All Films

The King Does Not Lie

1993 • 43 min

This film shows the Afro-Cuban religion, Santeria, whose New World practitioners have too often been maligned out of ignorance and prejudice and even harassed by authorities. In this intimate documentary we see a contemporary Puerto Rican community of "santeros" gather for the initiation of a priest of Shango, the "Thundergod" of the traditional Yoruba religion. As we follow the initiate through a series of ritual events, a new perspective on ancient rites is revealed. The religion originated in Africa and the chants are sung in Yoruba.

Coiled

1993 • 8 min

A ‘hieroglyphic remembrance’ of desire for love, exploring heterosexual desire amidst the Fever Zone of homoerotic mysteries and narcissistic compulsion.(…)

Kazakh Pre-Muslim Ceremonies and Religious Faiths

1993 • 18 min • Kazakhstan

The mythic parables and traditions connection with death as The Return to the Womb of Sky. The symbolism of the actions of the funerary rituals are described. Mr. Kayirbekov has also done films about the rituals of childbirth, marriage, the symbolic parts of the yurt, and the Kazakh cosmological concept.

Oley

1993 • 10 min

harvest time in Oley Valley.

Vom Sternescheutzen

1993 • 12 min

An absurd list of sequences, each dedicated to a mood, include found footage, grotesque double exposures, and clear referencing of physicality.

Avec Matisse à Tanger

1993 • 50 min • France, Morocco

The film chronicles Henri Matisse's travels to Tangier as he seeks new motifs for his paintings from a Moroccan perspective. Henri Matisse made two trips to Tangier in early 1912 and in the winter of 1912-1913, seaching for new motifs for his paintings. The lush colors and sensuous imagery of North Africa proved extraordinarily fruitful. Matisse completed twenty-three paintings – many of them master works – and more than sixty pen-and-ink drawings.

Bust

1993 • 23 min • Armenia

A funny and sad story about how two friends accidentally smashed a bust of Stalin and what happened next.

TV Interruptions ’93

1993 • 8 min

Commissioned by MTV Networks, produced by Annalogue, and transmitted worldwide (unannounced) through 1993-94.’Conceived in the spirit of the 1971 pieces, TV Interruptions 93 were shot or post-produced using advanced colour video technology, electronic effects and a refinement gained over Hall’s 25 years work in time-based media. Taken together, they constitute a potted summary of Hall’s preoccupations in video and television, and perhaps of the progression of video art as a ‘genre’…

Emotional Gel Scenery

1993 • 26 min

A video correspondence between Yoichiro Serizawa and Shinji Takeyoshi.

Mirror of Tunisia/Tunisia, the Trance and the Stone

1993 • 51 min • France, Tunisia

Tunisia itself is the subject; we wanted to render the genius of the site. Tunisia is almost the central character of this little film: we see the relation of the city to the sea, the traces that bear witness to its foundation, the remains of Carthage, the symbolism of the recently discovered Medina coin … The splendours of the house interiors and courtyards are associated with a scene of origin, what psychoanalysis calls a primal scene. Entering these houses opens up a world peopled by women: the child’s ‘homecoming’ in the hands of women is staged as an abduction, playing doubly on fascination and terror. These places were mine, from my childhood, they can be found almost intact – it’s the return of the exile visiting the kingdom. I let Ruiz discover all this, and immediately that led him to echoes and resonances ranging from Spain to Chile.

Joy of the body

1993 • 9 min

Short experimental film

Ambalagamma

1993 • 4 min

Ambient cornucopia of the caravaggian nature mortes

Out of time

1993 • 9 min

Small-waisted black ant woman crawling on the ground under the merciless magnifying glass.

Blind Grace

1993 • 20 min

Blind Grace is a tense, poetic essay on the marginal people and forgotten places of New York City. Chance, fleeting meetings between the filmaker and passers-by are caught on film. A homeless man builds a Christmas tree from trash and discarderd cans on 42nd Street. Ted, the bird-man, makes his daily rounds, feeding thousands of pigeons. A man, believing himself to be a prophet, makes ritualized signals towards a place that only he can see, mediating between the stained sidewalk and the sky over New York. Between the immediacy of documentary photography and the more stylised pictoral juxtapositions, the spectator is invited on a resolutely singular and personal visit of the city.

Permanent Wave

1993 • 2 min • United Kingdom

Surrealist animation involving a nightmarish hairdresser's.

El Pistolero

1993 • 4 min • Germany

For Nelie and Maria

1993 • 6 min

For Nelie and Maria is a contact improvisation dance film with original choreography by Wes Staats and an original music score by George Todd. Three women start by playing paper/rocks/scissors and the game expands into an examination of the ability of siblings to use each other in movement and sound. -RR

Diary of a Provincial Puppeteer

1993 • 24 min

A portrait of the actor Călin Nemeș, who bravely faced the soldiers sent to suppress the demonstrations during the 1989 Revolution, in Cluj. Disillusioned and alone, Nemeș committed suicide in 1993.

Annamalai Swami interviewed by Madhukar Thompson

1993 • 57 min

Annamalai Swami interviewed by Madhukar Thompson in Tiruvannamalai, India (1993).

Secreti Amori

1993 • 7 min

Experimental short.

Mario & Wario Perfect Video

1993 • 30 min

Mario & Wario Perfect Video

Mother Goddess Goes to the Grocery Store

1993 • 7 min

Mother Goddess Goes to the Grocery Store. A film by Janice Inskeep.

Dinosaurs: The Official Video of the Natural History Museum

1993 • 55 min

Be prepared to be amazed by the best dinosaur video of all time - from the Natural History Museum, of course. This production uses advanced techniques, pioneered in movies such as Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park, to bring to life the most exciting creatures ever to roam the earth.

Afterimage Of Summer

1993 • 12 min

Color sound. Produced in 1993. Poetic images that show beautiful colors. A diary movie shot at the end of one summer.