All Films

I Am the Night

1993 • 40 min

A man-sized, reptilian "Chef Detective" helps a nameless blonde make sense of her recurring dream.

The Criminals

1993 • 5 min • France

Animated mugshots of criminals.

Blood Brothers: Broken English

1993 • 55 min

Arrernte elder Rupert Max Stuart tells his side of the story about how he was sentenced to death for a crime he says he didn’t commit. For 30 years, Arrernte man Rupert Max Stuart has maintained his innocence of the rape and murder of a young white girl. His story became the basis for the movie Black and White in 2002. In Broken English, we hear from Max and those personally involved in the case. Max Stuart claims he fell prey to prejudices in the white justice system and alleges he was beaten and verballed by police. He spent 14 years in prison and faced the gallows nine times for the crime he says he didn't commit. This film, which combines documentary and drama, recreates some of the events of his trial, appeals and subsequent Royal Commission. It features Hugo Weaving, Noah Taylor and Tony Barry, with Lawrence Turner playing Max Stuart.

Eisbär

1993 • 2 min • Germany

A Super 8 film.

Frannie's Christmas

1993 • 4 min • United States of America

As Christmas approaches, Frannie Stein learns from her snide friend Gloria Oestriger that there is no Santa Claus. Frannie's disbelieving, but her father confirms the horrible truth. Frannie enlists the help of her younger brother, Kenny, and they go to a graveyard to dig up some parts, which they assemble in the Stein basement. Soon, they've finished their creation and are ready for revenge on Gloria. Who says there's no Santa? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Climbing Around My Room

1993 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Short experimental film by British artist Lucy Gunning, featuring the artist herself climbing on and around her studio walls.

Goldilocks & the 3 Bears in 3D

1993 • 25 min

Follow the adventures of Goldilocks as she ventures through the enchanted forest on her way to the house of the 3 Bears. See Goldilocks and the 3 bears for the first time ever in breathtaking LawrenceVision 3-D. Meet the zany Blue Bird of Happiness, the Fairy Goddess of the Forest and Cappo the Magician. Watch these fun filled characters in amazing 3-D as they appear to almost come out of the screen and touch you.

Acceleration

1993 • 10 min

A snapshot taken in a moment of human evolution, where the souls of the living are reflected in the windows of passing trains. The camera captures the reflections of passengers in the train windows as the trains enter and leave the station, and the movement creates a stroboscopic flickering effect that magically exploits the pure sensuality of the moving image.

Historias Breves 0: El artista peripatético

1993 • 24 min • Argentina

Carlos Iraldi is a doctor, but his knowledge and above all his enormous curiosity have led him to stand out in different branches of art such as writing, painting and photography. His fame, however, is due to the ingenious instruments he invented and which have served as support for several shows by the Les Luthiers ensemble.

Fritagen och trollbunden

1993 • 54 min • Sweden

Documentary about the role of women in rural northern Swedish society.

Carman: The Standard

1993 • 38 min • United States of America

Carman, a singing pastor, performs in seven music videos with various Christian messages.

When I Was Six

1993 • 3 min • United States of America

Haunting computer animation, whereby shadows and objects in a bedroom come to life.

Toxic Sunset

1993 • 28 min • Philippines

In 1991 and 1992, the United States closed down two of their largest military bases in Asia. After almost 100 years, our American guests were gone. But we discovered that our guests forgot to clean up. Toxic Sunset probes the issue of toxic wastes in US Military bases in the Philippines.

Backyard Barbeque

1993 • 4 min • United States of America

In 1993 I had a weird dream one night, a few weeks later it had morphed into the storyboard for this film, which features my friend Scot Campbell. Scot is a great painter and art car enthusiast. He's also known as Extremo the Clown. We shot most of the live action in one day in 16mm. The stop motion animation was added in the weeks following. At the time I was really into the films of Alex Winter and Tom Stern, so some of the flavor of this short might come from that influence. Later that year I had the opportunity to help out briefly with the title sequence to their film "Freaked".

Valentin Silvestrov. Quiet Songs

1993 • 20 min • Ukraine

The Chanter

1993 • 30 min

A story of illusion and disillusionment set in the 70s on a Glasgow housing estate.

Blue Movie

1993 • 7 min

Found-footage experimental short in which old softcore film images are presented through video.

The Story of the Father Who Baked Princesses

1993 • 44 min

The father is sitting up in a skylift, and he is telling a fairy tale to his daughter. Wherever he moves during the day, in power stations, in old cafes, he tells, and what he tells takes shape!

Whore Culture

1993 • 60 min

Documentary about the 1993 "Whore Culture: A Festival of Sex Work" event in Toronto.

The Waiter

1993 • 20 min

A Spanish waiter discovers there is little difference between swinging 1960s London and Franco's Spain.

Keshka and the Magician

1993 • 30 min • Belarus

Keshka loves his grandmother very much. One day, during a session of television magic, Keshka asked the magician to restore his grandmother's youth. It seems the magician doubled the "magical" power, and the effect of the rejuvenation turned out to be unpredictable...

The Last Words of Dolly Pentreath

1993 • 21 min

The 'last' Cornish speaker (who died in 1777) returns to contemporary Cornwall to investigate the state of the language.

A Communal Story

1993 • 8 min • Russia

Adventures of plumber Vova in a communal apartment inhabited by characters from different eras.

Cálculos Extáticos

1993 • 4 min

Faces in erotic-mystical ecstasy placed in relation with mathematical signs and a static stone.