All Films

Burn

1992 • 11 min • Japan

A woman gazes at the television while she irons as she falls in love with a murderer in the news. A young woman living in a dilapidated flat falls in love with a man who is wanted for the murder of a college girl and is reported on the news every day. She scraps his press photos and talks to his wanted posters on the street. But her secret happiness is short-lived, and the day comes when the man is arrested, despite her pleas for him to run away. She cries as she listens to the news, and when the wind blows in her room, all that is left is... A sad and fantastic love story, with a surprising twist at the end. The iron that the woman keeps in her room, the laundry, is a symbol of her feelings for the man, but because it is white in colour, the more it increases, the purer the effect of her feelings becomes.

Rising Within the Realms of Sleep

1992 • 6 min

Peter Strickland's first short film, steeped in the somnambulistic poetry of Jean Cocteau.

Haar

1992 • 6 min

Contribution to the 11-episode film "Vitaal Filmen", focusing on the cultural significance of the long hair of the filmmaker.

Judge Dredd: The Body Shop

1992 • 27 min

Judge Dredd faces off against kidnapper and drug pusher Slugger.

Burzet

1992 • 52 min

Every Good Friday, the inhabitants of Burzet, in Ardèche, redo the Way of the Cross of Christ's Passion. In 1992, the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bozon filmed this ceremony at length and met the main characters of this way of the cross, seven centuries old. Gérard Courant gathered and edited the rushes of this shoot and made five films. The last, entitled "Burzet", presents the village and shows the preparations for the Stations of the Cross of Burzet

Cucumbers Are Better Than Men Because...

1992 • 10 min

Cucumbers stay hard for a week and cucumbers don't have sex hang ups and won't make you wear kinky clothes and cucumbers never suffer from anxiety and don't need a round of applause and cucumbers aren't allergic to your cat and don't leave whisker burns. This 10 minute cartoon has all the reasons that cucumbers will definitely improve your life.

Passion Cake

1992 • 4 min

A disgusting princess attracts the attention of a hideous goblin who, after being kissed by her, will transform into whatever her heart desires.

Mo Feng

1992 • 10 min • China

Dissimulation

1992 • 20 min • Japan

If the Mango Tree Could Speak

1992 • 58 min • United States of America

This documentary intimately portrays ten boys and girls growing up in the midst of war in Guatemala and El Salvador. The children – ages 12 – 15 – talk about war and peace, justice, ethnic identity, friendship and marriage. In a series of touching vignettes, they share their dreams and hopes as well as their pain and loss.

Sweet Trip

1992 • 29 min • Japan

A LaserDisc mood film featuring Kumiko Takeda.

Hoshigari Hime no Bouken

1992 • 20 min • Japan

A fairy-tale telling the story of a wealthy, spoiled princess Katharine who got changed into "normal" girl by a Witch and now have to live among common village folks adapting to their modest lifestyle.

The Limping Duck

1992 • 9 min • Ukraine

An old man lived with his wife, and they did not have kids. To not be bored, they took a duck found in the woods. They began to look after it, and it turned out that it was not a duck at all, but a young girl, hardworking and caring, which helped the old people to stoke and cook food. But with them, she did not shed her feathers, so they decided to find out everything by themselves.

The Day of the Incredible Monster from the North Pole

1992 • 17 min • Germany

Set in the year 2017 after many atomic and environmental disasters, a giant monster breaks out from under the North Pole and proceeds to destroy cities.

A Year Whose Days Are Long

1992 • 15 min • Canada

A jail setting juxtaposed against the wedding of Princess Diana on television thrusts both post modern irreverence and reification of icons onto the refracted visceral harshness of a spartan locked environment, capturing both the confining artifice of modern life and the all too real loss of liberty experience by women in prison.

Baggage

1992 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Ruth Lingford's interpretation of women's everlasting burden of fertility.

Elevator

1992 • 12 min • Yugoslavia

A young man enters a freight elevator to perform his daily, routine work. In the claustrophobic environment of the tin box, an unusual process suddenly begins to take place, culminating in a shocking finale that leaves one wondering where the elevator is going.

Swan Song

1992 • 9 min • United Kingdom

This was Carolina Lopez Caballero's graduation film at Farnham (now Surrey Institute of Art and Design), but has a strength and confidence of vision which is unusual in student work. The technique mixes three dimensional work, boiling watercolour, thick paint, ink and collage. The mark-making mixes roughness and calligraphic grace. The film tells a dreamlike story of a king who is attracted to the singing of a mysterious woman. He is disappointed when she turns out to have the head and neck of a swan and finds it difficult to fit into her new role as Queen.

An Eye for Sound

1992 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A Four-Mations documentary covering the importance of audial sound in the medium of animation.

The Inventor

1992 • 27 min • Iceland

Eggert V. Briem born 1986 in Iceland, is a self taught scientist and inventor. A hundred years later he reflects on time past: The years in Germany during WW I, his invention on the airplane's autopilot, the depression in USA, Einstain's theory of Relativity, late marriage in USA, the solitude and the meeting with his best friend.

Hotel Cișmigiu

1992 • 13 min • Romania

Florin Iepan's unsettling film documents the famous case of a student who, due to the lack of light in the corridors of the Cișmigiu Hotel - a student dormitory at the time- and a malfunction of the elevator, fell into the elevator shaft and died. The camera, which flies over the exterior and interiors of the Cișmigiu Hotel with extraordinary mobility, suggesting an extracorporeal perspective, captures the desolate poverty the residents of the dormitory used to live in during the first years after the Revolution.

Panic

1992 • 4 min • Norway

Amiga demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

Odd Nerdrum: Time, Water, Recollection

1992 • 41 min • Iceland, Norway, United States of America

Odd Nerdrum draws much of his inspiration for his paintings from Iceland. What is it about this lava island that makes him travel there every year? What is he looking for? We went with him to Iceland to find some of the answers.

Inkt

1992 • 14 min

A surreal short film about a man who gets obsessed with the idea of becoming a octopus, his obsession drives him insane and he get hospitalized.