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Brokopondo: Stories of a Drowned Land

Brokopondo: Stories of a Drowned Land

1994 • 47 min • Netherlands, Suriname
The construction of the Brokopondo dam and hydro-electric plant in the 1960s gave an important boost to the economy of Surinam, a former Dutch colony. However it also caused the flooding of lands and villages of 5,000 Saramaccan Maroons. In 1994 filmmaker John Albert Jansen returned to the site of devastation, together with Surinam writer Dorus Vrede who was born in one of the drowned villages. In the documentary Brokopondo: Stories of a Drowned Land Jansen traces the origins of the Brokopondo project, the benefits to the economy of Surinam and the consequences of transmigration for the Maroon people, who after having lived a secluded life in the area since the eighteenth century, were forced to leave their traditional lands. Their rich hunting ground now at the bottom of Afobaka Lake. The building of the Brokopondo dam and the forced departure of the Saramaccan people is a powerful example of a clash between economic and cultural systems.
Guerilla Driving

Guerilla Driving

1994 • 25 min • United States of America
As the streets get meaner and meaner, it is more important than ever to learn how to protect oneself against criminals. See demonstrated tactics to reduce your risk in the event of a carjacking or drive-by shooting, and discover the techniques used by professional law enforcement and military drivers.
From Body To Cosmos

From Body To Cosmos

1994 • 20 min
This" theory of the eye "is clarified even more in From body to cosmos of 1994. The film begins with a flight of fast clouds in the sky, with their elusive shapes, which capture and make the smoke of Etna cloud, like if heaven and earth were caught in a single, unstoppable flight. But here it is Mazzoleni's own eye, which emerges several times, that disrupts the visible. Inside and outside are mixed: bodies, totemic and vegetable masks. Reality decomposes, reveals its hidden colors, those that are hidden in the heart of things at the time of creation, according to a myth of Lurian Kabbalah. Clouds, a meadow blown by the wind, the moving shadow of a room: everything escapes again, elusive. But the eye of the machine, but the eye behind the machine, also catches a naked and unarmed eye that appears among things: the seer is also what he sees. I is another. I is also a thing among things.
Our Way of Loving

Our Way of Loving

1994 • 58 min
Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and a six-month-old baby boy. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband, Sago. Although Sago and Duka seem to have an affectionate marriage, he beats her when provoked. Like every Hamar woman, she accepts this behavior for she believes it is a man's way of loving. The film witnesses Sago's cousin's ceremonial initation into manhood. At the ceremony Duka and the other women sing and dance themselves into a frenzy before being ritually whipped until their backs bleed. As they return home, Sago and Duka talk about their hopes for their children. Later, we see Sago and Duka's reaction to seeing television for the first time, as they watch the earlier film of their courting days.
Haddrah and Gargour

Haddrah and Gargour

1994 • 17 min
In Barhain, ancient former Dilmun, fishing has always played a fundamental role, as attest the several fish bones excavated on the archaeological site of Qala'at al Bahreïn. The observation of traditional fishing techniques with the help of “haddrah” or “gargour”, still used nowadays, represents a complementary source of information.
Super Cities: Istanbul

Super Cities: Istanbul

1994 • 30 min • United States of America
Evidence of Istanbul's glorious past is still seen in the ancient architecture of this bustling city. The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia is thousands of years old, and is a marvel of construction. There are ancient palaces to explore, including Topkapi, which housed rulers during the Ottoman Empire. For the traveler interested in an extensive shopping experience, the Grand Bazaar features 4,000 shops in which to browse, haggle, and perhaps buy. Super Cities: Istanbul provides a guide to Turkey's important cultural and business center.
Corridor

Corridor

1994 • 11 min
Video work by Hajime Kawaguchi.
Family Time

Family Time

1994 • 24 min
Four rooms visited by a boy who murdered his parents. A crazy world illuminated by vivid red, blue, and green lights. With the theme of modern human diseases hidden deep within the heart, an abnormal world of violence unfolds, such as sadism for the weak and murderous intents.
Print

Print

1994 • 10 min
16mm short by Masaru Noto.
This is Not Beirut (There was and there was not)

This is Not Beirut (There was and there was not)

1994 • 49 min • Lebanon, United States of America
This film at the most fundamental level, a personal project; i) examining the use and production of images/representations of Lebanon and Beirut both in the West and in Lebanon itself, ii) recording the interactions and experiences while working in Lebanon, focusing on the undertaking of this representational process as a Lebanese and a westernized, foreign-born mediator with cultural connections and baggage of both the West and Lebanon and some of the disparities and disjunctions arising in each, and iii) situating the work between genres looking from the inside out at each and engaging critically at the assumptions imposed and thus broken in this site of complexity one’s identity is found and constructed in.
Portrait of Karel Doing

Portrait of Karel Doing

1994 • 2 min
Film portrait of dutch director Karel Doing
Holidays in Russia

Holidays in Russia

1994 • 30 min • Russia
Red

Red

1994 • 6 min
A man, alone and contemplative, sits in his room until a woman enters.
Lonely Figure Railway

Lonely Figure Railway

1994 • 25 min
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
Message of Stones - Kárpátalja

Message of Stones - Kárpátalja

1994 • 53 min • Hungary
Message of Stones - Moldova

Message of Stones - Moldova

1994 • 56 min • Hungary
Ripples of Change

Ripples of Change

1994 • 57 min • Japan, United States of America
Nanako Kurihara came to the U.S. to escape being trapped as a woman in a repressive Japanese society. In New York she met a woman named Fumiko who had been active in the women's liberation movement in Japan. After the death of Fumiko, Nanako returned to Japan to find out became of the women's movement there
Christmas at Home: Entertaining Tastefully from Virginia Olson

Christmas at Home: Entertaining Tastefully from Virginia Olson

1994 • 16 min • United States of America
An instructional video from the 1990s that teaches the viewer how to cook a tasty Christmas feast.
Animation Dreams

Animation Dreams

1994 • 30 min • United States of America
Escape the stress of everyday life and let the surreal visual images of Animation Dreams take you on a fantastic voyage beyond the realm of the sense, to a world where imagination rules supreme and the stark boundaries of reality hold no power. Animation Dreams is a magical tapestry of twelve dynamic, computer animated vignettes created solely to explore the innermost boundaries of your mind. Set to a moving original soundtrack from the compact disc One by John Flommer's Primal Cinema, Animation Dreams probes the eternal mysteries of the cosmos, and pushes the limits of human experience.
A Cutting Collection: The Long And The Short Of It

A Cutting Collection: The Long And The Short Of It

1994 • 51 min
Snip. cut and style.
IndiCar - Die Mobilität der Zukunft

IndiCar - Die Mobilität der Zukunft

1994 • 9 min • Germany
Using the example of a couple in love, this industry film demonstrates the industry's visions for car sharing, electromobility, smartphone use and in-car navigation.
Story of Tyurin, Artist and Victim

Story of Tyurin, Artist and Victim

1994 • 30 min • Russia
The village doctor who works in an X-ray lab in a hospital paints the portraits of the local inhabitants. He literally can see them through. His paintings are very good, he loves those people. Just like other artists Turin in his creative work turns to nude. This is normal, but... Somebody cruelly injures him, breaks his arm, and destroys his mental perception: Turin is not able to protect himself. He is an invalid since he was born.
Cabbagetown

Cabbagetown

1994 • 28 min
Cabbagetown, a neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta, originally consisted of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the housing built for the factory workers. While Cotton had always been King in the South, that generally referred to the agricultural production of the plant. The actual milling of cotton, the process of turning plant fiber into cloth, was done in the Northern states and even overseas.
Learn to Play Golf with Toby and His Friends

Learn to Play Golf with Toby and His Friends

1994 • 32 min
Toby and his friends teach your children how to play golf with a simple, easy to understand and enjoyable program.