All Films

Lal Hara Lehrake

1992 • 37 min • India

On Shankar Guha Niyogi’s last testament.

Secret Passions: Computer Animations

1992 • 26 min

Documentary featuring interviews with several computer scientists and animators.

Shagreen Bone

1992 • 38 min • Russia

The youth troupe of the Kirov Theater under the direction of Andrei Bosov staged an intermission opera by Yuri Khanin - from the ballet “Shagreen Bone”... The opera is even more eccentric - if that is possible - than the composer wandering around the frame and climbing around the back of the stage...

När bollen var rund

1992 • 53 min • Sweden

Chronicles the hosting of Euro '92 in Sweden and the journey of the Swedish team in that tournament.

Borderlines

1992 • 4 min • Canada

Award winning animated short film.

Oondamooroo

1992 • 58 min • Australia

Documentary on Australian actor Ernie Dingo. As an actor, Ernie Dingo has played many parts, but many people see his major achievement as being a role model for other Aborigines. This film traces the life of the WA actor from his birth in a corrugated iron shed on Bullado station to early childhood in Mullewa, and his high school years in Geraldton to the beginning of his acting career.

The Scare Game

1992 • 57 min • United States of America

Six people become players in a deadly interdimensional game run by an evil wizard's apprentice.

Transeltown

1992 • 19 min • United States of America

A morbid and tender love story that begins when a lonely girl drags home the naked body of a comatose, genital-less blonde woman.

Ayrton Senna Lifestyle in Brazil

1992 • 59 min • United Kingdom

British documentary showing the intimacy of Ayrton Senna in Brazil. Like his farm in Tatuí, interior of the state of São Paulo, where he built a kart track. He travels by helicopter through the city of São Paulo, to his building in Santana, North Zone of the city. He shows his houses in São Paulo and Angra dos Reis, in Rio de Janeiro. And it speaks of its physical and psychological preparation.

The Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing

1992 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A biographical account of the life and work of mathematician, codebreaker and computer visionary, Alan Turing.

Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century

1992 • 57 min • United States of America

Critics place Berenice Abbott at the head of her class. She was one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century. From her portraits of the avant-garde taken in Paris during the 1920's, to her documentation of New York in the 1930's, to her science photography of the 1950s, and her studies of small-town America, Abbott's genius is in the incredible range of her work. Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one's chosen field. A brilliant film about a brilliant American artist!

Sexy Girls, Sexy Appliances

1992 • 4 min • Australia

Three women embrace their household appliances. 1950s style advertising and pornography create an absurd equation between sex and selling.

Nayara, A Mulher Gorila

1992 • 10 min • Brazil

A sensationalist report is a parallel between a popular and a character in his process of transformation. "Thanks to Coffin Joe, Nayara is now on the left, over your heart, this body does not belong to you."

Vulva

1992 • 4 min • France

Composition

1992 • 7 min • Albania

In the film "Composition" the plot is not classically constructed but from a subjective emotional state of the filmmaker himself, a condition that includes memories and scenes of our everyday life that follow us in the form of a mix between poetry, humor and nostalgia. The Balkan atmosphere dominates but it all turns into a universal message of love where the man and everything dear around him merge into one.

Derviches

1992 • 15 min

August 1992. I was working for a whole week in total darkness, in the image-by-image mode of my Super 8 camera. As I perceived an image on the screen, I started imagining what it would be if those images could show their own metamorphosis… But within a single frame, I had the sharp impression of a real contact behind the image itself. As if I could reach the formal and mathematical language of models… The images seemed to be whispering. More movement… more space…I keep developing this laboratory of shapes known as the Dervishes.

The Evil Day

1992 • 54 min • Germany

A family whose descendants always turn into a bloodthirsty monster on their 18th birthday due to a druid curse. Today Michael turns 18 and his grandma gives him another Bible. But Michael doesn't want to know anything about it because he has money debts. Nothing happens when the debt collectors beat him up, but when they kill his grandmother in his absence, he freaks out and turns into a bloodthirsty monster.

Educate Your Attitude

1992 • 30 min

Young men and women, ages 15 to 24, share their first person stories on topics such as, being gay, masturbation, AIDS, pornography, interracial relationships, sexual abuse, and safe sex.

Kiss My Royal Irish Ass (K.M.R.I.A.)

1992 • 5 min

In this documentation of a performance at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Donegan uses her body as an art-making tool, and toys with identity politics as well.

Understanding Science

1992 • 18 min

A taxonomical crash course listing, ordering, classifying phrases, words, letter and numbers. A collision course of the domesic and fragments received from "out there." A visual assault course of home movie footage of the filmmaker's family, drawings and text repeated and reprocessed on film, video and computer. A correspondence course from expatriot Australian de Bryun. Can we ever truly understand science?

Shakti

1992 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A rhythmic beat punctuates a solitary Asian woman’s life as she engages her inner goddess to turn trash into treasure. She creates a stunning oasis in a grey tower block, challenging daily life on the estate, and is confronted by a hostile resident.

After the Storm

1992 • 30 min

When 'Allied' forces launched a war against Iraq in 1991 the Arab community in Britain sat horrified as they witnessed on television the death of innocent civilians and the destruction of a country. 'After The Storm' takes us through the experiences of a settled Arab community of Iraqi, Palestinian and Yemeni children, writers, political activists and steelworkers. It examines how Arabs are attacked and despised in the media and how this is manipulated to sway public opinion in times of war.

Ein Tag aus

1992 • 22 min • Germany

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel.

Little Twins: How Our Summer Flew Past

1992 • 25 min • Japan

The twins build a hut by the river and spend their summer days there. One day, as the summer draws to a close, the children decide to stay in the cabin alone until...