All Films

A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings

1991 • 50 min

Could George Bush be bringing us to war with Saddam Hussein for oil? Peter Jennings investigates.

Hader fürs Heim

1991 • 40 min • Austria

Josef Hader's first television broadcast, a mix of absurd scenes with Maria Hofstätter and Alfred Dorfer and a recording from the Vindobona cabaret from 1990.

For a Rainy Day

1991 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Thanks to the curly-haired hedgehog, beauty, harmony and good relations that were lost return to the forest.

Anonymous

1991 • 57 min • Sweden

A container with stuff from a cleaned out apartment in Stockholm drives the cineaste to look for their owners. In the course of this quest, he meets the actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård and the author Stieg Larsson. The desire to give meaning where perhaps there is none.

Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box

1991 • 21 min • United States of America

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race. During the 1950s and '60s she toured the black theater circuit as a mistress of ceremonies and the sole male impersonator of the legendary Jewel Box Revue, America’s first integrated female impersonation show and forerunner of La Cage aux Folles.

Lessons from a Calf

1991 • 47 min • Japan

An elementary school in Japan begins an experimental program that frames the students' curriculum around one single project: the raising of a calf from adolescence to adulthood. Through their work with the calf, the students learn about math, biology, nutrition and numerous other subjects. But after multiple years of investing energy and emotion into their beloved pet, the students begin to realize that the final days of their project may provide them with the hardest and most important lesson of all.

Mister Pronka

1991 • 27 min • Soviet Union

A rich American comes to Russia with a task from the government to convert some Russians to the "American faith". The American finds a ragged man named Pronka in the marketplace and makes a bet with him: he gives Pronka money and the opportunity to trade, and if he does not wash for 15 years, Pronka can take all the income for himself.

Evolution's End?

1991 • 60 min • United States of America

A galvanizing indictment of how we are sabotaging our children's development and our society's future that will transform the way we think about our families, schools, and lives.

Real Mature

1991 • 30 min

A kids-themed sketch comedy show with wacky themes and a different guest on each episode.

The Three Little Pigs

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

Three pig brothers set out on their own, but only one manages to survive his encounters with a hungry wolf. Based on the children's book by James Marshall.

Aliens' First Christmas

1991 • 23 min • United States of America

Christmas comes to the Cosmos when Roger and Fran Peoples and their son Benny try to celebrate the holidays in their new home on the planet Zolognia. Everything seems to go wrong until their alien neighbors, the Zox's step in to help. Misunderstanding just about everything about Christmas, Charlick and Mavo add bizarre and funny twists to old Yuletide traditions, and find out that in the end, that it's truly the thought that counts.

All Women Are Named Kiki

1991 • 23 min • Yugoslavia

Plot is about a man who’s been in his apartment ever since his wife left him. Evening after evening he’s getting drunk and calls a hot line girl called Kiki... Srdjan Dragojevic's student film.

Wedding Anniversary

1991 • 10 min • United States of America

A husband decides to give an original gift to his wife.

The Tie

1991 • 50 min • Greece

Panayotis gambles his way out of his village near Sparta. Anthony escapes his English stately home. They meet in nighttime London, during a bloody fight. Together, they discover a new way of life.

Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

80-year-old Julie Lyon, sister of Old Time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, lights up this gem of a film as she spins tales of her Appalachian childhood in North Carolina - and her first romance.

Cinéastes de notre temps : Souleymane Cissé

1991 • 53 min • France

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé reveals his passion for cinema, Africa and the world to Cambodian director Rithy Panh.

Bolo! Bolo!

1991 • 30 min

The response of diasporic South Asian communities to the AIDS crisis is documented through interviews, information and a weaving of images. At the core of the videotape are the testimonials of artists and activists... gay, lesbian and straight; to the barriers and successes of organizing around AIDS. Photographer Sunil Gupta and professor & activist Himani Bannerji are amongst the interviewed subjects.

Who Are You, Madame Blavatsky?

1991 • 49 min • Soviet Union

A drama documentary about Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), a Russian occultist, spirit medium, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

Lair of the Bondage Bandits

1991 • 58 min

Two tourists are captured by an underground BDSM gang called the Bondage Bandits. The women endure terrible tortures and humiliations at the hands of a sadistic bondage mistress. Can the women escape their carnal bondage, or will they become another forgotten victim inside the lair of the bondage bandits?

Der Wolf und die sieben Geißlein

1991 • 10 min • Germany

Despite the mother goat's warning, the little goats fall for the wolf's tricks, open the door and all but one are eaten. The mother finds her last child, takes heart and approaches the sleeping wolf. She frees her children from its belly. The beast gets a load of stones sewn into its stomach and falls into the well while drinking.

A Period Piece

1991 • 4 min

In this video work, Zeinabu irene Davis and collaborator Quinta Seward perform a comic rap (old-school style) about the false promises in ads for feminine hygiene products. Lampooning the classic embarrassing scenarios (getting your period at the prom, exercise class or walking down the aisle), the rap’s feminist refrain reminds us that “confidence” comes from within, not from a box or tube. —Jacqueline Stewart

Devil's Mine Ride

1991 • 4 min • United States of America

Computer animated mine cart ride. Originally produced in 60fps 70mm film, Devil's Mine Ride showed in ShowScan motion simulator rides.

The Linen

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A subdued observation of daily life in a children's hospital. The driver of a delivery van regularly delivers clean linen to the wards where small, tense dramas of life and death are played out.

Tin Toys Knick Knacks & Algorithms

1991 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Early Pixar documentary where John Lasseter talks through early Pixar shorts Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy, and Knick Knack.