All Films

Maruhi kaiten gyaku soap

1993 • 60 min • Japan

One day, a young man met a woman hanging out in a park and lent her a magazine without checking her ID, but when she returned it, she informed him that a man had run away with her money. Realizing that she had no money, the young man took the loan of this book as a cue and told her that he was working on a business trip to do some reverse soap, and she carefreely told him about her background, saying that she had also worked as a prostitute. The young man wanted to see if her technique would work on a professional woman, so he gave her a reverse soap for free...

Tis' the Season to be Jolly

1993 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Christmas is not a jolly time for the Rev. I.M. Jolly. His wife has gone home to his mother, his parishioners are revolting, His Father Christmas has the kids in tears and his turkey is frozen solid. Is it surprising that the Swear Box is full? In this hilarious Christmas Special, the inimitable Rikki Fulton takes the outrageous, cynical, Doomsday-faced Jolly on a disaster-filled seasonal odyssey bringing mayhem and mirth from Christmas Eve to Hogmanay.

Ushio and Tora: Comically Deformed Theater

1993 • 30 min • Japan

Ushio encounters a strange purple monster that seems to be helpful, Tora deals with a kitten, and finally there is a mass chase, reprising all of the monsters from the OVA series.

The Bed Queen

1993 • 53 min

The story of a woman who goes on strike: in a fit of anarchic revolt she simply decides to stay in bed – and refuses, like some distaff Oblomov, to see to the thousand and one chores that await her.

Kôkyû Soap Technique 3: Kaikan Tengoku

1993 • 57 min • Japan

Warren Oates: Across the Border

1993 • 54 min • United States of America

A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.

Dead End

1993 • 18 min • South Korea

Short film by Kim Sung-su.

Historias Breves 0: Vértigos, o contemplación de algo que cae

1993 • 24 min • Argentina

Based on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, ”Vertigo, or contemplation of something that falls”, tells the story of the writer's life through stories from her family, friends and admirers.

The Village Teacher

1993 • 60 min • Slovenia

The protagonist is a young man, a former athlete, now a gym teacher. He is essentially a disappointed idealist who distances himself from the world and himself with irony and self-irony. His indifferent attitude towards life undergoes a slight change when he meets the headmistress of the rural school where he also teaches.

Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf Made Easier

1993 • 33 min • United States of America

Leslie Nielsen teaches frustrated rookie golfer Billy how to bend the rules of golf to his advantage.

Abstract Cinema

1993 • 52 min • United States of America

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.

Emilie Muller

1993 • 20 min • France

At her first audition, a young woman is asked by the casting director to talk about what is inside her handbag.

Memories by Joe Frank

1993 • 10 min

A man details the surreal events that surround his childhood.

Snuff

1993 • 9 min

Released during the tail end of ‘93, 101’s third promo video, Snuff, was a sleeper hit that threw haymakers for eight-minutes… if you don’t count the post credits clips.

Memories of Old Manila

1993 • 22 min • United Kingdom, Philippines

A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time.

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

1993 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he's suffering from writer's block; he can't get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations.

Flirt

1993 • 23 min • United States of America, Germany, Japan

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with. Later incorporated into a feature film of the same name.

Sauve-toi

1993 • 52 min

A young man who has just committed a hold-up finds refuge in an old house.

Minns ni?

1993 • 8 min • Sweden

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Hot Ticket

1993 • 2 min

Short film written, directed, and starring Zoë at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

The Troma System

1993 • 29 min • United States of America

A 30 minute infomercial that originally aired on Comedy Central in 1993. The idea was that by purchasing Troma Inc. movie products you could better yourself as a person.

Big Bust Casting Call

1993 • 60 min

Well-endowed women audition for film roles requiring nudity.

Projections

1993 • 46 min

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of iconoclastic images he created for the background projections. Stunning, specially shot sequences (featuring actors, the Pet Shop Boys, and friends of Jarman) contrast with documentary montages of nature, all skillfully edited to music tracks.

Virtaset ja Kekkonen

1993 • 60 min • Finland

Movie about family called Virtanen in Finland under regime of Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, who ruled the country over 25 years.