All Films - Short Movie Database

Disappearin' Johny

1995 • 1 min • United States of America

An CGI Animated Short Film

Alfonia

1995 • 54 min

A memorial tribute to Alfonia Tims Jr., an innovative African American jazz musician from New York City, who died at the age of 26, three weeks before release of his first highly praised and well received album. Includes early conversations, original music and other documentary material.

Asco is Spanish for Nausea

1995 • 14 min

Documentary about the group Asco.

Cookie Crunchers and Other Tales

1995 • 27 min

A collection of four Nanny Lynn stories: Cookie Crunchers, Jake and The Peanut Butter, La Petite Mouffette, and Jake and Dylan Vacuum the Universe.

Flowering of the fern

1995 • 29 min

Film tells the story of two old men — a forester and a beekeeper. One of them is a romantic, who believes in miracles and other one is pragmatic. Each of them tells about "ikotka" — a specific illness, which affects women and is known from Karelia to the Ural. Local people call "ikotka" a creature which settles in a human body and spoils the life of it's owner.

Folded Follies

1995 • 8 min • France

FOLDED FOLLIES is an improvisation on Bernard Tschumi’s deconstructionist follies at Parc La Villette in Paris. The structures, which the architect has described as "post-humanist, are translated into motion and then subjected to a radical transformation. Unusual demands are made of the recording capability of the medium, as video and audio signals are pushed to extremes. Space collapses and the follies are literally folded in time.

Victory Day. Half A Century Later

1995 • 52 min • Russia

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Brest, Volgograd, Murmansk, and a remote Siberian village where the writer V. Astafyev lives.

The Mermaid and the Red Candle

1995 • 27 min • Japan

The mermaid's mother entrusts her daughter's mermaid to the longing human society, but that longing is betrayed by human desires. Picture book writer Nagata visualizes the sadness of beautiful mermaids and humans.

X-Mix-4: Beyond the Heavens

1995 • 50 min

Dave Angel provides the mixing for the fourth installment in the X-Mix series.

On the other side

1995 • 21 min

On the Yamal side of the Gulf of Ob, where it merges with the Kara sea was a military settlement some years ago. Empty barracks, abandoned trucks, scraps of equipment, letters forgotten in a hurry are now all that is left. However, a lonely house is standing on an arctic island. Two russian guys, who prefer north silence to the city noise are living there.

Special Policewoman Lei Min

1995 • 15 min • China

A short documentary about Lei Min, who was among the first generation of women trained as special police officers in China.

Die Steirische Holzstraße

1995 • 36 min

The most beautiful pictures of a landscape dominated by unique forests: the upper Murtal. It is no coincidence that the Steirische Holzstraße was created here. The video takes you to the most attractive places, shows wood in its many forms and interesting people.

Chez Evelyne

1995 • 13 min • France

Who has never dreamed of living in the country one day, in a small house ? In fact, to become part of that new group of people inhabiting our green pastures, the « rurbans » ? Don’t be fooled : the country is no more a paradise than the city. Where you expected to hear the birds singing in the morning, you get the din of tractors and other machines that have sometimes nothing to do with agriculture. Where you expected the straightforward and friendly atmosphere of the village café, you find yourself in the middle of old drunkards, not to mention the fights of the local youth. But at Evelyne’s, it’s not the same. For tonight, the village is having a fair…

Hermes

1995 • 25 min • Germany

The film intertwines two stories: that of Hermes, a man who claims to love boys, and the filmmaker’s own exploration of desire. Hermes, a self-proclaimed pederast, shares his experiences and reflections in a video verite interview, expressing his desire to connect with boys before puberty and his struggle with societal judgment. His narration, voiced by an actor for anonymity, covers themes of self-justification, guilt, and childhood memories. The filmmaker’s questions about desire create a mirror effect, highlighting the adult’s longing to be the child they once were. Hermes also recounts the loss of his younger brothers, taken away due to fears of them becoming gay, hinting at a past sexual encounter with them.

Vietnam

1995 • 6 min • Vietnam, Algeria, France

Montage of Marie-Laure De Decker’s work in Vietnam

Sur la vie et la mort des étoiles

1995 • 10 min • Belgium

An essay about love, death and death of love.

A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans

1995 • 59 min • United States of America

A documentary presentation of the lives of 43,000 Koreans brought by the Japanese to Sakhalin for forced labor and abandoned there for 50 years.

Ultra Warriors Special Video

1995 • 10 min • Japan

A short film seeing Ultraman Neos and Ultraseven 21 talk with and review past battles of Ultraman Great and Ultraman Powered by Ultraman's instruction (and reusing footage of the unreleased Ultraman Neos Pilot). It was first sold on VHS exclusively by applying through a TV Magazine campaign in July 1995, then released as a bonus on the Ultraman Neos Blu-ray in 2018.

Assignment No. 1: Copying the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion One Thousand Times

1995 • 35 min • China

Qiu Zhijie spent five years copying Wang Xizhi’s (303–361) Lantingxu (‘Preface to the Orchid Pavilion’) one thousand times. The video shows the artist writing calligraphy with an ink brush. As the black ink fills the paper, the strokes lose their distinctiveness, and the text becomes illegible. Eventually, only a black rectangular field remains.