All Films

The Trouble with Art

1993 • 42 min

This revealing documentary invites us into the studios and thoughts of 13 artists as they reflect on the impact ‘the Troubles’ has on their lives and their art. The artists featured are Michael Donaghy, Ross Wilson, Philip Napier, Tom Bevan, Nuala Gregory, Dermot Seymour, Micky Donnelly, Gerard Devlin, Catherine Harper, Colin McGookin, Rita Duffy, Andre Stitt, Jack Pakenham

Octubre

1993 • 6 min

A man struggles with his past, in order to find his present, in this 1993 surreal, avant-garde visual-drama. Written and Directed by Jose Pelaez, Photographed and Edited by Carlos Garcia, and Starring Mel Nieves.

An Ephemeral Mission

1993 • 9 min • France

An explicit examination of interaction.

Mt. Fuji and John Lennon

1993 • 5 min • Japan

The artist’s first 8mm film, shot at the age of 19 with a friend.

Folk Art Found Me

1993 • 29 min

Documentary portraits of folk artists and their weird charming art

TB3 - Coming Down The Mountain

1993 • 45 min • United States of America

This movie is the ultimate combination of freestyle and extreme snowboarding... Witness Dave Hatchett's first descent at Mendenhall Towers in Alaska, and sick freestyle moves by Peter Line and Jim Rippey. Locations: Alaska, Colorado, Norway, Oregon, Lake Tahoe, Utah, Washington, Austria, Cortina Italy

The Arming of Saudi Arabia

1993 • 57 min

Since 1979, the US has been helping Saudi Arabia contruct a sophisticated multibillion dollar network of military bases. Frontline uncovers the hidden history of US-Saudi relations, examining the extent of the secret Saudi defense buildup, the question of high-level US collusion in fixing the price of oil, and the extent of US involvement in covert Saudi aid to Iraq in its eight-year war against Iran.

Naked Sport: Welcome to the Sewer

1993 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Produced by PBS in 1992, this documentary explores the darker side of boxing. It follows the career of a young Shannon Briggs and includes interviews with Evander Holyfield, Larry Holmes, Teddy Atlas, Dan Duva, Kathy Duva, Lou Duva, Bobby Czyz, Bob Arum, Mike Marley and even Muhammad Ali.

Son of Werewolf

1993 • 21 min • United States of America

A short film by David Rock Nelson documenting the antics of a werewolf.

TOOL - Prison Sex

1993 • 5 min

A 1993 stop-motion animated music video by Tool for their song “Prison Sex”, exploring dark and controversial themes with distinctive artistic direction.

Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance

1993 • 29 min • United States of America

An exploration of the early public debate surrounding birth control, the media's involvement, and the unstoppable Margaret Sanger, in a style mimicking the films of the period.

flow

1993 • 38 min

In Flow, completed in 1991, Wenyi Hou, the Chinese woman migrant artist being interviewed, struggles with the impossibility of identity formation through speech and performs instead a documentary scene that has obviously been rehearsed in order to highlight the unhumanness of being human. She asks whether it is possible that we all originated from and could be reducible to grape, in the farm of bunches, connecting and consumable, yet all brilliant and different in their own contexts, or in her words, “in another kind of time.”

The Good Wife of Tokyo

1993 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her band, the ‘Frank Chickens’, after living in England for 15 years. This wry and delightful film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence, examining traditional attitudes to women and those of Kazuko’s friends who are trying to live differently.

The Sisters

1993 • 18 min

The Sisters is the haunting tale of the ties that bind women and sisters together. Etched on a gravestone are the stark facts: three sisters who drowned on the same summer day in 1917. A haunting drama about the events leading to their deaths, The Sisters uses evocative and sensual imagery to create a women's tale that is at once both poignant and celebratory.

Janauba

1993 • 18 min

Santos constructs a lyrical meditation on his native Brazilian landscape, its culture and its inhabitants. Santos pays tribute to two important historical figures from Brazilian cinema — Humberto Mauro and Mario Peixoto — and their films The Ox-cart and The Limit. Contemporary footage, recorded in Death Valley and in Janauba, a town in the artist's native state of Minas Gerais, describes landscapes that appear to be untouched by time. In contrast, the reality of their inhabitants suggests an idealized, yet never realized, future.

The Boot

1993 • 60 min • Iran

A little girl convinces her mother to buy her a pair of red boots, but one of them gets lost.

The Manners Club

1993 • 25 min • United States of America

A homemade instructional video teaching manners to kids, featuring General Manners. The children perform an educational rap to share what they've learned.

American Exposé: Absence of Light

1993 • 36 min • United States of America

An inside look at Satanism from its origins to its victims. Shot on location in Richmond, Virginia, to San Francisco, California, this program will enlighten and inform. By becoming aware, you will be able to spot the danger signals. You'll hear historical facts regarding the beliefs of Satanists, and witness the mental pain as survivors of Satanic groups tell their tales of horror and abuse. Learn why the number 3 is so important in the worship of Satan.

Tight Right White

1993 • 19 min

Staged in a loft on Lafayette Street, across from the Public Theatre, the piece used the film adaptation of Kyle Onstott’s 1957 novel, “Mandingo,” as its primary script. Sitting on cushions on the floor, audience members had to crane their necks to see the proceedings. Enter Moishe Pipik (the amazing Tony Torn), a long-nosed Jewish character in a huckster’s checked suit. When he pisses in a pot of earth, a money tree springs up. Moishe has a friend, Blaster, a black teen-age junkie and drug dealer. They’re refugees, in a sense—racist and anti-Semitic parodies of Jewish liberal identification with blackness. Sometimes they hang out as if they were on a talk show, their chatter intercut with all that “Mandingo” mess, Mandingo’s black phallus looming in the minds of the white people who constructed their dream of an antebellum South on black backs.

Keshka and Business

1993 • 16 min • Belarus

Jón in Akureyri

1993 • 9 min

Jón in Akureyri is the second part of Detel + Jón. I filmed Jón Sigrurgeiersson walking through the streets of his childhood, meeting his filmmaker brother and telling childhood stories.

Journey

1993 • 3 min • Russia

An experimental collage of archives and animation, dedicated to the director's journey with his friends.

Jumping the Gun

1993 • 10 min

A surreal exploration of a woman's daydreams following a one night stand.

Hydra

1993 • 16 min • Slovenia

In the video works of Ema Kugler, mythology is inscribed in the rituals of everyday life, this time it is the theme of Hydra with many faces. It is illustrated by individual scenes with actors in leather costumes (the author's creations), which restrict their movement and thus already emphasize the separation of man from nature. The last trace of connection - the ritual relationship between man and bull, which is again based on human cruelty to animals - ends with blood, which on a symbolic level also pervades the whole image.