All Films

Night Dances

1995 • 17 min • United Kingdom

"Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl together by Hebrew gravestones. A dreaming woman is ferried through our decaying city. This is the age of the Personal Computer - the Private Catacomb for the switched-on elite. Its dark doorways are for the wandering homeless... true survivors."

Looking for Cormac

1995 • 33 min • United States of America

A documentary that follows the trail of our greatest living writer, Cormac McCarthy, from his origins in Knoxville, Tennessee, through New Orleans and into the vast expanse of Texas. The film deals with the terrain of the American West, McCarthyesque characters and the mystery that is your heart's desire. Join these three pilgrims as they enter the world of McCarthy, and encounter characters that seem sprung from the pages of Blood Meridian, Child of God, Suttree and other dark classics.

Reba | Live

1995 • 45 min

Country Superstar Reba McEntire performs a 1995 concert live on this video release. She performs some over her classic songs such as "Is There Life Out There?", "The Greatest Man I Never Knew", "For My Broken Heart", "Why Haven't I Heard From You", "Does He Love You", and "Fancy".

The Big City

1995 • 5 min

Psychedelic hip-hop animation aired as part of Liquid Television.

Vale do Fogo

1995 • 9 min

A movie by Sério Fernandes and his students.

Tramway in Moscow

1995 • 54 min • Russia, France

In Moscow, the trams have been privatized. “Annushka” is making its final run. The tram driver, Liza, is nervous — her son might be drafted into the army. Boris, a veteran, tries to calm her down. He enjoys riding the tram, striking up candid conversations with strangers.

Graffiti Verité

1995 • 45 min

A documentary that explores the eclectic world of Hip-hop and the Urban Graffiti Artist.

Athene

1995 • 38 min • United Kingdom

The film depicts the life at the Larissa Railway station in Athens in the spring of 1995. The camera focuses on the station’s ‘tenants’, Antonia, Florakis and George..

Prelude 4

1995 • 2 min • United States of America

Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which is increasingly interrupted by ragged-edged blobs and smears of color.

À l'arraché

1995 • 8 min • Belgium

A lousy thief steals a car being washed in a gas station. Unfortunately for him, the owner of the vehicle has unsuspected physical resources.

Sähkö

1995 • 46 min • Finland

"Shows you what these guys get up to in their native Finland and their adventures as they attempt to conquer the world, and win!"

La extraña presencia

1995 • 9 min

One kid in a playground sees a malign supernatural figure menacing selected people just before they collapse with a sudden-onset fatal disease.

Ghosts of Gettysburg 2

1995 • 60 min • United States of America

More ghosts from Gettsyburg

Navigations

1995 • 9 min • Croatia

Combination of film, computer animation and video which meditatively questions the element of water as primeval philosophic beginning and the omnipresent life force. This work is an encyclopedic sample of different elements that have water as their topic. Sticking to the encyclopedic presentation, Oki ends with questions and terms in seven languages (Greek, Latin, English, German, French, Russian and Croatian) about Non-being (like the drowning man) or (the puzzling nature of) tangible objects.

Face Caught in the Dark

1995 • 10 min • Italy

From old plates of an anonymous photographer who worked in the 50s, I extracted this impossible film (plates that had contributed to the composition of one of my little books with the title Sconosciuti [Persons Unknown] Frame by frame, plate by plate, with strips of reflected light and strips of tens of faces, I tried to bring them into a single cinematic stream, thinking about a solitary, single face emerging from the darkness.

Kidsongs: Let's Put On A Show!

1995 • 28 min

The fun begins when the Kidsongs Kids and the Biggles decide to put on a show for their dad's birthday! Join them as they rehearse, dress up in fabulous costumes and dance, dance, dance! A young magician amazes the crowd, the boys put on their blue suede shoes for an Elvis routine and the girls show off their tap dancing skills. It's toe-tapping sing-along fun from the beginning until the curtain goes down!

The Pictures of Dorian Gray

1995 • 23 min

Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this "tell all" and "hide nothing" documentary about two San Francisco males.

Something to Sing About

1995 • 55 min

A portrait of the celebrated Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir. Over the course of a year the film looks at the diversity of the choir's achievements and shows how it has become a symbol of changing attitudes in contemporary Australia.

O ABC do Amor de Tim Maia

1995 • 24 min • Brazil

Filmmaker Ivan Cardoso gathers with Brazilian Soul Music legend Tim Maia for a sincere, informal conversation. In a true ABC of emotions, the singer discusses his impressions on love, sex, drugs, passion and jealously.

The Further Adventures of Don Quixote

1995 • 58 min

The first novel ever written, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, lives on in a thousand adaptations, in film, opera, art and even computer games. This film examines how the chivalrous knight and his sidekick have become enduring cultural icons around the world.

常世の恋人

1995 • 47 min • Japan

One knows how to love and how to hurt. Art students Naoya and Kono. They are different types but like each other. They ask Reiko, an art model who comes to their drawing class, to be their model for an extra-curricular production. The two are simultaneously attracted to her shadowy side, but while Kono falls straight for Reiko, Naoya worries that he is unable to portray her true self, and begins to search for a veil over Reiko's true face. Kono receives pocket money from his companion's lover through mother-son-like conversations. Naoya visits Reiko's house and takes off his coat in front of the front door. The accumulation of small details creates quiet pauses that not only highlight the outlines of the characters, but also give the film an elegance and tranquillity that is probably a quality of the director.

Soi-Meme

1995 • 6 min

Sound composition by Zeena Parkins. Erotic dance performance by Goddess Rosemary.

Out Loud

1995 • 19 min • United States of America

A by-the-people, for-the-people approach to queer youth video, the 1995 short documentary Out Loud provides a forum for an age group which often receives short shrift. What is it like to be gay bashed? Does your sexual orientation really matter? In nine installments, LGBTQ teens discuss their hopes, fears, challenges, and achievements in their own words, and with their own vision.

Tale of the Goddess Mokosha

1995 • 9 min • Ukraine

Once there was a simple country woman, but she had a bad husband, because he did nothing puting all the work on the fragile shoulders of his wife. As time passed, nothing has changed, and he dealt with pleasure with only one thing - he devoured all the food. She didn't think she could change anything, but a goddess Mokosha intervened, deservedly punishing the ungrateful slacker.