1998
Sandra Sdraulig
#47
This year's programme is the result of having viewed well over 1000 feature and short films. It has been an impressive year of filmmaking and once again we aim to bring you the best from around the world including highlights from the film festivals of Cannes, London, Sundance, Berlin and Rotterdam.
Australia is experiencing a massive increase in cinema attendances. The byline for this year's festival, 'Creating a Scene', draws attention to the fact that cinema-going is not only one of our most popular social activities but also our most popular cultural activity.
Taking the notion of 'creating a scene' literally, the festival recognises its need to examine the relationship between production and exhibition and ask what is the role of the festival within this dynamic? In what way can a film festival enhance the social experience and add value to the commercial imperatives of the film industry? Our challenge is to encourage movie-goers to expand their cinematic horizons and for the festival to create a context within which audiences can feel comfortable about engaging with and contributing to screen culture.
I hope that you will take this opportunity to celebrate the achievements of our film industry, sample the impressive breadth of production from world cinema, reflect on the latest trends in filmmaking style and content, an use the festival as a place for interaction, discussion and debate.
Sandra Sdraulig
Executive Director
Introduction taken from the 1998 official guide
Films
Feature
THE INTERVIEW
Director Craig Monahan
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
RADIANCE
Director Rachel Perkins
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE ALARMIST
Director Evan Dunsky
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE BEST MAN
Director Pupi Avati
Italy
MIFF 1998
Feature
BUFFALO 66
Director Vincent Gallo
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE BUTCHER BOY
Director Neil Jordan
Ireland
MIFF 1998
Feature
BUTTONERS
Director Petr Zelenka
Czech Republic
MIFF 1998
Feature
BUUD YAM
Director Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré
Burkina Faso
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE CELEBRATION
Director Thomas Vinterberg
Denmark
MIFF 1998
Feature
COSMOS
Director Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE CRAZY STRANGER
Director Tony Gatlif
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
DANCE OF THE WIND
Director Rajan Khosa
India
MIFF 1998
Feature
DEATH SENTENCE
Director Prakash Jha
India
MIFF 1998
Feature
FACE
Director Antonia Bird
UK
MIFF 1998
Feature
FAME WHORE
Director Jon Moritsugu
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES
Director Jesse Peretz
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
A FOREIGN BODY
Director Claire Simon
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
FUNNY GAMES
Director Michael Haneke
Austria
MIFF 1998
Feature
GO WEST
Director Buster Keaton
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
GUMMO
Director Harmony Korine
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE HANGING GARDEN
Director Thom Fitzgerald
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
HENRY FOOL
Director Hal Hartley
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
HIGH ART
Director Lisa Cholodenko
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE INHERITORS
Director Stefan Ruzowitzky
Austria
MIFF 1998
Feature
IN THAT LAND
Director Lidia Bobrova
Russia
MIFF 1998
Feature
IT'S A LONG ROAD
Director Pantelis Voulgaris
Greece
MIFF 1998
Feature
JEROME
Director Thomas Johnston, David Elton, Eric Tignini
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
LAND GIRLS
Director David Leland
UK
MIFF 1998
Feature
LEILA
Director Dariush Mehrjui
Iran
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE LIFE OF JESUS
Director Bruno Dumont
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
LIVE FLESH
Director Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
MIFF 1998
Feature
LOUIS AND FRANK
Director Alexandre Rockwell
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
LOVE IS THE DEVIL
Director John Maybury
UK
MIFF 1998
Feature
LULU ON THE BRIDGE
Director Paul Auster
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE MAN WITH RAIN IN HIS SHOES
Director María Ripoll
UK/Spain
MIFF 1998
Feature
MEMORY AND DESIRE
Director Niki Caro
New Zealand
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE MIRROR
Director Jafar Panahi
Iran
MIFF 1998
Feature
OPEN YOUR EYES
Director Alejandro Amenábar
Spain/France/Italy
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE OPPOSITE OF SEX
Director Don Roos
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
PERDITA DURANGO
Director Alex de la Iglesia
Spain
MIFF 1998
Feature
Ï€ (PI)
Director Darren Aronofsky
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE REAL BLONDE
Director Tom DiCillo
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
RELAX... IT'S JUST SEX
Director P.J. Castellaneta
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
RIEN NE VA PLUS
Director Claude Chabrol
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
SECRET DEFENSE
Director Jacques Rivette
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
SEE THE SEA
Director François Ozon
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
SLAM
Director Marc Levin
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE SPANISH PRISONER
Director David Mamet
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
SUNDAY
Director Jonathan Nossiter
USA
MIFF 1998
feature
THE TANGO LESSON
Director Sally Potter
UK
MIFF 1998
Feature
TASTE OF CHERRY
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
MIFF 1998
Feature
TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS
Director Guy Maddin
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
VIA SATELLITE
Director Anthony McCarten
New Zealand
MIFF 1998
Feature
WHATEVER
Director Susan Skoog
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
WHO THE HELL IS JULIETTE?
Director Carlos Marcovich
Mexico
MIFF 1998
Feature
A SCENE AT THE SEA
Director Takeshi Kitano
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
HANA-BI (FIREWORKS)
Director Takeshi Kitano
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
BOUNCE
Director Masato Harado
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE EEL
Director Shohei Imamura
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
HOLD YOU TIGHT
Director Stanley Kwan
Hong Kong
MIFF 1998
Feature
MOTEL CACTUS
Director Park Ki-Yong
Korea
MIFF 1998
Feature
POSTMAN BLUES
Director Sabu
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
PUSH! PUSH!
Director Park Chul Soo
Korea
MIFF 1998
Feature
WITHOUT MEMORY
Director Kore-ada Hirokazu
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
XIU XIU: THE SENT DOWN GIRL
Director Joan Chen
China
MIFF 1998
Feature
MADE IN HONG KONG
Director Fruit Chan
Hong Kong
MIFF 1998
Feature
NO. 3
Director Song Neung-Han
South Korea
MIFF 1998
Feature
ONIBI: THE FIRE WITHIN
Director Rokuro Mochizuki
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
ALIEN BIG CATS
Director Christopher Gogos, Alkinos Tsilimidos
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
AMY
Director Nadia Tass
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
BIGGER THAN TINA
Director Neil Foley
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
DANCE ME TO MY SONG
Director Rolf De Heer
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
DEAD LETTER OFFICE
Director John Ruane
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
DR JAZZ
Director David Perry
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
HEAD ON
Director Ana Kokkinos
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
HEPHZIBAH
Director Curtis Levy
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
IN THE WINTER DARK
Director James Bogle
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
JABILUKA
Director David Bradbury
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
Director Peter Weir
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
REDBALL
Director Jon Hewitt
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
I MARRIED A STRANGE PERSON
Director Bill Plympton
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
MONDO PLYMPTON
Director Bill Plympton
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
PERFECT BLUE
Director Satoshi Kon
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
JUNGLE EMPEROR LEO
Director Yoshio Takeuti
Japan
MIFF 1998
Feature
BLACK JACK
Director Osamu Dezaki
Japan
MIFF 1998
Short
Essence of Terror
Director Sophie Raymond
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Pink Street
Director Volker Schlecht
Germany
MIFF 1998
Short
Flatworld
Director Daniel Greaves
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
The Cake
Director Daniel Suljic
Croatia
MIFF 1998
Short
Repetition Compulsion
Director Ellie Lee
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Stray Dog
Director Farzin Farzaneh
Canada
MIFF 1998
Short
Miles from Anywhere
Director Gary Carpenter
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Otherzone
Director David Cox
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
One Day
Director Marie Paccou
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
AFRO PROMO
Director Jenni Olson, Karl Knapper
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
BLACK CAESAR
Director Larry Cohen
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE BLACK GESTAPO
Director Lee Frost
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
CLEOPATRA JONES
Director Jack Starett
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
FOXY BROWN
Director Jack Hill
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
HUMAN TORNADO
Director Cliff Roquemore
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE MACK
Director Michael Campus
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
SHAFT
Director Gordon Parks Jr.
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
SUGAR HILL
Director Paul Maslansky
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
SUPERFLY
Director Gordon Parks Jr.
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THREE THE HARD WAY
Director Gordon Parks Jr.
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
TRUCK TURNER
Director Jonathan Kaplan
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
DESTINY
Director Youssef Chahine
France/Egypt
MIFF 1998
Feature
JEANNE AND THE PERFECT GUY
Director Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
SAME OLD SONG
Director Alain Resnais
France
MIFF 1998
Feature
TANO DA MORIRE
Director Roberta Torre
Italy
MIFF 1998
Feature
BLUE NOTE: A STORY OF MODERN JAZZ
Director Julian Benedikt
Germany
MIFF 1998
Feature
CHARLES MINGUS: TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG
Director Don McGlynn
Netherlands
MIFF 1998
Feature
DEADSET
Director Rob Payne
Australia
MIFF 1998
Feature
LOU REED: ROCK AND ROLL HEART
Director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
MODULATIONS
Director Iara Lee
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
YEAR OF THE HORSE
Director Jim Jarmusch
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
DIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE
Director Monika Treut
Germany
MIFF 1998
Feature
EROTICA: A JOURNEY INTO FEMALE SEXUALITY
Director Maya Gallus
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
FINISHED
Director William E. Jones
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
SEX/LIFE IN L.A.
Director Jochen Hick
Germany
MIFF 1998
Feature
UNCUT
Director John Greyson
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
UNMADE BEDS
Director Nicholas Barker
UK/USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
FIVE AGAINST THE HOUSE
Director Phil Karlson
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
KISS ME DEADLY
Director Robert Aldrich
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE LINE UP
Director Don Siegel
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
PUSHOVER
Director Richard Quine
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
SCANDAL SHEET
Director Phil Karlson
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
MOTHER AND SON
Director Alexander Sokurov
Russia, Germany
MIFF 1998
Feature
WHISPERING PAGES
Director Alexander Sokurov
Russia, Germany
MIFF 1998
Short
Oriental Elegy
Director Alexander Sokurov
Russia
MIFF 1998
Feature
A HUMBLE LIFE
Director Alexander Sokurov
Russia
MIFF 1998
Short
Robert: A Fortunate Life
Director Alexander Sokurov
Russia
MIFF 1998
Feature
EISENSTEIN: THE MASTER'S HOUSE
Director Naum Klejmann, Marianna Kirejewa, Alexander Iskin
Germany
MIFF 1998
Feature
EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO: THE ETERNAL CIRCLE
Director Alejandra Islas
Mexico
MIFF 1998
Feature
IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I
Director Sergei M. Eisenstein
Russia
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE BIG ONE
Director Michael Moore
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE BRANDON TEENA STORY
Director Susan Muska, Gréta Ólafsdóttir
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL
Director Errol Morris
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
FRANK CAPRA'S AMERICAN DREAM
Director Kenneth Bowser
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
GUY MADDIN: WAITING FOR TWILIGHT
Director Noam Gonick
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
HOLLYWOODISM: JEWS, MOVIES AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Director Simcha Jacobovici
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE HUNT
Director Niek Koppen
Netherlands
MIFF 1998
Feature
KID NERD
Director Shereen Jerrett
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
LONDON BRIEF
Director Jon Jost
UK/US/Portugal
MIFF 1998
Feature
MOB LAW
Director Paul Wilmshurst
UK/USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
PRIDE DIVIDE
Director Paris Poirier
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE SALTMEN OF TIBET
Director Ulrike Koch
Switzerland/Germany
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE SILVER SCREEN: COLOR ME LAVENDER
Director Mark Rappaport
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
STOLEN MOMENTS
Director Margaret Wescott
Canada
MIFF 1998
Feature
THE VOICE OF BERGMAN
Director Gunnar Bergdahl
Sweden
MIFF 1998
Feature
WACO: THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Director William Gazecki
USA
MIFF 1998
Feature
WAR ZONE
Director Maggie Hadleigh-West
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
17 Years to Earth
Director Perry Lin
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
28
Director Greg Sax
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
'77
Director Jeremy Webb
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
90% Yield Before Breakage
Director Teresa Blake, Margie Medlin, Daniel Witton
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Amor
Director Jean-Pierre Mignon
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Arkanum
Director Monika Stellmach
Germany
MIFF 1998
Short
The Bell Boy
Director Renaud Alcalde
France
MIFF 1998
Short
Beluga Crash Blues: un Kinodrame
Director Dominic Gagnon
Canada
MIFF 1998
Short
Blue Diary
Director Jenni Olson
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Bubble Numb
Director Jessica Grynberg
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Buckstop
Director Rhian Hinkley
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Capillary Action
Director Paul Winkler
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Chainsmoker
Director Maria Von Heland
Germany
MIFF 1998
Short
Cheap Blonde
Director Janet Merewether
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Checking Out
Director Carl Biorsmark
Latvia/Russia
MIFF 1998
Short
Christmas Presence
Director Glendon Whelan
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Come Dancing
Director Richard Knew
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Derwent Envy
Director Sarah Watt
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Devil's Hooves at Dusk
Director Alex Calvo-Sotelo
Spain
MIFF 1998
Short
El Caminante
Director Debra Smith
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Enchanted Life
Director Peter Bunzl
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Everybody's Pregnant
Director Debra Soloman
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Feline
Director May Trubuhovich
New Zealand/Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Fetch
Director Lynn-Maree Danzey
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
A Fine Weekend
Director Armagan Ballantyne
New Zealand
MIFF 1998
Short
Flight
Director Sim Sadler
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Geri's Game
Director Jan Pinkava
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Human Remains
Director Jay Rosenblatt
Denmark
MIFF 1998
Short
Idling Brando
Director Angoelo Guglielmo
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
I'd Rather Be Flying
Director Alexander Abela
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
I Just Want to Kiss You
Director Jamie Thraves
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Imprint
Director Louise Bourque
Canada
MIFF 1998
Short
In Too Deep
Director Mehreen Siagol
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
I Want You
Director Gregory Quail
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Jumbo
Director Jim Marbrook
New Zealand
MIFF 1998
Short
Let's Be Friends
Director Thomas Bardinet
France
MIFF 1998
Short
Lament for Barney Flanagan
Director Paul Judge
New Zealand
MIFF 1998
Short
La Salla
Director Ricard Condie
Canada
MIFF 1998
Short
Loafing
Director Duane Lavoid
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Lily and Jim
Director Don Hertzfeldt
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
The Man from the Deep
Director Martin Hagbjer
Denmark
MIFF 1998
Short
La Maison des Cochons
Director David Harris
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Minotaur's Dance
Director Lorenzo Recio
France
MIFF 1998
Short
The Missing Link
Director Mark Locke
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Mutoid Waste Company
Director Marcus Kanter
Austria
MIFF 1998
Short
My Body
Director Joel Moffett
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
No Title
Director Karen Lawler
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Peaches
Director Charmaine Choo
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
The Persistence of Memory
Director Anthony Atanasio
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
PI Snaps
Director Monica Sharf
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
Played
Director Sandra Ehlermann
Germany
MIFF 1998
Short
Polvo Eres
Director Carles Sans Padros
Spain
MIFF 1998
Short
Relative Strangers
Director Rosemary Hesp
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Rubbernecking
Director Greg Williams
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Rubicon
Director Gil Alkabetz
Germany
MIFF 1998
Short
Sex and Violence
Director Bill Plympton
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
The Sheep Thief
Director Asif Kapadia
Algeria/UK
MIFF 1998
Short
The Sickroom
Director Serge Marcotte
Canada
MIFF 1998
Short
Stage Fright
Director Steve Box
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
The Storekeeper
Director Gavin Hood
South Africa
MIFF 1998
Short
The Sugar Bowl
Director Hilde van Mieghem
Belgium
MIFF 1998
Short
Sunday Hungry
Director Lawson Bayly
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Surviving Sabu
Director Ian Iqbal Rashid
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Tangerine Dream
Director Kerri Light
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Tea
Director Barney Cokeliss
UK
MIFF 1998
Short
Three Chords and a Wardrobe
Director Brendan Young
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
T.R.A.N.S.I.T
Director Piet Kroon
Netherlands
MIFF 1998
Short
Transcoder (Understanding Lydia)
Director Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl
Austria
MIFF 1998
Short
Tulip
Director Rachel Griffiths
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Two Girls and a Baby
Director Kelli Simpson
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Two/Out
Director Kriv Stenders
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
Under the Weather
Director Tali Prevost
Canada
MIFF 1998
Short
Unexplained Phenomena
Director Mike Kelly
Scotland
MIFF 1998
Short
Up on the Roof
Director Jacqueline Turnure
USA
MIFF 1998
Short
The Warhol Nation
Director Jakob Høgel
Denmark
MIFF 1998
Short
When I'm 21
Director Andrew Wilde
Scotland
MIFF 1998
Short
The Greatest Story Untold
Director Paul English
Australia
MIFF 1998
Short
The Hole
Director Brian Challis
New Zealand
MIFF 1998
