All Films

Kamillo Kromo

1993 • 26 min • Italy

Karminio tells about the time when chameleons, because of their bright red color, were easily spotted and eaten by predators, especially dinosaurs and black birds. To avoid extinction, one of them proposed to change their color by painting themselves green, so as to camouflage themselves.

Pornografia

1993 • 9 min

An essay-film about images and politicians.

Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol: Crossed Portraits

1993 • 22 min

In this program, directed by Jean Pierre Devillers, actor Isabelle Huppert and director Claude Chabrol reflect on their special bond as collaborators and friends. It aired on French television on December 23, 1998.

Frenzy

1993 • 12 min

Jill Reiter's underground queer short film is a funny take on the rock 'n' roll groupie phenomenon.

Face à la mer

1993 • 4 min • France

Raymond Depardon had photographed the city of Beirut before it was destroyed and rebuilt. He films a long take of his photographs, like a circular panorama, producing a videoclip for the song "Face à la mer" by french rock band Les Negresses Vertes.

Réjane dans la tour

1993 • 15 min

Réjane is a cleaning-woman in one of the tower-building in Val Fourré, a suburb near Paris. Following her, listening to her and watching her in action we learn what it means to be a woman of 45 and hanging by a thread. Balancing delicately between her crazy but charming personality, the barriers of poverty and unemployment, Rejane, a bit lost, smiles and moves away dancing "There is no problem !" We are sad at heart to be so close and so far from her.

Les goumiers marocains

1993 • 52 min • France, Morocco

This film recounts through archival documents and eyewitness accounts, the history of "The Moroccan Goumiers" during the two world wars and the Indo-china war. A story that starts from the beginning of the French protectorate in Morocco.

Ernst Will’s Picture Book

1993 • 11 min • Australia, Japan

“Bilderbuch für Ernst Will” is an electronic rendering of a form of proto-televisual iconomania: the creation of haphazardly sourced private pictorial scrap books or 'bilderbuch'. Often intended for the surprise, delight and edification of grandchildren by grandparents, these books had the analogical potential to become flamboyant transmogrifigations of the detritus and sequestered oddments of the great age of print in the later half of the 19th century.

Shriek into the Eardrum

1993 • 27 min • Romania

An unconventional chronicle of the literary and artistic Romanian avant-garde. The film recreates the atmosphere of those frenzied years (1916-1947) in the spirit of the avant-garde, through a bewildering collage of fundamental texts and images.

World's Most Exotic Travel Destinations, Vol. 14

1993 • 29 min • United States of America

Around the corner or around the globe, embark on a thrilling journey to some of the most fascinating destinations in the world! Get set to visit exotic sights and thrill to nature's most breathtaking vistas. Meet unique and interesting people, visit the places you've dreamed about and marvel at wonders few know exist. Experience the best the world has to offer on these exotic travel destination videos! In This Video You'll tour Amsterdam, visit the Vatican, ski down Canada's Black Comb Mountain, take a hair raising ride down a river in New Zealand, and much, much more!

The Last Air Raid Kumagaya

1993 • 29 min • Japan

The central character is a 7 year old girl called Sachiko. She has just lost her immediate family in the firebombing of Tokyo and takes the train to her uncle’s family in Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture. She is not out of danger yet, for the train gets shot at by a plane along the journey. Her uncle meets her at the station and he and his whole family welcome her with open arms. With her cousins, Sachiko explores the beauty of the natural landscape around Kumagaya. Sadly, these beautiful days of late summer are not to last. The final movement of the film depicts the final air raid of the war. The city descends into fear and chaos and Sachiko gets separated from her family with tragic results.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 19

1993 • 57 min

BLAZE STARR in her 2 best films introduces a wild variety of bare beauty and innocent tease which define the nude glamour of the 50s induding outdoor nakedness, passion in the parlor and risque black lingerie.

Boulder Blues and Pearls and...

1993 • 22 min • United States of America

Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it - i.e., a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thought's grip of life.

The Red Rose For June 15

1993 • 3 min

A man stands in the city, holding a single red rose in his hand. He gets on the subway and places the rose on a street. The narrator explains that this fragment, which could not be completed as a story, continues to live on within him as narrative noise.

The Adventures of Janet: Janet vs Werewolf

1993 • 6 min

Poor Janet finds herself being attacked yet again and this time by a werewolf.

White Moon

1993 • 55 min • Japan

Taichi, a security worker, meets a girl, Heki, at a bar. The next evening, he sees the beautiful view of his town for the first time in ages, and decides to take the long way home, where he runs into Heki again.

Mike Reid: Live - Uncensored II

1993 • 60 min

Mike Reid 2 - Uncensored" is a UK VHS release by The Video Collection on 23rd August 1993.

Hangyodon no 007/2: Doctor Sunday Arawaru no Maki

1993 • 13 min • Japan

Hangyodon parodies James Bond/spy movies.

De fyras gäng

1993 • 58 min • Sweden

"The Gang of Four" is the name of a group of women now in their 80s who pioneered the role of women in politics in different ways, for the first time ever they let an outsider take part in one of their meetings to film this documentary.

Ed Gein: American Maniac

1993 • 23 min • United States of America

Police interviews and voiceover describing just a few of Ed Gein's misdeeds.

Historien om The Julekalender

1993 • 20 min

A Norwegian documentary about the Christmas calendar series The Julekalender with "Travellin’ Strawberries." Based on the Danish Christmas calendar of the same name by "De Nattergale."

Coltello nella pancia

1993 • 3 min

Filming reworked electronically to make a dream story more real. You just have to let yourself be submerged by the waters of the Arno.

An Untitled Portrait

1993 • 3 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Cheryl Dunye's relationship with her brother is examined in this mixture of appropriated film footage, super 8mm home movies and Dunye's special brand of humor.

Nightmare III: Witch: Anne de Chantraine

1993 • 60 min

Welcome to the witching hour! Another 60 minutes of spell-binding interactive entertainment with Anne de Chantraine. Nightmare III- the Sequel to The Video Board Game Nightmare that turns a maiden into a monster! We are on a witch hunt and ugly has a new name. Anne de Chantraine. Anne de Chantraine was 17 years-old when convicted of witchcraft and burn alive at the stake. She was, naturally, innocent, hence the players response of "Mea Culpa Anne". Latin for "I am culpable". -BoardGameGeek