All Films

A Question of Color

1992 • 58 min

A Question of Color confronts a painful and long taboo subject: the disturbing feelings many African Americans harbor about themselves and their appearance. African American filmmaker Kathe Sandler digs into the often subconscious world of "color consciousness," a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal.

Our House: Gays and Lesbians in the Hood

1992 • 21 min

Focuses on a range of African American gay and lesbian concerns, from outing to homophobia to alienation and discrimination within the black community.

I Never Danced the Way Girls Were Supposed To

1992 • 7 min

What makes Black lesbians so special? Suggs takes a fresh and funny approach to explore this and other questions using a mixture of scenes shot on film and video with running commentaries by women in the know.

Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia

1992 • 29 min

In their predominantly white high school in Halifax, a group of black students face daily reminders of racism, ranging from abuse (racist graffiti on washroom walls), to exclusion (the omission of black history from textbooks). They work to establish a Cultural Awareness Youth Group, a vehicle for building pride and self-esteem through educational and cultural programs. With help from mentors, they discover the richness of their heritage and learn some of the ways they can begin to effect change.

The Iraq Campaign 1991: A Television History

1992 • 19 min

This 20 minute political remix film entitled "Iraq Campaign 91" was created in 1991. Phil Patiris transformed network news footage, clips from Star Trek, and sports coverage to critique the media/industrial complex and the 1st Gulf War.

Fiend

1992 • 3 min • United States of America

Shot on Super 8 for projections at the legendary sex party Fiend in 1992, this short reel features members of the queercore band Fagbash in solitary erotic exploits. Part portrait and part salacious dare, this work offers an ad hoc glimpse into unapologetic cruising and lust.

Monkey King Looks West

1992 • 43 min

This colorful production contrasts the rich heritage of Chinese opera with the day-to-day realities of its emigréperformers in New York's Chinatown. It depicts the efforts of three classically-trained opera artists to keep alive their revered art form for the generation of young Chinese-Americans who would otherwise not be exposed to their tradition.In the time-worn pattern of immigrant life, they spend their days grinding out a living. In their spare time each performs and teaches Chinese opera. Scenes from the classic work Monkey King Looks West stand as a metaphor for cultural survival.

Broken Blossoms

1992 • 6 min • France, New Zealand

A cinematic metaphor, conceived as part of a compilation of films on AIDS, this is an emotional translation of the disease. The juxtaposition of music and images creates conflicts involving elements that, taken separately, would appear insignificant. Produced within the framework of SI FILM DA. (LightCone)

The Aroma of Enchantment

1992 • 55 min • Japan, United States of America

In this engaging video essay, Lord explores the Japanese fascination with 1950's American pop culture. The Aroma of Enchantment pointedly notes how America represented the 'abundance of democracy' for a country decimated by war. Unable to revise or reject these anachronistic images, Japan is ironically stuck with empty Elvis in a time of plenty.

Ici où est-on?

1992 • 7 min • Japan

A tour of Paris, France.

Fast Life

1992 • 60 min • Uruguay

A tale based on a true story set in the old city of Montevideo. Marcelo is a young criminal turned taxi driver devoted to extorting money from rich homosexuals.

Varje morgon likadant

1992 • 54 min

A documentary about people in Stockholm and their daily commutes.

Light and shade

1992 • 19 min • Russia

A short film based on the story of Fedor Sologub “Shadows and Light”.

Teenage Diaries: In Bed with Chris Needham

1992 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Seventeen-year-old Chris Needham is Loughborough's leading heavy-metal philosopher. He's putting together a band - but Manslaughter's bassist has no bass, the drummer can't play and Chris's mum says he's got to be in bed by nine o'clock. His confident public face often collapses, leaving him depressed, confiding in the video camera. Hilarious but touching, his diary is the inside story of so many bored and energetic youths who hang around the shopping arcades and dream of becoming rock stars.

When My Mother's Brother Was Born, It Smelled Like Wild Pear Blossom in Front of the Brown-Burnt Sill

1992 • 4 min

The video drifts between reason and dream and, like the installation, floats between earth and sky. Rist tries to give answers to such questions as ‘How much of what you see and hear comes from outside and how much is constructed by your brain? Why does your hair grow out of your head as if your skull was a cornfield?’.

True North

1992 • 45 min

The expansive beauty and serenity of the northern wilds are explored in this fascinating musical journey. Explore the rugged solitude of high mountain peaks; survey the magnificently deep and green rainforests; witness the playful interaction of orcas and humpback whales; and discover the otherworldly beauty of the aurora borealis. Music from John Serrie, Paul Speer, James Reynolds and Tangerine Dream accompanies this fantastical travelogue.

Wall

1992 • 5 min

Installation process time-lapsed.

Ladies

1992 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Ladies in neighbouring toilet cubicles agonise over what their neighbour might be thinking about them.

Earthly Possessions

1992 • 23 min

Earthly Possessions is a contemporary gothic depiction of fragmented identity using texts by Emily Brontë; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Fractal Experience

1992 • 29 min

The Fractal Experience will introduce you to a new dimension of entertainment combining the awesome power of computers, ambient music and the fantastic world where chaos and order co-exist. There are two different versions of this film; both the UK and USA editions feature entirely different soundtracks from one another.

Afilminthreefilmsin

1992 • 5 min • France

An entirely graphic film translated into three different interventions on a film reel: two by the camera and a third directly on the film.

Reflections

1992 • 2 min • Germany

"Depending on the light and the angle, one can see a variety of reflections in double-paned glass. I used this phenomenon to film a defracted self-portrait." —Milena Gierke

The End of St. Petersburg, or New Icarus

1992 • 6 min • Russia

1992, the time of the Perestroika. Inspired by Vsevolod Pudovkin’s “The End of St. Petersburg” (1927), the artist chooses the Greek mythological figure of Icarus as a person falling apart from the diversity of temptations and creates a romantic performance-self-portrait.

The Fart Video

1992 • 10 min

Pop this video in your VCR for an instant FARTY! Ermmm... we mean PARTY!