All Films

Winderemere's Burning

1991 • 40 min

Mark Frith's documentary spends time with the Windermere crew, as they diligently respond to false alarm after false alarm, work their day jobs, and train hard to be ready for a serious incident.

The Cage

1991 • 32 min • Israel

A drama focused on Israeli–Palestinian relationships during the intifada.

Rab C. Nesbitt: Fitba'

1991 • 45 min • United Kingdom, Italy

Rab, Burney and Jamesie go to Italy to see Scotland play in the World Cup,taking frail and elderly ex-soccer star Matt Fernie with them. Jamesie gets arrested - and visited by Ella,seeking a separation - but Matt is taken seriously ill before Scotland's final game and Rab must lie to let an old man die happy.

Rota ABC

1991 • 11 min

Rota ABC is a documentary essay about the desires and perspectives of youth living in the industrial suburb of São Paulo, directed by Francisco Cesar Filho and produced by Anhangabaú Produções, with a soundtrack by the punk rock band Garotos Podres.

Hasse's Diary

1991 • 33 min • Sweden

Hasse is 8 years old. His parents are drinking and arguing. Every day Hasse picks up his diary from the hideout behind the radiator to write down his thoughts.

A Prayer Before Birth

1991 • 20 min

A drama based on the director's experience of coming to terms with multiple sclerosis. 'A Prayer Before Birth' chronicles, with disturbing intensity, the physical and emotional traumas of a young woman's journey from able-bodied exuberance to the acceptance of disability. Rejecting the objective worthiness often associated with such subject matter, the filmmaker opts instead for an escalating sequence of symbolic and impressionistic images to convey the increasing sense of unreality as the disease inexorably enters her daily life. Confronts debilitating illness with creative vitality, simultaneously desperate and defiant.

Blue Venice / Red Hotel

1991 • 6 min • Canada

"The Red Hotel: flying car. Filmed from the backseat, images scroll at the speed of miles fleeing, forwards, backwards ... and on this road, Venice. Floating lights, gratings, bridges above, below. The city was coming out of the Red Hotel to bend under the magnifying glass and the flashlight of the projector, drunk by the narrow streets and carried by the seasickness emanating from the "flicker" which returns in waves. Venice left the Red Hotel to take another turn, detached from the previous trip, it seems to become a suite of old postcards and gives to people who pass and search at a second-hand dealer, memories of yesteryear.“

Est-ce là l'effet du Saint Jour ?

1991 • 10 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)

Antamosi

1991 • 38 min

A half-hour narrative fiction short that explores the Greek experience in Australia. Memories, betrayals and secrets emerge from the past when Katina's mother comes from Greece to visit the family. The bitter embrace between mother and daughter is observed by Katina's own daughter, Sophia, who must play her own role in this moving drama of estrangement.

Ong Dong Dreoka

1991 • 24 min • Germany

"To make a film means to invent a music of pictures, sounds and rhythms; means to compose visual values, that have no equivalents in other art forms," wrote Marcel L’Herbier in the thirties. To plumb the possibilities that lie within the film material itself is what, for me, accounts for the meaning as well as the desire to work in film. Film as the disclosure of a fantastic world which the spectator can dive into and, ideally, have his imagination kindled. ONG DONG DREOKA is a game with images, a carousel that turns, a magic spell, a memory, for adults, of childhood." -Simone Fürbringer

Peldik

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A problem film about our toilet culture - dilapidated outhouses and dirty school lavatories.

At Your Head

1991 • 26 min

Hairdressers in Cali discuss life, work, dreams, beauty, fashion, and homosexuality. The filmmaker is having a haircut too. Second installment of the crafts trilogy.

Unpublished Album

1991 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the enthusiastic photographer Igor Kostin, who worked at the Chornobyl disaster site.

Ghost Carnival

1991 • 35 min • Taiwan

An archival student film directed by Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin regarding a young man's complicated relationship with his deceased sister, based off of her serialized short fiction of the same name. Also called The Revelries of Ghosts.

Fuck the Devil 2: Return of the Fucker

1991 • 42 min • Germany

The Fucker's spirit has emerged again, this time via a possessed tape of A Nightmare on Elm Street, embarking on a second wave of senseless violence against humanity.

Portugal: Land of Discoveries

1991 • 57 min • United States of America

From the beautiful sandy shores of the Algarve and Cascais to the romantic, lush forests of Bucaco and Sintra, Portugal is full of treasures waiting to be discovered. Journey through one of the oldest countries in Europe and uncover the dramatic history of kings, religion and exploration. Cheer for the "cavaleiro" as he skillfully battles the mighty bull; savor the rich wines of The Douro; relish in the medieval architecture of Evora. Enjoy the charm, warmth and spirit of Portugal's people.

Out in the Garden

1991 • 15 min

A film about the dynamic of assumptions as seen through the struggle of a gay man who has recently been told that he is HIV positive and who, in his own way, tries to come to terms with the news. The film eschews the usual talking head and focuses on the peculiar occasion for examining anew as brought on by disconnectedness. In the process,questions of identity, one's sense of reality, the day to day and social tyrannies end up implicating the viewer intimately as well. -VG.

Others Travel Through Stars

1991 • 48 min • Soviet Union

The film tells the story of the first steps of Lithuanian cinema.

Coup

1991 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A short cartoon created in the hot wake of the August 1991 coup.

Wave

1991 • 3 min

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Frog Skeleton

1991 • 1 min

A stop-motion sequence animated by Webster Colcord in 1991 for a Roger Waters music video directed by Tony Kaye.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 18

1991 • 59 min

A baker’s dozen of classic nude figure models running the glamour gamut of pose, angle and jiggle with Hillside Heidi, bed blondie, an all nude Betty Page – lookalike boogie and BLAZE STARR’s pouty screen test.

The Outcasts: Drama without an Ending

1991 • 28 min • Soviet Union

Stories of Germans who arrived in Russia 250 years ago and their descendants who were forced to move to Germany in the late 20th century.

Sea Channel

1991 • 31 min

The north sea, the river mouth, Wallsend and the roof of the city.