All Films

Tupada ’92: The Philippines in the Year of the Elections

1995 • 35 min • Philippines

Tupada '92 is a coverage of the 1992 Philippine national elections that juxtaposes the hysteria of the campaign season with the precarious state of 31 million Filipino voters. Unsure of what the future holds, the documentary inserts a seer’s ominous visions, including the return to power of the Marcoses.

The Last Waltz in the Old Mill

1995 • 6 min • Croatia

In live action, an old man feelds a flour mill. Two seeds are then transformed into animated lovers who dance their last waltz.

Tonel and Vieru or About the Meaning of the Ballad

1995 • 19 min

The memory of a tragedy of passion – a double murder that took place in a shepherd’s village 50 years ago – is preserved in the form of a ballad. The villagers recall the events and the musicians talk about the birth of this song that lacks the victim’s point of view, because the assassin is the one who commissioned them to compose this ballad.

Cosmodrom

1995 • 30 min • Austria

"Cosmodrome" (= Launch pad for space rockets) is a film about the connection between cinema and cosmos. A revolving globe; the distribution logo of the Universal film studio shows the viewer an act of "initiation" taking place in the cosmos - a key image between cinema architecture and cinematic space.

Impossible Town

1995 • 12 min • Spain

A man appears in his underwear in the middle of the street. He will try to go back home, but it won't be easy...

MotherFuckers

1995 • 6 min • Canada

A dyke mother questions a recent trend of romanticizing motherhood and family within lesbian relationships - and does not bother to soften her vehement opinions. A fast, hard rant.

Green Pubes

1995 • 25 min • United States of America

In a dingy punk club, two guys fight over a cute green-haired punk.

BBQ Muslims

1995 • 8 min • Canada

In this short comedy, two Canadian Muslim brothers are sleeping in their home when the barbecue in the backyard blows up. They are immediately suspected of being dangerous Middle Eastern terrorists and their neighbourhood turns against them. This film was inspired by events following the Oklahoma City bombing.

An Ambition Reduced to Ashes

1995 • 44 min • Cambodia

A guru and his follower, who have lived in the ruins of Angkor for 150 years, return to the world to save the Cambodian people.

Men of Gariūnai

1995 • 19 min • Lithuania

A movie about used car dealers in post-Soviet Lithuania.

The field of Casilino

1995 • 43 min

Pier Paolo Pasolini's voice introduces a monologue featuring Carlo, the poet's alter ego, set in a desert space with an almost lunar appearance: an expanse of sand under a starry sky. The man stages a sort of erotic liturgy bordering on self-destructive anxiety: he will offer himself to twenty hustler street boys, before a spectacular sunset, which recalls the strong colors of Sirk or Kazan melodramas, puts an end to the whole affair.

60 Hours of the Maikop Brigade

1995 • 40 min • Russia

A two-part documentary about the Russian Army's disastrous assault on Grozny on New Year's Eve, 1994.

Tutto grande discordia White Rabbit

1995 • 5 min

Leaving one's territory to begin a journey beyond chaos, beyond visible presences, towards a new psychedelic culture. An experiment. Bodies crushed, stretched, destroyed, decomposed and recomposed in a lysergic vision. The closest thing to videoart ever produced by GMM and therefore not too loved by the group.

Celebrashan

1995 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary film about the influence of African oral tradition, poetry, dance and drumming on popular musical forms such as rap, hip-hop and jungle.

Demon Angel: A Day and Night With Roky Erickson

1995 • 60 min

In 1984 an observational documentary was produced in Austin for Swedish television, entitled Demon Angel: A Day and Night With Roky Erickson. It featured Erickson in plugged and unplugged performances, solo and with local musician/producer Mike Alvarez on additional guitar, in an underground creek beneath the Congress Street Bridge on Halloween.

The Mercury

1995 • 20 min • Japan

Nagaya Miho started out making private documentaries, but has since shifted to creating even more personally developed works. By layering different aspects of light, for example, lightning and blinking fluorescent lights, The Mercury leads introspective images to a release.

Mother's Name: Orange

1995 • 18 min • Croatia

Mother’s Name: Orange is a poetic journey into the life of a troublesome young man who figures a chance to find himself once again in the cathartic fusion with nature. Osijek – The Sky Below is a road movie reflecting upon the wounds left by the war. In Duel, a mother and her son alternate between conflict and tenderness. Park paints a common day at a park. In I’ll Kill Ya!, the murderers of a drug dealer face the consequences of such action.

How To Kill Zombies Act. 2

1995 • 30 min • Japan

In the year 19XX (a long time ago), a meteorite fell in Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is destroyed & for some reason it is full of zombies. The government closed the entire Kanto area. The main character is an international terrorist who is locked up. Until she escapes from a prison in Tokyo while fighting zombies Act. 2 focuses on outdoor combat.

Grand.fa.ther

1995 • 12 min • South Korea

Clone Chromosome

1995 • 4 min

Short 8mm film by Tachibana Kaoru

The Thief

1995 • 17 min • Armenia

The single father involuntarily steals in order to support the family. However, one day after the theft, he accidentally meets the housewife he falls in love with and does everything he can to hide the traces of the theft

How To Kill Zombies Act. 3

1995 • 30 min • Japan

In the year 19XX (a long time ago), a meteorite fell in Tokyo Bay, Tokyo is destroyed & for some reason it is full of zombies. The government closed the entire Kanto area. The main character is an international terrorist who is locked up. Until she escapes from a prison in Tokyo while fighting zombies Act. 3 focuses on shooting.

Card Trick

1995 • 4 min • United States of America

Anthropomorphic cards steal traits from one another.

The Lady of the Lake

1995 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Short by Vera Neubauer.