All Films

Defenders of Dynatron City

1992 • 22 min • United States of America

Made-for-TV special about a delivery man, his friends, and a talking ape mutating into quirky superheroes and fighting a mad scientist who wants to conquer their futuristic atomic city. Based on the eponymous NES video game.

Plan-Séquence

1992 • 6 min • France

In a vertiginous sequence, Claude Lelouch's camera follows Patrick Edlinger climbing with his bare hands one of the routes of the spectacular Cimaï cliff. The action takes place in the Consensus voice (7c+/8a+) at the Cimaï quarry. In a place large enough where Claude Lelouch had been able to take out his crane to make a vertical trip. Later, in 2013, the foot of the Consensus route will experience landslides, the climbing sector has since been prohibited by municipal decree, huge blocks threatening to fall.

Maria

1992 • 24 min • Japan

A film about a pregnancy

Groper Train: Ride and Pinch

1992 • 58 min • Japan

The president of an advertising company who divorced his business partner molested a woman on a train, who turned out to be their new client. She becomes physically involved with the president and is proposed to, but then changes her mind after consulting with his ex-partner directly.

Gradual Improvement in the Weather

1992 • 18 min

A casual morning in the city of Athens, a woman, some unexpenting news, and the gradual improvement in the weather

Peace, Love and Understanding

1992 • 5 min • United States of America

Beavis and Butt-head go to a monster truck rally, and end up buried in feces when a truck crashes through some port-a-potties which were the temple of Sterculius, the Roman God of feces.

Phone

1992 • 31 min • United States of America

One late Saturday night In Los Angeles a phone call embroils two couples in an uncanny stalking match over a mutual object of desire, a rare bacon and egg Swatch watch.

Creative Detours

1992 • 10 min

In this short narrative, a young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest in order to "develop her writing" and to share an apartment with her boyfriend. Distracted from her new creative life-style, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.

Too Romantic

1992 • 30 min • United States of America

A fifteen-year-old boy takes a road trip with his recently widowed grandmother.

Darwin

1992 • 52 min • France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America

A revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the publication of his seminal Theory of Evolution and his ultimate death and consequent burial at Westminster Abbey.

Crazy as Hell

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Takeshi, an up-and-coming fashion designer, is being courted by his manager Ichiro, but somehow manages to escape. He didn't hate Ichiro, but there was something about him that made him want to avoid him..

After School Tinker Bell

1992 • 46 min • Japan

A member of the school broadcasting club suddenly disappears and rumors point towards a student who died in the previous year. His mysterious last message said that he would become Peter Pan. Kenichi and Misako, two friends of the missing girl's boyfriend, find themselves completely wrapped up in this puzzling case.

Slaughtered Secretaries

1992 • 58 min • United States of America

In the 1950's, three secretaries fall victim to deranged janitor Artie, who attacks them, kidnaps them, forces them to play strip poker and Russian Roulette and then murders them. Will anyone survive?

La cama

1992 • 8 min • Argentina

FARSA's first zombie short.

Kennel Tokorozawa

1992 • 33 min • Japan

Chika Tokorozawa, the daughter of a pet shop owner, seems unable to get away from her brave but stupid dog, Rin Tin Tin (played by famous Japanese comedian Jimmy Onishi). The dog seems to be in love with her owner to the point of obsession, but his dream of getting with the girl is thwarted over and over again by everyone and everything around him, including his very uninterested owner. Based on the ecchi comedy manga by Maki Ootsubo, originally published in Weekly Young Sunday.

Mother Love Bone: The Love Bone Earth Affair

1992 • 35 min

The home video features never-before-seen footage of Mother Love Bone live in concert combined with previously unreleased interviews with frontman Andrew Wood, bassist Jeff Ament, and guitarist Stone Gossard. The documentary covers the band's formation and its eventual disbandment due to the death of Wood. Additionally, the videos for "Stardog Champion" and "Holy Roller" are included.

Heritage Minutes: Rural Teacher

1992 • 1 min • Canada

Teacher Kate Henderson sways school trustees to embrace new methods, and the event is represented in the famous painting by Robert Harris: A Meeting of the School Trustees.

The Nantes Triptych

1992 • 29 min

The three panels of Bill Viola’s triptych show video footage of birth (on the left), death (on the right) and a metaphorical journey between the two represented by a body floating in water (in the centre).

Daumier's Law

1992 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Paul McCartney's sketched short based on the works of artist Honoré Daumier. A man in a bookstore reads an allegorical story about a wrongfully convicted man, who must feed a giant called Gargantua until salvation comes.

Omnibus: John Ford, Part One

1992 • 42 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about the early career of Hollywood film director John Ford, written and presented by Lindsay Anderson, and first aired on the British television series Omnibus.

Apple

1992 • 27 min • United States of America

"In the stillness and the dark before time ever began," opens a faux-trailer for APPLE, "there was a different incantation"; Maverick filmmaker Damon Packard, "the hideous director of DAWN OF AN EVIL MILLENNIUM," tells the story of Apple, an elfin girl who matures into a sorceress of the dark arts named Orb. An unfinished Super 8 micro-epic, APPLE's twenty-seven-minute rough-cut offers a glimpse into a fantastic world.

Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway

1992 • 60 min • United States of America

A behind the scenes look at the Broadway production of Jelly's Last Jam, including a tribute to jazz musician and composer Jelly Roll Morton. Gregory Hines and George C. Wolfe, who wrote the book for Jelly's Last Jam, are interviewed. Includes scenes from the show.

Rosa

1992 • 16 min • Belgium, Canada, France, Netherlands

A short film based on the work of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

Red Nose of Courage

1992 • 51 min

A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after his day job, he has to attend to his real job as Coco the Clown. He falls in love with the leader of the opposition party but she falls in love with Coco the Clown without knowing that he is in fact John Major, the Prime Minister.