All Films

Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud (Soudan)

1991 • 4 min

This film is part of the anthology "Contre l'oubli" (Against oblivion), created for Amnesty International.

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

1991 • 60 min • Netherlands, United Kingdom

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

Fount of Wisdom

1991 • 16 min • Soviet Union

An ancient Russian town called Velikiy Guslyar is located among fields and forests on the banks of the Gus River. For some time now, space aliens have begun to appear here.

School Super Girl Team

1991 • 45 min • Japan

Three girls, who have psychic powers, found a justice supporting group called the “Gakuen Choujotai” (Academy Super Girl Team). Psychokinesist Yumi, telepathist O-Kei, and Mai, who has superhuman strength. However, they are still inexperienced in using these powers. Meanwhile, a suspicious organization, the “Psychic Power Research Society” secretly works on a method to control the students` minds. The time has come for the Academy Super Girl Team.

Yakov Smirnoff From Moscow...Idaho

1991 • 53 min • United States of America

Yakov Smirnoff TV special from Moscow, Idaho

All the best from Saara

1991 • 42 min

Saara falls in love with their employer's wife.

Sphinxes Without Secrets

1991 • 58 min • United States of America

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.

Cowboys and Angels

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

This is James Gray's student film from the University of Southern California. A private investigator who is hired to bring a man's 16-year-old runaway daughter back home has second thoughts about his job when he sees the man beat his daughter.

Le chameau blanc

1991 • 45 min • France

The legend of the Three oriental kings. Melchior, a hereditary prince of a small kingdom in Northern Persia and accompanied by his friends and mentors Gaspar and Balthazar, sets off on a long journey of initiation that will confront them with their destiny.

Vivian Stanshall: The Early Years

1991 • 20 min • United Kingdom

The great eccentric and raconteur Vivian Stanshall performs music pieces and talks to us about his early years leading up to his time in The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Following Stanshall death, this program was repeated and repackaged as 'Diamond Geezer' with a tribute at the beginning from John Peel.

The Christmas Tree

1991 • 43 min • Brazil, United States of America

Heartless Mrs. Mavilda runs an orphanage where kids live in miserable conditions because she keeps all of the donation money for herself. She hires a new assistant who, along with Santa, helps children finally have a merry Christmas.

Shock Cinema: Volume One

1991 • 60 min • United States of America

An hour-long documentary featuring interviews with various filmmakers who've made a name in the direct-to-video market.

Message to Major

1991 • 55 min

This BBC film, written and performed by South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Ulys, is a video postcard to the British Prime Minister from one Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, South African ambassador to the fictitious black homeland of Bapetikosweti. Relishing his opportunity to satirise both the new and old South Africa, Dirk Uys delivers a lesson in history

La philosophie dans le boudoir

1991 • 14 min • Belgium

Some footage and shots of expressionless actresses seen in Ravissements are repurposed in La philosophie dans le boudoir / Philosophy in the Boudoir (1991), wherein Smolders takes extracts from the Marquis De Sade’s nutbar text and applies them to scenes of a man in a prison cell, and single or groups of women often standing with the same blank expressions as the man. Perhaps to characterize De Sade’s libertine philosophy and rude text as words and ideas worthy of anyone, Smolders alternates his actors, with several men portraying (presumably) the incarcerated De Sade.

Isn't It Good Again

1991 • 3 min • United States of America

A short musical about love.

Children of Jerusalem: Tamar

1991 • 30 min

This short documentary follows 10-year-old Tamar, a resident of Jerusalem, as she recounts the experiences of her daily life in Israel. She practices her baritone tuba and attends school, the local market, and a religious youth camp. She welcomes cousins who have emigrated from Russia, and expresses her desire for peace between Jews and Arabs. The film offers a brief glimpse into the life of a child in contemporary Israel.

Virtually Yours

1991 • 3 min • United States of America

Arturo is always late, but tries to impress Lotta with his reality-bending gifts.

Reservoir Dogs

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

The One, the Only... Groucho

1991 • 58 min • United States of America

The One, the Only... Groucho is a documentary that celebrates the life and legacy of Groucho Marx, the legendary comedian, actor, gameshow host and master of quick wit.

Mines That Explode Later (Than Expected)

1991 • 27 min • Iceland

Marisa Monte: Mais

1991 • 55 min • Brazil

The documentary follows the genesis of Marisa Monte's album Mais in New York City and the subsequent tour that supported the album from 1991 to 1992.

Bernard Manning - Ungagged

1991 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Introducing Bernard Manning at his outrageous worst, shot live at his own club - the Embassy in Manchester. Hear the jokes he's never been allowed to say on television. See the bits he's never been allowed to broadcast. "Bernard Manning, Ungagged" - an hour of filthy humour, disgusting asides and scandalous jokes.

Nifradnu Kach

1991 • 27 min • Israel

While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Poland in 1937, not realizing that he would never see them again.

One on One: Arnold and Ahneva

1991 • 47 min • United States of America

Featuring Arnold and Ahneva from Wendy Clarke's One on One video series, this video dialogue deeply connects the pair through discussion of Black brother and sisterhood. The two find comfort in sharing their own creative individualities, endeavors, and dreams. Their discussion and newly formed relationship poignantly touches upon the impact of mass incarceration within the Black community.