All Films

Iddy Biddy Beat Boy

1993 • 5 min • United States of America

A parable about art, propriety, and politics. A hip beat poet, who looks a lot like a child, reads poetry at the Ad Hoc Cafe; he's a success and Mr. Hipster, a powerful promoter, gets Iddy Biddy Beat's career moving with TV appearances, where the poet is a sensation. However, his poetry scandalizes Dr. Proper and his uptight wife, who arrange for Beat's arrest and imprisonment. The poet, sentenced for 10 to 20 years, is housed in a cell with an unsavory character.

Welcome to Italy

1993 • 52 min • United States of America

A fascinating journey through the natural beauties and artistic masterpieces of Italy: the treasure houses of art, world-famous locations, great archaeological sites, festivals, folklore and dozens of other famous and not-so famous places in "the most beautiful Country in the world".

Troubled Waters

1993 • 52 min • South Africa

The Rivers of Africa shape the lives of those who call their banks home- in the African wilderness there can be no life without water. The continents rivers are the focal point of the dramas of the bushveld- the same river that gives life also harbours death. For the many creatures that live along Africa's rivers - the need to quench their thirst is an essential part of their lives- but rivers such as the Mara in Kenya are a barrier for animals where death comes in many guises- but each animal has their own way of navigating these treacherous waters.

Mozart:The Requiem from Sarajevo

1993 • 60 min

José Carreras and the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra player form Mozart’s Requiem in the bombed out ruins of the Sarajevo city Library.

Film Passion '93

1993 • 13 min

An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who would want to see it?

Bia Bai

1993 • 1 min • Brazil

What is Bia’s husband’s credit card limit?

Bindu

1993 • 17 min • India

This piece embodies nested levels of form, content and abstraction. Visual fragments of the world come and go as packets of visual energy infused with the sound of the ocean. Watching Bindu should be like watching the space between thoughts; paying attention to the process of thinking rather than its content. The title is from Sanskrit, meaning roughly "Universal seed-point."

Jacques Vermeire: Zaalshow 1

1993 • 60 min • Belgium

The first show of Jacques Vermeire

Polaroid Cocaine

1993 • 5 min • United States of America

The thrill of cocaine becomes a metaphor for the consumption of images in this short montage. The title and lyrics come from Auder´s friend and 2001 Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Jacques Shuhl. The piece is composed entirely of still photographs from a variety of books and magazines that simultaneously reveal and feed an addiction to spectacle. With a source that is once removed, Auder's scopophilia is symptomatic of society at large. The song is performed by legendary chanteuse Ingrid Caven. Suffused with a bittersweet melancholy, Canven's seasoned voice compliments Auder's selection of images which dwell on the themes of death, destruction and desire. The melody is classic cabaret performed by a piano/violin duo who dramatically heighten the works already dark eroticism.

Lodz Symphony

1993 • 20 min • United States of America

A portrait of Łódź, Poland that exists in a time-warp of sad memory.

Delirium

1993 • 23 min

Defiantly humorous in its tone, Delirium reflects Faber’s mother’s personal experience with what has been classified as “female hysteria.” While never reducing her mother’s condition to a single explanation, Delirium firmly and convincingly links her illness to the historically embattled position women hold in a patriarchal culture. The video layers haunting imagery and humorous iconoclasm, referencing everything from television episodes of I Love Lucy to Charcot’s 19th Century photos of female hysterics. Delirium contends that female mental illness must be understood within the political/social arena, and that in many instances women’s reactions of violence, anger, and depression are indeed sane reactions to abhorrent situations.

Sacred Lies, Civil Truths

1993 • 58 min

Amid a galloping onslaught of misinformation and violence, lesbians and gay men in the U.S. are struggling harder than ever to claim their civil and human rights. While the insurgent Religious Right mobilizes to implement anti-gay measures state by state, the lesbian and gay community is activating to turn the tide of discrimination and keep its eyes on federal gay rights at the same time. The film is a document of the religious right's blatant and hateful attacks against the lesbian and gay community and it reveals the real agenda of the Christian Right to gain power and impose a "Biblical rule".'

Obsession

1993 • 4 min

An allegorical found footage film mix, featuring fragments of TV ads of Calvin Klein fragrances, feature films about the Nazis, and Leni Riefenstahl’s works from the 1930s. With added iconic images of the Third Reich – photos of Nazi architecture and sculptures by Albert Speer and Arno Breker. Digging into the “unconscious” of contemporary advertising, the artist traces its aesthetic genealogy. Toporowicz’s analyses (with the element of allegorical meaning added to the films) reveal the extent to which contemporary commercialised visual culture maintains fascination with Nazi aesthetics.

Plan B - Virtual Reality

1993 • 49 min • United States of America

Plan B - Virtual Reality, skateboarding classic movie

True Confessions of An Artist

1993 • 5 min

The Search

1993 • 28 min

Based on the Fifth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary, The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple, The Search tells the story of teenage-runaway, Darcy as she learns about the struggles of life on the street and the parents frantically searching her.

The Gay Rock & Roll Years

1993 • 50 min

A history of the anglo-saxon gay and lesbian movement scored to the liberating popular tunes of the last 25 years. Moving from the initial struggle for gay law reform, to the revolutionary politics spurned by Stonewall to the homophobic policies initiated under Thatcher and the New Right, this film is a celebration of the achievements and struggles of gay and lesbian activists. Funny, inspiring and bound to get your feet tapping “The Gay Rock and Roll Years” is a great introduction to queer history. Songs featured include Doris Day singing “Secret Love”, The Kinks doing “Lola”, Sylvester singing “You Make Me feel (Mighty Real) and Culture Club asking “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?”. From rockabilly to soul to glam to disco to punk to house: we’re gay, we’re proud, we don’t ever stop the dance.

Introduction to Summer

1993 • 1 min

It consists of a one-shot one-minute embrace between a male hand and its female counterpart. The image is simple and sensual and it plays out its digital coupling against the aural backdrop of summer sounds.

O trabalho liberta?

1993 • 25 min • Portugal

Since the Nazis infamously used Manchester Liberalism-apologist Heinrich Beta’s dictum Labour Liberates at the gates of several concentration and extermination camps, work has lost all positive values and connotations. What now? Hewers, loaders, hurriers, etc., in the Neves-Corvo mine see this matter differently from, say, priest António Vaz Pinto or critic/historian Paulo Varela Gomes.

N + 2

1993 • 4 min • Russia

Two animated shorts, "Waiting for the Balloon" and "The Perfect Hole".

Super 8 Diary - 1993

1993 • 22 min • United States of America

Water into Fire

1993 • 25 min • Canada

Water into Fire is a mix of documentation of his performative piece and other scenes. In this piece, the artist continues his search seen in his earlier works for identity and placement in Canada's multicultural and First Nations arena. Longboy outs himself as a First Nations FAG, who is living with HIV and abruptly severs attached preconceptions of two-spirited peoples, forcing the First Nation's community to address him rather than the disease. In a contemplative and meditative search, Longboy recollects how HIV/AIDS has affected him and the community around him, revealing a strength through loss.

One Eno

1993 • 26 min • France

I Love You

1993 • 1 min • Canada

This was a site-specific work for spectra-board urban screen located at BC Place stadium in Vancouver. This Day Without Art project, curated by Scott Watson, was launched on Dec. 1, 1993 as part of AIDS Awareness Day. I Love You appeared in four languages: English, French, Chinese, and Coast-Salish. The two spectra-boards on the exterior of the stadium is visible to commuters on two bridges and surrounding streets and buildings in downtown Vancouver.