All Films

Kumbha Mela

1992 • 17 min • Italy

Documentary about India's most important Hindu festival, 1977's Kumbha Mela, during which millions of believers gather to pray where the Ganges, Jamuna and Saraswati rivers meet.

Movable Words

1992 • 3 min

A series of short animations.

Inferno

1992 • 52 min

A young English author is having trouble finishing his latest work. He needs to "avoid distractions, particularly of the female kind." To achieve this, he tries to find a quiet place in Italy to write. However, he is continually beset by beautiful nude or scantily dressed women, played by several well-known (super)models.

Lost Objects

1992 • 25 min • Mexico

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.

Midori

1992 • 55 min • Japan

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!!

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

1992 • 46 min • Japan

Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

Velázquez: The Painter of Painters

1991 • 56 min • France

Like no other, Diego Velázquez inspired generations of European artists. His life and work are closely bound to the court of King Philip IV, who appointed him as court painter and on whose orders he travelled through Italy. Ambitious courtier that he was, the Spaniard was a master of observation and visual manipulation. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff showcases his epoch-making portraits and genre paintings that reveal Velázquez’s virtuosity in treating light, colour and sensuous characterisation. He also lifts Velázquez’s secret of painting that helped him become the “painter of painters”.

Fred Dibnah's Getting Steamed Up

1991 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah has scaled great heights in his career. In this fascinating documentary, you will get to see him climb a 100 foot chimney that he is preparing for steam powered demolition. Further steamy exploits see Fred behind the wheel of a road roller and fixing a steam engine: part of an average day of an extraordinary man.

Champion Clark

1991 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about Jim Clark, a.k.a. Jimmy Clark, showing extensive footage of Clark racing in all kinds of machinery: Formula 1, Formula 2, sports cars, GT's and at the Indy 500, all complete with the original audio commentaries. Born James Clark Jr, in Scotland, he was one of the greatest Formula One drivers.

The Mark of the Maker

1991 • 28 min • United States of America

The Mark of the Maker looks at the art of manual paper-making. Kathryn and Howard Clark tell of how they got into the habit of doing this, and why they set up shop in rural Indiana. David McGowan's Academy Award-nominated documentary is one of those productions that shows a little known but useful practice.

(Tell Me Why): The Epistemology of Disco

1991 • 24 min

The history of gay liberation traced through the phenomenon of disco. Glitter balls, feather boas and Levi jeans become signifiers of a movement 20 years after the Stonewall riots.

Over New England

1991 • 57 min

Fly over Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont in Over New England, and see red barns, white steeples, rugged coastlines, harbors and lighthouses. Includes brief narrative passages and an original soundtrack.

Starlings

1991 • 6 min

It is night. The moon is shining. A static camera captures a huge flock of starlings searching the sky in circular movements… At first the starlings are hard to identify. Having deliberately edited frames coming from different generations of the original print in a certain metrical order, without changing the actual chronology of their movement, Kels has the constantly changing shapes of the birds dissolve in the rough grain of the celluloid. Once again a technical weakness of the celluloid forms the starting point of his visual enterprise. Shot on one reel without any interruption, the birds’ flight gradually forms configurations of astonishing beauty. —Millennium Film Journal, No. 30-31.

Akzidenz

1991 • 5 min

Explores the nature of the accident

Muddy Waters Live at the Chicago Blues Festival

1991 • 56 min

Muddy Waters gets together with Johnny Winter to walk us through classic Chicago blues including such great hits as Mannish Boy and I'm a King Bee.

The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald

1991 • 55 min • United States of America

The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald documentary reviewing the jfk assassination and lee harvey oswald

Fatima's Letter

1991 • 19 min • United Kingdom

A woman remembers her past by faces she sees while travelling on the London Underground. She begins to believe that these people, like her, have all taken part in the same event. She composes a letter to her friend Fatima – a personal documentary around journeys, memories and watching. The story is spoken in Urdu with sub-titles in English, although the subtitles do not always appear in conjunction with what is spoken.

Abstract film en couleurs

1991 • 3 min

A new take on the idea of camera-less film-making; a project originally undertaken with Light, with the introduction of a new element this time around: the successive exposure of three torn pieces of film, manually advanced past the gate of the cassette and exposed to a light source in order to create a series of abstract luminous pulsations. The original was blown up to 16mm in 2001.

A Song for Tibet

1991 • 57 min • Canada

Filmed in the Indian Himalayas and in Canada, A Song for Tibet tells the dramatic story of the efforts by Tibetans in exile, including the Dalai Lama, to save their homeland and preserve their heritage against overwhelming odds. Since the invasion of their territory by China in the late 1950s, Tibetans have been struggling for cultural and political survival.

La Mer

1991 • 4 min • France

The passing time is displayed as a series of still frames, or a rapid sequence of moments, ever flowing like the waves that break on the shore, like a repeated chant with no beginning, middle or end.

Club Q.

1991 • 8 min

An inside look at San Francisco’s legendary ‘90s queer women’s monthly dance party.

Airpower: Vietnam to Desert Storm

1991 • 46 min

Documentary on U.S. airpower spanning 50 years from the Vietnam era to Desert Storm in 1991.

No Justice . . . No Peace/Black, Male ImMediate

1991 • 14 min

This essay about the policing of young black men, foreshadows the 1992 outcome of the trial which acquitted policeman directly involved in the brutal beating of a black motorist, Rodney King, was made as my graduate school thesis in the film school at San Francisco State University. It also underscores a series of escalating gripping actions and murders of black men and women in America-by police or individuals policing black lives...that would provoke the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was nearly orphaned until I received a request from a scholar looking to write about video tape imagery & justice-just recently. This is the best result of the rescue of footage locked on an obsolete medium- hi-8. Boots Riley, one of the young men interviewed on the grassy knoll has become an important voice in Oakland and across the globe as an activist and cutting edge musician.