All Films

I Want the Sun

1995 • 47 min • Japan

Sho Watanabe, 77, has worked as a lighting technician for many years, longing to work in the film industry. However, when his wife, Tomiko, suddenly developed Alzheimer's disease, he took a video and 16mm camera and began documenting her and the people around her. This film is the result of compiling and editing the vast amount of film he had accumulated in this way.

Far Far Away

1995 • 40 min • Germany

With her green bow in her hair, a naïve Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz embodies an aspect of the artist’s own personal context. She is dreaming about going beyond the confines of her urban surroundings, amongst thousands of flickering windows in apartment blocks, to travel somewhere over the rainbow. As she stumbles upon her yellow brick road, a bedside telephone, her communications take her far far away, becoming entangled in her obsession with connecting to this far away place. Swept into a cyclone of dizzying imagery, she becomes somewhat more realized, sceptical about who she is and her dreams. Much like the ubiquity of television, her dreams are nothing more than commodified imagination that has nonetheless shaped her life. In this fairy-tale land, she desperately tries to find her way back home.

Outside In

1995 • 9 min

an interior/exterior domestic meditation.

Witchway

1995 • 7 min

under the feedback-spell of an Oley spirit and her familiar.

Newcastle - A Journey Through Time

1995 • 50 min

Take the ultimate walk down Memory Lane as we visit the Newcastle Upon Tyne of yesteryear. Produced with the assistance of the Tyne and Wear Archive Service and using rare film footage from its splendid collection, this production presents a unique insight into the changing face of the city during the 20th Century.

A Tragedy Ahead

1995 • 55 min • Hong Kong

In 1994, the Hong Kong government suddenly launched an initiative to tear down "rooftop dwellings", even though it had actually accepted their existance for many years. The Housing Authority regarded them as private property and denied owners the opportunity to apply for public housing. Now the government has ordered these 40,000 dwellings to be removed, without offering fair resettlement terms for the residents who had moved in after 1982. Video Power recorded the negotiations before some of these houses were torn down in Mongkok.

Still Life with Small Cup

1995 • 4 min

A radical reworking of an etching by the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, brought to life by engraving frame by frame directly into the photographic emulsion of colour filmstock. The viewer is taken on a journey through the etching, accompanied by the sounds that the artist might have heard from his window as he worked. Scratched onto 8 perf 35mm colour filmstock and printed as negative.

A Prayer for Nettie

1995 • 33 min • Canada

A Prayer For Nettie dramatizes the death of an elderly woman who was Cumming’s photographic model from 1982 to 1993, presenting an improvised series of prayers and memorials for Nettie Harris by people who knew her, and some who did not. In its ambiguous mix of tenderness and aggression, A Prayer For Nettie extends the traditions of the grotesque and the absurd. The fervent prayers of the actors are undermined by indifference, forgetfulness, and the presence of the camera. In the end, comedy turns the tables on piety and remembrance as Nettie looks up from the grave.

Bolero

1995 • 7 min • Germany

«A film of a man in drag doing an erotic and eventually nude dance in a gravel pit. Mostly edited in camera, the fey dance is in surprisingly good sync with the music, making it an amusing send-up of Ravels macho rythms». Fred Camper.

Limbs

1995 • 6 min

Short film.

Cat Nip

1995 • 14 min • United States of America

The film looks at Taylor's family myths and how they intertwine with the stereotypes of lesbians and cats.

Rhys Chatham: An Angel Moves Too Fast To See

1995 • 60 min • Italy

A professionally shot performance in Palermo, Sicily of Rhys Chatham's piece for 100 guitars.

The Day I Met My Mother

1995 • 12 min • United States of America

Early short film by Matthew Giaquinto

Sokirra

1995 • 10 min • Ukraine

An ironic film adaptation-joke on the theme of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in five parts: Hard Bundes Porno, Prosto Sexo, SokіrroMortale, Dolce Sentіmento, Tuttі Fruttі.

La Valse De L'Aiguille Creuse

1995 • 2 min

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

The Restoration of Dreams

1995 • 17 min

Night walks in Moscow

L'Infini Des Métamorphoses

1995 • 2 min

Short film by Valérie Pavia.

1895 - 1995

1995 • 1 min • France

Animated short film presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 1995 by students from GOBELINS, the school of image.

Far Out Man

1995 • 1 min

"Far Out Man is a green, leopard-spotted, cheeky chappie who lives on Planet MTV, slightly to the left of the other side of the universe. These are three stings I wrote, animated, and directed for MTV in the mid-nineties."

The New Schoolteacher

1995 • 9 min • Canada

The New Schoolteacher describes the life of Ella, a young teacher in the 1850s. Not much older than the senior students in her charge, she is responsible for everything in the school from teaching all grades, all subjects, to discipline and housekeeping. It is a difficult job but Ella proves that she can do it and starts a baseball team too.

Dissecting Table: Dead Zone

1995 • 40 min • Japan

Live concert recorded at Gallery Den, Tokyo on May 3, 1995.

The Prophet - A Passover Celebration

1995 • 10 min • Canada

This animated short depicts a family celebration of Passover as seen through the eyes of two little girls. They identify the traditional symbolic dishes and are treated to a special story by their grandfather that brings to life the meaning of this important Jewish holiday.

Woolly's Gift

1995 • 7 min

Woolly's Gift takes youngsters step by step through the making of fabric for Annie's new dress. Students see Annie and her family shear Wooly, a mother sheep, and wash the wool. They see the wool carded, spun into yarn, dyed and woven, how leftover wool was bartered, and the daily activities of a pioneer girl.

Girl and a Bicycle

1995 • 13 min

This film was made in collaboration with fellow filmmaker and friend Rasha Refaie.The film was inspired by a dream that Rasha had about a girl and a bicycle and a silver colored egg. The viewer sees Rasha peddling all over Seattle through city streets, parks, all over and ultimately ending up a graveyard were she begins to experience the nosebleed of her life. This film was going to be the first in a series of films based on Rasha's dreams; however, shortly after this film was completed Rasha moved to New York City and this was the only film that was made. Rubato composed the films sound track.