All Films

Goddess of 8mm film

1994 • 4 min • Japan

A self-produced feature film. The main character, an 8mm filmmaker, has a bronze statue of the goddess of 8mm movies in his home, and he always prays before filming, and when editing, he places it above the viewer to be watched over by the goddess. He is a devout believer who goes about his work. One day, the goddess appears in his dream, complains to him about the plight of 8mm film, and orders him to independently produce 8mm film.

Bui Doi: Life Like Dust

1994 • 29 min • United States of America

A young adult Vietnamese immigrant, currently serving time in prison for armed robbery, recounts his evolution from a 13 year old immigrant to a life of crime. He relates his immigration from a Vietnamese refugee camp to California, his entry into American schools, his subsequent involvement with Asia American gangs followed by criminal activity and prison.

Little Lieutenant

1994 • 7 min

Little Lieutenant is a look back at the late Weimar era with its struggles and celebrations leading up to world war, a period piece. Scored to John Zorn's arrangement of the Kurt Weill song, "Little Lieutenant of the Loving God", and drawing its imagery both from the original song and its somewhat idiosyncratic rearrangement, the film presents an internal reading of Silvers' solo scored to the same musical piece, "Along the Skid Mark of Recorded History".

Made in Serbia: Impossible II

1994 • 22 min • Yugoslavia

An experimental film about an art group trying to get their works across the border to Slovenia during the economical and cultural blockade of Yugoslavia in 1993.

Time After Time

1994 • 4 min

A puppet equipped with suction cups slides along different surfaces.

What She Wants

1994 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer – is a film about sex and shopping, the social deployment of sexuality, and capitalism in detumescence.

Paranoid

1994 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The first short made by Robert Morgan, made using a VHS camera and some rough puppetry.

#5

1994 • 6 min • Netherlands

Continuously modulating between animations with long exposures and snapshots enlarged across many film frames, #5 explores the relationship between image and time on the film strip. The images were made using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials and can be regarded as action painting with light.

Mama Lou

1994 • 6 min • Guyana, United Kingdom

In between performances, a blues singer sits at her mirror and is visited by the spirit of her Grandmother who reminds her of stories from her youth as well as giving her the history of the blues singers.

Bärbel and Charly

1994 • 35 min • Germany

A portrait of the filmmakers Bärbel Freund and Karl Heil like a song in its changing verses, the locations were chosen according to mood and season: in spring, in snow, in Venice, in the flat, alone and together.

Aurora - Rivers of Light in the Sky

1994 • 39 min

Aurora, Rivers of Light in the Sky, explodes on the screen, with extraordinary footage of Alaska's Northern Lights. It shares the myths, legends, and science behind one of nature's most beautiful night-bound mysteries.

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

1994 • 57 min

Explore the lives of visual artists who made the Harlem Renaissance one of the 20th century's richest artistic moments. Archival footage, newsreels, and photographs recall the influential force of exhibitions, Harlem's vibrancy in the Roaring Twenties, and significant personalities such as William E. Harmon, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain Locke. Watch African-American artists triumph over formidable odds to create lasting beauty.

A Time For Choosing

1994 • 29 min

Video of original Ronald Reagan Speech from 1964, recording during the 1964 presidential campaign.

Trace Elements

1994 • 8 min • United States of America

Anderson creates a fantasy art world in which a battalion of muscle guys in jockstraps and gas masks produce, install, and appreciate large, abstract works of corroded metal.

Dying for the Truth

1994 • 53 min

This is a film made by Sweeney in 1994 about his return to Osijek to investigate his friend’s death, a follow-up to his 1992 article in The Observer, ‘Who Killed Paul Jenks?‘

Sergei Parajanov. A Visit

1994 • 12 min • Ukraine

In November 1988, director Anatoly Syrykh met with Sergei Parajanov in Tbilisi to make a documentary about him. However, Parajanov was clearly not in the mood to talk about his art. As a compromise, Syrykh offers to talk about the artist and time. The tired, offended director of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" forbids Syrykh to film him. He agrees only to speak, recalling the most unpleasant moments of his life.

Bức Tranh Tặng Mẹ

1994 • 10 min • Vietnam

for her sixth birthday, a little girl receives her first box of coloured pencils from her mother

Home

1994 • 17 min • Israel

David Ofek looks back on the first Gulf War, when he was living with his parents in Ramat Gan, Israel. They are Iraqi Jews. His parents are fascinated with news reports of the bombing of Baghdad. His grandmother comes to stay with them during the SCUD attacks. Wearing gas masks, they sit in a secure room David has rigged. When the all-clear sounds, they look at photo albums. They're visited by David's girlfriend, Eve. They talk politics; grandma disapproves of Eve. Eve leaves for Eilat for respite. David images a life with Eve after the war ends

Two People Flying South

1994 • 60 min • Japan

Yakuza Joji and his boyfriend Ken stole cash from a drug deal. Their goal with the money is the southern country of Sri Lanka. However, if they are caught by the gang, they will be killed as traitors. In the midst of their anxiety, the two lose track of time and fall in love... What will be their fate on the day they fly off to Sri Lanka, their dream?

Watching TV

1994 • 5 min • Canada

Animation showing the trivialization of violence on TV.

Poisoned Ink

1994 • 15 min

Max, a writer sees his characters become reality, and with them, his worst nightmares.

Don't Eat Crow

1994 • 29 min • Canada

"Don't Eat Crow", a somewhat situational piece, consists of an audio narration by Katherine Grevatt, an unpublished novelist who lives along the South Shore of Nova Scotia. For a full day David Askevold set up a feeder to see the reaction of the crows (who regularly fly around his backyard) to his camera he had placed on a tripod nearby. The resulting footage is juxtaposed with the letters Grevatt wrote to long time friend Norma Ready between October 1993 and July 1994. Background sound consists of appropriated music from the radio and original keyboard music by Askevold created while listening to the three tracks and viewing the edited footage.

Cockroaches in Love

1994 • 6 min

Cockroaches in Love. A film by Janice Inskeep. Featured in the Austin Women's Film Fest 1994.

Echolalia

1994 • 13 min

Echolalia, is an experimental black and white 16mm film suggested by a Rilke poem ("Sonnets to Orpheus II, 14").