All Films

Thomas & Friends: James Learns a Lesson

1990 • 38 min

Get Ready! Get Set! Go! Join in on all of the excitement with Thomas and the rest of your Sodor Friends. Cheer on Thomas as he and Bertie race across the Island to prove who's the fastest. Cast your line in on the fun as Thomas decides fishing is not exactly what he expected and learn with James the danger of getting a little too rough with the coaches. Full steam ahead for wonders and surprises on this magical journey.

Arvo Pärt: And Then Came the Evening and the Morning

1990 • 58 min • Soviet Union

Arvo Pärt is regarded as one of the most original avant-garde composers. This documentary shows Pärt as a deeply spiritual man whose work is bound up with his religious beliefs. Both he and his music defy classification, and he is determined to preserve his aura of mystery.

29 Effeminate Gestures

1990 • 10 min • United States of America

KQED contracted with Colossal Pictures to direct the Joe Goode Performance Group segment for “Alive from Off Center”;, Part of KQED's Dancing on the Edge series.

AnOther Love $tory: Women & AIDS

1990 • 29 min • Canada

AnOther Love Story was produced to dispel the myths around HIV & AIDS for women in general, lesbians in particular. The video illustrates how relationships are affected when one or both partners must begin to grapple with the possiblity of HIV infection. It also educates women on safer sex practices in an entertaining, non-threatening way.

Little Lamb

1990 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Based on an English folk song translated by S. Marshak.

The Dog Was Running

1990 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The fate of stray dogs of town, who wander around seeking their puppies. There are different types of dogs: those who win at contests, those working for police, circus dogs, those at dogfights. In contrast with the above privileged creatures, the future of strays is probably gloomy, sooner or later they end up under the wheels of a car or with the dogcatcher.

Minek

1990 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A person falls into a huge water reservoir and drowns. Before death, they have a vision of their past, of how they drowned a mouse. The film is based on the idea of the equality of all living beings and the repercussions of cruelty.

The Third Live Video 日実力派宣言

1990 • 58 min • Japan

Chisato Moritaka 3rd Live video 1 {KOREKKIRI ByeBye}: [Nerver again, bye bye] 2 {HI-JITSURYOKUHA SENGEN}: [Non-ability declaration] ¡ 3 {HATACHI}: [Twenty] 4 The Stress [Stress {CHUUKINTOU} version] 5 {SHIRITAGARI}: [Curiousity] 6 {WATASHI-WA ONCHI}: [I'm tone-deaf] 7 {JUNANA-SAI}: [Seventeen] 8 {YORU-NO ENTOTSU}: [Chimney at night] 9 GET SMILE 10 {MITE}: [Look] 11 {DAITE}: [Hold me] [Las Vegas version] 12 {JUNANA-SAI}: [Seventeen] [Orange Mix] 13 {KAIO-SEI-NO DENSETSU}

Eulalia-Marta

1990 • 18 min

In the Mediterranean port of Barcelona two young unemployed girls living in a renovation area drift around the city desperately looking for a job.

Island of Whales

1990 • 55 min

This film joins five of the world's leading whale researchers on a scientific expedition around Canada's Vancouver Island. Spectacular photography and sound recording, both above and under water, provide an imtimate look at killer, gray, and humpback whales, and the world they inhabit. Island of Whales examines the communication, habitat, food supply and behaviour of whales. What emerges is a picture of creatures more sophisticated and complex than ever before imagined. At the end of the film, we are left with one compelling question: Can these magnificent creatures survive in the face of declining food supplies and pollution?

Hell Notes

1990 • 26 min

A Super-8 essay film about New York City bedrock, excrement, and money

Ça va, ça va

1990 • 3 min • France

Zona Eleitoral

1990 • 9 min • Brazil

Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.

Vivitos y coleando

1990 • 57 min • Argentina

"Alive and Kicking" is a musical comedy set in various natural settings in Buenos Aires, starring Roberto Catarineu, Andrea Tenuta, and Carlos March.

Aquarium Fish of This World

1990 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Aquarium Fish of This World is the story of the relationship between the captain and the boatswain, temporarily written off ashore, with a young guy who dreams of becoming a cabin boy.

The Belkin Tales: The Undertaker

1990 • 48 min • Soviet Union

During an anniversary dinner, an undertaker is offended when someone jokingly offers a toast to the health of his customers. He claims that he will hold a house-warming party with his customers instead of his neighbors, only to find out later that his invitation has been accepted.

Dream of a Mermaid

1990 • 30 min

Enter a world of warm blue waters and picturesque seascapes, featuring world-famous supermodel Tracy Millhollon.

Malvadez

1990 • 55 min • Portugal

Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers

Hôtel Sannō

1990 • 14 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Attack of the Killer Refrigerator

1990 • 16 min • United States of America

A group of teenagers get drunk and abuse a hapless refrigerator. The machine then goes on a killing rampage, eating the ones who beat him up.

The Girls' Daily Bread

1990 • 12 min

1990 short film

Three Jolly Fellows

1990 • 59 min • Soviet Union

Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, the irritable city dweller Halfshoe, and the sensitive poet Muff.

Ecclesia Endre

1990 • 58 min • Sweden

A historical reconstruction of a Roman Rite mass as it would have been done October 4, 1450, 18th Sunday after Pentecost.

Concertino Outtakes

1990 • 6 min • France

The filmmaker recycles the discarded material from Concertino, a film conceived for a piece for ten dancers by the same name by Catherine Diverrès, a celebration of bodies shaken by emptiness.