All Films

Licca-chan no Nichiyoubi

1992 • 25 min • Japan

Based on the character Rika-chan from Takara Tomy's long-running line of girls' toys, this is the third installment in the OVA series "Rika-chan" that aired in the 1990s. One Sunday. Rika goes to her friend Izumi's relative's house with Izumi and ends up answering the doorbell there. The house had a large tree in the backyard and was quite luxurious, but there was a shy girl named Akichan and her younger sister Tomochan who were a bit concerning.

Sunset Boulevards

1992 • 59 min • France

In this documentary about the exile of two famous French actors in Argentina during and after World War II, the director Cozarinsky returns to Argentina after many years in France and recalls places and events from his childhood, particularly the celebration of the liberation of Paris on in August of 1944, in Buenos Aires's Plaza Francia. Featuring testimony from various authors and acquaintances of Maria (Renee) Falconetti and Robert Le Vigan, the film explores their lives and final years in Argentina.

Moodtapes: Whispering Waters

1992 • 47 min • United States of America

A documentary of waterways in Yosemite National Park

The Gift of Acadia

1992 • 48 min • United States of America

Acadia National Park, Maine, is a favorite vacation destination for good reason. The views are spectacular. The landscape is pristine. And, the wildlife is plentiful and protected. As a result, Acadia National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the United States.

A Briefcase Full of Reflexive Maladies

1992 • 28 min • India

A situation, where a certain attitude towards money and career is seen influencing and transforming approaches to life. The main characters rarely come in contact with each other. Even when they do. there is no interaction in the conventional sense of the word. Characters, whether they are children or adults, are parallel to each other.

Heritage Minutes: Peacemaker

1992 • 1 min • Canada

The formation of the Iroquois Confederacy presented by a First Nations grandfather explaining the significance of the Great Peace to his granddaughter.

Rose Youth

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Takeo is a university student struggling to pay off his loans and lives a tight life while working part-time as a male escort. For him, sex is just about money or pleasure. After picking up a female university student, Takeo catches a sexually transmitted disease and his debts and medical expenses pile up, putting him in a desperate situation. Then another man called Shinji comes up with a brilliant idea.

Gunplay: The Last Day in the Life of Brian Darling

1992 • 30 min

A ten-year-old boy is accidentally killed when he and a friend play with a gun.

Entre elle et moi

1992 • 33 min

Madeleine Dansereau was the first woman jeweller in Quebec. She started her career at the age of 47, just when doctors diagnosed her as having breast cancer. Her best known achievement was the Emblem for the National Order of Quebec. Her daughter, Mireille, reveals their relationship over the past twenty years, using as a backdrop her own work as a filmmaker.

The Addams Family Album

1992 • 46 min • United States of America

John Astin sits down to discuss the genesis and production of the popular television series.

The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore

1992 • 16 min • Canada

Mump & Smoot find a book and start to read it. The book's comic & tragic story is about a fairy who is tired of the abuse he suffers for being a fairy.

The Comic Book Greats: Jim Lee

1992 • 50 min • United States of America

Stan Lee interviews Jim Lee

An Evening With Richard Locke

1992 • 9 min • Canada

Richard Locke was the star of the Gage Trilogy, ground-breaking feature length gay porn films made in the late seventies. This tape is a document of an erotic performance intercut with statistics of HIV transmission in North America.

Star Trek: Federation Science

1992 • 27 min

Produced by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (lead writer, Mark Bourne), the exhibit was originally developed to coincide with both the 25th anniversary and the 1992 International Space Year, before becoming a touring exhibition and undertaking an extensive North American tour in September of that year.

Quiproquo

1992 • 13 min • France

Quiproquo is a dialogue on the balance to be found between nature and social-industrial technology. As the film refers to the economy of the means involved in relation to what is expressed, it is both a reflection on the potentialities of the medium and an enquiry concerning the implications of the reality portrayed. It is a question of limits and possibilities, the beauty and tragedy of the world, with a critique of contemporary society’s dominant choices constantly in the background. Filmed in Berre l’Etang, Bouches du Rhône, in the villages of Orgon, Bouches du Rhône and La Coucourde, Drôme, on the roads to Beaumont-du-Ventoux and Carpentras, Vaucluse, and Tarascon, Bouches du Rhône.—Canyon Cinema

The Dead Boys' Club

1992 • 25 min • United States of America

It's the 1990s. Toby, just out of college in Wisconsin, comes to Manhattan to spend the summer with his older cousin, Packard, a gay man whose lover John R. has just died of AIDS. Toby is shy, the openly-gay society around him makes him nervous. Packard gives Toby a pair of John R.'s shoes; when Toby puts them on, he has powerful visions of the pre-AIDS scene in the 1970s, as if he's there. He also takes on a different personality when he wears the shoes, more sure of himself, able to express his interest in men. Wearing the shoes, Toby goes to a bar, hooks up with Dick, and wakes up in Dick's bed. How will he handle it? And what will happen to the shoes?

The Warm Money

1992 • 31 min • Germany

Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don’t own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men while sipping drinks with them in bars. When Heike takes over her job, her technique doesn’t prove as successful and she ends up being caught at once.

We the Ragamuffin

1992 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Julian Henriques' urban musical showcases the style, vernacular and vibrancy of British Caribbean Dancehall culture. Filled with undeniable style, the vibrations of local sound systems and rhythmic Jamaican patois, Julian Henriques' urban odyssey is an energetic declaration of British Caribbean Dancehall culture, shot on location on the North Peckham Estate. The cast of local artists glide between realism and whimsy using improvised dialogue and musical performance, with the titular Ragamuffins using musical innovation to sidestep the negative aspects of urban life.

Animation Diary

1992 • 1 min • United States of America

Drawing Pictures of all sizes, shapes and black and white contort and reshape themselves to a cricket sounds.

Embracing

1992 • 40 min • Japan

A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced during her early childhood.

Sharman, Sharman!

1992 • 10 min • Russia

The Children Of Leros

1992 • 26 min • United Kingdom

“This is their chance to have a life.” In 1992, 165 children were living in inhuman conditions in Leros. Those who had arrived as babies had never learned to walk, to dress, or to feed themselves. This documentary follows the young Greek medics who moved in to reform the asylum. They were astonished at the determination of the children, some of who had been chained to their beds for years, to improve their lives. A model ward was set up, and children were unchained. Within months some, like Andreas, were able to play games outside for the first time in their lives.

Mole and the Eagle

1992 • 28 min • Czechoslovakia

An adventure cartoon about the mole and its friends.

Twilight Time of the Day

1992 • 30 min • Russia

The picture is about the outstanding Russian artist of the late XIX - early XX century, a representative of Russian impressionism Konstantin Korovin. The main motif of the film is the hero's monologue, memories of events and people of the past life: about childhood, about friends and teachers, artists V. Serov, M. Vrubel, A. Savrasov, I. Levitan, S. Mamontov. The film uses both unique old photographs and original shooting material, which allows you to feel the complex inner world of the hero, his impressions and associations.