All Films

Compartment

1990 • 5 min • Germany

Sex on the metro! The director has taken footage shot in a completely empty compartment on the London underground and married it to the off-camera reading of a pornographic text that includes detailed masturbation instructions for a female rider. The whole sexy trip, driven by musical clinking sounds, is framed by images of a woman in black bandages using a leather whip for self-flagellation. Take a ride on the wild side!

Protective Coloration

1990 • 17 min • United States of America

This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex musical architecture, developing intricate rhythms not unlike the complex syncopations found in traditional African music. Elements of sand, dirt, light and shadow cross-reference the film's emulsion with evolutionary history and provide a second level of musical structuring through which the first layer is filtered. The animals' fur patterns, which evolved naturally as camouflage to hide them from predators, ironically now make the animals more visible to human predators who are attracted by their exotic uniqueness. This cinematic analogy underscores modern humanity's relationship to the natural world.

White

1990 • 6 min • Austria

A film about speech.

Solo for the Moon and the Wolf

1990 • 4 min • Soviet Union

About how the heron escaped from the clutches of the wolf.

The Admiral and the Princess

1990 • 30 min • Canada

A young princess and the admiral of her father's navy are in love, but an evil sorcerer separates them while trying to take over the kingdom using dark magic from the blood crystal.

The Big Time

1990 • 6 min • Yugoslavia

A spoiled rich kid wants to break his piggy bank with a large hammer.

The Statics: Engineering Memory Bridges

1990 • 21 min

Rests and tests from the inquiry into prototypes. Formal proofs through pregnant experiments on one's own body.

Danny and the Dinosaur

1990 • 9 min • United States of America

The adventures of a little boy named Danny and a tall dinosaur from a local museum.

ESPN Unbelievable Sports Plays

1990 • 29 min • United States of America

This outrageous video brings you some of the greatest sports plays ever. From the archives of ESPN, filed under U for Unbelievable, they're the most unusual and improbable plays imaginable. From football, baseball and hockey to lacrosse, horse racing and kick boxing... get ready to see the hardest hits, the most amazing slam dunks and the wildest finishes ever.

Chouabadaballet

1990 • 5 min

A romantic argument between two car wipers.

The Last Dream of Anatoly Vasilievich

1990 • 44 min • Soviet Union

The film in a metaphorical form demonstrates a model of self-devouring in a closed spiritual system, it explores intermediate state between a human and a non-human: a subhuman deprived of a divine spark.

Dr. Jack Van Impe's New Age Spirits From The Underworld

1990 • 60 min

Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe are a Christian news team, well qualified to report and interpret current international events in light of Bible prophecy.

The Myth of Modern Dance

1990 • 26 min • United States of America

Collaborating with choreographer Douglas Dunn, Atlas uses anthropological text, satirical movement, and vividly colored chroma-keyed backgrounds in an episodic, often humorous look at the evolution of modern dance.

Dedication

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The animation about Stalin’s Great Purge and repression victims.

Death Sled II: Steel Belted Romeos

1990 • 11 min

A tale of backwoods blacktop mayhem--Two dim-witted, lead-footed guidos from Bayonne, New Jersey bust through stoplight after stoplight in their turbo-charged, fuel-injected Pontiac Grand Prix until their mean machine nearly eighty-sixes another hunk of American steel. And that's just the start of it...A confrontation, an assault, fists-a-flying, and traffic violations.

New Fangled

1990 • 2 min • United States of America

A critique of marketing speak in the commercial cartoon industry.

Traveling at Night

1990 • 11 min

A study of the underground railroad filtered through a children's field trip to caves that once sheltered slaves.

El contrabajo

1990 • 47 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Birth of a Golem

1990 • 60 min

With the feel of experimental film, Gitai mixes storytelling, readers' theater, cityscapes (usually seen from moving trains), and desolate landscapes to mediate on the act of creation. What if a golem were fashioned out of dirt, much like Adam, and came to life? The film imagines it, in the desert and in Moscow. Interspersed are stories of a 14th-century Tuscan artist's creation of a tower that plays music when the wind blows, of a film director, and of Jeremiah and Sirat. In what ways is making a movie like creating a golem?

The Streetsweeper

1990 • 4 min • France

Hemkört

1990 • 60 min • Sweden

Ragnar and Folke are upset about the reporting about their village in the local radio show.

The Colour of Immunity

1990 • 30 min

The Colour of Immunity was an early prevention video created by Glace Lawrence and Black CAP (with original music from David Findlay) for the Toronto Living With AIDS series. This video was the first HIV/AIDS-themed video produced exclusively for and by African, Caribbean, and Black communities in Canada.

La déroute

1990 • 28 min • Canada

A woman walks through an arid and desert-like place. She seems to have come out of nowhere. Her journey is punctuated with chance meetings and many unforssen obstacles. She crosses a forest and a marsh before continuing along her desert path. She will never be the same again.

Home Stories

1990 • 6 min • Germany

This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of suspense and clichés of plot make it possible to move seamlessly among scenes from different films with different protagonists: uneasy sleep, getting up, listening at the door, turning on the lights, being startled, etc. In the montage, the movements and gestures of the actresses – stars like Lana Turner, Tippi Hedren, and Grace Kelly– seem choreographed and planned for each other. The soundtrack supports this effect with connecting passages of sound that imitate the stereotypes of the genre. The treatment concentrates the dramatic shift from the familiar to the eerie and shows how women become the victims of the voyeuristic glance of film.