All Films

The Price of Our Liberty

1991 • 9 min • Finland

The film is about the Winter War 1939-40 in Uusimaa, Turku, Pori and Vyborg.

Fahrt nach Kairo

1991 • 60 min

Travelgue through the outskirts of Kairo.

Something of Mine

1991 • 50 min

A ring of devil worshipers bring forth a demon and let it loose at a campus Halloween spook show.

A State of Blackness: Aimé Césaire’s Way

1991 • 59 min

Documentary exploring the thought and work of Aimé Césaire.

Champion Number One

1991 • 39 min • Soviet Union

The leader of a gang of notorious criminals in Almaty, Kazakhstan defends himself in court, is sentenced to ten years in prison, organizes the country's first prison cooperative, and, after his release, becomes arm wrestling champion of the USSR.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Rondo. Allegro z Serenady G-dur KV 525

1991 • 5 min • Poland

From the series of animated films to classical music.

Mirakelet

1991 • 13 min • Norway

"The Miracle" - A Norwegian filmmaker apply for support from the public culture authority. The project is called "Historien om Terje Vigen" - an epic poem by Henrik Ibsen. A story about a sailor who suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. The applicant is turned down by an almost unanimous board. Arild Kristo reports the events through sketchy animations.

Blue: A Tlingit Odyssey

1991 • 6 min

Anthropologist Robert Ascher depicts a myth of the Pacific Northwest Coast Tlingit using the purely symbolic, visual language of direct, cameraless animation. Positing an enchanting, engaging, non-Western alternative to verbal, analytical methods of documentation, he also considered this approach a noninvasive method of portraying an indigenous culture.

Bodies in Trouble

1991 • 15 min • Canada

Bodies in Trouble exposes the lesbian body as a battlefield in the context of a right-wing blacklash. Juxtaposing sexual passion with sexual fear, the lesbian eroticism presented by Bociurkiw is inscribed with danger and courage. Using the 1990's summer raid at the Sex Garage in Montreal as a backdrop, Bociurkiw positions her film as a vibrant and pointed critic of the political and social abuse against the homosexual communities.

Boudou prend son bain

1991 • 4 min • France

War Songs

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

Paul Schmidt sent me a set of five poems from a series called WAR SONGS. He treats the war in a brilliant and sarcastic way, evokes his seduction. Mark Bennett's score is itself provocative, languorous, and close to a waltz. The whole thing is a series of songs cast in the mode of melodrama, that is to say music in tandem with a narration. My contribution lies in the superimposition of war scenes, coupled with what I called an image of Gabriel: a young and handsome soldier, a personification of the good warrior, a protective image. He gives off strong impressions throughout the duration of the film. She makes him appear sometimes active and aggressive, sometimes asleep or beckoning. The film uses footage from the Vietnam War and World War II. They show soldiers marching, tanks rolling. Explosions reveal in passing our dear “Gabriel”.

Montre-moi si vraiment du ciel tu es l'élu

1991 • 14 min • France

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Ten Thousand Points of Light

1991 • 32 min

Kitsch alert! Worshippers at the shrine of Elvis and followers of pop culture take note. Ten Thousand Points of Light is a wry, understated and terrifically funny look at the Townsends, a suburban Atlanta family, who every holiday season for eight years, transformed their Stone Mountain area brick ranch house into a meteoric blaze of Christmas lights. Known as both “the Christmas House” and the “the Elvis House”, the Townsend’s home was visited yearly by vast numbers of people, many of whom viewed a trip to the land of a thousand tchotchkes as an annual pilgrimage.

Temperature of Time

1991 • 5 min • Japan

Mainly working with simple, soft-lined drawing animation, Yamamoto aggressively takes in live action images from the late 1980s. Though this piece starts out with live action filming, the eventual appearance of the "phenakistoscope" animation composed with live action images is a true gem. Yamamoto always has been acknowledged for her skill in blowing in "anima – spirit" and boldly tries out a new experiment of blending it in with the live action image. What is awesome is that the huge phenakistoscope that appears in the live action shooting with no composites has power to nullify virtual distance and existence within what is called the image. There, a "composite-like reality" emerges.

Hiram Bullock: Live At Indigo Blues

1991 • 59 min

Recorded at Indigo Blues, New York City, Feburary 2, 1991.

Cruel Rhythm

1991 • 44 min

Shot during the opening stages of the First Gulf War, Kerr's "Cruel Rhythm" revisits the American desert for a cinematic tone poem in the vein of 'The Last Days of Contrition' A canopy of sound bites of media coverage on the build-up toward the war is juxtaposed with the alienness of windmills in the desert, and a startling sequence of drifting faces of a crowd coming towards the camera in slow motion. A thought-provoking piece on media's construction of societal paranoia "Cruel Rhythm" is an attempt to make a public, shared feeling intimate, or conversely, to make a subjective feeling of floating anxiety and dread into a shared representation." Unsettlingly, its ambiance is as poignant today as ever.

Concept tape 3 (Performance)

1991 • 25 min • Japan

A compilation tape of performances including John Cage Performs James Joyce, Arakawa, and Iimura's first AIUEONN and As I See You You See Me shot mostly 1980s. All deals with the relationships of words and performance in image-making.

The Machine in the Garden

1991 • 20 min • Canada

Shot in Hi8 video using a high-speed shutter and a spinning turret camera mount, "Machine in the Garden" is inspired by, and an homage to, apparatus-oriented work such as D. Vertov's "Man With a Movie Camera" and Michael Snow's "La Region Centrale."

Moodtapes: Ocean Reflections

1991 • 45 min • United States of America

Experience nature's most relaxing environment as you dive into an underwater wonderland of gliding dolphins...majestic whales...playful sea lions...and adorable sea otters! Let your tensions ease away as golden sunsets melt into a panorama of spectacular color against crashing ocean waves...and sandpipers dance a delicate ballet on the shore to the calming rhythm of the tide.

Live in New York: Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Gorilla Biscuits

1991 • 58 min

Seize Control of the Taj Mahal (Redux)

1991 • 12 min

In this episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, Brenda and Glennda lead a group of drag queens on a trip to Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. Intended to be a drag queen gambling getaway, the trip turns into a moment of protest.

Die Schmerzen der Lausitz

1991 • 58 min • East Germany

A film essay documenting the devastation of the Lausitz region. The Sorb writer Jurij Koch describes the destruction wreaked as a component in an act of ethnocide:"The end of a language; even if the step is appantantly an economic necessity in terms of furhtering the region, it signifies impoverishment, the excavation of an ethnic habitat - a restriction of human richness."

L'Ayant-Droit

1991 • 22 min

Extract of the sound of the film: Sir, Following your first letter and according to your indications, the viewing of the press conference of General de Gaulle on May 16, 1967 was carried out by us. I regret to inform you that the questions - of which you had sent me the text - not appearing in the document archived at the INA, no copy of this press conference can be transferred to you.

Arabia

1991 • 28 min • Switzerland

A 'Filmperformance' by Klaus Lutz, described as 'the rendering of the hieroglyph for the word «ARABIA»'