All Films

Band of Exile

1994 • 58 min

Here in Toronto, four young Somali refugees are finishing high school. What did they bring with them? What did they find in Canada? Their testimonies, about us and about themselves, interspersed with newsreel footage and sequences of a theatrical creation in which they put all their soul, make them immediately endearing and overturn many prejudices held against refugees. A film that makes you want to get to know them better.

I Like Dreaming

1994 • 7 min • United States of America

A confession on the pleasures of cruising straight men.

Calle 22

1994 • 22 min

A street, two public phones; a couple, Ana and Manuel. Manuel has decided to play a joke with Ana, so he makes dirty telephone calls to her, changing his voice. To his surprise, Ana is seduced by the unknown voice.

Magic Tricks You Can Do!

1994 • 31 min • United States of America

Magician Doug Anderson demonstrates a variety of magic tricks and sleight of hand you can practice and master in your own home.

Keep Moving

1994 • 30 min • Canada

In Keep Moving, three men work to make ends meet and to understand how they have arrived where they are. Two are single fathers coping with parental responsibilities. Frank is a founding member of Act Up, who dedicated himself to the organization over the years, and who has paid a price in the course of his commitment. Bob juggles businesses, trying to make a new start, while Mike wrestles with a past that encompasses family tragedy, alcoholism and drug addiction. Keep Moving considers how these men understand their histories while pressing forward, and how they received and pass on fundamental values.

The Memories in My Frame

1994 • 5 min • South Korea

A young boy struggles with the loss of his beloved dog.

Johnny Cash - Manhattan Center

1994 • 50 min

Johnny Cash, Manhattan Center (1994). Folsom Prison Blues, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line, Delia's Gone, The Beast in Me, Drive On, The Man Who Couldn't Cry, Thirteen, Tennessee Stud, Big River, (Ghost) Riders in the Sky, Orange Blossom Special, Let the Train Blow the Whistle

Don't Tell Daddy

1994 • 59 min • Finland

In the freer climate of the 1990s, some young women from Estonia are enticed into Finland to work as dancers and entertainers. Many, like 18 years old Irma, find themselves doing striptease.

Call-girl's Christmas

1994 • 26 min • Estonia

Portrait documentary about a country girl who has hopes for a better future and comes to Tallinn to sell her body in order to find happiness and make a living. This is an honest story about an eager young woman who has chosen a difficult, sometimes even dangerous profession.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Simply Marvelous

1994 • 28 min • United States of America

Outrageous and opinionated comic Simply Marvalous focuses on such topics as singing preachers, her size and safe sex.

Zen, in Search of Enlightenment

1994 • 59 min • Japan

A documentary exploring the rigorous training and meditation practices found at the Shōgen-ji, a Zen Buddhist monastery of the Rinzai school in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Spider Jan.16.91

1994 • 3 min • United States of America

Short experimental film made in 1994.

Märak och Pirak

1994 • 43 min • Sweden

Documentary about the priest and joiker Johan Märak and the artist Lars Pirak, and their friendship.

UFOs: Above Top Secret

1994 • 59 min • United States of America

This documentary uncovers the cover up behind UFOs. It examines why UFOs and visitors from space appear to a few intelligent, influential Earth people, trying to communicate with them. You'll see the photographs of the first documented alien casualty. This video is a rare collectible you'll be watching for years.

The Red Book

1994 • 11 min • United States of America

An elliptical, pictographic animated film that uses flat, painted figures and collage elements in both two and three dimensional settings to explore the realms of memory, language and identity from the point of view of a woman amnesiac.

Cannot Not Exist

1994 • 8 min • United States of America

In this non-orange negative of a hand-painted film, a series of luminously pastel shapes – often patches of color against a stark white background – are interspersed with nearly black intermittent smudges punctuating white. These visual themes develop gradually into a series of multi-colored vertical lines which weave contrapunctally in relation to the flickering (single-frame) paint shapes. Twice, a solid (as if photographed) shape is seen receding from the amalgam of paint. Masses of tiny dots and "curlicue" shapes sometimes interrupt the thematic progression from irregular paint-shape flickerings to fluidity of vertical lines: this theme eventually resolves itself through the intervention of globular shapes (most notably, brilliant orange-yellow "globs") which spread themselves over several frames and prompt the eventual amalgamation of all themes.

Space Girl Detective Bloomers

1994 • 45 min

Miri Asano, a second-year junior high school student who makes a wish for a star, is given a protect suit "bloomers" by a human-sized rabbit, Yun, and becomes a "space girl detective bloomers" by "flashing". Her enemy is the Dark Dimension Empire Enigma. The ruler, Emperor of Darkness, Destruction God Baower, led a fleet of different dimensions and started invading the earth. An invading hand approaching Miri's school! Fight! Space Girl Detective Bloomers!

Settela: Face of the Past

1994 • 54 min

In 1944, a Jewish prisoner was commissioned by camp commander Gemmeker to make a film about life and work in Westerbork. Seven seconds from this film became the symbol of the deportations to the Nazi extermination camps: a girl with a white headscarf standing in the doorway of a goods wagon. Who was she? In 1994 Cherry Duyns followed journalist Aad Wagenaar in search of the girl's identity.

Taxi-vala/Auto-biography

1994 • 48 min

A documentary exploring the experiences and attitudes of Indian and Pakistani taxi drivers in New York City while also questioning the filmmaker's relationship to these South Asian immigrants and to his mixed-race heritage.

Concrete Garden

1994 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A charming story about a West Indian girl who moves to 1950s London. Marcia has spent most of her 11 years living with her Jamaican grandmother but is sent to damp, dark London to start a new life with her parents. Missing her gran terribly, Marcia is surrounded by bullying schoolgirls, racism on TV and a jealous younger brother... Only her favourite pop star will help her feel at home. Concrete Garden is a wonderfully observed graduation film from director Alrick Riley. With warm performances from a young cast and exquisite detail in the production design, this tender short film powerfully evokes the trials and tribulations faced by kids settling in 1950s Britain.

Mark

1994 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Safety on the Move campaign short film, in which we learn about Mark (a great bloke).

Homage to Eadward Muybridge

1994 • 2 min

David Hanson edits together 11 separate photo series done between 1877 and 1885 by Eadweard Muybridge to make 11 short films.

Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu

1994 • 58 min

Inspired to write music after hearing the French song "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" during World War II, film composer Toru Takemitsu enjoyed a rich career working with many of Japanese cinema's greatest directors. Rarely interviewed filmmakers such as Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) and Masaki Kobayashi (Kaidan) expound on the varied sonic palettes Takemitsu left upon their works.

Playboy Video Centerfold: Jenny McCarthy - Playmate of the Year 1994

1994 • 52 min

Join 1994 Playmate of the Year Jenny McCarthy for a blistering encounter in the desert heat, as the sexiest student body in school and much more. Bonus feature: Miss February 1994 and 1995 Playmate of the Year Julie Cialini.