All Films

Dolphins return to the sea

1994 • 57 min • Japan

A gruff gangster yakuza and Urisen Boy are in a romantic relationship, but reality is still harsh on these two. Eventually, nothing can be done about it, and the two of them fall down the road to destruction.

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels

1994 • 60 min • Belgium, France

The main character, Michele, spends the hour discussing her views of life with some old and new friends, and tries to understand her own feelings about her place in the world and her sexuality, while a camera follows along at close range.

Elementary Phrases

1994 • 33 min • United States of America

Colleagues at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the two began with strips of film Brakhage had painted on by hand, photographing them frame by frame with Solomon’s optical printer. They often printed two strips of film together, some of them containing images taken by Solomon, then chose from the images what Brakhage says “seemed to us natural phrases,” which Brakhage arranged into the final form. The result is a 40-minute silent film in which occasional hints of photographic images sometimes seem to peek through largely abstract shapes.

Rew-ffwd

1994 • 31 min • Canada

A young photographer is on assignment in Jamaica. It's a cultural shock! First anguished, he later becomes quite fascinated by the people he meets, their neighbourhood and their music.

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha!! Excited Heart of Summer Vacation

1994 • 20 min • Japan

The Norimaki Family, the Soramame Family, Suppaman, and Dr. Mashirito end up coming to a summer resort which is really a haunted castle filled with monsters. While enjoying the many facilities, such as the arcades and hot spring baths, they all end up falling into the clutches of Vandora, a female vampire who intends to feed off them.

Tamio Kageyama's Double Fantasy

1994 • 25 min • Japan

A 2-part TV special. The first part is a comedic bickering couple taking a sketchy plane for vacation. The second part is a horror a camera crew encounter while staying at the Hotel Southpacific after landing.

Lots of Peeping: Hot Underpanties of a Lover

1994 • 55 min • Japan

There was a man, a novelist, who had unavoidably turned his hand to sensual novels for a living, but now made a living out of it. One morning while jogging, he picks up a lighter and cigarettes dropped by a bookstore owner, and decides to deliver them to the store. When there is no answer to the doorbell, he goes to the back of the store and looks in the slightly open window to find the owner tying up a female clerk and engaging in SM play.

Henri

1994 • 60 min

A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.

Automania

1994 • 6 min • Canada

Just as he does every morning, a man is preparing to jump into his car and head off to work when the remote control gizmo refuses to cooperate.

Groper Train: I Love Sex!

1994 • 57 min • Japan

Erotic work depicting the undisguised lust of a man and a woman. In a big city, there is a chance that a man and a woman who meet for the first time connect in a playful mood. Kayo hears from her friend about harassment in the car and wants to experience such an experience herself. The day has finally come when this wish will come true. Her partner turns out to be Masaharu, who has a chaste wife named Taeko. Masaharu is a good game technician, and when Kayo accidentally touches his body on the train, they immediately go to the hotel for a date…

Fit

1994 • 8 min

A surreal account of Lizzie as she struggles to make life fit.

Hammer Time

1994 • 2 min • United States of America

What a hammer is used for, how it works, and how it differs from other tools.

Route 666

1994 • 7 min

In a motel room, things start to get alive.

Brotherly Love

1994 • 54 min • United Kingdom

Two brothers travel from Edinburgh to the Scottish Highlands in an attempt to force one of them to kick his drug habit.

Pent-Up

1994 • 10 min

The interior monologues of five characters are made audible, giving way to a host of efforts on the part of the viewer to create connections or manufacture logic and pattern where, ultimately, there is none. 16mm film. Five-screen projection.

Impakto

1994 • 39 min • Philippines

Two rich opposite siblings, Lizbeth and Charlie are kidnapped with the help of their driver and his two accomplices. But when their car breaks down in the middle of the night, the kidnappers decide to stay in an old abandoned hotel to hide and await sunrise. Unbeknownst to them, Andres the Impakto is residing in the area.

Elephant Song

1994 • 59 min • Japan

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wanted to be buried in the land rather than a cemetery, so that his body would be 'useful' - and now he's dead. Kanako and her boy enlist the help of a friendly florist with a small truck, steal the corpse, and head for the mountains.

Domino

1994 • 45 min • Canada

Domino portrays the poignant and outspoken stories of six multiracial adults' struggles to transcend cultural boundaries and forge their own identities. By virtue of their experience, they explore how society categorizes "race". Domino reveals how these women and men have used their experience as a psychological, creative and cultural enrichment.

Calliope

1994 • 15 min

A writer begins to discover that his femme fatale character has come to life in the real world.

Junkers Come Here: Memories of You

1994 • 29 min • Japan

A strange dog meets four orphaned sisters.

Slam Dunk: The Movie

1994 • 30 min • Japan

Sakuragi and the Shohoko team takes on Oda and Takezono High School. This is Sakuragi's second match as he faces Oda, a basketball player who went to the same junior high.

Cellar Sinema

1994 • 12 min

A descent into the blackness of the projected image and the curators who flick the switches and grease up all moveable parts for hot action when the lights go out.

Lucky Widow Can't Wait Until Night

1994 • 55 min • Japan

An erotic drama depicting the struggles of a widow who brings good fortune, devoted to her late husband and putting all her energy into everything she does. Set in the sex industry, where people with their own problems gather, this heartwarming film depicts men and women who do not lose hope but live their lives to the fullest, even when they are tormented by the pain of loss. Seiko (Ogawa Mami), whose husband, a truck driver, died in an accident, works as a phone club hostess for her childhood friend Takimoto (Yamamoto Ryuji), a company that deals with all things sexual. She frequently clashes with Manda (Jimmy Tsuchida), who works at a rival company, but when she learns that Manda has also lost his wife in an accident, she feels a sense of kinship with him.

Honban jukujo: Kyonyû washizukami

1994 • 60 min • Japan

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