All Films

A Finnish Rhapsody

1990 • 27 min

Short film by Tapio Piirainen that is his diploma work when graduating from TaiK / Department of Film, Television and Scenography.

Black and White

1990 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

Reuben, an African student at Novi Sad University, returns from his visit to his parents.

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

Animated adaptation of Virginia Lee Burton's children's book.

Welles' Language

1990 • 16 min • Brazil

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in the language domain - three friends of Welles' testified his love for cinema, his passion for Brazilian music and people and his obstinate endurance against formidable pressures coming from inside and outside Hollywood regarding his unfinished "It's All True".

To Be

1990 • 10 min • Canada

Blending fantasy and reality, this animated short is a bold inquiry into an as yet unresolved problem - the nature of human identity. When a scientist creates a machine that can make copies of physical objects, including humans, a number of ethical questions arise. Is the technique moral? What of its safety? A film by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Weldon (who also wrote the catchy banjo tune that punctuates the story's changing moods).

A Resourceful Poor Man

1990 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Based on Kyrgyz fairytales.

Letters to Gary

1990 • 14 min

From 1987 to 1990, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Gary Green.

How to Juggle & Other Matters of Life & Death

1990 • 30 min

The Flying Karamozov Brothers have been "in the biz" since 1973 performing everywhere from the streets of San Francisco to more recent appearances on Broadway. And now... The Flying Karamozov Brothers present, their first ever made for video, video: How to Juggle & Other Matters of Life & Death. For the accountant who juggles the books, for the homemaker who juggles the family's schedule, for the busy executive who juggles the office, and especially for KIDS of all ages who juggle a limitless supply of energy. Finally, a video for anyone who ever wanted to learn how to juggle anything.

About the Tap Who Sang at the Opera

1990 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

Story about a hard way to the stage. Our hero gives up his job in a restaurant to find fame on fortune at the opera. will he succeed?

Wayne Gretzky: Above and Beyond

1990 • 58 min

Once in a generation comes an athlete so gifted that he completely dominates his sport. In our generation that man is Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky is more than a hockey star, he is an inter-national sports hero. ABOVE AND BEYOND takes you behind the headlines to that frozen river where his career began.

The Red and the Black

1990 • 60 min

A dramatic musical written by Shibata Yukihiro, based on the full-length novel by literary master Stendahl.

Dirty Beasts

1990 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things, in irreverent and absurdly comic verse. Including Crocky-Wock, the crocodile, who every Saturday has six young children for his lunch and how Miss Milky Daisy, the cow, punished a very rude man.

Branislav Nušić

1990 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

The movie is inspired by the book "Nova Klasa" by Milovan Đilas, a close associate of Josip Broz Tito, who later became a famous dissident. The book analyzes the process in which former "revolutionaries" become petty bourgeois. Wanting to imitate the classical bourgeois class in Serbia (which they destroyed with genocide, ethnocide, culturocide and urbanocide), they only manage to reach the level of provincial petty bourgeois. Their world resembles the world from Branislav Nušić's comedies. The quasi-elite even has fun with the characters and situations, recognizes themselves and enjoys their stupidity. Two horses in front of the National Assembly unsuccessfully try to prevent other "horses" from entering. The absurdity of what is happening in today's National Assembly even exceeds the imagination of Nušić.

Basil Hears a Noise

1990 • 28 min • Canada

Basil, Louis the otter, Dodi the green adventurer and Elmo the furry red monster go camping and after Basil hears a noise, embark on a medieval adventure.

A Question About Sex

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

Teenage girl who advocates sex education at her school finds herself butting heads with her mother who is seeking a spot on the school board.

Life of Python

1990 • 55 min • United Kingdom

This BBC documentary tells the history of the Python group, allowing a few glimpses at the works of its predecessors (At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Sets etc.) and various interviews with the group's members and other associated artists.

Richard Lewis: I'm Doomed

1990 • 52 min

Taped in Chicago for HBO in 1990. The sun's too bright, the traffic's going to be bad, there's too many people out there... It's just easier to sit back on the couch and laugh with Richard Lewis.

Kata: Traditional Shorin Ryu Karate

1990 • 45 min

Master Ota demonstrates all 18 Shorin Ryu Kata, both at a learning speed and at full speed. All forms are performed in the traditional Okinawan style

La mujer inesperada

1990 • 60 min • Spain

A man wakes up in a train to Malaga. A mysterious woman helps him get in time to his marriage, which is a few hours later.

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen

1990 • 57 min • United States of America, France

Jessye Norman Sings Carmen is a gripping vérité study of the famous dramatic soprano’s approach to mastering Bizet’s heroine in recording sessions with Seiji Ozawa and the Orchestre National de France. Musical segments include performances of three arias and the great duets between Carmen and Don José

I skog och mark

1990 • 57 min • Sweden

Blad-Johan and the Nature Filmer are two cartoon characters who are part of this rhapsodic montage of crazy ideas and situations that take place in nature.

Black & White Study

1990 • 8 min

An exploration of chiaroscuro, nudes, movement and film techniques in constantly shifting fields of perception. Eroticism and humor highlight an interracial couple engaged in a tableau vivant of opposites and attractions.

Ainbusk Singers - Bondbrudar i Närbild

1990 • 53 min • Sweden

Interviews with the band Ainbusk Singers interspersed with clips from their show "Greatest Tits"

The Flesh Is Willing

1990 • 10 min • United States of America

An experimental short film by Todd Verow about an unhappy marriage of convenience between a gay man and a lesbian who yearn for the pleasures of the flesh with other men and women.