All Films

The Orchestra

1990 • 57 min

Zbigniew Rybczinski's video experiments set to classical music pieces.

Mondo Naked Witch

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

Art, sex, history and myth fuse in an explosive documentary guaranteed to shock the hell out of you.

Horrorshow

1990 • 5 min

A traveler seeks refuge in a room only to find it still possessed by a demonic creature that has already killed the previous inhabitant

Bilocation

1990 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

Bilocation means the residence of the body and soul in two different places at the same time - simultaneously. It is the perfect term for delineating the processes going on in the video medium and for describing the hell and bloody history of Kosovo.

Cartoon Far

1990 • 6 min

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Exposing The Satanic Web

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

Dave Roever presents Exposing the Satanic Web. Satanic symbols, slogans, hand signals --Look around; if you know what you are looking at, you will see them everywhere. This is not a passing fad. You will meet KIDS and Adults who were one entangled in the Satanic Web. As practitioner or victims, they will not only tell you what a living hell is like, but they will also tell you how to be free. You will also meet Professionals, experts who work with the aftermath of Satanic activity. They will show you how easily you, like a butterfly in a spider's web, can be entrapped in The Satanic Web.

Grimsel

1990 • 48 min • Switzerland

Grimsel-West was the name of a project for the expansion of the hydroelectric plant in the Hasli Valley. Submitted on 30 June 1988, its realization seems fairly improbable for the moment. Originally conceived as an expression of opposition to the construction of a new dam, the film tries to fathom the undercurrent of apprehension caused by such plans to exploit the environment.

In an Old Chest

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In the attic, in an old chest forgotten by everyone, old, broken, pretty shabby toys “live” - an elephant, a bear, a soldier and a doll. They have long dreamed of getting out of this chest, but to do this, someone alone must sacrifice themselves and stay, and no one wants to take on this role. They argued and shouted for a long time, but never came to an agreement.

The Orbitrons

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

An unsuspecting Earthling encounters visitors from a distant planet whose sexually charged society features dominant females and subservient males.

The Torch and the Ballerina

1990 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon based on the fairy tale by S. Voronin. About the love of a luminary to a watch-ballerina, who stood on one table. The ballerina was as beautiful as a butterfly and as light as a breeze, that's how the young luminary thought about her and often told her about his love. But the flirtatious ballerina only laughed and said that she could not love him because he had no heart. And one day the ballerina became ill and dying she told the luminary that she loved him too. The master came, wound the clock, the ballerina revived and was the same old gaggle, thinking only of herself. What does she care about a poor young man in love? The main thing is that she lives and enjoys life…

Haruko's Adventure

1990 • 14 min • Japan

Haruko, a girl with psychic powers who can communicate with inorganic matter, wakes up one morning to the call of someone, and as she is invited, she arrives at an abandoned apartment building from the 30s of the Showa era, where countless "mononoke" have lived.

Of Moose and Men: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Story

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

The Great American Animated Television Series Produced By Jay Ward And Bill Scott And Starring Rocket J. Squirrel And Bullwinkle J. Moose, Costarring Boris Badenov And Natasha Fatale, With Special Features Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales, Aesop & Son, The World of Commander McBragg And More

How Ninochka Became the Queen

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The red-haired girl met a wolf in the forest, but was not taken aback. A tale of friendly devotion and a happy occasion.

901: After 45 Years of Working

1990 • 29 min

This film is a document of the workshop of Charles and Ray Eames and a record of its closing in 1988 after the death of Ray Eames.

Pudya

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Children commit a bad act and blame it on a pet, but then, having pity on it, they repent. Based on the story by Boris Zhitkov.

Elations in Negative

1990 • 5 min

A bloody adaptation of a William Carlos Williams poem. The film begins with Williams’ question “What are these elations I have at my own underwear?” and Reeves answers with a not so elated, transgressive statement.

Sleeping with the Devil

1990 • 12 min • United States of America

An avant-garde video film short in which actors in various languages, states of dress and undress, standing or lying prone, pontificate about Geraldo Rivera's interview with Charles Manson (as well as the Greek myth of Medea), chopped and edited with off-screen directions and asides by the filmmakers and crew, to a state of borderline incomprehensibility.

The Devil’s Bride: A Mill Legend

1990 • 16 min

The river that passes through the mill has dried out. The miller and his daughter are frantic: how can they deliver the huge amount of flour needed for the wedding at the castle? The devil promises to help, but only if the girl follows him to hell; but the girl’s true love chases the devil away and builds a levee. The devil is very angry and whips up a bad storm that destroys the mill… and then proposes to rebuild it in exchange for the girl. The miller accepts the offer, but keeps one nail hidden! Without the nail, the devil loses the bet and the girl celebrates marries her beloved. (Quelle: DEFA Film Library)

Blood Story

1990 • 3 min • United States of America

Blood Story is a simultaneous progression of three divergent tales: a soundtrack of eavesdropped "girl talk", a subtitled story of a troublesome spot, and a series of images that fluidly peruse the two. The pictures articulate the space between one threatening, and one intimate, experience of the same symbolic matter.

Natural Features

1990 • 30 min

“In NATURAL FEATURES Nelson mingles hundreds of still images with 3-D objects and “real” images photographed through glass layerings into a free-associative and playfully bizarre form of animation. Perhaps no film has more successfully blended an evident passion for painting with a sensitivity to filmmaking such as lush pigments alternate with and punctuate the different photographic layerings” – Steve Anker

An Immortal Story

1990 • 48 min • Portugal

The famous tragedy of Charlemagne and his nephew the Duque of Mantua, in conflict about a murder. The play, six hours long in its complete version, is performed each year in several villages of Saint Thomas Island, an ancient Portuguese colony. The characters, interpreted only by men wearing masks and sumptuous clothes in European style, are transmitted from father to son, and declaim an unalterable text. Several interviews with them lead us to understand the almost sacred function they are representing.

Chameleon

1990 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Chameleon presents a visual dialogue between the seen, the recognized and the unrecognized. A woman searches an inner landscape, a space that closes it up and encloses it. Her dress, a projection of femininity, becomes her means of expression. The film silently moves to the point of confrontation by means of rhythmic editing; the woman opens the door to the outside world. This shocking moment of violent interaction is reinforced by the only sound in the film.

Obvodny Canal

1990 • 47 min

On the banks of the Obvodny Canal in St. Petersburg there are three crazy houses, three Houses of Culture, a spiritual academy, a pub ... This movie is a cut-off of the era, watching our life, and those around us. Thinking about where the line between reality and insanity lies.

Frankfurt fühlen

1990 • 3 min

For 14 years, former professional boxer Peter Paul Keller has owned a massage practice in Frankfurt-Bornheim. He feels how the architecture of the city influences the bodies of its inhabitants.