1998 Movies

An enchanting, award-winning film from Polish director Andrzej Fidyk about a mobile cinema run by the Bengali Mr Battu and his two assistants. But, in...

The Reunion brings together dancers Lynn Seymour and Donald MacLeary, partnering each other again, for the first time in over thirty years.The Reunion...

From the bustling metropolis of Santiago, capital of Chile, the forty competitors from twenty countries headed south on their three week South America...

Circle's Short Circuit is an experimental feature-length work with neither a beginning nor an end—the film can be viewed from any random point. It mov...

Friedman documents a model during a fashion shoot, the exaggerated, staccato rhythms of her camera punctuated by machine-gun like bursts of fireworks...

At the end of 1996 in an old shop in Vienna specialising in film materials I found a tin with indeterminable pieces of 16mm film showing much wear and...

With the use of rapid cutting and lyrical movement, FILM(luster) concentrates on a young man who is foiled into choosing his fate by force of habitual...

Documentary about religious customs in Brazil that stem from Africa.

METRONOME is both the most straightforward (as well as the most difficult) of Stephanie Barber's films. It is very dear to the filmmaker's heart. The...

According to filmmaker Stephanie Barber, "This is probably the most heartbreaking film I have made." The pacing is romantic and simple, haiku-esque pa...

An inquisitive young boy explores the contents of the medicine cabinet and is tempted into trying the jar labelled 'Adol Essence'… He is plunged into...

The Brighton Beach-Coney Island boardwalk is a long, winding, ocean front walkway adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Photographed over a three year perio...

Robert Beck re-contextualises videotaped performances he created in the late 1980s to music by The Smiths. By turns gruesome and ironic, these three h...

"Roost" describes, in abstracted imagery, a desolate place in which new life kindles belief in God. "The wild hen at roost is blessed, Delirious ang...

Intervista seeks to deal in microcosm with the issue of how Albanian communist-era elites have sought to justify their roles in the now-discredited re...

By Kwame Braun. Color, 24 mins, 1998. From distributor Documentary Educational Resources: At a street festival in West Africa, a young girl is delig...