All Films

Semiotic Ghosts

1991 • 18 min

Lisl Pongers peaceful, hovering travel and daily life pictures, assembled associatively instead of narratively, develop here into a reflexion on photography itself, to an examination of unknown alphabets: Geometric forms develop out of the world's chaos.(Alexander Horwath)

Broadcast Designers Association Open

1991 • 1 min

Completely synthetic imagery is used to create a black and white animated woodblock effect.

Holy Mary

1991 • 5 min

Jerry Tartaglia's irreverent papal fashion short.

Whatever Is A Colour Is Necessarily Red

1991 • 11 min

Location, the gravel pit. Two adolescent women debate the premise, Whatever Is A Colour Is Necessarily Red, while their contemporaries cheer and heckle their efforts. The debate, Whatever is a colour is necessarily red, is a Buddhist classic written for very young students who merely have to memorize their parts. The purpose is to set the paradigm for unscripted debating and to instill the value of discussion. There is no winner or loser, only a challenger and defender who both desire to know the truth of something as revealed through the process. In practice monastic debating is a sport performed outdoors in front of an audience who cheers, hisses and boos often at any hesitation or incorrect responses. In my representation of the monastic debating I use the metaphor of throwing and catching a ball.

Boneshop of the Heart

1991 • 53 min

This highly original and thought-provoking film explores a rich vein of visual expression and American individuality through incisive portraits of five contemporary southern folk artists, four of whom are African-American. The film reveals art forms so radically different from familiar folk traditions that the artists -- "Tin Man" Charlie Lucas, Vollis Simpson, Thornton Dial, Bessie Harvey, and "Sandman" Lonnie Bradley Holley -- defy classification. Variously known as "outsider" or "visionary" artists, they create unique aesthetic forms that challenge traditional distinctions between "fine" and "folk" art.

One Day

1991 • 10 min

South Molton Street becomes a fantasy playground for a young mother and child

Dance Express: Hip Hop Club Dancing

1991 • 23 min • United States of America

Go into the mind of professional dancing coach Tony Lewis as he brings us the greatest hip hop moves of the 90s.

Spirit of Place

1991 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The invisible becomes visible. Every room has a spirit which sleeps beneath the layers of peeling paint and wallpaper. Spirit of Place observes the awakening of such a spirit, coerced into life by moonlight to reveal sumptuous velvets, decaying gilt, and an assemblage of neo-Gothic objects d‘art – a ghostly reflection of its past. In one long, carefully choreographed sequence, pictures animate and a message is disclosed as the motion control camera passes on its programmed course.

De Bello Irakeno

1991 • 17 min

Video journal cut-up made by the DAMS Occupato collective and soundtracked by the Laboratorio di Musica e Immagine. Its object is the reflection on the First Gulf War and its representation, focusing in particular on the information overload that occurred in the early stages of the conflict.

The Injection

1991 • 12 min • Italy

A man experiments with a strange drug, injecting it behind his eye and transforming into a bloodthirsty monster. Anyone who sets into his home will be violently murdered.

The Russian Mute

1991 • 6 min • Soviet Union

In this film, Edward Sheglanov wanted to present a person as an element of language, and see how a sign lives. The film came together spontaneously, influenced by charming stories about the jazz improvisation of Cassavetes’ films. The author associates this image with the beginning of the garrulous and fruitless 1990s.

Safari Rally 1991

1991 • 50 min

Round 4 of the 1991 World Rally Championships took place in Kenya, East Africa. Nissan introduced their latest supercar, the brand new Pulsar GT with Stig Blomqvist, Mike Kirkland and David Llewellin on board. The usual big-name drivers were present including Juha Kankkunen, Jorge Recalde and Miki Biasion representing Martini Lancia's main assault team. World Champion Carlos Sainz was totally unfazed by the competition nor was he unduly disturbed by Nissan's Pulsars. Sainz spearheaded Toyota's battle squad which also included Bjorn Waldegaard and the notoriously fast Miki Biasion. The stage was set for a fast and furious round. The outcome was as stunning as the fabulous scenery of Africa, captured skilfully by the ever-alert cameramen.

Stolen Freedom: Occupied Palestine

1991 • 25 min

During the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987, Palestinian-American filmmaker Tony Kandah made the documentary "Stolen Freedom" about occupied Palestine and the Intifada. Filmed primarily in Dahatia, a refugee camp run by UNRWA near Bethlehem on the West Bank, the film shows a new side to this continuing saga; the story of children growing up and learning to survive in an atmosphere of daily tension. In eye-opening interviews, the young people explain what it means to live in a strife-torn environment and how they have managed to survive and remain hopeful. Narrated by Casey Kasem, well-known in the USA for his "Top 40" music program, and featuring commentary by Hanan Ashrawi.

Pharaoh's Children

1991 • 52 min • Soviet Union

A poetic feature-length documentary made up of short vignettes, it is the story of Gypsies who always carry their homeland with them. Estonian and Russian-speaking Gypsies have been living in Estonia throughout fifty years of Soviet occupation. Through the colorful gypsy characters, the culture and vitality of the nation unfolds.

Deep-sea Fish

1991 • 3 min

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Svenska bostäder: Härbärget

1991 • 57 min

Follows a couple of people who share issues regarding homelessness and alcoholism.

Pagan Invasion, Vol. 9: Secrets of Mind Control

1991 • 47 min • United States of America

Mind Control: the ability to captivate and control the hearts and minds of others for one's own purpose. Most people believe they are immune to brainwashing. Yet time and again the 20th century has witnessed the atrocities of ruthless leaders as they continue to exploit their vulnerable and idealistic followers. Chuck Smith and Caryl Mastrisciana confront the manipulative techniques of mind control. Shocking footage of actual mind control therapies highlights this fascinating and explosive expose.

Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel

1991 • 55 min

Made shortly before Robert Motherwell’s death in 1991, is an exploration of the Abstract Expressionist movement and a portrait of one of its last survivors. Having come to New York in the early 1940s, Motherwell found himself on the battleground of American art. He and a group of painters set out to change the face of American painting. The film charts this epic battle led by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, who endeavored to make American painting equal to painting elsewhere and, in the process, shifted the center of modern art from Paris to New York.

King of Jazz

1991 • 25 min

The newly appointed King of Jazz (Sol Raye ) is challenged from an unexpected quarter at the coronation gig and a talent contest ensues.

Kaiman Hitomi: Nandemo irasshai

1991 • 60 min • Japan

A couple who lived an ordinary married life. In order to revitalize his slightly stagnant sex life, a husband decides to take erotic photos of his wife and post them in the wife's boast section of a swinger magazine. The wife gets excited just by taking pictures, and they have intensely erotic sex, which makes her husband very satisfied. When it was published in a magazine, the couple was very excited. Then, a reader couple finally invites them to go swapping. The couple, already intrigued, decided to participate and had an experience they had never experienced before. This stimulation may have awakened the wife's previously dormant lewdness, and she begins to seek stronger stimulation, but her husband, on the other hand, is withdrawn by this change in his wife and tells him to stop...

Beyond December 6

1991 • 28 min • Canada

One year after the tragedy that took the lives of fourteen female students, Montreal’s École Polytechnique has returned to something resembling normalcy. Nathalie Provost is a survivor of the shooting at the engineering school. Today, with friends, she opens up. About the tragedy, about feminism. About racism and sexism. About the fact that society has difficulty accepting difference. And, above all, about life, which must go on beyond December 6.

The Great Satan At Large (666israel)

1991 • 52 min

The lesser known follow-up to the broadcast that took place on Tucson's public access channel aired some time in the 90s at around 6:30pm. After the show aired, there was great controversy in Tucson over the graphic content. Perfidio was to be charged with obscenity but fled the state before the charges could be made. This is Lou's slightly longer, but tamer collaboration with fellow banned Public Access star 666Israel.

Old Age Has Wisdom

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Due to a very dry year, the khan ordered the entire young population to go in search of better places and leave the old people at home. All the old people were left to die and only one boy, risking his life, took his grandfather with him, hiding him in a large box. On the road, three times the wisdom of the old man helped everyone, and having learned that it was the old man who helped, the khan ordered his soldiers to take all the old men left behind with them...

En famnfull stolar

1991 • 12 min • Finland

A man struggles to transport chairs on his bicycle.