All Films

Traveling With a Double

1992 • 29 min • Russia

In his unpublished main work, The Boards of Fate, Velimir Khlebnikov discovered the Law of Time, according to which, as he believed, world history unfolds. "The Law of Time", as well as other discoveries by Khlebnikov, are presented in the film in a playful way with the participation of young people.

The Baptist

1992 • 59 min • Yugoslavia

A filmed TV drama by the Montenegrin National Theater about St. John the Baptist.

You Can't Give Any Reason

1992 • 31 min • India

These poor people find that their lives, hopes, desires and even dreams are ruled by the powerful. They are deprived of their natural spontaneity and thought process. As a consequence, the victim's action and reaction is programmed and they are performed mechanically as a ritual. In this film, a family of three falls victim to a middle-aged officer, who controls their lives. The woman is thrown in prison, the man becomes a toy in the hands of the officer and their child looks on innocently.

Old Digs

1992 • 20 min

"OLD DIGS is an inner journey through the sights and sounds of Kristinehamn as reflected in its central river." - Steve Anker

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

1992 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Six deaf performers-three women, three men- are brought together to devise staged pieces based on their experience of gay and deaf cultures intersecting, and the highly politicized nature of both in Britain. The result is a diverse, assertive collage, ranging from advice on how to seduce a librarian( in silence, of course), to the importance of short hair in visibly proclaiming your lesbianism and deafness: plus an essential beginner's guide to sexual signing. Shot entirely in British Sign Language with subtitles for the hearing.

La tétée

1992 • 4 min • France

My Dog Zero

1992 • 11 min • United States of America

A man's quest to overcome high expectations when it came to finding a perfect canine companion.

The Ballad of Maria Lassnig

1992 • 8 min

The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life in 14 verses, beginning with her birth and ending with her life as it is today. Simultaneusly - in the background - we see the story as animated drawings, full of irony, humor and wisdom.

Blue Boys

1992 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Blue Boys is a hard-news documentary which questions operations by the Police and Customs to smash so-called 'gay sex rings'. By talking to academic experts in the gay professions, and gay men who have come up against the law (including those convicted as part of the notorious 1990 sado-maochist 'Spanner' trial), the programme describes how the policing of pornography is fed by common prejudices against gay men and their culture. Blue Boys also looks at the relationships between Christian moral pressure groups, the government, and policing agencies (including the powerful Obscene Publications Squad of New Scotland Yard). It provides new evidence to challenge myths about the volume and violence of today's pornography and the dangers presented by it.

Dervish Machine

1992 • 10 min

Hand-developed meditations on being and movement, as inspired by Gysin's Dreammachine, Sufi mysticism, and early cinema. A knowledge of the fragility of existence mirrors the tenuousness of the material. The film itself becomes the site to experience impermanence, and to revel in the unfixed image.

Black in the Western World

1992 • 26 min

Wanjiru Kinyanjui was born in Kenya in 1958. Before becoming a filmmaker, she was a writer, poet, and radio journalist. She obtained her master’s degree in English Literature and German in Berlin before enrolling in the German Film and Television School (dffb) there. This film consists of several interviews with people of colour and talks about their view on racism in Germany.

The Big Sleep

1992 • 8 min

Cho creates a visual manifestation of the dream state, an idealized dream state wherein the artist's control of technology becomes equivalent to the dreamer's control of the subconscious. Writes Cho, "While the dream is a creation of one's subconscious, that subconscious could, in fact, be the other side of reality. Could it be possible to control this dream reality through the ego? Given that this control is not possible, the machine — the video player — becomes a metaphor for such control." Here Cho literalizes his "imaginative" musings on the Freudian dreamer through an assemblage of haunting and disturbing images.

True Inversions

1992 • 24 min • Canada

True Inversions creates its own dialectic on lesbian erotica while focusing on the differences between passions performed on and off camera, legal, social and personal forms of censorship, the motion of emotion and the eroticization of safe sex.

Non-Stop Kittens

1992 • 60 min • United States of America

For cat and kitten lovers of all ages!

Juggling Gender

1992 • 27 min • United States of America

Features Jennifer Miller, juggler and director of Circus Amok. Miller speaks of her life and struggle as a lesbian woman who happens to have a moustache and beard. Includes scenes of circus performances, a gay rights parade, Miller interacting with friends, family, and strangers.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr

1992 • 1 min • Canada

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

Panspermia

1992 • 2 min • United States of America

Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This animation places the viewer in the middle of a virtual world of an aggressively reproducing inter-galactic life form, and depicts a single life cycle of this unusual self propagating system.

Difference

1992 • 15 min • Philippines

Two domestic helpers consigned by fate to a very awkward situation. Both are trapped in a common pitfall, but each has her own way of crawling out of the damned thing.

Introduction

1992 • 6 min • Russia

Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.

Tuning In

1992 • 15 min

A broadcast classical concert brings together an estranged couple as memories of their shared past are stirred.

Go With Virgo!

1992 • 45 min

A look at the skills of the UK's leading expert in trick snooker, John Virgo, featuring lots of tricks, quips and nifty moves to impress your friends with.

V/M. Bardoing

1992 • 8 min

Stop-motion footage of moving clouds and the passing of the sun.

Rap Rat: The Video Board Game

1992 • 60 min

A 60 minute video cassette featuring 3 games, starring 'Rap Rat', a rapping rodent who tries to eat all the cheese and win the game.

Sadness at Leaving

1992 • 20 min

Following the erection of the Berlin wall, special agent Carl Halman is assigned by East German intelligence to move to New York where he’ll “sleep” as a writer until he is called. Using the code-name “April 23,” Carl successfully infiltrates the uptown-downtown literary world in 1950s New York. He edits a magazine, follows the Knicks, and marries Melinda, the socialite wife of best-selling jock novelist Hubert Cleaver, Ayden’s hilarious Norman Mailer pastiche. Through Carl’s eyes, we see New York City change from an outpost of Europe to the new capital of an anarchistic, post-ideological world. But then, when Carl least expects it, he’s called.