All Films

Passing

1991 • 6 min • South Korea

Time goes by; the past powerfully remains as a memory in the present. The film is expressively visualized as a psychological description of the tormenting present haunted by the memory of the past. It is an act of incantation to expel the frozen memory and to escape from the melting past.

Green Bug

1991 • 41 min • Japan

A boy secluded in a green room's passion for his mother eventually drives him into a world of delusion and solitude from which there is no escape.

The Long Life of the Kos's, a Married Couple

1991 • 57 min • Yugoslavia

While expecting the imminent end of their lives, an old couple leaves their large and beautiful home to a young married couple – their doctors, who live in a single room apartment with their two children. As the olds are getting stronger by the day, one of the four decides to “take care” of that.

Richard Jeni: Crazy from the Heat

1991 • 58 min

Richard Jeni's second stand-up comedy special.

Black September in Kinshasa

1991 • 7 min • Congo

An animated documentary about children's drawings from the military pillaging that hit their community in September 1991. This short uses limited animated techniques interspersing the children's drawings with drawings from Kibushi himself.

Heritage Minutes: Peacekeepers

1991 • 1 min • Canada

Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land

1991 • 28 min • Japan

In the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and Luigi receive a postcard from Princess Peach, inviting them to join her in Dinosaur Land. The brothers then board an airplane to visit them. While on the plane, Mario tests out the Terebikko phone Luigi brought to call the viewer watching. When the plane lands on Yoshi's Island, however, they find an empty airport and are suddenly interrupted by Bowser appearing through stormy clouds in the sky. He announces he has taken Princess Peach captive and challenges the brothers to go to his castle, before disappearing. Mario and Luigi then set out, determined to rescue her.

Suitcase

1991 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A humorous and absurd cartoon about a large yellow suitcase and its owner, who sets off on a journey by train. Nothing special, just a suitcase. Everything will change, you just need to unzip it. As soon as you open it, your gaze is drawn to an extraordinary sight: an entire city is busy baking a huge cake. Based on a poem by poet Vera Linkova.

Christ Mass Sex Dance

1991 • 6 min • United States of America

This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Tenney’s electronic music track ‘Blue Suede’, is a celebration of the balletic restraints of adolescent sexuality — (shaped in this instance) by ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ of Tchaikovsky as well as the gristly roots of Elvis Presley. – S.B.

L'ozone n'a qu'une bosse

1991 • 4 min • Canada

The last film Denis Villeneuve made during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in which contestants travelled to different regions of the world to make short films about their journeys. This was presented in the Gala episode to mark the end of the program, before Villeneuve recieved his award for being the winning participant.

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School

1991 • 54 min • United States of America

Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

Possession

1991 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A tale about Jack who becomes possessed.

Cinécabot

1991 • 27 min • France

Cinécabot is a series of one shot portraits between a person and his/her dog(s) interacting together as they please.

Chojin Sentai Jetman: Jetmen Finishing Move Graffiti

1991 • 30 min • Japan

Chojin Sentai Jetman: Jetmen Finishing Move Graffiti is a Bandai VHS for Choujin Sentai Jetman.

Children's War

1991 • 52 min • Brazil

There is a silent and not officially declared war. A minefield where there is a battle of unequal forces. A combat without causes, disputes or conquests, where the combatants do not even distinguish their enemies.

Pandora's Box

1991 • 43 min • Uruguay

From an early age children are brought up very differently depending on their gender. The process of discovering the world is a veritable box of surprises in which school, the family and the media programme us about what it is to be a “good” girl or a “good” boy.

Fix-tone

1991 • 22 min • Japan

First film of Akira Hoshino's "Closed School Trilogy".

Når kassa er tom...

1991 • 27 min

Hanne and Ivar are both in the rock group Mørevox. They have difficulty getting a job.

A Revolta dos Carnudos

1991 • 16 min • Brazil

In this world of appearances, patients at a weight loss clinic revolt and decide to prove that they can be happy the way they are.

The Dwarf Tree

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Before Christmas, a curious world of elves wakes up. Snow-white elves make gifts from snow and ice. During the work, the elves themselves become colorful - their world acquires a sense of beauty and existence.

This Is Not Your Life

1991 • 16 min • Brazil

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

Hear My Cry

1991 • 43 min • Poland

The startling story of Ryszard Siwiec, a man who, on a Polish national holiday in September 1968, immolated himself in front of thousands of people in a stadium in Warsaw.

Simply Mad About the Mouse

1991 • 42 min

Simply Mad About the Mouse collects affectionate tributes to Disney's songs from artists like the Gipsy Kings, Soul II Soul, and Kirk Whalum. Bobby McFerrin's "Siamese Cat Song," En Vogue's "Someday My Prince Will Come," and Harry Connick, Jr.'s "Bare Necessities" are among the highlights of this album. Also included are Michael Bolton's cover of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and Billy Joel's "When You Wish Upon a Star.

What I Did Last Summer

1991 • 12 min

The three short, low-tech works in this compilation celebrate downtown New York nightlife at the beginning of the 1990's. Set in a New York Meat Market restaurant after hours, Butchers' Vogue features a voguing waiter and waitress, two prostitutes on the run, and a cop. In The Draglinquents, the performances of two drag queens are superimposed over cliched images and intercut with 1950's muscle-boy movies. Disco 2000 mixes footage of a crowded dance floor, homemade optical effects, and a dancing chicken. Butcher's Vogue – Choreography: Richard Move. Music: Madonna. Featuring: Connie Fleming, Gina Vetro, Rebecca Weinberg, Keoki, Joseph Lennon. The Draglinquents – Featuring: Chucky, Shuck E. Music: "Maybe" by The Three Degrees, "Travelin' Man" by Dolly Parton.