All Films

Finding Christa

1991 • 55 min • United States of America

A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.

Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Suicidal

1991 • 45 min

Explore the art of rebellion in Suicidal Tendencies: Lights, Camera, Revolution, which intersperses taped live performances with interview clips, backstage glimpses, and road antics. Songs on the video include "War Inside My Head," "Possessed to Skate," and "Trip at the Brain." This video was meant to accompany the album Lights, Camera, Revolution, but the song list differs slightly.

Wacky-Zany Video from Kool-Aid

1991 • 30 min

Hey Kids! Ready for some wacky wild Kool-Aid style fun? Sit and listen to what I have to say...I'm Kool-Aid Man and we're gonna play. Rap and dance to my funky beat. See Zany flicks and laugh out of your seat. Play awesome games that will make you scream and shout. Try something really daring...a wacky workout. Try to stump an unstumpable dog. Learn how to protect yourself from a hedgehog. so much wacky stuff...you'll never get enough! Oh yeah!

Birch Street Gym

1991 • 30 min

A group of elderly retirees join a boxing gym, and rediscover their self-worth as they repudiate expectations that they're too old to lead vigorous lives. Jack is particularly relieved to escape the tedium of his retirement home, as he advances to challenge brutish Rocco for the club championship. But Rudy, the club's operator, must battle local officials who are trying to close the club out of fear that the members are endangering themselves.

Cut Sleeve: Lesbians and Gays of Asian/Pacific Ancestry

1991 • 24 min

A 24-minute videorecording in which individuals of Asian and Pacific Island backgrounds discuss their attitudes and experiences as homosexuals.

Lord of the Flies

1991 • 50 min • Soviet Union

An old man bases his livelihood on a very bizarre form of recyling, breeding maggots in his yard, which he uses to feed his animals. This model of self-subsistence serves as his vision of a perfect state. Experimental documentary made during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Khush

1991 • 24 min • United Kingdom

Khush means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians and gay men in Britain, North America, and India, the term captures the blissful intricacies of being queer and of color. Inspiring testimonies bridge geographical differences to locate shared experiences of isolation and exoticization but also the unremitting joys and solidarity of being khush.

The Writing in the Sand

1991 • 43 min • United Kingdom

A richly lyrical documentary celebration of the vibrant beach life in the North East of England, constructed entirely out of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's black & white photographs.

Gortswill - Der Fluch III

1991 • 22 min • Germany

An explosions expert wants to end the curse by destorying the castle. Before the final explosive is placed he searches the castle for treasures, only to discover the Undead... Part 3 of the Das Buch Der Blutigen Geschichten Trilogy

Candy

1991 • 7 min • Norway

Of all the foods in the world, it was only a tiny part that achieved the honor of being called SNOP. Blue plums, bananas and coconuts - none of this was SNOP. No SNOP was all the sweet, mild, sour, sticky candy a child's heart could desire. We meet Hjalmar Bue and Hurry Harry Olatyggis and Zorro at the cinema in a Bergen 50s, still marked by rationing and shortages. This is a animisjonsfilm based on a story by Stig Holmås.

Royaume

1991 • 22 min • France

Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to them. The most fruitful feature of such closeness lies in the tension of the many differences, and mainly, for ETANT DONNÉS, the issue of the primacy of the visible and the real, which does not exclude the pursuit of sensation.

Grassroots Chicago

1991 • 31 min • United States of America

A documentary about neighborhood people creating change. Produced for the MacArthur Foundation by Kartemquin Films, this piece features six vignettes on community organizing in different Chicago neighborhoods: LeClaire Courts, Marquette Park, Roseland, Pilsen, Uptown, Rogers Park and Garfield Park.

Balloon

1991 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A thin shadow figure starts swallowing balloons in an attempt to make himself more solid, and develops body, surface texture, markings and a face. Meanwhile, a lonely young girl is attracted by the balloons' hissing sounds, and is drawn to the shadow's lair. The grinning shadow quickly ties her up, but, overconfident, becomes entangled in his own machinery, and has the body squeezed out of him. All that's left is one of the balloons, which the girl takes with her as she leaves, now quite happy.

Principles of Harmonic Motion

1991 • 22 min • United States of America

"While not addressing the issue in a very overt manner, this piece has something to do with the thrilling and 'awful' process of actively engaging in perception and how we oscillate between forgetting and remembering that activeness as we age. In 'Principles of Harmonic Motion', I take a painterly approach to the image and rely on a subtle but carefully composed stereo soundtrack to amplify the sense of physical and psychological space. The images, sounds and structure are sometimes somewhat abstract while preserving a strong grounding in representation." –Leighton Pierce

Strawberry Short-Cut

1991 • 1 min • United States of America

A drag queen shares a secret recipe.

Japon Series

1991 • 7 min

Color work after separation and recomposition of the different colored layers of a documentary (found) in the Paris performance of a Japanese group of butoh dancers.

Zillertal

1991 • 11 min • Germany

An old trailer had been in the trees of a garden for months. Now and then it was coated with various chemicals. Through chemical disintegration and weathering the old plot of the film resolved to a great extent. Colours emerged from black and white. Black areas transformed into mountaineous regions.

An Obedient Pupil

1991 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Made after several Indian folk & wisdom tales. It tells about the absurdity to follow philosophical truths to the letter. One needs to follow ones inner truth and weigh it with ones common senses and ones circumstances. He also plays with his audience by in the end having the wise man in the tale plead for the opposite. So what does one think oneself..?. In the art-direction new and various ways of using paper are being explored in Kalishers last 3 animations. You could also say that this particular animation reflects the Russian situation at the time, with all kinds of Western countries advising & influencing the russian govenment how to proceed dismantling the USSR and stepping over to a capitalistic economy ( with "shock"therapy), which resulted in a 10 years Rulership of all kinds of criminals and the Ultra-capitalistic Putin kleptocracy that's ruling now.

Été

1991 • 50 min

The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would cross in this narrative. When. The times have intermingled. The winds meet. History. Pictures. The summer. Humble vacancy with furtive foliage. Fragile memory. Light is a trace of forgetfulness.

Intestinal Fortitude

1991 • 3 min

Intestinal Fortitude is a post-industrial visual monster... The initial idea was to have many films in one and to have each of those films stand on their own. The multiple layers of this film each contain separate and individual films, all of them representing different ideas, and their stacked complexity give it its punch. The ideas range from enjoying coffee to an industrial hell. Driven by the pure apathy of others, this film was an alarm or wake-up call to my then-current peers in school. - Colin Barton

Ivanushko

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Spin Cycle

1991 • 5 min

Autobiographical work in which a young African-American lesbian filmmaker ruminates about her craft and her relationships.

In an Imagined Garden

1991 • 14 min • Spain

A homage to painter Amable Arias. Through painted-on-film visuals, the film evokes the atmosphere of daytime in an imagined garden—paired conceptually with his earlier short Paisaje inquietante – Nocturno which reflects the nocturnal counterpart.

La Bastringue Madame Bolduc

1991 • 4 min

In English Canada, Madame Bolduc is virtually unknown, but her folk singing put a kick in the step of French Canadians throughout Quebec and parts of New England in the 1930s. Among her most popular songs was La Bastringue, illustrated in this lively animated film.