All Films

Mei chi jian

1991 • 26 min • China

January Blizzard

1991 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Mamyshev-Monroe struts in thigh-high stockings and writhes coyly in a bathtub.

Beyond the Horizon

1991 • 28 min • Poland

About Catholics exiled to Kazakhstan from Germany, Poland, and Ukraine during Soviet times.

The Cat and the Rooster

1991 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A Rooster and a Cat lived in a cabin in the forest. The smart and resourceful Cat was an earner, going away in the morning and leaving the hardworking Rooster to do household chores. And everything would be well with them, if a Fox had not got into the habit to visit them dreaming to steal the rustic and unsophisticated Rooster.

Brendan Grace - A Happy Hour

1991 • 58 min

Heritage Minutes: Maurice "Rocket" Richard

1991 • 1 min • Canada

After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other, the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 9–1 victory against the Detroit Red Wings.

The Letter

1991 • 5 min • Japan, Spain

"I sobbed today..." This bizarre monologue is followed by a dialogue with a unique tempo. Then, fragments of daily life are written on the screen in an unhurried manner. When the dialogue and the screen are fused together, there is an exquisite sense of mismatch, and a warm and heart-warming world begins to unfold on the screen. The film is a humorous essay in the form of a letter to a lover, telling the story of an ordinary day, but with a descriptive power that is anything but ordinary.

My Ex-Lover and I

1991 • 51 min • Japan

Noboru and Mika are former lovers. They have never seen each other since Noboru broke up with her because of his infidelity, but after a dispute over a debt, they decide to meet again for the first time in six months. As they spend the night alone, their intentions become intertwined, and the subtle interplay of truth and lies in their conversations reveals more and more of the unrequited feelings of their former lovers... In this vivid romantic drama, the psychology of a man and a woman who have parted ways, but in their hearts have not yet become strangers, is portrayed more realistically than in reality, using documentary techniques. In the latter half of the film, the conflict between the two men's hearts is clearly revealed through their conversations alone, and the film is brilliantly directed.

1970 Gay Pride March

1991 • 15 min

The first gay pride march took place in New York City on June 28, 1970

Echo Anthem

1991 • 8 min

Using hand-manipulated images, ECHO ANTHEM attempts to uncover the underbelly of jingoism in 1991 America, and show its destructive conclusion. In a perverse twist, the film invites the viewer to be at once soothed and repulsed by the seething display of the flag and what it leads to. The film establishes a tension between visual beauty and narrative and thematic concerns. ECHO ANTHEM is made up of three sections, each suggesting the same sequence of events. The viewer is challenged to fluctuate between states - from being engulfed by the visuals to being concerned about the narrative particulars and thematic possibilities.

Lazarus

1991 • 27 min • Canada, United States of America

In the heat and desolation of Santa Fe, California, three people are connected and disconnected by proximity, nature and circumstances. Dwight is a New Age DJ. Ramon is an experimental composer and filmmaker. Ash displays numerous tattoos. Each elaborates on central and sometimes disturbing chapters of their lives. The tape culminates with Ramon's harrowing account of a friend's downward spiral.

A Private Music Lesson with Yvonne Loriod

1991 • 57 min • France

Yvonne Loriod was not only an incredible performer of the music of her time, but also Olivier Messiaen's muse, the one in whom and for whom he found the natural and concrete extension of his art, of his inspiration. This documentary is a beautiful testament to what this great artist represented.

À propos de "Tristes Tropiques"

1991 • 46 min • France

The film evokes the stay in Brazil of Claude Levi-Strauss, an ethnologist, who stayed there from 1934 to 1938. His stay gave rise to the book "Tristes Tropiques". Based on images taken in 1935 and today, his statements reconstruct his intellectual journey in the field of ethnology. Searching for primitive worlds, he tried to understand the Indians whose decaying societies offered an "essence of social life." The work gives us an account of the importance of this scientific and philosophical expedition.

Dongdong and Guagua

1991 • 10 min • China

Young Guard 2

1991 • 4 min • Soviet Union

The production of a military play at a cultural center has gone wrong.

لا ثمن للوطن

1991 • 58 min • Kuwait

O Mana

1991 • 4 min

Five Centuries Later

1991 • 53 min • Canada

Five centuries after the genocidal "discovery" of America by the Europeans, the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala and Bolivia question what their future holds.

Run Rabbit

1991 • 3 min • Japan

An 8mm film study framing a woman and the different images of her own self being overlapped.

Polish Feminists

1991 • 20 min • Poland

One of the first films describing the beginning of the feminist movement in Poland after 1989. Its protagonists are activists and cultural researchers fighting for women’s rights in Poland. They are also co-organizers of protests against tightening the abortion law in Poland.

Venus 220 Volt

1991 • 12 min • Germany, Switzerland

Manuela, the mermaid, is annoyed: The only thing her counterparts in the self-awareness group are interested in is the question, "Where is your clitoris?".

Oranges and Lemons

1991 • 10 min

Nigerian Ola has a passion for English history, but her vision of England and the English gets a new perspective when she gets a casual job at the Tower of London, leaving her disillusioned.

Minnesota Twins: Simply The Best

1991 • 50 min

Simply the best chronicles a remarkable year for the world champion Minnesota Twins. This video captures the 1991 championship season in it’s entirety from spring training through game seven of the World Series.

Continuum

1991 • 6 min

Short film.