All Films

Escape to Shanghai

1999 • 60 min • China

Documentary on Heinz Grünberg's own experience of coming to Shanghai as a Jewish refugee when he was 6.

Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins

1999 • 44 min

Promotional TV special for Disney's Tarzan (1999) featuring excerpts of a Phil Collins concert in Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre interspersed with interviews from various cast and crew members.

Suite: Moxibustion

1999 • 9 min

Also a double portrait, this video is an inside-out variation on DOUBLE NEPHRECTOMY. Here, the video uses projected light to penetrate my own body picturing my sister in her trade as an acupuncturist. While she treats me through burning herbs (moxibustion) and acupuncture needling, the video imagines the body as landscape. The contradiction between her commitment to an ancient healing practice and her dependence for survival on modern high technology medicine is an implicit subtext of the video.

Les Années Zola/Barrès (1898-1918)

1999 • 52 min • France

The unity of this period was provided by nationalism. Nationalism of the Dreyfus Affair (Barrès, Maurras, Drumont, Déroulède), the republican nationalism (Péguy), and the nationalism of the "Union sacrée" of the Great War. Pitted against these nationalisms was internationalist and pacifist socialism, which would itself adhere to the "Union sacrée "in 1914. This nationalist tendency also affected the young "Nouvelle Revue française" (Gide, Schlumberger, Copeau, Ghéon, Drouin), which defended the notion literature in its own right, but which itself was shot through with the spirit of the period. In counterpoint : Romain Rolland, author of "Au dessus de la mêlée". This first documentary of the series ends with the Russian Revolution.

Alfons och pappa Åberg

1999 • 43 min • Sweden

A Swedish animated family film based on Gunilla Bergström's beloved children's book character.

Yumeji Tanima's Scream Theater

1999 • 45 min • Japan

VHS OVA in a moving manga style based on the works of horror comedy artist Yumeji Tanima. Contains 2 stories. 1 "初恋のゾンビ" 2 "墓地の秘密" In the first segment, Yuki, a young student, suffers an accident at school but is soon ressurected, however she fell in love with a spirit during her quick visit to the world of the dead. In the second segment, 3 close friends plan a courage test in a haunted graveyard, Ryoko who is afraid of cemeteries, Toshiko who doesn't believe in paranormal phenomena, and Masako who lives in a house inside a cemetery.

Shania Twain: Come On Over

1999 • 43 min • United States of America

Come On Over aired on November 25, 1999. Twain performed for a crowd of 40,000 people following a Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins game at the Texas Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Most of her hit songs at the time made the setlist cut, including Rock This Country!, whose music video was taken off the special.

Modern Times

1999 • 5 min

‘Walking is good for untangling a tangled heart.’ Inspired by the final shot of Modern Times Charles Chaplin in which the gamine girl and the tramp walk away from the camera. Commission by Guy Mannes Abbott and Celine Condorelli for Walking 1 to 10.

Donald's Dinner Date

1999 • 6 min • United States of America

Donald must restrain his temper on a dinner date with Daisy, even though the incompetent Goofy is their waiter.

Carola: Julkonsert

1999 • 39 min • Sweden

Hercules

1999 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Hercules was a man of great endurance and strength, honored in his Greek tale. Hera, Queen of the Gods, is jealous of Hercules and his father Zeus. When Hercules is boastful and brash, Hera inflicts him with a terrible fate. Hera tricks him into blind destructiveness then forces him to atone for his actions. Hercules admits his faults and takes on the famous Labours of Hercules.

Sunday's Game

1999 • 9 min

elderly women gather for an unusual Sunday afternoon.

Lux et Umbra

1999 • 2 min • United Kingdom

1999 Nicky Hamlyn experimental short film

#11, Marey ↔ Moiré

1999 • 21 min • Netherlands

#11 (Marey Moiré) is a film in which all images were generated by intermittently recording the movement of a line. It is a film about the discontinuity that lies at the heart of the film medium.

Cloud Chamber

1999 • 3 min

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually give way to pale suggestions of pastel colors. These take shape occasionally and flicker the forthcoming bits of solid colored and multiply formed abstract images, a few brief sequences-of-such intersperced with the cloud-suggestive silvered passages as at beginning, which eventually end the film.

Whispers

1999 • 15 min • Morocco

Caught between chasing his past and accepting his impending end, a man follows his childhood memories through the dark alleyways and desolate cemeteries of Boujad, Morocco.

The Festival

1999 • 3 min • Italy

During a train journey, a man remembers the images of a festival…. or of a life.

Cricket Requiem

1999 • 3 min • United States of America

CRICKET REQUIEM is a hand-painted and elaborately step-printed film which juxtaposes bent, sometimes saw-tooth, scratch shapes multiply colored in pastels on a white field juxtaposed with emerging, and sometimes retreating, bi-pack imagery of the faintest imaginable lines (solarized lines) etched in brown-black. This interplay continues until the latter imagery begins to dominate with increasing recurrence. Then suddenly there's a vibrant mix of thick black lines (which is "echoed" once again near end of film) that alters the increasingly colored bent lines and their thin-stringy accompaniment, with rhythms which suggest a stately and emphatic end. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Willie Nelson: Greatest Hits Live

1999 • 60 min • United States of America

Willie Nelson, America's most beloved country music superstar, presents his biggest and best-known hits in a rare, unforgettable evening of song. Recorded live at Willie's own Austin Opera House in Texas, it's Willie at home with his special family and friends. Featuring the songs: On The Road Again, Georgia, Whiskey River, City Of New Orleans, Good-Hearted Woman, Luchenback, Texas, Stardust, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Always On My Mind, Crazy, and many more!

La materia

1999 • 2 min • Italy

Film 35 mm – charcoal and pencil on paper. Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

The Littlest Robo

1999 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Short animated film tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an oprhan boy and a small robot, both alone, exploited by neglectful grown-ups.

A Question of Madness: The Furiousus

1999 • 52 min

In Capetown, South Africa, in September 1966, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, was stabbed to death in Parliament. The course of South African history was changed by the assassin, Dimitri Tsafendas, who was written off as mad and condemned to twenty-eight years of imprisonment. A Question of Madness tells the extraordinary human story of a man, born of a black mother, but classified white, who travelled the world in hopeless search of sanctuary - eventually returning to the land of apartheid to wreak vengeance on the one who symbolized the racism which had haunted his life.

Japanese Kitchen

1999 • 5 min

In 1999, Tabaimo exhibited her undergraduate thesis work, Japanese Kitchen and was awarded the prestigious Kirin Contemporary Award, marking the beginning of her international career.

Tests

1999 • 3 min

Collection of animation tests.