All Films - Short Movie Database

Akzidenz

1991 • 5 min

Explores the nature of the accident

Muddy Waters Live at the Chicago Blues Festival

1991 • 56 min

Muddy Waters gets together with Johnny Winter to walk us through classic Chicago blues including such great hits as Mannish Boy and I'm a King Bee.

The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald

1991 • 55 min • United States of America

The Many Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald documentary reviewing the jfk assassination and lee harvey oswald

Fatima's Letter

1991 • 19 min • United Kingdom

A woman remembers her past by faces she sees while travelling on the London Underground. She begins to believe that these people, like her, have all taken part in the same event. She composes a letter to her friend Fatima – a personal documentary around journeys, memories and watching. The story is spoken in Urdu with sub-titles in English, although the subtitles do not always appear in conjunction with what is spoken.

Abstract film en couleurs

1991 • 3 min

A new take on the idea of camera-less film-making; a project originally undertaken with Light, with the introduction of a new element this time around: the successive exposure of three torn pieces of film, manually advanced past the gate of the cassette and exposed to a light source in order to create a series of abstract luminous pulsations. The original was blown up to 16mm in 2001.

A Song for Tibet

1991 • 57 min • Canada

Filmed in the Indian Himalayas and in Canada, A Song for Tibet tells the dramatic story of the efforts by Tibetans in exile, including the Dalai Lama, to save their homeland and preserve their heritage against overwhelming odds. Since the invasion of their territory by China in the late 1950s, Tibetans have been struggling for cultural and political survival.

La Mer

1991 • 4 min • France

The passing time is displayed as a series of still frames, or a rapid sequence of moments, ever flowing like the waves that break on the shore, like a repeated chant with no beginning, middle or end.

Club Q.

1991 • 8 min

An inside look at San Francisco’s legendary ‘90s queer women’s monthly dance party.

Airpower: Vietnam to Desert Storm

1991 • 46 min

Documentary on U.S. airpower spanning 50 years from the Vietnam era to Desert Storm in 1991.

No Justice . . . No Peace/Black, Male ImMediate

1991 • 14 min

This essay about the policing of young black men, foreshadows the 1992 outcome of the trial which acquitted policeman directly involved in the brutal beating of a black motorist, Rodney King, was made as my graduate school thesis in the film school at San Francisco State University. It also underscores a series of escalating gripping actions and murders of black men and women in America-by police or individuals policing black lives...that would provoke the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was nearly orphaned until I received a request from a scholar looking to write about video tape imagery & justice-just recently. This is the best result of the rescue of footage locked on an obsolete medium- hi-8. Boots Riley, one of the young men interviewed on the grassy knoll has become an important voice in Oakland and across the globe as an activist and cutting edge musician.

As I Remember It: A Portrait of Dorothy West

1991 • 56 min

This intimate portrait of writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up African American, privileged and enthralled by literature. Archival footage and photographs, interviews and excerpts from her autobiographical novel, THE LIVING IS EASY, capture West's fascinating story.

Haunting Landscape - Night

1991 • 14 min • Spain

Abstract sequences alternate between shadowy landscapes and nocturnal visuals, evoking unsettling atmospheres rather than a traditional narrative.

The Listener

1991 • 1 min

The first short film by Chris Landreth

Wishful Thinking

1991 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Two friends have high hopes for a party, arrive much too early, meet no-one but an awful lech, witness a suicide attempt by the hostess and find themselves as usual, mostly interested in the buffet...

Private Property (Public Domain)

1991 • 12 min

Fleming develops a personal visual language through repetition of particular allusions and imagery

Moscow Kremlin

1991 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A documentary exploring the Kremlin building complex in Moscow, Russia.

Second Début

1991 • 9 min

"Sophie, you can go home now and enjoy your old age," her boss announces as the confetti settles at the retirement party. "Old age? Old age? I have too many things to do to be old," Sophie retorts and sets out to investigate other possibilities. Lighthearted and colourful, Second Début offers a positive outlook on retirement. Designed for viewers who are either retired or close to retirement, this animation film will appeal to those who anticipate doing something inventive and constructive with their new leisure time.