All Films

Message of Stones - Hegyalja

1994 • 54 min

The Third film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Message of Stones - Budapest

1994 • 54 min • Hungary

The first film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Green Canopy

1994 • 23 min • Australia

“Somewhere I read a headline ‘One million trees will be chopped down’ and I was absolutely horrified. My association with the Bush goes back a long time, and thinking that one day it might not be there tied my stomach in knots. I felt physically sick...like seasick...really off. Images were fermenting in my head, but I couldn’t see how to film what I was feeling. How do you film a blinding headache? A churning premonition? I tried shooting toothpaste glasses, filters, but nothing worked...until I found a way of doing it where I had these household glasses spinning at very fast speed in front of the lens. I didn’t want the film to be didactic, like Scars...more a veiled and brooding warning about impending loss.” (Paul Winkler)

Camel Trophy 1994 - Argentina Paraguay Chile

1994 • 52 min

Never before has the Camel Trophy visited so many of the world's empty quarters, crossed so many borders, or seen such a variety of landscapes as in 1994. By the time they had navigated their way across the vast barren wilderness of the Atacama Desert to the finish line, they had passed through some of the continent's most extreme environments. Sweltering swamplands, impenetrable scrub, deep dry river washouts and sandstone gorges gave way to mountain passes with crumbling edges and hair raising drops. The teams stopped only to build a crucial scientific research station in the foothills of the Andes. For the 36 participants who came in search of challenges that would break new frontiers in human tolerance and adventure, Camel Trophy Argentina Paraguay Chile '94 undoubtedly fulfilled their dreams.

Attack of the Mutant Roadkill and the Vampyre Zombies from Beyond the Grave

1994 • 50 min • United States of America

What happens to dead, fury roadkill and cold, rotting bodies when exposed to failed chemical research experiments? Would you believe that furballs can come back to life to feed on flesh AND that the dead can rise to seek warm blood to satisfy their hunger? Neither did the residents of Tootletown.

Giant Pandas: The Last Refuge

1994 • 52 min

Take a fascinating trip to the world of these enchanting creatures to observe them in their natural environment. Their work is critical now, because these well-known creatures are in dire jeopardy. The offspring of captive pandas are rare and sickly compared to those naturally raised, and scientists race to discover why before their habitats and population disappear.

Ofen

1994 • 15 min

Short film about an oven.

Jellyfish Sandwich

1994 • 13 min

Deploying rhythmic loops, Jelly Fish Sandwich splinters and reanimates found material including World War II bombing footage, upside-down NFL sequences, and idyllic Polynesian scenes.

When Love Is Gay

1994 • 49 min • Canada

Documentary about men who break the silence about their homosexuality. They talk about their difficulty to accept and to make others accept their difference, of the place of sensuality in their lives, of their fierce desire to love freely. A film that ,in celebrating the love of a young couple, proposes to break the sometimes negative image around the gay world.

Run

1994 • 15 min

Woke up walking alone from a dream toward a translucent sky a run day ... The edge electric against infinity revealed everything it was the moment before I was born the moment before I died I was pressed between glass I could see myself walking past I could see my eye looking at my eye I was standing someplace far away looking at myself pressed between glass I looked like I was moving but it was more like the way a worm pushes into itself to get to wherever it goes I could slip through those spaces and rest for awhile then distribute everything I am and all that I was but I panicked I continued to push my body into itself I woke pressed between glass I thought I was walking I saw myself walking I could see my eye looking at my eye and the place where I died when I was born

Mad About the Boy

1994 • 7 min

This experimental Pixelvision piece explores the tenuous boundaries of gender through a series of mini-sequences, among them a group of anecdotes told by women who have been mistaken for men and a must-see synchronized barbershop scene.

Deer Isle #8: Going Out (in the morning)

1994 • 5 min • United States of America

Short film by Leighton Pierce.

Space-Modulation

1994 • 1 min • Netherlands

A black plane with a large number of tiny dots gradually changes from flat to spatial to capture an image which is neither flat nor spatial.

Vrflm

1994 • 2 min • Netherlands

A short study for the optical printer, based on found footage of fire, on coloured light from the printer and chemical manipulations of the film emulsion. The film, consisting of 11 sections, changes from a traditionally centered image towards images that cover lengths of the filmstrip and originate from the material itself.

Abbie's Day Out!

1994 • 17 min

Abbie's Day Out! is the story of a young kitten's first outdoor adventure, watched over and inspired by her companion, a mystical cat named Prosperité.

Configuration 20

1994 • 12 min

Primordial sounds and organic creatures evoke the moment when life began.

Mission of Burma Live at the Bradford

1994 • 33 min • United States of America

In 1983, now legendary post-punk icons Mission of Burma performed two highly regarded farewell shows at the Bradford Hotel in Boston. At the very peak of their power, the band was calling it quits due to guitarist Roger Miller's worsening tinnitus (ringing in the ears), no doubt brought on by their pummeling live performances. Those who were there recall a highly emotional evening: the band and audience were deeply connected through the enormity of what was about to be lost, which inspired Burma to rip through their sets with a passion that was both brutal and bittersweet.

Senhora Aparecida

1994 • 55 min • Portugal

In Aparecida, 50 Km from o’Porto, the atmosphere surrounding this years preparation of the yearly festivities is tense: the new priest aims to discouraje the "Promise payers" from doing it having themselves carried in open coffins through the village untill th chappel of the Appeared Lady. Superstition against Theological Argument, fidelity to the vows or reinterpretation… The conflict becomes unavoidable. It’s the local identity and its inhabitants identity that’s in stake. If this type of processions were common in the last century on the north of the Iberian Peninsula, this one, will probably be the last in Portugal. At the village of Senhora Aparecida the festivities of August are set. The main wooden bier that will carry the Saint may be 15 metres high. It is now being assembled and decorated. Those who escaped death now celebrate life. The Lady redistributes the power she's been given.

Feminine Dilemma

1994 • 22 min • Chad

A short film criticizing the practice of female genital mutilation. Alternating between real and enacted footage with various points of view.

Goal Rush - The Official Story Of Ian Rush

1994 • 59 min

A collection of football star Ian Rush's best goals together with interviews with friends, family and colleagues. Rush guides you through his school days, his triumphs at Liverpool and his ill-fated trip to Italy before his return to Liverpool

Passage

1994 • 7 min • Germany

In this whimsical and evocative parable, a master and his servant engage in a battle of wills as they attempt to cross a frozen lake. As they struggle and dance their way across the ice, the reality of who’s really in control becomes increasingly clear.

The Cupsdance

1994 • 2 min • Netherlands

High stacks of cups wobble unsteadily on a running washing machine.

1-ri Botchi no Ookami to 7-hiki no Ko Yagi

1994 • 18 min • Japan

An adaptation of the The Wolf and The Seven Little Goats story.

Peter Kubelka und Jonas Mekas

1994 • 2 min

In a series of films made in the 1990s Friedl Kubelka introduced a new element: her participation in the film by interacting with the subject. These films are designed in such a way that the camera films a frontal view of the apparently motionless face, and a touch-a caress of the hair, a kiss, a hug-demonstrates the artist´s relationship with the subject being portrayed, who react in various ways, whether through a lightening of facial expression, a smile or intensified squinting. This matter of involvement represents the specific nature of this series of portrait films, ensuring Kubelka an outstanding position in the field of avant-garde film.