All Films

Cowboys in the South Pacific

1992 • 40 min

Dr Danforth Artie Bookout leads his team of intrepid Texans to search for an aircraft and the body of Weyland Bennett , "a home-town boy", missing in action 50 years ago. Deep in the bush sits Chief Jean Marc waiting for his Texan pay packet to lumber into view. And two days' walk behind the Texan strides a local explorer who knows the secrets of Dr Dan's past.

Room

1992 • 7 min • Russia

Experimental short where a man's entering his small room, checking the lights and eating behind the mirror.

Red Square

1992 • 3 min • Russia

Experimental short.

The Face With a Back Expression

1992 • 7 min • Russia

Experimental short.

On the Threshold of Liberty

1992 • 11 min

Filmed during an artist residency in New York, 'On the Threshold of Liberty' is a poetic image/word montage deconstructing the relationship between self, language and image. Close-up shots of a woman smoking, a television screen and other scenes are accompanied by an intimate voice over: "Maybe the moment of the split will reproduce itself endlessly. Maybe the moment of the split never existed. Maybe the moment of the split will dissolve into light." Heidi Tikka questions the Freudian notion of the split subject by replacing it with her vision of an endlessly layered, multiple and rhythmic process. On the Threshold of Liberty is greatly philosophical but also explicitly sensual, operating on the affective, rather than cognitive level.

See Rock City

1992 • 32 min • United States of America

Travelogue/marketing video for Lookout Mountain, GA.

Two Ducks in the Fog

1992 • 58 min • Iran

A theater directed by Rasoul Najafian

The Next Step

1992 • 59 min • Netherlands

Documentary shows what became of the six ballet dancers from the film Stap voor stap (Step by Step).

Having a Ball! With the House of Avant Garde

1992 • 29 min • United States of America

Established in the 1980s, the House of Avant-Garde was the first Chicago ballroom house. It served as a safe haven for predominantly Black LGBTQ+ youth and fostered a vibrant community where they could fully express themselves. Having A Ball! With the House of Avant Garde offers an immersive and thrilling experience into Chicago’s vibrant Black LGBTQ+ ballroom scene. The documentary showcases footage from the Unity Ball (1991) and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Ball (1992), providing a unique and thrilling opportunity for the audience to step into the historical balls hosted by the House of Avant-Garde.

Evident / Evidence

1992 • 14 min

My concept for “Evident / Evidence” was to create a kind of “peep-show”, which involved the construction of a mock Florida shack, into which the spectator is forced to “peep” through a burglar viewer eyepiece INTO the interior dark space. By ringing the doorbell, the viewer ignites a film and a video loop, which project onto a plexiglass screen in the center of the dark space. The loops include images of fragile Florida nature (swamps, birds) and a video intercut of the Hollywood film, the Wizard of Oz, with the Hill-Thomas senate hearings. I was interested here in the making of a woman’s body and experience into spectacle (parallel with the exploitation of the natural environment in Florida) and the positing of evil and blame on her. The specific complications and contrasts of racial and cultural identity embedded in these issues was further developed by the intercutting of the Hollywood film.

Crime Prevention: Hyenas

1992 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The ‘Hyena’ campaign was launched in 1992 – with the long-term objective of making car crime socially unacceptable. The campaign likens car criminals to scavenging hyenas, and encourages the public to collectively deter offenders. Offering simple advice, such as “remove valuables and ensure doors are locked”, the film suggests that opportunities for the car criminals will be reduced. The campaign proved successful in lowering this type of crime and has been coupled with nation-wide Police initiative ‘Operation Hyena’ targeting car criminals. However, there is more to be done as the Home Office states that vehicle crime still accounts for one-fifth of all crime recorded by the police.

Kimono

1992 • 3 min • Venezuela

An exploration of Japanese culture by experimental animation artist José Castillo.

Cines de Barriada

1992 • 24 min

Memories from the neighborhood theaters in Cali, spaces that each summer occupied an important place in the heart of the people. In the neighborhood theaters, among others, Mexican cinema was widely exhibited, which incorporated Cali fashions and even strongly influenced the work of various local artists.

My Socialist Country

1992 • 36 min

An account of life in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the early 1990s

Tatva's way

1992 • 25 min

The elders and a young nenets Tatva are living at the nomad camp lost among the tundras, lakes and copses. Tatva is blind and explores the world by ear and by touch. To get by himself to the remote hunting lands he pulled up a multi-kilometer system of the rope paths which are woven from the scraps of a hoop net, wire and tarpaulin.

Kodō

1992 • 50 min

Kodo's first original video performance, recorded at Ryotsu Shimin Kaikan on Sado Island, Japan. Tracklist 1. Zoku 2. Lion 3. Yamauta / O-Daiko 4. Irodori

Aion「film Plastic Mania」

1992 • 59 min • Japan

Recorded live at Shibuya Kōkaidō in Tokyo on January 13th, 1992.

Silver~Rose「Keen Kiss Me 」

1992 • 39 min • Japan

Each song from the original EP is presented with live concert snippets and photoshoot scenes. The film also features a bunch of live videos after the ending credits roll, all in a very bootleg-ish sonic quality. They seem to be from the same footage used on 1992年6月22日 インクスティック.スズエ. (at least, the same tour), but the snippets here are generally longer or different from the other tape.

Woman of Steel and Sorrow

1992 • 37 min • Russia

A documentary about Arsha Ovanesova, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter who created the first Soviet newsreel series for chidren.

The Death Cloud of Chornobyl

1992 • 10 min • Ukraine

A film about the impact of low doses of radiation, told through the visit of members of the youth organization “Next Stop” to the abandoned city of Prypiat. Dozens of hippies from Sweden, France, Japan and other countries arrive at the Chornobyl station after their boycott of a nuclear testing site in Nevada. The foreign youths are greeted by the local elderly self-settlers, who by force of habit continue to sell mushrooms along the road. Covering their bodies in paint, the visitors head to the fourth reactor to enact an anti-nuclear performance.

Alive Yet

1992 • 30 min • Ukraine

Five years after the Chornobyl tragedy, the “Ukrkinokhronika” studio crew visits institutions within 30 kilometres of the Chornobyl station. They interview researchers about radiation effects, showing photos of anomalous plants and birth defects. The film combines interviews with aerial footage of abandoned areas, highlighting the church as a place where life persists. Shot in 1991, it reflects the era’s patriotic and separatist sentiments, underscoring the lingering impact of the past.

Oddballs

1992 • 8 min • Russia

Comic sketches for adults — "Evening Stroll," "The Fifth Leg," and "Made It."

水－辞海标准版

1992 • 10 min

Zhang hired a news anchor from China Central Television to read every entry and definition under the word “water” (水) from the Cihai encyclopedic dictionary, and recorded it on video. The lighting, background, microphone, and even the authoritative “national” face of the anchorwoman were exactly the same as those in CCTV’s extremely serious nightly News Broadcast program. The only thing changed was the content coming out of her mouth: instead of official news, she was reciting neutral, emotionless dictionary entries. The satirical subversion was obvious. The video produced a strong sense of absurdity: by applying a straight-faced, solemn presentation to utterly trivial content, the solemn authority of the broadcast is undermined.

Kecia: Words to Live By

1992 • 24 min • Canada

The first (native) First Nations girl to come forward as HIV-positive in the early 90's. The film chronicles her travels across Canada delivering heart-felt messages and warnings to young people in aboriginal communities.