All Films

Weeds

1990 • 5 min • Germany

The destruction of nature by man seen through the eyes of a snail. The life of a snail on a tiny patch of weeds in the middle of grey stone: what seems wondrous and paradisiacal to it is the reason for road builders to repair a huge paved area for good. The snail reacts to the threat to its life in an unusual way.

Takeshita Performance 1: Secret Art of Mito Komon

1990 • 5 min • Japan

A student film made by Shinya Takeshita at the Osaka University of Arts. This short references the popular jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon, a drama that ran for 42 years on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. Takeshita portrays every character by himself. He would recycle this concept a year later for Mito Kōmon tai Gojira.

Pictures from Memory

1990 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

With fast changing visuals and moods, an artist presents his family's twentieth-century story.

Super 8 Diary - 1990

1990 • 23 min • United States of America

I Am Not a Vagabond

1990 • 31 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about one of the most influential Latvian composers, Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, who lives in Canada.

Island of Emotion

1990 • 2 min • United States of America

Happiness, sadness, love, and surprise manifest themselves in various ways.

Pancake on a Hot Tin Roof

1990 • 27 min • Canada

Spoof focusing on Joe Private as the detective who does everything wrong.

A Valentine for Nelson

1990 • 5 min • United States of America

A long overdue love letter. A relationship is as hard to build as a cathedral -- it takes more than one lifetime. A film in which virtually every shot is intended as a metaphor. Tender, loving and unsentimental.

Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now

1990 • 60 min

A celebration of New Orleans' musical culture — from its piano bars and barrelhouses to brass bands and street parades, with their colorful, riotous, and symbolic second lines, in which the community plays an essential part in the performance. Shot in the thick of funeral parades and nightclubs, with performances by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and Danny Barker, Feet Don't Fail Me Now tells the story of New Orleans' utterly unique and valuable jazz heritage.

AIDS: A Family Affair

1990 • 30 min

A talk show format video featuring people living with AIDS and their friends and families in Toronto

East, West, South and North

1990 • 5 min • China

The film exaggerates the interpersonal relationship of comparison, suspiciousness, selfishness, cruelty, helplessness, despair, and the author's pessimism and worry about the future.

100% (A Hundred Percents)

1990 • 53 min • Japan

A pretty 22-year-old girl leaves university and gets her dream job as a TV newscaster, only to discover that life is tough at the top. Adaptation of the "Young Action" manga by Michio Yanagisawa.

Disorder in Progress

1990 • 21 min

A short film made for City Life (1990)

Women Who Made the Movies

1990 • 56 min • United States of America

Examines the careers of women who made a lasting contribution to film history as directors: Alice Guy Blaché, who in 1896 directed what is arguably the first plot-driven film; Ida Lupino, who also had a long career as an actor; Ruth Ann Baldwin, who directed numerous early westerns; Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's film propagandist; as well as Dorothy Davenport Reid, Lois Weber, Kathlyn Williams, Germaine Dulac, Cleo Madison and many more. Film clips, stills, and other archival materials bring their work to life.

The Swan

1990 • 3 min • Poland

Animation with colored salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by composer Camille Saint-Saëns performed by the Polish Radio Orchestra.

In Our Eyes: The European Deadhead Odyssey

1990 • 34 min

Rarely seen unofficial Grateful Dead documentary short. Filmed on the road in Europe, 1990.

One Goes On

1990 • 15 min • Canada

One Goes On follows individuals and the events which influence our perceptions of them. A young lawyer indifferently discusses a relationship; a woman discusses a dolphin harvest at a chic party; a rural entrepreneur relates his most recent project as he visits the scene of a local disaster. Certain sequences and stories unfold in real time while others are altered to allow closer scrutiny. As the tape progresses, these connected narratives evoke a strong sense of loss.

Collective Cartoon of New Artists

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A short Soviet hybrid animation film.

El Planeta de Los Hombres Solos

1990 • 24 min

Working conditions often carry health risks. In order to fulfill all her obligations, Manuela needs a watch with more than 24 hours. Women facing a double workday see their occupational health problems double. The program shows how to deal with the pressure to prevent health problems that often affect working women.

The Golem

1990 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Claymation animation of an old fairy tale.

Creating An Outline

1990 • 31 min

Shows how to construct an outline by means of songs, skits, jokes, and entertainment.

Old/New

1990 • 20 min • Japan

Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

Myth Makers 11: Victor Pemberton

1990 • 55 min

Victor Pemberton’s association with Doctor Who is long and varied. As extra, writer, script editor, producer and novelist, he is in a unique position to comment on the programme’s successes and failures – and he’s prepared to do just that! Victor certainly wouldn’t claim credit for writing the dramatic links in this Myth Makers, where he encounters a strange bewildered Nicholas Briggs and the even stranger source of a ‘plopping’ noise. In fact, this is the culmination of the ultimate kitchen sink drama – just what is outside the window? This Myth Makers combines two interviews with Victor, the first shot on location at his country home in Essex and the latest at studios in London.

Riddle: Shout of Man

1990 • 4 min

Rumored to have used footage salvaged from a commercial studio dumpster, the film is a commentary on Filipino onscreen macho culture and one of the rare surviving works in the brief filmmaking career of Ramon ‘RJ’ Leyran. It was a product of the last Christoph Janetzko film workshop, with a focus on experiments with optical printers, held in 1990.