All Films

Lotat

1995 • 50 min • Finland

Lotat is a Finnish Documentary about the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organization for women.

Days Without Light

1995 • 11 min • Spain

Naken

1995 • 15 min • Sweden

A naked guy wakes up in an elevator. He must somehow get out of there to be on time for his wedding.

Wormania

1995 • 27 min

A fast-paced educational and entertaining video viewing worms in their natural habitat and how they help the environment. Shows how to make a worm composter.

Crayons

1995 • 3 min • United States of America

The first animated short by Michael Dougherty, about a young kid trying to survive in a Catholic school.

Above the Lake

1995 • 10 min • Russia

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

Westminster's Secret Service

1995 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Whips pride themselves on their secrecy and discretion. Reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers their shadowy world and reveals how they operate. How close to reality is the fictional Chief Whip Francis Urquhart, in the drama series House of Cards? Government Whips can make or break ministers and ensure they know all the secrets of the private lives of their fellow MPs. One Tory MP claims that the Whips are a gestapo, but another says they are democracy's unsung heroes - as necessary for Parliament as sewers are for civilisation.

Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen

1995 • 45 min • United Kingdom

In the second "Stranger Than Fiction" documentary, Mark Gatiss explores the three latest BBV productions; "The Terror Game", "Breach of the Peace" and "The Zero Imperative", from the writers perspective. Using behind-the-scenes Hi-8 footage, outtakes and interviews with Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, Sylvester McCoy and Nick Briggs, this fascinating documentary examines the script from initial beginnings, through character and narrative development to its eventual realisation on the screen.

Super Hunts, Super Hunters

1995 • 52 min • South Africa

Lions, leopard, cheetah, hyena, wild dog and crocodile - extraordinary scenes of super predators hunting. The Super Predators was filmed over three years at Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa and on Kenya's Masai Mara. It captures some of the most extraordinary scenes ever seen on film of these super predators hunting and killing. Dramatic slow-motion action replays allow the viewer the opportunity of observing all the subtleties of these magnificent hunters in action. The film includes a plea for the world's most notorious predator, man, to work in closer partnership with nature for our mutual benefit and survival.

Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat

1995 • 50 min

Rap music has articulated a black aesthetic that is influencing pop culture around the world. But does it also promote violence, misogyny, and crime? This program featuring rap master Melle Mel describes the history of rap and hip-hop from its roots in earlier oral and musical traditions to its full flowering in the mid-1990s. Commentary by Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, rap’s early innovators; music critic Nelson George, author of hiphopamerica; radical jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron; movie star and rapper Ice Cube; former gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg; members of Public Enemy, Arrested Development, and the jazz/hip-hop fusion group UFO; and others speak out about the urban African-American experience, civil rights, social responsibility, and other pressing topics. Clips from music videos provide a visual perspective on the genre. Some images and lyrics may be objectionable.

Zoki and Bada

1995 • 7 min • Russia

Well what is this can someone explain? The Bada is real and kind, there is grass, he is alive and saying hello. Black water in the house, floor and pond. Honey from the jar of the soul you'll throw away. A false horned beast and four little homunculuses drink juices and belittle a crater.

Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi

1995 • 50 min

A series of interviews with Dundiwuy Wanambi, shot over twelve years. They reveal the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the coming of a mining project, and alcohol, to north-east Arnhem Land.

Alien Encounters from New Tomorrowland

1995 • 41 min • United States of America

Robert Urich, the legendary Jim Street in 'S.W.A.T.', is the host of this voyage around the UFO's and its mystery. From New Tomorrowland, in Disneyland, Urich talks about UFO, contacts, evidences of its arrives, abductions, military documents and other things what surround this controversial thematic. From the 30's years until the present, the UFOs always have been there very close to us, everyday, every time. Exists the aliens?, in truth they come to the Earth?, could it be a fiction created by the military? And the last and most important question: if they exists, would they will be our friends...or our enemies?

This Is a Camera Which Shoots This

1995 • 5 min • Japan

"This Is a Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between them while voicing the sentence of the title. Here the words "This" and "You" have the same form in the nominative and the objective cases, switching the roles of not only the signifier (word) but also the signified (object).

Bedtime Story

1995 • 5 min • United States of America

Striking imagery inspired from surrealist female painters sweeps through the short film Madonna made for her song Bedtime Story

Tibetan Recollections

1995 • 23 min • Austria

A personal audio-visual notebook from Tibet (1988-95). The everyday things, the breathtaking light, the enjoyment of the common, the second look, the love for the detail, memories.

Harvesting the Crust

1995 • 50 min

This video has been brought to you by your friends at Throne Productions and Scribe Industries. We hope you enjoy and hope that all your skating dreams come true.

Remembrances

1995 • 15 min

Remembrances was Kurt Kuenne’s final USC student film.

George Sand, une femme libre

1995 • 55 min • France

This film bears witness to a life that changes... Or how Aurore, a young woman of 26 who is bored in Nohant, with Baron Dudevant, her country husband with the appearance of a gentleman, becomes George Sand.

Carmen

1995 • 29 min • United Kingdom

Part 1 of the Operavox series.

Westworld

1995 • 39 min

Westworld is an experimental video released in 1995 by Warp Records. The music is made by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), from the album "Selected Ambient Works Volume II", and the video side is made by Stakker (Mark McClean and Colin Scott).

Just for the Ride

1995 • 53 min

A broken back and two dislocated shoulders won’t stop her from getting into the arena. For rodeo champion Jan Youren, the drive to master a bucking bronco is greater than life. Filmmaker Amanda Micheli, who experiences the rush of the ride herself, explores the rough and tumble world of cowgirls on the women’s rodeo circuit.

Shape without Form

1995 • 5 min

An exquisite cinepoem touching on the dichotomies and miracles of everyday life.

Dream Journey

1995 • 27 min • United States of America

Mime performances by the Japanese-born artist Yass Hakoshima, interspersed with video images reflecting his Japanese heritage