All Films

How to Use Dianetics: A Visual Guidebook to the Mind

1992 • 49 min • United States of America

With this accessible introduction to the work of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, viewers can gain insight into the methods employed by the church's followers to reduce stress, ease anxiety and increase happiness. Based on the writings of Hubbard's popular book Dianetics, this presentation details the step-by-step process the author created to help practitioners gain control over their thoughts and actions.

Naval Battle

1992 • 10 min • Brazil

The disaster of the fall of a bridge, followed by the greatest of all disasters: human stupidity.

Marília Pêra: Elas por Ela

1992 • 52 min

Elas por Ela reconstituted the history of MPB between 1920 and 1970, from the female perspective, also showing the transformation of the role of women in society over these years. Marília Pêra chose 35 singers to honor and, from 50 songs, put together the script for the show.

Sevilles

1992 • 53 min • Spain

Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers.

Nelson and Jeanette: America's Singing Sweethearts

1992 • 57 min • United States of America

A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.

The Gaze of the Gorgon

1992 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Film poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so much conflict this century. It starts in 1992 Frankfurt where Harrison speaks through the mouth of the statue of the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. At Corfu in Greece he tells of the link between Heine, the Greek Gorgon and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

La Cabale des oursins

1992 • 17 min • France

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.

Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons

1992 • 18 min • Philippines

Short film about the sons of the director.

Kaho'olawe Aloha 'Aina

1992 • 57 min

Kahoʻolawe Aloha ʻĀina focuses on the cultural, political and military significance of the "target island" of Kaho‘olawe in the Hawaiian archipelago.

Rulfo aeternum

1992 • 60 min • Mexico

Adaptation of Juan Rulfo's classic short tale "La herencia de Matilde Arcángel". Tranquilino Herrera, a man of the time of the Mexican Revolution, tells the story of her beloved, Matilde Arcangel, who was stolen from him by his boss, from whom he gives birth a child.

Flare Out

1992 • 20 min

Sound: unrecognition unidentified, in time, you hear? Image: recognition identified, out of time in time; not not knowing the unknown but not knowing the known, no trace of 'no trace of any thing'. E.g. grain: is grain silver, black & white, or colour? Is silver black & white or colour? You see? - P.G. Feb 1992.

Rainbow Across the Pacific Ocean

1992 • 30 min • Japan

Schoolgirl Mitsuko tries to protect half-Chinese transfer student Yu-Lian from bullies. That night, she discovers Emily, an old American doll. Given to a Japanese child during an exchange in 1921, it was hidden from the "doll burnings" of the anti-Western war period and saved by a brave young girl (Mitsuko's grandmother). At the next day's show-and-tell, Mitsuko tells the story of Emily and encourages Yu-Lian.

Rester là-bas

1992 • 46 min • France

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other side of the Mediterranean "where the sea is saltier". If most of the pieds-noirs left Algeria in the summer of 1962, some -a minority- remained. By going to meet them, the director makes her own inner journey.

A Boy Named Cocoy

1992 • 27 min

A mountain boy seeks a better life in Manila and finds love.

Keshka and Freddy Krueger

1992 • 18 min • Belarus

The teacher scolds Keshka for deuces in English. Instead of doing homework, Keshka succumbs to the persuasion of friends and goes to the video salon for a horror movie with the famous character Freddy Krueger. But Keshka is bored. He falls asleep and has a nightmare.

L'Enfance de l'art

1992 • 7 min • Switzerland, France

Children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence. Part of How Are the Kids? (1990), a UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world.

The Comic Book Greats: Will Eisner

1992 • 50 min • United States of America

Stan Lee interviews Will Eisner

Zapata, mort ou vif

1992 • 52 min

Horror House Vol.2: Dream Malevolent Oni - Unending Nightmare

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Film directed by Yorida Katsuya.

Sagan om pannkakan

1992 • 7 min

A story by Anna höglund after a folk tale.

Tintin in America

1992 • 22 min • Belgium, Canada, France

In order to assassinate the inquisitive Belgian reporter Tintin, the evil gangster Al Capone orders Smiles, an executive under his command, to lure him to a meeting to be held in Chicago…

The Belovs

1992 • 60 min • Russia

Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest and strong - he is the drunken poet, the idealist, his philosophy fades into radical nonsense time after time.

Tied & Tickled 14

1992 • 58 min • United States of America

A tiny village in Transylvania is once again experiencing the ancient curse of the ticklish undead. The innkeeper has to keep hiring new barmaids. They seem to disappear as soon as he hires them. Little doe he know, these hapless young beauties now occupy the dark dungeon of the sinister Count Tickula. Here they are tied and tickled into the nether world of the undead. Don't watch this one in the dark!

The Snow Queen

1992 • 30 min • United States of America

The classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a young girl searching for her playmate who was kidnapped and taken to an icy castle.