All Films

The Time of Our Lives

1994 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are compared with each other, while fragments from radio-programmes from the fourties and the fifties draw an emotional and historical line. Set against this archive material are fierce images of modern day family life in urban England in the year 1993. This makes the film a collage of dreams, memories and images of present-day life.

Green Dream

1994 • 23 min • Canada

In Green Dream, Josephine Massarella has infused her vibrant, impressionistic images of nature with the spirit of the goddess Artemis. Evocative and abstract, Green Dream relies on a wide range of experimental techniques, including pixilation, optical printing, and manipulated motion to achieve a dreamlike state where the relevance of beauty and the irrelevance of use can be contemplated. Reminiscent of the work of French experimental filmmaker Rose Lawder, Green Dream confronts modern overdevelopment with overpowering life forces.

The Hoax: An In-Line Crime

1994 • 45 min • United States of America

Welcome to the insane world of In-Line skating, the fastest growing sport in America! The Hoax is a 45:00 rollercoaster ride through the world of aggressive In-Line skating. See the world's premier in-line skaters execute the most aggressive stunts ever captured on film. Witness the sessions, rituals and lifestyles of the country's top pros as they skate and crash their way through Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. This action packed adventure moves to some of the most cutting-edge music around, including songs by: Bad Religion Biohazard Offspring Skatenigs Penny Wise Bazooka Hungry Crocodiles Monster Voodoo Machine.

Hoggs' Heaven

1994 • 30 min

A young poet wins his first prize of $250, but his family is not supportive.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

1994 • 30 min

A turtle named Harold was unfortunate enough to be born without a shell. Because of this, despite having many talents because of his lack of one, every other turtle looks down upon him.

Funk Rio

1994 • 45 min

Rio Funk is a project about kids from favelas in Rio how to get hope and learn how to escape from their indistinct fate to be drug dealers in the future.

Save Me

1994 • 6 min • United Kingdom

A mixed media experimental animated film that generates a fragmented view of the world through the partial disclosure of a fantastic event. Day-to-day mystical, trivial and important activity is represented using reoccurring symbolic triggers, both visual and aural.

Responsible Women

1994 • 27 min • Egypt

Documentary by Ateyyat El-Abnoudy

Opposing Views

1994 • 1 min

On a talk show, a chicken and an egg debate the eternal question--which came first?

Love Me, If You Wish

1994 • 4 min • United Kingdom

An examination of sexuality and humiliation.

Attack of the Monsters

1994 • 3 min • United States of America

Godzilla spoof student film directed by Michael Dougherty.

The Chimera of the Coast

1994 • 43 min • Uruguay

This documentary examines the problems of Uruguay's Atlantic coast in the face of a scheme to exploit the area's tourist resources that is not geared to sustainable development.

The Meadow

1994 • 3 min • United States of America

Experimental animation done with marker, ink, and crayon on paper

Varför småler Annalisa?

1994 • 54 min • Sweden

A program with and about Annalisa Ericson, the woman who during her lifetime became a legend, a piece of Swedish entertainment history. Her own life, rich in years, rich in experiences, contains both laughter and despair. Together with Gun Allroth, Annalisa tells us about her life and comments on the films we remember, revues we've seen, epochs gone by.

Org

1994 • 13 min

Ett sommarspel

1994 • 49 min • Sweden

A woman named Agnes who emigrated to the USA returns to her home village with her new husband Algot. When Agnes' childhood friend David turns up it's the start of a love triangle.

Leoncavallo - I Giorni dello Sgombero

1994 • 60 min • Italy

Following the radios of the movement, this film appeared as a protest - one of the first demonstrations of an antagonistic self-managed communication over the entire territory of the nation that resulted in a debate and a collective work in many Italian cities dealing with counter-information and liberation of informatic technologies.

Raw

1994 • 5 min • Canada

A short animation directed by Don Best

Trente Ans: Renga 30

1994 • 26 min

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada.

Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican

1994 • 57 min • United States of America, Puerto Rico

Contemplates the notion of "identity" through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews and soap opera drama, the film tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned, lesbian Puerto Rican photographer / videographer who is attempting to construct a sense of community in the US. Confronting the simultaneity of both her privilege and her oppression, this experimental narrative becomes a meditation on class, race, and sexuality as shifting differences.

Kubrick, Fran & Ollie

1994 • 6 min • United States of America

A bizarre parody of the baptismal scene in 'The Godfather' and the JFK assassination.

The Boy Who Was Swallowed by the Drug Monster

1994 • 13 min • United States of America

Sue Pettit's son Vince becomes consumed by the "Drug Monster", leading to devastating consequences.

A Taxi for Aouzou

1994 • 22 min • Chad, France

In this wonderful hybrid of fiction and documentary, we become the close companions of Ali Baba Nour, a Chadian cab driver who explains his hopes and dreams, his challenges in a difficult and often violent society, and his optimism for the baby he and his wife are expecting. In this urban poem, we are treated to the color and movement of Ali Baba Nour's city. It is a generous postcard that one might send to a friend, telling of an unforgettable acquaintance and place.

The Dirdy Birdy

1994 • 7 min • United States of America

A dirty bird with a penchant for mooning falls in love with a hostile cat who sits in a tree.