All Films

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.

Intolerance

1991 • 35 min • Slovenia

Based upon a novel by Lela B. Njatin, an extremely fragmented piece of narrative. The film retains all characteristics of the original text, introducing the fragmentary structure both in the video image and music score. The heroine experiences only fragments of events, she gets involved in meetings which start but never end, she has wishes which are outlined, but never consumed. In the video film, all these fleeting and intolerable moments, transvestism and changes of identities are indicated with layering of visual levels and mixing of different sounds: narrations in off, dialogues, noises, radio broadcast. The delusive and ungraspable images fluctuate between reality and dreams.

Drive of '91

1991 • 59 min • Canada

A group of people from all over the globe go on a three-day expedition to retrace to brigade trail from Quilchena to Kamloops.

Banjoes, Fiddles & Riverboats: John Hartford and the General Jackson

1991 • 45 min • United States of America

Steamboatin' stories from those who lived them, river history, authentic footage and stills, along with music and narration by John Hartford.

Lorenzo’s Songbook Volume Two: The Spyglass

1991 • 37 min

The wondrous adventure continues as Mary and Mikey introduce their cousin Christina to Lorenzo, who takes us all on an exciting musical discovery of the past and of timeless principles.

Desert Tracks

1991 • 52 min

A group of white city dwellers from diverse backgrounds and four different countries spends 10 days with the Pitjantjatjara people in the middle of the Central Australian desert. They share in the nomadic Pitjantjatjara lifestyle, evolved over 40,000 years, where the essence of community and the spirit of the land bond together. These "students of life" learn how to live with the elements, how to hunt and gather food, how to cook and how to find water. They are also granted the rare privilege of being taken to sacred sites and having their significance and importance explained by the traditional owners.

Ayasofya

1991 • 27 min • Turkey

The Hagia Sophia documentary describes one of the greatest monuments in the history of world architecture, the historical, cultural and political past of a magnificent building whose history stretches right back to the 4th century.

Fire Inside

1991 • 6 min • Poland

Oral Hygiene

1991 • 3 min • United States of America

A Cal Arts stop motion short in praise of good oral hygiene.

Like Adults

1991 • 51 min • Israel

"Kemo gedolim" is a collection of well known Israeli, children songs sang by Ariḳ Ainshṭain and others. In between the songs embedded short skits starring Moni Moshonov and Tsevi Shisel , who embody two porters hauling a giant crate up a winding staircase and unexpectedly run into Ariḳ, a group of kids, jugglers, clowns and storytellers emerging from the crate. The two, try to do their job faithfully but occasionally they also try to sing, dance and play, which creates a variety of funny moments.

Madonna - The Real Story

1991 • 48 min

The unauthorized video documentary

Demirkırat: The Goverment

1991 • 40 min

The spring of 1950 was also the spring of the multi-party regime in Turkey. A new 10 years, a new regime, a new government. The first test of democracy was beginning. The National Chief of the single-party period had returned to his Pink Mansion. The address of the opposition was clear now. When it comes to power... Power was shared by a tripartite trivet from the first day: DP Group in the Parliament. Celal Bayar in the Mansion and Adnan Menderes in the Prime Ministry..

How To Cheat At Golf

1991 • 48 min

Written by Eric Sykes this is a brilliant little blast from the past with it's slapstick humour and quirky lighthearted spin on the rules of the game it guides the student right through various cheating methods from the tee to the 18th hole a must watch for any avid golfer!

Two-Faced Janus

1991 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Documentary short.

Comfortably Numb

1991 • 40 min • Israel

Sudent film by Folman where he documents his close friends taking cover on the verge of anxiety attacks during the first Gulf war while Iraqi missiles lands all over Tel Aviv.

Proust's Favorite Fantasy

1991 • 2 min • United Kingdom

The greatest author of the twentieth century finds himself in a hotel room with a gendarme and a chicken...

The Witch And The Cow

1991 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A tiny witch tries to milk an immense cow. Things get out of her control.