All Films

Nuages de soie

1991 • 2 min • France

Vagues à Collioure

1991 • 6 min • France

In the summer of 1914, Collioure was a small, quiet fishing village, sheltered from the convulsions of a blazing Europe. Matisse painted a curious picture Door-Window in Collioure. Homage to Collioure, nod to the cubists, reference to Matisse; offering to the wind and to the sea. The furious Tramontana sends you in spasms its rumblings in the air which has become crystalline. The sea rages under the effect of the wind, which suddenly desert the various small boats; SOS for the unwary. Large breaking waves delight children on the beach.

Long Eyes of the Earth

1991 • 10 min

Combines surreal and psychedelic images of human forms, fire, water, and a dove with the words of Schmidt’s poem “Shaman” and Mikhashoff’s music from the trilogy “Elemental figures”.

Roman Variations

1991 • 50 min • United States of America

A portrait of Rome that would have made Plutarch proud, Roman Variations was made during a residency at a studio provided by the gallerist Barbara Gladstone.

Bristlecornpine

1991 • 5 min • Japan

Originally working with super 8 animation pieces, Noshioka switches on to video-making from 1991. From time control with frame shooting to gaze fix with live action filming, her technology and texture change greatly. This first work in video indeed straightforwardly defines the relationship between "living space" and "physicality". Through repetition of thundering and quietude, the power of Nishioka's pure solitude and intense observation turn and reshape the warmhearted town of Osaka into something hard and inorganic. The adherence to a suddenly rising unrealistic and gigantic vapor pillar, the ever-turning ventilation fan and the ever-watching eye – All of these are ways to love Osaka permissible only to this filmmaker.

Transfer

1991 • 12 min • France, Germany

This video art piece creates a collage of the people, mechanisms, and advertisements in the transfer station of an underground train.

Eastern Landscape

1991 • 13 min • Germany

Articles of former East Germany from household items to flags are thrown away at a garbage dump outside of East Berlin, serving as a reminder of a state that no longer exists. In this gesture of breaking ties with the past, the film captures the dumping ground as the last burial site of a society and the absurdity of time and existence.

The Daylight Moon: Les Murray

1991 • 53 min • Australia

A profile of the Australian poet Les Murray. Shot on location in Northern New South Wales. Featuring dramatisations of his poems and evocative footage of the most unusual landscape. He talks illuminatingly about his life and work.

1969

1991 • 13 min

A personal recollection of a time past, when gay identity was a source of joy rather than of mourning.

The Inner Strength

1991 • 54 min • Bangladesh

Adam Surat is the first film directed by Tareque Masud. It is a documentary about Bangladeshi painter Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (aks SM Sultan). Masud started the film in 1982 and completed seven years later.

Donald's Fire Drill

1991 • 15 min • United States of America

Two kids are contestants on a game show, co-hosted by Trevor Townsend and Donald Duck, and they try to beat the clock by answering questions on fire safety information.

Clown, Part 1

1991 • 13 min

The first part of Clown by Luther Price.

Sad Sack

1991 • 14 min

An encounter of myths. Is the world more resembling a flat, grammophone record or a child on the back of Atlas?

A Day at EPCOT Center

1991 • 30 min

Your passport to the world! Rediscover the fascinating worlds of EPCOT Center in this entertaining souvenir videocassette. Travel again to the realms of human ideas, imagination and inventions in Future World. Revisit World Showcase, where North, South, East and West meet in an international celebration of cultures, climaxing in the extravaganza that is IllumiNations. Stunning photography captures the unique sights and sounds of EPCOT Center for you to thrill to again and again.

Maxwell's Demon

1991 • 8 min • United States of America

In a world that has shifted to being information and service based, industrialists are corralled on a reservation named Lorado, to sell plastic things as remnants of their past culture. The reservation is built on a polluted lake which is a tourist attraction. In Lorado there are many forms of love and every one keeps a pet. The story turns on the suicide of Fashionette’s fish, because of bad water conditions, and ends with a large scale chemical fire. This project took over three years to produce and all of the images are computer generated and animated.

Buy Me That Too! A Kid's Survival Guide to TV Advertising

1991 • 30 min

A special that examines television commercials aimed at children. Focusing on the psychological techniques used in TV ads, the documentary is designed to help young people look at commercials with a critical eye.

This Nervous Thing

1991 • 16 min

In This Nervous Thing, Santos questions the ways we perceive and receive information through the media. Santos writes, "Lost in our creations, we must use artificial means, such as newspapers and other media to simulate knowledge of what is around us. In doing so, we create heroes, cities, characters, icons and monuments. The result is "this nervous thing, this image that doesn't stop, this quick dialogue, this dynamic and superficial reading of the essence of the human being." A driving soundtrack propels the viewer through a frenetic trans-cultural landscape.

National Geographic: The Soul of Spain

1991 • 54 min

From flamenco dancing to world famous bullfighting, join the National Geographic Channel is some of the vibrant, timeless traditions of Spain. Since the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, Spain has undergone a swift and dramatic transformation. Having endured a bloody Civil War, nearly four decades of dictatorship, isolation from the rest of Europe, and economic depression, Spain has now decisively entered the 20th century. Yet, as economic, social, and political changes sweep the nation, Spaniards continue to cherish the traditions that are uniquely theirs.

National Geographic: Flight Over Africa

1991 • 54 min

Braving solo existence in the sky, bush pilots are often the adventurers that link the lonely inhabitants of distant lands. Soaring above the few wild places left on our planet - across endless deserts, tangled jungles, jagged mountains, treacherous plains of ice - these unique pioneers serve as doctors, missionaries, and communication links for their "neighbours" residing in desolate regions.

Sand and Sea

1991 • 30 min

Liu Zeyuan is a farmer on the edge of the desert at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. He grows food and raises camels, and his family's annual income is 5,000 yuan. Liu Picheng is a fisherman on Jingwa Island, part of the isolated Liaodong Peninsula; he is unwilling to attract attention and becomes hostile to the camera. The living environment and conditions of these two families are different, but the directors try to find some common ground while expressing the two respective unique lifestyles. In fact, these lives are firmly swayed by nature: sand storms can destroy everything, just as the ocean tide can destroy everything, and for the two protagonists, the difficult grasp of the future and their children also brings them the same loneliness. Filmed in 1989, Sand and Sea received the Grand Prix award from the 1991 Asian Broadcasting and Television Union.

Unknown Woman

1991 • 9 min

A woman’s psychological journey which externalises an inner world filled with suspense and pursuit. Animated ink and wax drawings are inter-cut with pixilated sequences originating from dreams of a woman and a crow. The structured footage is then painted, and edited to a composed soundtrack. – K.P.

Sine Nomine

1991 • 4 min

A film made from the scraps of different films; a montage film on the expression of time in cinema.

Afterword

1991 • 30 min • Latvia

Afterword for the film "Homeland" - January 1991. Death of Andris Slapiņš and Gvido Zvaigzne.

Scliar: A Persistência da Paisagem

1991 • 15 min • Brazil

Scliar, a painter of the world, immersed in the time of his silence. All that the artist sought to bring to the skin and heart of his painting is the inner vibration of every inhabitant of the world. The chromatic vibration does not come from the paints but from the land he harvests from each place he visits. Scliar used earth to give colour to his canvases.