All Films

On the Juche Idea

1991 • 13 min • Denmark

the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and how imperalism shouldnt exist

Suite Sans Suite À Suivre

1991 • 3 min

Stone cold and black in appearance but stone / ivy, like a labyrinth blinded by the rain which shimmers in lines of light, stone / ivy which diffuses a little geological water.

Grapholetti

1991 • 6 min

"A thing or a being veiled by the light: we look at it with intensity and our eyes close to bring it back to us, so we watch the silhouette left by the light now printed inside our eyelids. The echo of the thing, of this being... She was caught in mid-geste, pulling a lock of hair away from the eye and her gaze leans out of the image, twice, three times..."

The Story of Vinh

1991 • 56 min

Vinh is born to a US serviceman and a Vietnamese mother. At the end of the Vietnam war, there were as many as 100,000 children like Vinh in Vietnam. Later, the US allowed a few to migrate to their father's country. "The Story of Vinh" begins his dazed arrival at JFK and follows his struggle with the foster care system and into adulthood.

Theater Troupe of Lhama Priests

1991 • 50 min

Jiang Yue and cinematographer Bi Jianfeng set out to capture a Lama Tibetan Opera group. They did not have much knowledge about filming documentaries at the time. Jiang Yue wanted to artificially construct the scene, but this idea was quickly dispelled by the director of the Tibetan Opera group, Yixi Jiacuo, who insisted that there must be audiences in order for the players to perform on camera. By the end of the show, the audience was touched, as was Jiang, who said that he realized that there was a different energy to his film because of the audience's presence.

Monument Valley: Navajo Homeland

1991 • 30 min

Discover the majestic beauty of Monument Valley and the mystical bond between the Navajo and their homeland.

Wanting for Bridge

1991 • 6 min

A requiem for Joan Staveley's cousin, who was murdered in 1989.

True Blue

1991 • 60 min

Highlights of the NY Giants road to Superbowl XXV

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old

1991 • 60 min

An examination of the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Janie Hunter (80 years old) of Johns Island, S.C.; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman (91), of Chatteroy, W.V.; fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell (83) of Toast, N.C.; and footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, Alabama, in which people of all ages gather to sing old-time shape-note hymnody.

Good morning

1991 • 7 min

Short 8mm film by Toshihiko Omote.

Jet Hill

1991 • 3 min • Japan

Video work produced during the summer vacation of the first year of university.

Isoginchiyaku

1991 • 51 min

An afternoon in August. Arata gets a ticket to stay at a high-rise hotel in Shinjuku. He invites his friends, Kenji and Mayu, to stay in his luxurious room overlooking the city of Shinjuku. When they leave in the evening, Arata calls his girlfriend Kay-chan.These are the young people of today, hedonistic and carefree. The camera never leaves the room and continues to show their actions, which are neither acted nor improvised, in long takes. In an ambiguity that is neither drama nor documentary, the film depicts the "unconcerned relationships" and "unimportant moods" of men and women who pass the time in a casual manner. For better or worse, the film realistically depicts the state of today's youth. PFF Award 1991 Grand Prix nominated work.

Dear Lisa: A Letter to My Sister

1991 • 47 min

The filmmaker questions her sister, herself and others about the dreams and hopes they had growing up as girls in contrast to the reality they face as women.

A Year Without Victor Tsoi

1991 • 23 min

Anonymous, fan made documentary commemorating the first anniversary of Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi's death

The Truth of Christmas Island

1991 • 42 min • Christmas Island, United Kingdom

TV documentary film about the Operation Grapple nuclear tests.

People Shoot — Home Movies

1991 • 4 min • Canada

Home movies shot on the set of The People in the House.

星の種子

1991 • 3 min • Japan

空中の音楽i

1991 • 2 min • Japan

The Fish and the Factory

1991 • 3 min

A fish is concerned about a nearby factory polluting the stream it lives in.

Not My Type

1991 • 7 min

A letter 'I' finds that he doesn't fit into his family typeface and faces discrimination.

16t

1991 • 55 min • Japan

It's the Obon holiday. The city has forgotten the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and only the cicadas echo in the streets. The men in yellow helmets, Kagawa and his senior, Saito, arrive. We're the only ones working now, aren't we? The conversation between the two part-timers at the gardener's shop is always in a deadlock. But no matter how much they curse each other, they can't be separated forever. Because he is a ground-bound spirit. They have no choice but to live alone in the city. In the treetop of a big tree, Kagawa's arm, dripping with fresh blood, sways in the wind. In an empty landscape that could be anywhere in Japan, the sad emptiness of people whose existence has been forgotten hangs in the air... Neither horror nor comedy, this is a new genre of splatter labour movie.

Lacrime

1991 • 27 min • Japan

Ikuko's mother died two years ago, and since graduating from high school she has devoted herself to housework as a housewife, cooking dinner and waiting for her father. Although she is no longer a child, she feels an irresistible sense of loneliness when she realises that her former boyfriends and friends have started to go their own ways. But this is her night alone. The light of the moon and the vision of her mother surround her gently as she weeps. The film looks at a woman, but without a story, carefully capturing the inner world of a girl with dense and beautiful images. The title "Lacrime" is Latin for "tears".

Biomimetic

1991 • 4 min • Japan

Tadpoles flock to the entrance of a wall socket as if they are in a race to be the first. One of them eventually reaches the nucleus inside and begins to divide. The rapidly expanding nucleus soon takes on the shape of a baby. Today, the electronic society is expanding at a furious pace. It is the energy that is essential for the development of human society, but what will happen to the relationship between the two when they continue their rapid expansion? Plastic cards and IC chips are used symbolically to create realistic and detailed human beings. This is a grotesquely powerful image of the Metamorphosis, created with great imagination and formative power. A clay animation with a dry message condensed into four minutes.

Lost Love

1991 • 3 min • Japan, Switzerland

A young man sees something by the river. It's a shot of the girl he loves with another man. The young man has been dumped! He bites his lip and remembers those glorious days of love. And now, in order to express his anger, his frustration, his sadness and his regret, he comes up behind them... The word for "lost love" is "persistent". The story is about the youthfulness and innocence of a man who has lost his persistence. The frustration of youthful immaturity. The uncool and shameful part of the male sex, and the love for it. The melancholy and unhurried narrative suddenly comes to an unexpected end, and the audience realises that this is a very short and hilarious coming-of-age graffiti.