All Films

Stabat Mater

1990 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal feminine of Joyce’s Ulysses, which echoes the exultant/feverish swoop of the camera through a Mediterranean landscape

Artwar Loop 1

1990 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the TV. These can be watched as individual films or as loops.

Blatzom in Artwar

1990 • 21 min • United Kingdom

This vibrant montage of colours and positive and negative images shows Jeff Keen filtering and reflecting on his previous films.

A Sequence from the Evolution of Form

1990 • 2 min • United Kingdom

William Latham was a figure that dominated computer art and animation in the UK through his use of 'evolutionary' algorithms. Working at this time in partnership with an IBM scientific research centre, Latham aimed at remodelling the entire creative process, 'mutating' the most startling yet controlled virtual sculptures that had so far been seen. This sequence was released on home video formats as well as screened at festivals.

How Wonderful

1990 • 55 min • Australia

How Wonderful is a hilarious and really honest look at pregnancy, featuring a cast of well known Australian actors and actresses.

Artwar Loop 2

1990 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the TV. These can be watched as individual films or as loops.

The Call of the Wild

1990 • 46 min • Ireland

Buck, stolen from his California home, is sold as a sled dog in the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. Abused, he is rescued by John Thornton, who forms a bond with Buck. Thornton is murdered. Buck avenges him and must make a crucial decision.

Midnight Oil - Black Rain Falls

1990 • 45 min • Australia

On May 30, 1990, Midnight Oil interrupted its North American tour for a “special guerrilla action” on the crowded Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. The agit prop event was a live concert from the back of a flat-bed truck that eventually drew more than 10,000 people at the high noon hour. The Australian band took this chance to make public its feelings on the planet’s crumbling environment

A Night on Mount Edna

1990 • 60 min

British TV-special with Barry Humphries, AKA Dame Edna

Provincial Anecdote

1990 • 33 min • Soviet Union

The driver and the forwarder, who came on a business trip, drank everything they had and the next morning they went to ask passers-by for money. There was a kind person who gave them a large sum, but instead of gratitude, the drunkards interrogated the donor with bias...

Stories to Remember: Beauty and the Beast

1990 • 27 min

The tale as old as time follows a young woman who exchanges places with her imprisoned father under the watch of an unhappy creature.

Red On Red

1990 • 50 min • Soviet Union, United Kingdom

A documentary about the Soviet Union history, "Aquarium" music sounds behind the scenes.

Who Didn't Kill JFK

1990 • 60 min

The authenticity of the world famous "backyard photos" of Lee Harvey Oswald, published on the cover of LIFE magazine in 1964, comes under attack by Jack White, selected as consultant to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Preliminary Notes For a Western

1990 • 22 min

What are the necessary elements to produce a good western? To set the stage ironically for action involving all the usual characters : the good guy, the sheriff, the bad guy and the belle. Seen here in their first roles, the players in this video come from a region of Alberta, where cowboys are born and bred. They need not look too far from everyday life to draw inspiration for a classical western...

Pelle Moves to Komfusenbo

1990 • 25 min • Sweden

When you are four years old it is tough to be unfairly accused of stealing your father's favourite fountain pen. There is nothing else for Pelle but to leave home and go off by himself, all the way to Komfusenbo, way down at the bottom of the garden.

Saul of Tarsus

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Saul of Tarsus is one of the most dramatic stories of repentance found in the Bible. Rabbi Gamaliel is unable to convince his friend Saul, the arch-enemy and persecutor of Christians, to mend his ways. Saul is changed forever when the resurrected Lord miraculously appears to him on the Road to Damascus. Saul becomes reborn as Paul, one of the greatest missionaries and apostles ever for Jesus Christ’s gospel.

Belinda Carlisle: Runaway Videos

1990 • 40 min

Nine complete music videos from Belinda Carlisle, featuring Heaven Is A Place On Earth; I Get Weak; Circle In The Sand; Leave A Light On; La Luna; Runaway Horses; (We Want) The Same Thing; Summer Rain; and Vision Of You.

Everyone's Channel

1990 • 60 min

A look at the Local Access Cable phenomenon.

Dead Women Don't Wear Shoes

1990 • 11 min

When she puts on a murdered woman's shoes, a teenager's body is used as a vessel for revenge.

Isto é Noel Rosa

1990 • 45 min • Brazil

The life of samba composer Noel Rosa.

Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole

1990 • 24 min • Soviet Union

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.

Revolting Rhymes

1990 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.

Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life

1990 • 15 min

Oscar-winning animator Ray Harryhausen gives an exclusive insight into cinema's most famous monster creations and special effects secrets with the actual models used in such classics as Clash of the Titans.

One Night Stand: Ellen DeGeneres

1990 • 26 min • United States of America

Comedian/TV host/actress Ellen DeGeneres performs her stand-up routine in this riotous special.