All Films

Video Toy Chest

1990 • 38 min

Promotional video that came from local Child World/Children's Palace toy store chains in a box that included a bag of Krunchers potato chips. The video features a mild plot involving mostly all children who are running a video production studio. It also includes a curly haired rapping man named "Robo-T". The video is a giant commercial with live skits in between as a fun bit until the next commercial.

Legend of Kyokushin: Mas Oyama – The Godhand

1990 • 46 min • Japan

This is the Sosai Masutatsu Oyama documentary, the founder of Kyokushin Karate aka "The Strongest Karate." This is the DVD print of the same title that was released in 1990, four year before Sosai Oyama passed away. This version contains the full length Mas Oyama's duel with the bull. A HIDDEN GEM! Available on the request from enthusiastic Kyokushin Karate practitioners. This documentary features some of the top fighters in Kyokushin history such as Kenji Yamaki, Kenji Midori, and Shokei Matsui. Synopsis: For the first time Mas Oyama's early training scenes are shown and Oyama Karate secrets and Kyokushin mysteries are revealed!

Virgin, Whore, Saint

1990 • 18 min • Australia

Three versions of a woman – bride to be (virgin), dominatrix (whore), and actress playing Joan of Arc (saint) – are shown. Each is dissatisfied with her place in the world.

The Clown Tape

1990 • 44 min • United States of America

This is a bizarre documentary/mockumentary that I happened upon one day at my local Goodwill. It tells the story of a man who travels across country, from San Francisco to Brooklyn, dressed up as a clown. He does this in an effort to recreate a similar voyage undertaken by a man in the midst of an existential crisis some years earlier.

Rossellini

1990 • 54 min

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid Bergman.

Sally's Beauty Spot

1990 • 13 min • Canada

A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-screen women's voices and scenes from THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG parallel and counterpoint Sally's own interracial relationships and emerging self-awareness. A provocative and stylish meditation on Asian femininity.

Big Bang

1990 • 4 min

Planet Earth has become a gigantic landfill, as a gardener and her husband learn too late.

A Fire in My Belly

1990 • 22 min • United States of America

Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.

Expedition to Bouvetøya

1990 • 31 min • Bouvet Island

3Y5X Bouvet Island DXpedition - 28 Dec 1989 - 13 Jan 1990

Flora

1990 • 3 min • Japan

Liquid colour comes to life through artificial intelligence in this video created by Yoichiro Kawaguchi. There are at least two different versions with different openings and soundtracks.

Final Scream

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

A man becomes lost in the woods and demons torment him by conjuring horrible things in the dark—like his own mutilated corpse.

New York Portrait, Chapter III

1990 • 15 min • United States of America

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of rural landscape. The very fact that Hutton is dealing with older footage, with archives of memory more than immediacy, gives it a different texture than his earlier New York films. Hutton always found the presence of nature in the city, not only in his many shots of sky and vegetation, but also in the geometry and texture of the city itself, which seemed to project an independence from the human." (Tom Gunning)

Shadow Strikers

1990 • 22 min • United States of America

The Shadow Strikers use their top secret weapon Transparium, which makes them invisible, to stop Dr. Viper and his Evil Evaders in this action-packed cartoon.

Fire Under Your Ass

1990 • 52 min • Germany

The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less enthusiastic about safe sex, let alone safe sex 'with Mother Earth', which Allen Ginsburg envisions for dealing with an AIDS-like contaminated earth. In Berlin, the gay capital of Germany, Praunheim encounters a party atmosphere during his research. "There's no one who thinks safe sex is good," say some of them, yet they plead for reason, "you also have to have the freedom to fuck yourself to death," is the extreme response of the boys, who do not want their painstakingly acquired identity as gays to be reduced to an AIDS identity through voluntary restrictions. Praunheim has also tracked down politically active people in Germany, but according to his observations, they are identified with the unpleasant truth and avoided according to the Cassandra principle.

My Parents on a Summer Day

1990 • 11 min • France

A man and his wife are having a holiday alone in their country house. The husband takes long rides on his bike while his wife is doing groceries and preparing meals. During a hike together, the woman considering pushing her husband off a cliff.

Dilema I: Burundanga boricua

1990 • 18 min • Puerto Rico

Combines animation, documentary footage, and hand-painted film as well as slide projections, a painted 12" x 24" backdrop, and sculptural palm tree to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of the Puerto Rican psyche.

Möt Maritza Horn & Jan Hammarlund

1990 • 28 min • Sweden

Documentary about the Swedish musicians Maritza Horn and Jan Hammarlund including performances.

What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me

1990 • 8 min

Experimental film by François Miron.

All Day and All Night: Memories from Beale Street Musicians

1990 • 29 min • United States of America

Blues legends B.B. King and Rufus Thomas, plus Evelyn Young, Gatemouth Moore, Fred Ford, Honeymoon Garner, Booker T. Laury, and others play jam sessions & tell stories about Memphis' Beale Street. Filmed in Memphis in the late 80's, the award-winning documentary has been lovingly remastered and restored from the original 16mm film and audio tape. A personal look at a neighborhood where the music lasted "all day and all night". It's a must-see for any music fan.

Augusta's Kiss

1990 • 6 min • Hungary

Augusta kisses her reflection in the mirror, only for it to turn into a toad. The toad comes out of the mirror, and changes to a prince when she kisses it - but as usual, everything goes wrong.

Li-hsiang’s Love Line

1990 • 51 min • Taiwan

A quiet story that follows the development of a love affair between an unmarried factory worker and the widowed factory manager.

Ouch

1990 • 26 min • United States of America

A man takes a job testing an new drug that eliminates pain, with bloody results. Early short film by Chris Gore

Fujiko Fujio A's Mumako

1990 • 30 min • Japan

OVA that is based on a manga simply titled Mumako (literally “Dream Devil Child”) written by Fujiko Fujio A.

The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'

1990 • 23 min • United States of America

Tom Bosley hosts a documentary the looks into the story behind how one of cinema's greatest films It's A Wonderful Life was made.