All Films

We

1990 • 4 min • United States of America

A short, graphically dynamic work contrasting contradictory views of perception and interpretation, by way of society's assumptions vis-a-vis phallocentrism and fetishism.

Who Shot Alan B'Stard?

1990 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to politics and helps reinstate capital punishment—until the tables turn and he is framed for a murder he didn’t commit. This standalone special serves as the eighth episode of the series and went on to win the BAFTA Award for Best British Comedy.

Swamp

1990 • 35 min • United States of America

Swamp uses the soap opera format to play with the structure and expectations of the family melodrama. Following the melodramatic format that "if it can happen, it will happen," coincidence and unlikely events abound in a gleeful send-up of lurid intrigue, threatened morality, and endless double-crosses. With looped and repeated edits, fast-paced action, and aggressively funky video effects, Child layers on artifice and excess in an overdone remake of the TV serial.

Heavy

1990 • 52 min • Japan

Guy is a Japanese street-brawler in New York who chooses to train under the famed boxer, Roman, with the hopes that he can raise enough money as a heavyweight to fund a life-saving operation for his father.

Fukuyama Theater: Summer Secret

1990 • 56 min • Japan

Several short animated mini-stories based on the short stories and four-panel manga of Keiko Fukuyama, including My Father the Mouse, The Rabbit Brothers, Summer Secret, The Mysterious Fairy, How Very Strange, and Kuro.

Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project

1990 • 25 min • Japan

Theatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.

Mobile Suit SD Gundam Mk III

1990 • 30 min • Japan

The third installment of SD Gundam shorts.

Fighting Chance

1990 • 31 min • Canada

This video focuses on the experiences of four Asian men. Each person is in a different stage of HIV infection and each has significant experiences with various issues surrounding the disease. The interviews focus on the personal, the therapeutic, the medical and the political with HIV as a constant reference throughout.

Why, Charlie Brown, Why?

1990 • 22 min • United States of America

A new girl comes to the neighbourhood school and Linus is smitten with her. Unfortunately, she develops the symptoms of leukemia and must go to the hospital for cancer treatment. Linus and Charlie Brown help her through the traumas of chemotherapy as best they can while Snoopy plays at being the world's greatest doctor.

Ryôjoku! Hakui o hagu

1990 • 55 min • Japan

Erotic film depicting the world of a nurse's lust with a unique touch of suspense. Nurse Risa is invited by her colleague Etsuko to go to a hotel in a white coat. A man called Saeki is waiting for her, and Risa is handcuffed to him, while Etsuko is humiliated and escapes. When they cannot find the key to the handcuffs, Saeki and Risa go out into the city, but a woman called Akiko, who mistakes Saeki for a real doctor, threatens them with a gun and takes them to a house. There they find an injured man called Nozawa...

Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout

1990 • 60 min • United States of America

Blood starts flowing as Linnea Quigley leads viewers through exercise routines while looking back on the films that made her a legend.

Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - The Castle of Love

1990 • 30 min • Japan

An attractive owner of a love hotel falls in love with her handsome manager.

Kyonyû vs. kyonyû: Kosuru!

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / NIkkatsu.

Arcadia

1990 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Set in the not to distant apocalyptic future. Earth is under invasion from computer/arcade aliens, tensions run high and teenagers still want to 'go out'.

Pretty Angels

1990 • 36 min

Five Women Who Want: Arousal

1990 • 55 min • Japan

Takashi Sonoyama who works in the general affairs section of a listed trading company in the second section, married his wife in the same section three years ago when he was promoted to chief. Sonoyama, who bought his own home and lived a smooth sailing day, was worried about the fact that his subordinates consulted with him both publicly and privately. Then, when the camera slammed from a fairly long window through the Royal Host window, Todoroki confided to Sonoyama about his love for Eto-san in the Yahari General Affairs Division. Sonoyama calls Miss Yuu to Todoroki's room in order to teach the virgin Todoroki a push.

La Villette

1990 • 53 min • East Germany, Germany

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists—including Jürgen Böttcher, the Autoperforation Artists, AG Geige, Via Lewandowsky, Trak Wendisch, Conny Hege, Klaus Killisch, Helga Paris and Hanns Schimansky—presented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris.

I Am THE Shiratori Reiko!

1990 • 45 min • Japan

19-year old Reiko is a rich, arrogant, material girl, who refuses to admit her feelings for classmate Tetsuya Akimoto before it's almost too late.

Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted

1990 • 50 min • United States of America

After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.

USSR Art

1990 • 40 min

The first art auction in Moscow conducted by Sotheby’s took place in the summer of 1988. It became a turning point in the history of contemporary Russian art, the first time that Soviet art collided head-on with the full Western market force. USSR Art uses this seminal event as a platform from which to explore the effect of glasnost on art in the Soviet Union.

Bare Skin Tropical Night

1990 • 60 min • Japan

1990 Original Video.

Hyperland

1990 • 49 min • United Kingdom

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s and early 1990s: hypertext, multimedia, virtual assistants, interactive video, 3D animation, and virtual reality.

Midnight Angel

1990 • 48 min

"Midnight Angel," filmed in 1990 for ITV's "The Celebration" series, uniquely portrays artist and former fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe's life and legacy.

Dirt Site

1990 • 15 min

Short film.