All Films

The Man with the Flower in His Mouth

1993 • 36 min • Italy

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas

1993 • 51 min

A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.

Sigrid Undset - et kvinneliv

1993 • 50 min

A poetic documentary film about Sigrid Undset’s life and authorship. The film shows us Undset’s life from childhood to her last years. It tells us about, among other things, her parents and her siblings, her life abroad and her relationship with her husband, the painter A. C. Svarstad. The documentary gives us an interesting picture of Sigrid Undset’s literary career from her debut in 1907, of her historical novels and her active participation in debates against Nazism and Knut Hamsuns attitude. Through interviews, letters, old film footage and excerpts from Sigrid Undset’s literary works, we get an insight into one of Norway’s most significant authors.

Home Away from Home

1993 • 11 min • United Kingdom

To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultural appropriation, hostility towards migrants and the rift between Miriam and her Nigerian-British children.

The Hell of Ueckermünde

1993 • 41 min • Germany

This report was broadcast on ARD in 1993. In 43 minutes, the development of psychiatry "in the third year after reunification" is shown using two institutions in the new federal states as examples. A touchstone for all of psychiatry and disability care to this day. The film shows a shocking way in which disabled people are treated. The commentary uses the perspective of those affected. 50 years after euthanasia in Germany, this documentary reminds us of this once again.

My Nightmare

1993 • 6 min • United States of America

Director Richard Kern and model Susan McNamara engage in a chaotic fast-cut blend of fantasy and reality. A satire of some of Kern's own early work.

Angela & Viril

1993 • 2 min • United States of America

While Angela meditates, Viril is typing the numbers one through one thousand.

Lady

1993 • 28 min • United States of America

An unnamed woman in a red wig welcomes a documentary crew into her New York apartment. The crew captures her everyday life, as she fights with her boyfriend and gossips with her friend. These scenes alternate with black-and-white footage of a woman in a red wig escaping a suburban existence.

Changing Fashions

1993 • 16 min • United States of America

Anthony Kiedis and Sofia Coppola try to escape the fashion influence of Debbie Harry.

Maalinsangan ang Gabi

1993 • 11 min • Philippines

In Cesar Hernando's noirish short, the uprising and UFOs are merged in a strange commentary on government control.

Time Machine: The Journey Back

1993 • 48 min • United States of America

Documentary/Sequel to 1960 adaptation of "The Time Machine"

Sex Fish

1993 • 6 min

A euphoric lesbian sex video features a group of women in a frenzy of erotic scenes with poetry, slowly dripping water, fancy goldfish, and an ecstatic score by Sheila Chandra. Experimenting with pro-sex feminist media practices and pornography, Sex Fish was made as a collaboration known as E.T. Baby Mania.

Party Mania

1993 • 38 min

Race against the video to get ready for the most happenin' party! It's Saturday, and the Keller Twins are having a party. Absolutely everybody's going to be there - but you can't go unless you get all your chores done first! And you've got to Get Ready! And you've got to get your Mom's Stamp of Approval! And you've got to do it all by 6:00 PM. Your best friends Becca and Tanya, and those cute guys Max and Luke are all on the videotape. They'll interrupt the game, talk to you as you play, and help you get to the party. It's almost 10:00 a.m. and the video clock's about to start running so get moving. Have a frantic, frenzied, fun Saturday - and have a fabulous time at the party!

Laibach ‎– A Film from Slovenia

1993 • 59 min • Slovenia, United Kingdom

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.

Cloudland

1993 • 8 min • United States of America

Inspired by Australian Aboriginal art and mythology, Sunwoman wakes up the Earth. A human male gives birth to bandicoots and babies.

My Life As I Live It

1993 • 55 min • Australia

In her second film, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT (1993), Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City where she and the A-Team are running in the shire elections. Inter-cutting between 1993 and 1978, the film presents the fascinating contrasts of a society in transition. Some of the kids we met in the earlier film now have families of their own and are involved in education, art and sports. Others are drifting, trying to cope with alcohol and depression. Most significantly, community programs offer the possibility of dignity and self-determination. In this film, Essie shows us the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) making a real difference. Although the CDEP has now come under attack from the Federal government, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT portrays the CDEP as providing meaningful work and services to an impoverished remote community.

Scrambled Eggs Super!

1993 • 15 min • United States of America

The story is told from the point of view of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs belonging to various exotic birds.

Loves Me, Loves Me Not

1993 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A young man is in love with an image in a picture frame. To find out if the love he feels is returned he picks a flower and starts picking the petals off it.

The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

1993 • 58 min • United States of America

The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk and Pauline Oliveros are all pioneers in American music, each composer pursues a distinct direction of her own. Their rehearsals and performances show a common pursuit of lyrical storytelling through which a new set of contemporary narratives has been forged. Through body, sound, movement and composition, these women have forged their own path through the wild world of modern music.

Historias Breves 0: El condenado

1993 • 16 min • Argentina

A minor distraction by a public official results in the death penalty for someone convicted of a minor crime.

Screen Play

1993 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens to make this tale truly Japanese in character.

Sarajevo Film Festival

1993 • 14 min • Netherlands

Sarajevo in the twentieth month of its besiegement. The situation is critical, but the city chooses to organise an international film festival. Dutch filmmakers Johan van der Keuken and Frank Vellenga present Van der Keuken's documentaries Face Value and Brass Unbound there, and one of the festival organisers asks a festival visitor: "What is the significance of film in war?" In Sarajevo Film Festival Film, a reflection on film, war and daily life, fictional images are juxtaposed in a disconcerting way with the gruesome reality of the life of a festival visitor.

Phal-O-Krat

1993 • 24 min

She was looking for something big, what she found was bigger than she could ever hope.

Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers

1993 • 42 min • United States of America

Hosted by Marv Albert & Frank Layden this film demonstrates the best and worst that the NBA has to offer. From Slam Dunks and spectacular shots to spats and spills galore.