All Films

Closet Case

1995 • 4 min • Canada

In this quintessential 'coming out' film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement.

River Colors

1995 • 60 min • Germany

Observations through a slowly gliding camera on the canals of Thailand reveal the living quarters and open lifestyles of people living right on the waterfront. A uniquely filmic spatial illusion is created, accented by an outstanding soundscape.

Cry!

1995 • 3 min • Hungary

A three-minutes time-travel from a man's birth to his death, from the micro-cosmos to the macro-cosmos - and all the way back.

Mädchen

1995 • 3 min • Germany

A group of girls in summer dresses play a game of catch in the Place des Vosges in Paris.

Jump-up: Caribbean Carnival in Canada

1995 • 11 min

A multicultural story that centres on the growing friendship of a newly-arrived West Indian child and a Canadian girl as they both discover how the black community organizes a yearly festival featuring costumes, music and a little history. This filmstrip introduces a festive occasion celebrated by the black community in several cities, sensitizes children to the feelings of those who have recently arrived in Canada, and fosters appreciation of the culture of others.

Ernie's Idea

1995 • 13 min

Ernie is a simple fellow who loves his job, but the blissful routine of Ernie's life is thrown into chaos when a pesky and persistent idea suddenly decides to follow him around, demanding attention in the most disruptive ways. Suddenly Ernie's job is in jeopardy. What do you do with an idea, when you've never had one before? How can you tell if it's worth keeping or just plain trouble?

The Maiden and the Soldier

1995 • 9 min • Czech Republic, Finland

A strikingly realized puppet tale, based on an old folk ballad of a maiden who sets out to search for her lost fiancé in the turmoils of war. The beloved is found in a stationary hospital where the Grim Reaper is preparing for his gloomy task. It was inspired by the poem The Legend of the Dead Soldier by Bertolt Brecht.

Moudarres

1995 • 48 min

Fateh Moudarres (1922-1999) was a crucial personage in Syrian artistic and cultural life, a pioneer of contemporary painting, a literate and prolific novelist. For about forty years has transformed his atelier, located in the center of Damascus, into a place of encounter and dialogue on art. The film is a journey of love to the artist's universe, to his works composed from memories of light, colors, and the shadows of a painful existence.

The Johan Camitz Diesel Ads

1995 • 10 min • Sweden

A collection of short films from the the world-famous, controversial advertising campaign for Diesel. The films are; Magic 55, Hot Couture, Le Look Le Plus Cool, Le Look Le Plus Cool 2, Business As Usual, East Side Story and Battle of Ardennes.

Megadeth: Evolver: Making of Youthanasia

1995 • 55 min

If you ever wanted to get to know Megadeth, this is the best way to do it. This home video tells the story of the recording of Youthanasia, and contains footage from the studio, interviews with the band and an inside look at the recording of an album. Evolver's story is told by Professor Dave. It finishes with the video for "Train of Consequences".

The Disease That Stole Christmas

1995 • 54 min

1995 public access cable Christmas special.

A Little Splinter of Time

1995 • 2 min

There was once a wonderful cinema in Seattle Wash called the Pike St. Cinema. It was owned and operated by Dennis Nyback for about 3 1/2 years this cinema played the best films no one else would show. This film is just a little splinter of time captured on film–a very special place in my life that will never be forgotten. I simply documented the cinema as it was including Nick the theater Cat.

End Memory (Impromptu)

1995 • 5 min • France

About ends and memory, the end of an era. I film to remember: the end of a summer, of a family, a last trip to Vermont before a separation, grandparents getting older.... I film impromptu, dissolving and fading in the camera. At night I hand-develop the film in a beaker. It sticks together and stains, leaving traces and holes that only add to the nostalgia. I leave the film as is, adding only some improvised music, which by its minor harmonies and discordances goes well with the faded, stained pictures.

Ringing in the ears

1995 • 5 min • Japan

A colorful psychedelic animation developed by drawing motifs of each part of the ear and body.

El proceso de Burgos 25 años después

1995 • 43 min

Documentary on the Burgos' trial, 25 years later, interviewing ETA members, professors and journalists.

Space Insect

1995 • 40 min • Hungary

This video film is a compilation from the uncoded picture and sound brodacast from space station MIR recorded by amateur radio operators.

Curvaceous Corpses

1995 • 60 min • United States of America

Brace and Kelly, a horror film directing duo who also happen to be lovers, have invited their catty cast of buxom starlets to a secluded mansion for the weekend to film their latest slice and dice masterpiece. The plot of their current production (also entitled "Curvaceous Corpses") revolves around an unknown assailant dispatching his unsuspecting female victims one by one using a gold snake necklace that delivers a deadly dose of curare poison through it's hypodermic fangs. Unfortunately for the ill-fated participants, the lines between reality and fiction become blurred once the bodies begin piling up on the set for real. Are Brace and Kelly hoping to set a new standard for snuff realism by actually executing their cast on video or will their obliviousness to the impending danger lead to their own demise in the ultimate twist ending?

Madame Bovary's Revenge

1995 • 15 min

"In her very first moving image work, Cantor already displays the masterly use of appropriated footage for which she would become known, inserting explicit scenes from the classic porn film Behind the Green Door (1972) into key scenes of lovemaking from Louis Malle's 1959 succès de scandale The Lovers. Taking as its inspiration the (most likely apocryphal) story that actress Jeanne Moreau and her costar were "really making love" on the set of The Lovers, Cantor shows us what director Malle could not, through the addition of hardcore footage from the iconic Marilyn Chambers porn film. At times the edits between one film and the next are remarkably seamless, creating an ingenious illusion, at others Cantor self-consciously foregrounds her redubbing and re-editing of her VHS source material." - Electronic Arts Intermix

Exhibitionist

1995 • 3 min • Russia

The film is about people who have mixed life with art. And they exhibited themselves as if they were paintings in an art gallery. Such people are called exhibitionists. This story happened to one of them.

Voyant

1995 • 23 min • Japan

Hi-8 short film by Rei Harakami

Silences

1995 • 21 min

'Lying is done with words, and also with silence.' Adrienne Rich. Niamh is home in Ireland with her producer, Helen, looking at locations to film her prize-winning short story. They're staying with her parents which is causing underlying tensions to surface. Her relationship with her twin sister, Marion, is deteriorating while Helen's romantic interest in her is increasing. Everything comes to a head when Niamh decides to break the silence. This is the first known Irish film by a lesbian writer/director to be shot in Ireland by an almost-entirely Irish crew and deals with themes of invisibility, difference and self-expression.

Osmose

1995 • 17 min

An experimental "immersive environment" created by Char Davies.

Love, Always...

1995 • 5 min • France

Made in the style of silent films of the 1930s, this short film tells the story of two guys meeting in Paris.

Mountain Far Away

1995 • 49 min

This is a documentary about coal miners. In the Qilian mountains of Qinghai Province, where the altitude is over 3,600 meters and the air thin, there are numerous small coal mines in which work around 200 miners aged 17 to 50. Every day, they must crawl through pits 60 to 70 metres deep just to carry out 30 loads of coal. Each load weighs 50 kilograms. The miners earn 500 yuan a month, without insurance. Miners normally suffer from pneumoconiosis after working four or five years in the mine and cannot work thereafter. They usually spend their wages on building houses, marriage, and tuition fees for their children. If they die in an accident, their family receives a 5,000 yuan pension. This film is a record of these working conditions, and of human labour. (Shot June 1995.)