All Films

It Was Boring…

1991 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A schoolboy is able to see real miracles in everyday routine. He is never separated from his faithful cat and shares with the red purr all the little adventures that happen to him, and sometimes even troubles. What awaits these faithful friends?

The Weeping Song

1991 • 9 min

Short film by Reza Abdoh.

Demirkırat: Fight

1991 • 42 min

It's easy to say... After 23 years of single-party rule, Turkey decided to try democracy once again in 1946. In every attempt up to that time, the regime had been turned upside down and given up in a short time. Now a new one was coming. Would he be able to reach the multi-party regime that has been pursued since Atatürk this time? The calendar of democracy began to run on the morning of Monday, January 7, 1946. That day was a turning point in Turkish political history. The Republic of Turkey woke up with a single party in the morning, it was now multi-party...

Death was destined for all of us early... In memory of Alla Horska

1991 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Alla Horska was a Ukrainian artist of the 1960s, monumentalist painter, one of the first representatives of the underground art movement, dissident, and human rights activist of the Sixtiers movement in Ukraine. She was murdered in 1970 while under surveillance by the KGB.

Fertilization in Video

1991 • 26 min • France

Using laparoscopic instruments equipped with a camera Jocelyne Saab films the in vitro fertilization process as it takes place. Report on implant operations in a hospital.

Crab Peony

1991 • 39 min

A mother is so crazy that she doesn't even know it. Her daughter is torn between love and hatred for her mother. A red room, a woman with a harsh laugh, a woman who keeps digging in the dirt... A chain of vivid images that spreads out in a confined microcosm.

Dream Man

1991 • 57 min

The Dream Man is a successful gay phone sex host who, with his vivid powers of imaginative impersonation, tempts and delights his ardent callers. In his fantasy role, he flips between the young innocent through to the S & M master but this performance belies a life that is lonely, loveless, and filled with emotional confusion.

Shadow Forest

1991 • 5 min

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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)