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Framed
Mennan Yapo
Black and White 35mm. To be shown on Video. 18 minutes 1999 Germany
German with English Subtitles. Beck and Dana are on their way to see a movie. On the screen a man in a straight jacket lunges towards the audience. Dana leaves to go to the bathroom; a dramatic psychological struggle takes place in the theater between Beck and the man on screen. The boundaries between fiction and reality begin to merge. The situation spins out of control. On screen as well as in the theater a desperate fight for survival ensues.

MUD
Ivaylo Simidchiev
Black and White 35 mm to be shown on video. 24 minutes. Bulgarian with English subtitles. 1997.
Mud tells an emotional story of a Bulgarian gypsy boy who stabs a tourist in Bulgaria and then tries to save him.

Unglaublich Aber War
Karim Patwa
Super 8 and video. Color. To be shown on video. 21 minutes. Switzerland. 1998.
See a reporter on a desperate search on a trip between reality and fiction. See a weird doctor searching for alien's transplants. See a religious alien who works as an under cover bus driver on holiday on earth.
 

MOC (Power)
Tomek Augustynek
16mm. To be shown on Video. Poland.2minutes. 1998.
Kinetic short exploring power.

Nowo Film
Bogumie Godfrejow
35mm to be shown on video. .6 minutes. Poland. 1998.
Tribute to George Orwell.

Mark Roth
Animal Charm
Video. 6minutes.
Corporate Industrial Horror Film.

Primer for Dental Extraction
Carl Wiedermann
16 mm. B/W 4:30 1999 US
The protagonist, garbed in a pressurized suit, aggressively cleans her teeth and chain-smokes. Pursued by a traveling camera, she kicks and smacks the lens.

Bread Puppet, Hollywood Kiss, and Demon Fighter (I Will Kill You)
Zmorovych/Siska
Video. Color Black and White. 10 minutes. 1999.
Produced off the manifesto of DS-99 shot entirely in Kiev, Ukraine. Improvised performance by Yuri Zomorovch. With Olga the retired Lilliputian circus performer from Russia.

Swinger's Serenade
Danny Plotnick
16 mm./B & W 24:00 1999
A tawdry tale of suburban sexual malaise plus a lesson arcane film history rolled into one sin-tillating package!

CAMERAMAN
Bogumie Godfrejow
35mm to be shown on video. .6 minutes. Poland. 1998.
Futuristic, Techno-Cyber based film about a cameraman with a camera as an eye.

The Sound of Music
Phil Mulloy
Color and Black and White.Animation. 11:00. 1994. England.
A dark animation about the horrors of life and the struggles of Wolf, a saxophone player.

PELETERO (FURRIER)
Sebastian Monaco
16mm B&W Argentina 17:00 1997
This is the story of Jorge De La Serna, a successful furrier who sells his tailor-made fur coats to the ladies of high society. De La Serna's shop is like any other, but it has one difference: a basement where he hides his faithful slave Felix, a freak who makes the coats with a very special material.

The Great Coagulator
Geoffrey Chadwick
16 mm. B/W 8:00 1999 US
Inspired by some of the very first "talkie" films ever made, and using much of the same equipment, the film showcases The Great Coagulator in the heyday of vaudeville.

Honey Pot Todd Lincoln
Super 8/16mm found footage Color 15 minutes 1998 US
If Larry flint produced Sesame Street, it might look like this.

Deep Africa
Steve Hall Cathee Wilkins
Video Color 30:00 1999 US
Two sex starved girls, the hard working African hunter sadistic Korean tattoo artist, one slimy explotive agent and America's favorite extra terrestrial. Starring Candy Darling in the new all blow up doll film from Steve Hall and Cathhe Wilkins.
 

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Hypno Chicken 2000
Dave Foss of Force Extreme
animation, 9:41 min. , 1998
Under typical VCR home viewing scenarios, HC2K fabrication specialists at Force Extreme Animation insist upon highly controlled usage. Namely this piece should be viewed with strong stereo separation (a stereo test in sci-fi Rollerball font is provided at the beginning of the tape to this end) and in complete darkness with the screen filling as much as the viewer's field of vision as possible. It may also help to take any drugs you have available.

Bringing It To You
®TMark
video, 11:50 min. 1998
Corporations are persons, and have been for over a century. Since 1886, when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them full constitutional rights, corporations have used their wealth and power to subvert democracy and its processes. Now, with this video, you can learn how the same inalienable rights that corporations have stolen over the years are used by ®TMark... to bring anti-corporate sabotage into the public marketplace.

Untitled #29.95
the video activists
video, 15:22 min, 1999
Untitled #29.95 is a video about video. It is a story about the '60s when video was first used by artists and activists. It is a story about reproduction. It is a story about money and about public vs. private. And it is about who controls art. It is also a call to action. Untitled #29.95 tells the history of the commercial art establishment's attempt to turn video into an object like sculpture or painting in order to increase its value in the marketplace. Then in an act of cultural charity worthy of Robin Hood, Untitled #29.95 calls for high-priced limited edition videos to be "liberated" from commercial art galleries and given to the Internet; www.rtmark.com, www.supersphere.com, www.lumpen.com. Share the ware.

47 hz
Dave Foss of Force Extreme
animation, 5 min, 1999
The robots have taken over do not adjust your tv signal

Bobby Conn - Without You
Bobby Conn, Jay Cookson
video 5 min, 1999
Gutwrenching, tender homage to Nillson's hit song.

Snapshot Olympia
Russ Forester
16mm, 14 min. 1999
A short, experimental "alternative travelogue" of Washington State's capital city. Because its most enthusiastic fans are Olympia lesbians, I've come to refer to the film as a Dykeumentary. But there are intriguing comments about art, feminism, gardening, and the do-it-yourself ethic, which should appeal to anyone bullish on making a new renaissance of the new century.

Vivasphere
Supersphere.com
video, 10 min, 1999
Montage of live performance footage and interviews with avante garde musicians in Chicago

ZKV
Director: Siska/Ramisch
16mm. 28:00 1999
A Euro Underground produced film. Shot in Ukraine 1999. Expressionistic experimental film exploring the Ukraine. Dead Nuclear Stations, Lilliputian circus performers, Monster Mashes and more. Music by Einsturzende Neubauten.

Sabado de Mierda (Shitty Saturday)
Director: Gregorio Rocha
16 mm. 28:00 1987 Mexico
Documentary about a punk gang in Neza City Mexico.
 

PARADE
Piotr Tokarski
1994, 1:30, 16mm presented on video
Stalin loved it!

WAKING
Deborah Stratman
1994, 7:15, 16mm presented on video
Waking is a video in two halves about two states (asleep & awake) and the absurdity, or even impossibility, of bridging between them. The camera is a microscope examining light as if it were a state of mind.

12 MONTHS IN 4 FILMS
Matt Marsden
4:00 Animation

TRAIN RIDES
Melinda Fries
1999, 3:00, s8 presented on video
On a slow road to nowhere.

PLAYIN AGAIN
Paul Theriault
1999, 1:53, DV
Relentless pursuit will finally pay off.

G2STUD : OLD SON
Rex Redgrave
Carson, CA 1981 - Chicago, IL 1998, 9:00, S8 presented on Video You can't go home again, but who the fuck wants to? "Silver wings, shining in the moonlight. Roaring engines slowly fading out of sight."

VIDEO #1(brokin)
Winston and Thermos
1999, 3:07, DV
After a long night Pigment's walk home turns a headspin.

MY FRIEND OONA
1998, 5:00, video
Kirsten Stoltmann
A portrait of a bizarre relationship between two friends. Oona's strange antics has Kirsten suspicious but she doesn't seem to mind, too much.

LINA'S TOXIC BABY
Bridgette Wilson
1999, 5:00, Animation
Two sisters, Lina and Ines, adopt an "unusual" child, who changes their lives.

SONOVACHICKEN
Piotr Tokarski
1998, 1:59, video
A dead corpse when taken from the freezer needs that extra sweat to become as alive as a beautiful sixteen year-old running across a football field. But can a dead corpse really take it?

VIDEO #2(pot-luck)
Winston and Thermos
1999, 3:41, DV
Dickhead Mason serves Big Babee and Scientist a romantic dinner of ???

L.N. RATIO EXAM:
(PART 2 OF 3)
Andy Slater- sound and video
Matthew Akers- transfer
the Sinewaves- 'CREATION' & 'CREATOR'
1998

TO YOKO ONO: WALL PIECE FOR ORCHESTRA
HIT A WALL WITH YOUR HEAD 1962
Instructions followed by Cherree Jetton
1998 16mm presented on video

PET-C - REPRISE
Paul Theriault
1:38 DV
How to establish an intimate lifelong bond with others.

VIDEO #3(opa)
Winston and Thermos
Unsuspecting Bernie's 15 minutes are close to expired.

RED THREAD AND VOUDOU
Lynn King
1998, 5:25, 16mm presented on video

EATING GAME
Paul Theriault
1:20 DV
Yum.

ADVENTURES OF WHITE TRASH GIRL: THE DEVIL INSIDE
Jennifer Reeder
7:45, 1995, Video
"...Watch out Superman! Step aside Green Lantern! There's a new super hero in town!" This ongoing video serial chronicles the (mis)adventures of a girrrl super hero named White Trash Girl. She's Robin Hood with big blond hair and high heels. Her bodily fluids are toxic and she sure knows how to use them. This is the first episode in the series. It introduces White Trash Girl and her Merry band of trailer trash.