All Films

Formula 1

1991 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Rubik wins the race on his crumbling clunker, which he pushed to the finish line. The cube loses and kills its new car.

Son of Sam and Delilah

1991 • 27 min

New York City 1988. Raging homophobia. A killer on the loose. Disco dancing till dawn. Performers struggle to survive. Delilah seduces Samson in song. Gender illusionists go shopping. Samson and Delilah, 1991. This tape is an entertaining amalgam of cross-cut scenes featuring New York performance luminaries including John Kelly, Hapi Phace and DANCENOISE. It is a dark vision of an America where life is cheap and even the moments of tenderness have a life threatening edge.

Broken Meat

1991 • 50 min • United States of America

A trip along the seamy edges of New York City and a voyage through the consciousness of the mad beat poet Alan Granville. “Broken Meat” captures Alan’s New York, stripped of its glittering surface: a strange, deserted place.

Kamen Rider: Old No. 1 Edition

1991 • 28 min • Japan

A cheap but charming homage to Showa era Kamen Rider.

Richard Burton's Christmas Story

1991 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Richie lives in a mining village, is disturbed by the mysterious absence of Cis, his sister-mother, and is being teased mercilessly by his friend Trevor about whether or not his Christmas present will be new or second-hand. Trevor, the elder of the two, knows that poor people get little that is sparkling new, that adults lie and that death is ever present. However, despite Richie’s fears, life triumphs, illuminating the winter darkness with joy.

The final one is Violence Jack!

1991 • 45 min • Japan

Memorable characters from Go Nagai's most beloved works try and find their way back from a super-deformed world into the real world.

The State of Lettuce

1991 • 11 min • Israel

One weird guy, accompanied by his ambitious neighbor exterminating some aphids.

Butoh: Piercing the Mask

1991 • 49 min • Australia, Japan

This documentary pierces the mystery and mystique of a dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by the Japanese. It uses archival and modern footage of leading Butoh performers and interviews Butoh specialists to throw light on the essential Butoh themes of darkness, violence and eroticism to get to the core of the nature of Butoh.

Hole: Live at The Lemon Grove (Exeter, 1991)

1991 • 46 min

Hole's performance at The Lemon Grove on 11 December 1991. The first show where Courtney teased Surrender by Cheap Trick. It recurred throughout the rest of 1991.

Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

1991 • 53 min • United Kingdom

The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.

Last Breeze of Summer

1991 • 30 min

In this coming-of-age story, Lizzy Davis, a young Black school principal, reminisces about her adolescence in Ranford, Texas in 1957.

Sabbath

1991 • 10 min • Switzerland

A dream-like version of the Sabbath in the Middle Ages: one night at full moon, the women leave home to meet with the devil in the woods. Several orgiastic ceremonies later, they all return home at cockcrow. All except for one, the youngest, who is under an evil spell.

Bossy Burger

1991 • 59 min

Paul McCarthy, with the mask of Mad Magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, prepares a meal – makes a mess – in the set of the America soap ‘Family Affair’.

Bad News Bachelors

1991 • 26 min

Set in Sydney, this short film follows thirty-something Stuart as he roams the city's cafes, bars and cruising areas looking for a man to love but finding only sex with a series of likeable men - none of whom offer the likelihood of a relationship.

Chiyonofuji - The Way of the Wolf

1991 • 55 min

A documentary chronicling the life and career of the legendary Yokozuna, Chiyonofuji.

Purple Triangles

1991 • 25 min • United States of America

A documentary released on DVD alongside the related documentary "Faithful Under Trials—Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union"

Nosferatu

1991 • 2 min

An experimental short film which aired on MTV and PBS

Stone Stories

1991 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Stone Stories is a collection of short animations about the stone structure. Follow the stories to see how the stones found their dictator and how a bohatyr couldn’t read inscriptions of the stones.

The Cu Chi Tunnels

1991 • 59 min

During the war in Vietnam, thousands of people in the Vietnamese province of Cu Chi lived in an elaborate system of underground tunnels. THE CU CHI TUNNELS is the story of life underground told by the people who lived the experience.

Als es noch Wassermänner gab...

1991 • 26 min • East Germany, Germany

A film using the famous stop-motion technique well known from the Sandmännchen. It's based on a Sorbic tale of young Hanka who lives in a village. She is very beautiful and does not work. Secretly in love with Jan, she turns down all other men trying to marry her. Jan, however, is poor, so she turns him down. Jan asks the Water Spirit for help. The spirit proposes to Jana but then shows her that Jan is the right guy for her.

Dreadlocks and the Three Big Bears

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

The story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is told from an African American perspective in this short film written and produced by Alile Sharon Larkin.

The Pool

1991 • 10 min

A woman stands in the deep end of an empty and disused swimming pool. She wipes her face and stomach with her hands to clean away blood. She places her hands on the outstretched arm of a man who lifts her into the air and catches her where she falls. An eel swims, its gills flutter, opening and closing with the sound. The woman settle the eel in her arms and holds it against the body. When she swims she breathes out underwater.

The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event

1991 • 50 min • United Kingdom

1. The Main Event - What are PanoptiCons like to organise? What do the fans think of them? What do the stars think of the fans? All this, and there’s still time for a liberal sprinkling of stories from the production team! However, you’ll see lots of other personalities from other eras as we stop along the way to look at particular aspects of the programme.

Plein Air

1991 • 21 min

This abstract travelogue flies just over the surface of the Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario. "Plein Air" is an engrossing sonic and visual trip and a continuation of Kerr's fascination with landscape cinema.