All Films

Midnight Oil - Black Rain Falls

1990 • 45 min • Australia

On May 30, 1990, Midnight Oil interrupted its North American tour for a “special guerrilla action” on the crowded Avenue of the Americas in midtown Manhattan. The agit prop event was a live concert from the back of a flat-bed truck that eventually drew more than 10,000 people at the high noon hour. The Australian band took this chance to make public its feelings on the planet’s crumbling environment

A Night on Mount Edna

1990 • 60 min

British TV-special with Barry Humphries, AKA Dame Edna

Provincial Anecdote

1990 • 33 min • Soviet Union

The driver and the forwarder, who came on a business trip, drank everything they had and the next morning they went to ask passers-by for money. There was a kind person who gave them a large sum, but instead of gratitude, the drunkards interrogated the donor with bias...

Stories to Remember: Beauty and the Beast

1990 • 27 min

The tale as old as time follows a young woman who exchanges places with her imprisoned father under the watch of an unhappy creature.

Red On Red

1990 • 50 min • Soviet Union, United Kingdom

A documentary about the Soviet Union history, "Aquarium" music sounds behind the scenes.

Who Didn't Kill JFK

1990 • 60 min

The authenticity of the world famous "backyard photos" of Lee Harvey Oswald, published on the cover of LIFE magazine in 1964, comes under attack by Jack White, selected as consultant to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

Preliminary Notes For a Western

1990 • 22 min

What are the necessary elements to produce a good western? To set the stage ironically for action involving all the usual characters : the good guy, the sheriff, the bad guy and the belle. Seen here in their first roles, the players in this video come from a region of Alberta, where cowboys are born and bred. They need not look too far from everyday life to draw inspiration for a classical western...

Pelle Moves to Komfusenbo

1990 • 25 min • Sweden

When you are four years old it is tough to be unfairly accused of stealing your father's favourite fountain pen. There is nothing else for Pelle but to leave home and go off by himself, all the way to Komfusenbo, way down at the bottom of the garden.

Saul of Tarsus

1990 • 30 min • United States of America

Saul of Tarsus is one of the most dramatic stories of repentance found in the Bible. Rabbi Gamaliel is unable to convince his friend Saul, the arch-enemy and persecutor of Christians, to mend his ways. Saul is changed forever when the resurrected Lord miraculously appears to him on the Road to Damascus. Saul becomes reborn as Paul, one of the greatest missionaries and apostles ever for Jesus Christ’s gospel.

Belinda Carlisle: Runaway Videos

1990 • 40 min

Nine complete music videos from Belinda Carlisle, featuring Heaven Is A Place On Earth; I Get Weak; Circle In The Sand; Leave A Light On; La Luna; Runaway Horses; (We Want) The Same Thing; Summer Rain; and Vision Of You.

Everyone's Channel

1990 • 60 min

A look at the Local Access Cable phenomenon.

Dead Women Don't Wear Shoes

1990 • 11 min

When she puts on a murdered woman's shoes, a teenager's body is used as a vessel for revenge.

Isto é Noel Rosa

1990 • 45 min • Brazil

The life of samba composer Noel Rosa.

Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole

1990 • 24 min • Soviet Union

A satiric comedy which dissects the iconography of the 'Soviet Hero'. Original footage of a propaganda film from 1941 is the starting point for this parody of the ideological cliches of Soviet cinema. It follows the story of a Russian crew across the North Pole.

Revolting Rhymes

1990 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.

Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life

1990 • 15 min

Oscar-winning animator Ray Harryhausen gives an exclusive insight into cinema's most famous monster creations and special effects secrets with the actual models used in such classics as Clash of the Titans.

One Night Stand: Ellen DeGeneres

1990 • 26 min • United States of America

Comedian/TV host/actress Ellen DeGeneres performs her stand-up routine in this riotous special.

A Finnish Rhapsody

1990 • 27 min

Short film by Tapio Piirainen that is his diploma work when graduating from TaiK / Department of Film, Television and Scenography.

Black and White

1990 • 58 min • Yugoslavia

Reuben, an African student at Novi Sad University, returns from his visit to his parents.

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

1990 • 25 min • United States of America

Animated adaptation of Virginia Lee Burton's children's book.

Welles' Language

1990 • 16 min • Brazil

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology, consciously completing a legendary cultural mission. Although being turned down by Hollywood producers, he developed a triumphantly accomplished mission in the language domain - three friends of Welles' testified his love for cinema, his passion for Brazilian music and people and his obstinate endurance against formidable pressures coming from inside and outside Hollywood regarding his unfinished "It's All True".

To Be

1990 • 10 min • Canada

Blending fantasy and reality, this animated short is a bold inquiry into an as yet unresolved problem - the nature of human identity. When a scientist creates a machine that can make copies of physical objects, including humans, a number of ethical questions arise. Is the technique moral? What of its safety? A film by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Weldon (who also wrote the catchy banjo tune that punctuates the story's changing moods).

A Resourceful Poor Man

1990 • 31 min • Soviet Union

Based on Kyrgyz fairytales.

Letters to Gary

1990 • 14 min

From 1987 to 1990, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Gary Green.