All Films

Antecedence: Terence McKenna Talks Virtual Reality

1991 • 6 min

On a midsummer afternoon Terence McKenna contemplated the ecological complexity of rainforests, the intelligence of ant colonies, and the proposition of modeling a forest anthill in VR.

Heartbreak Angels 2

1991 • 43 min • Japan

Sequel to "Heartbreak Angels" (1990).

The Revenge of the Wicked Witch Kluka XVI

1991 • 35 min • Soviet Union

Based on Hungarian fairytales.

The Guardian

1991 • 27 min • Poland

A documentary portrait of Anna Kulczycka. After her husband's death, she became a custodian of the collection of carpets and rugs created by the Kulczycki family. The protagonist tells about the complicated history of the collection, about the relationship between her and her husband and about their common interests. She presents the treasures of the collection.

Night in May

1991 • 58 min • Ukraine, Canada

Through Ukrainian songs and dances, a Canadian woman who came to Ukraine learns about her family history.

The Psycho and the Odds and Ends

1991 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Based on the prose of Mikhail Levitin. The films "The Psycho and the Odds and Ends" and "My Poor Pierrot" are two novellas that are not connected by plot, but share the same main character. They can be considered the first and third parts of a trilogy. The second part — "A Rotten Story" — has not yet been produced.

Cultural-historical Manoeuvre At Night

1991 • 6 min • Hungary

It is a parable about the contradiction between the "chronicle of wars", as a historical concept and the comprehensive approach of cultural history * for graduates and modern illiterates.

Create Yourself

1991 • 10 min • Ukraine

A short art documentary.

The History of a City. Organchik

1991 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on the satirical novel by the Russian writer Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a City". The action takes place in the fictional city of Glupov, but the buildings are drawn in such a way that there is no doubt that this city is Kostroma. Thus, Trade Rows, a fire tower, many historically existing churches are shown.

Perpetual Motion... Anthill

1991 • 4 min • Soviet Union

About the life of an anthill.

Winderemere's Burning

1991 • 40 min

Mark Frith's documentary spends time with the Windermere crew, as they diligently respond to false alarm after false alarm, work their day jobs, and train hard to be ready for a serious incident.

The Cage

1991 • 32 min • Israel

A drama focused on Israeli–Palestinian relationships during the intifada.

Rab C. Nesbitt: Fitba'

1991 • 45 min • United Kingdom, Italy

Rab, Burney and Jamesie go to Italy to see Scotland play in the World Cup,taking frail and elderly ex-soccer star Matt Fernie with them. Jamesie gets arrested - and visited by Ella,seeking a separation - but Matt is taken seriously ill before Scotland's final game and Rab must lie to let an old man die happy.

Rota ABC

1991 • 11 min

Rota ABC is a documentary essay about the desires and perspectives of youth living in the industrial suburb of São Paulo, directed by Francisco Cesar Filho and produced by Anhangabaú Produções, with a soundtrack by the punk rock band Garotos Podres.

Hasse's Diary

1991 • 33 min • Sweden

Hasse is 8 years old. His parents are drinking and arguing. Every day Hasse picks up his diary from the hideout behind the radiator to write down his thoughts.

A Prayer Before Birth

1991 • 20 min

A drama based on the director's experience of coming to terms with multiple sclerosis. 'A Prayer Before Birth' chronicles, with disturbing intensity, the physical and emotional traumas of a young woman's journey from able-bodied exuberance to the acceptance of disability. Rejecting the objective worthiness often associated with such subject matter, the filmmaker opts instead for an escalating sequence of symbolic and impressionistic images to convey the increasing sense of unreality as the disease inexorably enters her daily life. Confronts debilitating illness with creative vitality, simultaneously desperate and defiant.

Blue Venice / Red Hotel

1991 • 6 min • Canada

"The Red Hotel: flying car. Filmed from the backseat, images scroll at the speed of miles fleeing, forwards, backwards ... and on this road, Venice. Floating lights, gratings, bridges above, below. The city was coming out of the Red Hotel to bend under the magnifying glass and the flashlight of the projector, drunk by the narrow streets and carried by the seasickness emanating from the "flicker" which returns in waves. Venice left the Red Hotel to take another turn, detached from the previous trip, it seems to become a suite of old postcards and gives to people who pass and search at a second-hand dealer, memories of yesteryear.“

Est-ce là l'effet du Saint Jour ?

1991 • 10 min • France

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Antamosi

1991 • 38 min

A half-hour narrative fiction short that explores the Greek experience in Australia. Memories, betrayals and secrets emerge from the past when Katina's mother comes from Greece to visit the family. The bitter embrace between mother and daughter is observed by Katina's own daughter, Sophia, who must play her own role in this moving drama of estrangement.

Ong Dong Dreoka

1991 • 24 min • Germany

"To make a film means to invent a music of pictures, sounds and rhythms; means to compose visual values, that have no equivalents in other art forms," wrote Marcel L’Herbier in the thirties. To plumb the possibilities that lie within the film material itself is what, for me, accounts for the meaning as well as the desire to work in film. Film as the disclosure of a fantastic world which the spectator can dive into and, ideally, have his imagination kindled. ONG DONG DREOKA is a game with images, a carousel that turns, a magic spell, a memory, for adults, of childhood." -Simone Fürbringer

Peldik

1991 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A problem film about our toilet culture - dilapidated outhouses and dirty school lavatories.

At Your Head

1991 • 26 min

Hairdressers in Cali discuss life, work, dreams, beauty, fashion, and homosexuality. The filmmaker is having a haircut too. Second installment of the crafts trilogy.

Unpublished Album

1991 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the enthusiastic photographer Igor Kostin, who worked at the Chornobyl disaster site.

Ghost Carnival

1991 • 35 min • Taiwan

An archival student film directed by Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin regarding a young man's complicated relationship with his deceased sister, based off of her serialized short fiction of the same name. Also called The Revelries of Ghosts.