All Films

Gone Fish'n

1993 • 50 min

Jonathan Winters takes a trip to the Missouri Ozarks and encounters several characters who bear a striking resemblance to him.

Beauty and the Beast

1993 • 10 min • Austria

Autobiographical notes about bringing up children. A birth, the bite in the umbilical cord, a baby between sheets of music. Mimi fiddles educationally on a violin without strings, offers her breast and enjoys the little king with an improvised hysterical performance, and suddenly starts with Dadaistic oracles, letting the blead dance and carrying the child out into big wide world.

A Donkey in the Music-scale

1993 • 21 min • Estonia

My Life

1993 • 21 min

A gay writer looks back at his life and the different people he has been, a hippie, a disco bunny, a gay man living with AIDS…

The Tenth Dancer

1993 • 50 min

Documentary on the revival of classical dancing in Cambodia, where nine out of ten classical dancers were killed during the Pol Pot regime in the 1970s. The program focuses on master teacher Em Theay and her star pupil Sok Chea, who recall their ordeals under Pol Pot and talk about their present efforts and their hopes for the future. In addition to views of Em Theay, Sok Chea, and others in classes, rehearsals and performances, the program includes historical background on Cambodian classical dancing and archival footage of dancers of the past.

Return to 'The Great Escape'

1993 • 24 min • United States of America

A documentary about the making of the 1963 film THE GREAT ESCAPE, as well as some of the historical details on which it was based.

An Erotic Concert

1993 • 43 min • Germany

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose work explores the themes of sexuality, human vulnerability and emotional fragility.

The Harry Connick, Jr. Christmas Special

1993 • 60 min

Filmed in Hollywood's Pantages Theatre, Harry Connick, Jr. performs several Christmas classics from his first holiday album.

La Traviata (Noi siamo zingarelle)

1993 • 4 min • Belgium

Grandma's Way Out Party

1993 • 58 min

Heading out west to her Grandma's birthday celebration, Lynda Barry and Kevin Kling record their adventures along the way.

The Outlaws

1993 • 14 min • Portugal

In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.

Britannia

1993 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress's call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing with a small ball that's the world. At first it's innocent play. The dog discovers tea in India; then, the dog shakes gold out of Africa. Gradually, innocence gives way to more and more ferocious play with the ball. We see terrorized women and children as the dog becomes an enslaving potentate. Harmless English archetypes benefit from colonial riches. Then the world begins to grow, and the dog changes too, from bulldog to effete lap dog.

JuJu Shampoo

1993 • 1 min • United States of America

In today’s busy world, even a shrunken head has a hard time keeping her hair shiny and clean.

Rêves de ville

1993 • 26 min

1992, September. Val Fourré, Mantes-la-Jolie. A suburb near Paris. Watched by the crowd, the four towers in Val Fourré crash with a terrible noise. In a cloud of dust, journalists, statesmen (members of the government) and the people of the neighbourhood. A page is turned. People want to believe that things will be better tomorrow. It is a symbol that is blown up. Great projects are announced. A few months later, those who expressed their feeling at the time, are reflecting on the past events, as we watch and listen to their words, the present is taking shape.

So long, Dracula!

1993 • 54 min

Occupied Estonia. Stalin and his time, when poets wrote stories and poems to Stalin. The tribunes appealed to Stalin as the "great friend of the Estonian people", but for the majority of the people Stalin's name embodies the violence and lies that hit Estonia, leaving no area untouched, invading every human being as a vampire.

World's Most Exotic Travel Destinations, Vol. 8

1993 • 44 min • United States of America

Around the corner or around the globe, embark on a thrilling journey to some of the more 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!

Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon

1993 • 27 min

Two actors. On a road. With a tree. An effective description of the world Tony A and Tony Z find themselves inhabiting in Alan Arkin's film. "Samuel Beckett is Coming Soon...". Far from home, awaiting fame, recognition - or just an audience - the Tonys barely notice their lives mirroring the sad comedy, "Waiting for Godot." As they journey through the Southland, they find much less than they bargained for, trying to bring Beckett's classic to a largely disinterested modern audience.

Up on the Housetop

1993 • 30 min • United States of America

Curtis Calhoun just isn't in the mood for Christmas and wishes it would all go away. It appears he gets his wish, at least until he finds a strange little man in a red suit stuck in his chimney on Christmas Eve. Is it a cat burglar in disguise, or is it really Santa Claus with a very special Christmas gift for the discouraged Curtis Calhoun?

Madonna: The Name of the Game

1993 • 50 min

Go where only Madonna has gone before. From interviews with brother Martin Ciccone and exes Sean Penn and Warren Beatty to a tour of her hometown haunts, this all-access documentary takes you inside the pop megastar's world. Go on the set of Body of Evidence, out on the town with frenzied paparazzi and into the make-believe world of Madonna impersonators -- including Queerdonna. Never-before-seen footage gives a rare look at the Material Girl.

Fare-Well!

1993 • 2 min • Russia

A cat and mouse tale ... or is it?

Prime Time in the Camps

1993 • 26 min

Prime Time in the Camps is one of a series of Chris Marker’s short films on the war in Yugoslavia. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage of the camp’s TV crews in action, with interviews and excerpts from the TV programs, the film captures the importance of grassroots media and the need for people to share their stories.

Five Minutes for the Souls of America

1993 • 5 min • Peru, Sweden

Composed of one single crane shot Pichqa minutukuna ilaqtanchispi wanuqkunamanta or Fem minuter för Amerikas döda (1992) is an intense five minute meditation on the European colonization of America and its victims. It was intended as a counter image of the ongoing 500 years anniversaries at the time.

Symphony to the Planets: A Star to Call Home

1993 • 59 min

Featuring symphonic classics, this celebration of our Universe covers the importance of the Sun, the magnetism of the Moon, the background of each planet in our solar system and the role it plays therein.A Star to Call Home: Symphony to the Planets

Bravo: Laibach in Film

1993 • 60 min • Slovenia

In the video film shots from the tour are interspersed with acted scenes, video clips and theoretical reflections of Slavoj Žižek and critic Chris Bohn. Together they form a compelling story about Laibach, controversial Slovene music group in the eighties.