All Films

Artificial Life Metropolis ‘CELL’

1994 • 4 min

‘Artificial Life Metropolis CELL’ presents three-dimensional plastic art as represented by a computer image using the basic principle of a cellular model as seen from an artistic point of view.

Skulhedface

1994 • 60 min • United States of America

GWAR, the bloodthirsty alien antiheroes, conduct a worldwide telethon to feed souls to the World Maggot, which will transport the members of GWAR off our miserable planet once it grows. GWAR's tele-casts attract the attention of GlomCo, the world's monopolistic entertainment giant. GlomCo attempts to bribe GWAR's manager, Sleazy P. Martini, into selling GWAR out to the mainstream of Sunday morning cartoons. GWAR's revenge on the sniveling executives at GlomCo uncovers a dastardly plot to homogenize all humanity by the evil doctor Skulhedface!

The Story of Christmas

1994 • 47 min • France

The story of the birth of Jesus, the anger of king Herod, the flight into Egypt and Herod's attempt at killing Jesus is seen through the eyes of a donkey and an ox who witness the birth and do what they can to protect the child.

Three Haiku Videos

1994 • 4 min • France

A collection of three short “video haikus” by Chris Marker. Yanka / Tchaika observes the Seine beneath a bridge; Owl Gets in Your Eyes features Catherine Belkhodja with an owl superimposed in flight; and Petite Ceinture pays homage to the Lumière brothers by filming empty train tracks along Paris’s disused railway.

Electric Blue Special: Hottest Asian Babes 1

1994 • 22 min

Electric Blue's Hottest Asian Babes

The Smell of Burning Ants

1994 • 21 min • United States of America

A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror - Preshow

1994 • 4 min

Step uneasily inside the infamous Hollywood Tower Hotel and find a dusty lobby frozen in time. Even the subdued hotel staff seems strangely out of another era. Suddenly a television set springs to life and Rod Serling welcomes you on a journey into the Twilight Zone. He reveals that on a gloomy Halloween night in 1939, some hotel patrons were riding the elevator when a violent storm struck the building… and they were never seen again. The hotel closed down and has stood empty ever since.

Frankie & Jocie

1994 • 18 min

Examining the relationships between brother and sister, hetero and queer, male and female, this video weaves a provocative discussion between a Black lesbian and her straight brother. In an eloquent examination of desire and denial, Jocie attempts to make her brother acknowledge the violent face of homophobia recounting a time when she was attacked. Frankie candidly tells his sister about his own disempowering experiences as a Black man and recounts the time he tried to seduce her former lover. A candid and brilliant dialogue between family members.

The Rope

1994 • 57 min • Lithuania

Old Abraham Bentley hid the remainder of the family fortune at one end of a rope he arranged in the barn - the noose at the other end is in plain sight. He receives his prodigal son, Luke, with a mixture of obvious joy and of inarticulate urgings for him to hang himself.

The Hunting

1994 • 60 min • Japan

Hikari, a prostitute, arrives at the designated location requested by a client. There, a man wearing a gas mask and holding a rope is waiting for her...

Suspicious

1994 • 15 min

A woman drives down an eerie highway at night in search of hospitality and come across some suspicious townsfolk and a little more than she bargained for...

Hitler Stole My Ideas

1994 • 48 min • Austria, United Kingdom

Using archive film material never seen before, Hollywood veteran Leon Askin portrays Adolf Lanz (1874-1954), the man who gave Hitler his ideas.

Autumn

1994 • 8 min

Aitken wanted to create three music videos, each with their own narrative, to be aired separately at different times as part of his commercial production. The resulting video, shown in galleries, fuses together the three separate narratives in a non-linear fashion. Located on the precipice between the oft-thought mutually exclusive realms of art and entertainment, Autumn stands as an emblematic example of Aitken's video practice, investigating the cultural numbness generated by the flow of media images.

Lamb Chop in the Haunted Studio

1994 • 55 min • United States of America

Shari, Lamb Chop, and the gang visit a studio haunted by a mysterious phantom.

Mistress Samantha Diet Doctor

1994 • 14 min • United States of America

A West Village dominatrix puts her 400 lb love slave on an S & M Diet and the power of the hidden phallus is revealed. An artifact, a laugh, and an ode by NYC artist Margie Schnibbe.

Skerry Fairy-Tale

1994 • 60 min • Sweden

The year is 1891. The director of MoDo, Frans Kempe, is about to build the largest and most modern sawmill in Europe and a complete ideal society after his own mind. The place he chooses is Norrbyskär, some skerries in the Baltic Sea outside the cost of Västerbotten in northern Sweden. The experimental society with it's 1500 inhabitants and the large sawmill will live for almost 60 years.

Truth or Dare

1994 • 4 min • France

Two teen girls and two teen boys play a game of truth or dare. The questions and the challenges deal with sex; it's innocent and harmless, but at each turn, each youth tries to raise the ante. Then, Paul gives a dare to Rose, and the result brings on a sudden and complete silence.

Only the Brave

1994 • 59 min • Australia

Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes advantage of this by trying to seduce her drippy school teacher. Alex watches as Vicki, unable to escape her terrible homelife and an psychological wreck, sets alight to herself and burns to death.

Prom no pilsētas

1994 • 4 min • Latvia

Workers are doing their work on construction site. But something unexpected calls them away... from the city... And that is only the begginging...

Black Angels: A Widening Vision

1994 • 55 min • Australia

Explores the life and work of Gordon Bennett, a young artist from Brisbane whose paintings break away from established images and concepts and instead have their perspectives shaped by Australian and European cultural influences.

Spinal Tap: The Final Tour

1994 • 21 min

Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, makes another final reunion. After all, it's rock'n'roll. This is actually a demo reel that Rob Reiner created to get financing for his 1984 film "This Is Spinal Tap."

Mickey's Fun Songs: Campout at Walt Disney World

1994 • 32 min

Sing, dance, and play along with Mickey, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and the Sing-Along Kids as they pitch their tents and explore Discovery Island, River Country, and even participate in a Talent Show in fun-filled musical adventures! It's easy as you read the on-screen lyrics to songs such as "Comin' Round the Mountain," "The Bare Necessities," and "Country Roads." It's the most fun you'll have on a campout!

Lothringen!

1994 • 20 min • Germany, France

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

Ventre Livre

1994 • 47 min • Brazil

Is the country of the future where children get pregnant? Is the largest Catholic country in the world where more than thirty thousand women die as a result of abortion? Is the 10th largest economy on the planet where 27% of women are sterilized? VENTRE LIVRE tells the story of Vera, Ivonete, Carmen, Denise, Maria do Carmo, Marlove - people who were born in the country with the most unequal income distribution on the planet. A documentary about reproductive rights in Brazil, while the future is not yet here.