All Films

Going Equipped

1990 • 5 min • United Kingdom

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

Mermaid's Fantasy

1990 • 59 min • Belize, United States of America

Imagine warm tropical days. Imagine gentle breezes and caressing waves lapping at the powdery sand of an almost deserted tropical island. Now, Mermaid Movies introduces to this paradise four beautiful ladies: Shawna, Amy, Julie and Lisa. Each is from a different background, but each is in love with sun, fun and the total escape offered by Mother Ocean. Join this lovely quartet as they frolic about the beautiful Journey's End resort.

Anna, Called Hobblelegs

1990 • 24 min • East Germany, Germany

Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all the others in both running and sneaking races. When she even reaches the end of the world and outwits two clumsy giants who do not want any creature to escape from this terrible place alive, she realises that she can be proud of herself.

Carnaval

1990 • 26 min • United Kingdom, Brazil, Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland

Totem

1990 • 27 min

Two climbers, a photographer and an eagle in the western setting of Monument Valley, USA. The climbers, who are experts, reveal the secrets of their acrobatic skill. The photographer is the spectator who often involuntarily creates comical situations.

Valis III

1990 • 53 min • Japan

After Yuko has defeated the evil Rogles, peace descended upon Earth and the magical world of Vecanti. But a new threat has arisen: an enigmatic man named Glames from the Dark World, possessor of a sword named Leethus, is planning to conquer both Earth and Vecanti, convinced that there is no other way to save his world from imminent destruction. A young girl from the Dark World named Cham escapes from Glames, and asks Yuko to help her stop him with the aid of her Valis sword.

The PanoptiCon Tapes IV

1990 • 50 min • United Kingdom

4. The JNT Years - Peter Davison and Colin Baker’s portrayals of the Doctor conceded with one of the most controversial periods of the programme’s history. Was the programme as good as it used to be… or just different? What did the production staff, both past and present, think? However, you’ll see lots of other personalities from other eras as we stop along the way to look at particular aspects of the programme.

Se our Frolov

1990 • 7 min

Experimental documentary film-observation. The hero of the film - russian director experimental cinema Dmitri Frolov

Democracy News

1990 • 16 min

On February 12 1990 the freshly established Union of Democratic Forces (SDS/СДС) launches Bulgaria's newest daily publication - "Democracy". Atanas Kiryakov documents the fledgling independent press office as dream turns into reality, the first issue is printed and crowds flock to buy it.

The Human Voice

1990 • 51 min • France

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a conversation between a young woman (sung by American soprano, Julia Migenes) and her lover, who has jilted her. In a 1930s, Parisian apartment, a woman is seen making for the door. As she passes the telephone, it rings. From now on she sings, sitting, standing, on her knees, pacing up and down the room, pulling at the telephone cord, going through every emotion until ultimately, in despair, she takes her own life. Jean Cocteau wrote, it is not just that the telephone is sometimes more dangerous than the revolver but that its tangled cord drains us of our strength, while giving us nothing in return.

Pickpocket

1990 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Kolyan is an ordinary pickpocket with three terms of imprisonment and a well-formed way of life. Theft is his life, and he does not know what repentance or decency is. Only his small stature is unusual, so small that during one of the thefts he ends up in a purse, from where the owner of the house pulls him out along with ten rubles. The wife is more frightened than if the husband took a live rat out of his pocket, and the little daughter asks to leave this "animal" to her for re-education.

Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Fighting Force

1990 • 60 min

The Waffen SS is the elite Nazi fighting force that holds a dark place in Germany's history. Their code is a lethal combination of bravery and savagery.

Uranium

1990 • 48 min • Canada

Explores the consequences of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose profound, long-term environmental hazards. Miners suffer a substantially increased risk of getting cancer. Most mining occurs on Indigenous People's land, violating their traditional economic and spiritual lives. Given our limited knowledge of the risks associated with uranium mining, why continue?

Glass

1990 • 3 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon about how glaziers put glass through which everything was seen as curved.

Tokyo Sanpo Vol.3

1990 • 16 min

The third film in a series of diaries of Tokyo scenery.

The Prisoner Video Companion

1990 • 48 min • United Kingdom

British cult classic The Prisoner has been hailed as the most bizarre, mind-boggling television series of all time. Even though the series was produced more than twenty years ago, it is more popular today than when it originally aired. If you've never seen an episode, take this home and you will surely be hooked. Be seeing you.

Making Real Funny Home Videos

1990 • 30 min • Canada

Count Floyd, the former horror host of "Monster Chiller Horror Theatre" (SCTV), takes the audience through step by step lessons on how to make the best funny home videos.

Une partie de campagne

1990 • 22 min • France

El almohadon

1990 • 52 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Africa: Land and People

1990 • 23 min • United States of America

This film takes a close look at Africa's varied geography and the people who settled and live in these region. Also it contrasts the rural villages and the modern cities.

The Little Crooked Christmas Tree

1990 • 24 min

During a storm on a Christmas tree farm, a dove and her family asks a small tree for protection, which the tree gives straightaway. The shelter it created for the doves bent the trunk, and causes it to grow crooked. Now, no one wants the small imperfect tree. Based on the book by Michael Cutting.

Guests

1990 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Harmony

1990 • 9 min

A tour de force exercise in optical printing shot in the Chicago Loop

And Then I'll Stop... Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

1990 • 20 min

Using interviews with re-hab patients, a series of stories takes us through the habits, downfall and subsequent acknowledgment and recovery of each addict.