All Films

A Family For Maria

1992 • 5 min

An animated film for five- to eight-year-olds about international adoption and the difficulty of adapting to a new environment. The film also gives a glimpse into the problems of abandoned children in developing countries. In A Family for Maria/Une famille pour Maria, love triumphs over the insecurity of a little Latin American girl who finds a new family in North America.

Le feu

1992 • 4 min • France

Memories of Alhambra

1992 • 5 min • Poland

A miniature from a series of animated films illustrated with classical music.

Hypnerotomahia

1992 • 8 min • Russia

An eight-minute Russian animation directed by Andrey Svislotskiy of Pilot Animation Studio LOOSELY based on the novel Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus.

SS: Segreto Sangue

1992 • 57 min • Italy

Four unsuspecting teenagers go to a dilapidated house to smoke a joint, unaware of the secret hidden in that place. Inside a room, they find an old suitcase dating back to World War II containing a vial with a mysterious liquid codenamed “Axia.” One of the four accidentally spills the contents on himself, unleashing the hell of the living dead...

Fleshfilm

1992 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Ken Nordine’s jazz spoken-word soundtrack was the inspiration for this work and a collection of body parts that Andrew Kötting had accumulated over the years of friends and family on super 8. "The true colour that flesh should be is the colour that flesh is".

Acidfilmda

1992 • 6 min • Algeria

Erotic films attacked by a virus.

Bird in the Hand

1992 • 25 min • United States of America

This film portrays a jealous triangle. Simone and Kaye are lovers trying desperately to escape New York City and the reality of their friend Ayo's abusive relationship.

Bittersweet - A True Love Story

1992 • 16 min • United States of America

A dominatrix comes home from work to relieve her slave's frustration in a piercingly tender love scene. An erotic adventure from start to finish.

Attack of the Flesh Eating Tree

1992 • 19 min • Canada

A murderous tree attacks people at lakeside lodge.

Visions

1992 • 4 min

A film-within-a-film exploring the body in motion, frame by frame. Built with four frames within one, half of the screen in motion, the other still, this film makes the viewer feel that they are watching a "moving picture." The sensation one gets is of tension...expectation...shock. It freezes one in a frame. The glorious, trenchant music of R. Murray Schafer in the background further adds to the intense "high" of the film.

The Smoked Sprat Baking in the Sun

1992 • 23 min • Estonia

An animated opera version of "Goldfish". In this modernised version of the fairy tale of the Goldilocks, everything is absurdly modern - turned upside down. It's the story of a man who lives underwater and a fish who lives above the water in the air and can grant people's wishes. The man catches the fish and starts wanting all sorts of things, but...

The Door of Absence

1992 • 11 min • Japan

The film is based on the impression after reading "la maladie de la mort" by Marguerite Duras, and added to, with other text, pictures and allegories. Through these movies I try to symbolically express the relationship (and lack of understanding) between males and females.

To Joy

1992 • 12 min

To Joy, completed in 1992, is an imagist film collage set to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. According to Byron, this is his second “musical.” The first of these “musicals” was Les Preludes. Opening scenes in To Joy interchange from gardens of yellow flowers to a revolving carousel to a woman in Asian-inspired attire that is spinning an umbrella. Other scenes include a woman belly dancing, as well as young girls dancing ballet and participating in a maypole dance. At one of the To Joy film screenings, Byron was asked who “Joy” is. -Chicago Film Archives

Dark, Scenes from the Barn

1992 • 15 min

Dark, Scenes from the Barn superimposes bucolic barnyard activities with jarring images of hidden desire

Local Knowledge

1992 • 33 min

"David Rimmer's film is at once a somber and celebratory meditation on time and place. Its title, 'Local Knowledge', is marine terminology for what a skipper must know when navigating dangerous waters. Rimmer is an experienced sailor and the film's spiritual and geographical center is aptly named Storm Bay, where he spends his summers. But it's a troubled site. The camera, moving with tide and swell, seems to strain anxiously at its anchor and it becomes clear from here on in nothing will ever be at rest. Local Knowledge won't save anyone anymore. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

When Lilly Laney Moved in

1992 • 8 min

John R. Dilworth's 2nd professional film, this short film was inspired by the romantic comedies of early Woody Allen. Shot on 35mm, it was animated and colored by hand using 'cels'.

The Journey

1992 • 28 min

A story based on the Third Joyful Mystery of the Rosay. Chris assists a homeless couple find a place to life on Christmas Eve just as the Holy Family needed a place to live.

The Magic of Christmas at Disneyland

1992 • 31 min

This Holiday Season you're invited to the jolliest, holliest celebration of them all. Come share in the fun and festivities with all your favorite Disney friends as they prepare The Magic Kingdom for the Holidays. It's the year's most spectacular celebration - and you're our special guests. Join Mickey, Minnie and the gang in a holiday wonderland of parades, carolers, and a good-old fashioned cheer, while they celebrate the Season as only Disney can.

Color Eyes

1992 • 8 min • Japan

This film consists of several portraits of boys, sometimes alone - in an interior, in front of a window, other times in a group, three dancers on a roof - or even as a couple, kissing, hugging. These scenes are intertwined with each other, supporting a waking dream whose desire is the driving force.

PR Kadeia

1992 • 15 min • Brazil

Two outlaws install a pirate radio station using stolen equipment, and start interfering in other stations' broadcasts, becoming an immediate success.

Entre Amis

1992 • 13 min • France

Directed during the creation of Alain Michard's choreographic piece Where Are My Friends, the film balances on the title in question and is therefore situated between. Between the protagonists of this affair of friends, between the revealed image of the film and the monitored image of the video.

The Roommate

1992 • 18 min

Placing a classified ad in the paper seemed like a great way to find a new room mate. Especially when the clean cut and mild mannered Michael Donner moves in. Their first mistake was trusting him. Their second, showing him where the gun is.

Queens of Columbus: Performance and the Art of Illusion

1992 • 30 min

A fast-paced documentary that explores female impersonation in a large Midwestern city. Comprised of interviews with nine female illusionists, "Queens" utilizes performance footage and excerpts from other gay-focused events, such as Ohio's largest gay pride parade and "Bat'n'Rouge", a drag queen softball game.