All Films

Liebe Nina...

1990 • 26 min

A journalist in her late twenties is beaten up by the police during clashes in Berlin on the turbulent October 7, 1989. The film constructs that day in the life of Nina R.

The Fifth Gospel

1990 • 40 min

A documentary about disability and Christianity from Nabil Shaban and Tina Leslie.

Rain Dance

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

Rain Dance is a four-minute animation produced by Hill while an undergraduate student at Harvard University from 1988-1992; the exact date of the production is currently unidentified. Although little known, the film is representative of both Hill’s do-it yourself approach – employing character cutouts, strong, yet playful colors, and a narrative and technical simplicity rich with charm – and her jovial demeanor and inquisitive approach to life. The film is dedicated to Elijah Aron, Hill’s boyfriend throughout college. Aron remained close friends with Helen and her husband Paul Gailiunas, and was the godfather of their son Francis.

You Talk/I Buy

1990 • 10 min

A tale of miscommunication between car salesman and customer.

Apologies

1990 • 16 min • United States of America

Short film of filmmaker Anne Charlotte Robertson apologizing to the camera for everything-- From drinking non-organic coffee, to returning her camera a day late, to smoking and damaging her lungs; She apologizes to the audience for her thoughts, her apologies, herself.

The Spirit of TV

1990 • 18 min

Beginning with the arrival by canoe of a TV and VCR in their village, The Spirit of TV documents the emotions and thoughts of the Waiãpi as they first encounter their own recorded images and those of others. Viewing news broadcasts and videos of other Brazilian native peoples, the Waiãpi see the power of images to facilitate memory preservation and political awareness. Some people worry, though about the invasive spirits of outsiders that can come through the TV. Another concern is the negative exposure that might result from the Waiãpi broadcasting their own images.

Breakout

1990 • 10 min • United States of America

The camera is spinning. The points accumulate to form a line, a line of horizon, which like any line draws a hidden curve. The traffic disengages from its components - water, bridges, cars, smoke, facade - to become an endless trajectory. The current of energy, which wanders over the various objects: the photographed thing of an immediate familiar reality, a chain of points of inertia.

Homo Paradoksum II

1990 • 17 min • Soviet Union

This film explores the paradox of dEvolution and how Homo Insanicus took over the largest country in the world. Film didn't lose its actuality, because rivalry between Homo Sapiens and Homo Insanicus continues...

Gubben i skåpet

1990 • 18 min • Finland

A little girl who is afraid of drunkards believes one of them might be hiding in an old cupboard that her family has just bought.

D-Day: Assault on Fortress Europe

1990 • 55 min

The Largest Amphibious Force In History Assembled To Break Hitler's Supposedly Invincible Line Of Defence. Early in the morning of 6th June 1944, a vast and bizarre armada ploughed steadily against stiff head-winds through the rough waters of the English Channel, heading for the Normandy coast. Amongst the 5,000 vessels were many of the best British and American warships of stupendous collective firepower, also ancient battleships and tankers on their last voyage, destined to be sunk to provide breakwaters. It was D-Day. Conceived almost on the shores of Dunkirk, four years in the planning, two in the organising and one day in execution, the landing in Normandy was easily the largest and most extraordinary combined military operation ever attempted. It was also a crucial one.

Escape

1990 • 5 min • Soviet Union

In ordinary Soviet cuisine, a slab of meat is chased by hands wanting to make minced meat out of it.

Satanic Cults and Ritual Crime

1990 • 13 min • United States of America

This program explains some of the reasons why people are drawn to the Satanic way of life and reveals the symbols used by members of the occult world. The program also highlights some of the criminal activities associated with ritual practices and ceremonies and gives important dates when these crimes are most likely to occur during the year. (worldcat.org)

California Bikini Classic!

1990 • 42 min • United States of America

The California Bikini Classic pits the hottest West Coast beauties against one another in the ultimate bikini contest that leaves nothing to the imagination. See them strip and strut and show off their amazing bodies and delectable curves in skimpy bikinis that most be seen - barely seen, that is! - to be believed!

V/M. Drifting

1990 • 9 min • Japan

The original format is 8mm film (single8), and once the developed film is incompletely layered on the undeveloped film, it is projected onto a curtain swaying in the wind by shining light at an angle with a penlight. Created an effect.

Rocky Interlude

1990 • 10 min

A trip to a barren landscape of jagged peaks and deep crevasses becomes a playground for an over-dressed hiker and his beefcake buddy as they secrete and imbibe fluids from various containers.

The Fall of Cronus

1990 • 53 min • Hungary

András Rajnai's Greek Mythology - Gods and Heroes series. The story is set at the beginning of time on the edge of the universe. Based on stories from Greek mythology, titans, cyclops and gods fight each other. It is also the time when Hellas is created in the sky, placing Zeus on the throne of Olympus.

Toxic Waste

1990 • 1 min • Canada

An animated Raeside cartoon from 1990. The transportation of toxic waste.

Es ist aus, Marie

1990 • 3 min • Germany

A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

The Real Story of Rain Rain Go Away

1990 • 24 min

Meet Prince Vince. He's hip! He's Hop! He's the man with the tan! When Mother Nature rains on his tanning parade, Prince Vince doesn't just pull out an umbrella, he calls on Merle, the magician, to cast a spell and make the rain go away — forever! But as Prince Vince learns, when you mess with Mother Nature, Mother Nature messes with you! Will he be able to make up with Mother Nature before his evil cousin, Smarmly, steals his crown and his bride? Find out in this wacky, song-filled adventure.

Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn

1990 • 25 min

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1990

What Have We Done?

1990 • 30 min

Senzeni Na? is a 1990 short film directed by Bernard Joffa. In South Africa 1980, a black man is accused of being a terrorist and is subsequently tortured by the white police. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

What Nobody Saw

1990 • 16 min • United States of America

Three figures - man, woman, child - roam the grounds of a State Mental Hospital, a kind of hell on earth, looking for each other or for a supreme witness to their loneliness. A visual poem with voices off.

Hoi-Polloi

1990 • 10 min

Part home-movie, part diary, evoking the disembodied voices of the hoi polloi, manifest as an animistic presence within the landscape.

Fade to Black

1990 • 32 min • United States of America

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are unnoticed or discounted by whites—gestures, hesitations, stares, off-the-cuff remarks, jokes—details of an ideology of repressed racism.