All Films

Movements of the Body - 1st Movement: The Gesture

1994 • 4 min • Canada

Movements of the Body is an animated trilogy illustrating movements of the mind through movements of the body's parts. The 1st movement: The Gesture captures the essence of postures and movements.

And Miles to Go Before I Sleep

1994 • 60 min

In 1993, Grateful Dead took the stage at Buckeye Lake Music Center in Hebron, OH. On hand that night was Peter Shapiro, at the time a Northwestern film student spending a month on summer tour alongside cameraman Philip Bruell. The Buckeye Lake show opens and the Heads document the swelling Dead scene.

Arizona

1994 • 7 min

Short film.

Ten Minutes With the Working Class

1994 • 12 min • Romania

The story of the Semănătoarea factory in Bucharest, Romania.

Opacity

1994 • 30 min • Iceland

A modern businessman surrounded by all the trappings of success, picks up a beautiful woman who is hitchhiking along a lonely stretch of road in the south. Quiet, mysterious, the woman is an artist on the way to Meðalland to sketch. Always ready to take advantage of an opportunity, the young man adjusts his itinerary to help the beautiful artist, and with luck, he thinks, help himself add another notch to his sexual belt. But all is not what it seems in this world. The question arises as to whether all the expensive aids of modern affluent society can help him avoid what appear to be forces that transcend time - or is it all imagination, or hallucination, or both?

Mi'kmaq Family (Migmaoei Otjiosog)

1994 • 32 min • Canada

This documentary takes you on a reflective journey into the extended family of Nova Scotia’s Mi'kmaq community. Revisiting her own roots, Mi'kmaq filmmaker and mother Catherine Anne Martin explores how the community is recovering its First Nations values, particularly through the teachings of elders and a collective approach to children-rearing. Mi'kmaq Family is an inspiring resource for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences who are looking for ways to strengthen and explore their own families and traditions. We hear the Mi'kmaq language spoken and a lullaby is sung by a Mi'kmaq grandmother featured in the film.

Julio César Chávez vs. Meldrick Taylor II

1994 • 47 min

1994-09-17 - Julio César Chávez vs. Meldrick Taylor II

12 March: Memorandum

1994 • 51 min

When March of 1971 knocked on the door, a military intervention was imminent in the country. Bombs were exploding in a strange way from right to left, and the urban guerrilla was resorting to unconventional acts such as bank robbery and kidnapping. The generals had decided to put a stop to this trend. Dynamite was placed under Prime Minister Demirel. The question now was who would ignite the fuse of the dynamite. President Sunay was waiting to watch the approaching explosion silently from Çankaya. Tuğmaç, Chief of General Staff, tried to delay the explosion as much as possible, preferring Demirel to self-destruct. The two generals were watching each other to see who would ignite the fuse first. These two generals were Faruk Gürler and Muhsin Batur. The fire was in their hands. They were going to detonate the dynamite...

Weird Thoughts

1994 • 40 min • United Kingdom

A discussion that explores the nature of superstition and exposes our fascination with the unexplainable.

Painted Earth

1994 • 7 min

Lawan Jirasuradej’s independent 16mm shorts, Painted Earth, were created during her Fulbright graduate scholarship study at San Francisco State University's School of Cinema. Painted Earth is among a handful of Thai experimental films made by independent filmmakers in the 1990s, and its combination of poetic images and narration brings together the two worlds of sound and picture, of the USA and Thailand.

Rhythmus 94

1994 • 5 min

The generating material for Rhythm 94 is a sequence of photographs taken by the cinematographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. The sequence is transposed into a single movement across the screen. The basic pattern arising out of the abstract nature of the photo animation is available for repetition at various speeds and in various spatial relationships.

Plumitas calientes

1994 • 3 min

A young man recalls the afternoon in his childhood when he discovered religion and sex.

Oster Home Pet Grooming Video

1994 • 15 min • United States of America

Regular grooming is essential to your dog’s health and happiness. The Oster Home Pet Grooming Video teaches you simple, easy-to-learn trimming and clipping techniques that can be used for almost any dog, including the Poodle, the Cocker Spaniel, the Mixed Breed and the Schnauzer. You will also learn how to bathe and groom your pet as well as simple maintenance procedures to keep you Oster equipment running in peak condition. Soon, you’ll be trimming your pet in the convenience and privacy of your own home, saving you time and money. And your dog will be looking good and feeling good all year-round.

Parking Lot

1994 • 23 min • Russia

The twenty-six-year-old hero, who previously worked as a parking lot watchman, went into business and could not repay the loan. And he has a wife and children. The current situation forces him to look at the world with different eyes.

The Riddle of the Long Beans

1994 • 2 min • Latvia

Based on a comic riddle poem by Anna Brigadere.

Frances the Firefly

1994 • 5 min • United Kingdom

An animated fire safety PIF from the 1990s, narrated by Richard Briers. A book version of the PIF was published in 2004.

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. Three interviews. 1994

1994 • 10 min

"Three Interviews." This is from my archives, a TV shoot with Dima Frolov, 1994. Part one: my interview with Vlad for St. Petersburg TV. This interview is listed first because it's being published online for the first time. Part two: Vlad interviews Viktor Tuzov, and part three: Vlad interviews Timur Novikov (we filmed these two interviews for Tatyana Didenko's program "Silence 9"). I've already published the last two interviews online, but I decided to combine all three now—for friends, a chance to mentally transport myself back to those wonderful times when it seemed nothing could foreshadow disaster (at that point, Viktor was already terminally ill, but it was perceived as something extraordinary—an accident, an evil fate, the fate of one man).

La puerta

1994 • 16 min • Argentina

In a disturbing climate, a man and a girl seek to escape a curse: living imprisoned inside a film.

Trawna Tuh Belvul

1994 • 14 min • Canada

This animated short film is an interpretation of Earle Birney's poem “Trawna Tuh Belvul by Knayjim Psifik.” Using finely crafted cut-out animation, the film retells a memorable experience of the journey from Toronto to Belleville, Ontario.

The Long Voyage

1994 • 4 min

A fake interactive program clip created from numerous images filmed during the recording of the album "Chansons des mers froides". It was intended to represent what a CD-ROM (reflecting the times) on the subject might have been.

Out for a Change

1994 • 28 min

The award-winning short documentary features interviews with student athletes, coaches (including Stanford’s Tara Van Deveer), athletic directors, academics, and prominent professional athletes including Martina Navratilova and Zina Garrison-Jackson as they describe how the fear of being labeled a lesbian or “dyke” hinders the performance of all female athletes, and even prevents many women from participating in sports at all. The personal tales are contextualized within a larger narrative that illustrates how sexism and homophobia are wielded as political tools to retain male control over the multi-billion dollar women’s sports industry.

Mr. McAllister's Cigarette Holder

1994 • 20 min

This slow motion, past-tense story of pride and dignity harks back to a simpler age, when a man's life could be supported on a single idea, and there were men around simple enough to define themselves as one-dimensional.

Guardians of the Flutes

1994 • 51 min • United Kingdom

High in the mountains of New Guinea live the Sambia people, a war-like tribe whose secret rituals of initiation are aimed at making their warriors courageous and bold.

UPC Codes and 666

1994 • 14 min • United States of America

“Using straightforward, scientific methods, this video reveals irrefutable proof of the presence of the number 666 in the Universal Product Code, which appears on 95% of all supermarket products. A comprehensive, step-by-step deciphering process is used to break down the UPC into its component parts, and the derivation of the number 666 is made clear. Startling evidence of the role of UPC's in the new monetary system is uncovered--the prophecy of Revelation coming true today!”