All Films

Frosty Returns

1992 • 24 min • United States of America

Mr. Twitchell, a greedy old businessman, has invented Summer Wheeze: a spray that instantly removes snow and slush! Now Holly has to keep Frosty from melting, and convince everybody that snow's actually a good thing.

Deadly Obsession

1992 • 50 min • United Kingdom

A dramatization of a murder resulting in the conviction of businesswoman Kathleen Calhaem, involving unrequited love, jealousy, and blackmail.

Killer Mirindas

1992 • 12 min • Spain

A man with a suspicious attitude enters a bar where only a bartender and another customer are present and orders an orange soda, a Mirinda, very cold; but later refuses to pay by offering a surprising argument.

Noël

1992 • 23 min

The story of Noel, a cheerful Christmas ornament with a certain "happiness" that rubs off on the families he lives with.

Terra Nullius

1992 • 21 min • Australia

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.

Mina

1992 • 29 min

Character study of a stay-at-home daughter, 1930s through the 1950s.

Peppermint Rose

1992 • 22 min

Rose Richards is a bright and fun loving teenager until she is transported into the magical land of Peppermint Rose where she is thrust into a search for the lost beauty and magic of Peppermint Rose by a tiny wizard named Dimi. On her perilous journey to find the mysterious reason for the lost beauty, she confronts greedy monsters, treacherous mountains and rivers until she must confront the evil Queen Beeteelya. With the help of her new best friends, Daisy, Lily and Violet she saves the beloved flowers from destruction and is enshrined into protecting the enchanted flowers which bears her name.

Destination Moon

1992 • 42 min • Belgium, Canada, France

Tintin and his friends go to Syldavia and join a secret space program.

Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!

1992 • 46 min • Japan

Dr. Gero's Androids #13, #14, and #15 are awakened by the laboratory computers and immediately head to the mall where Goku is shopping. After Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta defeat #14 and #15, #13 absorbs their inner computers and becomes a super being greater than the original three separately were. Now it is up to Goku to stop him.

Tokyo Babylon 1

1992 • 50 min • Japan

Spirit medium Subaru Sumeragi is hired to exorcise a construction site believed to be cursed, where the only living suspect has the ability to walk away from strange situations where he should have died.

Kumbha Mela

1992 • 17 min • Italy

Documentary about India's most important Hindu festival, 1977's Kumbha Mela, during which millions of believers gather to pray where the Ganges, Jamuna and Saraswati rivers meet.

Movable Words

1992 • 3 min

A series of short animations.

Inferno

1992 • 52 min

A young English author is having trouble finishing his latest work. He needs to "avoid distractions, particularly of the female kind." To achieve this, he tries to find a quiet place in Italy to write. However, he is continually beset by beautiful nude or scantily dressed women, played by several well-known (super)models.

Lost Objects

1992 • 25 min • Mexico

Juan and Pilar return to Mexico City on the same train. Destiny cross their paths in a taxi stop, off the train station. A cab arrives and they take each other's baggage by mistake. After that, they spend two days looking for each other, trying to recover their stuff. In the meantime, Juan reads Pilar's diary and she listens to his thoughts recorded on tape. Love begins to grow between these two proper strangers.

Midori

1992 • 55 min • Japan

After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!!

1992 • 60 min • Japan

Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.

Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler

1992 • 46 min • Japan

Cooler has resurrected himself as a robot and is enslaving the people of New Namek. Goku and the gang must help.

Velázquez: The Painter of Painters

1991 • 56 min • France

Like no other, Diego Velázquez inspired generations of European artists. His life and work are closely bound to the court of King Philip IV, who appointed him as court painter and on whose orders he travelled through Italy. Ambitious courtier that he was, the Spaniard was a master of observation and visual manipulation. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff showcases his epoch-making portraits and genre paintings that reveal Velázquez’s virtuosity in treating light, colour and sensuous characterisation. He also lifts Velázquez’s secret of painting that helped him become the “painter of painters”.

Fred Dibnah's Getting Steamed Up

1991 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Bolton Steeplejack Fred Dibnah has scaled great heights in his career. In this fascinating documentary, you will get to see him climb a 100 foot chimney that he is preparing for steam powered demolition. Further steamy exploits see Fred behind the wheel of a road roller and fixing a steam engine: part of an average day of an extraordinary man.

Champion Clark

1991 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A documentary about Jim Clark, a.k.a. Jimmy Clark, showing extensive footage of Clark racing in all kinds of machinery: Formula 1, Formula 2, sports cars, GT's and at the Indy 500, all complete with the original audio commentaries. Born James Clark Jr, in Scotland, he was one of the greatest Formula One drivers.

The Mark of the Maker

1991 • 28 min • United States of America

The Mark of the Maker looks at the art of manual paper-making. Kathryn and Howard Clark tell of how they got into the habit of doing this, and why they set up shop in rural Indiana. David McGowan's Academy Award-nominated documentary is one of those productions that shows a little known but useful practice.

(Tell Me Why): The Epistemology of Disco

1991 • 24 min

The history of gay liberation traced through the phenomenon of disco. Glitter balls, feather boas and Levi jeans become signifiers of a movement 20 years after the Stonewall riots.

Over New England

1991 • 57 min

Fly over Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont in Over New England, and see red barns, white steeples, rugged coastlines, harbors and lighthouses. Includes brief narrative passages and an original soundtrack.

Starlings

1991 • 6 min

It is night. The moon is shining. A static camera captures a huge flock of starlings searching the sky in circular movements… At first the starlings are hard to identify. Having deliberately edited frames coming from different generations of the original print in a certain metrical order, without changing the actual chronology of their movement, Kels has the constantly changing shapes of the birds dissolve in the rough grain of the celluloid. Once again a technical weakness of the celluloid forms the starting point of his visual enterprise. Shot on one reel without any interruption, the birds’ flight gradually forms configurations of astonishing beauty. —Millennium Film Journal, No. 30-31.