All Films

The Pot

1991 • 46 min • Soviet Union

Based on Ukrainian folk tales.

The Great Satan At Large

1991 • 43 min

The Great Satan At Large was a public access TV show that lasted one unholy episode in 1991 before being canceled by the deeply offended and seriously freaked-out management of Tucson, Arizona’s channel 49. Faced with obscenity charges and the possibility of 40 years in prison, the show’s creator and diabolical host, Lou Perfidio (the Great Satan), fled Arizona with blood-hungry Feds and rabid Christian dogs nipping at his cloven hooves.

'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe

1991 • 40 min

A ballet about endangered species by David Bintley, orchestrated by Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

Demirkırat: Victory

1991 • 40 min

Societies, like people, have turning points in their histories. These milestones sometimes silently and spontaneously knock on the door, and sometimes they explode like a terrifying thunderclap. The year 1950 was such a turning point for Turkey. A simmering social reaction against 27 years of power erupted in the spring of 1950. Society has cracked its quarter-century shell. Not by shedding blood in the streets, but by voting at the ballot boxes. "Demirkırat" was reared by the general vote. That's why the 14 May 1950 elections were always called the "White Revolution"...

I Shall Never See You Again, Oh My Beloved Kampuchea

1991 • 59 min • Cambodia, North Korea

A short film, “I shall never see you again, oh my beloved Kampuchea”, was directed and scripted by the late His Majesty King Sihanouk, filmed in North Korea in 1991, depicts the Vietnamese annexation of Kampuchea Krom through the eyes of a Khmer Princes and classical dancer living in the Vietnamese palace.

Pistol Packin' Mama

1991 • 57 min

Traces the history of one B-17 in the 390th Bombardment Group from enlistment to its 25 mission tour during the grim early days of daylight bombing.

Dublin's Jim

1991 • 60 min

An Irish schoolboy, recruited on a mission funded by Rupert Murdoch, becomes the champion of a game on the other side of the world.

The Making of Monsters

1991 • 35 min • Canada

Experimental musical based on a factual incident, the beating to death of a homosexual man in Toronto, 1985, by five teenagers.

The School of Life And Fish

1991 • 5 min • Latvia

Experimental yet educative and fishy

Stories to Remember - Pegasus the Flying Horse

1991 • 25 min

Stories to Remember was a compilation of 6 animated stories made in the early 1990s.

Hotaru Kagayaku

1991 • 25 min • Japan

Chisato's journey home from Manchuria after the war. The story follows a young girl and her family as they get trapped in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War.

Going Inland

1991 • 58 min • Canada

For the Igloolik Inuit, summer is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' that is, hunting for caribou to get sufficient meat provisions for the cold winter ahead. During a summer in the 1930s, two Igloolik families go hunting, while an old couple awaits their return.

Blackwater

1991 • 5 min

Promo video for Rain Tree Crow

This Is Not Frank's Planet

1991 • 3 min

A couple of guys in a spaceship are cruising the surface of a remote planet. One guy wonders if this is indeed Frank's planet, while the other is intent upon running an errand.

Exsultate Jubilate Alleluja

1991 • 3 min • Poland

A film miniature to classical music inspired by the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Praise for the joy of life, synchronously set to the vocalization of Mozart's piece.

Ask the Goddess

1991 • 9 min

Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have submitted. A continuous relay of projected slides comprises an iconography of Goddess symbols, taboo and sacred, including images of animal attributes. Schneemann reacts spontaneously to the questions; she channels cogent answers triggered by the unpredictable images and finds herself physically activated, turning into a howling wolf or crawling across the projection area, squealing like a pig.

The Arthur Legend

1991 • 42 min • United Kingdom

Ken Loach documentary for Channel 4's Dispatches, investigating false claims of fraud and corruption during the miners' strike of '84/'85 that reared their head against Arthur Scargill in 1990.

Akihabara

1991 • 23 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Children of Chernobyl

1991 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernobyl disaster. In children, doctors witnessed a massive increase of recurrent infections, baldness, as well as leukaemia and other cancers.

Inner Fire Part 1: Gangrene

1991 • 7 min • Germany

Short film.

Fly till vatten och morgon

1991 • 21 min • Sweden

A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years.

Starlet Screen Test II

1991 • 50 min

What's it like to audition for a part in a major motion picture!? Now consider that your part involves total nudity! What's it like for the producer who is in charge of the casting session? Starlet Screen Test II features twelve beautiful models who will answer these questions and raise a few more... All captured by hidden camera!

Stubborn Elsa

1991 • 12 min • Greece

A housewife putting her husbant's cheese in a mouse trap and a razor blade in her son's food.

Stone of Expectation

1991 • 20 min • France

Is the tale of a man and a woman, both boat people, who meet in a transit refugee camp in Indonesia. Years later, they live in Paris, married with a child. One day, the husband discovers that his wife happens to be his younger sister.