All Films

The Conch

1992 • 23 min • Somalia

A painter finds a shell on a desert island. Out of curiosity, she picks it up and listens to its sound; she can then hear the voice of a girl telling her short and distressing story and that of her village, which once was on that beach.

Con Bọ Gật

1992 • 10 min • Vietnam

The Jade Emperor and his divine council try to figure out what is causing problems on Earth

Bajiao Street

1992 • 52 min

A documentary film showing the oldest street in Lhasa, Bajiao St., also called Bakhor or Baghor), located in the town center. In the past, Bajiao was only used as a ritual circumambulation route, "a saint road" in the eyes of the Tibetans. Now it's developed into an old shopping district with colorful Tibetan houses lining the street, and the ground paved with man-made flagstones, preserving its ancient look. The film also shows the social conditions, customs, and spirtual lives of the Tibetan inhabitants.

The Nuns of Minqiong

1992 • 51 min

The Wen brothers, Wen Pulin and Wen Puqing -- as director and cinematographer, respectively -- document the social conditions, customs, and spiritual life of Buddhist nuns in Minqiong mountain near Lhasa, China in the 1990s.

Razzle Dazzle Rhapsody

1992 • 14 min

An experimental sequence of colourful kaleidoscope-type images combined with a vibrant musical accompaniment.

Shadows of Spring

1992 • 53 min • Canada

Emerging from the multiple perspectives of this film, a memory of a neighbourhood is recreated which tells of the fragility of working class habitats residents and workers from southwest Montréal recount its tragic history: The immigration and settling of the Irish in the 19th century the expropriation of Griffintown the destruction of Goose village. The industrial decline of Pointe-Saint-Charles and surroundings.

Terminus

1992 • 4 min • United States of America

A farm worker comes across a dying kingfisher by the roadside

Go!

1992 • 12 min • Austria

This film, recorded in real time, depicts two actors on a walk through Vienna. One person is carrying a nylon bag with provisions for their journey, while the other person is carrying a film screen. The places that they walk through are only of peripheral meaning, in which pace changes again and again through the use of slapstick.

Los Angeles: City of the Future?

1992 • 48 min

BBC documentary filmed shortly before the LA Riots of 1992 exploring the city of Los Angeles.

A Short History of the Wheel

1992 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An exercise in visual relativity in the form of a journey through space and time with the wheel. Starting with a primitive hand-drawn cart and moving through horsepower and machine age tractor and car to the ultimate wheeled transport, the bicycle.

aleph

1992 • 30 min

This video is of a mouth (Hamilton’s) with stone marbles rolling around inside it and almost slipping out— a sensuous, tantalizing, suspenseful gesture—or conversely, almost slipping in—a tense evocation of choking or suffocating.

Indien - Super 8 Reisetagebuch

1992 • 21 min

Second journey with the art school through North-West India.

Plastic Venus - Quiet Noise

1992 • 35 min • Israel

Interviews with band members, music from the band and clips detailing their lives in Tel Aviv and their ultimate move away from Israel to London, where they hoped to make a name for themselves. The band split up while in London.

Terrain Vague

1992 • 48 min

Takes the viewer through the periphery of Amsterdam and shows the unadorned appearance of the city.

Eggshells

1992 • 12 min

A woman sells tickets in an art-decó cinema, as voices from a passionate melodrama float through the foyer, disembodied. The proyection’s assistant, reflected and distorted in a mirror, becomes the focus of her romantic dreams. When the mirror shatters, the film moves to an inevitable tragic conclusion.

New Man

1992 • 6 min

A soldier suffering from PTSD is offered a chance to change her life.

Paranoia

1992 • 4 min • Croatia

A man is being followed through deserted streets by an invisible figure.

Get Used to It

1992 • 1 min • United States of America

Four PSAs dealing with the issue of public displays of queerness.

Why Not Love?

1992 • 1 min • United States of America

This PSA poses the question, "Why does society readily accept violence but not love between men?"

Wohosheni

1992 • 7 min • Canada

From the fictional language Laadan from the novel Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin, wohoshenl means "to feel joined, to be part of someone without reservations or barriers." The film simultaneously discusses passion and affection and how spectators view the female body.

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

1992 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A rare and lively examination of disability and homosexuality as it affects both women and men, Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun advocates for acceptance rather than pity for participants in this video. Interviews with a wide range of disabled lesbian and gay people are inter-cut with dramatic recreations and performances.

Madame Simone

1992 • 12 min • Canada

Every evening, Eugène Fortin becomes Madame Simone, to the delight of club-goers around town. His flamboyant costumes, a pastiche of many styles, give him the look of a clown from the end of the last century. One day, Madame Simone hears a voice urging him to go to the Wigstock festival in New York: a gathering dear to both transvestites and wig fans.

Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents in the 90's

1992 • 16 min • United States of America

In this video, we meet a lesbian single mother who shares parenting with the gay father of her son; a lesbian couple who care for one's children by a previous marriage; and a gay male couple with two adopted sons. Also interviewed are a clinical psychologist and a therapist who works with gay families.

Wicked Radiance

1992 • 5 min • United States of America

Structured around traditional wayang kulit puppetry, Nurudin draws together references to Islamic culture and her explorations of S&M.