All Films

Pour le plaisir

1990 • 6 min • Tunisia

Two young women sculpt a man's body out of clay for the sheer pleasure of it.

Jewish Happiness

1990 • 50 min • Soviet Union

The hero of the film, Mark, the last of the old Jewish family living in Russia and then in the USSR, emigrates to his historical homeland in the early 90s. Under a formal pretext, before leaving, Mark literally comes to the small town where his childhood was spent for one day.

Color de mujer

1990 • 26 min • Peru

Cecilia Cartagena, an afroperuvian woman coast, presents with her testimony a story of injustice and suffering that passes through several generations. It is, however, marked by hope and struggle to achieve a better world.

The Very Best of Peter Sellers

1990 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A definitive collection of his very best work: The Very Best of Peter Sellers.

Ruins of Ōkubo

1990 • 12 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Safety Awareness for Forklift Equipment

1990 • 57 min • United States of America

An overview on safety precautions that protect forklift operators on the job.

Scenes from the Last Drive-In

1990 • 6 min

Jeff Krulik captures the last drive-in in Maryland.

Beer Commercial

1990 • 1 min

A bum drinks a beer.

Two Lies

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

Doris Chu, a recently divorced Chinese American woman, has plastic surgery to make her eyes rounder. From her teenage daughter Mei's perspective, her mother's two eyes equal two lies. When the family journeys to a desert resort during Doris' recuperation, a series of revelations and bitter confrontations erupt. This beautiful black and white drama is a poignant study of generational conflict and the struggle for identity in a world of hybrid cultures.

Journey to the Forgotten River

1990 • 50 min

Journey to the Forgotten River follows on from The Stolen River, and journeys with the animals that did not stay, but chose early on to leave the wreckage of the disappearing river and go in search of the rovers of the north. One traveller on the 120km trek is a female hippo, and we follow as she trudges across the interior, and finally makes it to Linyanti. Her urgency is soon explained. She has the next generation to think about. A classic moment in film, from Journey to the Forgotten River is the duel between a female warthog and some jackal, who are determined to snatch her babies.

To Shura

1990 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Throughout her life, Aleksandra has done hard physical work, believing in God and the imminent end of human suffering. Shura, 64, works at the top of the ash hill of the North-Eastern Estonian coal mine.

The Women Who Smile

1990 • 49 min

Duka, a young unmarried Hamar girl learns what awaits her in life from the older women of her tribe. Their often humorous conversations range from teenage pregnancy and growing old to relationships with men. Although the men are dominant, the women are not servile and on occasion will mock the posturing of the men. The women's high spirits are revealed during the harvest celebrations and the blessing ceremony for a new baby. Young women avoid the watchful eyes of their elders as they flirt and dance.

Once Upon a Time...

1990 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A modern fairy tale about a beauty and a dragon.

Reincarnation Case of Suresh Verma

1990 • 17 min • India

Suresh Verma, who owned a radio shop in Agra, was shot in the head in 1983. Titu Singh was born in December 1983 and had spontaneous memories of his life as Suresh. He had birthmarks corresponding to the entry and exit wounds documented on the autopsy report for Suresh Verma.

Another Damaging Day

1990 • 12 min • United States of America

A young man washes and rinses off his car on his driveway on a cloudy day with thunder being heard. and the man gets struck by lightning

Women on the Move

1990 • 50 min • Algeria

O Jogo da Dívida: Quem Deve a Quem?

1990 • 58 min • Brazil

Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible alternatives for a solution, passing through the description of its mechanisms, its most serious crises and its social consequences.

Not Knot

1990 • 17 min • United States of America

Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot. Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most known complements carry the structure of hyperbolic geometry, a geometry in which the sum of three angles of a triangle always is less than 180 degrees.

China - Super 8 Reisetagebuch

1990 • 17 min

I travelled in China for 3 ½ weeks on an excursion organised by the art academy. First, we took the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Datong. We then travelled around the country, taking in a lot as we kept moving. I captured what I saw using diverse film techniques.

Pearl Fishers

1990 • 13 min • Soviet Union

How Rubik's and Kubik's pearls were mined.

At The Lake

1990 • 23 min • Canada

Follows the beginning of a thirteen-year-old girl's transition from childhood to independence during a family visit to a great-aunt's lakeside cottage in 1964

More Bells and Whistles

1990 • 2 min • United States of America

More Bells and Whistles was the first music animation created by Wayne Lytle in 1990. It was for the Cornell University. A bunch of instruments such as bells, whistles and other instruments play in an enclosed room.

Compartment

1990 • 5 min • Germany

Sex on the metro! The director has taken footage shot in a completely empty compartment on the London underground and married it to the off-camera reading of a pornographic text that includes detailed masturbation instructions for a female rider. The whole sexy trip, driven by musical clinking sounds, is framed by images of a woman in black bandages using a leather whip for self-flagellation. Take a ride on the wild side!

Protective Coloration

1990 • 17 min • United States of America

This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex musical architecture, developing intricate rhythms not unlike the complex syncopations found in traditional African music. Elements of sand, dirt, light and shadow cross-reference the film's emulsion with evolutionary history and provide a second level of musical structuring through which the first layer is filtered. The animals' fur patterns, which evolved naturally as camouflage to hide them from predators, ironically now make the animals more visible to human predators who are attracted by their exotic uniqueness. This cinematic analogy underscores modern humanity's relationship to the natural world.