All Films

The Crash: The Coming Financial Collapse Of America

1993 • 40 min • United States of America

This film was produced in the early 90s and with such pinpoint accuracy explains our current economic situation, its uncanny…almost prophetic. See what roads have lead America to its dependency on debt, and how you, as an individual, can escape it. America must borrow more than a billion dollars a day to help pay the interest on our national debt! What does this mean for our future? How can we protect our families? Hear expert economic analysis from Larry Burkett, Ed Meese, US Senator Trent Lott, and others.

Behind the Veil: seduction, marriage, and divorce in Mauritania

1993 • 52 min

Moorish society allows a great deal of freedom in the relationship between men and women. In the tent, in this feminine place, men are admitted. In the city, in Nouakchott, customs have been adapted. The women receive guests in their living rooms. Hassan is a young man who roams the streets of Nouakchott looking for a girl to seduce. Through poetry, he perpetuates the tradition of courtly love. In their salon Aziza, Amina, Fatimétou and Farida listen to him and tell us about their dreams of young Moorish girls.

Exorcism

1993 • 9 min • Taiwan

In this short filmed during Chung Mong-hong's study in the United States, a giant cross hovers above, as floating images of the city segue into the vast expanse on the beach where an exorcism is underway, with people holding crosses and self-flagellating, contrasting with the skyline on the other side of the city, the nostalgia and alienation of the sojourner. During the exorcism, a voice-over relates the varied reactions of the bystanders. What is ‘exorcism’, and how do symbols, sounds and imagery relate to each other? In this highly experimental work, Chung compares the director’s montage with the process of exorcism, offering an alternative interpretation and reconstruction of the film’s structure and narrative.

The Man in the Air

1993 • 10 min • Russia

The eternal tragic conflict of a genius and a tyrant in power. The heroes of the film are the inventor of the aircraft and the Chinese emperor, who ordered his execution. The emperor was afraid of the possibility of using the aircraft for military purposes and ordered the courtiers to keep this secret.

Us

1993 • 9 min • Argentina

Trelles and Amílcar share a room in a boarding house, the rent of which has not been paid for a long time. Trelles is a waiter in a typical Buenos Aires bar while Amilcar is an amateur bolero singer, who divides his time between sleeping and singing for free in a cabaret.

Origin of Species

1993 • 15 min • Russia

A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults.

Clive Anderson Talks Back: Peter Cook

1993 • 35 min • United Kingdom

One of the most beloved editions of the show, as Clive chats to a biscuit inventor who was abducted by aliens; Scunthorpe's football manager; a suspended high court judge and a rock legend - all of whom bear a resemblance to Peter Cook.

Never Rest: A Drama About Farm Safety for Children

1993 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A ghost story about a modern English farm haunted by the ghost of its former owner. It's rumoured that he murdered four children, but it is slowly revealed that they were child labourers who died in various accidents exacerbated by his carelessness.

Belly Dancing for Fun & Fitness

1993 • 55 min • United States of America

Janine Rabbitt teaches belly dancing as a way to trim and tone problem spots.

Racist, Sweden?

1993 • 57 min • Sweden

"Rasist, Javisst?" is a Swedish documentary film from 1993 about the conflict between young Swedish nationalists and immigrant teenagers growing up in the suburbs of Stockholm. The film was shot during the whole of 1992 and culminated in the riots on the 30th of November 1993, after which date the authorities prohibited the nationalist demonstration in the centre of Stockhom.

Cinemateca Brasileira

1993 • 14 min • Brazil

A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.

Refugio en la ciudad

1993 • 20 min • Argentina

A man wanders at dawn through different corners of Cuidad de Buenos Aires, devastated by the loss of a lover.

Myth Makers 26: Anneke Wills

1993 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Anneke Wills is almost as well travelled as the character she portrayed, Nicholas Briggs managed to catch up with her in Norfolk to talk about the past as Anneke begins a new chapter in her life.

The Measure of Your Passage

1993 • 29 min • Canada

This short film tells of two rugged journeys: that, autobiographical, of a young woman who learns she is harboring the AIDS virus; and that of the ancient Minoan civilization, wiped out by the greatest cataclysm in history. Today, the world is held hostage by a killer disease that is stealthier than a volcano, but it exacts the same price. Now, as then, some profound questions exist: How does humanity define itself? How do we measure our passage on this planet?

Sparkill Ave!

1993 • 5 min

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

The Ideal/Na(rra)tion

1993 • 4 min • United States of America

In this music video, which operates as a meditation on contemporary Chinese history, Yau Ching combines found images and text to negotiate between idealism and propaganda and the hopes and disillusionment that they bring.

Three Rogues and the Violinist

1993 • 8 min • Russia

Another story about the all-conquering power of art. In the city there lived a boy who learned to play the violin. He was very talented. And at concerts after his performances, the audience stood up and applauded him. And three bandits were operating in the city, who had no idea what beautiful classical music was. The bandits robbed everything they could get their hands on. They ransacked the pockets of passers-by, took things out of apartments, unscrewed light bulbs from lanterns, and even ripped off telephone sets. And one day, when the violinist was returning from a concert, the bandits attacked him too. They demanded to give the boy's violin, but he flatly refused.

P(l)ain Truth

1993 • 15 min • Finland

P(l)ain Truth tells the story of the emotional and physical transition of a transsexual woman through poetic visuals.

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

1993 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

L'orrore di vivere

1993 • 3 min

In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die

Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen

1993 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary portrait of International Chrysis, a New York “show girl” and drag queen. Surreal herself, Chrysis was one of Salvador Dali’s inner circle, a woman from the waist up, a man from the waist down.

Uurimusfilm doktor Enn Vetemaa märkmeraamatute põhjal "Eesti näkid"

1993 • 55 min • Estonia

Mermaids and humans have crossed paths throughout millennias.Their generally peaceful coexistence is described in naiadological literature, as well as in the folklore of many nations. Our mermaid people are poetic and mysterious - we meet these gentle and femininely charming creatures in nature and in the everyday life around us. The film follows the principles of scientific lyricism, and takes the viewer through the history of naiadology and introduces the main types of mermaids. The mermaids were captured in beautiful places in Estonian waters.

Kiki & Lala's Hansel and Gretel

1993 • 30 min • Japan

The classic fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel starring the Little Twin Stars.

Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up

1993 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An affectionate portrait of San Francisco, and of the man whose Tales of the City have inspired thousands to go there. Maupin relates a life story more bizarre than his fictional characters(including a meeting with Nixon), while local eccentrics and ex-colleagues dish and praise lavishly.