All Films

The Gift: An Audio Drama

1993 • 6 min

A metaphysical children's story for three voices (no image).

Winter Journey

1993 • 18 min • France

From "That was..." to "...Did we go there?" The Antarctic approached, observed, scrutinised, analysed, displaced. Questions about reading the landscape, reading motion; A slow motion journey through memory, as if "to have the time at last to know."

#2

1993 • 12 min • Netherlands

Joost Rekveld's first film is an hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day and links this to how film is a medium that captures and radiates light. Until 2013, this was the only film for which Rekveld also composed the soundtrack.

Drömresan

1993 • 29 min

The second film of the "Bläckfiskens" trilogy, with an emphasis on dreams and interpretation.

Junge Hunde

1993 • 7 min • Germany

Men in a public bath.

Ifé

1993 • 5 min • United States of America

Ifé follows a day in the life of a black French lesbian in San Francisco. Ifé loves women, but vows never to fall in love. As she extols the beauty of women in San Francisco, she slowly cruises the city's streets in her classic car. Her philosophy: "You can never experience too many women." This stylized short is both sex-positive and slick.

Blood Brothers: From Little Things, Big Things Grow

1993 • 53 min

Kev Carmody is a prolific songwriter and musician with a great sense of humour. He has performed with Paul Kelly and Billy Bragg, both of whom appear in this film. When Kev released his first album, Pillars of Society, in 1989, music magazine Rolling Stone described it as "the best album ever released by an Aborigine and arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia". Kev was propelled onto the national stage as a voice of protest for black Australia. This film looks at Kev up close - cattle mustering in southern Queensland, making music in suburban Sydney and playing Long Bay Jail.

I, Know - How

1993 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Boro Miranovic - self proclaimed king of Montenegro...

Back in Black

1993 • 58 min

Two comic book fans embark on an exciting quest after they discover a portal to another dimension.

Data Driven: The Story of Franz K

1993 • 3 min • Canada

A very early animated study by the future Oscar winning animator Chris Landreth. Here we see the roots of Landreth's approach of perverting the latest high end 3D animation to fabricate Kafkaesque, jigsaw monsters with jarring incongruities.

Future Shock

1993 • 43 min

Edge of the art computer graphics set to electronic and ambient music. 3D graphics created with Autodesk 3D Studio.

Kristina's Harbor

1993 • 50 min

Gunvor Nelson's two-part film was recorded in Kristinehamn where she grew up and will return to live. KRISTINA'S HARBOR is an impressionistic depiction of daily life in this small Swedish city, suggesting how it has or has not changed in relation to its history.

Weir

1993 • 1 min • United Kingdom

An encounter with a small man-made waterfall presented in a triptych format.

Pool

1993 • 4 min

Vers la Dame Jouanne

1993 • 7 min • France

Dear Rock

1993 • 18 min

A posthumous fan letter to Rock Hudson that uses Hudson as a springboard for an exploration of AIDS and homophobia. Using the contrived form of the fan letter, the film uses digression as its structure, beginning with elements of Hudson's life that open onto larger contemporary issues about gay male identity.

Pekkle: Find the Secret Treasure!

1993 • 20 min • Japan

Pekkle and his friends find a treasure map that will lead them to a stone that will grant one wish, and they go on a treasure hunt.

Sister Double Happiness: Greetings From Zürich

1993 • 59 min • Germany

Recorded live on September 24, 1993 in Switzeraland. Tracks: Bobby Shannon, Don't Worry, Lightning, Ashes, Exposed to You, San Diego, Freight Train, You Don't Know Me, Whipping Song, No Good For You, Dicks Hate Police and Two-Headed Dog

Growing Up Gay & Lesbian: Question & Answers

1993 • 57 min

Educational video about the problems gay and lesbian teenagers meet, and how to face them.

Secondhand Daylight

1993 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Carol Morley's 16mm documentary short is set in a fast food restaurant where a selection of twenty-somethings talk about their troubles. One of two shorts Morley directed as her graduation films from Central St. Martin's School of Art (the other being Girl).

Robochick

1993 • 6 min

Comedy about an egg that refuses to be eaten and escapes from breakfast, to return to its mother.

Cinderella and Friends

1993 • 48 min • United States of America

Animated children's film based on the traditional fairy tale, an offshoot of GoodTimes Entertainment

Beyrouth, Le Dialogue Des Ruines

1993 • 52 min

Architecture in Beirut was the second greatest victim of the civil war, with pages of ancient and modern history erased by the end of the conflict. This documentary interviews citizens calling for a reconstruction plan that would preserve Beirut’s spirit of culture and openness.

Cinderella: A Dance Fantasy

1993 • 31 min

The classic fairy tale is depicted in all its romantic splendor in this ballet production set to Prokofiev's timeless score.