All Films

Jim Carrey: Unnatural Act

1991 • 47 min • Canada

Jim explores multiple aspects of life including religion, marriage and his own sanity. This stand-up special was taped at Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada, in front of a live audience.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1991 • 49 min • Australia

During a walk in the woods, Goldilocks comes to a house where they live three bears, which spend a wonderful day and fun. Days later discovers to her horror that the three bears have been chained and forced to work in a circus. Goldilocks, with the help of Bongo and other animals in the circus, it helps the bears to return home.

Blackfly

1991 • 5 min • Canada

A young surveyer, new to Ontario, encounters the blackflies. Over and over again, he encounters those blackflies.

Secret Joy of Falling Angels

1991 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A re-telling of the annunciation story which blurs the sacred and the profane. The film combines many different optical film techniques with an exploration of drawing the human body which breeds Mickey Mouse with Michelangelo.

Papers.

1991 • 3 min • Japan

Abstract animation by Satoh Yoshinao, assembled from newspapers.

Chuck Amuck: The Movie

1991 • 51 min • United States of America

Chuck Amuck: The Movie is a 1991 documentary film about Chuck Jones' career with Warner Bros., centered on his work with Looney Tunes; narrated by Dick Vosburgh.

Birth, Love and Farewell

1991 • 12 min • Philippines

Experimental essay film.

When It Was a Game

1991 • 57 min • United States of America

As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the story of America's favorite pastime from the Depression to the 1950s, using footage shot from the movie cameras of fans and players. From the first color filming of a baseball game to the 1938 World Series and through the careers of legends such as Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, the film thoroughly explores the history of baseball in America.

Fright-Muzzles

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Three short animated "horror" miniatures. The first is about a piece of meat, which in ordinary Soviet cuisine is chased by hands, wanting to make minced meat out of it. The second is about a guest from unknown worlds who came to Earth at night. The third is about Kolobok trying to devour starving animals on its way.

A Dream of the Mediterranean

1991 • 42 min • Finland

A documentary about Göran Schildt and his relationship with the Mediterranean.

The Count of Monte Cristo

1991 • 50 min

Accused of a crime by friends false traitors, Edmundo Dantes spends 14 years in prison impregnable. After achieving escape from prison, Dantes is passed by the imaginary Count of Monte Cristo that dazzles everyone with her fabulous emerald. His greatest desire is to get revenge on those who took him to prison and have provechado the whole time of their possessions and wealth.

Live Undead

1991 • 21 min • United States of America

Two misfits are resurrected by the spawn of Satan! Teenage undead embark on a Satanic killing spree!

The Smashing Pumpkins: Rhinoceros

1991 • 6 min

The Smashing Pumpkins perform in the music video "Rhinoceros" from the album "Gish" recorded for Caroline and Virgin Records. The music video begins with the burning flame of a sparkler. The band sits in a room painted red. Billy Corgan sings with the camera on his face as the band plays. Shots of the band near a fountain and in a park feature throughout.

Thomas Sankara

1991 • 26 min • Congo

Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profile of the revolutionary, the improvements he generated in his country and the new socio-political dimension he instituted in Burkina Faso.

Push Comes to Shove

1991 • 6 min • United States of America

It's the little things that really hurt.

VIDEO KISSxxxx

1991 • 25 min • Japan

An experimental short film based on Maki Kusumoto’s KISS XXXX. Released in February 1991, this visually driven work features musical contributions from the underground Japanese bands Katsurei, Sakana, and dip the flag. Fusing Kusumoto’s signature gothic-romantic aesthetic with atmospheric soundscapes, the film stands as a rare artifact of Japan’s early ’90s avant-garde scene.

Where Has All the Pollution Gone?

1991 • 47 min • Japan

Where Has All The Pollution Gone? exposes air pollution caused by Japan’s largest Kawasaki Steel Corp. on a scale of ten times the size of Disneyland. Since the steelworks started running, almost every local resident has been suffering from severe asthma which resulted in a 17-year long court battle with the company. Filmmaker KORE-EDA Hirokazu traces one civil servant’s involvement in the growth of pollution administration that took place during the height of Japan’s economic surge in the 60s and discloses the connection between air pollution and state policy.

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

1991 • 27 min • United States of America

Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in hopes of landing a role in the new Disney movie, Newsies. Unfortunately director Kenny Ortega quickly dismisses Mr. Knotts and has him thrown off the lot. Mr. Knotts is quite upset by the turn of events, so decides to go on a killing spree, believing that if he can't have a role in the movie no one can. He knocks off one newsie after the next, each in a different and unique way.

A Song for Epirus

1991 • 33 min • Greece

Epirus, province of Pogoni, on the borderline with Albania. Emigration and a sense of death scattered in the air, in the light. Few are left. Human figures that look as if they were part of the landscape. In a place surrounded by mountains: polyphonic songs. The silences, the pauses between the voices and the music that stream out of the soil. Through the cross of personal voices, that of parti, giristi, klosti and isocrati, a collective harmony emerges. The film strives to grasp the rhythm of the soul of Epirus.

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Sex Offender

1991 • 26 min • United States of America

An experimental short film about phone sex workers.

Vangelis – Eureka (Live at Rotterdam, 1991)

1991 • 51 min

This comes from a rare DVD from the Eureka concert, performed by Vangelis at the docks in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 18th July 1991. A floating stage was made for Vangelis with his synths and the choir, surrounded by Greek ornaments. Buildings and boats around were animated by projections of colors and lasera animation. Unfortunately, this appears to be a “finger-sync” style performance. The way the video is edited, too, there frequently seems to be no connection between what Vangelis is doing and the music. Jon Anderson appeared as guest for the track "Italian Song" and Markella Hatziano appeared for "Glorianna".

Land Where My Fathers Died

1991 • 21 min • United States of America

When a fiercely independent young African American woman and her nouveau-nationalist photographer boyfriend decide to visit the father she hasn't seen in years, the tragicomic reunion shatters her illusions and provokes the two lovers to reveal that they are both the wounded children of alcoholics. The revelation changes their perception of themselves and each other and serves as a springboard to a new way of relating. This award winning short narrative co-stars Daresha Kyi and Isaiah Washington in his first film.

Original Beats

1991 • 28 min • United States of America

Original Beats is a short documentary film by Francois Bernadi on Gregory Corso and Herbert Huncke. A fascinating and informative portrait on the eldest and the youngest of the original Beats, filmed shortly before Huncke's death in 1996.

Dancing Outlaw

1991 • 28 min • United States of America

This documentary short, produced for West Virginia public TV's "Different Drummer" series, introduces us to Jesco White, a hard-living, tap-dancing Boone County resident whose repeated run-ins with the law have interfered with his dream of becoming as renowned a "mountain dancer" as his late father, D. Ray White. We meet Jesco's three distinct personalities; the gentle and loving Jesse, the violent and dangerous Jesco, and the extremely strange Elvis. We also encounter various members of Jesco's family, all nearly as eccentric as Jesco himself. You will ask, "Are these people for real?" Yes, they are.