All Films

Unknown Child

1991 • 24 min • Japan

Businessman Yohei Kogure is being treated for a psychosomatic disorder. He's forgetful and regularly dreams about a girl who he believes to be his daughter.

The Smashing Pumpkins: Siva

1991 • 5 min

The Smashing Pumpkins performs in the music video "Siva" from the album "Gish" recorded for Caroline and Virgin Records. The music video begins with flashing images of a toy and D'arcy Wretzky being submerged in a bathtub. Smashing Pumpkins perform in front of run down concrete wall with Billy Corgan singing.

The Secret of the Unicorn

1991 • 44 min • Belgium, Canada, France

Tintin buys an old model ship at a flea market as a gift for Captain Haddock, who tells him about the exploits of a famous ancestor related to it. Then, Tintin learns that it is not an ordinary model ship.

Once Upon a School Night

1991 • 47 min • Canada

Two children find themselves trapped in their school, the day before Christmas Eve. Their vigilance and resourcefulness are no match for the locked doors, barred windows and the snowstorm that, by causing a power outage, deprives them of light and heat. Worried, frozen, hungry, they confront each other, support each other, console each other in order to overcome their fear. More than courage, it is the discovery of solidarity that will allow them to emerge stronger from this journey to the end of the night.

The Uninvited Guest

1991 • 22 min • Czechoslovakia

A run-of-the-mill family is terrorized by strangers dressed in military garb who invade their private realm.

Danchizuma: Kahanshin ijime

1991 • 59 min • Japan

"Apartment Wife" pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu

Thrill Kill Video Club

1991 • 48 min

Four bored serial killers turn to shooting snuff movies and the Thrill Kill Video Club is born. Enter their looney upside down world of comedy, carnage, laughter and mayhem.

Benny's Biggest Battle

1991 • 24 min • United States of America

The Conductor assigns Benny the Bear to take care of the Music Machine. However, because he lacks self-control, Benny disappears to find some honey and leaves the Music Machine unattended. Will Benny's enormous appetite for honey endanger Agapeland and help Mr. Pimms wreck the Music Machine forever?

Ake & Ch

1991 • 2 min • United States of America

Words that end in -ake and start with ch-. A typographic animation.

Dragon Fist

1991 • 40 min • Japan

Born as an aberration different from the expectations of a chief's son, Fei Long has been ostracized by his own people. To prepare for his destined future role as chief of his clan, Fei Long is sent to Japan to complete his schooling and gain experience mingling with humans. In Japan, he discovers not everything is simple.

Twilight Narcy 2

1991 • 60 min • Japan

Painter Haruhiko returned from Paris for the first time in a while to hold his solo exhibition. There, he sees Shinji, who looks exactly like Shingo, his old lover who passed away. Shinji turns out to be Shingo's younger brother. Shinji secretly read his brother's diary and learned about Haruhiko's relationship with his brother. Haruhiko becomes conscious of Shinji while immersing himself in the memories of those days, but Shinji has a girlfriend, Azusa. Shinji wants to know more about his older brother when he was alive, so he promises to meet Haruhiko again at a later date, and they part ways. The sequel to "Twilight Narcy."

Forgive Us Our Debts

1991 • 30 min • United States of America

Forgive Us Our Debts combines a classic parable with the teachings of Jesus to His disciples. Jesus teaches that forgiveness comes from God as He instructs Peter to catch a fish that contains a coin to pay Peter's debt. Jesus also teaches about a man who is forgiven by his king of an enormous debt. Yet, the forgiven man leaves and immediately casts a man, who owes him almost nothing, into prison. The king then rescinds his forgiveness. To receive forgiveness we must also forgive.

Voices That Care

1991 • 27 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".

Wild Blade

1991 • 53 min

The bisexual widow of a sleazy comedian discovers that he too had an affair. His was with a deaf rent boy.

Samurider: Nazo no Tenkousei

1991 • 50 min • Japan

Based on the manga by Shinichi Sugimura published in Young Magazine. In a combination of samurai movie and Bomber Bikers of Shonan, Tokyo street punk Masao buys a treasured FZR "katana" motorcycle and becomes a knight of the road, attacking criminals with a genuine katana sword.

Notebook

1991 • 5 min • United States of America

Early Lee Ranaldo short film with spoken word narration. Utilizes some of the same Sonic Youth tour footage as the ‘TeenAge Riot’ video.

The Black Island

1991 • 42 min • Belgium, Canada, France

Tintin is out on a peaceful walk. But the comfortable atmosphere will not last long. When an aircraft with an engine failure lands, Tintin does his part to help, but he is shot and ends up in hospital.

The Kingdom of Heaven

1991 • 30 min • United States of America

The Kingdom of Heaven is a series of short stories called parables. As Jesus teaches the people each parable, some begin to understand what the “Kingdom of Heaven” is like. Some have “ears that will not hear” and are not willing to become followers of the Savior. At the Second Coming they will not be counted as His own.

Drink Deep

1991 • 10 min

Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship, hidden secrets, and desires. Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered composition. Beautiful shades of grey, silver, black and blue echo the water, reminiscent of early photography and silverprints. Cohen says, "The piece was constructed primarily from footage I’d shot of skinnydippers at swimming holes in Georgia and rural Pennsylvania. It’s about water and memory and stories just submerged. It is also, in part, a response to thinking about censorship. I would say that Drink Deep is both unabashedly and deceptively romantic. Surface, flow, and undertow. What looks like paradise is always paradise lost."

Daikyonyû: Kaikan shibori

1991 • 56 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces

What Is Happiness?

1991 • 15 min • Japan

Based on a series of books authored by Ryuho Ookawa. Alto is going home from school, when he finds a girl who calls herself an angel.

Ninja Gaiden

1991 • 50 min • Japan

A long time ago, there was a war between the Evil God and the Dragon God. The war finally came to an end when a Dragon Ninja, who had the power of the Dragon God, sealed away the Evil God.Several thousand years later, in New York, a young ninja named Ryu is attacked by a couple of men in black suits wearing white masks. He notices that they are related to someone worshiping the same Evil God of the past and resolves to fight against them before the Evil God is unsealed again.

Garfield Gets a Life

1991 • 22 min • United States of America

Garfield and his owner, Jon Arbuckle, are in a rut. Life for them is a complete bore. They both need a life. Jon tries several unsuccessful times to get a date. Then he attends a class for the personality impaired where he meets a young woman and all seems to be great for Jon, but Garfield starts to feel neglected and left out.

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Sen no Maki

1991 • 50 min • Japan

Horror film released in 1991.