All Films

Disney Sing-Along Songs: I Love to Laugh - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

1990 • 31 min

Songs are for sharing, and learning the words to your favorite Disney songs has never been so much fun! Just sing along to the on-screen lyrics as you enjoy classic Disney characters in their most memorable musical scenes! Get ready to laugh and sing with wonderful tunes from one of the most popular musicals of all time -- MARY POPPINS! This volume introduces you to the "Supercalifragilistic" hits sung by everyone's favorite nanny, Mary Poppins. Sing along with this happy-go-lucky cast of live and animated characters in a giggling, gleeful musical celebration.

Makkuro na Obentô

1990 • 50 min • Japan

The true story a young boy who left for his job with a lunch box his mother prepared for him the day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood

1990 • 27 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet claymation short film created by Garri Bardin in 1990 that retells the story of Red Riding Hood while incorporating political metaphors and themes about the USSR's demise; the wolf representing communism, devouring innocent creatures who have never known him.

The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty

1990 • 24 min

Humpty was an overgrown, misunderstood egg. But one day, he ended up in the right place at the right time and his luck changed. When he overheard Glitch the Witch's evil plan to poison Princess Allegra, he saved the Princess, became the town hero and got a big head! But the glory didn't last for long... Crrraaaacck!! All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put back the pieces. Could the power of love save Humpty Dumpty? Scratch, Glitch's street-smart cat, unscrambles The Real Story.

The Blue Nile: Flags and Fences

1990 • 29 min • United Kingdom

The "lost" documentary of the Scottish music group The Blue Nile's tour of the US in 1990. In 1990, the film-maker Bernard Rudden made this documentary "Flags and Fences", which followed The Blue Nile on their tour of America. It's long been thought "lost", but writer, adventurer and all-round-gentleman, Trevor Ward, located and forwarded this copy, which captures Blue Nile as they seemed on the cusp of world success.

The Silver Twilight

1990 • 57 min

When the King of Monsters discovers that a group of rebel monsters are kidnapping innocent human beings, he sends his son into the human world with his magic staff and He is joined on the hunt by a group of young human rebels, and a bear.

Chornobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks

1990 • 54 min • Soviet Union

The first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, reactor 4, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on the 26 April 1986, focuses on the immediate aftermath of the disaster and the cleanup effort.

Steven Wright: Wicker Chairs and Gravity

1990 • 60 min

A comedy special starring Steven Wright before an audience in Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre.

The Wrong Type

1990 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A temp with a typing speed of no words a minute finds herself way out of her depth when sent to work at a large corporation, by a rather desperate Temping Agency, 'SuperTemps'...

The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall

1990 • 49 min

Born in London in 1934, Jane Goodall spent decades in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park, studying the social and family structures of chimpanzees and helping to bring their ecological vulnerability into the public consciousness. She also founded and remains integral to the Jane Goodall Institute, which encourages environmental activism and stewardship among young people. In this program, the famous scientist reflects on her many years spent observing and learning about our primate cousins.

Rock Deserters

1990 • 48 min • Yugoslavia

Belgrade rock musicians and critics talk about the glorious days of Yugoslav new wave that had its peak in 1981.

Voice of the Moon

1990 • 30 min • Afghanistan

This 30-minute series of images Stanley recorded while he was in Afghanistan in the late 80's with some Mujahadin rebels [and also the late war journalist Carlos Mavroleon (1958-1998), who worked as a producer], follows the people's daily attempts to survive in a country being torn to pieces by the Russian invasion. During the shooting, Stanley also encountered the Taliban. Originally made for UNICEF, the film lacks narration save for a Suti poem. Instead, it is accompanied by Simon Boswell's brilliant score.

Metamorphosis: Man into Woman

1990 • 58 min • United States of America

Gary, a 39 year-old successful animation artist and devout Christian, is pursuing a lifelong dream — to become a woman. Metamorphosis is a candid, non-sensational and sometimes humorous journey of nearly three years as Gary prepares physically and emotionally for sex reassignment surgery. Along the way, the film raises provocative questions about what really makes us men and women.

Good Old Cuttlas

1990 • 9 min • Spain

Stick-figure animation makes for a witty genre send-up of the Western.

The Little Match Girl

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

The Hans Christian Andersen classic is given present-day relevance and an upbeat ending in this story of Angela, a homeless child who sells matchsticks to survive.

Things I Like, Things I Don't Like

1990 • 8 min • France

Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."

The Sole Witness

1990 • 58 min • Bulgaria

When a tired factory worker Christo Panov going home from work gets embroiled with a dispute with a bus driver, leading to threats of assault by the driver, that's bad enough. Then an irate passenger files charges against the driver. After the driver appears on the factory worker's doorstep with his wife and three children, pleading with him not to testify, he easily agrees. However, soon he learns that the woman who brought charges against the driver is now being charged by with slander. No matter what he does, someone will suffer unneccessarily.

Stabat Mater

1990 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal feminine of Joyce’s Ulysses, which echoes the exultant/feverish swoop of the camera through a Mediterranean landscape

Artwar Loop 1

1990 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the TV. These can be watched as individual films or as loops.

Blatzom in Artwar

1990 • 21 min • United Kingdom

This vibrant montage of colours and positive and negative images shows Jeff Keen filtering and reflecting on his previous films.

A Sequence from the Evolution of Form

1990 • 2 min • United Kingdom

William Latham was a figure that dominated computer art and animation in the UK through his use of 'evolutionary' algorithms. Working at this time in partnership with an IBM scientific research centre, Latham aimed at remodelling the entire creative process, 'mutating' the most startling yet controlled virtual sculptures that had so far been seen. This sequence was released on home video formats as well as screened at festivals.

How Wonderful

1990 • 55 min • Australia

How Wonderful is a hilarious and really honest look at pregnancy, featuring a cast of well known Australian actors and actresses.

Artwar Loop 2

1990 • 1 min • United Kingdom

The Artwar loops were made for non-cinematic exhibition and go from harsh film surface noise to colour bars and other video effects filmed from the TV. These can be watched as individual films or as loops.

The Call of the Wild

1990 • 46 min • Ireland

Buck, stolen from his California home, is sold as a sled dog in the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. Abused, he is rescued by John Thornton, who forms a bond with Buck. Thornton is murdered. Buck avenges him and must make a crucial decision.