All Films

Luft-Räume

1990 • 25 min • Austria

Air raid bunkers represent the architecturally intact remains of World War II. The film looks into their ideological as well as their material texture and puts them into the context of the urban infrastructure of the nineties.

Aviators

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The comic vicissitudes of a parachute jump.

Unheavenly City

1990 • 15 min

In Houston, a young manager loses his well-paid and status oriented job with an oil company. He roams through the city, realizing that his life of luxury is over and that his credit cards may soon become overheated.

Ferdous

1990 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A drama which addresses the prescriptions of the Quran on "deviant" sexuality and its admonition that lesbians must be confined until their death.

Jasper Johns: Take an Object

1990 • 25 min

A portrait of the artist at work. The film begins in 1972 with Johns repainting Air Ocean World based on Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion map. Johns work is traced over the next eighteen years. His Untitled, 1973, with its cross-hatching, flagstones, and anatomical parts become recurrent motifs, as Johns begins to imbed skulls and severed arms in them. The paintings become more personal as Johns gradually "drops the reserve" in his recent series, "The Seasons." The film culminates with Johns working on the final state of the etching based on "The Seasons."

Tokio House

1990 • 7 min • Japan

Metaphorical Hands

1990 • 13 min • Japan

Each person lives a different life, but the hand seemed to be a metaphor for that person's life. In other words, I thought that the life of the person would be determined by what he had. I pick up a fountain pen and stuff the film by hand. This tells my life. I made such a thought into a work.

Kenneth Gilbert, Organ & Harpsichord - Les leçons particulières de musique

1990 • 56 min

In this masterclass, Kenneth Gilbert renews acquaintance with a former student who has since become an established performer, Olivier Baumont. There follows a fascinating dialogue focusing on both the harpsichord and the organ, two instruments which the Canadian artist plays with the same skill.

Nibo' Apinewin

1990 • 22 min • Canada

Anishnawbe Health produced this documentary as part of Toronto Living With AIDS. It addresses the issue of AIDS in the Native community. Ojibway Elder, Verna Johnston presents basic information about the disease while her comments are illustrated with archival and family photographs, videotape of special gatherings and community activities. The intention of the tape is to promote awareness of Aids within the historical and cultural context of Native health.

Rose Married A Junky

1990 • 7 min

Combining painted, drawn, and fluid imagery with shot footage, ROSE MARRIED A JUNKY is an odyssey through a woman's thoughts about herself, intellectual flirtatious people, desperate eyed people, and the story of romantic love imagined by his grandmother. Winner of the Charles Samu Prize, 1992.

Inversion

1990 • 7 min • China

Inversion, as the name implies, is to turn order and relationships upside-down. Humans admire the shapes, sounds and vigor of other forms of life, while also taking everything away from them, numbed by greed. The human need to take over all will eventually lead to self destruction.

Corpore insepulto

1990 • 4 min • Spain

Film by Ignacio Pardo

Ecosystem 7 ~ A sedimentary Heat

1990 • 27 min • Japan

Part 7 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm

A Child's Christmas In Pittsburgh

1990 • 58 min

A 1990 PBS telefilm documentary produced by WQED showcasing Pittsburgh's holiday traditions captured by the QED Children's Festival Chorus and the Carnegie Brass Quintet as they lead a musical journey through the sights and sounds of Christmas past and present.

Japanese Archipelago: Horror Ghost Zone

1990 • 45 min • Japan

The first film in the 'Japanese Archipelago' series. This is a video that shows images of places with explanations of ghost zones such as Maruyama-cho, which is called the birthplace of the famous candy store ghost, and the Chichibu sacred site Eifukuji Temple, which is said to be a zone of fear and haunted by ghosts.

Deadheads

1990 • 60 min

Covering 10 years, this 60 minute art documentary takes an inside look at the artisans, magicians, musicians, and lunatics that make up this cult of devotees, deadicated to a band that originated in 1965. Why these fans leave their schools, families and jobs to be part of these ritualistic tribal celebrations of dance, drugs and community, is a 20th century American cultural phenomenon captured here in this time capsuled video tape.

Deer and Bull

1990 • 10 min • China

This art film is a rare bamboo puppet cartoon. When deer, cows and birds were drinking and playing together by the pond, a snake came to them quietly.

Mutual Native Duplex

1990 • 12 min • United States of America

In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack, he pulls together diverse strands of thought to construct an "other" history. "Mutual Native Duplex" is a video essay on the mutual alliances between Native and African Americans which celebrates the "neo-American model" of inter-cultural cooperation that grew out of these encounters.

Aconteceu no Natal

1990 • 31 min

Lucília works in the house of Jorge, son of a wealthy family from the countryside, who falls in love with her and ends up getting her pregnant before abandoning her. Over the years, Jorge, married to a woman he doesn't like, finds his lost daughter.

Notes on the Sacred

1990 • 46 min • Canada

Every summer, thousands of people go to Sainte-Anne de Beaupré to celebrate the feast of the patron saint of the sick and disabled. Notes on the Sacred paints a picture of the event, presenting the tourists, pilgrims, clergy and information media.

Ode to G.I. Joe

1990 • 5 min

A pre-cursor to Toy Story - G.I. Joe action figures come to life in a young boy's room.

Knots

1990 • 8 min

The roving eye in the crowd. Flickering sunlight. Fast forward. B4 it was seeing faint movement on the distant horizon. Now the skill is to see the rush from the passing car. We are on the run. Visual experiences that cement out daily lives, with an increasing uneasy disjointedness. Images like afterthoughts. Flows. Standing waves. Kill kill the eye. Fade the past. Fun the film like water through the eye. Rush ruse use muse. The language of the flash now. Curtains twisting and folding. Images tying around each other: distant memory.

Murang Araw

1990 • 4 min • Philippines

A collage film that finds its meaning from interspersing Lenten rites footage with random images using an optical printer.

Twins

1990 • 51 min

Twins, a young man and his sister, live with their mother on their uncle's property. The uncle wants to sell the girl for a bride price of 12 cattle. The boy goes to the city and is able to earn the amount of money needed to purchase his sister's freedom. The purchase becomes an illustration of the price Jesus paid with his death on the cross.