All Films

Janneke

1990 • 8 min • Netherlands

The miracle of life takes place to the tune of the drinking song from Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. The game of love between man and woman as a prelude to the creation of new life: the birth and growth of Janneke, Gerrit van Dijk’s daughter.

Florence Henderson's Looking Great, Feeling Great

1990 • 58 min • United States of America

Florence Henderson (The Brady Bunch) shares her personal secrets for helping women look and feel their best. Beauty tips for proper skin care, easy make-up techniques, hair and fashion. Plus, how to relieve stress and simple things you can do to add to your overall fitness health!

Hans tid som gravid

1990 • 55 min • Sweden

About a young man who falls in love with his brother's pregnant wife.

Eventyret om den vidunderlige musik

1990 • 22 min • Denmark

Animated Composer in need of inspiration dreams his way through centuries of music - an inspiring tale that leaves him with a rather bland pop tune.

Les heures

1990 • 6 min • France

On the one hand: A frame - and then windows in the frame - Spiked - from one to the other - Images designated - fenced, inside / out. Every moment broken - repeated. Always past. One after the other. Cruelty of the open boundary itself - and immediately some untimely object comes up against it - clog the sight - obliterate the frame. On the other hand: The note pursues an eternal moment. It's his game, run the frame, draw the embrasure, and so on. (...) she passes. Immediately in it she plays with nothing. Immediately outside she finds.

The Breakdown

1990 • 3 min • East Germany

A man waits at the side of the motorway with a tow rope, waiting for a car to tow him. Many, many cars go by without stopping until the driver of a small dilapidated car takes pity on him. The rope is attached. The other end of the rope leads to a pot-hole in the road. Lurking insides the pot-hole is a surprise.

After the Montreal Massacre

1990 • 28 min • Canada

December 6, 1989. Sylvie Gagnon was attending her last day of classes at the University of Montreal's École Polytechnique, when Marc Lépine entered the building. Separating the women from the men, he opened fire on the women students, yelling 'You're all a bunch of feminists.' Sylvie survived, while fourteen other women were murdered. This video makes the connection between the massacre and male violence against women, setting the stage for an exploration of misogyny and sexism.

The Reading Room

1990 • 5 min

A library patron with a really bad cough irritates another patron, who decides to retaliate.

Jareena: Portrait of a Hijda

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

Documents the life of a member of a transsexual sect, both at her home in the countryside and with a group of her fellows in a Hamam in Bangalore.

The Medicine Show

1990 • 30 min • Canada

The Medicine Show utilizes narrative storytelling, mock interviews, and staged theatrical vignettes to create a satirical portrait of a day in the life of an HIV-positive gay man named Gregory navigating his treatment options.

Interpretation of Dreams

1990 • 52 min • Austria, Soviet Union

Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time, the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view.

Mi firma en las paredes

1990 • 50 min

Mixing documentary and fiction, Mi firma en las paredes is a portrait of the early days of Grafitti in Spain.

Amours liquides

1990 • 36 min

It's Halloween

1990 • 22 min

Timmy, a lonely trick or treater, is laughed at by the big kids because his Halloween costume is not scary. While looking for a scarier costume, Timmy finds a book of spells and incantations that belongs to an old witch, who must stop Timmy before he casts too many spells. Featuring characters created by Grey Seal Puppets and presented by WSOC-TV channel 9, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Waiting

1990 • 5 min • Germany

In this silent short, shot in gritty yet lyrical black and white, a young woman takes a breather in Berlin's bucolic Tiergarten park. Yet as time passes, she grows anxious.

The Satellite Sky

1990 • 57 min • United States of America

Unaccompanied by narration or interviews, contemporary imagery drawn from science fiction films, government propaganda films, US Air Force films, newsreels, NASA footage, and old television shows paints an impressionistic portrait of the dawn of the Space Age, to better understand why the Space Race became the paragon of the Cold War military rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States and the ultimate propaganda vehicle for projecting the superiority of one society over the other.

Face Facts

1990 • 4 min • United Kingdom

We in the beauty business uphold one ideal to all - let's build her.

To Each His Own

1990 • 33 min • Soviet Union

Estonia in a turbulent era of change. Citizen A, a modest, indecisive person, with great difficulty and inner fear fits into the changed realities of the world around him. And he constantly finds himself in various absurd situations.

In the Moonlight

1990 • 32 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairytale of the same name by Marcel Aimé.

The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner

1990 • 57 min • United States of America

The Spirit in Architecture examines the work of John Lautner, one of the most visionary and profound architects, who began his career in Los Angeles in the 1930's. This illuminating journey into Lautner's world features never before seen footage from his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin; extensive documentation of his extraordinary buildings; and interviews with historians, critics, collaborators, clients, and Lautner himself, which put his achievements in perspective. his building's use in feature films and his Googie's coffee shop design demonstrate his contribution to popular culture.

Und freitags in die "Grüne Hölle"

1990 • 49 min • East Germany

Ernst Cantzler’s documentary about the soccer fan club “Union”, the scenes in the stadium, in their club bar “Green Hell” and in the streets of Berlin was a sensation. The scenes shown by the director and his cameraman had never been seen before: young soccer fans full of violence in the “first German peaceful state”. They are Hooligans who live from one weekend to the other just to get it all out. They want to scream, kick, hit and drink.

Bob Uecker's Fun Moments in Sports

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Entertaining film footage from football, baseball, hockey, boxing, cycling, race car driving and others.

The Story of Elvis Presley

1990 • 47 min

The most exciting performer of the modern age revealed. Go back to where it all began. How the phenomenal career of Elvis Presley really got started. How Elvis started in show business, rare footage of his early television and 'silver screen' performances and his meteoric rise to fame. This documented history of "The King' has it all. A must for movie buff, . Elvis fans and students of modern culture alike.

Minqon Minqon: Wosqotmn Elsonwagon

1990 • 6 min

Decades before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Shirley Bear was defying repressive colonial narratives with inspiring imagery of Indigenous womanhood. Catherine Martin profiles the Wolastoqiyik/Malecite artist known as Minqon Minqon (Rainbow Rainbow).