All Films

Une partie de campagne

1990 • 22 min • France

El almohadon

1990 • 52 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Africa: Land and People

1990 • 23 min • United States of America

This film takes a close look at Africa's varied geography and the people who settled and live in these region. Also it contrasts the rural villages and the modern cities.

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

1990 • 24 min

During a storm on a Christmas tree farm, a dove and her family asks a small tree for protection, which the tree gives straightaway. The shelter it created for the doves bent the trunk, and causes it to grow crooked. Now, no one wants the small imperfect tree. Based on the book by Michael Cutting.

Guests

1990 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Harmony

1990 • 9 min

A tour de force exercise in optical printing shot in the Chicago Loop

And Then I'll Stop... Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

1990 • 20 min

Using interviews with re-hab patients, a series of stories takes us through the habits, downfall and subsequent acknowledgment and recovery of each addict.

Oooh Er Missus! The Frankie Howerd Story

1990 • 57 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the life of Frankie Howerd, with help from friends and colleagues and including highlights from his TV and film career.

Zoo Piece

1990 • 3 min • France

A quietly observed montage of animals in captivity—seals, leopards, gorillas, wolves, monkeys, ostriches, and others—Zoo Piece shifts perspective from spectacle to confinement, reflecting on the boundaries between observation and imprisonment.

The PanoptiCon Tapes III

1990 • 50 min • United Kingdom

3. The Pertwee Years - We take an in-depth look at the Jon Pertwee era, which has been featured more thoroughly at PanoptiCons than any other. Experience the special mix that made this period one of the most popular in Doctor Who’s history. However, you’ll see lots of other personalities from other eras as we stop along the way to look at particular aspects of the programme.

Timeless Tales: The Ugly Duckling

1990 • 25 min

Scorned for looking different, a poor little Ugly Duckling is abandoned when his family flies south for the winter. The duckling is befriended by the warmhearted Runabout Rabbit, but he soon finds that he doesn't fit in with bunnies. But after a miraculous change, the Ugly Duckling learns that sometimes being different can be beautiful.

The Return

1990 • 27 min • Soviet Union

A young man escapes from prison three months before his release, but after communicating with his father and friends decides to declare himself to the police...

The KGB, the Computer and Me

1990 • 56 min • United States of America

In 1986, astronomer turned computer scientist Clifford Stoll had just started working on a computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory when he noticed a 75-cent discrepancy between the charges printed by two accounting programs responsible for charging people for machine use. Intrigued, he deduced that the system was being hacked, and he determined to find the culprit. This is the re-enactment of how he tracked down KGB cracker Markus Hess through the Ethernet to Hannover, Germany.

Tom Chicago on Location

1990 • 22 min

The nom d'art 'Tommy Chicago' reflects independent filmmaker Tom Palazzolo's unique status within the Chicago film community. Since 1967, Palazzolo has filtered all aspects of the Windy City through his audacious lens. This documentary captures the artist at work and play on his latest film: we see him engage street urchins in the service of his vision, teach his son that you CAN buy love, and drive cast and crew to the brink of artistic chaos. Colorful and fast-paced, the tape illuminates the vital interplay between Palazzolo's brash personal style and his filmic art.

Reconnaissance

1990 • 29 min • India

The protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.

Soundgarden: Louder Than Live

1990 • 50 min

Louder Than Live is a home video by the American rock band Soundgarden featuring songs performed live at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, California on December 7, 1989 and December 10, 1989. It was released on May 22, 1990.

Detectives sin piedad

1990 • 27 min

Wild story of detectives.

Caesar's Salad

1990 • 10 min • United States of America

The short called “Caesar’s Salad” that won at the Chicago Film Festival and the New Orleans Film and Video Festival. C.K.’s mother helped him to pay for “Caesar’s Salad,” the production of which required him to close down a street and use a cop car. In the Louis C.K. episode of Marc Maron’s podcast, Maron mentions that he was cut out of “Caesar’s Salad” but some of his guitar playing remains on the soundtrack.

Sacrificial Birth

1990 • 10 min • United States of America

A girl invokes a demon, but is frightened from her protection circle. Now the demon can do with her what he will...

Go Nagai's Scary Zone 2: Senki

1990 • 50 min • Japan

Nagai Go no Kowai Zone 2: Senki is a Japanese direct-to-video horror film released in 1990 by the Bandai Media Division. It's the sequel of the film Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki and just like the first film, it was also directed Go Nagai and Hikari Hayakawa. It contains two stories, "Vampire Hunting" and "Concrete Avenger".

Grave Digger The Video

1990 • 45 min • United States of America

Learn about the most feared machine in all of monster truck racing Dennis Anderson's Grave Digger. In this video you will learn the history of the Grave Digger, see what makes the Grave Digger the amazing machine it is, meet the people who have made the Grave Digger the most popular truck in the world. Also see footage of the Grave Digger in awesome side by side monster truck racing.

Sonic Youth: Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)

1990 • 1 min

Sonic Youth performs in the music video "Scooter + Jinx (Moneylove)" from the album "Goo" recorded for Geffen Records. An instrumental by Sonic Youth plays, as a photographer offers a model money in order to pose nude. Photographs are taken before the photographer gives the model a massage. The video is set to a 1990 Richard Kern film entitled "Money Love".

Mad Dog McCree

1990 • 22 min

A nameless individual addressed only as "stranger" rides into an unnamed Old West town and is approached by an elderly prospector (Ben Zeller), who appeals to him for help. He tells the stranger that the mayor and his daughter have been kidnapped by a gang of outlaws led by the notorious "Mad Dog" McCree (Rusty Dillon), and when the sheriff tried to stop them, they locked him up in the jail. The stranger then sets out to defeat the outlaws and free the mayor and his daughter.

Reisen mit Peter Maffay - Israel

1990 • 29 min • Germany

Peter Maffay and his wife explore Israel.