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A Dandelion, Rosaceae

A Dandelion, Rosaceae

1990 • 8 min • Japan
Drawing our attention to the ambiguities of sexuality, queering the relationship between body, image and voice; the filmmaker refers to it as an indirect reflection on the worldwide AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
How Soon is Now?

How Soon is Now?

1990 • 3 min
A film portraying the thrill of convalescence. A man bows his head, but also walks upright. Music by the Smiths.
Chaos

Chaos

1990 • 28 min
This is a video made by Rudy Rucker to demonstrate the 1990Autodesk program, "James Gleock's CHAOS: the Software."
Puppenhead

Puppenhead

1990 • 7 min
Berlin, 1934: John Flaus plays Goethe, the puppeteer whose mechanical clockwork knife-throwing act is under surveillance by a slimy SS agent (Heinz Boeck). The showdown comes at a New York presentation of the show.
Beautiful Sisters Entanglement

Beautiful Sisters Entanglement

1990 • 59 min • Japan
Pink film distributed by Xces.
Which Man Is It?

Which Man Is It?

1990 • 60 min • Japan
In a corner of Shinjuku, there is a run-down hotel called Sankai Hotel, which used to be a gay-only Hatten inn that is quite famous in this world. One day, a man arrived who had inherited the land and building of the hotel from a distant relative of his. The man's wife ran away with him, he was laid off from his job, and he was in the depths of despair. He was thinking of starting his life over by running this hotel. However, the man was straight, so of course he didn't know about the actual situation at this hotel. What the man saw there were customers who were enjoying being gay and enjoying sex with whomever they wanted.
Beuys

Beuys

1990 • 10 min
Beuys Projection, 1990
Viz: The Documentary

Viz: The Documentary

1990 • 51 min
Tongue-in-cheek documentary about British adult humor magazine, Viz.
Petals

Petals

1990 • 15 min • Soviet Union
Film exploration of Solveig Mastekaitė’s “Novels about the Night” motifs.
Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography

Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography

1990 • 50 min • Sweden
Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).
Cupid Aims High

Cupid Aims High

1990 • 47 min
A comedy of an amateur puppet theater, eviction and modern women with their old-fashioned methods.
John Peel: Suffolk Comfort

John Peel: Suffolk Comfort

1990 • 30 min
A 30 minute documentary, made by BBC East in 1990: it was never broadcast at the time, for reasons which are currently unknown. The documentary follows John in his day to day life with his family, as well as documenting his career as a DJ. It also shows him attending a gig from Ipswich band Extreme Noise Terror.
Super Gals Mate

Super Gals Mate

1990 • 30 min • Japan
Compilation of heroines from various Toei tokusatsu series.
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

1990 • 52 min • France
A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a critique by Joachim Gasquet. An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from the film Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists’ village at Mont Sainte-Victoire. —ntticc.or.jp
Mermaids of Magic Cavern

Mermaids of Magic Cavern

1990 • 60 min • Jamaica, United States of America
Three beautiful young women, on the rebound from failed relationships, decide to take an impulsive trip to escape the oppressive atmosphere of their home town. Under the spell of magical Jamaica, they explore beautiful reefs and deserted keys au natural.
Love and Death of the Ordinary Potato

Love and Death of the Ordinary Potato

1990 • 9 min • Soviet Union
The life story of a potato, which was born in one of the fields and then was taken to the city along with her other counterparts. Once in the apartment, she oversees the life and atmosphere of the new place. The potatoes meets a knife and falls in love with him at first sight...
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember

Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember

1990 • 18 min
A portrait chronicling the life of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, focusing particularly on her work in the field of mental health.
What About Me?

What About Me?

1990 • 1 min • United Kingdom
Two over-sensitive friends get together for a chat and a cup of tea to talk about their favourite subject – themselves…
In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur

In the Footsteps of the Camerosaur

1990 • 3 min • Canada
Described as a self-portrait, this early auto-biographical short by Denis Villeneuve was presented by host Michel Désautels to introduce the young filmmaker before his participation in the The Europe-Asia Race. This was the title of the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a television programme broadcast on Radio-Canada in which contestants travelled to different regions of the world to make short films about their journeys.
Bright Nights

Bright Nights

1990 • 60 min • Germany
In an experimentally compiled film review, Danielle Jaeggi, Paule Baillargeon and Claudia von Alemann reflect on their work as filmmakers and life as mothers. Just as the title is based on Michel Leiris' book of poems Bright Nights and Many a Dark Day, the film has its own poetry, which is also evident in shots of everyday activities, such as hands washing dishes. “Just the hair or the relationship of the hands to each other or gestures, and then words come in between and film clips that we talk about, and we were amazed to find that the women we portray in the films always have a lot of trouble with theirs Identity, their search for something, for lost people or lost things. “They are usually looking for something that has been lost, forgotten or gone,” said Claudia von Alemann in the 1992 interview conducted by Renate Fischetti, A Pioneer of Female Film Language. An essay about desire, doubt, contradictions. (fib)
O Corpo de Flávia

O Corpo de Flávia

1990 • 15 min • Brazil
A fifteen-year-old girl is beaten by her father and seeks shelter at a friend's house. Between tears and sobs, she watches her friend's father. He feels sorry for a child, but she is a woman. Tonight, they will have to discover the difference between passion and compassion.
Fatty Issues

Fatty Issues

1990 • 3 min • United Kingdom
The cloak and dagger antics of a girl alone at home on a diet - weighing raisins, fiddling the scales, changing the definition of 'fruit' and blaming it all on her boyfriend...
GWAR: Live from Antarctica

GWAR: Live from Antarctica

1990 • 60 min
Gwar's first live concert film. Enjoy an actual Gwar cannibalistic blood orgy invading the privacy of your own home! Finally you can experience a live performance in relative safety! Those too timid to attend a live Gwar show will appreciate that even though most viewers will suffer permanent brain damage at least they won't get blood all over their latest trendy outfit. Laugh in abject horror as Oderus Urungus, The Sexecutioner, Slymenstra Hymen, and company Rape, Burn, and Pillage their way into your heart.
Bunyip Dreaming

Bunyip Dreaming

1990 • 40 min • Australia
The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal worldview. It consists of many different dreaming's. If you look long enough at a bird, stone or a wave, you'll be surprised at what you will find. A surfing journey throughout Australia like never before. Featuring Luke Egan, Munga Barry, and Mark Occhilupo. The music of Not Drowning Waving, Schnell- Fenster, Yothu Yindi, The Woodentops, Concrete Blonde and INXS.