All Films

Gastronomic Getaway

1991 • 14 min

Writes Kuchar, "The magnificent Mono Lake becomes the centerpiece for this car trip through Yosemite National Park and the splendors of roadside pastry. Majestic mineral deposits rise from the salt laden waters as the bloated and bulimic revel in nature's nutrients."

Scarlet Droppings

1991 • 15 min

Taped in Normal, Illinois, during the height of autumn, a snapshot of a young girl triggers a meditation on dying innocence and sizzling sausages as a low, winter sun ignites the smoke of greasy longings and meat-eating hunger.

Kekko Kamen

1991 • 60 min • Japan

Kekko Kamen, the fearless heroine who wears red boots, a red mask, and nothing else, she has an uncanny way of destroying her opponents by stunning them with her private parts and proceeding to kick their butts.

Suspect

1991 • 12 min • United States of America

A young white woman leaving a nightclub alone drops her cigarette lighter on the street. When a young black man follows her and attempts to return it, she panics and assumes he is attacking her. The ensuing chase threatens to erupt into violence.

Crying Freeman 4: A Taste of Revenge

1991 • 50 min • Japan

Naitai, the evil head of the Great Bear God religion, hatches a plot to destroy the 108 Dragons. His henchman, Oshu Togoku, the world wrestling champion, squeezes Ron Tayan unconscious in a match; the ambulance taking Ron to hospital is actually driven by Kimie, one of Ron's old enemies. She takes him to Naitai's stronghold where he has prepared a clone of Ron whom he intends to send, like a Trojan horse, onto the yacht of the 108 Dragons. Can Ron foil the plot? Will Fu recognize the clone or be fooled? What of Oshu Togoku, can anyone defeat him? And who, or what, can stand up to Naitai's sorcery?

Christmas in January

1991 • 45 min • Japan

Based on one of Iwadate Mariko's short stories appearing in the shoujo manga monthly magazine Margaret. This is a character study of a rather traumatized young woman who develops a crush on a man who lives next door to her.

Walker

1991 • 14 min • Canada

Walker is a young Aboriginal foster child whose only playmate is his dog. Jamie is a lonely young white boy who is afraid of dogs, and has some strange ideas about Aboriginal people. Walker ignores the racist jeering and taunting of the bigger boys and reaches out to Jamie. Together, they find friendship and understanding. Walker challenges racist attitudes toward Aboriginal people, and shows how children from different backgrounds can form friendships. This film is part of the Playing Fair series.

Father Christmas

1991 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Classic animation based on Raymond Briggs' book. What does Father Christmas do with himself for the other 364 days of the year ?

The Comb

1991 • 18 min • United Kingdom

A porcelain doll’s explorations of a dreamer’s imagination.

Musha, Knight, Commando: SD Gundam Emergency Sortie

1991 • 15 min • Japan

Musha, Knight, Commando: SD Gundam Emergency Sortie, features the three Gundams and a young girl named Riplin joining together to fight evil. (Source: myanimelist.net)

Session Man

1991 • 31 min • United States of America

When personal and creative differences threaten to destroy a musical supergroup during the recording of an album, studio guitar player McQueen is brought in to smooth out the tracks. Soon he is reconsidering the direction of his life as he dreams of the elusive brass ring.

Nanny

1991 • 28 min • Philippines

After moving into a new house, a mother and her daughter become concerned something is in the house with them when they find their housekeeper scared out of her mind and raving about the grandchild not being safe.

I am the Mighty Mazinger Z!

1991 • 45 min • Japan

Various characters from Go Nagai works including Devil Man, Mazinger, and Violence Jack, become trapped in a parody world where they all be come super deformed. They get trapped in this mishmash, fighting each other and are trying to figure a way back to their own world.

American Nightmare

1991 • 3 min

A video full of swastikas, human skulls on American flag backdrops, girls frenching on department store mannequins and burning themselves with candles, military helmets and clomping boots, dudes masturbating under crucifixes, and a bunch of crotches.

The Sandman

1991 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A young child and his mother face a visit from the terrifying sandman.

Werner Tübke

1991 • 54 min

Step right up into the world of Werner Tübke! The painter and illustrator from Leipzig created fantastical imagery, replete with virtuosity and a love of storytelling. In the style of the old masters, he transformed the everyday and the political into something that transcends time, and in that way developed his own distinct, anachronistic viewpoint. As a co-founder of the Leipziger Schule, Tübke paved the way for a figurative art, which has earned him international recognition since the 1970s. Reiner E. Moritz met with the GDR’s extravagant prince of painting in his studio and accompanied him at work on his showpiece, the German Peasants' War panorama in Bad Frankenhausen.

Strings

1991 • 10 min • Canada

This film explores the distant relationship between an elderly amateur musician, the woman who lives in the apartment above him, and the leaky bathtub that is bothering them both.

Runaway Ralph

1991 • 42 min • United States of America

Join Ralph on a string of adventures after he runs away from home at the Mountain View Inn, and makes a new friend.

Stribor's Forest

1991 • 34 min • Yugoslavia

After a young man marries a serpent disguised as a human woman., his elderly mother ventures out into the nearby forest to ask the ancient Slavic god Stribor for assistance in curing him of the demon's spells.

Dr. Typhoon

1991 • 46 min • Japan

Based on a seinen manga written by Takahashi Michitsuna and illustrated by Kazama Eiji, serialised in Weekly Manga Action.

Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug

1991 • 52 min • Japan

A Super Namekian named Slug comes to invade Earth. But the Z Warriors do their best to stop Slug and his gang.

Burn Up

1991 • 46 min • Japan

To the unsuspecting eye Maki, Reimi and Yuka may not look like ace crime fighters, which might explain why they're stuck on traffic patrol instead of more "exciting" police duties. All that changes when Yuka gets herself kidnapped by a white slave organization run by a politically connected businessman who's got the rest of the police cowed. Now it's up to Maki and Reimi to don skin-tight battle armor, liberate a tank, and make sure that a certain slaver learns that when you play with fire, you're going to get your ass burned!

Monzetsu OL: Ijô na Zengi

1991 • 60 min

Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge

1991 • 48 min • Japan

After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.