All Films

Playboy Celebrity Centerfold: Jessica Hahn

1993 • 52 min

She's come a long way from humble beginnings as a shy schoolgirl to toppling the religious empire of Jim Bakker, to becoming an overnight sensation. She's Jessica Hahn and she'll unveil everything in this bestselling video.

Aleksandr Volodin: My Soul Is Restless

1993 • 56 min • Russia

Playwright and poet Aleksandr Volodin looks back at his life and career.

Hidden Hawaii

1993 • 34 min • United States of America

Discovered by the Polynesians centuries ago, Hawaii has seen dramatic changes since its exploration by the Europeans. This documentary shows how the islands were formed and are still being formed to this day, plus their abundant wildlife.

Thumpkin and the Easter Bunnies

1993 • 26 min

Little Johnny learns the secret of the Hill Burrow bunnies.

Hotel Narcis

1993 • 7 min • Netherlands

A young man, on holiday in a strange and exotic country, is too busy admiring himself to notice the thread hanging above him.

Downs Are Feminine

1993 • 10 min • United States of America

Per Mark McElhatten, it "unveils a kind of rainy day, indoor, peaceable kingdom of desultory and idyllic debauchery, masturbatory reveries and hermaphroditic transformations."

Le P'tit Bal

1993 • 4 min • France

A stylized work by a choreographer and dancer, evoking a past world of nostalgic music, passing loves, and drinking and dancing establishments on the edge of Paris.

Celluloid Memory

1993 • 6 min • Japan

The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding while the sun is shining outside. You can smell the sea, hear the waves and your shoes will always be dirty from the long way you walked. The father tries to breathe, close to death and pieces of pain are captured in that little camera. But what better can happen to a human being than dying surrounded by your family? The tender hands on your knee and the fresh water. The preparations are taken for the funeral. And outside the light goes on shining, the waves continue their way and it is dark during the night. And the next morning there will be white clouds in the sky again.

El Macho

1993 • 10 min • Brazil

An adulterous man hires a private detective to follow his adulterous wife.

Trisha Yearwood: The Song Remembers When

1993 • 60 min

A filmed concert special starring Trisha Yearwood.

A Simple Matter of Justice

1993 • 58 min

A powerful and moving piece documenting the lesbian, gay and bisexual movement in the early 1990s, A Simple Matter of Justice expresses all the emotions of the joyful protest that was the 1993 March on Washington. Sections on civil rights, AIDS and health care, the military and families are woven together from coverage of the music, comedy, speeches and marchers. Performers include Melissa Etheridge, RuPaul, BETTY, Holly Near and The Flirtations. Martina Navratilova, Sir Ian McKellan, Rev. Ben Chavis and Eartha Kitt are just a few of the speakers. Events include The Wedding, The Dyke March, ACT UP Hands Around the Capitol and a reunion of African-American veterans. A must-see for LGBTQ History.

No More Privacy: All About You

1993 • 59 min • United States of America

A camera crew stood on a freeway overpass & picked a car license number at random. This documentary shows what they were able to learn in half a day by searching public records & spending $13: a dossier on two people they'd never met, containing the car owners' names, where they live, their business & its financial status, their religion, the husband's health problems, the names of their grandchildren, the basic floor plan of their home. Program examines rapid exchange of vast amounts of information made possible by computers & bought & sold without the subject's knowledge or permission.

Ephemeral Solidity

1993 • 5 min • United States of America

This is one of the most elaborately edited of all the hand-painted films of late - a Haydenesque complexity of thematic variations on a totally visual (i.e., un-musical) theme. This film is composed of 35mm hand-painted images reduced to 16mm film, single-frames, shots of two, three, four frames and, occasionally, slightly longer shots, all interspersed with a variety of calculated lengths of black leader which cause a flickering of abstract patterns in rhythmed darkness.

Cooking with Cathy the Microcrisp Way

1993 • 57 min

Follow along with Cathy Mitchell in her own kitchen as she shows you how to bake, brown and crisp in your microwave oven. She also demonstrates her innovative Stackable Cooking method which allows you to cook an entire meal in about 15 minutes featuring your favorite meat, fish or poultry.

I Am the Night

1993 • 40 min

A man-sized, reptilian "Chef Detective" helps a nameless blonde make sense of her recurring dream.

The Criminals

1993 • 5 min • France

Animated mugshots of criminals.

Blood Brothers: Broken English

1993 • 55 min

Arrernte elder Rupert Max Stuart tells his side of the story about how he was sentenced to death for a crime he says he didn’t commit. For 30 years, Arrernte man Rupert Max Stuart has maintained his innocence of the rape and murder of a young white girl. His story became the basis for the movie Black and White in 2002. In Broken English, we hear from Max and those personally involved in the case. Max Stuart claims he fell prey to prejudices in the white justice system and alleges he was beaten and verballed by police. He spent 14 years in prison and faced the gallows nine times for the crime he says he didn't commit. This film, which combines documentary and drama, recreates some of the events of his trial, appeals and subsequent Royal Commission. It features Hugo Weaving, Noah Taylor and Tony Barry, with Lawrence Turner playing Max Stuart.

Eisbär

1993 • 2 min • Germany

A Super 8 film.

Frannie's Christmas

1993 • 4 min • United States of America

As Christmas approaches, Frannie Stein learns from her snide friend Gloria Oestriger that there is no Santa Claus. Frannie's disbelieving, but her father confirms the horrible truth. Frannie enlists the help of her younger brother, Kenny, and they go to a graveyard to dig up some parts, which they assemble in the Stein basement. Soon, they've finished their creation and are ready for revenge on Gloria. Who says there's no Santa? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Climbing Around My Room

1993 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Short experimental film by British artist Lucy Gunning, featuring the artist herself climbing on and around her studio walls.

Goldilocks & the 3 Bears in 3D

1993 • 25 min

Follow the adventures of Goldilocks as she ventures through the enchanted forest on her way to the house of the 3 Bears. See Goldilocks and the 3 bears for the first time ever in breathtaking LawrenceVision 3-D. Meet the zany Blue Bird of Happiness, the Fairy Goddess of the Forest and Cappo the Magician. Watch these fun filled characters in amazing 3-D as they appear to almost come out of the screen and touch you.

Acceleration

1993 • 10 min

A snapshot taken in a moment of human evolution, where the souls of the living are reflected in the windows of passing trains. The camera captures the reflections of passengers in the train windows as the trains enter and leave the station, and the movement creates a stroboscopic flickering effect that magically exploits the pure sensuality of the moving image.

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

1993 • 24 min • Argentina

Carlos Iraldi is a doctor, but his knowledge and above all his enormous curiosity have led him to stand out in different branches of art such as writing, painting and photography. His fame, however, is due to the ingenious instruments he invented and which have served as support for several shows by the Les Luthiers ensemble.

Fritagen och trollbunden

1993 • 54 min • Sweden

Documentary about the role of women in rural northern Swedish society.