All Films

Caraline's Story

1994 • 40 min

Caraline is a 29 year old woman suffering from extreme anorexia and bulimia who knows that she is dying. This program follows her punishing daily routine.

King Richard III

1994 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A portrayal of Shakespeare's darkest villain Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and his unquenchable thirst for the throne.

The Taming of the Shrew

1994 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Shakespeare's witty battle of the sexes is given a fresh airing in puppet animation. The unlikely bonding of a headstrong Kate and domineering Petruchio is only one aspect of a play about change and the magical transformations that theatre can produce.

Binaural Mystery School Ghost Story: The Ghost Sings!

1994 • 30 min • Japan

Short Two-story horror omnibus “The Dead Spirits sing!” and “The Toilet invites you to another Dimension”.

Flying

1994 • 6 min

Cui Jian and Zhang Yuan

Binaural Mystery School Ghost Story: Cherry Tree in the Schoolyard

1994 • 30 min • Japan

Short Two-story horror omnibus “Cherry Tree in the Schoolyard” and “Face in the Book!”.

School Ghost Stories Volume 1

1994 • 50 min • Japan

A omnibus horror movie about terrifying occurrences at a school.

Enkel, bättre flicka får plats

1994 • 57 min

Märta Eriksson and Berta Edergren become maids with responsibility for almost all housework and all childcare. The profession became their only position until marriage and had a family of their own. Karin Leffler and Maja Wennerstrand got places as cooks and housekeepers in the same family. In the film, the women themselves tell about their fates, it is a piece of women's history. As a contrast to the drudgery of reality, we also get to see the dashing maids of the 30s and 40s films, who never allowed themselves to be oppressed.

You Must Tell The World...

1994 • 47 min

A film about the work of the International Emergency Committee to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael Guzman.

Victory Over the Sun. Epilogue

1994 • 29 min • Ukraine

Ukrainian avant-garde of the 90s. Ideology and art. Works and reflections of artists. Tiberii Silvashi, Oleg Tistol, and Oleksandr Solovyov discuss the artistic collectives “Picturesque Reserve” and “Paris Commune” at an exhibition at the Ukrainian House.

An African-American’s Journal: Inside North Korea

1994 • 28 min • North Korea, United States of America

Andrew Jones travels to North Korea with a group of African Americans called "People to People" in an effort to learn more about the country. Once there, his mission for the tape becomes dispelling negative American myths about North Korea.

Unten - Gespräche mit Armen

1994 • 45 min

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

Lawns & Gardens with Jerry Baker

1994 • 36 min

You'll learn different tips, tricks, and tonics for your yard and garden care. America's Master Gardener Jerry Baker provides unusual and common sense ideas to make your gardening chores a little more successful and a lot more fun. In a style that's strictly his own, Jerry suggests topical treatments for your yard that include ingredients such as ammonia, molasses, beer, pop, mouthwash; and those are just some of the interesting household products and items needed to get your lawn and garden up and growing. Jerry Baker tells people by following these simple instructions "the greenest grass and tastiest vegetables will be on your side of the fence."

Fay Presto - Illusions of Grandeur

1994 • 40 min

Fay Presto, one of the most sought-after magicians in Britain with her astonishing close-up illusions, talks about two tricks that elude her - becoming a mainstream star and being accepted as a woman. In the male-dominated world of the Magic Circle, her gender is a problem, and Fay has a past that she is not allowed to forget.

All About Fast-Moving Trains

1994 • 30 min

Engineer Gus and Engineer Sam take you down the track to a fun-filled adventure with trains of all kinds. Climb into the cab with engineers and conductors who show you how they keep their trains running and see a massive coal engine up close. Whoosh along at over a 100 m.p.h. as you drive a modern Super Train! Visit collectors who have amazing model trains that operate with split-second timing on sets that are so life-like, they have mountains, trees--even a town parade! And you'll watch Santa deliver his gifts in an exciting, new way on board the lively Santa Train. So grab the throttle and hit the rails for a full-steam ahead adventure that's ALL ABOUT FAST-MOVING TRAINS!

Devil's lake

1994 • 22 min

The film tells about selkup, indigenious nation of north. The worldview of it's residents is based around lake Lozyl'-to, which is believed to be the center of the world. Lozyl'-to translates as Devil's lake, lake, where spirits are living. At the very heart of the lake sits island, which is a shelter for recently departed souls, watershed and mainland. By the legend of shamans, temple is the home for mysterious "Black woman" and spirits, which are half people and half bears. Selkup believe that on the seventh day after death the soul of a person transmigrates into a bear. The temple is a place where souls live until the "Black woman" comes.

Oat-Meal

1994 • 8 min

A short film by Relah Eckstein. An unemployed Artist’s oatmeal 'Tosh Berman' is poisoned with hallucinogenic bug balls by his fashion conscious Wife 'Gina Schock' and their dimwitted Chambermaids.

Dach

1994 • 4 min

The roofs of San Francisco. This is the filming of a friend, Inga, and myself sunbathing and playing with the camera.

The Grand Relocation

1994 • 50 min • China

Shanghai government decided to build a grand overpass on Chengdu Road, thus buildings need to be demolished and hundreds of households have to be relocated. This documenytary, shot from summer 1993 to early 1994, focused on 6 of these households.

Kā linu druva sāka ziedēt

1994 • 2 min • Latvia

Fantasies of a little boy admiring a blooming flax field.

...by any means necessary

1994 • 6 min

A six-minute short produced for the 1994 MIX Film Festival, based on the treatise of the then-anonymous Kiki Mason, and distributed at events and festivities during Stonewall 25.

Don't Be Sad

1994 • 2 min • Latvia

It's so cool to run barefoot through the fields and puddles in the summer, enjoying the sun, the sky and everything that surrounds you!

Madagascar: The Red Island Uprising

1994 • 55 min • France

On March 29, 1947, peasants armed with sticks and knives attacked the French garrisons in Madagascar. The revolt would end twenty months later with the death of the last insurgents, shot down by the expeditionary force. France, accustomed to memory lapses, knew nothing of this insurrection and its trail of torture and abuses. In Madagascar, well after independence, the events of 1947 were never discussed. For more than a generation, parents refused to speak of them to their children. It wasn't until the 1980s that the silence was broken.

Space Splice

1994 • 12 min • United States of America, India

Space Splice is a form of conceptual architecture that could only be realized in video. Forward motion and edits connect interior volumes shot in The United States, Europe, and India. The viewer experiences unimpeded movement through a network of hypothetical spaces. “Space Splice affects a transformation, rendering corridors, passageways and tunnels in new ways… McElwee creates an imagined architecture that builds to a dizzying peak.” - Jess Learner, Curator, Long Beach Museum of Art “In Space Splice, McElwee’s fish-eye lens steadily wanders among countess settings as he creates a new folded space that advances in time, stretching out into infinity.” - TL Reid, Afterimage “Watching Space Splice is like watching Bach.” - Peter Rose, Filmmaker