All Films

The White

1992 • 8 min

"Special award for the best avant-garde film, Italy"

Read 'em and Weep

1992 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A sinister game of poker.

Door to Door

1992 • 4 min • Canada

An animated film for five-to eight-year-olds that presents the familiar situation of big kids bullying little ones in the schoolyard. This time, however, the little kids refuse to accept it and their constructive efforts in their own defence prove that might does not necessarily mean right.

Who, Why, and What for?

1992 • 22 min • Iceland

The World of Paraska Horytsvit

1992 • 30 min • Ukraine

The film is about Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, a folk poetess and collector of folk song pearls of the Hutsul region. The heroine of the film talks about her worldview, about the years spent in the Gulag, reads her own poems.

The Penal Code Was Ratified [fragments]

1992 • 58 min

The first film produced by FAV is a sociopolitical musical featuring Valeriu Sterian and the Sound Company, from which we extracted four of the ten songs of the “album” (Escu, The future political prisoners want to know, We will be what we have been, and A plea without a bridle.)

Perlman in Russia

1992 • 58 min

This documentary follows Itzhak Perlman when he travelled to Russia for the first time in 1991, accompanied by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic. Perlman describes his experiences with wit and warmth, and speaks movingly of what it means to him, as a Jew, to perform in Russia with a Jewish orchestra.

Las Nubes

1992 • 8 min

Experimental short by Marcello Mercado.

Dykeotomy

1992 • 19 min

Produced in the early 90’s when same sex marriage was still an elusive dream, Dykeotomy explores gender biases, homophobia, restrictive cultural mores and identity politics with painfully amusing stories and images.

Magnificent Niagara: A Journey to Remember

1992 • 29 min

A video album of Niagara from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Includes scenes from Skylon Tower, The Maid of Mist, Spanish Aero Car, Niagara's Flowers, Ontario School of Horticulture, Parks Greenhouse, Victoria Park, Fort Erie, Fort George, Great Gorge, Dufferrin Islands, Niagara Glen, the Whirlpool Golf Course, and Welland Canal.

Disasterpiece Theater: Fiction or Non-Fiction?

1992 • 14 min

George is a quiet man and is very, very humdrum, but he falls upon faith that will change his life forever.

Balançando na Gangorra

1992 • 5 min • Brazil

Ultimately, love is always greed. Narcissus and his love could not escape this. The night is dark and mirrors no longer have inverses or rights.

Rebeka Goes To China

1992 • 26 min

Several years after Rebeka Goes Down The Slide, filmmaker Lucy Kostelanetz re-films Rebeka at the age of nine to get a testimony of the greatest experience of her life up to that point: her year living in China. When Rebeka's parents are assigned to teach English at Guangzhou University, Rebeka, age seven, begins living on campus and attending an all Chinese School. But a year later, her stay in Guangzhou comes to an abrupt end due to the Chinese government's fears of student protests in 1989. Through the point of view of a nine-year-old girl, Rebeka narrates this memorable life experience to all of us.

Scraps Brakhage Stolen

1992 • 5 min • Italy

We imagined Stan Brakhage stole our Super 8 material, reworked it and then tried to sell it.

史上最強の移動遊園地ドリカムワンダーランド ’91

1992 • 59 min • Japan

Trott

1992 • 7 min • Germany

A short film about the gray day-to-day life.

Development From The Ground

1992 • 11 min

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

An Afternoon's Intercourse

1992 • 10 min

'What would an old nun like me know about sex?' Humility, masculuinity, feminism, gardening and the dreams of two nuns of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence, Sydney, Australia.

Cymatic Soundscapes

1992 • 28 min

Cymatics, the study of wave phenomena, was pioneered by the Swiss physician, artist and natural scientist, Dr. Hans Jenny. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner, Dr. Jenny's penetrating observations of distinct types of patterns in nature led to these dramatic experiments animating inert substances with audible sound. This film focuses on the polarities of seemingly static structures which are actually dynamic flowing forms. A stunning array of images evolves before your eyes, as audible sound excites inert piles of lycopodium dust and kaolin paste into processes which mimic atomic, geologic, biological, solar and even galactic shapes and movements.

Crossing Over

1992 • 6 min

A stylish, symphonic essay saluting the private and public temples of cross-dressing - complete with hellish drag queens and macho lesbians from S & M heaven.

Erdöl - ein Rohstoff wird veredelt

1992 • 14 min • Germany

Short film about petroleum

Work Without Mistakes

1992 • 4 min • Russia

The desire to grow closer to yourself will lead you to disappear. The simple desire to get a closer look at yourself makes you see yourself disappear. The possibilities of recording are limited.

Débâcle

1992 • 16 min • Canada, France

A torrent of words, of tenderness, of violence, of sense, and nonsense. Exasperation in speech as it butts up against things and repeats in a million ways its submission to nature and life. Red night. Collapse of night as dreams topple to their own destruction. Ruin, as an inescapable as the impediments we place before ourselves, destiny which sweeps us away, and on which we have so little hold.

Winter Spot

1992 • 5 min

Early work by Kenji Onishi.