All Films

Il faut attendre (jamais deux sans trois)

1990 • 10 min • France

Evidence of a Dream

1990 • 22 min

Historical documentary centered around the Central Pacific Railroad and it's effects on California and the United States. Made for the California State Railroad Museum to act as an introduction to the museum.

When the flower blooms

1990 • 6 min • Japan

Akemi Edo, the leading vocal of the legendary 80s rock band ,"Jagarta", dies a sudden death in 1990. This piece is triggered by the shocking news of his death. Though launched with such reason, other than Akemi Edo's still photo shot in the opening of the film, there is no sign of directly grieving the singer's death. What evolves is Yanase's impoverished poetry overlapping a view of a town cut into tiny pieces. "The eyes were married", "My life is long", "From here to there. Here here here here...". The repeated typing of words that seem to be squeezed out of the unconscious shows a strange unity with Akemi Edo's live concerts – conveying funky loneliness – and intrigues the souls of the viewers.

Simulacro

1990 • 2 min • Argentina

Super 8 film - U-MATIC Video hybrid. Music By Jorge Haro & Alejandro Fiori. 1990.

Pool

1990 • 4 min

Who loves the sun? Found Footage of a "Neckermann East Africa" film.

Canfilm

1990 • 18 min • Bulgaria

Zlatin Radev’s pixilated Canfilm (1990) from Bulgaria is a brilliant, often hilarious political allegory about tin cans that live in cartons resembling skyscrapers and are periodically relabeled by the powers that be.

Das Flimmern - die Himmelshöhe - die Erde - und ich

1990 • 8 min • Netherlands

A short film about a young man who very much wants a romantic partner, and goes out looking for an outlet for his erotic desires. But it turns out that the space itself, rather than the man, becomes the main character of the film. The memories of the anonymous man literally penetrate this space.

The Girl From Bikini Island

1990 • 9 min • Philippines

Secret Agent D'D saves tourist town from the deadly vicious vamp.

Charbonniers

1990 • 30 min

In a strange landscape of the Greek mountain, marked by the furnaces, where dust and fumes veil the light, charcoal burners and their families, sometimes from far away, burn wood to make charcoal. They rent out, in a way, their work to a contractor during the five to six months of the summer.

Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust PV

1990 • 4 min • Japan

4-minute promotional Anime featuring super-deformed versions of the main characters from the Villgust video game series.

Songs for Synthesized Soprano

1990 • 13 min

Songs for Synthesized Soprano is a cycle of 5 video art songs. Designed for screening and live performance, the work features video and computer processed imagery of dancer/vocalist Atsuko Yuma by visual artist Mary Ross, edited to music released on an album by Eric Ross in 1983.

We Machines (v.3)

1990 • 7 min

We Machines (v.3) was created in a whirlwind of id and ego color balance was just an afterthought. We spun the colorwheel like a game of spin-the-bottle. We wanted to create a work with very simple situations so we could quickly change in live performance. -Jonathan Giles

Fin de tournage

1990 • 28 min

Excerpt from the film's soundtrack: - Hélène Richol: Why do you call your film "Fin de tournage"? - Maurice Lemaître: First of all because most of my films have a title relevant to the cinema: ever since "Le film est déjà commencé ?", "Votre Film", etc. (...) And then because when I thought of doing this film, I was very depressed... not in good shape... And I thought that this would be my last film.

Cup of Time

1990 • 10 min

"This world resembles a cup being passed around a circle; everyone should drink from it."

Stati d'animo

1990 • 3 min • Italy

Animation in 2D graphics of a Boccioni triptych, futurist painter, entitled "Stati d'animo" and composed of "Gli addii", "Quelli che vanno" and "Quelli che restano".

SW-EGO (v.4)

1990 • 5 min

Experimental short using the mirrored technique.

Zéro Gravité

1990 • 29 min • Canada

ZERO GRAVITY is a borrowing from the English language which simply means weightlessness, absence of gravity. Around an accident which perhaps will happen, a breathless suspense takes shape throughout the film. The original soundtrack reinforces this atmosphere by making the dramatic impact even more paranoid. "I wanted to make a film about the end of the story."

Carroll Shelby: The Man & His Cars

1990 • 58 min

This film delivers the remarkable and engaging profile of the 1959 Le Mans winner who became famous for the AC Cobra and his involvement with the Ford GT40 development programme. It traces Carroll Shelby’s career from driver to creator, featuring views from the influential men that worked and raced alongside him. The story is relayed by Shelby himself along with Phil Hill, Roy Salvadori, Dan Gurney, Bob Bondurant and others, whilst excellent archive footage, ranging from Nassau 1955 to Le Mans 1969, brings to life a fascinating chapter in motor racing history.

Still Life

1990 • 3 min

A portrait, in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, hangs in a room in a decrepit mansion. A knife and fork lying on a table below awaken from slumber. A piece of fruit falls from the painting to the table, finding itself immediately in danger.

Striking Images

1990 • 1 min

Big Ben strikes twelve while rotating around its own clockface as day turns into night. Twelve shots from twelve locations in one minute, the images fading with the bell chime at each strike. Broadcast in the UK and France. Screened at Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas, Marseille.

Saffron

1990 • 39 min • Iran

A Khorasani saffron grower struggles to fertilize the saffron plant with dehydration and the risk of losing the dull flowers of the saffron in order to obtain the flower stigma or saffron root.

Friends Along the Way

1990 • 1 min

linings

1990 • 30 min

Depicts an overflowing mouth.

Fate & Irony

1990 • 2 min

NYU Sight & Sound short.