All Films

Lessons of Darkness

1992 • 54 min • France, United Kingdom, Germany

Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

Tokyo dusk

1992 • 33 min • Japan

Confessions of a Suburban Girl

1992 • 51 min

This autobiographical documentary takes its place alongside similar efforts by film directors John Boorman and Nagisa Oshima, all of them commissioned by BBC Scotland. Key revelations take place while she and some of her old girl-pals hang around in one of their old bedrooms, daring one another to tell the truth about all sorts of events known to one another. She confesses to having been an unbearably good girl given to idolizing the "bad" girls in her neighborhood and says that part of the reason she became a filmmaker was in order to get others to act out her darker fantasies. In addition to these and similar reminiscences and some black-and-white re-creations of the past, the film includes clips from some of the director's better-known films, clips which illustrate some of her teen fantasies.

Sawdust for Brains and the Key of Wisdom

1992 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A colourful yet sinister mix of painting, puppets, and real people. A puppet maker shrinks people, then sends them down a conveyer belt to be married and later used as figures on a wedding cake. Our minds, although not clock-work, are forced to live in manufactured time. If we can stop just for a moment , we will see the magical place outside of time.

Playboy Video Centerfold: Pamela Anderson

1992 • 26 min • United States of America

A Playboy produced documentary style video based on the modelling career of Pamela Anderson. Anderson came to public prominence after being selected as the February 1990 Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine. She went on to make regular appearances on the magazine's cover, holding the record for the most Playboy covers by any person.

The Fog From London

1992 • 7 min • Russia

Little Fox found a bottle of fog in the forest. For his release from the magic vessel, the Fog from London promised to fulfill any wish of the Little Fox.

If I Ran the Circus

1992 • 15 min • United States of America

Young Morris McGurk's has a BIG imagination. He wants to turn the vacant lot behind Sneelock's Store into the Circus McGurkus-the most colossal, stupendous, tremendous show in the world.

Die Wahrheit über die Stasi

1992 • 50 min • Germany

A satire on the political and spiritual conditions in GDR by the end of the 80s.

Incipit vita nova

1992 • 14 min • Estonia

A husband taking out the trash finds himself in a peculiar world where all kinds of weird things start to happen.

Hellfighters of Kuwait

1992 • 58 min

NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuwait, which has created the worst man-made pollution event in history. Fire fighting teams from Houston and elsewhere are faced with a Texas-size job.

The Disappearance of Suzana Arsova

1992 • 24 min • Yugoslavia

The story is filmed in the style of a 'fake documentary' and it is about a missing woman named Suzana Arsova. We get to know more about Suzana through the interviews with her acquaintances, relatives and friends…

Brian Regan - Something's Wrong with the Regan Boy

1992 • 23 min

A special in which comedian Brian Regan pokes fun at childhood antics. Showtime special from 1992.

A History of Pain

1992 • 45 min • United States of America

An experimental narrative about the Spanish inquisition and how it still permeates our current psychosexual cultural milieu.

Nama honban: hitodzuma reipu shōkōgun

1992 • 59 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces.

Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine

1992 • 1 min • Canada

Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1992 • 12 min • United States of America

This short video features illustrations from the Dr Seuss story book with narration by Walter Matthau. A hermit known as the Grinch hates Christmas and is tired of the Whos of Who-ville celebrating it. This year, he plans to steal it from them. Video also includes the story If I Ran The Zoo.

Whirlpool of Joy

1992 • 24 min • Japan

The second TV series by Kiyoshi Kurosawa made just after the pop of the economic bubble in Japan. His comical (and melodic...) analysis of Japanese society corresponds to Godard's films about French society in the 60s.

Flight of the Swan

1992 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.

The Happy Prince

1992 • 16 min • Russia

Based on Oscar Wilde's short story.

Swords at Teatime

1992 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Michael climbs on to the roof of the block of flats where he lives with his mother, and finds a world of make-believe, duels, and chickens existing over their heads.

Scary True Stories: Realm of Spectres

1992 • 46 min • Japan

Four more paranormal narratives: Be Gone, Crone!: My Friend at the Stairwell; Paralysis; The Black Hair at the Abandoned Building.

John Lee Hooker and Friends 1984-1992

1992 • 57 min

John Lee Hooker is one of the few legendary bluesmen to crack the MTV barrier. He has recorded and performed with a host of contemporary pop stars. John Lee's music hasn't changed but the accompanying musicians have. This 60 minute video presents John Lee performing with many of his friends from 1984 to 1992. Ry Cooder duets on three tracks. Robert Cray burns up the fretboard on Mr. Lucky, John Hammond plays slide behind Father Was a Jockey and Bonnie Raitt cajoles and teases on "I'm In The Mood".

Året med melodifestivalen 1992

1992 • 36 min • Sweden

Behind the scenes of the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest from Malmö, Sweden. See the stage builders create the giant viking ship that was the centre piece of that year and everything else that goes into creating the spectacle of Eurovision.

The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin

1992 • 22 min • United States of America

Behind the scenes documentary about the making of Batman Returns.