All Films

Imaginary Light

1994 • 31 min • United States of America

"Intuitive conjuring and orchestration of retinal phantoms, refined by abstraction into music for light and mind. Light, both wave and particle, alive and moving, making shadow and, therefore, time."

Five Year Diary, Reel 80: Emily Died (May 14–September 26, 1994)

1994 • 27 min • United States of America

Anne’s niece Emily dies. Anne goes into a deep depression. (Liz Coffey)

Blue Banshee

1994 • 15 min

Commissioned to be a "promo" for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he used the sound of a lush orchestra to score the picture and the antics.

Self Government: Talk About It

1994 • 11 min • Canada

Series of PSAs created by the Aboriginal Film and Video Arts Alliance exploring legacy and the history of self governance in Indigenous societies.

The Gods of Our Fathers

1994 • 51 min • Canada

Explores the evolution of patriarchy as one effective way of organizing mass societies, from evidence in ancient Egyptian villages along the Nile.

Historical Anecdotes

1994 • 8 min • Russia

Little stories from the stone age to the middle ages made by Rinat Gazizov

The Lark of the Prairie

1994 • 11 min • Hungary

Hungarian animation film.

Religious

1994 • 2 min • Portugal

A nun enjoys her bicycle.

Compu Movie

1994 • 33 min • Japan

An anthology of surrealist 3D animations set to music by Japanese visual artist, musician, and game developer Osamu Sato.

Sandman

1994 • 15 min • United States of America

Sandman is a spooky horror film about a teenage girl haunted by visions, guilt, and a spectral figure called the Sandman.

Eggs

1994 • 3 min • Portugal, France

The story of an egg trapped inside a frying-pan trying to escape its fate, symbolized by a huge spatula, determined to attack him.

After the Break

1994 • 13 min • United States of America

Personalities clash in a lesbian therapy group.

Experiment 002

1994 • 39 min

In 1994 HUANG Hua-cheng showed his 8mm film Experiment 002 during a seminar titled ‘Theater Quarterly and Me’ at the Chinese Taipei Film Archive. This film is a recording of the seminar, documenting how the film was played and the seminar proceedings. HUANG passed away in 1996, and his earlier films have been lost.

Pram Factory

1994 • 56 min • Australia

In the early 1970s, a theatre collective - the Australian Performing Group - based itself in a building called the Pram Factory, now synonymous with the people and events that laid the groundwork for a renaissance in Australian culture. The Pram was a ‘scene’, a 24-hour happening, a radical alternative to the mainstream. Those who lived and worked at the Pram expected the world to come to them - and for a while it did. (The building was eventually demolished to make way for a supermarket.)

Air

1994 • 59 min • France, India

The fourth part of a series by Indian painter and director Velu Viswanadhan on the elements is a multilayered portrait of his country in images and sounds, without commentary and rich in nuances and metaphors.

Pré-Histórias da Pedra Furada

1994 • 60 min • Brazil

Documentary produced by TV Cultura addresses the archeological site of São Raimundo Nonato, a municipality in the south of Piauí, where traces of men who lived here at least 50 thousand years ago were found. The video brings images of the excavations and focuses on the researchers' daily work. Niede Guidon talks about the beginning of his work, the difficulties he faced to develop his research and the situation of the site today. In addition to the excavations of the archaeological site, the documentary shows the valley and the caves that exist in Piauí, where they also found traces of the fauna and flora that existed in the place.

The Drooping Roses

1994 • 5 min • Japan

(5mins 16mm film B/W sound 1994)

The Witch in the Cherry Tree

1994 • 10 min • New Zealand

One damp dull day David's mother is baking cakes. Everything is fine until a naughty witch comes to settle in their cherry tree. She just can't resist the smell of baking. A hilarious and mouth-watering story!

The Boy with Two Shadows

1994 • 10 min • New Zealand

A little boy takes great care of his shadow. He is so careful with it that a witch notices him. She gets the boy to look after her shadow while she goes away on holiday. Minding a witch's shadow turns out to be more complicated than the boy ever imagined.

Dangerous When Wet

1994 • 5 min • United States of America

A story of a first orgasm and the difficulty of finding language to describe that experience.

Jaime Roos at 10

1994 • 60 min • Uruguay

At ten o'clock on the night of 20 November 1993, in the Barrio Sur neighbourhood of Montevideo, Jaime Roos began the first of 42 concerts on a tour that lasted three months and included performances in all 19 departments of the country. In total some 300,000 saw him play. This documentary captures the essence of that unique tour and it is a crucial contribution to our understanding of Jaime Roos and his position in Uruguayan music towards the end of the 20th century.

Cat Position

1994 • 14 min

Sorrowful Summer

1994 • 22 min

A super8 film sketch of a summer in Nagoya, at the beach with an independent film group.

Mazzy Star - Live at the Shoreline Amphitheater

1994 • 19 min

Mazzy Star performs at the Shoreline Amphitheatre on the 10th of February, 1994