All Films

Oyayubi-Hime

1995 • 27 min • Japan

Moe Nagata, one of Japan's leading illustrators and picture book writers, visualizes the fairy tale masterpiece "Oyayubi-hime" while keeping the charm of her original picture. An image-rich fairy tale video.

Maksim Maksimych

1995 • 20 min

Here, the camera goes into a dance, accelerates, becomes ornamental. This is not to catch something in a quiant dynamic composition but to realize itself as part of action.

The Lester Film

1995 • 14 min

A documentary profile of Lester Brodzik and his alter ego Lestushka

The Sparrow

1995 • 10 min • Kyrgyz Republic

A man is walking across the field, his way is barred by the endless train. Suddenly a wonderful stranger appears.

Squareworld (Short Version)

1995 • 30 min • Japan

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and disposes of her body. We learn almost nothing about either the victim or her tormentor, and the film contains no moral judgments –Tony Rayns

Junji Inagawa's Invitation to Terror

1995 • 58 min • Japan

This is the first original video recording of Junji Inagawa's ghost story "Wandering Ningyo", which boasts a level of fame and terror unequaled by any of his ghost stories. Inagawa himself had refused to talk about the story before it was released, but producer Kanta Tagawa convinced him to record it, and an anecdote tells of bizarre phenomena that later occurred in Tagawa's family.

Virtual Trip Moon

1995 • 24 min

Video sleeping pill.

Welcome to the 21st Century

1995 • 5 min • Russia

Seven days of destruction of the Biblical world.

Dancing on Narrow Ground: Youth & Dance in Ulster

1995 • 59 min • Ireland

Director Des Bell documents 2 groups of Northern Irish youths from either side of the "divide" in the mid-90's, each dealing with their own struggles but with a shared love of dance music and going to Kellys at the weekend.

Atu-Alaba

1995 • 19 min

A young journalist is looking for a sensation. She is invited anonymously to the ruins of the "Hotel California" (former hotel "Intourist" in Tbilisi) to shoot a sensational material.

Message From the Future What You Need to Know About AIDS

1995 • 25 min

A Japanese PSA about AIDS

In Time's Shadow

1995 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Drawing upon eye-witness accounts from survivors and participants in the bombing of Hiroshima, this programme shows how both Japan and the United States are still facing enormous problems in coming to terms with the legacy of that fateful August day.

Borta bra, men hemma bäst?

1995 • 49 min

Now Sweden is part of the great community, the European Union. Is that for better or worse? What does the people say?

Cuisinart: How to Use Your Food Processor

1995 • 29 min • United States of America

A how-to instructional video from the 1990s that teaches the viewer how to use a Cuisinart food processor.

Don Gay's Worst Wrecks At Mesquite Rodeo 1994

1995 • 60 min • United States of America

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1994 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

Jeff Buckley: Live in Frankfurt

1995 • 45 min

Jeff Buckley live concert in Frankfurt (1995)

Tots TV: American Adventure

1995 • 54 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Tilly, Tom and Tiny find themselves on an aeroplane until they come to realise that when they're landing, they are in another part of the world, non other than America. The Tots embark on a special adventure where they discover a restaurant where you can order food and music by telephone, a special tree, they go scuba diving and then later discover a cowboy town.

Represso

1995 • 3 min

In a world full of couples a repressed man has to deal with his sexually inactive fainting illness.

În fiecare zi e noapte

1995 • 17 min • Romania

The movie directed by Alexandru Maftei, on a screenplay he worked on together with Lucian Georgescu, tenderly constructs the portrait of a woman in her fifties.

Mysterious Spirits of the Mayans

1995 • 50 min • United States of America

Deep in the lush green jungle of Mexico lie the ruins of an ancient civilization steeped in magic and myth, rivaling any on earth, created by the people known as the Maya. More that 1,000 years ago, a great Mayan temple-ctiy flourished and thrived. Known as Palenque, it has kept many of its secrets hidden from modern archaeologists -- until now. Mysterious Spirits of the Mayans will take you there to scale the heights of Palenque's great palace and uncover clues about this strange and wondrous place. Why did ancient priests alter significant dates in the civilization's history? Were children sacrificed to honor the dead? And the greatest puzzle of all -- what happened in 835 A.D. that caused the Maya to simply vanish? Find out!

To Add One Metre to an Anonymous Mountain

1995 • 11 min • China

Video, colour and sound (mono)

Bisha: The Awesome Fire Test

1995 • 52 min • United States of America

Abed al-Aziz from the Judean Desert is suspected of turning his tribe over to the Israeli Secret Service; Aql al-Atrash from the Negev wants to be cleared of a charge of murder; Sa’ed from the Egyptian village of Fanara is accused of committing adultery – the lives of these three people now depend on the ordeal of the Bisha. The Bisha is a test to detect the truth and it stands at the forefront of the Bedouin legal system, the haq al-orfi (the law of knowledge).During this test, all the accused lick a piece of white-hot metal. A burnt tongue is proof that they are lying; a clean tongue will serve as incontrovertible evidence that the suspects are blameless.

The Compassion of Bad Badtz-Maru's Manly Courage

1995 • 14 min

The Saturday Tutor Battle has ended in a disaster. It's up to Papa to teach Badtz-Maru 'manhood' and that there's more to life than studying.

A Magic School Bus Halloween

1995 • 58 min • Canada, United States of America

PBS Magic School Bus Special.