All Films

Éric Escoffier - Portrait of a Man Who Became Ordinary

1994 • 26 min • France

Meeting in Chamonix with Éric Escoffier, famous mountaineer of the 80s, victim of a car accident in September 1987. Victim of multiple fractures and total paralysis on his left side, Escoffier managed to walk again, despite the doctors' pessimistic prognoses... The commentary on images of Éric Escoffier in his daily life in Chamonix and archive images and photographs alternates with archive documents, extracts from the films "Profession grimpeur" by Philippe Lallet and "Face nord" by Jean Afanassieff as well as interviews with the protagonist, Rémi Éric Escoffier and Michel Garcia. Great among the greatest, Éric Escoffier, who disappeared in the mountains at Broad Peak on July 29, 1998, will never have been an ordinary man.

Freax ...und so

1994 • 60 min

X-cessive! X-plosive! The first collection of the FREAX series from Germany. Five small homemade films about bizarre sex, body mutations, violence and "hard" special effects. A wild compilation, chock full of tastelessness and gore.

Thunderdome - The Video (Live In Jaarbeurs Utrecht 27 Nov 1993)

1994 • 31 min • Netherlands

As noted on back-cover: "The 27th of November 1993 the Jaarbeurs Utrecht was the location of the biggest and most spectacular house event in European history. 20.000 Ravers, 160 K Sound, 500.000 Watts of Lights, 12 DJ's, 5 Live Acts and the famous Thunderdome Octopus. Witness the unbelievable "Wall Of Sound", hypnotizing lights, lasers, video effects and of course the Thundertruck."

Santa Claus

1994 • 42 min • United States of America

A look at the "life' of Santa Claus from his beginnings as the real Saint Nicholas of Myra to the modern American and pop culture icon of Christmas.

Corps Étranger

1994 • 35 min

This complex piece is composed of a cylindrical space with padded walls where the viewer is invited to enter and see a video of Hatoum’s internal body. As such, she makes use of indispensable medical imaging technology (that without, the work would not exist). Hatoum uses the strategy of abjection in displaying the internal cavities in a way that has the effect of swallowing up the viewer. The abject destabilizes boundaries.

The Girls of 1960

1994 • 58 min • Latvia, Sweden

A film about five Latvian women who were all born the year 1960 and brought up under the Soviet Union regime. When the film starts the Soviet Union has fallen and Latvia is now an independant state. The women are pretty much left to fend for them selves and their children. They describe their lives as divorced and single mothers in a time of social, political and economic crisis. It is a film about broken relationships between men and women, between generations and a society in shambles.

Peter Cook Talks Golf Balls

1994 • 53 min

Peter Cook plays four characters in his last major work. Alec Dunroonie (Scotland), Dr. Dieter Liedbetter (Germany), Major Titherly Glibble (England) and Bill Rossie (U.S.A.) all of whom are eccentric to say the least.

Acoustic Apple

1994 • 4 min • Poland

A short showing Robakowski peeling and eating an apple, which itself produces the sound.

Lisa Cook's Deadly Workout

1994 • 60 min • United States of America

Lisa Cook, as the various characters from her films, battles monsters and psychos while staying in shape.

Manual of Evasion LX94

1994 • 56 min • Portugal

“Manual of Evasion LX94” is a thought-provoking Dadaist film about time by the Portuguese director Edgar Pêra. It was shot in Lisbon in 1994 and stars Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker. Time is explored from many unusual angles, while Pêra fills the screen with a wide variety of bizarre and mind-warping imagery.

Ex-Child

1994 • 5 min • Canada

The story of a young boy and his father, both of whom are enlisted to fight in the war. The boy's pride soon turns to fear as the bullets whistle overhead. His father takes his place and is immediately shot and killed. Horrified, the boy understands that war is not a game.

The Will

1994 • 8 min • Russia

An underground short film from a “necrorealist” Russian filmmaker. The film is about sadomasochism, possessed by the idea of death and self-destruction. Evocative of the silent films from the beginning of the 20th century.

Styckmördaren Anders Carlsson

1994 • 15 min • Sweden

The Swedish dismemberment murderer Anders Carlsson (1942-2007) is presented and speaks freely about his life. Hannu Rajala was killed on November 27, 1987, in Anders Carlsson's apartment in Hässelby, Stockholm. Rajala's body was found dismembered in black plastic bags ten days later at Gysinge, some 150 kilometers north of Stockholm. On October 21, 1988, Anders Carlsson is sentenced to psychiatric care.

Der Schatten ist lang - Jura Soyfer und seine Zeitgenossen

1994 • 60 min • Austria

This film illuminates the way in which the cultural climate of "Red Vienna" affected the subsequent years leading up to the present and examines the mark left on the lives of Jura Soyfer's contemporaries.

HBO Comedy Half-Hour: Carlos Mencia

1994 • 28 min • United States of America

Comedian Carlos Mencia performs a thirty-minute stand-up set in this riotous special.

The Wooden Leg

1994 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A young girl's life is changed by a gift that develops a special love for her, a love she only sees when it is destroyed by the jealousy of another.

Destiny Boards

1994 • 60 min • Russia

The film is dedicated to the work of the poet Velemir Khlebnikov, a story about Kalmykia, the poet's birthplace, where many of his prophecies are fulfilled.

Germaine chez elle

1994 • 35 min • France, Mali

In front of Jean Rouch's camera, Germaine Dieterlen recalls her ethnographic itinerary, at the Musée de l'Homme, in Mali and in the Paris of the 1930s.

Dead End Horror

1994 • 11 min • Germany

Only when you thought it was safe to hide in and old, dark house, 'cause a bloody curse will turn your nerves of steel in some sorte of uncontrollable fear!

Star Wreck III: The Wrath of the Romuclans

1994 • 31 min • Finland

Pirk's fumbling voyages continue in Star Wreck III - Wrath of the Romuclans. There were improvements in the graphics, a more complicated storyline, and lots of new, tasteless humour. Many consider this to be the funniest of the old episodes, although Pirk's excessive swearing did raise a few eyebrows back int he day... Star Wreck III saw the first of the now traditional red-shirted security guard jokes. Having wrecked his ship in the previous episode, Pirk now commands a brand new starship, and is sent to investigate a Romuclan attack plan on a backwater space station. It all ends with the most massive space battle in the history of the P-fleet, and it's lead by Pirk... With odds like that, does humanity stand a chance?

Star Wreck II: The Old Shit

1994 • 8 min • Finland

Samuli returns to the crime scene in Star Wreck II: The Old Shit, this time with Rudi Airisto, who joins as a writer and the voice for the Vulgar, Mr. Spook. The second film is a huge improvement over the first in every way. This time the space battles and the bridge were rendered in 3D and more sounds and music were added. The acting was much improves and the crew come across as actual personalities. The film is full of slapstick humor and it actually works very well at times. This time, Pirk's mission is to go to the Fibula sector and destroy all enemies. But before getting to fire a single shot, the crew of the Kickstart must solve some serious problems on their own ship...

Pas de Stoelen

1994 • 7 min

Short dance film with animation elements about an auditorium in which the audience is enjoying a dance performance. The show has such an impact on the audience of riggid puppets that it seems to start dancing itself.

Sunday or the Ghosts

1994 • 30 min • France

With few words and leaving it to the spectator to fill in blanks, this short subject contemplates one ordinary day in the life of a single woman and her child.

Chuvas e Trovoadas

1994 • 14 min • Brazil

Four girls are educated during the "Belle Époque" period in Belém, Brazil.