All Films

Young Guard 2

1991 • 4 min • Soviet Union

The production of a military play at a cultural center has gone wrong.

لا ثمن للوطن

1991 • 58 min • Kuwait

O Mana

1991 • 4 min

Five Centuries Later

1991 • 53 min • Canada

Five centuries after the genocidal "discovery" of America by the Europeans, the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala and Bolivia question what their future holds.

Run Rabbit

1991 • 3 min • Japan

An 8mm film study framing a woman and the different images of her own self being overlapped.

Polish Feminists

1991 • 20 min • Poland

One of the first films describing the beginning of the feminist movement in Poland after 1989. Its protagonists are activists and cultural researchers fighting for women’s rights in Poland. They are also co-organizers of protests against tightening the abortion law in Poland.

Venus 220 Volt

1991 • 12 min • Germany, Switzerland

Manuela, the mermaid, is annoyed: The only thing her counterparts in the self-awareness group are interested in is the question, "Where is your clitoris?".

Oranges and Lemons

1991 • 10 min

Nigerian Ola has a passion for English history, but her vision of England and the English gets a new perspective when she gets a casual job at the Tower of London, leaving her disillusioned.

Minnesota Twins: Simply The Best

1991 • 50 min

Simply the best chronicles a remarkable year for the world champion Minnesota Twins. This video captures the 1991 championship season in it’s entirety from spring training through game seven of the World Series.

Continuum

1991 • 6 min

Short film.

Semiotic Ghosts

1991 • 18 min

Lisl Pongers peaceful, hovering travel and daily life pictures, assembled associatively instead of narratively, develop here into a reflexion on photography itself, to an examination of unknown alphabets: Geometric forms develop out of the world's chaos.(Alexander Horwath)

Broadcast Designers Association Open

1991 • 1 min

Completely synthetic imagery is used to create a black and white animated woodblock effect.

Holy Mary

1991 • 5 min

Jerry Tartaglia's irreverent papal fashion short.

Whatever Is A Colour Is Necessarily Red

1991 • 11 min

Location, the gravel pit. Two adolescent women debate the premise, Whatever Is A Colour Is Necessarily Red, while their contemporaries cheer and heckle their efforts. The debate, Whatever is a colour is necessarily red, is a Buddhist classic written for very young students who merely have to memorize their parts. The purpose is to set the paradigm for unscripted debating and to instill the value of discussion. There is no winner or loser, only a challenger and defender who both desire to know the truth of something as revealed through the process. In practice monastic debating is a sport performed outdoors in front of an audience who cheers, hisses and boos often at any hesitation or incorrect responses. In my representation of the monastic debating I use the metaphor of throwing and catching a ball.

Boneshop of the Heart

1991 • 53 min

This highly original and thought-provoking film explores a rich vein of visual expression and American individuality through incisive portraits of five contemporary southern folk artists, four of whom are African-American. The film reveals art forms so radically different from familiar folk traditions that the artists -- "Tin Man" Charlie Lucas, Vollis Simpson, Thornton Dial, Bessie Harvey, and "Sandman" Lonnie Bradley Holley -- defy classification. Variously known as "outsider" or "visionary" artists, they create unique aesthetic forms that challenge traditional distinctions between "fine" and "folk" art.

One Day

1991 • 10 min

South Molton Street becomes a fantasy playground for a young mother and child

Dance Express: Hip Hop Club Dancing

1991 • 23 min • United States of America

Go into the mind of professional dancing coach Tony Lewis as he brings us the greatest hip hop moves of the 90s.

Spirit of Place

1991 • 10 min • United Kingdom

The invisible becomes visible. Every room has a spirit which sleeps beneath the layers of peeling paint and wallpaper. Spirit of Place observes the awakening of such a spirit, coerced into life by moonlight to reveal sumptuous velvets, decaying gilt, and an assemblage of neo-Gothic objects d‘art – a ghostly reflection of its past. In one long, carefully choreographed sequence, pictures animate and a message is disclosed as the motion control camera passes on its programmed course.

De Bello Irakeno

1991 • 17 min

Video journal cut-up made by the DAMS Occupato collective and soundtracked by the Laboratorio di Musica e Immagine. Its object is the reflection on the First Gulf War and its representation, focusing in particular on the information overload that occurred in the early stages of the conflict.

The Injection

1991 • 12 min • Italy

A man experiments with a strange drug, injecting it behind his eye and transforming into a bloodthirsty monster. Anyone who sets into his home will be violently murdered.

The Russian Mute

1991 • 6 min • Soviet Union

In this film, Edward Sheglanov wanted to present a person as an element of language, and see how a sign lives. The film came together spontaneously, influenced by charming stories about the jazz improvisation of Cassavetes’ films. The author associates this image with the beginning of the garrulous and fruitless 1990s.

Safari Rally 1991

1991 • 50 min

Round 4 of the 1991 World Rally Championships took place in Kenya, East Africa. Nissan introduced their latest supercar, the brand new Pulsar GT with Stig Blomqvist, Mike Kirkland and David Llewellin on board. The usual big-name drivers were present including Juha Kankkunen, Jorge Recalde and Miki Biasion representing Martini Lancia's main assault team. World Champion Carlos Sainz was totally unfazed by the competition nor was he unduly disturbed by Nissan's Pulsars. Sainz spearheaded Toyota's battle squad which also included Bjorn Waldegaard and the notoriously fast Miki Biasion. The stage was set for a fast and furious round. The outcome was as stunning as the fabulous scenery of Africa, captured skilfully by the ever-alert cameramen.

Stolen Freedom: Occupied Palestine

1991 • 25 min

During the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, that began in December 1987, Palestinian-American filmmaker Tony Kandah made the documentary "Stolen Freedom" about occupied Palestine and the Intifada. Filmed primarily in Dahatia, a refugee camp run by UNRWA near Bethlehem on the West Bank, the film shows a new side to this continuing saga; the story of children growing up and learning to survive in an atmosphere of daily tension. In eye-opening interviews, the young people explain what it means to live in a strife-torn environment and how they have managed to survive and remain hopeful. Narrated by Casey Kasem, well-known in the USA for his "Top 40" music program, and featuring commentary by Hanan Ashrawi.

Pharaoh's Children

1991 • 52 min • Soviet Union

A poetic feature-length documentary made up of short vignettes, it is the story of Gypsies who always carry their homeland with them. Estonian and Russian-speaking Gypsies have been living in Estonia throughout fifty years of Soviet occupation. Through the colorful gypsy characters, the culture and vitality of the nation unfolds.