All Films

JOKER: Marginal City

1992 • 45 min • Japan

Joker is a cyborg who has superior strength, can absorb the DNA of any person by touch and regrow its body or part of it at will (hence Joker can be a male or a female). Joker belongs to a special troop of law enforcement: as cop, judge and executioner at the same time. Along with his/her lover, a police officer, they have dealt against criminals of every type.

Fremdennacht

1992 • 15 min • Germany

An experimental short fiction film about Kemal Altun, a Turkish asylum seeker who threw himself out of the window of a West Berlin courtroom in 1983 at the age of 23 out of fear of being deported. Altun's situation is related to that of the writer Georg Büchner. Büchner died of typhus in 1837, during his lonely Zurich exile, where he was on the run from the Hessian authorities. What did Büchner think at the end of his long persecution? What did Altun feel on the eve of his suicide, his ultimate freedom?

Penthouse: Paradise Revisited

1992 • 59 min • United States of America

Follow five fabulous international Penthouse Pets on their own video centerfold shoots. Go behind the scenes and see exactly what it takes to create a Penthouse centerfold...and then step back and watch it come to life! Along the way you'll be treated to a private look at Penthouse Pets Lola Anders, Thaina Mark, Linda Johansen, Mikki Brenner, and Soraya Valdez. This is truly an affair to remember!

Search for the Great Sharks

1992 • 40 min • United States of America

A journey into the land of sharks. The old myth of swimming killing machines is put against the true nature of those rather peaceful hunters, whose evolution ended in biological perfection millions of years ago. We accompany expeditions of Dr. Eugenie Clark and Rodney Fox, who have studied sharks since the 1950's.

Mylène Farmer: My Soul is Slashed

1992 • 7 min

God sends his best angel to Earth to carry out a delicate mission.

Mysteries Underground

1992 • 60 min

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the underground world of caves. Beneath our sunlit world lies an unknown universe of breathtaking caverns, treacherous passages and absolute darkness. Join a National Geographic expedition to document the splendours of the world's most exotic new cave for the first time. Relive the excitement of those cavers who, in 1986, first entered Lechuguilla, New Mexico. Marvel at the pristine beauty of gypsum chandeliers, gnarled calcite columns and jewel-like lakes. Then, join the 1972 expedition that stumbled upon a passage connecting the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, creating the longest cave system in the world. And relive the thrilling discoveries and heartbreaking tragedies of caving history.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

1992 • 1 min • Canada

Women's rights activist, jurist, and author Emily Murphy's quest for equal rights for women.

The Princess and the Pea

1992 • 27 min • United Kingdom

A animated version of the story The Princess and the Pea. It was produced by Bevanfield Films and released by The Daily Mail on DVD.

Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics

1992 • 52 min

A hilarious, unorthodox look at the colorful, Byzantine political culture of Louisiana, home to Huey and Earl Long, David Duke, and Edwin Edwards, where politics is a long-running spectator sport. Winner of the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award.

Images from the Ghajar Dynasty

1992 • 18 min

A documentary report on paintings, photographs and the first cinematography images in Iran, which belongs to 90 years ago.

Prometheus

1992 • 2 min • Hungary

Omnibus

1992 • 9 min • France

A commuter suddenly realizes he's mistakenly boarded the express train and desperately tries to get off between stations.

What Happened to Pete

1992 • 14 min

Pete, a customer in a quiet bar somewhere in dull small-town America. Pete needs money and he tries to sell the barman his collection of forties and fifties pulp. The long-winded negotiations about this transaction are interrupted by the arrival of a new customer. When the latter finds a picture of his ex-wife in one of Pete's books, the covers of the novels come to life in a surprising way.

Yumiko Takahashi - Wonderland

1992 • 27 min • Japan

"Wonderland" is a collection of music videos from her 1992 album, "Dream." These music videos are exclusive to this release (which was available on LaserDisc). Most of the videos consist of our star walking, posing, and singing in various costal settings on location in the Philippines.

Hamlet: The Video

1992 • 30 min

The television campaign for Hamlet cigars, one of the longest running, most memorable and funniest campaigns in advertising history is now on video for the first time. One man who remembers the start of the 27 year campaign is Willie Rushton, one of the country's longest running humorists. Sit back and smile as he guides you through the cream of the ads that made Bach's 'Air on a C String' famous and the world aware that 'Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet'.

Cinematographer Andrey Moskvin

1992 • 54 min • Russia

Biography of cinematographer Andrey Nikolaevich Moskvin.

One Night Stand: D.L. Hughley

1992 • 26 min

Stand up special

Rugrats: The Santa Experience

1992 • 24 min

After Angelica finds out that Santa Claus is a fake she decides to take away Phil and Lil's presents. Meanwhile Tommy tries to convince Chuckie that Santa Claus isn't a scary man. The adults take them all for a trip in the mountains for Christmas and there is where the Christmas spirit strikes Angelica and she decides to give Phil and Lil back their presents so she won't get coal for Christmas. Chaz decides to dresss up as Santa and when Chuckie sees him he loses his fear of Santa Claus.

Omelette

1992 • 21 min • Japan

A story about a divorce.

Petal to the Metal

1992 • 8 min • United States of America

In delivering a bouquet of flowers across town to a stunning starlet named Fawn Deer, a delirious delivery cat named Bonkers D. Bobcat turns a relatively easy assignment into a catalog of catastrophes. Racing against the clock to meet his five-minute delivery deadline, Bonkers encounters a wide array of ridiculous roadblocks, ranging from banana peels to the world's slowest taxi driver, in his frantic attempts to meet the deadline and keep his job.

Webs of Intrigue

1992 • 56 min • Australia

Enter the world of an ancient creature that has become an expert weaver, a consummate hunter, and with more than 30,000 faces - a master of adaption.

Getting to Know You

1992 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Two strangers are left alone by a mutual friend and can’t think of a thing to say to each other…

Girl Power

1992 • 15 min • United States of America

Set to music by Bikini Kill (an all-girl band from Washington), Girl Power is a raucous vision of what it means to be a radical girl in the 90s. Benning relates her personal rebellion against school, family, and female stereotypes as a story of personal freedom, telling how she used to model like Matt Dillon and skip school to have adventures alone. Informed by the underground “riot grrrl” movement, this tape transforms the image politics of female youth, rejecting traditional passivity and polite compliance in favor of radical independence and a self-determined sexual identity.

Samurai Vampire Bikers from Hell

1992 • 60 min

Alexander Hell rides his Harley Davidson motorcycle out from the dark abyss to battle samurai sword carrying Vampires who are unleashing their vengeance on modern day Hollywood, California. Once on earth, Hell joins forces with an ancient Asian vampire.