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A Cinematographer

A Cinematographer

1991 • 27 min • Japan
The voice of what appears to be a film school teacher echoes on the screen. A film school teacher's voice echoes on the screen: "To be able to do anything is the same as not being able to do anything. The film is shot by the protagonist. There is a dizzying kaleidoscope of different perspectives, angles and movements, all based on the motif of the sphere. As if to counteract the teacher's harsh criticism and his own inherent anxiety about his own creation, the protagonist begins to turn the camera again, without hesitation. There is no coherent story, but rather an exposition of images that speak eloquently of the director's own mental landscape.
Dear Dead Days

Dear Dead Days

1991 • 23 min • Japan
A pair of hitmen always bury the people they kill. But on their way home from work, they run over a kitten. A high school girl and her friend start digging a cat's grave in an empty lot. Meanwhile, in the park, a group of young lovers are worried about the disappearance of a cat with the strange name of "common sense and common sense of the street". A midsummer day called today lies between yesterday and tomorrow. The story is an omnibus of three stories about people who are a little bit different from each other. The stylish black-and-white imagery, like a, peek into the world of fables, is strangely matched by the droll dialogue. The smooth development from one episode to the next, and the urban sense of the three pairs of characters, two of whom seem unlikely to exist, shine through.
Hands

Hands

1991 • 10 min • Japan
From the past to the future, from today to tomorrow, "hands" weave the fabric of human life and history. The hands of the young, the old, the men, the women, the hands of all generations, sometimes in everyday life, sometimes in extraordinary situations, are the focus of this film, which with its superb powers of observation vividly reveals the drama of human life and its vicissitudes hidden in everyday life. Like a game of cat's-paw, in which a thread is passed between fingers to form a shape, the filmmaker's ability to connect unconnected scenes to form a larger theme shines through.
Muybridge

Muybridge

1991 • 1 min • France
Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1991 by students from GOBELINS, the school of image.
煙之花 花之煙

煙之花 花之煙

1991 • 30 min • Japan
Kazuko-chan has decided to move out. This is the voiceover over Kazuko's crying figure in the meadow. The voice is that of Haruko, Kazuko's best friend who is in a sanatorium. When Kazuko went to visit her, she was told to "imagine" her wrapped in a flower. On her way home, when she is followed in the forest by her classmate Yamada-Kun, Kazuko sees herself wrapped in a flower this time, while climbing a tree branch. With these strange thoughts in her mind, Kazuko arrives in a strange town. She smokes in an incinerator with her new friends and falls in love with the place. One day, on a bicycle trip, she discovers that the sanatorium she had missed is no longer there. There is only a vacant lot. Kazuko crouched there and wept. It was the seventh day after Haruko's death. The transience of memory and the sadness of forgetting. A fantasy of flowers and greenery, with a touch of fantasy that visualises the sadness of fading memories.
Open Season

Open Season

1991 • 23 min • Canada, United States of America
Open Season considers some of the founding heroes and myths of the American frontier, set within a contemporary landscape. The people we encounter persist in giving sense to their environment which often seems hostile to their concerns. At the boyhood home of Davy Crockett, we encounter his modern day advocate; across the street is a small businessman who sells "Davy Dogs" and tries to keep a failing business afloat. From here, we move across America meeting others who live on the edge of the American dream.
Un regard sur Jean Teilliet

Un regard sur Jean Teilliet

1991 • 25 min
Experimental film on the Limousin painter Jean Teilliet on the 60th anniversary of his death in 1991 in Saint-Junien.
Tibet: 1950s Social Democracy

Tibet: 1950s Social Democracy

1991 • 38 min
Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.
Fighting in Southwest Louisiana: Gay Life in Rural America

Fighting in Southwest Louisiana: Gay Life in Rural America

1991 • 27 min
Far from the sophistication and relative tolerance of urban centers, gay people are beginning to lead integrated lives in small towns throughout rural America. Danny Cooper has been upfront about his homosexuality since his teens. Now he lives openly with his lover. As the local mailman in a small Louisiana town, he has come to be accepted in a friendly and courteous manner by his neighbors. Although Danny has been through fights in school, was once fired fromhis job, and even evicted from his home, he has never failed to stand up for his right to be himself. In the end, he is changing the face of anti-gay prejudice in his town. Today, Danny is fighting his hardest battle-against HIV infection-withthe same openness and courage. And even though his T-cell countis near zero, he describes himself as "the luckiest human in the world."
Fauve

Fauve

1991 • 10 min
Fauve is a paper film made by a unique paper process which I invented and have employed here as a monochromatic study of rhythm and mood and the physics of light waves leaving a source - one sees the red, or longest waves, first, the blue, or shortest waves, last, and in my film, one's left in the UV light world of peripheral vision. The original score by Peter Wetzler adds to the textural, tactile, visual experience of Fauve.
Casting the First Stone

Casting the First Stone

1991 • 58 min • United States of America
Set against the background of the Supreme Court’s historic decisions on women's reproductive rights, this documentary looks at the abortion controversy through the eyes of six women activists on both sides of the barricades in Paoli, PA. CASTING THE FIRST STONE focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of the picket line.
Zhana-Arka

Zhana-Arka

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union
The republic, known for its tonnage of grain, has a scarcity of bread. The story is told from the viewpoint of a breadseller, Salmen Sharipov.
Just Another Life

Just Another Life

1991 • 60 min • Japan
JUST ANOTHER LIFE is a home video by B'z, released on December 11, 1991 on both VHS and LaserDisc. The release follows B'z on their first Pleasure tour, B'z LIVE-GYM "Pleasure'91". Along with the preceding release FILM RISKY the previous year, the pair of releases are the only two B'z home videos to not be later made available on DVD. However, the performances of "Dakara Sono Te wo Hanashite", "Taiyou no Komachi Angel", and "Easy Come, Easy Go!" have been included variously as bonuses accompanying B'z The Best XXV 1988-1998 and B'z COMPLETE SINGLE BOX.
To Hold Our Ground: A Field Report

To Hold Our Ground: A Field Report

1991 • 33 min
For thousands of years Ju/'hoansi have lived in the Nyae Nyae region in northeastern Namibia. In the 1950s, most Ju/'hoansi had been exterminated or were dispossessed by white colonists and black farmers, but in Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi were still the only permanent inhabitants. Waterless approaches isolated their ancient communal land and protected them from enslavement.
VerveS sulle OndE

VerveS sulle OndE

1991 • 3 min
Short movie by Fabio Massimo Iaquone.
Aristophanes on Broadway

Aristophanes on Broadway

1991 • 8 min
‘The subversive power of this piece remains central to this seemingly lyrical visual study of the 1990 Gay Pride Procession in Chicago. Motion is slowed, image is inverted so we are actually watching a high contrast negative (you’ve never seen colours like this). The beauty of the visuals is striking as is the classical intentionality of the Speech of Aristophanes from Plato’s Symposium.’ – Shellie Fleming
"Untitled" (A Portrait)

"Untitled" (A Portrait)

1991 • 5 min
A video work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Video, monitor, pedestal, and chairs. Overall dimensions vary with installation.
快乐的买买提

快乐的买买提

1991 • 10 min • China
The rich man keeps claiming that the carpenter Maimai Ti owns his for this and that reason. In the end Bay is saved by the carpenter and began to understand the life philosophy of "good is better than evil".
All About Eggs

All About Eggs

1991 • 3 min
35mm experimental short film.
TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Taito Vol.2

TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Taito Vol.2

1991 • 30 min • Japan
A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Taito
TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Taito Vol.1

TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Taito Vol.1

1991 • 30 min • Japan
A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Taito
TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Namco Vol.2

TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Namco Vol.2

1991 • 30 min • Japan
A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Namco
TV Game Museum: The History of Video Games I - Taito 1 & 2

TV Game Museum: The History of Video Games I - Taito 1 & 2

1991 • 58 min
A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Taito
TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Namco Vol.1

TV Game Museum: Video Game History - Namco Vol.1

1991 • 30 min • Japan
A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Namco