1999

Trails Street Flatland Vert Riding

Portrait of the painter Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt by Håkan and Sture Dahlström.

This is a half-hour short composed of zombie attacks with a little bit of plot and laughs thrown in for good measure.

Lawrence Weiner film from 1999

Renowned clairvoyant and International Society for Paranormal Research founder Dr. Larry Montz turns his attention to some of Britain's most intriguing haunted houses, including Belgrave Hall and the famed late 1990s sightings there. Featuring a mix of scientific research and psychic probing from eminent researchers such as Peter James, this fascinating documentary attempts to get to the bottom of these ghostly phenomena once and for all.

This documentary explores and celebrates the all-too-short, heartbreaking but triumphant life and unworldly talent of Lenny Breau, considered by many to have been the greatest guitar player of all time. Long before the term "fusion" was coined, Lenny was melting musical boundaries to produce original pieces that borrowed from styles as diverse as jazz, classical and flamenco. Through a combination of never-before-seen archival footage and interviews with family and colleagues, viewers are offered a close-up look at a sensitive, selfless but flawed musical genius who redefined what the guitar could do. - Telefilm Canada

Quotations from the brochure of a school for actors: “We expect the students to use the free space at school to explore the roles they play in their everyday lives, but also all that is alien to them, both the imaginable and the unimaginable.” And: “It is said that an actor’s school is a place to discover what Man is, and what he might become despite everything.” In the words of Kathrin Bohny: “I never thought of training to be an actress in that way, but I'm curious to find out how it will be.” The film: a young woman, learning to know herself, and of what she is capable. The wide path she follows, in the four years that her training as an actress lasts.

Joseph Haydn's "The Creation" is performed by the Chambord Sinfonietta and the Versailles Choir conducted by Amaury du Closel. "The Creation" was undoubtedly the first great work in the history of Haydn's music; he spent two years relentlessly working on it just before the turn of the 19th century. The three parts of the oratorio are devoted respectively to the elements, animals and man, and an earthly paradise. The soloist personifies the Archangels Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael in the first two parts, and Adam and Eve in the third.

Video artist Steve Reinke records an afternoon in his apartment through a series of random images and personal monologues.

A rough-cut of selected scenes, edited as a sampler to be used in fundraising towards completion of the film "Undesirables". “The idea started with a casual comment made by Stan Brakhage, must have been way back in the early 1970s. It stuck in my mind. Now that I think about it, Brakhage may have meant this as a joke. He said, “Someday Hollywood will probably make a film about us,” ‘us’ meaning the experimental filmmakers “and I wonder which actors will play us?” Think about that first of all: the idea that Hollywood would make a film about experimental filmmakers is totally ridiculous. The fact that one would think about which actor was going to play me at some time in the future, I think that’s very funny. Eventually it germinated in my mind and I thought it was an interesting idea… A film about experimental filmmakers, especially in the very formative period, approximately 1968 to 1972.

Miracle workers such as Benny Hinn are followed and interviwed in this American Undercover documentary. It questions if faith and prayer can heal.

experimental film by Les Leveque

With the use of expressionist cutting and lyrical movement, KNOUT concentrates on a young woman who sets down to the task of tying rope. She meets a doppelganger version of herself, and a vicious confrontation of self occurs.

SALUTE, the first installment of Bruce Baillie's proposed three-part final film, MEMOIRS OF AN ANGEL, chronicles (in collage form) the legendary filmmaker's time in the Navy and beyond. The subsequent installments, NIGHT and LIGHT, are still works-in-progress. "A few of the thematic elements... Introduction of the element of illusion (MY LAST MASQUERADE). Imagery of war [in the form of] documentary footage, film and the author recording himself, self-consciously, in uniform! One cannot here avoid an implicit reference to the Bhagavad Gita; the warrior Arjuna and Lord Krishna in Dharma combat on the battlefield as metaphor for the human dilemma in confrontation with the world of time/space, illusion of opposites [and the] attachment to the merely transient." - Marcel Joyeux, L'illumination

The Minneapolis Wrestling Club is a 16mm documentary film about four old-school, Midwestern professional wrestlers. With roots in vaudeville and the carnival sideshow, early professional wrestlers were a rare combination of athlete, circus performer and thug.