All Films

My Mother Makes Dumplings

1990 • 3 min • Japan

A unique documentary that boldly and truthfully expresses the incident in the Yabe family on New Year's Day 1988! With an up-tempo rhythm, something strange happened in the kitchen of the Yabe family. It was the unthinkable: the production of 300 dumplings. My mother wrapped up a heap of ingredients in a tub-like bowl with unbelievable speed, and using two frying pans, she baked the dumplings, one after the other, without mercy. In three minutes, the film is as full of laughter and family love as the Yabe family's dumplings.

The Last Buffalo

1990 • 27 min

A man forges iron statuettes of wild animals that mankind is about to make extinct. The animals are shown as well as their iron images until the two plots meet in the end.

Migraine

1990 • 3 min

The severe pain inflicted during a migraine attack alters the vision of the sufferer often to the point of hallucination. The optical symptoms of this disorder open it up for expressive filmic interpretation. A jumpy and fractured roller-coaster montage is transformed into the comically tortured hallucinations of a migraine sufferer as she loses control of her vision and mental faculties.

La Face Et Le Dos En Meme Temps

1990 • 6 min • Japan

For this film, Okuyama made a camera with two lenses. One of the lenses films the filmmaker from behind while the other films him from the front. He thus obtains two images of him, superimposed on the same film.

And Now, You

1990 • 9 min

With the help of his engineering knowledge he designed and built a new-concept 4D multi-plane rostrum which introduced the effect of infinite forward and reverse camera moves. And Now, You was the first film to be made on it. For its originality this new machine earned its very own award. "An Invention in Industry" Award from the National Eisteddfod of Wales was granted for the rig in 1990.

Cornucopia

1990 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A visit to a very strange pub indeed. Inside, strange creatures belittle those weaker than them for their sick amusement. Dark fantasy puppet horror.

Venus & Milo

1990 • 3 min

Scientific Visualisations of, among others, a thunderstorm developing. Venus & Milo is an artistic project by Professor Donna Cox and her Renaissance Experimental Laboratory students. Alum Chris Landreth contributed.

Fighting 17: The Jolly Rogers

1990 • 52 min

This is the story of Navy squadron VF-17, the amazing Jolly Rogers. Flying their beloved "Hogs," the F4U-1 Corsair, they cleared the skies of 154 Japanese planes in 76 days of combat over the Solomon Islands. While never losing a bomber to enemy attack, Fighting 17 destroyed the heart of Japanese fighter command over Bougainville and Rabaul paving the way for the Allied advance in the Pacific. As related by the squadron's skipper, Tom Blackburn, and four of his men, the events of 1943-44 are enhanced by splendid film footage, personal photographs, and the memories of those who were there. This is the true story, the excitement, the agony, humor and sadness of a legendary tour of duty that will never be forgotten as long as pilots take to the air in combat.

The Kalasha: Rites of Spring

1990 • 60 min

The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in this Islamic Republic.

The man who turns back after the festival

1990 • 4 min • Japan

SHUICHI INOHANA FILM WORK １９９０

Film Risky

1990 • 33 min • Japan

FILM RISKY is the first home video by B'z, released on December 16, 1990 on both VHS and LaserDisc. Along with the proceeding release JUST ANOTHER LIFE the next year, the pair of releases are the only two B'z home videos to not be later made available on DVD.

Forest, Little Birds and Me

1990 • 17 min • China

The children cage the birds without realizing they hold the balance in the forest. Without birds pests come to the children's homes.

Rose of the Night

1990 • 9 min

16mm film by Zack Stiglicz

Partners

1990 • 40 min

A film about a boy, Piero, who discovers he is HIV-positive. The starting point is the meeting of two men among the thousand problems of the HIV-positive nature of one of the two; that of arrival the birth of a love that becomes solid day after day and that finds its balance between the rules, the needs and the times of the illness, challenging the conventions and establishing, under the eyes of all, a new and necessary way of living the relationship as a couple.

The Men Who Danced: The Story of Ted Shawn's Male Dancers; 1933-1940

1990 • 36 min

A short film that tells the story of modern dance pioneer and Jacob's Pillow founder Ted Shawn, and his mission to create an all male dance company. Featuring interviews with eight of the original Men Dancers and rarely-seen footage of the company performing in the 1930s, The Men Who Danced provides powerful insight into the early days of Jacob's Pillow and the determination and strength of character necessary to start a world-renowned dance institution.

CROSBY, STILLS & NASH Live 1990: MTV Unplugged, Nov.8th

1990 • 22 min

Chapter 1: MTV Unplugged 8 November 1990 (stereo): 1. Wasted on the way - 2:50 2. Helplessly hoping - 2:35 3. 4+20 - 2:25 4. Daylight again/Find the cost of freedom - 3:55 5. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - 9:00

Children Are Too Young to Die

1990 • 20 min • United States of America

The film graphically calls attention to the brutal dangers of playing on top of elevators in public housing high-rise 30-story buildings in New York City. The slang is called "elevator surfing", "elevator action" or "elevator chicken" and it is a deadly game in which groups of children ride up and down the elevator shafts on top of a moving elevator car and jump from one moving car to the top of another. At times, a child waits in the pit of the elevator shaft. When a car pauses on the lowest floor, he grabs the electrical cable and rides upward. "Children Are Too Young To Die" begins with a bloody reenactment of an elevator accident in which a 10-year-old boy gets his arm cut off by the counterweight in an elevator shaft. The story unfolds and reveals real issues and deaths resulting from such dangerous activities.

Springtime of the Wild Lily

1990 • 60 min • Taiwan

I Talk to Animals

1990 • 54 min

This documentary is a portrait of an "animal therapist and psychic" who has convinced skeptical pet owners, zoo keepers, and race horse trainers that she really can "talk" to their animals. We see her at work counseling race horses in need of leisure time, depressed cats, and misguided ants. We hear from owners and trainers who describe how their animals' behaviors changed following her sessions, and how she told them things about the animals that she "could not have known"--unless the animals told her themselves. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta said this, "Witty and understated, this film hardly seems the sort of documentary one would call subversive. . .but if we accept the essence of Friedman's work, it's not merely subversive but revolutionary, for it tests the very foundations of our experience of consciousness and our relationship with the natural world.”

Soviets, go home!

1990 • 23 min • Poland

This documentary is about the last days of soldiers stationing in Brzeg. Soviet barracks were in the town from 1945. In this film produced in 1990 we could see citizens of Brzeg. They want the Soviet soldiers to leave the town. Moreover, the citizens want to be paid damages for their loss.

Gà Con Không Nhận Mẹ

1990 • 9 min • Vietnam

Newly hatched chick thinks a balloon is its mother

Emo Philips: Comedian and Mammal

1990 • 37 min

Special for British Television.

Princess Lehua

1990 • 26 min

A temporally alternating journey in which a princess arrives in Hawaii.

Twinsburg, OH: Some Kind of Weird Twin Thing

1990 • 22 min

Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, many live together, and all seem to have rhyming names. Standing out amidst the lighthearted contests and games are filmmaker Sue Marcoux and her sister Michele, separated by 3,000 miles and a lifetime of anti-twin behavior.