1998 Movies

A young boy interprets his traumatic venture into town in terms of the adventure stories he has been reading.

Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998 pro...

Shot in Okinawa and in Taiwan, Kamioka's latest dazzlement is her attempt to go beyond borders: geographical and political borders, borders of time, b...

A healer on healing, medicine & religion...Filmed in the modern city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a tradi...

In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves...

A collision of separate pasts, this film pieces together fragments of the director’s own images and text from the East German town of Halle with those...

A bunch of blondes and even more pom poms make up this hysterical look at cheerleading tryouts. See what happens when a cute grunge dyke tries out for...

Government is above all

Two of Canada’s most extreme cabaret performers, Tom Comet and Christine Taylor, go on a hallucinatory journey to Burning Man 1997. Amid the raw dange...

Using the methods developed in the making of the Divertimenti (plus back-projection),Clive made a new ambitious piece for BBC2 and S4C. It was about...

This work explores the notion of differences and the impossibilities of clearly stating the importance of differences, regarding sound and images, vis...

"The film was shot and edited in the camera beneath the El at Brighton, Brooklyn a.k.a. 'Little Odessa.' The film is to be experienced for what it is...

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 interes...