All Films

There Goes An Airplane

1994 • 35 min

Kids will get the unique opportunity to visit the deck of an aircraft carrier and watch jet fighters take off and land at "ighining speed"!

Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel

1994 • 51 min • United States of America

1994 at the Ambassador Hotel, 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, California. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing. 134 run-down and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women, sometimes even children. All of them in urgent need of care, compassion and humanity. Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff, various benefactors, volunteers, neighbors, and community contributions.

Julião Sarmento

1994 • 60 min • Portugal

A documentary on one of the most important Portuguese Plastic Artists, with greatest International projection. Shown here are his techniques, themes, and obcessions developed for over two decades, as well as its ramifications into different supports such as Video, Photography, literature, taking the rare oportunity granted by a full retrospective of his work at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, including the works dispersed through International collections.

Remembrance A Few Minute Before

1994 • 35 min

8mm short film by Akira Hoshino.

Barbarians at the Gate

1994 • 58 min

Barbarians at the Gate documented the travels of Josh Beagle, Ronnie Creager and Heath Kirchart as they toured from L.A. to NY in a Land Rover.

Christmas in the Distance

1994 • 33 min • Finland

The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.

Reunión

1994 • 6 min • Chile

An eminently intellectual meeting is interrupted again and again as the characters succumb to their fears, passions and desires.

French Cinema

1994 • 10 min

Speaking of French cinema, we can only see Un homme et une femme or Les 400 coups but what is 'French Cinema in general'. So I tried to make this film. What makes French cinema 'French Cinema'? What is France? France! That is not Italy. Much less Japan!!

Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider

1994 • 57 min

This documentary chronicles the life of expatriate writer Paul Bowles through archival footage, photos and interviews with the author, who talks about his writing, his friendships with artists such as Tennessee Williams and Aaron Copland and more. Shot in Tangier, Morocco (Bowles's long time home), this revealing portrait sketches out Bowles's rebellious life story, including his love relationships with men and women, his drug use and his music.

Death File: Yellow

1994 • 56 min • Japan

Tenth film in the Death File series.

Le Vicinal

1994 • 12 min

Inland from the chalk plateau of Pays de Caux, the rituals of smoking hives and honey extraction are documented by an apprentice beekeeper, and a schoolboy watches from his classroom window over fields of rapeseed blown about by a coastal zephyr.

Eestlase elu

1994 • 55 min • Estonia, Finland

A documentary about the life of an ordinary Estonian family, which the film group followed for 14 months after the monetary reform in 1992. The background is the emergence of statehood in Estonia.

Stolen Children

1994 • 30 min

The use of kidnapped children as fighters was a systematic practice by the South African-backed Renamo army. We follow Julio Bombi’s journey to be re-united with his mother. Renamo kidnapped up to 100,000 children, and they became the most feared soldiers of all. When parents find their long-lost children, these hardened young assassins bear little resemblance to the children they lost.

Seven Women

1994 • 13 min • France

To mark its tenth season, Maison Martin Margiela decided to create an unusual fashion show to present its collection. Seven women of different ages, nationalities and professions were shot on Super-8 at home or in settings from their everyday lives. Small groups of press and buyers were invited to the showroom to view the film.

The Journey Inside

1994 • 40 min

A fascinating and fun glimpse into the world of computer technology where we see how microprocessors are made.

12 March: The Junta

1994 • 54 min • Turkey

We are now saying goodbye to the 1960s. The 60's started eventfully on May 27. It ended as eventfully as it began. The '70s inherited escalating violence, student riots, and rumors of intervention. Prime Minister Demirel was trying to put out the fire in the street and to calm the increasingly restless army on the other. The October 1969 elections were held in this atmosphere and the Justice Party came out of the ballot box again. May 27 came by overthrowing the DP government, but the AP, which declared that three of the three elections held since the 1960s, were the continuation of the DP, emerged successfully. Demirel was about to roll up his sleeves for a new era. He felt that no one could stop him now. He was wrong. As he was dizzy from victory, he fell at Caesar's fault. Forgot about Brutus...

A Film Is Stopped

1994 • 55 min

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.

Wyatt Earp: Walk with a Legend

1994 • 22 min

A special that pays tribute to epic western movies, with particular emphasis given to the making of the theatrical release, "Wyatt Earp" and an interview with its star, Kevin Costner.

Weijia Hutong

1994 • 35 min

Short documentary film directed by Shi Jian. Aired as part of Oriental Time and Space.

Outlaw

1994 • 26 min • United States of America

A video-verité manifesto made with self-identified gender outlaw, author and activist, Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014). Raw and confrontational, this videotape asks its audience to examine their assumptions about the "nature" of gender, challenging any nead certainties and calling for more sensitivity and awareness of the human rights and dignity of trans people.

The American Night of Dr. Lucio Fulci

1994 • 30 min • Italy

A testament of the greta B-movie director Lucio Fulci, whose films inspired great director like Quentin Tarantino. Lucio Fulci gift a long meditation about moviemaking fascinating for his sincerity, irony e clearness, about his filmmaking and his particular career.

Straight Dope

1994 • 60 min

Examination of the current stage of drug use in the United States and the effects it has on society.

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital

1994 • 58 min

Over Washington D.C.: Our Nation's Capital, narrated by 2-time Academy Award-winning actor Jason Robards and previously seen on public television, beautifully captures the U.S. capital's grandeur, history and vitality in a way no other film does.

Lunar Path

1994 • 8 min • Russia

There is only one day left until the New Year, and Little Fox still hasn’t figured out what to give to his friends. The crow advised him to climb into the attic, and there in an old chest they found the costumes of Father Frost and the Snow Maiden. At the request of the Moon Bunny, the Little Fox dressed as Father Frost and went to the Moon to congratulate the constellations gathered at the Star Ball. For this, the Moon Queen Selena granted the Little Fox's wish, giving him a bag of gifts for his friends.