All Films

Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys

1993 • 3 min • Japan

This was an animated promotional video that Falcom commissioned for Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys game for PC Engine, to shop around to various production houses. This was done in hopes of getting it made into a full-scale animated series/movie/etc., but it never panned out.

Golden Tresses

1993 • 5 min

A whirling animated choreography, full of joy and melancholy, on a marvellous piece of 17th century Claudio Monteverdi music.

Transrexia

1993 • 1 min • United States of America

A t-rex recalls a relationship gone wrong with a pterodactyl in this prehistoric postcard.

Holding the Viewer

1993 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A cinematic roller-coaster ride at the hands of a performer who is literally holding the viewer on the end of a pole. Swoop above his head on a rooftop then fall to his feet. Watch him strain to lift you up and swing you round. Balance precariously above his head as he hurries to get back before the magic wears off.

Wakamizuya

1993 • 3 min • Japan

fan

1993 • 10 min • Japan

If "light" is the protagonist of film, the idea would not change if "darkness" replaces "light". Yoshimoto proves this point with most simplicity. Placing a tiny point of ray in pitch black, his darkness achieves a limitless depth. This style goes under trial from around 1988 – a squirming object in drowning darkness goes through a transition from a solid machinery part to a soft Japanese architectural fixture to a misty female figure. Each of the objects, a subject of fancy, is placed in good balance, mingling with Rei Harakami's sound effects. This is one of Yoshimoto's most intense works.

Dear Mr. Fukuma

1993 • 3 min • Japan

The piece is dedicated to Fukuoka filmmaker Yoshio Fukuma, who was a very good friend of Sakurai's. Making good use of bulb shooting – extended exposure – which was Fukuma's specialty, responding to the light and shadow of water and fire, the moon and the sun, Sakurai traces the historic spots of Kyoto, his living ground. Contradicting with the glorious music, the view is a total lamentation and can be taken as a requiem toward the sudden loss of Yoshio Fukuma. With no after-treatments, this non-edited shooting creates a complete harmony of distinguished camerawork and solid lyricism, offering full satisfaction for Sakurai's original and extraordinary talent.

Shock

1993 • 8 min • Bulgaria

A bored cartoonist draws a pretty woman. Then, a discarded character, a strongman, comes to life and approaches the woman, and the cartoonist finds himself snatched into the paper world., where he battles the strongman, in an effort to impress the woman.

Past History

1993 • 13 min

Adventure, romance, politics and exile are themes in this unique combination of live action, archival photographs, and animation. Stories of people long ago and far away are brought to life, tracing a history of the effects of progress and development in Latin America on past and present generations.

Awakening from the 20th Century

1993 • 35 min • United States of America

"Awakening from the 20th Century" contends with the collision between the actual and the virtual in the city of San Francisco. "Is life becoming virtual?" Lord asks. "Are we witnessing the end of the City? Will the computer replace the automobile?" These questions are taken up by six prominent writers, musicians, and multi-media workers, who describe their own shifting relationships to technology and public space within the city. Awakening from the 20th Century is structured around imagery from several San Francisco sites: the broadcast transmission tower Sutro Tower; "Critical Mass," an activist bicycle event; and locations from the Dashiel Hammet Walking Tour, which are interspersed with scenes from The Maltese Falcon.

The Boy in the Branch

1993 • 27 min • India

Set at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, India, this is a film about the indoctrination of young Hindu boys by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (the RSS), India's foremost Hindu fundamentalist organization. Juxtaposing the activities of two different RSS 'shakhas' or branches, the film documents the stories and the games, the rituals and the play that socialize the young RSS recruit.

Big Fat Slenderella

1993 • 15 min • Canada

Big Fat Slenderella looks at dieting from the fat person's point of view. In this work, excerpts from documentary interviews with fat people are juxtaposed with fat animals in captivity by the inventive use of wipe effects. Commercials for products like The Poodle Diet Recipe Collection satirize the mainstream obsession with dieting and their fear of gaining weight. Despite the conventional wisdom dished out by medical practitioners, studies have shown that dieting simply does not work for 95% of the population. Why are we still encouraged to diet? Could it be profits and the fact that if someone is dieting, that's all they have energy for? The fat experts in Slenderella are all fat themselves, and tell stories of the many diets and medically administered amphetamine "cures" they have tried over the years.

De Chillida a Hokusai: creación de una obra (From Chillida to Hokusai: birth of a work of art)

1993 • 35 min

A film on basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida's work in Japan, "Homage to Hokusai". Chillida himself talks about his work.

L'an de mes II

1993 • 13 min • France

On July 27 1959, Milva is summoned to the police station by detective Igor. Milva does not feel worried as her conscience is clear. Thirty-seven days later, her dead body is found, naked and tortured. How horrible! On the other hand it would be hypocritical not to reveal all the pleasure she took with her aggressor.

Woman of the Desk

1993 • 17 min • Japan

Hi-8 short film by Rei Harakami

Organ House

1993 • 1 min

Computer-painting animation film made by recycling the glistening virtual organs the artist had made for rather boring medical films for a Japanese company he worked for.

Flusspferde

1993 • 35 min

A film by Karl Kels

Shadows in a Desert Sea

1993 • 52 min • United States of America

This visually stunning film takes viewers into the Sea of Cortez, a thousand-mile stretch of water along Baja California and the Pacific Ocean. A work of the legendary underwater filmmaker Howard Hall, the film records the drama that unfolds as moray eels stalk unsuspecting prey, giant squid rise from the depths, and legions of hammerhead sharks pass overhead, casting their formidable shadows.

Stig Møller - et ægte blomsterbarn

1993 • 19 min • Denmark

"Stig Møller - a genuine flower child" - a Danish musician and singer/songwriter who has been active in the alternative music movement since the early 1960's. He started out with bands like The Rivals and Blackbeat, became a folksinger with a solo career, met with poet Eik Skaløe and found the cult acid/folk/rock group Steppeulvene and much more.

Diane Horner Country Hip Hop Dancing

1993 • 40 min

Hip Hop is the hottest thing in dancing today. It's showing up in clubs from New York to LA. Now country dance goes Hip Hop. Who would have imagined it? But that's exactly what's happening... Country Hip Hop. Diane Horner, America's best country line dance teacher, will teach you this dance craze right in your own home. You'll learn great Hip Hop steps and moves... before they're taught in your favorite club!

Dinner with Malibu

1993 • 12 min

A comedy about a young boy who spies on his father's girlfriends through a peep-hole from his bedroom into the bathroom. One day he discovers a woman who is much different from the others.

Making Apple Juice

1993 • 3 min • Germany

"Apples are prepared for making juice by washing and squeezing them. Close-ups create the impression that the apples are moving on their own accord." —Milena Gierke

Portrait de Michael Ray

1993 • 3 min • France

With the departure of the other, absence, lack and above all forgetfulness are established. The memory then tries to fix a last image. The fairest. The memories collide, disjointed, and only manage to recompose a disparate-looking character.

Meet The Thinking Fellers

1993 • 7 min

A surreal series of images set to music by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.