All Films

Skullface

1994 • 40 min

A masked killer torments a group of hapless partygoers.

Myth Makers: 31 Frazer Hines

1994 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Frazer Hines is one of the most well-known and popular actors to have appeared on television, best known for his roles as Joe Sudden in Emmerdale and his three year stint as Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who. From his former home in Yorkshire, Frazer chats to Nicholas Briggs about his long and successful career and discusses his other great passion – horses. Together with exclusive 8mm film shot on a Doctor Who location by Frazer and his own personal Doctor Who Digest… dare you miss this Myth Makers?

Miracles of Loving

1994 • 60 min

Anju Mira's dinner show.

The Mururin Pass

1994 • 34 min • Russia

A film about a real railway incident that took place in 1992, which miraculously did not end in a disaster.

Beware of Pedestrians

1994 • 8 min • Australia

A circus caravan of computer-driven creatures inspired by human gesture, move with an odd blend of mathematical precision and wild unpredictability. The highly structured yet simple overall design of the film is the landscape from which these characters evolve and express their human complexities. These pedestrians express the light and the dark, the contradictory emotions and responses to both the world they have created and the to each other.

Reflection

1994 • 10 min • Russia

An animated film for adults. It’s so important to bring goodness and timeless values into the world, and not to pay attention to the distorted mirrors that reflect all that is genuine and worthy in a warped light...

Focal Distance

1994 • 15 min

Eight-screen installation. An original 15-minute video clip of a street scene at a crossroad was captured and was played on a 25-inch TV screen. One corner of the TV-screened footage was filmed again to produce the 2nd video footage. This re-filming process repeated 7 times using the same focal distance (of the first re-filming's settings), and 8 video footages in 7 generations were produced. The images and sound became more abstract each time. The video installation was first staged in Hangzhou in 1996.

Exhibition

1994 • 53 min • United States of America

If Only There Were No War

1994 • 26 min • Ukraine

A short documentary.

Glimpses of the Life of Black Fly

1994 • 6 min • Bulgaria

A small aphid is born in a colony of aphids. It has a strange color. Its mother is trying to bathe it. A shaman does magic against the bad color. All efforts are in vain. Suddenly it rains and washes the bodies of the aphids. It turns out that everyone's color is the same as that of a small aphid.

The Birth of Frank Pop

1994 • 21 min • Ireland

Depicts the cheerless life of drudgery led by assembly-line worker Frank Blank, until he falls through some kind of hole in spacetime and is transformed by a group of weird shamanic figures into the glorious rock star Frank Pop. But how will this transformation appear to those around him?

The Tunnel

1994 • 50 min

Documentary about a group of people living in a disused NYC train tunnel.

Understanding Sex

1994 • 50 min

What we are, in large part, depends on our genes. It is the hand we are dealt when we are born, and the cards we play our entire lives. You can study as hard you can, but some people will be smarter. Work out as much as you want. Some people are born to be bigger, or prettier, or more artistic. The hand you get depends upon the luck of the draw. Which genes you get from your mother, which you get from your father, and how they combine to make you a unique individual, is largely a matter of chance. In the game of life, the shuffling of genes to create a new individual is called sex. But life does not have to be this way. We humans believe we are more than that: as much what we think, what we believe, what we imagine and what we hope as what we are physically. And that can transcend the selfishness of our genes, the fight for fertility, and the siren song of sex.

Dowager Hunter-Gatherer

1994 • 2 min • United Kingdom

"'DOWAGER HUNTER-GATHERER stalks the quiet, deserted streets of Belgravia, dipping her porky, St. Paul fingers into a paper bag of fluffy lemons... nibbles, lady?' The apocalyptic dada-esque nonsense of a femme fatale who unpicks the stitching from men's Y-fronts." -Viva-8 programme notes

Ma rencontre avec Marianne Faithfull et un enfant orignal

1994 • 2 min

In one minute, the protagonist meets Marianne Faithfull and a moose child.

The Travelling Song

1994 • 47 min • India

'Rasayatra' presents the life and music of Mallikarjum Bheemarayappa Mansur (1910-92). Visualising the music of the maestro the film explores Mansur's love and passion for music. Using his interviews the film takes us on a journey through his life, starting from his love for music as a child to his greatest achievements. Exploring Indian classical music the film also enters the realm of the poetic meaning of the lyrics and Mansur interpretations of those. Filled with personal anecdotes it talks about his personal life and how his music never got affected by it. The film is a tribute to the music and to the man.

Jeff Buckley: Grace Electronic Press Kit

1994 • 17 min

Promotional documentary about Jeff Buckley and the making of his first album, Grace.

Subverted Horseplay

1994 • 20 min

Mistaken identities converge and separate again in the harsh burn of optical truths. Images revolt and stand on their heads. The story of photography told as a Western.

Unauthorized Access

1994 • 38 min

Unauthorized Access is one of the earliest independent documentaries on the subject of the computer underground. Shot in 15 cities and 4 countries, this documentary offers an impressive array of topics dealing with hacking culture, such as phreaking, lockpicking, conspiracy theories, and ninja clad dumpster divers.

The Ten Commandments Number 1: Thou Shalt Not Adore False Gods

1994 • 5 min

The short features one of Mulloy’s standard cowboys, who’s robbed by a burglar, and tied to chair in front of his piano. No-one ever releases him, but over the years he learns to play the piano with his nose.

The Life Of A Grey Bear

1994 • 15 min • Russia

Based on the eponymous work by Ernest Thompson Seton about the life and death of an undefeated grizzly bear.

Sortie de Bain

1994 • 4 min • Belgium

Just before supper, Daddy asks his young daughter to take her bath, which is not as easy as pie.

Parallel Space: Inter-View

1994 • 18 min • Austria

Parallel Space: Inter-View is made with a photo camera. A miniature photo is exactly the size of two film frames. Optically it resembles a flickering double exposure; the former temporal and spatial unity disintegrates into pieces which have a correspondence with each other. (Peter Tscherkassky) Photographic processes - the material transformations involved in recording, developing, printing and projecting - functions as metaphors for psychological processes.

Eyewitness: Shark

1994 • 29 min

How many rows of teeth does a shark have? Have can they swim without any bones in their body? Shark drives into the murky world of one of the most misunderstood of all creatures. We explore the workings of this perfect killing machine, why they might attack, and how they have evolved over 400 million years.