All Films

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - The Golden Seal

1993 • 30 min • Japan

While vacationing, Koenma is kidnapped by a pair of demons known as Koashura and Garuga, who demand the possession of Lord Enma's coveted "Golden Seal." Botan finds Yusuke Urameshi and Kazuma Kuwabara on their summer vacation as well, and asks for their assistance in Koenma's rescue.

Sarı Zeybek

1993 • 43 min • Turkey

From the famous Turkish journalist, Can Dündar narrates the last 300 days of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The documentary features the stories and mails from the friends of Atatürk who is the founder of Turkish Republic and also led the Turkish army in the Turkish War of Independence

Emma Zunz

1993 • 51 min

Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the tale recounts how its eponymous heroine avenges the death of her father.

Nure-nure: Sandan Zeme

1993 • 60 min • Japan

Popular AV actress Yuri is so busy that she doesn't have time to find a boyfriend, so she masturbates to relieve her throbbing. Not satisfied with just her fingers, Yuri starts using props, and eventually has a serial in a sports newspaper called "Sex with Props". Yuri studies hard for her manuscript...

The Huntsman

1993 • 12 min • Australia

A hitman encounters opposition from the organisation he works for when he decides to leave his job for the woman he loves. Fists, feet and bullets fly in the explosive finale.

Last Round

1993 • 34 min • Denmark

The final days of a terminally ill young man.

Touring Australia

1993 • 57 min • United States of America

A film dedicated to Australia and travel around it.

Seams

1993 • 30 min • Brazil

An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil.

Goldfish

1993 • 32 min • United States of America

The first video from Girl Skateboards. Goldfish opens with a car chasing a skater down a series of hills. The skater sees a goldfish in a fishbowl in the street and rescues it. Features other skits and tricks.

The Last Village

1993 • 41 min

A teacher trying to reach a remote village is attacked by wolves.

Magic Cottage

1993 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A short fantastical, meditative film chronicling a young man's descent into an addiction to cottaging (gay sex in public toilets), set in 1990s London, presented in the style of a classic zombie horror film.

The Village

1993 • 14 min • United Kingdom

A village is ruled by the church, but is filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Strange Weather

1993 • 50 min • United States of America

A quartet of crack addicts in Miami sit around, while outside, the biggest hurricane of the century is about to hit. The Pixelvision camera roams restlessly through the apartment, focusing nervously on the tiniest details, but never staying in any one spot for very long. Meanwhile, the addicts engage in desultory conversation, or make phone calls, or tell stories about their past experiences.

Mermaid's Scar

1993 • 56 min • Japan

According to an ancient Japanese legend, mermaid flesh may grant immortality if eaten. However, there is a much greater chance that consumption will lead to death or transformation into a damned creature known as a Lost Soul (or Deformed Ones in the English dub). Mermaid Saga tells the tale of Yuta, an immortal who has been alive for five hundred years, who is wandering across Japan searching for a cure and meeting others whose lives have also been ruined by mermaid flesh in the process.

Family Remains

1993 • 35 min

A woman and her mother deal with the arrival of her father's dead body.

Paranoïa

1993 • 6 min • France

A Croatian short film.

Bullet

1993 • 6 min

Bullet is Weerasethakul’s first film, an experimental, silent short that explores light and time. Here, one can see many tropes that continue to be developed throughout the artist’s career.

Desert Rose

1993 • 45 min • Japan

Mariko, codenamed "Rose Marie", is a leader of an anti-terrorism group, CAT (Counter Attack Terrorism). She lost her husband and son in a terrorist bomb attack at an airport. Also suffering injuries in the blast, she was left with a scar that looked like a rose flower on her chest. A secret summit conference is due to be held in Switzerland, with Marie's team deployed as security. However, it becomes clear terrorists have already made a move to sabotage the meeting...

Elijah

1993 • 30 min • United States of America

Ahab, a great king of the Israelites, has fallen under the spell of Jezebel, a daughter of the King of the Sidonians. He has rejected the Israelites' God and embraced Jezebel's religion: the worship of the idol Baal. At Jezebel's command, Ahab has ordered the execution of the prophets of Israel, replacing them with Baal's false prophets. But one man, Elijah, filled with power of the true God, directly challenges Ahab and Jezebel.

Razor

1993 • 55 min • Italy

Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato.

Stellar

1993 • 2 min • United States of America

This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition (for "close-up" of textures). The tone of the film is primarily dark blue, and the paint is composed (and rephotographed microscopically) to suggest galactic forms in a space of stars.

Family Style

1993 • 11 min

A young man struggles with grief over the death of his older brother.

Virtual Reality

1993 • 60 min • United States of America

As skateboarding begins to embrace the importance of it's own history, Plan B's second release, Virtual Reality, quickly establishes itself as one of skateboarding's most significant video productions of all time. Only one year after their inaugural release (Questionable Video 1992), Plan B stepped to the fold under the guidance of Mike Ternasky and convincingly shrugged off the sophomore video jinx. In today's massive era of skateboard prominence, Virtual Reality remains a flick that's just as significant for its representation of the period's for and style, as it is for the bar raising development and progression it depicts.

La intrusa

1993 • 60 min

The Galgo brothers are inseparable macho loners living in the heart of Andalucia at the turn of the century. One day Rafael comes home with Gracia, who is to be his servant and lover. They become trapped in a hell of their own making.