All Films

Mental Masturbation

1992 • 5 min

Mental Masturbation, a Super 8 short imbued with a blessed soundtrack of trance music (an element that would be recurrent in all his latter films), was a point of start into what would be the most appreciated (and hated) element of Manuli’s cinema: The rescue of the absurdist to paint an atmosphere of freedom, in which music (in this case, electronic music) serves as the only link of meaningful communication between its characters, or between its protagonists and the settings of his films, the relation man-man and man-nature.

Trail of the Werewolf

1992 • 43 min

A team of paranormal researchers investigate a series of "full moon murders".

Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi

1992 • 23 min

Sequel to DiAna's Hair Ego. Party Safe takes viewers on a relentlessly sexy journey to safer sex gameshow-style parties across America. Viewers will hear an extremely diverse range of sexual fantasies in a hilarious party atmosphere. Spiro's video work about AIDS disrupts the talking heads and pleading tone of early AIDS documentaries. Focusing on the two inspiring black women at the centre of the South Carolina AIDS Education Network, Spiro creates one of the most naturally inclusive universes ever seen on film.

Bad Omen

1992 • 30 min • Russia

A plane is preparing for departure. The captain’s co-pilot has fallen ill, and replacing a partner right before takeoff is considered a bad omen. Passengers are already seated, and a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar is playing in the cabin. The captain wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a pleasant flight. But soon after takeoff, a flight attendant informs the captain: the plane has been hijacked.

Follow That Bunny!

1992 • 28 min • United States of America

When an ice cream king named I.M. Ruthless swipes the Easter Bunny's all-power Magic Egg, causing Spring to "not come". Join Clarise Bunny, Forest Ranger Gerbert, and two helpful human kings Scott and Abby as they embark on a quest to save the egg and bring on spring. Filled with delightful clay animation and a brimming Easter basket fill of terrific tunes bring to life this happy, high spirited bunny-tale of the year that never spring.

Guilt Trip

1992 • 3 min • Australia

This surprisingly lighthearted exploration of childhood trauma depicts a women falling through space while reflecting on her past mistakes, as well as how she was made to feel about them.

Lanterns of Peace

1992 • 21 min • Ukraine

A short documentary about Chornobyl and the young generation.

Luchesk is Large on the Styr River

1992 • 10 min • Ukraine

A documentary from the film collection about the national liberation struggle in Volhynia in the 20th century.

L'abobinable microbe

1992 • 5 min

A slice of life among the creatures of the earth. The word microbe comes from the Greek “mikrobios”, which means “ whose life is short”.

My Address is Solovki: Why Translate Virgil?

1992 • 21 min • Ukraine

Mykola Zerov was another prisoner of the Solovki camps. He was an outstanding Ukrainian poet, an excellent translator of ancient works, and a scholar of philology. Like others, he was destroyed by the repressive machine on Solovki.

Linnea in Monet's Garden

1992 • 30 min

Linnea in Monet's Garden is a unique blend of imagination and education, teaching children about the art and life of one of the most important painters of the 20th century, while entertaining them with the mystery and beauty of art and nature.

The Bride, The Bachelors - Even

1992 • 15 min

Is this a love song being transmitted through the air, or is it just the buzz of a desire mechanism in the ears of the receivers? The symmetry of male and female aspirations, fears and angers maps the new landscape of desire stripped bare by new technologies.

À la campagne, à Khan Tan Su

1992 • 3 min

The colors and breezes of the countryside and house in Normandy. The blue crockery, the yellow lichen, and where the key in the monastery kitchen leads.

On Christmas Eve

1992 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Family of mice help an angel in need retrieve a magic wand from the snow, a hungry owl tries to eat them and later Santa appears.

Two Autumns: Andy Goldsworthy

1992 • 55 min • United Kingdom

A study of artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work in Scotland and Japan.

Framing Lesbian Fashion

1992 • 58 min • United States of America

Framing Lesbian Fashion looks at the evolution of lesbian attire and identity – butch/femme, flannel, androgyny, cross-dressing and drag, queer fluorescent, S/M and leather, lipstick and more.

Sometimes at the Cherokee Sink

1992 • 30 min

Join Anthropology Professor Fontaine and his college students as they embark on a strange anc deadly excursion into the deep Florida countrysie to investigate the mysterious fossil rocks being found in a freshwater sinkhole. Unexplained deaths, a mysterious creature, a Satanic psychopath, and drug-fueled soirees collide in this scarce Super 8mm underground creature feature.

Beckerbillett

1992 • 18 min • Germany

A portrait of the Hamburg ticket manufacturing company Beckerbillett.

A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art

1992 • 27 min

A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1992) uses the concept of complementarity to make sense of the confusion that existed between fine art and technology in the late 20th century.

The Old doll

1992 • 20 min

Lilla discovers that she'll be getting a new doll for christmas so she decides to throw the old one away, but once she falls asleep bad dreams start to haunt her.

The Fall of Walhalla

1992 • 35 min

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, summer 1992.

Magicians of the Earth: The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man

1992 • 54 min • Australia

A documentary on Australian Aboriginal art. The fist part is about a group of desert tribesmen who retell their legends by creating three large and elaborate ground paintings. In the second part the Aborigines of the northern coast depict the story of their ancestors in bark paintings.

Son of Border Crisis

1992 • 16 min • United States of America

In these seven short video performances directed by Isaac Artenstein, Gómez-Peña confronts Mexican-American culture clashes, stereotypes, and the Fourth World (immigrants). Speaking through a bullhorn or on the airwaves of mock-station Radio Latino FM, he broadcasts a message that will not be silenced. He delivers such comic comparisons as between “tacos without salsa” and “art without ideas” and such pointed statements as “thanks to marketing and not to civil rights, we are the new generation.” The taped monologues include Son of Border Crisis, El Post-Mojado, The Mexican Fly, Dear Californian, Employer Sanctions, The Year of the Yellow Spider, and The Year of the Hispanic.

Itamar Stories

1992 • 40 min • Israel

Based on David Grossman’s Itamar Stories series.