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

AUTOCHRONIQUES Version 2

1998 • 30 min

Experimental film by Olivier Fouchard.

Journey of Life

1998 • 40 min

Watch as a tiny seed battles impossible odds for survival, and see God's impeccable design for plant growth at work! Just as God has a plan for the vegetation of the earth, so does He have a plan to root the Gospel in our hearts. We're urged to examine God's plan for our lives, looking beyond the daily struggles we must endure-much like the seed-looking instead for the promise of Heaven. Spanish track included. Approx. 40 minutes.

El colchón

1998 • 12 min

A young artist is abandoned by his lover, who leaves her mattress as the only trace of her life with him. The mattress becomes an obsession.