All Films

The Hawk

1991 • 50 min

Doug Hawkins IS Footscray! The man who has had an entire wing at the Western Oval lovingly named after him by the loyal Footscray supporters has, for over a decade, been the lifeblood of the Western suburbs club.

Remember Africville

1991 • 35 min • Canada

This short film depicts Africville, a small black settlement that lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. More than 20 years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.

In Passing

1991 • 19 min • Canada

A visitor to a conference in Montreal arrives at the airport and has a strange experience with the customs officer. Short film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, as part of the Montreal vu par... anthology.

Olim

1991 • 12 min

The Olim - Soviet Jews who opted to go to Israel - are committing suicide in their promised land.

Armageddon: The Future of the Planet is at Stake

1991 • 48 min • United States of America

The Future of the Planet is at stake by biblical brophecy to spaceborn calamity.

Like Happiness

1991 • 20 min

1991 short film

Tout l'amour

1991 • 3 min • Belgium

Illustration of the song 'Tout l'amour' performed by Dario Moreno.

Demirkırat: Island

1991 • 53 min • Turkey

It is a famous saying: "One can come to power with a bayonet, but not sit on it." The organization, which carried out 27 May, came to power with a bayonet. Moreover, these young officers seized power that night by breaking the traditional chain of command. In the morning, a 10-year DP period was over, the support of the public was gained at first hand, and a brand new phase was reached. Now, the days that would mark the future of Turkey were beginning. Now, as those days put it, the "second republic period" was beginning.

Pumpkinman

1991 • 11 min

A ghastly pumpkinman terrorizes two athletic men in their backyard.

O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo

1991 • 4 min • Brazil

Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil.

Sheep

1991 • 7 min • Canada

A man counting sheep as he sleeps. I have never seen sheep as I sleep. The sheep relax the man, he falls into a deep sleep. You are wide awake, moving through the man, maybe sleeping counting sheep. The alchemy, the dream, the scene. (CB)

Art in an Age of Mass Culture

1991 • 31 min • United States of America

Art in an Age of Mass Culture pulls back the curtain and takes a look at the cultural climate surrounding MoMA's now famed exhibition, "High and Low: High Art and Popular Culture". Opening in the fall of 1990, the show placed a spotlight on the rapid merging of consumerism and the artistic avant-garde. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik and featuring work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein, "High and Low" ignites conversations of mass culture and our society's ever-changing relationship with the arts.

Miller Meets Mandela

1991 • 60 min

For the first time since his release from 27 years of imprisonment Nelson Mandela opens up about his life and the turbulent times he's faced in this momentous, in-depth and revealing interview with Arthur Miller. From the intimate setting at his home in Soweto, South Africa, Mandela discusses the popularity and rise to power of the ANC movement and the pivotal role it played in the overthrow of the Apartheid regime. Plus he shares his thoughts on the future of South Africa, exploring both his hopes and fears in relation to the political, social and economic prospects of the country, putting particular emphasis on his 'Freedom Charter' - his personal vision for South Africa.

Masters of Illusion

1991 • 29 min

This exploration of visual illusions, explained by James Burke in the context of its discovery by the Renaissance masters, and now used by Hollywood special effects wizards is certainly of the most valuable and entertaining educational videos ever produced. If you teach art or film, or if you are a student of any age, your education is incomplete unless you have seen this film. Works of Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Botticelli, Rapheal and others are used to illustrate the technical and artistic achievements of the Renaissance, but within a very contemporary context of how we see the world in reality or artificial illusion. This is about the discovery of how to make a two dimensional image appear in three dimensions through an understanding of light, shadow, color, and vanishing point perspective.

Warren

1991 • 3 min • United States of America

In Warren, Scher turns the table on his former teacher and mentor, creating an intimate dialogue between friends as well as a battle of directorial wills, at a moment when Scher recognized that Sonbert was becoming ill.

Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker

1991 • 50 min

Away from the cameras, Tom can be both reclusive and elusive and finding out about the man behind the myth can prove extremely difficult. Until now! In this unique production, ten years after he left the show, Tom agreed to give us his view of tom Baker. Shot on location in and around his home and filled with Tom’s views on Doctor Who, life and (more importantly) death, it could be called an autobiography, but it’s a whole lot more than that!

3 Joes

1991 • 27 min

On a summer morning, three young men named Joe have a go at doing a bit of housework.

Barney in Concert

1991 • 45 min

taped at the Majestic Theatre, Barney and the Backyard Gang along with a new friend Baby Bop sing classic songs and dance along.

Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs

1991 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Jeff Foxworthy: You Might Be a Redneck if...

1991 • 30 min • United States of America

Jeff Foxworthy's observations have made him one of America's favorite comedians. He's the bestselling comedy recording artist in history, a multiple Grammy Award nominee, a bestselling author and a popular TV, radio, and film performer. Now you can see this outrageously funny comedian talking about life, dating, marriage, and family in the classic You Might be a Redneck If. (filmed in 1991)

Monodramas

1991 • 8 min

Douglas’s Monodramas, ten 30- to 60-second videos conceived as interventions into commercial television, interrupted the usual flow of advertising and entertainment when broadcast nightly in British Columbia for three weeks in 1992. These micronarratives mimic television’s editing techniques, but as kernels of a story they refuse to cohere. They are tales of dysfunction and dislocation, misanthropy and misunderstanding: a car and a school bus nearly collide at an intersection, only to drive away; a pedestrian greets an Afro-Canadian man he encounters on the street but is told in response, “I’m not Gary.” When the videos were aired unannounced during commercial breaks, viewers called the station to inquire about what was being sold, their responses evincing how the media can refocus attention from content to consumption.

Phantoms of White Nights

1991 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Black people, red dwarfs, idols on bronze steeds, shadow of geniuses and heroes. This is not story about Hades from an ancient history textbook. This is Sankt-Petersburg In mystical literary tradition such as he is. A pomposity, an open space and - deathness. There is no gleam in the sky, Neva looked like poured by a lead, a crude air presses and can not pass through lungs, which are already struck by bacillus Kochii, and there are around ominous frights, threatening to punish for an unknown offence. And even white nights are bad. It looks as if you can meet phantom of a Poet which was tortured at thirtieth years of any of the last centuries. Be careful with monuments. They fond of walk along town quays (as told us Poushkin - he brings luck!). And do not trust this Neva prospectus. City - phantom, evolved from a bog which is refuge of evil spirits. Brilliant St.-Petersburg.

Magicians of the Earth: Kings of the Water

1991 • 57 min • Spain, Benin

Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints the religious houses of the vodun. Haas and his film crew follow Cyprien as he first paints and then takes part in the ceremony to open a new temple. The paintings include three vodun figures and several emblems, including a pipe and a duck. Cyprien explains his work in the context of the religion and takes the crew to film two other local ceremonies, one where the dead are believed to come back to instruct the living through wild dancing and, another, where women warriors perform their war dances.

Miles Davis: Miles Davis and Friends in Paris 1991

1991 • 50 min • France

Miles Davis Band, "La Grande Halle De La Villette", Paris, France, July 10, 1991 , Miles Davis (tp) Bill Evans (ss) Kenny Garrett, Jackie McLean (as) Steve Grossman (ts) Chick Corea (el-p) Deron Johnson (syn) John McLaughlin, John Scofield (el-g) Joe "Foley" McCreary (lead b) Dave Holland (b) Darryl Jones, Richard Patterson (el-b) Al Foster, Ricky Wellman (d)