All Films

Passage à l'Acte

1993 • 12 min • Austria

An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird".

At the River I Stand

1993 • 56 min

This moving documentary recounts the two months leading to Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in 1968, coinciding with the 65-day strike of 1300 Memphis sanitation workers.

Back to Bonanza

1993 • 48 min

A look back at the television show "Bonanza."

The Magic of Nigeria

1993 • 29 min

Balogun's last film shot on 16mm, The Magic of Nigeria is a documentary that explores the culture and traditions of Nigeria as they are expressed in religion, art and everyday life, accompanied by a poetic voiceover.

Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship

1993 • 12 min

Nadezhda Ivanova, a very famous Bulgarian folksinger writes to a woman, a stranger, in Sydney Australia. She wants sponsorship to bring her raw and ancient singing to the West. Maria (the stranger) does not want a 'singing slav' in her inner-city life. She has perfected the art of self interest. East meets West with some anxiety.

Dr. Devious: More Dance in Cyberspace

1993 • 43 min

Let Doctor Devious and the wise men take you on a journey to cyberspace. As you travel through, take a hold and feel the incomprehensible power, relax… Reach for the alpha state where your subconscious resides.

The Night of Candles

1993 • 10 min • Italy, France

Once a year, the city of Pisa is lit up by thousands of candles for an age-old religious festival. Magic, visions, dreams and light...

Ski Down the Years

1993 • 20 min

Before the high-tech advancements of Fiberglas, aluminum poles, release bindings and artificial powder, it was a simpler time in the world of winter sports: It was just you, your skis and the snow that lay ahead. Rounding up works produced in the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s by iconic ski-film director John Jay, this retrospective sampler offers a nostalgic look at what's called "the golden age of American skiing."

Now and for all times

1993 • 42 min • Austria

A description of a day in the life of the 'Sisters of Bethania'. The only convent of this small, contemplative congregation of Dominicans in Austria is situated in the rural remoteness of the village of Nestelbach, near Graz (Styria). Today there are eleven sisters living in a former country-castle, following the determination of their order in strict cloisterly regularity. Significant for the mystic-contemplative existence of the Bethanians are the vivid, daily mechanics and the ritualized form of their life, the sequence and the systematics of practice, introspection, (keeping) silence, change and return of the hourly prayers, of the times of daily work and chores in the house and garden and the silent presence in the chapel.

Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness

1993 • 60 min

When Edward Abbey died in 1989 at the age of sixty-two, the American West lost one of its most eloquent and passionate advocates. Through his novels, essays, letters and speeches, Edward Abbey consistently voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the preservation of wilderness. Abbey authored twenty-one books in his lifetime, including Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Brave Cowboy, and The Fool's Progress. His comic novel The Monkey Wrench Gang helped inspire a whole generation of environmental activism. A writer in the mold of Twain and Thoreau, Abbey was a larger-than-life figure as big as the West itself.

Detel + Jón

1993 • 33 min

A film structured around Detel Aurand and Jon Sigurgeiersson.

Rock Video Girls 3

1993 • 55 min

The girls of rock video are back with another dose of steamy rock 'n' roll stories and never-seen-before video vignettes guaranteed to get more than your attention.

Silence... Broken

1993 • 8 min

Silence...Broken is an experimental narrative short about an African American lesbian's refusal to be silent about racism, sexism and homophobia. Featuring the poetry of acclaimed poet Jourdan Keith, this video is dedicated to the memory of self-defined Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Mother Poet Audre Lorde who died in 1992 after a fourteen-year battle with breast cancer. This experimental short was created out of the filmmaker's personal need to see on screen the internal and external struggle Black lesbians go through when they constantly fight against choosing between their race, their gender and their sexuality in a racist, sexist and homophobic society. Silence...Broken is strongly influenced by award-winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs' masterpiece Tongues Untied about Black gay men.

Crescent

1993 • 5 min

A conversation with Pelle Lowe

Deranged Chronicles: The Making of “Deranged”

1993 • 36 min

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the 1974 horror film “Deranged”.

To My Women Friends

1993 • 56 min • Germany, Russia

In To My Women Friends, revealing interviews with six Russian lesbians convey the joys and hardships of being a lesbian in the former Soviet Union. The six women are interviewed separately, but splices of party/meeting scenes show a vital and strong community. While Tatjana speaks hesitantly about her sexuality, believing it to be a private matter, Muchabat charmingly flirts with the filmmaker. This fascinating documentary touches on a range of issues including women's prisons, transsexuality, lesbian and gay community organizing (the Wings Association, a lesbian group), coming out and homophobia. Under article 121 (which criminalizes homosexuality) lesbians and gay men in the former Soviet Union faced the threat of imprisonment, blackmail, government harassment and family rejection.

Stein/Licht

1993 • 34 min

“Stein/Licht is a film that wants to make visible by making it possible to look [at]. The opposite of looking [at] is looking for something."

Greetings from Out Here

1993 • 60 min

Interview with southern gays and lesbians highlight the issues surrounding being "Out" in the south as well as the impact of AIDS on the rural south.

Clock DVA: Kinetic Engineering

1993 • 53 min

A collection of visual ideograms developed by R.E. Baker and A. Newton during work on the albums Buried Dreams and Man-Amplified. These videos were constructed and engineered using computer technologies at the Anterior Research Station 1988-1993. 1 The Hacker 2 Sound Mirror 3 Man-Amplified 4 Axiomatic And Heuristic 5 Fractalize 6 NYC Overload 7 Bitstream 8 Technogeist 9 Final Program 10 Voice Recognition Test

B.u.c.k.l.e.

1993 • 11 min • United States of America

A few tips on how to pick up girls at The Clit Club in New York City.

Blood Summer

1993 • 30 min

A young man inexplicably cutting off his thumb kickstarts a gruesome series of events as a devil masked killer butchers the nubile female inhabitants of a family run trailer park.

My Bitch of a Life

1993 • 57 min • Belgium

The ends of the earth where madness and absurdity rub shoulders with everyday life in a place called Marchienne-au-Pont, formerly an inland water shipping heartland where the best steel in the world was made.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Menuett. Allegretto z Serenady G-dur KV 525

1993 • 3 min • Poland

From the series of animated films to classical music.

Conscious

1993 • 10 min

In this montage a melding of camera original and found material hints at a realization which is evident only in the fissures of splintered associations. Obscured among visceral absurdities and lightweight witticisms there seeps a viscera, an acrid recollection, coiled in the intangibles of puzzled shadows.