All Films

Toxic

1990 • 9 min • Canada, United Kingdom

BAFTA award winning short animation. In this surrealist stop-motion picture, a sinister force awakens the restful sleep of a band of dead animals. Equipped with mystic weapons, they embark upon a dangerous quest to destroy this new evil.

Mix One and Two

1990 • 5 min • Philippines

A serene but critical look at what indiscriminate urbanisation has done to the natural environment.

Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird

1990 • 57 min • Japan

Akira Fudo (aka Devil Man) fights more demons trying to kill him. The strongest enemy sent from the demon's world is Silen, the demon bird.

Blockbuster Training Video

1990 • 17 min

A training video made by Blockbuster Video.

Sugar Maple Stand

1990 • 9 min

Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas Handy), new soundtrack and title in 2016.

The Last Supper

1990 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Terence is a butcher, his wife Eden a vegetarian. At their last supper together before their divorce, he tries to fathom why she has left him. After all, he is a reasonable man.

Heart's Delivery

1990 • 56 min • Japan

1990 Concert

One Hour

1990 • 60 min • France

One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, 1990, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. in the Lower East Side near Robert Frank’s studio (we note in a Daily News headline that after some 20 years the Zodiac killer still hasn’t been identified)—it’s also an experiment in fragmentary language, gesture, and life caught unawares. Snippets of dialogue captured in passing at phone booths and crosswalks, in alleyways, subways, and diners—chance encounters, only presumably, with people going about their day—have something of the aleatory cut-up technique of the Dadaists in the 1920s and William Burroughs and Byron Gysin in the 1950s, an effort to divine new and deeper meanings in ordinary life. — Museum of Modern Art

Ginger

1990 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Ginger, an OAP, is now forced to sport a ginger wig to compensate for the ravages of time. Nattily kitted out, he decides to visit a local over-60s club with plans to 'ginger' it up.

Waka okusama: SM rinchi

1990 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1990 • 22 min • United Kingdom

Short documentary about Pakistani musician, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997), leading exponent of Sufi devotional qawwali singing.

Electric Blue Special: Lethal Weapons

1990 • 54 min

Lethal Weapons from Electric Blue

Cambodia: The Betrayal

1990 • 51 min

1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country.

It Can't Be

1990 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Thomas & Friends: Tenders & Turntables

1990 • 35 min

PEEP-PEEP! Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends are setting off for all new adventures on the Island of Sodor. You'll see Henry getting involved in something fishy, and Percy trying to back out of an embarrassing situation. Find out how Henry avoids being replaced, and why Thomas ends up in the stationmaster's dining room. So climb aboard as we clear the way for some heartwarming fun!

My Mother’s Place

1990 • 49 min • Canada

My Mother's Place is an experimental documentary focusing on the artist's mother, a third-generation Chinese-Trinidadian who at 80 still has vivid memories of a history lost or quickly disappearing. She conveys these with a storytelling style and a frankness that is distinctly West Indian. A tape about memory, oral history, and autobiography, My Mother's Place interweaves interviews, personal narrative, home movies, and verité footage of the Caribbean to explore the formation of race, class, and gender under colonialism.

Tooth Truth With Harv and Marv (Second Edition)

1990 • 10 min • United States of America

Presents young viewers with the correct ways to floss and brush teeth, information about nutritious foods, and the basics and importance of good dental hygiene

For You, Armenia

1990 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Dramatic short animation based on the song of the same name ("For You Armenia"/"Kez Hayastan") composed by George Garvarents and performed by Charles Aznavour. The song is dedicated to the memory of the devastating earthquake that struck the Armenian region of the Soviet Union in 1988.

Writing for Time

1990 • 11 min • United States of America

A documentary by Shaun Costello about Time Magazine

Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence

1990 • 17 min • United States of America

Photographing near Taos, New Mexico, where D.H. Lawrence lived, and in the room in which his ashes may be entombed, Brakhage also cites a statement of the writer's in connection with the film: "There must be mutation swifter than iridescence, haste, not rest, come-and-go, not fixity, inconclusiveness, immediacy, the quality of life itself, without denouement or close."

Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest

1990 • 56 min

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year.

La mujer infiel

1990 • 60 min • Spain

A man in love with an unfaithful woman.

The Package

1990 • 16 min • Soviet Union

About what Minka and Lelya saw during their walk, trying to sell the galoshes that belonged to the guests of their parents to the rag picker.

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

1990 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Documentary looking at the making-of and real-life stories behind the award-winning conspiracy thriller starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and Brian Cox