All Films

Memories of Old Manila

1993 • 22 min • United Kingdom, Philippines

A historian travels through time from the swampland that one day turned into the squalor that it has become in contemporary time.

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

1993 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he's suffering from writer's block; he can't get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations.

Flirt

1993 • 23 min • United States of America, Germany, Japan

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with. Later incorporated into a feature film of the same name.

Sauve-toi

1993 • 52 min

A young man who has just committed a hold-up finds refuge in an old house.

Minns ni?

1993 • 8 min • Sweden

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Hot Ticket

1993 • 2 min

Short film written, directed, and starring Zoë at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

The Troma System

1993 • 29 min • United States of America

A 30 minute infomercial that originally aired on Comedy Central in 1993. The idea was that by purchasing Troma Inc. movie products you could better yourself as a person.

Big Bust Casting Call

1993 • 60 min

Well-endowed women audition for film roles requiring nudity.

Projections

1993 • 46 min

The innovative and influential British filmmaker Derek Jarman was invited to direct the Pet Shop Boys' 1989 tour. This film is a series of iconoclastic images he created for the background projections. Stunning, specially shot sequences (featuring actors, the Pet Shop Boys, and friends of Jarman) contrast with documentary montages of nature, all skillfully edited to music tracks.

Virtaset ja Kekkonen

1993 • 60 min • Finland

Movie about family called Virtanen in Finland under regime of Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, who ruled the country over 25 years.

The Attendant

1993 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.

Close

1993 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Vincent has recently become a father and is preparing the house for his newborn daughter's homecoming. His joy and excitement, however, turn into something darker when one of his neighbours (a sad, drunken man whose own children have recently thrown him out of the house) suggests a sordid future for both Vincent and his child. Something inside him snaps and he embarks on a psychotic mission of 'close cleansing'.

Honban roshutsu gurui

1993 • 59 min • Japan

Beasts

1993 • 6 min • Hungary

Short animated Hungarian film. Based on works of Hungarian avant-garde artists: Wahorn András, fe Lugossy László, and ef Zámbó István.

Growing Up with John Waters

1993 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Growing Up with John Waters, the self-proclaimed Pope of Trash and king of US Independent Cinema. John Waters discusses his traumatic childhood in Baltimore and the films which came out of these experiences.

Talking with Ozu

1993 • 40 min • Japan

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders

That's When Things Changed

1993 • 60 min • Japan

Moriyama leads and guides an organization that aims to create a global environment that can coexist with forest slime molds. During an activity in the park, other members spot members Nagayama and Itagaki making love to each other. Kijima could not forgive the fact that there was such a relationship in the same group, but when Moriyama learned of this, he told Nagayama that sodomy and living in search of slime mold were the same, and told Nagayama that he had a relationship with other members. He suggested that they have a relationship. Later, the body of Kijima, an opposition figure, was found...

The Making of Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

1993 • 24 min

Cast and crew take viewers behind the scenes into the production and creation of his 1993 stop-motion classic The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tenchi Muyou! The Night Before the Carnival

1993 • 44 min • Japan

A few days after Kagato is defeated everything returns to normal. Ryouko finds Mihoshi and Sasami reading shoujo manga, which Sasami mistakes as guides on how to win a boy's heart... Earth style. So Ryouko decides to try out the ideas from the manga to win over Tenchi. But Aeka finds out what her rival Ryouko is doing and tries to take advantage of the same method. Naturally, the results are less than satisfactory for all involved...

Sírius

1993 • 12 min • Brazil

A homeless boy roams the city streets on Christmas Eve. Your dreams in shock with the harsh reality.

Queen of the Wild Frontier

1993 • 31 min • United Kingdom

Convicts Mick and Gary are being escorted to the dentist when their prison van has an accident and they wind up at a remote farmhouse occupied by Fiona and Susie, two sex-starved sisters who have been waiting to have babies with the right men, whilst these two may not be the right ones, they are certainly available.

Richard Scarry's Best Busy People Video Ever!

1993 • 30 min • United States of America

Let the kids go to Busytown for the day and learn all about the many different jobs people do, so they can see what they might want to be when they grow up.

Swk4

1993 • 33 min • Portugal

A portrayal of Futurist artist José de Almada Negreiros, who said: "I wanted others to say of me: 'Look, a man!' The same way they say: 'Look, a dog!' when a dog passes by; or how you say: 'Look, a tree!', when there is a tree. Which means as an entity, without the use of adjectives, only as one whole: A man!"

The Dutch Master

1993 • 28 min • Germany, United States of America

The Walter Mitty-esque tale of a Brooklyn dental hygienist who escapes into a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Peter de Hooc. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.