All Films

Preah Vesandor

1993 • 39 min • Cambodia

Musical including many classic songs

Getting It Right: Safer Sex for Young Gay Men

1993 • 55 min • United Kingdom

This documentary made in 1993 when massive HIV/AIDS pandemic issue at the time. This video was made to teach gay men how to have a safer sex, like using condom and safer sexual activities.

Historias Breves 0: Latidos

1993 • 12 min • Argentina

A couple robs a supermarket, but the tension caused by a surprising event triggers an unexpected end.

Ich habe die angenehme Aufgabe...

1993 • 35 min • Austria

Emil is an elderly circus director. His pleasant and all-too-frequent duty is to greet people from every village in the land. Again and again the tired old fighter refuses to stop and wonder whether it is worthwhile - though this is the question foremost in his mind.

She's Safe

1993 • 55 min • United States of America

Learning can be fun! This package of woman-to-woman safer sex videos features a spicy batch of public service announcements (PSAs) and an international sampling of smart and sexy erotic videos, including Girls Will Be Boys, a drag king date where they skip dinner and a movie; and the silent horror spoof, Cunt Dykula. She's Safe! also features excerpts from Well Sexy Women, the first British-produced lesbian sate sex video; and excerpts from the bold, German-produced Truth or Dare. She's Safe! contains the hottest and most educational safe sex videos ever compiled.

The Antique Doctor Who Show

1993 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Collectables expert Justin Pressland and Doctor Who expert David J. Howe speak to fans about their Doctor Who memorabilia collections in a pastiche of Antiques Roadshow (1979-ongoing).

The Importance of Being Ernie

1993 • 40 min

Ernie Wise was always part of a double-act. As one half of Morecambe and Wise, Britain's most successful comedy team, he enjoyed the lifestyle of the rich and famous. It was a partnership that lasted 46 years - until Eric died in 1984. Then his "little fat friend" had to go on alone. Being number two in their act was never easy for Ernie, and a new solo act has proved even more difficult. Last Christmas, for the first time in 20 years, he appeared in pantomime. This film examines what drives him to want to make a comeback when he could be enjoying his retirement. He is seen preparing for panto, remembering the great times, reliving the jokes; Ernie reveals all, including the hairpiece and the join.

Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes

1993 • 53 min

When Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien hit the street in 1987, people took the record to heart. The unknown artist on the then underground Relativity label struck the right chord with music fans around the world with his powerful signature style. A baffled and astonished record industry could only step back and watch in amazement as Surfing With The Alien went on to defy traditional instrumental rock limitations to become a multi-million selling GRAMMY(r)-nominated critical tour de force. Joe was touted as the soft-spoken maverick, a rock and roll guitar-slinger who proved there was an audience for music that didn't fit into tidy categories and opened the door for the slew of rock instrumentalists who have since followed his path.

The Pharaoh's Belt

1993 • 42 min

"Seemingly in a hyperglycemic fugue state, a boy goes on a domestic Odyssey as his living room becomes an interstellar macrocosm that contains all the dangers and wonders of the mid-century popular imagination." - Chris Stults, Film Comment

Truckin' With The Dead

1993 • 26 min • United States of America

The Grateful Dead phenomenon, as told by Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Jerry Garcia. Excellent production values make this an interesting and entertaining video. Mickey and Bobby are both interviewed solely for this VH1 project. The Garcia interview is from MTV in 1987.

The Crash: The Coming Financial Collapse Of America

1993 • 40 min • United States of America

This film was produced in the early 90s and with such pinpoint accuracy explains our current economic situation, its uncanny…almost prophetic. See what roads have lead America to its dependency on debt, and how you, as an individual, can escape it. America must borrow more than a billion dollars a day to help pay the interest on our national debt! What does this mean for our future? How can we protect our families? Hear expert economic analysis from Larry Burkett, Ed Meese, US Senator Trent Lott, and others.

Behind the Veil: seduction, marriage, and divorce in Mauritania

1993 • 52 min

Moorish society allows a great deal of freedom in the relationship between men and women. In the tent, in this feminine place, men are admitted. In the city, in Nouakchott, customs have been adapted. The women receive guests in their living rooms. Hassan is a young man who roams the streets of Nouakchott looking for a girl to seduce. Through poetry, he perpetuates the tradition of courtly love. In their salon Aziza, Amina, Fatimétou and Farida listen to him and tell us about their dreams of young Moorish girls.

Exorcism

1993 • 9 min • Taiwan

In this short filmed during Chung Mong-hong's study in the United States, a giant cross hovers above, as floating images of the city segue into the vast expanse on the beach where an exorcism is underway, with people holding crosses and self-flagellating, contrasting with the skyline on the other side of the city, the nostalgia and alienation of the sojourner. During the exorcism, a voice-over relates the varied reactions of the bystanders. What is ‘exorcism’, and how do symbols, sounds and imagery relate to each other? In this highly experimental work, Chung compares the director’s montage with the process of exorcism, offering an alternative interpretation and reconstruction of the film’s structure and narrative.

The Man in the Air

1993 • 10 min • Russia

The eternal tragic conflict of a genius and a tyrant in power. The heroes of the film are the inventor of the aircraft and the Chinese emperor, who ordered his execution. The emperor was afraid of the possibility of using the aircraft for military purposes and ordered the courtiers to keep this secret.

Us

1993 • 9 min • Argentina

Trelles and Amílcar share a room in a boarding house, the rent of which has not been paid for a long time. Trelles is a waiter in a typical Buenos Aires bar while Amilcar is an amateur bolero singer, who divides his time between sleeping and singing for free in a cabaret.

Origin of Species

1993 • 15 min • Russia

A parody version of the famous book by Charles Darwin. For adults.

Clive Anderson Talks Back: Peter Cook

1993 • 35 min • United Kingdom

One of the most beloved editions of the show, as Clive chats to a biscuit inventor who was abducted by aliens; Scunthorpe's football manager; a suspended high court judge and a rock legend - all of whom bear a resemblance to Peter Cook.

Never Rest: A Drama About Farm Safety for Children

1993 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A ghost story about a modern English farm haunted by the ghost of its former owner. It's rumoured that he murdered four children, but it is slowly revealed that they were child labourers who died in various accidents exacerbated by his carelessness.

Belly Dancing for Fun & Fitness

1993 • 55 min • United States of America

Janine Rabbitt teaches belly dancing as a way to trim and tone problem spots.

Racist, Sweden?

1993 • 57 min • Sweden

"Rasist, Javisst?" is a Swedish documentary film from 1993 about the conflict between young Swedish nationalists and immigrant teenagers growing up in the suburbs of Stockholm. The film was shot during the whole of 1992 and culminated in the riots on the 30th of November 1993, after which date the authorities prohibited the nationalist demonstration in the centre of Stockhom.

Cinemateca Brasileira

1993 • 14 min • Brazil

A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.

Refugio en la ciudad

1993 • 20 min • Argentina

A man wanders at dawn through different corners of Cuidad de Buenos Aires, devastated by the loss of a lover.

Myth Makers 26: Anneke Wills

1993 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Anneke Wills is almost as well travelled as the character she portrayed, Nicholas Briggs managed to catch up with her in Norfolk to talk about the past as Anneke begins a new chapter in her life.

The Measure of Your Passage

1993 • 29 min • Canada

This short film tells of two rugged journeys: that, autobiographical, of a young woman who learns she is harboring the AIDS virus; and that of the ancient Minoan civilization, wiped out by the greatest cataclysm in history. Today, the world is held hostage by a killer disease that is stealthier than a volcano, but it exacts the same price. Now, as then, some profound questions exist: How does humanity define itself? How do we measure our passage on this planet?