All Films

Dawn of the Dogfight (Air Battle)

1990 • 50 min

Through engrossing recollections from surviving pilots and a wealth of historical footage, Aviation Week brings the fascinating evolution of air-to-air combat to life as it chronicles the battles and the men who defined air combat tactics. Battles from WWI through Vietnam.

A Legend of Parts

1990 • 10 min

A Legend of Parts presents a history of civilization in a less-than-historically-accurate manner where the actions of the prehistoric animals changing into those of sociopolitical "man" careening towards the organized chaos of ultimate annihilation become hopelessly confused and reversed; where the random energy of lightning itself is endowed with the colors of the flag.

Romania: Death of a Dictator

1990 • 58 min

The story of the events that led up to the revolt against, overthrow and eventual execution of murderous longtime Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu.

Exposure

1990 • 8 min • Canada

Exposure is an experimental documentary that explores issues of race, sexuality and cultural identity. A dialogue between two lesbians of colour (Japanese-Canadian and Afro-Caribbean women) is intercut with photographs, texts, paintings and voice-over.

Prowling by Night

1990 • 12 min • Canada

Produced as part of the National Film Board’s Five Feminist Minutes, this collaborative work between Gwendolyn and fellow sex trade workers is an examination of police harassment, safe sex education and sex worker’s rights. Well received by the public and the critics, the film also won the award for Best First Short Film at La Mondiale de films et vidéos réalisés par des femmes in April 1991.

The Story of A.

1990 • 20 min • Canada

The Story of A is several stories that evolve in the same video, parallel universes that echo without ever crossing. The story of Andrew, the travel diary, the thought of Edmond Jabès are all elements of the game ... I use autobiographical traces (the "scanner", the Super 8) to talk about a trace more wide; the existential trace of the desert of Jabès and the desert of the 90s; our youth devastated by AIDS, my deserted life of her youth. The video also speaks of the gaze, of this changing consciousness and of what can open, even in the face of an apparently fatal outcome. - Esther Valiquette

A State Disappears, or...

1990 • 7 min • Germany

A man waits at a level crossing for the train to pass and the barrier to rise. In the meantime, he smokes a cigarette, polishes his car and watches a couple saying goodbye. When the train has finally passed, he can cross the tracks in his Trabbi and follow the country road.

On Edge... 2

1990 • 9 min

Expo Val '90

1990 • 10 min

Nicht jeder findet sein Troja - Archäologen

1990 • 38 min • East Germany, Germany, Syrian Arab Republic

East German-Syrian co-production about archaeological excavations in Syria.

Log Abstract 1989

1990 • 14 min • United States of America

Sequences taken from a filmed diary whose title refers to the following meanings of the English words "log" and "abstract" which seem to describe the film.

Glitter

1990 • 24 min • Australia

“Sydney. Another symphony of the city...inspired by the hectic, rollercoaster times. Buildings were going up left right and centre...‘Money Makes the World Go Round’ came to mind...I developed a little device which carried lenses in front of the camera, with a motor which made the images actually go around...people in the city...people and money going ‘round and ‘round. The soundtrack was pinball machines and muzak. Sydney was showing off its wealth, spreading out and up...Darling Harbour...more and more sparkling glass. A lot of it was the Emperor’s new clothes...many of those ‘buildings’ are still only holes in the ground.” (Paul Winkler)

De la cabeza al cielo

1990 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Spring/Fall Cinesongs For Storm De Hirsch

1990 • 11 min

An homage to Storm De Hirsch (one of the pioneers of the New American Cinema and an early master of the artistic use of super-8 in her wonderful Cine Sonnets). Layered – AB-printed – seasonal images and sounds bursting into being and fading simultaneously.

Leben am Fließ - W Błotach

1990 • 29 min • East Germany

Four generations of one familiy live in the heart of the Spreewald, close to the coalmines and power stations. From their elders, the children have picked up Lower Sorbian as their first language... Many have left the area for cities or manufacturing towns. One who returned is the ferryman Rainer Schmidt. After a spell down the mines, all he wants to live here on the rivulet, next door to his father's house. Life in this seemingly idyllic landscape has never been easy for the inhabitans, and always demanded a strong sense of community. A thoughtful film portrait and urgent plea to accept our responsibility as custodians of the environment.

Views From a Car

1990 • 2 min • Germany

"This film was shot from a parked car. One observes and is observed…" —Milena Gierke

Views I + II

1990 • 3 min • Germany

"Shot from my grandmother‘s flat in Frankfurt’s (am Main) Westend district. The view includes buildings, the sky, trees,and a dressing gown in a light, summer breeze, sometimes shot in time-lapse." —Milena Gierke

Skin

1990 • 18 min

Skin is not a documentary, but an evocative and moving dramatization of women coming to terms with the pandemic that is AIDS. The metaphoric voice of the skin provides a counterpoint as four women talk about how AIDS has disrupted their lives. Brenda and Hedde courageously address the isolation and stigma of their personal lives when they go public as People Living With AIDS (PLWAs). Ann and Lucille confront (through each other), the complex social, cultural and medical agendas surrounding women and AIDS. In Skin, women speak powerfully and urgently of their experience with AIDS, their voices breaking through the silence of neglect created by the media.

The Last of the New York Cigar Rollers

1990 • 13 min

A history of New York's hand-made cigar industry.

Estrategias

1990 • 3 min

Strategies is a self-portrait video that its author uses to construct a visual poem that contains a message of self-defense.

Danilo

1990 • 20 min

Short film by Corso Salani.

Dumi

1990 • 4 min • Philippines

A documentary on the "xenobiological" essay by one restituto A. Calampangan, Head Analytical Service, Philipine Orbital Research Center in the Year 2125

One Night in Heaven

1990 • 1 min • Hungary, Iceland

An angel is on his way home from work and finds himself in trouble.

Burrellesque

1990 • 7 min • United Kingdom

The travelogue is mobilised again by animator Lesley Keen in Burrellesque, commissioned for Glasgow’s European Capital of Culture 1990 programme. Drifting through Glasgow’s Pollok Park towards the Burrell Collection as seasons shift, Keen’s 35mm film convenes with the spiritual life of the artefacts held therein. These objects break out as kaleidoscopic visions, ripped from their place of origin; escapees pointing to Scotland’s own history of cultural extraction.