All Films

Come with us to sunny Spain, land of bullfights, flamenco, and 2,000 years of history. Begin in Madrid's Royal Palace and see the paintings of Velázquez and El Greco, then go on to the Prado for Goya. Stroll through the oldest part of the city, to the Plaza Mayor and the restaurant Botin, where Hemingway dined. Take an excursion to Ávila, the walled 11th century home of Saint Teresa. Continue on to the Alcazar at Segovia; Toledo and the famed cathedral; Córdoba and its gypsy caves. Savor the exotic flavor of Granada, center of Moorish Spain, and pause in the Alhambra, where nightingales sing in the gardens. Soak up sun along the Costa del Sol and then complete your tour in Barcelona, Spain's second city.

Half a ton of explosives demolishes in front of thirty thousand people the building complex that served as a shelter in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Paternal. On March 16, 1991 Narcisa Hirsch records it in a unique way: that giant becomes a cloud of dust that, as a natural phenomenon, covers the town with all its remains.

The thrash-funk metal band Mordred performs live on stage at the legendary Marquee club in September 1991 as part of a two night sold out run during the In This Life tour. Released on VHS some time in 1992

A sports compilation of funtastic and hilarious basketball bloopers.

The Kolobok tries to devour starving animals to fulfill its insatiable appetite

Documentary celebrating the first 30 years of Jerry Williams' music career.

Enigma Performance

In the last four years of his life, Lionel Murphy was at the centre of an historic battle to retain his position on the High Court in Australia. While the film concentrates on this period and the events leading up to it, in a wider sense, it uses the dramatic story of Murphy as a vehicle to consider some more fundamental issues about law. The film tackles the problem of police and security surveillance of the individual in Australian society and in particular, of prominent political and legal figures.

Jan Jedlička has been recording the Maremma landscape for three decades with various artistic means. He has systematically studied the topography of the region from the highest points, the large, simple shapes of hills and plains, the canal systems, the clean lines of the coastline. He observes the migratory fires set by local peasants to burn their fields and grass. The elemental structure of the landscape, the colours and reflection of the water surface emerge in the ever-changing light during the day and the seasons. The sequences and arrangements of the film develop a multi-layered dialogue between the landscape and the abandoned house. In the interior spaces of the house, in the play of light and shadow, from unexpected angles, from spots on the wall or patterns on the tiles, Jedlička reveals motifs that resonate with the physiognomy of the landscape.

Highlights of round 13 of the 1991 World Rally Championship, Rally de Catalunya. Armin Schwarz, Juha Kankkunen, Francois Delacour and more do battle on the wide, fast and sweeping Catalunya roads and tracks.

Action from Corsica in the 1991 World Rally.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

This film describes a journey to the remote Alamut. An area situated in the northern parts of Iran within the Alborz mountains. Alamut was once the headquarters of Hasan-i Sabbah, master of the assassins. Phauss made this joruney in spring 1986.

Lesbians talk about the affectionate names they call their partners.

Created by Antonio Rezza using an auto-timer and edited in the video camera, it describes selfishness and one-sided relationships. The only person who listens to everyone else’s problems ends up sopressing himself before the eyes of his confidantes/ executioners.

A Chinese documentary and news report about the USSR after the 8.19 coup. The tape was released internally on Sep.30th, 1991. The host also had some hope that USSR might survive the collapse in the late 1991.

A progression of events. Each scene is allegorical, a puzzle of symbology, from the initial cause to its extinction and finally to its representational aftermath. It is a personal vision of the realization of the confines of religious dogma and their eventual defeat and the realization of residual traces left over after its destruction.

In the mists of war and violence, the Harlequin, trumpet in hand, drifts through ravaged landscape passing a cripple and a marionette: Bernhard Heisig's pictorial worlds shock the viewer by depicting the great dramas of German history. Both a victim and a perpetrator in World War II and in the GDR dictatorship, the artist's search for sense and truth led him to his moving image formulas. Director Reiner E. Moritz converses with the renowned ex-principal of the Leipzig Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) about his work, which influenced the development of art for many decades in the rigid GDR system.

The film depicts Skansen during the change of four seasons and various holidays, and begins with an historical backdrop.

Personal view of the era that left its mark on an entire generation of Soviet people, a look at euphoria and hero worship.

The Russians left the small Turkmen village. What remains is an abandoned mine, an insane asylum and local residents surviving in the new post-Soviet reality.

Animation short.

The bags are packed and the transport is waiting in the courtyard, because Edit Falk is to be moved today. Ösbyholm is to be closed down, her home for 27 years where she thrived so well, cozy, beautiful, no locked doors. Her next address will be a locked ward at Beckomberga. All the other old mentally ill women have already been moved there. Now only Edit remains. The Ösbyholm case is closed. The decision has been made. By talented people who really only want to do well.

Neither this shore of this life nor the other shore of the after life. Had I crossed the other shore? It was a world created by light, shadow, people, and scenery captured on a small camera. A single moment captured on a single frame of 8mm film, small enough to fit on a finger, becomes a continuous string of life when played back.I must have held my breath, steadying my handheld camera as if contemplating, as I crossed the other shore. The footage ended with a view of the ocean at dawn in the middle of winter in the northern country. No, it wasn't over. A long time ago, a friend from my film school days told me, while drunk, "You should live your life like you're singing." I was nowhere near able to live that lightly, but after that, I spent several years creating this film. I drifted with a single will, and I think I finally finished it, even though it was unfinished. At the time, I couldn't respond to my friend's words, but even now I don't know if “Move like a Wind" was my answer.