All Films

Sparkill Ave!

1993 • 5 min

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

The Ideal/Na(rra)tion

1993 • 4 min • United States of America

In this music video, which operates as a meditation on contemporary Chinese history, Yau Ching combines found images and text to negotiate between idealism and propaganda and the hopes and disillusionment that they bring.

Three Rogues and the Violinist

1993 • 8 min • Russia

Another story about the all-conquering power of art. In the city there lived a boy who learned to play the violin. He was very talented. And at concerts after his performances, the audience stood up and applauded him. And three bandits were operating in the city, who had no idea what beautiful classical music was. The bandits robbed everything they could get their hands on. They ransacked the pockets of passers-by, took things out of apartments, unscrewed light bulbs from lanterns, and even ripped off telephone sets. And one day, when the violinist was returning from a concert, the bandits attacked him too. They demanded to give the boy's violin, but he flatly refused.

P(l)ain Truth

1993 • 15 min • Finland

P(l)ain Truth tells the story of the emotional and physical transition of a transsexual woman through poetic visuals.

Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods

1993 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Near an extraordinary chair with many legs, a hand is visible gripping an edge. The hand is weathered, the fingers cracked and scarred. The end of a rifle appears and a shot fires. The bullet is visible whirling through space; it caroms and then goes through a pine cone. A long spoon emerges from a drawer in the chair and stretches toward the hand. The bullet is on the spoon. Later, the hand holds the bullet between two fingers; another shot is fired.

L'orrore di vivere

1993 • 3 min

In a world with fantastic potential, an apathetic sedentary couple let themselves live till they die

Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen

1993 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary portrait of International Chrysis, a New York “show girl” and drag queen. Surreal herself, Chrysis was one of Salvador Dali’s inner circle, a woman from the waist up, a man from the waist down.

Uurimusfilm doktor Enn Vetemaa märkmeraamatute põhjal "Eesti näkid"

1993 • 55 min • Estonia

Mermaids and humans have crossed paths throughout millennias.Their generally peaceful coexistence is described in naiadological literature, as well as in the folklore of many nations. Our mermaid people are poetic and mysterious - we meet these gentle and femininely charming creatures in nature and in the everyday life around us. The film follows the principles of scientific lyricism, and takes the viewer through the history of naiadology and introduces the main types of mermaids. The mermaids were captured in beautiful places in Estonian waters.

Kiki & Lala's Hansel and Gretel

1993 • 30 min • Japan

The classic fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel starring the Little Twin Stars.

Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up

1993 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An affectionate portrait of San Francisco, and of the man whose Tales of the City have inspired thousands to go there. Maupin relates a life story more bizarre than his fictional characters(including a meeting with Nixon), while local eccentrics and ex-colleagues dish and praise lavishly.

Gone Fish'n

1993 • 50 min

Jonathan Winters takes a trip to the Missouri Ozarks and encounters several characters who bear a striking resemblance to him.

Beauty and the Beast

1993 • 10 min • Austria

Autobiographical notes about bringing up children. A birth, the bite in the umbilical cord, a baby between sheets of music. Mimi fiddles educationally on a violin without strings, offers her breast and enjoys the little king with an improvised hysterical performance, and suddenly starts with Dadaistic oracles, letting the blead dance and carrying the child out into big wide world.

A Donkey in the Music-scale

1993 • 21 min • Estonia

My Life

1993 • 21 min

A gay writer looks back at his life and the different people he has been, a hippie, a disco bunny, a gay man living with AIDS…

The Tenth Dancer

1993 • 50 min

Documentary on the revival of classical dancing in Cambodia, where nine out of ten classical dancers were killed during the Pol Pot regime in the 1970s. The program focuses on master teacher Em Theay and her star pupil Sok Chea, who recall their ordeals under Pol Pot and talk about their present efforts and their hopes for the future. In addition to views of Em Theay, Sok Chea, and others in classes, rehearsals and performances, the program includes historical background on Cambodian classical dancing and archival footage of dancers of the past.

Return to 'The Great Escape'

1993 • 24 min • United States of America

A documentary about the making of the 1963 film THE GREAT ESCAPE, as well as some of the historical details on which it was based.

An Erotic Concert

1993 • 43 min • Germany

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose work explores the themes of sexuality, human vulnerability and emotional fragility.

The Harry Connick, Jr. Christmas Special

1993 • 60 min

Filmed in Hollywood's Pantages Theatre, Harry Connick, Jr. performs several Christmas classics from his first holiday album.

La Traviata (Noi siamo zingarelle)

1993 • 4 min • Belgium

Grandma's Way Out Party

1993 • 58 min

Heading out west to her Grandma's birthday celebration, Lynda Barry and Kevin Kling record their adventures along the way.

The Outlaws

1993 • 14 min • Portugal

In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.

Britannia

1993 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The history of empire. A British bulldog answers his mistress's call. He tacks down the Union Jack to cover the British Isles, then begins playing with a small ball that's the world. At first it's innocent play. The dog discovers tea in India; then, the dog shakes gold out of Africa. Gradually, innocence gives way to more and more ferocious play with the ball. We see terrorized women and children as the dog becomes an enslaving potentate. Harmless English archetypes benefit from colonial riches. Then the world begins to grow, and the dog changes too, from bulldog to effete lap dog.

JuJu Shampoo

1993 • 1 min • United States of America

In today’s busy world, even a shrunken head has a hard time keeping her hair shiny and clean.

Rêves de ville

1993 • 26 min

1992, September. Val Fourré, Mantes-la-Jolie. A suburb near Paris. Watched by the crowd, the four towers in Val Fourré crash with a terrible noise. In a cloud of dust, journalists, statesmen (members of the government) and the people of the neighbourhood. A page is turned. People want to believe that things will be better tomorrow. It is a symbol that is blown up. Great projects are announced. A few months later, those who expressed their feeling at the time, are reflecting on the past events, as we watch and listen to their words, the present is taking shape.