All Films

Eggshells

1992 • 12 min

A woman sells tickets in an art-decó cinema, as voices from a passionate melodrama float through the foyer, disembodied. The proyection’s assistant, reflected and distorted in a mirror, becomes the focus of her romantic dreams. When the mirror shatters, the film moves to an inevitable tragic conclusion.

New Man

1992 • 6 min

A soldier suffering from PTSD is offered a chance to change her life.

Paranoia

1992 • 4 min • Croatia

A man is being followed through deserted streets by an invisible figure.

Get Used to It

1992 • 1 min • United States of America

Four PSAs dealing with the issue of public displays of queerness.

Why Not Love?

1992 • 1 min • United States of America

This PSA poses the question, "Why does society readily accept violence but not love between men?"

Wohosheni

1992 • 7 min • Canada

From the fictional language Laadan from the novel Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin, wohoshenl means "to feel joined, to be part of someone without reservations or barriers." The film simultaneously discusses passion and affection and how spectators view the female body.

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

1992 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A rare and lively examination of disability and homosexuality as it affects both women and men, Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun advocates for acceptance rather than pity for participants in this video. Interviews with a wide range of disabled lesbian and gay people are inter-cut with dramatic recreations and performances.

Madame Simone

1992 • 12 min • Canada

Every evening, Eugène Fortin becomes Madame Simone, to the delight of club-goers around town. His flamboyant costumes, a pastiche of many styles, give him the look of a clown from the end of the last century. One day, Madame Simone hears a voice urging him to go to the Wigstock festival in New York: a gathering dear to both transvestites and wig fans.

Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents in the 90's

1992 • 16 min • United States of America

In this video, we meet a lesbian single mother who shares parenting with the gay father of her son; a lesbian couple who care for one's children by a previous marriage; and a gay male couple with two adopted sons. Also interviewed are a clinical psychologist and a therapist who works with gay families.

Wicked Radiance

1992 • 5 min • United States of America

Structured around traditional wayang kulit puppetry, Nurudin draws together references to Islamic culture and her explorations of S&M.

Media Blackmale

1992 • 5 min • Canada

Moving from Mapplethorpe's gaze that objectified the body, to the perspective of the subject, this video challenges media stereotypes of Black masculinity, the body as form and the Black man as object.

Benny and The Dreamers

1992 • 53 min • Australia

A small group of Pintupi living in west Central Australia today can remember their first meeting with a white man, their first impressions of the white man's world and their expectations of what the white world had to offer.

Chroniques

1992 • 12 min • Canada

Three video-diary segments in which a transsexual prostitute recounts different circumstances that lead her to practice unsafe sex with clients.

Roots, Thorns

1992 • 23 min • United States of America

Filmed on a return visit to the Asháninka in the tropical forest of eastern Peru. Moving in close to people who still live with the land, cook over fires and raise their children in the forest. Earth, river, animals, weather. Forces of turmoil and of nature. Forces that surround the senses at all times.

Since Our Status Changed... (I'm Alone But At Least I'm Not Being Kicked In The Face)

1992 • 10 min

SINCE OUR STATUS CHANGED ... chronicles a breakup. The film mixes animated oil painting with shot footage. Charles Frayne Prize Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Animated Feature, 1993.

Trolley: The Cars That Built Our Cities

1992 • 54 min

A documentary exploring trolleys, cable cars, light rail, and subways from the early 19th and 20th century.

The Closet Monster

1992 • 4 min

Alex and his dad move into a new house. What they don't know is that an inter-dimensional monster is lurking in the closet. Short film by Justin Young and Byron C. Miller, made when they were in the eight grade.

Facts on the Polywave

1992 • 24 min

The biker-movie motif is incorporated to ride the issue of social entropy as the debate of thought probabilities.

Ninfografia

1992 • 7 min • Spain

This pioneer piece of digital animation in Spain, introduces us into a disturbing ecosystem in which a number of highly sexualised elements travel across the space, and encounter each other in a seemingly arbitrary manner.

Una Pequeña Mirada

1992 • 10 min • Peru

In the Grass

1992 • 3 min • Germany

A film about me wearing only a rubber mask and crawling on all fours in the grass.

The 1992 Shoji Tabuchi Family Christmas Show

1992 • 60 min

In celebration of that most special time of the year Shoji, Dorothy and Christina Tabuchi bring you all the joy and wonder of Christmas. From the violin artistry and incredible versatility of Shoji, to the production genius of the show's creator and vivacious emcee Dorothy, to the rising star that is Christina, here is the holiday show you'll never forget.

Days Before Christmas

1992 • 10 min • United States of America

Last minute Christmas shopping CUTS it close in this 1992 Houston International Gold Award winning short horror film.

Voices From Afar

1992 • 42 min • Poland

A documentary record of memories of Poles exiled to Kazakhstan. The description of harsh living conditions, terror, hunger and overwork is illustrated with archive photographs and contemporary shots of Kazakh wilderness and towns, where traces of the past regime are still visible.