All Films

Royaume

1991 • 22 min • France

Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to them. The most fruitful feature of such closeness lies in the tension of the many differences, and mainly, for ETANT DONNÉS, the issue of the primacy of the visible and the real, which does not exclude the pursuit of sensation.

Grassroots Chicago

1991 • 31 min • United States of America

A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes on community organizing in different Chicago neighborhoods: LeClaire Courts, Marquette Park, Roseland, Pilsen, Uptown, Rogers Park and Garfield Park.

Balloon

1991 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A thin shadow figure starts swallowing balloons in an attempt to make himself more solid, and develops body, surface texture, markings and a face. Meanwhile, a lonely young girl is attracted by the balloons' hissing sounds, and is drawn to the shadow's lair. The grinning shadow quickly ties her up, but, overconfident, becomes entangled in his own machinery, and has the body squeezed out of him. All that's left is one of the balloons, which the girl takes with her as she leaves, now quite happy.

Principles of Harmonic Motion

1991 • 22 min • United States of America

"While not addressing the issue in a very overt manner, this piece has something to do with the thrilling and 'awful' process of actively engaging in perception and how we oscillate between forgetting and remembering that activeness as we age. In 'Principles of Harmonic Motion', I take a painterly approach to the image and rely on a subtle but carefully composed stereo soundtrack to amplify the sense of physical and psychological space. The images, sounds and structure are sometimes somewhat abstract while preserving a strong grounding in representation." –Leighton Pierce

Strawberry Short-Cut

1991 • 1 min • United States of America

A drag queen shares a secret recipe.

Japon Series

1991 • 7 min

Color work after separation and recomposition of the different colored layers of a documentary (found) in the Paris performance of a Japanese group of butoh dancers.

Zillertal

1991 • 11 min • Germany

An old trailer had been in the trees of a garden for months. Now and then it was coated with various chemicals. Through chemical disintegration and weathering the old plot of the film resolved to a great extent. Colours emerged from black and white. Black areas transformed into mountaineous regions.

An Obedient Pupil

1991 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Made after several Indian folk & wisdom tales. It tells about the absurdity to follow philosophical truths to the letter. One needs to follow ones inner truth and weigh it with ones common senses and ones circumstances. He also plays with his audience by in the end having the wise man in the tale plead for the opposite. So what does one think oneself..?. In the art-direction new and various ways of using paper are being explored in Kalishers last 3 animations. You could also say that this particular animation reflects the Russian situation at the time, with all kinds of Western countries advising & influencing the russian govenment how to proceed dismantling the USSR and stepping over to a capitalistic economy ( with "shock"therapy), which resulted in a 10 years Rulership of all kinds of criminals and the Ultra-capitalistic Putin kleptocracy that's ruling now.

Été

1991 • 50 min

The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would cross in this narrative. When. The times have intermingled. The winds meet. History. Pictures. The summer. Humble vacancy with furtive foliage. Fragile memory. Light is a trace of forgetfulness.

Intestinal Fortitude

1991 • 3 min

Intestinal Fortitude is a post-industrial visual monster... The initial idea was to have many films in one and to have each of those films stand on their own. The multiple layers of this film each contain separate and individual films, all of them representing different ideas, and their stacked complexity give it its punch. The ideas range from enjoying coffee to an industrial hell. Driven by the pure apathy of others, this film was an alarm or wake-up call to my then-current peers in school. - Colin Barton

Ivanushko

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Spin Cycle

1991 • 5 min

Autobiographical work in which a young African-American lesbian filmmaker ruminates about her craft and her relationships.

In an Imagined Garden

1991 • 14 min • Spain

A homage to painter Amable Arias. Through painted-on-film visuals, the film evokes the atmosphere of daytime in an imagined garden—paired conceptually with his earlier short Paisaje inquietante – Nocturno which reflects the nocturnal counterpart.

La Bastringue Madame Bolduc

1991 • 4 min

In English Canada, Madame Bolduc is virtually unknown, but her folk singing put a kick in the step of French Canadians throughout Quebec and parts of New England in the 1930s. Among her most popular songs was La Bastringue, illustrated in this lively animated film.

1, 2, 3, Coco

1991 • 4 min

An animated film for five- to eight-year-olds on children's right to receive an education. A teacher gives extra, individualized help to a student who is having difficulty with arithmetic and helps her find fun in numbers.

Strada provinciale delle Anime

1991 • 58 min • Italy

The italian writer Gianni Celati travels through the Po delta, the same landscapes of his collection of stories "Verso la foce", on a blue bus, accompanied by friends and relatives. His friend, renowned photographer Luigi Ghirri, follows the group by car.

The Mother Show

1991 • 5 min • United States of America

Produced by Tom Rubnitz in collaboration with Tom Koken and Barbara Lipp, The Mother Show is a tribute to mothers everywhere, starring Frieda, the “living” doll. Frieda asks her mother a series of questions, such as “Mom, are there days when you feel not-so-fresh?” and spells out the meaning of the word “mother.” The tape ends with her endearing pronouncement, “Mom, you’re like a mother to me.”

Far From Where

1991 • 10 min • Canada

The cold, the snow, winter in black and white, all to reinforce missing the warmth, colours and scents of Tunisia.

The Tin Can Man

1991 • 3 min • Netherlands

A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.

Adam Khor

1991 • 54 min • Pakistan

Horrible hairy behemoth on a gruesome rampage in this wild Pashto shocker

Pillow Talk

1991 • 18 min

Extreme manipulation of filmic time and space combined with an impressionistic lighting scheme help create an urban spaces nightmare. A woman living by herself is having a hard time, downstairs the neighbours are fighting, next door they're having extremely loud sex, an old lady's stealing her clothes in the laundry room, and worst of all, she's no better than the rest.

Interference

1991 • 20 min • Canada

Interference continues the filmmaker's experimentation with time and stillness. A woman sits at her desk typing. Outside, the Canadian winter holds the land in its grip. Snow flurries drift past the window. The woman makes coffee, waits for the mail to arrive, sits in thought. We wait for the disaster to strike. At the end of the day, another woman enters the apartment and asks how the day went. The end. The accumulation of non-events gradually strips us of all the clichés of dramatic action, and we are made aware that our actual lives are always like this.

Quicker Cleaning

1991 • 40 min

You can't be the founder of the nation's largest janitorial services without learning a few things. Like do you dust first or vacuum? Learn how to wash down a whole room in less than 30 minutes and never have a drop of dirty water in your bucket! Find out the hotel maid's secret for cleaning bathrooms. Get the facts on how to organize to clean just once. Once you know how, you'll wonder how you ever did it before.

Baby from Outer Space

1991 • 12 min

A hapless babysitter is terrorized by singing gay aliens