All Films

1, 2, 3, Coco

1991 • 4 min

An animated film for five- to eight-year-olds on children's right to receive an education. A teacher gives extra, individualized help to a student who is having difficulty with arithmetic and helps her find fun in numbers.

Strada provinciale delle Anime

1991 • 58 min • Italy

The italian writer Gianni Celati travels through the Po delta, the same landscapes of his collection of stories "Verso la foce", on a blue bus, accompanied by friends and relatives. His friend, renowned photographer Luigi Ghirri, follows the group by car.

The Mother Show

1991 • 5 min • United States of America

Produced by Tom Rubnitz in collaboration with Tom Koken and Barbara Lipp, The Mother Show is a tribute to mothers everywhere, starring Frieda, the “living” doll. Frieda asks her mother a series of questions, such as “Mom, are there days when you feel not-so-fresh?” and spells out the meaning of the word “mother.” The tape ends with her endearing pronouncement, “Mom, you’re like a mother to me.”

Far From Where

1991 • 10 min • Canada

The cold, the snow, winter in black and white, all to reinforce missing the warmth, colours and scents of Tunisia.

The Tin Can Man

1991 • 3 min • Netherlands

A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.

Adam Khor

1991 • 54 min • Pakistan

Horrible hairy behemoth on a gruesome rampage in this wild Pashto shocker

Pillow Talk

1991 • 18 min

Extreme manipulation of filmic time and space combined with an impressionistic lighting scheme help create an urban spaces nightmare. A woman living by herself is having a hard time, downstairs the neighbours are fighting, next door they're having extremely loud sex, an old lady's stealing her clothes in the laundry room, and worst of all, she's no better than the rest.

Interference

1991 • 20 min • Canada

Interference continues the filmmaker's experimentation with time and stillness. A woman sits at her desk typing. Outside, the Canadian winter holds the land in its grip. Snow flurries drift past the window. The woman makes coffee, waits for the mail to arrive, sits in thought. We wait for the disaster to strike. At the end of the day, another woman enters the apartment and asks how the day went. The end. The accumulation of non-events gradually strips us of all the clichés of dramatic action, and we are made aware that our actual lives are always like this.

Quicker Cleaning

1991 • 40 min

You can't be the founder of the nation's largest janitorial services without learning a few things. Like do you dust first or vacuum? Learn how to wash down a whole room in less than 30 minutes and never have a drop of dirty water in your bucket! Find out the hotel maid's secret for cleaning bathrooms. Get the facts on how to organize to clean just once. Once you know how, you'll wonder how you ever did it before.

Baby from Outer Space

1991 • 12 min

A hapless babysitter is terrorized by singing gay aliens

Nuages de soie

1991 • 2 min • France

Vagues à Collioure

1991 • 6 min • France

In the summer of 1914, Collioure was a small, quiet fishing village, sheltered from the convulsions of a blazing Europe. Matisse painted a curious picture Door-Window in Collioure. Homage to Collioure, nod to the cubists, reference to Matisse; offering to the wind and to the sea. The furious Tramontana sends you in spasms its rumblings in the air which has become crystalline. The sea rages under the effect of the wind, which suddenly desert the various small boats; SOS for the unwary. Large breaking waves delight children on the beach.

Long Eyes of the Earth

1991 • 10 min

Combines surreal and psychedelic images of human forms, fire, water, and a dove with the words of Schmidt’s poem “Shaman” and Mikhashoff’s music from the trilogy “Elemental figures”.

Roman Variations

1991 • 50 min • United States of America

A portrait of Rome that would have made Plutarch proud, Roman Variations was made during a residency at a studio provided by the gallerist Barbara Gladstone.

Bristlecornpine

1991 • 5 min • Japan

Originally working with super 8 animation pieces, Noshioka switches on to video-making from 1991. From time control with frame shooting to gaze fix with live action filming, her technology and texture change greatly. This first work in video indeed straightforwardly defines the relationship between "living space" and "physicality". Through repetition of thundering and quietude, the power of Nishioka's pure solitude and intense observation turn and reshape the warmhearted town of Osaka into something hard and inorganic. The adherence to a suddenly rising unrealistic and gigantic vapor pillar, the ever-turning ventilation fan and the ever-watching eye – All of these are ways to love Osaka permissible only to this filmmaker.

Transfer

1991 • 12 min • France, Germany

This video art piece creates a collage of the people, mechanisms, and advertisements in the transfer station of an underground train.

Eastern Landscape

1991 • 13 min • Germany

Articles of former East Germany from household items to flags are thrown away at a garbage dump outside of East Berlin, serving as a reminder of a state that no longer exists. In this gesture of breaking ties with the past, the film captures the dumping ground as the last burial site of a society and the absurdity of time and existence.

The Daylight Moon: Les Murray

1991 • 53 min • Australia

A profile of the Australian poet Les Murray. Shot on location in Northern New South Wales. Featuring dramatisations of his poems and evocative footage of the most unusual landscape. He talks illuminatingly about his life and work.

1969

1991 • 13 min

A personal recollection of a time past, when gay identity was a source of joy rather than of mourning.

The Inner Strength

1991 • 54 min • Bangladesh

Adam Surat is the first film directed by Tareque Masud. It is a documentary about Bangladeshi painter Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (aks SM Sultan). Masud started the film in 1982 and completed seven years later.

Donald's Fire Drill

1991 • 15 min • United States of America

Two kids are contestants on a game show, co-hosted by Trevor Townsend and Donald Duck, and they try to beat the clock by answering questions on fire safety information.

Clown, Part 1

1991 • 13 min

The first part of Clown by Luther Price.

Sad Sack

1991 • 14 min

An encounter of myths. Is the world more resembling a flat, grammophone record or a child on the back of Atlas?

A Day at EPCOT Center

1991 • 30 min

Your passport to the world! Rediscover the fascinating worlds of EPCOT Center in this entertaining souvenir videocassette. Travel again to the realms of human ideas, imagination and inventions in Future World. Revisit World Showcase, where North, South, East and West meet in an international celebration of cultures, climaxing in the extravaganza that is IllumiNations. Stunning photography captures the unique sights and sounds of EPCOT Center for you to thrill to again and again.