All Films

Pagan Invasion, Vol. 8: Preview of the Antichrist

1991 • 48 min • United States of America

According to ancient Hebrew scriptures, in the last days mankind will urgently seek the security of a one-world government. This global desire for a super leader, who will bring peace and safety to a world in chaos, will ultimately leave the human race vulnerable to the beguiling charm and grace of the most intelligent, powerful, and charismatic person of all history. The Bible calls this man the "anti-christ." Ironically, he will dominate the globe and orchestrate society's ultimate destruction. Chuck Smith and Caryl Matrisciana host this exciting blueprint of apocalyptic events. Interviews with prophecy experts Chuck Missler, Hal Lindsey, and Peter Lalonde explain "why" the world will follow this man into perdition. Must viewing for all who desire a glimpse of the future.

Powerful

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An arrogant and entitled coward stumbles upon a magical sword and by an unbelievable prevalence of dumb luck in his life gets renowned as a hero.

Alec the Pole

1991 • 40 min

A film for 40 Minutes about a man (who had come to Scotland in 1945) returning to his family behind the iron Curtain (but NOT Poland) who thought he had been killed in the war

Tecnomaya in Infotown

1991 • 3 min

Tecnomaya in Infotown (New Dangers replace Fear) merges four years of research, which began in 1987 with techno videos for the Tenax discotheque in Florence, continued with the 1988 installation Run Go at the Murnik Gallery in Milan, and culminated with the 1989 Electronic Mandalas. The stratification of messages gives rise to Tecnomaya: the illusion multiplied by technology; hallucinatory emission and irradiation materialize into layered, infinite, indecipherable information, where false and real blend in epidemic immaterial irradiation.

Idées noires

1991 • 12 min

A couple dances a choreography by Angelin Preljocaj.

What's Wrong With This Picture?

1991 • 51 min • Canada

Using drama, comedy, and music, this video addresses safer sex, AIDS hysteria, relationships, homophobia, the hazards of sharing needles. Young people are encouraged to examine their ideas, attitudes, and practices, and to make personal health choices based on accurate information. What's wrong with this picture? was written by young people for young people. It uses young people's language and experiences, proving particularly effective where other forms of AIDS education have failed.

Princess-Mimo

1991 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Two Red-head clowns help Princess-Mimo to escape from the villainous White clown's intrigues.

Le Postier

1991 • 13 min • France

A short film about a postman.

Barn Owl: Bird of Darkness

1991 • 28 min

Narrated by David Attenborough, this film explores the private life of a pair of Barn Owls. Often associated with folklore and magic, there can be few more beautiful sights than a glimpse of this silent hunter on a summer's evening.

Piromanii

1991 • 5 min • Romania

Guatarnator 2: Final Judgment

1991 • 60 min • Chile

GUATARNATOR, a cybernetic entity with a metal skeleton covered in grease and “charchetas” that came to protect Juan Konor, who is not a child, but a womanizer and deeply in debt, from falling into the hands of another cybernetic entity disguised as a police officer called T-KG. The question is: Which one will find him first?

The Lost Soldier

1991 • 20 min • Soviet Union

What happens after we die? How will we experience that moment? How will we see our loved ones from the other side? A soldier returns from war… but where to? To whom? And how will he be received?

My Address is Solovki: The Trap

1991 • 21 min • Ukraine

The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian playwright.

Goa Lawah

1991 • 7 min

Goa Lawah is a sacred bat cave on the east coast of Bali. Actual footage.

Keaton's Cops

1991 • 23 min

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top three-fourths or four-fifths of the frame.

Oh ! Plainte ! Plainte ! Plainte effroyable

1991 • 10 min

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)

Daughters of Two Worlds

1991 • 60 min • Germany

Two women, a mother and her daughter, one of whom immigrated to Germany from Turkey and the other grew up in Germany, describe life between two cultures. The mother came as a guest worker, while her daughter had a painful arranged marriage.

The Singing Sheikh

1991 • 10 min

Sheikh Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa, born 1918, is famous throughout the Arab world for his folk songs indicting the ruling classes. Considered the voice of the oppressed, he is banned from state television and radio, and has been imprisoned numerous times, including in 1974 for the occasion of President Nixon’s visit. With scenes of Egyptian street life set to his often caustic musical criticisms of his native Egypt’s upper classes, the Sheikh’s message is that “If a beautiful thing is suppressed today, it will rise tomorrow.”

Memories of Milk City: Sketches for a Film on Ahmedabad

1991 • 14 min • India

A fourteen minute cine-poem, Memories of Milk City catches Ahmedabad at a time of transition, peeling away layers of textures, gestures and sounds, tripping over a culture and a language at war with themselves.

Dementia

1991 • 40 min • United States of America

Friends tell stories of the tormented man living out in the woods as dare each other to go out and see if they can see him. Unfortunately for them—they are successful.

Awareness

1991 • 3 min • United States of America

"A live dance performance utilizing live image processing. The audience saw a dance as it was recorded, processed, and projected in real time." -ET

George Harrison: Live in Japan

1991 • 40 min

a full concert film has never been released, the only songs that have surfaced in professional recordings are While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Cheer Down, Devil's Radio, Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), Cloud 9, Taxman, Isn't it a Pity, Old Brown Shoe (snippet) Got My Mind Set On You (snippet) and Piggies (snippet)

Experiment in Death

1991 • 5 min • United States of America

Two young men attempt to copy the events in "Flatliners" and discover "life after death." The experiment fails and one of them is put on trial for murder in this mock docudrama.

Collection

1991 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The heroes of the stories are various small packs of cigarettes that are manufactured in the Soviet Union. They suddenly jumped out of an old suitcase, and now live their lives and show scenes that are typical of those times. Here there is a dance floor, where pairs swirl elegantly, the rest on the beach, and much more.