All Films - Short Movie Database

Kafka

1992 • 53 min • France

Against a set which has been designed in a Kafkaesque and claustrophobic way, Rybczynski has recreated a World of Kafka which corresponds well with Kafka's maze-like novels. It is an abstract and unpredictable world where Kafka himself moves between the scenes of his own stories, from America via The Castle to Metamorphosis, and The Trial is of course the frame story throughout. Rybczynski has chosen to portray Josef K as an alter ego. Other characters become members of his own family, which means that Rybczynski makes a kind of exemplary, depth psychological close reading of his work.

The Dance

1992 • 8 min

An intimate portrait of songwriters, performance artists, and lovers Dan Martin and Michael Biello, “The Dance” explores the interconnectedness of their domestic life, artwork, and selfless devotion to a community of artists they have helped to create and support. The film uses hand-processed footage to convey the emotional intensity of their lives. The handmade quality of the film imparts a sense of poignancy and brotherly loving in the era of AIDS. Based on "The Dance," a song about living on in the face of loss, with music by Dan Martin and lyrics by Michael Biello.

War on Lesbians

1992 • 43 min

WAR ON LESBIANS is a witty critique of the invisibility of positive images of lesbians and a satire of talk show television and radio self-help programs. It features supposed experts on sexuality being interviewed by a television talk show anchorwoman. These “experts” espouse the many, often ill-informed, theories presented to explain homosexuality. Intercut with the drama are actual recordings of a radio talkback therapist and documentary interviews with lesbians. In a bright and savvy way, WAR ON LESBIANS reveals how far many of the myths about lesbians are from truth. WAR ON LESBIANS is the perfect post-script to Jane Cottis’s hilarious feature film DRY KISSES ONLY.

Frankenstein

1992 • 14 min

A man creates a companion by re-animating body parts taken from a cemetery, but the creator does not appreciate the child-like qualities of his creation.

Demarcations

1992 • 6 min • United States of America

Ragusa utilizes the female form as the terrain to examine recollections of a rape. The filmmaker emphasizes the manner by which identity and exoticism are played out on the level of the female body.

Five Year Diary, Reel 76: Fall to Spring (October 30, 1991–March 28, 1992)

1992 • 25 min • United States of America

Cuantas veces más

1992 • 4 min • Uruguay

About abuse in marriage.

Slowly Turning Narrative

1992 • 15 min

Slowly Turning Narrative includes two projections on a large central rotating screen. One presents images of virtually everything that constitutes life, embracing the broadest sweep from birth to death. The other shows a close-up of Viola’s head incanting “the one who lives,” “the one who acts,” “the one who reads,” and more. As this screen rotates, a mirror on the back comes into view, reflecting the image of the viewer in this video evocation of human existence.

The Night When Water Comes Down

1992 • 6 min • Japan

A female artist who presents a work called "pubic hair diary" in which she collects pubic hair. The "author," who has a special interest in hair himself, attempts to have a relationship with her and plans to exchange film letters in 8mm. What is the end result of this wildly experimental film that uses the unique language of experimental film and conceptual art, such as attaching beards and hair to the film?

Heritage Minutes: Basketball

1992 • 1 min • Canada

Sports coach James Naismith's invention of Basketball is tested by a group of young students in Springfield Illinois.

Barclay James Harvest - Live at the Town and Country Club

1992 • 50 min

Recorded live at London’s Town & Country Club in February 1992, Barclay James Harvest play a selection of their most popular and timeless classics. Coinciding with the 25th Anniversary of the band’s formation, this live concert is an evocative testament to one of the greatest exponents of British progressive rock. Opening with an extended and haunting rendition of Mockingbird, the guitars of John Lees and Colin Browne blend magnificently on Medicine Man and Play to the World, with Les Holroyd rendering a dramatic vocal performance on the latter. BJH’s more ponderous progressive rock set pieces are pierced by the rousing upbeat guitar-based Life Is for the Living and the crowd pleasing Stand Up.

Mutilator: Hero of the Wasteland Episode II: Underworld

1992 • 5 min

The man with a mechanical arm returns to mutilate once more.

Jusqu’au silence

1992 • 16 min • Belgium

Anna comes from a violent past that has left her a recluse in her solitude.When a man knocks at the door her infancy returns....Will Anna open the door to the universe that she has created for herself to let life enter?

Mermaids of Ghost River

1992 • 60 min • Belize

To solve the mystery of her recurring dream, Dawn travels to an exciting Caribbean island.

Schwarzwald

1992 • 44 min

1992 VHS of Kuroyuri Shimai

Princess Lotus

1992 • 10 min • China

This art film is an ink cartoon adapted from the story of the same name in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". In the dream, the scholar Dou Xu was invited to a banquet by the queen. At the banquet, he got acquainted with the princess Lotus.

When Mrs Hegarty Comes to Japan

1992 • 59 min • Australia

In 1981, Yuki [Noriko] Sekiguchi went to Australia to study International Relations. She spoke little English, but quickly befriended Joyce and Jack Hegarty, who became her 'second parents'. While close, Noriko sensed in Jack a buried resentment towards her, perhaps due to his experience fighting Japanese in World War II. Jack died in 1988 with this issue unresolved. Now retired and widowed, Mrs Hegarty lives alone in a Sydney western suburb. She is a devout Catholic and bowls at Ashfield Lawn Bowling Club. Mrs Hegarty expressed a desire to visit Japan and Yuki saw this as an opportunity to right some wrongs. In appreciation of Mrs Hegarty's hospitality, the natural parents of her 'adopted Japanese daughter' agreed to host Mrs Hegarty in their Yokohama home for three weeks.