All Films

The P-38 Pilot

1990 • 14 min

“For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving.” These words are typed across the screen at the outset of THE P-38 PILOT, Bruce Baillie’s experimental video portrait of a former pilot outraged by old age and bitter with regrets. We hear the man's disputatious monologue on the soundtrack: “I’m not the kind of guy to end up in a slime pit… I can’t understand it, see?” Baillie, an established master of 16mm cinematography, uses the video medium to search the man's confined space for rustling movements and leaking colors. Chet Baker sings “There Will Never Be Another You” as the filmmaker bids the pilot a peaceful adieu.

Figures of Thought

1990 • 33 min • India

A film about three of our leading visual artists, Bhupen Khakar, Nalini Malani and Vivan Sundaram. It takes, as its point of departure, a glass mural on which all three were working, then zeros into each of them. It links them to their physical and mental worlds through cinematic devices like associative sounds, variable light and montage. Compositionally, the visuals aim to link with the styles of each artist, as well as the larger narrative traditions of India.

Camel Trophy 1990 - Siberia-U.S.S.R.

1990 • 53 min

For the first time the event moves north, to the immense Talga forest of Siberia. The yellow Land Rover Discoverys have to battle their way through the final wilderness in the northern hemisphere. One day choking in dust, the next windscreen-deep in either mud or freezing water, men and machines have to get through to Lake Bikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world. On the way the constant struggle draws the competitors together in a spirit of shared hardship and adventure, but Special Tasks on the way keep up the pressure to find the winning team. The first international motor sport event ever held in the Soviet Union - competitors from 16 countries - 1000 miles of perestroika: The Camel Trophy.

We're Talking Vulva

1990 • 5 min • Canada

At long last, everything you've always wanted to know about "down there" but were afraid to ask. A tender tale wherein our heroine, Ms. V..soul sisters her way into your heart with the hottest rap this side of the uterus. She sings!!! She dances!!! She's Big!!! It's a wear and care manual, it's a delightful tour.

Siren

1990 • 14 min

1990 Peter Rose experimental short

Contacts

1990 • 13 min

Short film of Raymond Depardon

Gerbert - Before My First Day Began...

1990 • 28 min

Gerbert's friend, Patrick, is thinking of running away from home. He feels he does not fit in anywhere because he is an adopted child. Patrick learns that Gerbert is also adopted, and the two of them talk about "famous" people in the Bible who were adopted, such as Moses. Finally, Patrick discovers in a fresh and very personal way that God is his Father and we are all His "adopted" children. "Before My First Day Began...: was written primarily to offer comfort and insight to adopted children. However, it also addresses the reality that we are all adopted into God's family. This is a very honest, tender and helpful video for children (and families) of adoption. We hope it will find it's way into church libraries, school counselor's offices, family therapists' and child psychologists' offices, and many other concerned and active organization in this area of counseling.

Fire on Heimaey

1990 • 29 min • Iceland

Beautiful documentary by Osvaldur Knudsen about the eruption on Heimaey in the Vestmann Islands in 1973 (South of Iceland). The eruption destroyed some 30% of the town's houses and lasted for more than 5 months. Nice narration like in the old days and some nice sound(track) by Magnus Bl. Johannsson.

Chasing the Moon

1990 • 4 min

Mediations of a black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makers her wary about being out on the street.

Race

1990 • 6 min • Poland

A bicycle race between competitors ends up not with a winner, but with a seemingly never finishing loop.

Endless

1990 • 38 min

Although constructed from thousands of still images of Chicago, ENDLESS maintains a complex relationship to the photographic image. Time and space seem to compress or implode into a contradictory experience - one which is fluid, yet static, sculptural, yet two-dimensional, of the present yet of the past. The images are layered vertically, 'endless' variations of time and space unable to be contained within the fixed boundaries of the film frame.

The Male GaYze

1990 • 11 min

The Male GaYze presents an individual's observation of sexuality and power relations between men, a young African American dancer's reminiscence of his encounter with a famous Dutch choreographer.

Study #15

1990 • 1 min

Each film in this series has been created for a musical score, pre-existing or composed specifically for the project. By way of explanation, the music is often put on a film after it is finished, but in this case the film images and rhythms come from the music. Thus allowing the score to be a sort of script for the film.

Concertino

1990 • 30 min • France

The Mentors: A Piece of Sinema

1990 • 45 min

The Mentors short "Fuck Movie" where El Duce plays a couch test caster up to typical Mentors practice of "peaceful rape" as well as showing where inspirations for "Goin' Thru Your Purse", "Sleep Bandits" & "On The Rag" come from. The Mentors short "Get Up & Die" about killing New Wavers and Glam Rockers. The Mentors on Hot Seat with Wally George. Conversation with El Duce & The Mentors.

Chicago Nazis

1990 • 60 min

VHS compilation of two Tom Palazzolo documentaries - Marquette Park (1976) and Marquette Park II (1978) - about the American Nazi party and its leader Frank Collin.

Story of the Christmas Toys

1990 • 22 min • United States of America

One Christmas Eve, Santa makes a big mistake. He leaves a little girl's doll and stuffed cat at the house of the little boy down the street, and the boy's soldiers at the girl's house. The toys come to life and sort it all out, but not before getting into a little mischief. Narrated by Mel Torme, famous singer of The Christmas Song -"Chestnuts roasting by an open fire..."

Rice and Peas

1990 • 12 min

Restaurant owner prepares traditional West Indian food.

Zombie Attack

1990 • 60 min • Germany

A hitchhiker unknowingly hitches a ride with a violent maniac who tortures him and leaves him for dead in the woods, where he soon turns into a zombie. The zombie breaks into a guy's house and bites him, quickly spreading the horror across the German countryside, where all things go awry, apparently.

Standing on the Edge of Death

1990 • 29 min • South Korea

Unlike “trilogy on torn-down neighborhoods,” (The Sang-kye dong Olympics, Haengdang-dong People, and Another World We Are Making), Standing on the Edge of Death calmly describes how urban poverty was formed, how they live, and why more than 20 of them committed suicide at once in 1990. In this film, the director explains that people who moved from poor countryside formed urban slum, and because they did not have formal education or asset, they worked as day laborers. Residence was one particular problem they faced as they lost their main dwelling area due to redevelopment. They start their day at dawn and work till night. However, these hard-working people do not receive any recognition from the society.

Mixed Messages

1990 • 20 min • United States of America

An experimental video collage that incorporates found footage, performance, interviews with young girls, documentary, animation, images from advertising and television, and a dream narrative in a work that examines gender-stereotyping in popular culture, concluding with a post-modern version of the Pandora myth.

Shanty ... oder Schwierigkeiten mit der Jugendmode

1990 • 20 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary short about fashion for young people in the GDR, filmed in 1989.

Mourning

1990 • 10 min • China

Mourning the Tang Dynasty, in a small market in Yongzhou. Uncle Li, a fruit farmer, is kind and fair, and his business is booming. Small peddler Wang Er resorted to fraud to deceive customers. On the way home, the two of them took the same boat and crossed to the middle of the river where the boat broke.

Video Drug 2: Phuture

1990 • 30 min

The visuals are by Peacedelic Artist Hiroyuki Nakano; Art Direction by Hiromichi Oohashi; music by Trippy House Sync Full EFX Kino Moderno. Six tracks: Funky Booster, Into the Future, Hi-Life, Rift, SYNC YOU, The Globe.