All Films

The Elephant's Great Battle with the Whale

1992 • 8 min • Russia

The story of one fierce struggle between two giants of land and sea — the Elephant and the Whale. A minimalistic cartoon about the importance of being tolerant.

Taste It Nine Times

1992 • 6 min

Nine visually rhythmic film sketches depict the passions, fetishes and humor of various women characters- from Eve in her garden to an everyday pineapple goddess.

The Red Sea

1992 • 20 min

The Red Sea is a subjective testament to an emotional and aesthetic journey. Touching on sensuality, pain and the inevitability of loss, the film moves across territories of significant yet unresolved images. As in a dream text, the viewer is left in a state of interpretation with great emphasis on the experiential.

In Search of Our Fathers

1992 • 60 min • United States of America

Williams, who was raised by his mother and aunt, had been trying for months to get his mother to talk about his father, whom he had never met and knew nothing about. Having finally relented, she allowed him to come to Paris, where she was living, and film an interview.

Among Good Christian Peoples

1992 • 23 min

The film explores some of the historical, emotional and social interpretations of Jacqueline Woodson's personal essay "Growing Up Black and Gay Among Good Christian Peoples." The video combines Woodson reading her own compelling essay with footage shot in Pixel Vision imagining childhood memories through interviews, and adults play-acting by reading a children's Bible and having slumber parties.

Chick Corea Akoustic Band - Live From The Blue Note Tokyo

1992 • 55 min

Chick Corea, John Patitucci, Vinnie Colaiuta

Eerie

1992 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Eerie is a vertiginous short film with the rhythmic quality of a loop or a magic ride on a Ferris wheel. The protagonists are two lovers in a cable car, high above the slopes of Mount Pilates. Exuding 1920s Berlin lesbian decadence, the film features in-camera dissolves inspired by German expressionist filmmaking. Sandra Lahire (1950-2001) was a central figure in the experimental feminist filmmaking that emerged in the UK in the 1980s.

État critique

1992 • 54 min • Canada

Neighborhood Tokyo

1992 • 29 min • Japan

Miyamoto-cho is a community of Mom-and-Pop stores and family enterprises located near the center of Tokyo. Competition from supermarkets and shopping centers threatens the livelihoods of long-term residents. High land prices tempt owners to tear down old homes and replace them with apartment buildings; this in turn is changing the composition of the population. Against this backdrop, residents strive to maintain the close social ties, symbols of local identity, and community rituals that keep Miyamoto-cho from becoming just another mailing address. Theodore Bestor began his research here in 1979. His prize winning book of the same name is available through Stanford University Press. This documentary is one of a series depicting the variety of life in today's Japan in the context of human problems common to all industrial nations. A comprehensive study guide is available.

A Feather Tale

1992 • 6 min • Canada

In this animated short, a woman, taking on her lover's fantasies, adorns herself in her finest feathers and assumes a seductive but demeaning role. Caught up in his own game, the man plays on to the bitter end--a cruel game in which love is stripped of its golden glow, leaving only the naked reality of dependency and desperation.

Haven

1992 • 3 min • Canada

Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and motion. All this is set to pastoral sounds, sex noises, and a reporter's voice-over about the RCMP’s “fruit box” experiments - official and ludicrous attempts to expose closeted gay men.

Pearl's Diner

1992 • 8 min • Canada

Lynn Smith's animated short. Nominated by Genie Best Short animation.

The Kings of Siam

1992 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A pair of Siamese Twins live and work as part of a travelling fair. One dreams of being a rock and roll star, while the other dreams of scoring the winning goal for England in the 1966 World Cup final.

The Orange

1992 • 5 min

In this animated film for five- to eight-year-olds, a group of schoolchildren are amazed to discover that one of their classmates does not have enough to eat. With the help of their teacher, the children come to understand that his hardship affects them all and that the fight against poverty requires solidarity and sharing. Film without words.

A Family For Maria

1992 • 5 min

An animated film for five- to eight-year-olds about international adoption and the difficulty of adapting to a new environment. The film also gives a glimpse into the problems of abandoned children in developing countries. In A Family for Maria/Une famille pour Maria, love triumphs over the insecurity of a little Latin American girl who finds a new family in North America.

Le feu

1992 • 4 min • France

Memories of Alhambra

1992 • 5 min • Poland

A miniature from a series of animated films illustrated with classical music.

Hypnerotomahia

1992 • 8 min • Russia

An eight-minute Russian animation directed by Andrey Svislotskiy of Pilot Animation Studio LOOSELY based on the novel Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus.

SS: Segreto Sangue

1992 • 57 min • Italy

Four unsuspecting teenagers go to a dilapidated house to smoke a joint, unaware of the secret hidden in that place. Inside a room, they find an old suitcase dating back to World War II containing a vial with a mysterious liquid codenamed “Axia.” One of the four accidentally spills the contents on himself, unleashing the hell of the living dead...

Fleshfilm

1992 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Ken Nordine’s jazz spoken-word soundtrack was the inspiration for this work and a collection of body parts that Andrew Kötting had accumulated over the years of friends and family on super 8. "The true colour that flesh should be is the colour that flesh is".

Acidfilmda

1992 • 6 min • Algeria

Erotic films attacked by a virus.

Bird in the Hand

1992 • 25 min • United States of America

This film portrays a jealous triangle. Simone and Kaye are lovers trying desperately to escape New York City and the reality of their friend Ayo's abusive relationship.

Bittersweet - A True Love Story

1992 • 16 min • United States of America

A dominatrix comes home from work to relieve her slave's frustration in a piercingly tender love scene. An erotic adventure from start to finish.

Attack of the Flesh Eating Tree

1992 • 19 min • Canada

A murderous tree attacks people at lakeside lodge.