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Titanic: End of an Era

Titanic: End of an Era

1998 • 60 min • United Kingdom
The Twentieth Century swept in on a tide of Progress - with great advances in communications and transport. Society was still class-ridden, and at that time, Britain was still building 50% of the world's merchant ships. In the quest for speed, Cunard had built the largest and fastest liners in Lusitania and Mauritania. But The White Star Company opted for safety and comfort. They planned a new breed of huge liners which would be the safest and most luxurious afloat. The Olympic was first and the Titanic followed. Modifications gave here a greater tonnage than her sister. She was a floating palace, the biggest and - it seemed - the safest ship in the world. Her tragic maiden voyage was to bring about key changes in the law and mode of sea travel. This was not just another shipwreck - it was an End of an Era!
Radioactive Crotch Man in: King for a Day

Radioactive Crotch Man in: King for a Day

1998 • 3 min • United States of America
Your favorite crotch powered super hero must stop a fiendish plot to turn all the worlds entertainers into Elvis impersonators.
No Neck Joe - The Turtle

No Neck Joe - The Turtle

1998 • 1 min • United States of America
No Neck Joe VI. Joe kills a Laughing Turtle.
Inside the Golden Statue

Inside the Golden Statue

1998 • 56 min • United States of America
A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.
Nine

Nine

1998 • 22 min • Canada
The year I turned nine I became pathologically afraid that my parents would die. I stopped letting them leave the house at night, even for a walk around the block. I'd call them repeatedly at restaurants if they tried to go out for dinner and once threatened to kill myself if anything happened to them. That's when they sent me to a psychiatrist. This is the story of the year I was nine.
Intruder

Intruder

1998 • 14 min • Germany
A stop-motion animation short film.
La culotte d'une zouave

La culotte d'une zouave

1998 • 13 min
A country road, a couple in a car and an unexpected obstacle. And then the man is going to have to prove his love.
Puerto Underground 4: Alma y Corazón

Puerto Underground 4: Alma y Corazón

1998 • 43 min
Alma y Corazon features the action at sea, but also gives an underground overview of the town of Puerto Escondido. No longer, a small, sleepy Mexican fishing village, Puerto Escondido is now a booming tourist town built around the barreling beachbreaks that have been attracting surfers since the 60s. Although the Mexican Pipeline is the main attraction, surfers have been spreading up and down the coast both ways to see what is happening, and Alma y Corazon provides some revealing glimpses of secret spots that are about to cause a big sensation in the professional surfing world.
Faster Pancho Vila, Kill! Kill! Kill!

Faster Pancho Vila, Kill! Kill! Kill!

1998 • 10 min • Brazil
Pancho Villa, in a moment of delirium, “murders” a mannequin, thinking he is killing everyone.
The Warner Bros. Story: 75 Years of Laughter

The Warner Bros. Story: 75 Years of Laughter

1998 • 60 min
A one-hour prime time special celebrating 75 years of comedies.
Kisangani Diary

Kisangani Diary

1998 • 52 min • Austria, France
Along an overgrown rail track south of the Zairean town Kisangani, a UN expedition together with a handful of journalists discover “lost” refugees. They are eighty thousand Hutus from far away Rwanda, the last survivors of three years of hunger and armed persecution that transpired throughout the vast Congo basin. The Hutu-refugees leave the forest, gathering in two gigantic camps. Hundreds of refugees die every day from diseases and malnutrition The Rwandans are promised repatriation with airplanes out of Kisangani. The film traces those refugees into the heart of the rainforest, and the hopeless attempts to help them.. But only four weeks later, the unprotected UN-camps are again attacked by machine-gun fire, deliberately massacred by factions of the rebel army (AFDL) of today’s Democratic Republic Congo. Eighty thousand men, women and children disappear once again back into the jungle. (jedensvet.cz)
M.C. Escher: Sky and Water 1

M.C. Escher: Sky and Water 1

1998 • 3 min • Canada
The art of M.C. Escher (Dutch printmaker) never fails to facinate and astound. M.C. Escher: Sky and Water 1/M.C. Escher : l'air et l'eau 1 mixes traditional and computer animation -- accompanied by a stunning soundtrack -- to playfully explore and deconstruct the optical illusion within one of the artist's most famous works. A fitting homage to a master on the 100th anniversary of his birth. A film without words.
The Tale of Teeka

The Tale of Teeka

1998 • 46 min • Canada
Returning to the now abandoned family farm, a man’s memories of his past resurface. Seen through the eyes of his younger self, Maurice’s most vivid memory is of his friendship with Teeka, his pet goose, and the sole refuge this provides from a violent relationship with his parents. As Maurice and Teeka escape deeper into a fantasy world inspired by Tarzan comics, the goose realizes that beneath all the play lies a dark universe from which neither he nor Maurice will be able to escape. Based on the book by Michel Marc Bouchard.
Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

Patti Smith at Anthology Film Archives Febr. 19, 1998

1998 • 5 min • United States of America
Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.
Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni

Oreste Pipolo, fotografo di matrimoni

1998 • 44 min • Italy, Netherlands
In all of Naples, photographer Oreste Pipolo is renowned for his wedding photographs. An album with the heavily accentuated romantic pictures of Pipolo is, like a copious dinner in an expensive hotel, an essential part of a successful wedding. If need be, every self-respecting bridal couple will spend their last savings to be able to engage Pipolo. In ORESTE PIPOLO, the city of Naples and in particular the Neapolitan wedding is the universe where Pipolo holds sway. We see him routinely handling nervous couples and making preparations for the ceremony of yet another pair, meanwhile constantly commanding his assistants. But when his customers have disappeared from sight another Pipolo appears, one who after thirty years in business is fed up with it and really cannot stand to see another bridal couple.
Letters Not About Love

Letters Not About Love

1998 • 59 min • United States of America
Two contemporary poets, one from America (Lyn Hejinian), the other from Russia (Arkadii Dragomoshchenko) are asked to begin a correspondence based on a list of ordinary words such as 'home,' 'book,' 'poverty,' 'violence.' They reflect on each word, considering its conventional meaning and what it means to them personally. The resulting extraordinary five-year dialogue is by turns poignant, profound and funny. Both poets move seamlessly from present to past, a move echoed by the use of striking new and archival footage from both countries. Narrative, travelogue, and memoir are combined in a fusion of image, sound and word that is a total sensual experience. As the film progresses and intimacy grows, both the similarities and differences between Russian and American ways of grasping the world are revealed. Letters Not About Love becomes both a revealing portrait of two cultures and a compelling exploration of language, communication, and the art of mutual understanding.
Upon This Planet

Upon This Planet

1998 • 14 min • Japan
A sensitive girl who lives in a port town develops a strong interest in the wider world when a young man she meets sets off on a journey. What kind of world is waiting beyond the sea?
Prince William & Prince Harry: The Next Royal Generation

Prince William & Prince Harry: The Next Royal Generation

1998 • 49 min • United Kingdom
They are the heirs to a thousand years of Royal history; inheritors of all the privileges and responsibilities of the modern monarchy – a monarchy they must take into the new Millennium. Yet William and Harry are also ordinary young men from a broken home who have come to terms with the devastating loss of their mother. Knowing they were destined always to be in the public eye, Diana was determined that her children would have the happiest possible childhood both at home and in the exercise of their royal duties. Even throughout her dark years she somehow managed to be both the nation's idol and the ideal carer for her sons. From their earliest years, William and Harry have lived unusually enriched lives, experiencing a world unseen by earlier royal children and meeting people from every level of society – from the most privileged to the most deprived.
Monica and George In The Magic Toyshop

Monica and George In The Magic Toyshop

1998 • 60 min • Australia
We bet you've never been in a toyshop like this one before with so many magical surprises! Our adventures are always more fun when we're with our friends so why don't you come along?
Hustle!! Tokitama-kun

Hustle!! Tokitama-kun

1998 • 4 min • Japan
Director's description: "I want to show you a world that you have never seen." I think this is something that all computer graphics producers strive for. What to create?! How do you create it with computer graphics? The skill of drawing does not change that much when performed on a computer instead of paper. This work is a mixture of traditional cel-based animation, 3-D animation and 2-D computer graphics techniques, each with its own history and production standards. My theme for this production was "The Transformation of Time and Space." I used ToonShader and hand drawn animation to achieve the desired effect. I think that I have succeeded in creating a world that you have never seen.
Groovin' in the House, An Aerobic Concert

Groovin' in the House, An Aerobic Concert

1998 • 60 min • United States of America
This exercise tape is filmed in Richard Simmons' house on his birthday. It includes oldies, disco, county, and reggae music.
Bingo

Bingo

1998 • 5 min • Canada
A wildly surrealistic computer-generated animation in which a young man is psychologically brutalized by circus characters into believing he is a clown.
July 13 - July   19, 1998 Craiova, The Retirement Home

July 13 - July 19, 1998 Craiova, The Retirement Home

1998 • 52 min • Romania
In the Romanian town of Craiova, five hundred elderly people are passing their days in a home, for which they pay with their paltry pensions. Every day looks the same, every activity is predictable. Even the people‘s complaints are part of the daily routine. One of the residents hopes in vain that a lottery ticket will bring him refuge. For six days, filmmakers Andreea Paduraru and Cristi Puiu try to get through to these people, who are carrying their whole past on their backs. To the question what the best days of their lives was, nobody can or wants to give an answer. Nearly everyone immediately starts about the day-to-day worries and problems in the home. Finally, one woman tells about her activities as head of the research department of the government of Ceausescu, with whom she once had an argument. Another resident recalls his time as a soldier in World War II and proceeds to the order of the day.
Junket Whore

Junket Whore

1998 • 55 min
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.