All Films

Juggling Gender

1992 • 27 min • United States of America

Features Jennifer Miller, juggler and director of Circus Amok. Miller speaks of her life and struggle as a lesbian woman who happens to have a moustache and beard. Includes scenes of circus performances, a gay rights parade, Miller interacting with friends, family, and strangers.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Carr

1992 • 1 min • Canada

The British Columbia painter discovers the artistic muse that will drive her life's work.

Panspermia

1992 • 2 min • United States of America

Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This animation places the viewer in the middle of a virtual world of an aggressively reproducing inter-galactic life form, and depicts a single life cycle of this unusual self propagating system.

Difference

1992 • 15 min • Philippines

Two domestic helpers consigned by fate to a very awkward situation. Both are trapped in a common pitfall, but each has her own way of crawling out of the damned thing.

Introduction

1992 • 6 min • Russia

Popular at the end of the Soviet Union and Russia's transformation to a new era was a sort of escapism into surreal animation like this one.

Tuning In

1992 • 15 min

A broadcast classical concert brings together an estranged couple as memories of their shared past are stirred.

Go With Virgo!

1992 • 45 min

A look at the skills of the UK's leading expert in trick snooker, John Virgo, featuring lots of tricks, quips and nifty moves to impress your friends with.

V/M. Bardoing

1992 • 8 min

Stop-motion footage of moving clouds and the passing of the sun.

Rap Rat: The Video Board Game

1992 • 60 min

A 60 minute video cassette featuring 3 games, starring 'Rap Rat', a rapping rodent who tries to eat all the cheese and win the game.

Sadness at Leaving

1992 • 20 min

Following the erection of the Berlin wall, special agent Carl Halman is assigned by East German intelligence to move to New York where he’ll “sleep” as a writer until he is called. Using the code-name “April 23,” Carl successfully infiltrates the uptown-downtown literary world in 1950s New York. He edits a magazine, follows the Knicks, and marries Melinda, the socialite wife of best-selling jock novelist Hubert Cleaver, Ayden’s hilarious Norman Mailer pastiche. Through Carl’s eyes, we see New York City change from an outpost of Europe to the new capital of an anarchistic, post-ideological world. But then, when Carl least expects it, he’s called.

Eyes

1992 • 1 min

Part of the COI's infamous "Drinking And Driving Wrecks Lives" campaign which ran between 1987 and 1997. We see a single, uninterrupted shot but this time it's of a young woman laying on the asphalt after being hit by a drunk driver. As the camera pans slowly away from her eyes (one of which is dilated, an indicator of severe brain trauma) we see paramedics trying to resuscitate her as she lays lifeless in a pool of her own blood. Played over the footage is the audio of the drunk driver who caused the accident being quizzed by a police officer, desperately pleading for her to "be alright" – though it appears that the paramedics' attempts to resuscitate her continue to be futile.

The Shape

1992 • 21 min • United States of America

A short fan-film from the director of Mr. Ice Cream Man.

Get Out!

1992 • 40 min • United Kingdom

A look behind the scenes of a London borough's controversial anti-squatter initiative. In order to move as many rent-paying tenants as possible into empty properties, Hackney claim they must first clear their borough of more than 1,000 squatters. John Alexander 's film follows the tense countdown to eviction, examining the pressures on the council that force them into confrontation and questioning existing assumptions about squatters.

Douglas: Story of a Superstar

1992 • 10 min

Documentary behind the creation of Aardman's mascot for Lurpak.

Side/Walk/Shuttle

1992 • 41 min • United States of America

In this infamous structural film, Ernie Gehr takes to the glass elevator attached to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel and rides its 24 stories up and down, constantly shifting the orientation of his camera to offer images of the city as a zone of constant flux, freed from gravity and in perpetual rearrangement.

Diet for a New America

1992 • 58 min

"This is John Robbins' amazing video documentary Diet for a New America (1992) which explores the causes why Americans eat so much meat and what does this do to their health and the environment. Although it is commonly known today that meat and diary products are one of the primary causes for heart and other deadly diseases, Americans don't seem to care at all and are living (and dying) with them every day. When this award-winning documentary was first aired the US National Cattlemen's Association mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit the program and keep it from being aired. But the attempt to thwart the show failed, and the program went on to be one of public television's all-time most successful documentaries.

Jake Johannsen: This'll Take About An Hour

1992 • 60 min • United States of America

Jake Johannsen's first stand-up comedy special, filmed live in 1991.

The Wall

1992 • 11 min • France

Plasticine animation. Two characters erect a wall between them to end their discord. On each side, life is organized differently, until the reunion...elsewhere! A film for everyone, young and old, very funny and which tells us a lot about some of our behaviors!

The Red Bridge

1992 • 21 min • Belgium, Luxembourg

A documentary about Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge —AKA the red bridge, notorious for its suicides— in which a couple of families who lived underneath the bridge were followed and interviewed throughout a period of time, telling about their macabre experiences.

Ave

1992 • 5 min • Brazil

"Do what you want because everything will be legal".

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures

1992 • 51 min • United Kingdom

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld: Patterns and Textures is a 1992 video by the UK electronic music collective The Orb. It was filmed and recorded at a live performance at Brixton Fridge, London, 12 May 1991. A limited edition of the original UK VHS tape release came with a bonus CD (catalogue number ORBFREECD1) of the soundtrack. The soundtrack was also included as a bonus disk on a limited edition of the initial UK vinyl pressings of U.F.Orb.

Tagging the Other

1992 • 4 min

"A piece made in response to issues arising in the run up to the instigation of a single European market and it’s implications in respect of the movement of non white peoples around the continent., as well as through the outer boundaries of so called ‘Fortress Europe’." - LUX. Originally a mixed media installation, with four video monitors and slide projection.

Swamp

1992 • 11 min • Germany

a short animation film about the stupidity of war. A battle between two horse-mounted armies, facing problems of territory and overweight.

Sappho : poèmes et fragments

1992 • 12 min • France

Study of the fragment, the word, the written word... some are in French, others in Greek, without translation. For those who do not understand Greek, magic of the unknown, word-drawing, form in itself. The beauty of the texts means that they do not need images. It is not an illustrative film, it is a film about the fragment that reveals itself... reappears... a film based on the superimposition of images... a film in perpetual motion, nothing stops... It is a film about the sensuality which emerges from the poems... images of a moving matter where fantasies can slip in. It is a film about the poetry of love, the violence of passions, the tears... Sappho tender and violent, philosopher and poet... Sappho who comes back to us, present, beyond the 2700 years that separate us.