All Films

Line Dancing For Seniors

1992 • 30 min • United States of America

Line dancing is fast becoming a popular activity among senior citizens. This presents line dancing from an instructional, yet entertaining perspective. Join Dr. Grant Longley, an expert Line Dance instructor, as he guides a class step-by-step through five dances.

How to Yo-Yo

1992 • 43 min • United States of America

Now you too can learn the secrets of yo-yoing from a World Class Pro. With the advantage of video instruction, Arne will help you learn popular tricks with this favorite American toy, the Duncan Yo-Yo!

Primer Encuentro Continental de la Pluralidad

1992 • 56 min

Documentary feature film developed in the context of the First Continental Meeting of Plurality. This event was held in Mexico City with the presence of eighty indigenous peoples, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, within the framework of the debate on the fifth centenary of the discovery of America.

Crazy Town

1992 • 6 min • Russia

Incredible phantasmagoria of merry-go-round people, who are usually called the dregs of society . The clip of the band "Holy Hares" ("Inflatable pistol"). Vocalist Slava Martov.

Sanrio Christmas Fantasia

1992 • 5 min • Japan

Set to Fantasia-like music, the anime pans over a town during their Christmas celebrations while Santa flies across the sky.

Precession of the Simulacra

1992 • 22 min • United States of America

Manipulated images of water in motion give way to "A ‘Jasper-Johns-like’ digital ode to the Flag– a prescient and expressionistic response to the American political climate of the late 80’s when we witnessed attempts to infringe on Free Speech by denying any critical political use of the American Flag and by the abridgement of artistic freedom [...] The soundtrack, composed by the artist in collaboration with Brooks Williams at Harmonic Ranch, builds to a telemetric electro-frenzy, incorporating fragmented melodic strains of American patriotic songs along with Shelley Hirsch’s near-hysterical vocals as the image of the flag ‘whites out’" -SH. A strobing, probing and unsettling experience.

After Gorbachev's USSR

1992 • 57 min

Frontline correspondent Hedrick Smith, the award-winning host of “Inside Gorbachev’s USSR,” revisits the former Soviet Union to investigate how the institutions and people he filmed for his 1990 series are dealing with the challenge of change. Smith finds a nation enjoying new freedoms of speech and conscience but on the brink of economic and political disaster.

Ugly Girl

1992 • 1 min

A 1990s claymation animation short created by Thomas R. Smith as a personal project of his.

Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

1992 • 58 min

Harry Bridges: A Man and his Union chronicles the life of one of America's most important and controversial left-wing labor leader. He headed the International Longshoremen and Warehouseman Union from the 1930's to the 1970's and was a champion of workers' causes on an international scale. Harry Bridges (July 28, 1901 - March 30, 1990) was controversial as he was charismatic. He was prosecuted by FDR, Truman and Eisenhower alike, and convicted by a federal jury for having lied about Communist Party membership-a conviction which was set aside. On the West Coast, Bridges still excites passions both for and against the labor movement.

Tauride

1992 • 7 min • France

Tauride reconnects with the myth and the tragic role which it reinterprets. Drawing from this fracture, traversed by the magnitude of its cruelty, Catherine Diverrès prompts reflection that leaves no room for nostalgia or the temptation of prophetism

Wild East

1992 • 46 min

A documentary about the Wildlife on Jersey

Cornered

1992 • 38 min • Uruguay

The community at Rincón de la Bolsa, just a few kilometres from Montevideo, is suffering from all kinds of environmental problems, and the local people organize and demand solutions.

Kazuko; RONDO...

1992 • 14 min

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. A short light entr'acte of "ROMANTISCHE".

A Cat and A Rat

1992 • 3 min • China

A mouse bribes a cat.

Novela

1992 • 7 min • Brazil

What happens during the commercial breaks in the prime-time slots of our television networks? How many stories are told and repeated year after year? "Novela" is a segment of this sacred hour when the entire country eagerly awaits the scenes from the next episodes.

Il vecchio dentro

1992 • 25 min

A carefree community of elderly people learns, through a young man marginalized by his peers, the concept of old age.

¡O No Coronado!

1992 • 41 min

Coronado's ill-fated expedition across what is now the American Southwest is examined in a mix of found footage and live-action.

Beyond the Mind's Eye

1992 • 50 min • United States of America

BEYOND integrates the latest in computer animation technology and artistry with original music from renowned composer Jan Hammer. The Mind's Eye, Miramar's first computer animation odyssey, has been described as a "modern Fantasia" - this video steps BEYOND.

Here Comes the Cat!

1992 • 11 min • Russia, United States of America

Impending trouble in the form of a cat descends upon a mouse settlement

The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story

1992 • 59 min • Germany, Hungary, United States of America

The storm is really getting bad out there. Come on in and sit by the fire, enjoy the tree, make yourself a hot cup of Cocoa and enjoy the classic tale of The Nutcracker. Let us be your instant Christmas escape into a world of majesty and wonder, a world filled with wooden soldiers and sugarplum fairies. This is a audio/video atmospheric piece that is designed to create instant Christmas ambiance.

Box Age

1992 • 26 min • Japan

A man who has a complex about women meets his ideal woman through many twists and turns, but what is her true identity?

Acid Sports in Japan

1992 • 15 min

Experimental movie about the Japanese punk band Deformer

Animated Numbers

1992 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Counting's as easy as 1-2-3 with this fun video specially designed by expert animators and educationalists. With cartoons and humourous verses, numbers come to life from One Fat Hen to Ten Green Bottles.

Los Enormes

1992 • 53 min • Argentina

The Huge are dwarf superheroes who inhabit Huge City, within another dimension. The problem arises when Max (who once was also a Huge) uses the technology of his former companions to enter the world of humans and, under the nickname of The Lord of Evil, become the leader of a criminal gang that kidnaps the Hour Officer (Magalí Moro) to ask for 10,000 kilos of gold as a ransom.