1999 Movies

David Pountney helms this memorable Zurich Opera staging of Johann Strauss's "Simplicius," a tale following the exploits of a simple-minded man (tenor...

After 40 years, Silvia Morini returns to the palatial house of her youth in Cuba, where her nostalgia for a pre-Castro world confronts modern Cuban re...

Loss, fear, repulsion, obsession, waxy build-up.

The stories of a group of students in the Beijing Film Academy.

Looking at the situation of the Sahrawi people in 1999, the documentary examines different aspects of institutions and organisation methods from the m...

The camera is reflected in the rearview mirror of a car sliding down a dusty desert road on the Peruvian coast. This image symbolically captures the d...

Inertia 2 (1999)

A weaving tale in which different pieces of embroidery on fabric animate a female's emotional bonding to the relationship between two sexes.

Experts ranging from Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo to scientists from NASA weigh in on the evolutionary future of mankind and machinery.

A computer-generated video work starring Mengbo as a war correspondent interviewing a computer clone in the midst of a battle. The footage is a surrea...

A prototype for a specialty channel dedicated exclusively to bondage. BTV takes us on a sexy ride through B-action movies and Hollywood blockbusters t...

Thrown out of his crash pad after traveling the West Coast, a young man, David, hits the streets without money or direction. Fortunately a little girl...

A man fills plastic bottles with messages for a loved one who has suddenly disappeared and pours them into a river. A girl cannot accept the death of...

A bunch of Norwegian youths get lost in the mountains. Unfortunately for them is that these mountains are the home of Butcher Bob and his equally murd...

This delightful silent short parodies feature films that flash the names of the big stars ("Liberty," "Justice" and "Death") before the title card, ST...