All Films

Escape

1991 • 3 min • Japan

A woman runs amid the skyscrapers.

The Real Rembrandt

1991 • 54 min • Netherlands

Scientific methods of verifying works of art have drastically reduced the number of paintings attributed to Rembrandt (1606-1669). Many canvases, hitherto believed to be by the hand of the Master, are now thought to be the work of artists who learnt their craft in his studio by copying his style. The film is a fascinating study of modern scientific techniques, a comprehensive art historical view of Rembrandt’s work over the centuries and a reaffirmation of his genius.

In Jesus Name

1991 • 47 min • United States of America

At "Jesus Name" churches in Alabama and Georgia. Services started in a mild, restrained way but the tempo went way up, really quick. It all started with a newspaper report of an arrest of a snake handler at a church outside Newport, TN. Pastor Will Campbell drove over to Newport to talk with the sheriff and see if some sensible settlement could be reached. They succeeded and the little church in Newport was allowed to continue its services. Will Campbell's history of helping folks in trouble goes way back. He walked with the school children in the Little Rock insanity. He was fired from the University of Mississippi for playing ping pong with a black person who was doing one of the marches through Mississippi.

I Love You, Too...

1991 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Sometime saying 'I love you' is difficult.

Life Was a Lark at Willow Grove Park

1991 • 50 min • United States of America

History of the Pennsylvania amusement park, open from 1896 to 1975.

Stop the Church

1991 • 24 min

Cinéma Vérité documentary of ACT UP New York's and WHAM!'s December 10, 1989 action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

Just Words

1991 • 10 min

"Using as it's text Samuel Beckett's 'Not I,' this shocking gift incorporates optically printed home movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of actress Patricia MacGeachy as she rants at lightening speed Beckett's words about home, family and the confines and alienation associated with being a woman." - Program notes, Madcat Film Festival, San Francisco, 2001

T.Z. USA 1991 - Going Fast Slow (V.4)

1991 • 6 min

Road trip fast-forwarded to the point of abstraction.

The River Banks

1991 • 56 min • Belgium

A film on the gestures of work, those of a sculptor, a designer, a composer and dancers. A sketch of their relationship to the world subjected to the double gaze of fiction and documentary.

Variations Sur Le Thème D'une Passion

1991 • 6 min • France

The film tells the erotic story of two images that seek, touch each other, and finally merge. One, the original, the myth, on Dreyer's side, the other the copy, the simulacrum, the image that the director made, and who needs to inscribe his image in the masterpiece from Dreyer's.

On the Juche Idea

1991 • 13 min • Denmark

the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and how imperalism shouldnt exist

Suite Sans Suite À Suivre

1991 • 3 min

Stone cold and black in appearance but stone / ivy, like a labyrinth blinded by the rain which shimmers in lines of light, stone / ivy which diffuses a little geological water.

Grapholetti

1991 • 6 min

"A thing or a being veiled by the light: we look at it with intensity and our eyes close to bring it back to us, so we watch the silhouette left by the light now printed inside our eyelids. The echo of the thing, of this being... She was caught in mid-geste, pulling a lock of hair away from the eye and her gaze leans out of the image, twice, three times..."

The Story of Vinh

1991 • 56 min

Vinh is born to a US serviceman and a Vietnamese mother. At the end of the Vietnam war, there were as many as 100,000 children like Vinh in Vietnam. Later, the US allowed a few to migrate to their father's country. "The Story of Vinh" begins his dazed arrival at JFK and follows his struggle with the foster care system and into adulthood.

Theater Troupe of Lhama Priests

1991 • 50 min

Jiang Yue and cinematographer Bi Jianfeng set out to capture a Lama Tibetan Opera group. They did not have much knowledge about filming documentaries at the time. Jiang Yue wanted to artificially construct the scene, but this idea was quickly dispelled by the director of the Tibetan Opera group, Yixi Jiacuo, who insisted that there must be audiences in order for the players to perform on camera. By the end of the show, the audience was touched, as was Jiang, who said that he realized that there was a different energy to his film because of the audience's presence.

Monument Valley: Navajo Homeland

1991 • 30 min

Discover the majestic beauty of Monument Valley and the mystical bond between the Navajo and their homeland.

Wanting for Bridge

1991 • 6 min

A requiem for Joan Staveley's cousin, who was murdered in 1989.

True Blue

1991 • 60 min

Highlights of the NY Giants road to Superbowl XXV

Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old

1991 • 60 min

An examination of the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Janie Hunter (80 years old) of Johns Island, S.C.; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman (91), of Chatteroy, W.V.; fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell (83) of Toast, N.C.; and footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, Alabama, in which people of all ages gather to sing old-time shape-note hymnody.

Good morning

1991 • 7 min

Short 8mm film by Toshihiko Omote.

Jet Hill

1991 • 3 min • Japan

Video work produced during the summer vacation of the first year of university.

Isoginchiyaku

1991 • 51 min

An afternoon in August. Arata gets a ticket to stay at a high-rise hotel in Shinjuku. He invites his friends, Kenji and Mayu, to stay in his luxurious room overlooking the city of Shinjuku. When they leave in the evening, Arata calls his girlfriend Kay-chan.These are the young people of today, hedonistic and carefree. The camera never leaves the room and continues to show their actions, which are neither acted nor improvised, in long takes. In an ambiguity that is neither drama nor documentary, the film depicts the "unconcerned relationships" and "unimportant moods" of men and women who pass the time in a casual manner. For better or worse, the film realistically depicts the state of today's youth. PFF Award 1991 Grand Prix nominated work.

Dear Lisa: A Letter to My Sister

1991 • 47 min

The filmmaker questions her sister, herself and others about the dreams and hopes they had growing up as girls in contrast to the reality they face as women.

A Year Without Victor Tsoi

1991 • 23 min

Anonymous, fan made documentary commemorating the first anniversary of Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi's death