All Films - Short Movie Database

Elegie Bitterfeld

1990 • 9 min • Germany

Short documentary film about Bitterfeld, now part of the city Bitterfeld-Wolfen, which became a symbol for ailing economy, contaminated air and polluted land on account of its numerous industrial plants.

Vision d'une Schizophrene

1990 • 1 min • Japan

Experimented to exchange time with space. Used a kind of image processing which converts the increment of scanlines to passing of the time, and, converts the increment of frames to translation in the space.

Pulsar

1990 • 4 min • Japan

Stop motion animation using gypsum.

Mitki in Europe, Yolly-pally

1990 • 53 min • Soviet Union

Film about Mitki - a creative group of St. Petersburg artists, writers and musicians who joined them, - went on a trip to Europe.

Monument

1990 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

A statue, with outstretched arm pointing “forward,” is unveiled to thunderous applause. Then one day it points the other way. Once again, thunderous applause!

Final Solutions

1990 • 10 min

A film that explores the Teleculture's treatment of AIDS as a consumer image.

Diversion

1990 • 6 min

Produced one year after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Diversion focuses on the immigration flush in Hong Kong. By combining footage from various sources, including government newsreels of the Victoria Harbour swimming contests, this video illustrates a personal reflection of a collective memory.

The Day Before Independence

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A portrait of Latvia just day before the Declaration of Independence.

Mayhem - Cursed In Eternity

1990 • 60 min

DVD from the box set 'Cursed In Eternity'. (Live In Jessheim, Live In Sarpsborg, Henhouse Rehearsals)

Moona Luna

1990 • 10 min

The inspiration for MOONA LUNA came from my wish to make a painting in which I could evolve. That summer it had been twenty years since we had walked on the moon. I was jealous of that, so I decided to paint my walls to make a lunar decoration. During the fall I traveled across Europe and wrote a lot. Moona Luna is the result of these two moments. This is my first trip to the moon. On the set I authorized Doctor Bonami to become Mr. Bad Actor. Virgins always say everything, so I kept the first shot. The story evokes three sailors working on a French boat and a professor of physics. There may not be whales, but there are many other things.

Endlich fliegen

1990 • 18 min • East Germany, Germany

The dreams of young Andrea. The camera accompanies the seven-year-old girl in 1976 when she was at school dressed up and singing as a flying butterfly. Later, at the age of 17, she wanted to be "free" from her parents and tried to realize her dream as a dancer at a ballet school in Leipzig, but quickly failed and gave up. From then on, she works as a waitress in a restaurant because she is around people and feels comfortable there. She meets new people outside of her parental home, learns to discuss and represent other opinions. Her boyfriend accompanies her on her new path, but she can rarely see him as he works in another big city, which in turn leads to problems. The life of Andrea, now 19 years old, is portrayed here with excerpts from the film "Butterflies" and shows us what happened to Andrea's dreams of "flying and being free".

Seasons of the Sea: A Film by Howard Hall

1990 • 52 min

World-renowned zoologist and marine photographer Howard Hall explores the complex ecology of California's coastal kelp forests in this classic underwater production. The film dives deep into this mysterious Pacific Ocean realm, examining some of its odd and unusual inhabitants, from the rare basking shark, to otters and sea lions, and magnificent blue whales, the largest animals on the Planet.

Itziguari, la leyenda purépecha

1990 • 5 min • Mexico

Small Rope

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Playing hide and seek game comes to a sticky end for the cat Tutti and the hippo Topa. Tutti stuck in a well, as the idea to hide there seemed quite reasonable. But Topa would not leave his friend in trouble and pulled his friend out with a rope, but first he needed to overcome many obstacles to find it.

Harm

1990 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Short film from Soviet Parallel Cinema group

Tom Jones – Live At This Moment

1990 • 59 min

Live concert footage featuring 16 songs spanning Tom Jones' career including: "It's Not Unusual", "Kiss", "Delilah", "Green, Green Grass of Home", "What's New Pussycat?" "Move Closer", "Satisfaction" and "Help Yourself".

Macbeth

1990 • 25 min

An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play, this animated version looks at the life and death of the Scottish hero-turned-villain Macbeth.

Like a Prayer

1990 • 29 min

Produced by the activist video collective ACT UP/NY called DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Activist Television), this tape analyzes the collaborative demonstration "Stop the Church" by WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) and ACT UP/NY on December 10, 1990, against Cardinal John O'Connor and the Roman Catholic Church's murderous stand on abortion rights, safer sex, and homosexuality.

Adalil - Die Herrin der Zelte

1990 • 44 min

The film shows the life of women in a tent camp on the edge of the Sahara. An old nomad woman and her daughter from the city argue about happiness - where do you find happiness, in the desert or city. Women and men in open dispute about love, suffering and passion. In an amazing way, something of the self-confidence, independence and courage of these daughters of the sand becomes palpable.