All Films

The Proud Tree

1990 • 25 min

This timeless tale tells children the story of the crucifixion from the viewpoint of Rex, the tree that became the cross Jesus carried to Calvary. This wonderful story will teach children a valuable lesson in humility and love while also helping them to understand the power of Jesus' love and the importance of his sacrifice.

Myth Makers 20: David Banks

1990 • 59 min • United Kingdom

We travel to Brighton with Nicholas Briggs to catch up with David Banks, the man behind the Cyberleader mask. We find out how in 1982 David set about popularising the Cybermen after their seven year absence from Doctor Who. Shot on location at the Theatre Royal, this Myth Makers also gives a glimpse behind the scenes of Doctor Who: The Ultimate Adventure in which David played Karl the mercenary leader. We find out about some of the problems that arise when you bring the famous Time Lord off the television screen and onto the stage.

Sobreviviente de oficio

1990 • 9 min • Peru

A colorful young windshield wiper makes a living at traffic lights in downtown Lima.

Be a DIVA!

1990 • 29 min

This program profiles ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), the effective and inventive national AIDS activist organization. In 1989, ACT UP, a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis, spawned DIVA-TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) to organize independent video makers involved in AIDS activism. Working collectively to produce images of ACT UP's often massive, always colorful, protests, DIVA-TV is a prime example of how to use television as a tool for empowerment and organizing with an activist organization. BE A DIVA! is a compilation of works documenting the dynamic political activities of ACT UP.

Bellevue Kreuzlingen

1990 • 9 min

A short documentary about the making of Heidi Bucher's skins of the Bellevue Sanatorium at Kreuzlingen.

Lazeros

1990 • 11 min • Peru

In Úcupe, Chiclayo, the horsemen had the custom of going out to capture wild donkeys that came down from the highlands to the coast in search of fresh pasture. Master Urita made the leather lassoes, while Jaime Rivas, the outstanding lazerote, led the patrol together with Segundo Rivera, the fastest amarrador in the world.

Augusta Sleeps

1990 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta tries to get her babies to go to sleep, so that she can too.

Du couteau au fusil

1990 • 13 min • Canada

Between the city, the suburbs and the theft of an automobile.

Video Visits: Bali - A Window on Paradise

1990 • 54 min • United States of America

A comprehensive tour of the beautiful Indonesian island of Bali - its slumbering volcanoes, mountain lakes, lush green rice paddies and intricate temples. Bali, despite its dependence on tourism, still retains its vital four thousand year old culture. The video takes us to Lake Bratan; Ubud, the country’s cultural centre; Mas, famous for its carved wood masks; the port of Singaraja and the beaches of Sanur.

Survey

1990 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

The creation of video poetry: a scale of sequences shaped by René Magritte’s painting as a lyrical excess of the real world and the Macedonian landscape and architecture with distinct ethnographic dimensions.

Der Kinomann

1990 • 14 min • Germany

From Rain to Rain

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A couple's happiness is put in jeopardy due to unsolicited advice.

Sois sage ô ma douleur (et tiens-toi plus tranquille)

1990 • 58 min • Canada

Two friends are looking for new topics of conversation. A couple quietly bicker. A woman talks about herself as a drowing soul. Twelve characters (eleven writers and a painter) - bitter, tender, funny - beat their heads against the wall of the banality of human existence and against words...Will a great destiny ever come to the aid of their petty miseries?

Fary the Donkey

1990 • 21 min • Senegal

When Serigne Ibra finally decides to get married, he declares that his future bride must not only be a ravishing beauty, but also must not have any kind of scar or blemish on her body.

Kitaro: Kojiki - A Story in Concert

1990 • 54 min

Kitaro has long been one of the leading lights of new age music. This program captures him in a 1990 live appearance from one of his increasingly rare concert tours, performing selections from Kojiki: A Story in Concert, a musical adaptation of legends from traditional Japanese folklore

Young Man's Dream and a Woman's Secret

1990 • 58 min

Filmmaker Philip Haas traveled to the southernmost tip of Madagascar to meet Efiaimbelo, a man in his mid-sixties who works as a funerary sculptor. The film follows Efiaimbelo as he travels to an isolated area in the countryside to cut down a special tree for sculpting. He makes it into a pole of geometric shapes, which he then tops with a finely honed sculpture of a cow. This beautiful sculpture is funerary piece, designed to ornament a grave. The film features remarkable footage of huge tombs covered with cow antlers and poles like the one we see Efiaimbelo sculpt. The tops of these poles are decorated with all sorts of animals, people and tableaux associated with the dead person. Very little has been known or seen of this funereal and artistic tradition outside the region and the film provides an extraordinarily rich visual experience.

Most Valuable

1990 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The main character in the hospital remembers how a soldier shared food that helped him survive during the war. And then he himself saves the child who fell into the hole...

The Door in the Wall

1990 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The hero of the film, Wallace, is trying to reconcile the dream of a world of beautiful souls and human relationships with the reality of a prosperous bourgeois.

I Am a German Composer from Russia

1990 • 47 min • Soviet Union

Alfred Schnittke, renowned Russian composer of German descent, talks about his life and music.

About Good and Evil, and About a Long Tongue

1990 • 56 min • Soviet Union

Because of the talkativeness of the village gossip girl Osan, who does not know how to hold her long tongue in time, a beautiful apricot tree died. It was cut down by a greedy, envious neighbor. But the good old man Khachatur and his granddaughter managed to grow a new miracle tree from a magic stone overnight, to the delight of all the village poor.

Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

Interviews with seven American veterans of the Spanish Civil War who fought for the Loyalist cause during the war and went on to live lives of activism.

Bernadette: The Princess of Lourdes

1990 • 30 min

It’s February 11, 1858. Three girls from Lourdes, France, gather firewood in front of a grotto. Suddenly one of them, Bernadette Soubirous, 14, drops to her knees, gazes ecstatically at something beautiful only she can see, and starts to pray. Soon the town buzzes: Has Bernadette, poor, sickly, and always behind in school, really seen a Lady from Heaven? Then a spring bubbles up from nowhere and withered arms and sightless eyes are cured. At last, the Lady tells Bernadette her name: “I am The Immaculate Concepcion.” BERNADETTE, THE PRINCESS OF LOURDES, is the exciting true story of a visit by the Queen of Heaven that left the entire world a source of health for body and soul.

The Last of the Babingas

1990 • 18 min • Congo

In the equatorial forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic pygmies live. Over-exploitation and waste of resources have had a significant impact on the lives of Pygmies. The story is based on Mangala an old and wise voice of these disappearing people.

Station Drama

1990 • 14 min

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.