All Films

AWESOME Trains Vol. 2

1994 • 60 min

Everyone loves a train, and children are especially fascinated by these thundering giants. From the flashing lights and steam whistle, to the clicketyclack of wheels as they move down the tracks, trains are a beautiful and interesting form of transportation. In this program, we'll explore some real working trains and talk to the men and women who work on them. Then we'll take a ride on some different types of trains and see how they operate and what makes them run."

Jujube Fruits

1994 • 56 min • China

Documentary film completed in 1994, shot over two weeks, about one of the main production areas of jujube fruits in China, Lujiazhuang village on Taihang Mountains. The original version of the film is 55 minutes long; later, a shorter, 30-minute version was released. The credits on the original film list Wang Zijun, Wang Haiping, and Yang Yang as co-directors.

Motalsky neighbours. Carols

1994 • 35 min

Film closely depicts christmas caroling from Polesie.

Óculos para ver Pensamentos

1994 • 15 min • Brazil

Recording of the meeting between Sebastião Marinho and a rapper (Smokey D.) from the perspective of looking. Using his device to see “thoughts, emotions, feelings”, Tonacci, in front of the camera, follows them from his production company’s room to "Viaduto do Chá."

Golden Summer

1994 • 2 min • Latvia

There is no end to transformations. Different living beings arise from each other, pass into each other as in an endless string of surprises and fun.

Tracis

1994 • 2 min • Latvia

About an amazing acquaintance and friendship. The plot of the picture is based around a bunny and a cat.

Jaagup and the Death

1994 • 10 min • Estonia

Death came to the main character's house with a scythe. And it hinted that the time of his life had already expired. But Jaagup wasn't going to die. He ordered his wife to pour wine for the guest. Then he played cheerful music on the harp, to which the guest danced with the host's wife. And death also made time for Yaagupu's life.…

Deadbangers

1994 • 55 min

The necrophiliac adventures of a gang of depraved metalheads.

Euros

1994 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Euros features an impressive collection of young, athletic British guys seen either in bed or engaging in sexual activity. This sensually filmed feature follows our hero Kevin (who has been having dirty nightmares) and his boyfriend Ian. Ian tells Kevin the raunchy story of their friend Diggers holiday sexcapades. Meanwhile, slutty roommate Colin is always bringing boys home! Brought to the screen by Europe's leading gay video producers, Euros is one sexy gay erotic classic.

Alla fine del pianeta

1994 • 20 min • Italy

It’s Nino himself that reads his texts, devoting himself, body and voice, to the camera, in his house in the historic centre of Palermo. The virtuality of the electronic image underlines, solves and dissolves Nino’s figure, it goes in and out, shows what we can’t see and hides the perceptible, lets the word tell the story, easily and heart rending.

Skullface

1994 • 40 min

A masked killer torments a group of hapless partygoers.

Myth Makers: 31 Frazer Hines

1994 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Frazer Hines is one of the most well-known and popular actors to have appeared on television, best known for his roles as Joe Sudden in Emmerdale and his three year stint as Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who. From his former home in Yorkshire, Frazer chats to Nicholas Briggs about his long and successful career and discusses his other great passion – horses. Together with exclusive 8mm film shot on a Doctor Who location by Frazer and his own personal Doctor Who Digest… dare you miss this Myth Makers?

Miracles of Loving

1994 • 60 min

Anju Mira's dinner show.

The Mururin Pass

1994 • 34 min • Russia

A film about a real railway incident that took place in 1992, which miraculously did not end in a disaster.

Beware of Pedestrians

1994 • 8 min • Australia

A circus caravan of computer-driven creatures inspired by human gesture, move with an odd blend of mathematical precision and wild unpredictability. The highly structured yet simple overall design of the film is the landscape from which these characters evolve and express their human complexities. These pedestrians express the light and the dark, the contradictory emotions and responses to both the world they have created and the to each other.

Reflection

1994 • 10 min • Russia

An animated film for adults. It’s so important to bring goodness and timeless values into the world, and not to pay attention to the distorted mirrors that reflect all that is genuine and worthy in a warped light...

Focal Distance

1994 • 15 min

Eight-screen installation. An original 15-minute video clip of a street scene at a crossroad was captured and was played on a 25-inch TV screen. One corner of the TV-screened footage was filmed again to produce the 2nd video footage. This re-filming process repeated 7 times using the same focal distance (of the first re-filming's settings), and 8 video footages in 7 generations were produced. The images and sound became more abstract each time. The video installation was first staged in Hangzhou in 1996.

Exhibition

1994 • 53 min • United States of America

If Only There Were No War

1994 • 26 min • Ukraine

A short documentary.

Glimpses of the Life of Black Fly

1994 • 6 min • Bulgaria

A small aphid is born in a colony of aphids. It has a strange color. Its mother is trying to bathe it. A shaman does magic against the bad color. All efforts are in vain. Suddenly it rains and washes the bodies of the aphids. It turns out that everyone's color is the same as that of a small aphid.

The Birth of Frank Pop

1994 • 21 min • Ireland

Depicts the cheerless life of drudgery led by assembly-line worker Frank Blank, until he falls through some kind of hole in spacetime and is transformed by a group of weird shamanic figures into the glorious rock star Frank Pop. But how will this transformation appear to those around him?

The Tunnel

1994 • 50 min

Documentary about a group of people living in a disused NYC train tunnel.

Understanding Sex

1994 • 50 min

What we are, in large part, depends on our genes. It is the hand we are dealt when we are born, and the cards we play our entire lives. You can study as hard you can, but some people will be smarter. Work out as much as you want. Some people are born to be bigger, or prettier, or more artistic. The hand you get depends upon the luck of the draw. Which genes you get from your mother, which you get from your father, and how they combine to make you a unique individual, is largely a matter of chance. In the game of life, the shuffling of genes to create a new individual is called sex. But life does not have to be this way. We humans believe we are more than that: as much what we think, what we believe, what we imagine and what we hope as what we are physically. And that can transcend the selfishness of our genes, the fight for fertility, and the siren song of sex.

Dowager Hunter-Gatherer

1994 • 2 min • United Kingdom

"'DOWAGER HUNTER-GATHERER stalks the quiet, deserted streets of Belgravia, dipping her porky, St. Paul fingers into a paper bag of fluffy lemons... nibbles, lady?' The apocalyptic dada-esque nonsense of a femme fatale who unpicks the stitching from men's Y-fronts." -Viva-8 programme notes