All Films

Too Close to the Gods

1992 • 25 min • France

Ramses is a "life organs" smugler and a millionaire. He wishes to have the tower of Babel rebuilt and hires a detective to find the architect who disappeared with the original plans.

Flight 714

1992 • 42 min • Belgium, Canada, France

Tintin and his friends get involved in an unexpected and weird adventure when they meet Laszlo Carreidas, an eccentric millionaire.

I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ

1992 • 45 min • United States of America

Part of Matt Mitler and Robert Prichard's Surf Reality Movie of the Month series, this featurette follows marriage-hungry Sarah as she's helped by a magic homeless man to find her true calling. Maybe.

Knucklebones: Self-Sustaining Members of the Human Species

1992 • 13 min

Knucklebones follows the course of hysterical outburst to instances of alienation and isolation. From a 1903 newspaper, "While fifteen hundred persons looked on in breathless excitement, an electric bolt sent the man-killing elephant staggering to the ground. With her own life, she paid for the lives of the three men she had killed." The film combines archival with Super8 and 16mm original footage and intertext in an experiential exploration of gender, sexuality and identity. Featuring Katherine Crockett, prior to becoming a Martha Graham Dance Company soloist. "A haunting evocation of the body under stress."-Kathy Geritz, Pacific Film Archive

Beijoqueiro: Portrait of a Serial Kisser

1992 • 28 min

The story of the portuguese serial kisser, who travelled the whole world searching famous people to kiss

Boy

1992 • 11 min

Jerry Lewis short film, part of the 1992 omnibus film "How Are the Kids?". It tells the story of a child that faces discrimination as the only white student at his school.

Galáxia Albina

1992 • 40 min • Brazil

A liberal interpretation of the book Galáxias, one of the most important works by the great contemporary Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, written between 1963 and 1976 and published in 1986. Bressane considers this work of poetry the Portuguese Finnegan's Wake. The video is a disorganized system of images: an exploration of colors, quotes and sudden inspirations created by the words. A sequence of epiphanies, rigorous in their images. The films cited act as cinematographic scenery, conferring a sense of drama to the movements of the actresses and the readings of the poems.

Jonah

1992 • 26 min

From Hanna-Barbera's animated series depicting the tales of the bible, "Jonah" tells the story of the Prophet Jonah and his attempt to escape his responsibilities.

The Dancing Shepherdess

1992 • 9 min • France

A pretty shepherdess is in love with a young shepherd. So is a fairy. The shepherdess knows how to look after sheep and dance to the sound of her boyfriend's pipe. As for the fairy, she is powerful and hard-hearted; she has a flying dragon, a crystal palace, a sleeping tower and other evil powers. Which of the two will win ?

Tales of the Night

1992 • 26 min • France

Not to be confused with Ocelot's 2011 feature film, Tales of the Night is a made for TV silhouette animation. It is a compilation of 3 fairy tale like stories, bridged by sequences of a boy and girl in an abandoned theater.

A Different Hand

1992 • 36 min

A musical comedy drama about a young woman (played by Tina Leslie) rebelling against society's attitudes (including her parents, her doctor, her priest and teacher) towards people like her who are without hands or in other ways different. Everyone is trying to force her to wear artificial hands, everyone except for her disabled friend (Nabil Shaban), who assists in her revolt.

Beach Birds for Camera

1992 • 28 min • United States of America

Cunningham said of his choreography for "Beach Birds", “It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be exactly together. They can dance like a flock of birds, when they suddenly take off.” A work for eleven dancers, the rhythm for "Beach Birds" was much more fluid than other Cunningham dances, so that the sections could differ in length from performance to performance. John Cage composed the music, and painter Marsha Skinner provided the costumes and décor. The dancers were dressed identically in all white leotards and tights, with black gloves. Skinner’s backcloth was a white scrim on which the light varied in color and intensity, decided by a lighting plot that was devised using chance methods. While the timings did not relate to the dance structure, the gradual changes of light have been interpreted to imitate those that might occur from dawn to dusk on a beach.

Apartment Wife: Bow Down in Mourning Clothes

1992 • 60 min • Japan

The Higashi-Nishi housing complex in the suburbs of Tokyo is home to a considerable number of families. That day, a funeral for a young man was being held in the community center. His wife, Reiko, was heartbroken, bringing tears to the eyes of those who had come to mourn. After the funeral, Reiko returned to her room and cried alone...

Dandy with Twisted Fingers

1992 • 60 min • Japan

We are a group of thieves called Gokurakudan. A thief is different from your average thief. It frustrates the bullish and helps the bearish. However, the only drawback is that all the members are gay, and they have a strong weakness for good men. Some cracks began to appear in our iron bond...

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

1992 • 24 min

Behind the scenes of the 1992 film Unforgiven.

Simone Weil Avenue

1992 • 9 min

The above narrative, by Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic, was written into her last notebook. The places filmed show where she lived and worked during that time. It was 1942-43.

A Sense of History

1992 • 26 min • United Kingdom

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.

My Dick Was Penetrated

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Manila city. Fernando Suzuki noticed the popularity of sumo in Japan and decided to make a profit by holding sumo classes locally. They are recruiting young people who want to succeed as sumo wrestlers in Japan. Philnando can't stop smiling at the unexpected number of applicants. They immediately start a training camp, but it is difficult to teach sumo to young people who have never tightened a mawashi, let alone how to step on a shiko. As Fernando watched the sweaty young men take a shower, he noticed one of them, Enrico. He immediately called her to his room...

Hotel E

1992 • 29 min • Estonia

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

Groper Train: Pleasure Full Course

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Office worker Yoshiko is harassed on the train to work. By chance, she finds a wallet there, and is invited to dinner by its owner, Sagawa, as a thank you. Completely drunk, Yoshiko ends up in bed with Sagawa. The next day, she is harassed again, and in her agony, she steals the wallet that is right in front of her. Afterwards, Yoshiko gets into trouble with the owner, Ota, again. Yoshiko has gotten used to this outlet for her frustrations, but the next morning, she gets a call from a woman in her room...

The Maid and the Magician

1992 • 4 min • France

"I am ugly, I am alone, I am bored". In three seconds, everything will change...

I'm Curious

1992 • 1 min • United States of America

A lizard's curiosity runs wild.

Genesis | Opening Night

1992 • 46 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Following Genesis in their preparation for the We Can't Dance tour, 1992.

The Friend

1992 • 42 min • Iran

This is the first fiction short movie of Panahi, who offers us his vision on what it is like to be a young boy and is considered to be an homage to Abbas Kiarostami's 'Bread and the Alley'