All Films

Unknown Ukraine. History, Why We Need It

1993 • 16 min • Ukraine

Memory loss is a tragedy for an individual. But what about a nation? How can we measure the tragedy of the Ukrainian people, who were deprived of their historical memory and who, in fact, had no written history of their own?

Will the Doctor Return?

1993 • 15 min • Ukraine

About the renowned clinician, scientist, and first academician among Ukrainian physicians, Teofil Gavrilovich Yanovsky, who valued compassion above worldly fame. All of Kyiv attended the funeral of the Doctor in 1928.

The Making of Myst

1993 • 14 min

A mini-documentary showcasing interviews with Cyan staff on the artistic and technological processes behind the classic adventure game Myst. Originally included as a featurette in CD-ROM copies of the game.

Zero Tolerance

1993 • 60 min

A documentary about the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto in the early 1990s focusing on prostitution, street drugs, and gentrification.

Rich Mullins: 12 Short Stories

1993 • 37 min

Many people who have attended a Rich Mullins concert can tell you that the most impactful parts are his "stories" that he tells between his songs. This collection of 12 of those stories was recorded in February of 1993, and released on the "Here in America" Bonus DVD.

El camino de las hormigas

1993 • 54 min • Poland, Venezuela

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

Regarde-moi

1993 • 7 min • France

This atmospheric mini-seduction drama follows two beautiful French women who meet at a sidewalk café. What are they going to do together in that cheap Parisian hotel room?

Snickeriet

1993 • 59 min • Sweden

A report from Spångens Snickeri in Norrköping, where disabled and odd people work. Each one works to their own ability. The film is about the essentials of life – about community and love, and about what and who really is different. A film about everyday occurrences in a new light.

Understanding the Universe

1993 • 51 min • United States of America

Join astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in Understanding The Universe, part of TLC's popular television series. Narrated by actress Candice Bergen, This enriching and entertaining video employs graphic models and spectacular computer animation to illustrate some of the most complex theories of all time. Peer through the largest telescopes on Earth. Get a close-up look at our sun, nebulas and supernovas, capture by the Hubble Space Telescope. Listen via satellite to echoes of the Big Bang. See how "red Shift" among the stars suggests that our universe if much younger than previously thought. Visit the set of Star Trek: Voyager and ponder the questions, could black holes be "worm holes," or shortcuts to other worlds? Understanding the Universe boldly goes where no television show has gone before.

In the Gutter and Other Good Places

1993 • 56 min • Canada

In the gutter and other good places The award winning film documentary In the gutter and other good places by Christine Richey is a multi-spectral view of three Calgary dumpster diving bottle pickers. The film traverses the ordinarily drawn stereotype of the homeless "pickers" of Calgary, and provides another compassionate standpoint on the choices and circumstances that have embodied their current predicament. Richey selects three very different street people for her story all with their unique backgrounds. Challenging assumptions about street people and their image to society, we are introduced first of all

Labyrinth

1993 • 12 min • Slovenia

This video dance project is a sort of condensed poetical and cynical look on the situation in the ex-Yugoslav territory. Hysterical and hectic dance movements are put in juxtaposition with surrealistic artificially constructed imageries, based on Magritte's paintings and documentary shoots of the refugee camps, where Bosnian refugees lived in Ljubljana.

Squid Festival

1993 • 5 min • Japan

Death is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife.

The Woman With Three Husbands

1993 • 6 min • Burkina Faso, Canada

This is a fable about a woman’s right to choose her husband: it tells the story of a princess, who has several suitors. She puts them to the test, and finally chooses the one who has demonstrated the finest moral qualities.

Poison Idea: Mating Walruses

1993 • 60 min

Hailing from Portland, Ore., hardcore punk rockers Poison Idea offer up some of their most blistering tracks in this compilation of footage from a variety of live performances from 1982 through 1989. Songs include "Laughing Boy", "Hangover Heart Attack", "Police Brewtality N.Y. Style", "Typical", "Jerry Works with Small Children", "Getting the Fear", "My Dinner with Poison Idea" and many more.

The Gift: An Audio Drama

1993 • 6 min

A metaphysical children's story for three voices (no image).

Winter Journey

1993 • 18 min • France

From "That was..." to "...Did we go there?" The Antarctic approached, observed, scrutinised, analysed, displaced. Questions about reading the landscape, reading motion; A slow motion journey through memory, as if "to have the time at last to know."

#2

1993 • 12 min • Netherlands

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that captures and radiates light. Until 2013, this was the only film for which Rekveld also composed the soundtrack.

Drömresan

1993 • 29 min

The second film of the "Bläckfiskens" trilogy, with an emphasis on dreams and interpretation.

Junge Hunde

1993 • 7 min • Germany

Men in a public bath.

Ifé

1993 • 5 min • United States of America

Ifé follows a day in the life of a black French lesbian in San Francisco. Ifé loves women, but vows never to fall in love. As she extols the beauty of women in San Francisco, she slowly cruises the city's streets in her classic car. Her philosophy: "You can never experience too many women." This stylized short is both sex-positive and slick.

Blood Brothers: From Little Things, Big Things Grow

1993 • 53 min

Kev Carmody is a prolific songwriter and musician with a great sense of humour. He has performed with Paul Kelly and Billy Bragg, both of whom appear in this film. When Kev released his first album, Pillars of Society, in 1989, music magazine Rolling Stone described it as "the best album ever released by an Aborigine and arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia". Kev was propelled onto the national stage as a voice of protest for black Australia. This film looks at Kev up close - cattle mustering in southern Queensland, making music in suburban Sydney and playing Long Bay Jail.

I, Know - How

1993 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Boro Miranovic - self proclaimed king of Montenegro...

Back in Black

1993 • 58 min

Two comic book fans embark on an exciting quest after they discover a portal to another dimension.

Data Driven: The Story of Franz K

1993 • 3 min • Canada

A very early animated study by the future Oscar winning animator Chris Landreth. Here we see the roots of Landreth's approach of perverting the latest high end 3D animation to fabricate Kafkaesque, jigsaw monsters with jarring incongruities.