All Films

As I Remember It: A Portrait of Dorothy West

1991 • 56 min

This intimate portrait of writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up African American, privileged and enthralled by literature. Archival footage and photographs, interviews and excerpts from her autobiographical novel, THE LIVING IS EASY, capture West's fascinating story.

Haunting Landscape - Night

1991 • 14 min • Spain

Abstract sequences alternate between shadowy landscapes and nocturnal visuals, evoking unsettling atmospheres rather than a traditional narrative.

The Listener

1991 • 1 min

The first short film by Chris Landreth

Wishful Thinking

1991 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Two friends have high hopes for a party, arrive much too early, meet no-one but an awful lech, witness a suicide attempt by the hostess and find themselves as usual, mostly interested in the buffet...

Private Property (Public Domain)

1991 • 12 min

Fleming develops a personal visual language through repetition of particular allusions and imagery

Moscow Kremlin

1991 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A documentary exploring the Kremlin building complex in Moscow, Russia.

Second Début

1991 • 9 min

"Sophie, you can go home now and enjoy your old age," her boss announces as the confetti settles at the retirement party. "Old age? Old age? I have too many things to do to be old," Sophie retorts and sets out to investigate other possibilities. Lighthearted and colourful, Second Début offers a positive outlook on retirement. Designed for viewers who are either retired or close to retirement, this animation film will appeal to those who anticipate doing something inventive and constructive with their new leisure time.

End of Empire

1991 • 50 min • Latvia

The director mixes excerpts from his documentaries Soviets and Homeland with footage of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Last Mammoth

1991 • 19 min • Sweden

A mammoth who has been frozen for thousands of years has to keep away from scientists and Zoo managers.

47/91 A Celebration

1991 • 2 min

A commission by Austrian TV station ORF documenting the anniversary celebration for Kunststücke.

Autour d'une exposition

1991 • 4 min • France

Your Television Traveler

1991 • 18 min

A cosmic voyage into hidden knowledge.

Montréal '90

1991 • 10 min • France

The Awakening of Herman

1991 • 5 min • Australia

Herman wakes up to a surreal day!

Escape

1991 • 3 min • Japan

A woman runs amid the skyscrapers.

The Real Rembrandt

1991 • 54 min • Netherlands

Scientific methods of verifying works of art have drastically reduced the number of paintings attributed to Rembrandt (1606-1669). Many canvases, hitherto believed to be by the hand of the Master, are now thought to be the work of artists who learnt their craft in his studio by copying his style. The film is a fascinating study of modern scientific techniques, a comprehensive art historical view of Rembrandt’s work over the centuries and a reaffirmation of his genius.

In Jesus Name

1991 • 47 min • United States of America

At "Jesus Name" churches in Alabama and Georgia. Services started in a mild, restrained way but the tempo went way up, really quick. It all started with a newspaper report of an arrest of a snake handler at a church outside Newport, TN. Pastor Will Campbell drove over to Newport to talk with the sheriff and see if some sensible settlement could be reached. They succeeded and the little church in Newport was allowed to continue its services. Will Campbell's history of helping folks in trouble goes way back. He walked with the school children in the Little Rock insanity. He was fired from the University of Mississippi for playing ping pong with a black person who was doing one of the marches through Mississippi.

I Love You, Too...

1991 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Sometime saying 'I love you' is difficult.

Life Was a Lark at Willow Grove Park

1991 • 50 min • United States of America

History of the Pennsylvania amusement park, open from 1896 to 1975.

Stop the Church

1991 • 24 min

Cinéma Vérité documentary of ACT UP New York's and WHAM!'s December 10, 1989 action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

Just Words

1991 • 10 min

"Using as it's text Samuel Beckett's 'Not I,' this shocking gift incorporates optically printed home movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of actress Patricia MacGeachy as she rants at lightening speed Beckett's words about home, family and the confines and alienation associated with being a woman." - Program notes, Madcat Film Festival, San Francisco, 2001

T.Z. USA 1991 - Going Fast Slow (V.4)

1991 • 6 min

Road trip fast-forwarded to the point of abstraction.

The River Banks

1991 • 56 min • Belgium

A film on the gestures of work, those of a sculptor, a designer, a composer and dancers. A sketch of their relationship to the world subjected to the double gaze of fiction and documentary.

Variations Sur Le Thème D'une Passion

1991 • 6 min • France

The film tells the erotic story of two images that seek, touch each other, and finally merge. One, the original, the myth, on Dreyer's side, the other the copy, the simulacrum, the image that the director made, and who needs to inscribe his image in the masterpiece from Dreyer's.