All Films

Black Box

1994 • 41 min • Lithuania

In this experimental documentary, film director Algimantas Maceina reveals the theme of the exile of Lithuanian society from a very personal perspective. He films the repatriation of the remains of his grandfather from Siberia to Lithuania. This personal approach to societal tragedy – the genocide caused by the Soviet regime – links personal to collective memory and erases the boundaries between personal film archives and publicly acknowledged films.

Evolved Virtual Creatures

1994 • 4 min • United States of America

This video shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. Those that are most successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents. As this cycle of variation and selection continues, creatures with more and more successful behaviors can emerge.

Another Bad Day for Philip Jenkins

1994 • 3 min • United States of America

Philip Jenkins is unwanted. He walks head down, sad, in suit, hat, and wire-rim glasses. In this nearly wordless animation, bad things happen to him. First an elevator malfunction leads to a trip to the hospital: he leaves with his arm in a sling. Another accident at work results in another hospital visit. The same indifferent stretcher bearers and the same indifferent nurse see to his care. Now, his leg is in a cast as well as his arm. He soldiers on, using a cane. When a traffic sign malfunctions, it's back to the hospital; he leaves with bandaged head, piloting a wheelchair. But his woes aren't over yet. After one more mishap, Philip Jenkins finally has something to say.

Queen's Polyester Dog

1994 • 36 min • Japan

Punktiņa un Antons

1994 • 58 min • Latvia

An adaptation of Erich Kästner's book for children "Annaluise and Anton".

Multiplication

1994 • 8 min • Croatia

Infrared footage of a fire fighting exercise in which firemen are in the dark and are blindly crawling through the cage intended for such exercise, while the “seeing” camera follows them.

The Sixth Sense

1994 • 3 min

When I filmed a mad dog at an industrial terrain I was surprised to see the dog run off as soon as I pointed the camera towards it. I wasn’t sure if the dog became scared because it was surprised that this big eye that was pointed at it did not express any fear, or that it was the dog’s own image, reflected in the camera lens, that scared it. However it may be; the dog got scared and ran away. This made me realize that maybe it also works like that internally. If you face your fears in a calm and quiet state of mind, you may drive them off or even serve as a mirror to them.

Dear Sakurai

1994 • 3 min • Japan

8mm/02min.45sec./sound/1994

Journey to Synesthesia

1994 • 46 min

Synesthesia, from the ancient Greek σύν [syn], meaning "together", and αἴσθησις [aisthēsis], "sensation", is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In this 46-minute journey, Beny Tchaicovsky pioneers the use computer generated imagery as an art form.

Quam Mirabilis

1994 • 58 min

A tale about two cloistered nuns whose love begins to flower into a delicate romance.

Gentileza

1994 • 9 min • Brazil

Documentary about the prophet Gentileza, a "madman of God" who lived in Rio de Janeiro and preached throughout Brazil his anti-capitalist, ecological, social and religious message, whose starting point is the maxim "Gentleness breeds kindness". Gentileza's testimony, his performance on the streets of Rio de Janeiro and the record of his pictorial work are the great attractions of the film.

Barbara Takes a Walk

1994 • 3 min • Sweden

A female figure gives birth to a spiral of toy animals to the sound of music, groans and screams.

X-Mix-2: Destination Planet Dream

1994 • 56 min

Laurent Garnier presents X-Mix-2: Destination Planet Dream.

Be Again

1994 • 8 min

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning remembering Samuel Beckett. The text echoes the Purgatory.

Serial Clubber Killer

1994 • 14 min • Brazil

Driving his car through the city of São Paulo, a serial killer plans the extermination of some famous names in the São Paulo nightlife. To carry out the massacre, he uses the most bizarre methods. The film is a tribute to the city of São Paulo, the clubber movement and the cinema of John Waters and Russ Meyer.

Skiptracer

1994 • 40 min • United States of America

Ray Tussell is a children's birthday party entertainer by day, a skiptracer by night. Will he live to entertain another child or will this next job be his last?

Toothsome

1994 • 1 min • Norway

Toothbrushing is not always easy.

Lick of Fury

1994 • 16 min

A story of love, manatees, and compulsive licking.

The Retrochronological Transfer of Information

1994 • 10 min • Philippines

Inspired by the works of physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and philosopher Enryo Inoue, this 16mm film documents the experiments of a modern-day scientist who attempts to communicate with Jose P. Rizal, the Philippine National Hero who was executed by the Spanish in 1896.

Stolen Lives

1994 • 26 min • United Kingdom

“My life was wasted. I was 19 when I went in… all my life’s gone. I could have been happy.” Meanwood Park Colony for mental defectives opened 1920. One man, Samuel Wormald, stalked the teenage mill girls, forced them into his car, and took them straight to Meanwood. He rounded up more than 2000 mill girls, factory workers and children in the Leeds area, who were incarcerated. This film was made as the Colony was closing, and men and women who had been incarcerated against their will for more than 40 years were being set free. Now living independent lives in the community in their old age, they tell their dreadful stories.

Walking Film 6

1994 • 18 min • Austria

An enlightened response to Austria's breathless cinema, a cinematic ricochet with trance flavour enhancers. Cinema which evidently appears to come from a completely different world precisely because its manner of dealing with this world is so uncompromising.

Histoire extraordinaire de Mme Veuve Kecskemet

1994 • 4 min • France

Super 8 Diary - 1994

1994 • 18 min • United States of America

Fat Chance

1994 • 10 min • Canada

A woman sits in front of her refrigerator and lists the different ways she loves her body. Two women, one fat, one thin, make love in an empty warehouse.