All Films

Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The Contemplations After Life

1992 • 20 min • Ukraine

We hear readings from Dovzhenko's diary and hear how the great suffering of the Ukrainian people caused him to move away from beauty for it's own sake to the search for truth, expressed in his two harrowing wartime documentaries. Stalin's 1944 banning of Dovzhenko's Ukraine in Flames screenplay and his subsequent exile to Moscow affected him greatly.

L'amour fou

1992 • 17 min

A curious meditation on the pleasures and terrors of s/m, in which interviews with enthusiasts collide with choice porn clips, Fleisher cartoons, Hans Bellmer poupees and a couple of sphincter-tightening routines. The results are compelling, this film lingers, never once slipping into hype or deadly cool.’ – Manohla Dargis, Reel To Reel, Village Voice, 1992.

Robert Breer At Home

1992 • 7 min • United States of America

Burford met Breer in February 1992 and filmed his actions. Breer manipulates some of his mutoscopes: he leafs through some cards of his film in the making, Sparkill Ave! A dome-shaped sculpture slowly moves across the space.

Ten Thousand Things

1992 • 12 min

Gorewitz blends mediated and natural environments to create a melancholy and haunting statement about war, trust and love. Gorewitz writes: "The bomb is everywhere in this tape. The images are shattered, fragmented, imploded; the sounds are deteriorations, frequency modulations, unnatural. Time is distorted. There are glitches, abstraction, disrupted texts."

Revelation Illustrated

1992 • 53 min

Experience the Book of Revelation as Jesus gave it to the Apostle John . . . VISUALLY! In Revelation Illustrated you not only hear the dramatic narration of the scripture, but you also see the visions John describes. Hear the thunder and the singing of the angels! Expert editing and computer generated special effects make this a breathtaking visual adventure. The mood of each moment is enhanced by a fully orchestrated sound track of classical music by Handel, Mozart, Holst, and others. It is performed by the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh. Also included is a short interview with the artist on the creation of the art and the making of the video.

The Lacy Tale

1992 • 10 min • Russia

Autumn has ended and Frost has arrived. He covered the earth with fluffy feather beds, dressed the animals in white fur coats, and bound the rivers with ice. Watching how women spun lace, painted on the stove and decorated pies, Morozik decides to follow them, drawing beautiful patterns on the windows.

Her Mona

1992 • 7 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Stop the Greenhouse Effect

1992 • 4 min

A surreal short set to dutch rapper Tony Scott's song The Greenhouse Effect.

My Mona

1992 • 40 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Blood Countess

1992 • 32 min

This video contains the short film Blood Countess with soundtrack by Foetus Inc., followed by music videos by gothic groups Requiem in White and The Shroud.

Acting Up for Prisoners

1992 • 27 min • United States of America

An empowering chronicle of ACT UP's campaign for adequate health care for HIV-positive women at Frontera prison.

Village of Jars

1992 • 50 min

A trip to a remote village by a group of archaeologists provides a rare glimpse of life in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic as it recovers its past and prepares to face its future.

Who Killed Malcolm Smith?

1992 • 50 min

This is the true story of Malcolm Charles Smith who, like many Aboriginal people, was taken from his family as a child and died a shocking and early death after a life of institutionalisation and deprivation. In this documentary Richard Frankland, who helped investigate his death for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, revisits Smith's friends and family who tell the story of Malcolm's life and death.

Now Pretend

1992 • 11 min

Now Pretend is an experimental investigation into the use of race as an arbitrary signifier. Drawing upon language, personal memories and the 1959 text, "Black Like Me", it deals with Lacan's "mirror state" theories of beauty and the movement from object to subject.

A Question of Color

1992 • 58 min

A Question of Color confronts a painful and long taboo subject: the disturbing feelings many African Americans harbor about themselves and their appearance. African American filmmaker Kathe Sandler digs into the often subconscious world of "color consciousness," a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal.

Our House: Gays and Lesbians in the Hood

1992 • 21 min

Focuses on a range of African American gay and lesbian concerns, from outing to homophobia to alienation and discrimination within the black community.

I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To

1992 • 7 min

What makes Black lesbians so special? Suggs takes a fresh and funny approach to explore this and other questions using a mixture of scenes shot on film and video with running commentaries by women in the know.

Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia

1992 • 29 min

In their predominantly white high school in Halifax, a group of black students face daily reminders of racism, ranging from abuse (racist graffiti on washroom walls), to exclusion (the omission of black history from textbooks). They work to establish a Cultural Awareness Youth Group, a vehicle for building pride and self-esteem through educational and cultural programs. With help from mentors, they discover the richness of their heritage and learn some of the ways they can begin to effect change.

The Iraq Campaign 1991: A Television History

1992 • 19 min

This 20 minute political remix film entitled "Iraq Campaign 91" was created in 1991. Phil Patiris transformed network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage to critique the media/industrial complex and the 1st Gulf War.

Fiend

1992 • 3 min • United States of America

Shot on Super 8 for projections at the legendary sex party Fiend in 1992, this short reel features members of the queercore band Fagbash in solitary erotic exploits. Part portrait and part salacious dare, this work offers an ad hoc glimpse into unapologetic cruising and lust.

Monkey King Looks West

1992 • 43 min

This colorful production contrasts the rich heritage of Chinese opera with the day-to-day realities of its emigréperformers in New York's Chinatown. It depicts the efforts of three classically-trained opera artists to keep alive their revered art form for the generation of young Chinese-Americans who would otherwise not be exposed to their tradition.In the time-worn pattern of immigrant life, they spend their days grinding out a living. In their spare time each performs and teaches Chinese opera. Scenes from the classic work Monkey King Looks West stand as a metaphor for cultural survival.

Broken Blossoms

1992 • 6 min • France, New Zealand

A cinematic metaphor, conceived as part of a compilation of films on AIDS, this is an emotional translation of the disease. The juxtaposition of music and images creates conflicts involving elements that, taken separately, would appear insignificant. Produced within the framework of SI FILM DA. (LightCone)

The Aroma of Enchantment

1992 • 55 min • Japan, United States of America

In this engaging video essay, Lord explores the Japanese fascination with 1950's American pop culture. The Aroma of Enchantment pointedly notes how America represented the 'abundance of democracy' for a country decimated by war. Unable to revise or reject these anachronistic images, Japan is ironically stuck with empty Elvis in a time of plenty.

Ici où est-on?

1992 • 7 min • Japan

A tour of Paris, France.