All Films

Aral – 91

1991 • 10 min • Ukraine

Kazakhstan. Meeting of the UNESCO international expert group in the summer of 1991. Topic: the Aral environmental disaster – the transformation of the Aral Sea into a salt desert, which is the main environmental problem in Central Asia.

Voice

1991 • 20 min • Ukraine

Two great prophets of Russia: Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Lenin, their reflections on socialism, good and evil, and the purpose of human beings in this world.

Voices from the Land

1991 • 43 min • Namibia

This film describes the situation of the Black pastoral farmers of Namibia, including their feelings toward land tenure and use and the difficult social conditions under which they live.

My Homeland is Crimea

1991 • 49 min • Ukraine

The fate of the Crimean Tatar people, deported from Crimea to Uzbekistan in 1945. The difficult path back to their homeland, the problems of national revival. Newsreel footage tells the story of the Crimean Tatars' life in Crimea before World War II and the Nazi occupation of Crimea.

Visit (Dolphins Go Visiting)

1991 • 20 min • Ukraine

A short documentary.

I am the One Who is in Me

1991 • 31 min • Ukraine

The Secret of Hetman Polubotok's Treasures

1991 • 10 min • Ukraine

On the Way to the Market

1991 • 11 min • Ukraine

A short documentary about capitalism.

Visual Imagery in Cinema

1991 • 11 min • Ukraine

A cinema history documentary.

And the Truth Will Set Us Free

1991 • 59 min • Ukraine

A Perebudova documentary.

Tattoo

1991 • 16 min • Romania

Hunger, beatings, and poor hygiene intermingle in a women's prison, where the characters combine sisterhood, eroticism, and political fight.

Not Only Angels Have Wings

1991 • 18 min • Germany

A Philosopher for All Seasons

1991 • 54 min • Netherlands

This documentary film is a thought-provoking portrait of the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a prominent and outspoken critic of Israeli occupation politics. He famously coined the term "Judeo-Nazi" during the 1982 Lebanon War to describe Israel's military mentality.

Almanac “Cultural Heritage”, No. 2/1991

1991 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A short documentary.

Wai Mao Zhan Zaosheng

1991 • 10 min

Animation by Liu Zuofeng

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

1991 • 6 min • United States of America

It starts off as an ordinary class trip to the farm - boring, kind of dull. But before very long, chaos takes over as one zany incident leads to another, even zanier, one. Soon the entire farm is uproariously out of control.

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review'

1991 • 30 min

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' is a 1992 American short documentary film about Margaret Caroline Anderson, who founded the journal Little Review in 1914, an overlooked but profound influence on American literature. Anderson introduced writers such as Gertrude Stein, Emma Goldman, Djuna Barnes, and Ezra Pound, and went to trial for publishing excerpts from James Joyce's new work, Ulysses. Immersed in her own pointed, charismatic writings, this engrossing profile follows Anderson's inspiring life and travels. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Thursday

1991 • 5 min • United States of America

"Shot between 11:00 and 1:00 over a series of Thursdays while my infant son slept, this piece has something to do with the sensory pleasure of momentary solitude in a domestic setting." –Leighton Pierce

Humanidad, hasta donde nos vas a llevar (1945-1949)

1991 • 27 min

Chapter 10 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1945 and 1949.

In Titan's Goblet

1991 • 10 min • United States of America

In Titan's Goblet refers to a landscape painting by Thomas Cole circa 1833. The film is intended as a homage to Cole, who is regarded as the father of the Hudson River School of painting.

Untitled

1991 • 21 min

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Au sud

1991 • 7 min

The specific colors and tones and rhythms of a place in the south of France. The dryness of gold, the rock of plateau, the cemetery of the sailors, the echoes of fishermen and artists, the memory of Paul Valery. And water everywhere.

Camel Trophy 1991 - Tanzania-Burundi

1991 • 60 min

Competition, expedition or adventure? Camel Trophy is in fact all of these. 1991 and Camel Trophy travels to Africa for the second time in the event's history to tackle a 1600km route over little used tracks and traversing some of the world's most spectacular scenery teeming with precious wildlife. Travelling in identical Land Rover Discoverys the seventeen amateur teams from as many countries set off from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to fight their way through waist deep mud and two metre high elephant grass, climbing the hills of Burundi to the finish in the capital, Bujumbura. The target for the two man crew of each vehicle is to conquer natural obstacles along the way. They soon learn that only team work and determination will help them reach their final goal whilst keeping up a competitive edge through the challenging Special Tasks. Their prize is the Camel Trophy

Auschwitz

1991 • 58 min • Poland

For the world, the Auschwitz camp is a symbol of the Holocaust, genocide, and terror. Never before in human history were so many people murdered in a planned way. In such a short time and in such a small space. Between 1940 and 1945, the Nazi Germans deported over a million Jews, nearly 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma, and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and about 25,000 prisoners of other nationalities here. The overwhelming majority of them perished in the camp. This film is dedicated to the memory of each and every one of them.