Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

A brutal clash between dominance and submission as Jessie makes a journey to her past.

The Commodore Amiga arrived in Brazil in 1990 and cost around 1000 dollars. Because it is a very powerful computer and because it leaves the competition far behind in terms of technology, SAT VIDEO recorded a documentary on VHS demonstrating the various features of this beautiful multimedia system.

This is a historical document. Sathya Sai Baba, Avatar, Guru, the Christ that walked in India. Scientists and people of culture, analyzing the phenomenon Sai Baba. Vibuthi the ash that poured out of his hands, the materialization that he could do of rings, watches, necklaces as divine presents for his devotees. The many miracles, the healing, the fantastic stories about the most extraordinary man you'll ever know.

A short about learning effective communication techniques.

As a poem might be said to contain the night through a weave of words, so have I in this film attempted such a container with warp and woof of emblematic visions.

Focuses on the dancer, choreographer, and composer Ernest Berk (1909-1993), who at the time the film was made was 81 years old. Using choreography and dance, but also forms of linguistic expression, the aging body and its sexuality is explored, especially the apparent discrepancy between a youthful spirit and bodily decay.

This short video explores, through a collage of images, text and voice over, some of the issues raised when Black athletes are called upon to 'represent' what have been historically seen as 'White' nations, within the international sporting arena. Produced initially for Manchester Olympic Video Festival, the piece juxtaposes nationalistic heraldry and the heroic imagery found in public monumental sculpture, with the bodies of two young Black athletes. Through referencing historical legacies of the disenfranchisement and exclusion faced by Black people, the piece goes on to examine how the transition of the Black athlete from the periphery to the centre of the nations psyche, carries with it a network of contradictions and limitations.

A young South Asian woman walks through the city of Glasgow, once the second largest city of the British Empire. Her eyes reflect on the wealth symbolised in the textures of the city’s architecture. Signs of Empire ever present in the stone freizes, imposing cast iron statues of dead colonialists, ornate pillars and the opulence of marble. Against histories of colonial carnage, Asian people build our communities and cultures, forging identities of self-affirmation. Against echoes of colonial memories is the living memory of today’s cultures of resistance: through dance and music, young Asian people celebrate desire and self pride. Bhangra Jig disrupts dominant notions of European culture and offers new meanings of what constitutes national cultures and identities, of what it means to be Asian, British and European. It was a four-minute television intervention piece, commissioned by Channel 4 celebrating Glasgow as the European cultural capital for 1990.

A man and his book habits.

A short remembrance of growing up gay, searching for an identifiable image on the movie screen. This character chose Bette Davis in All About Eve. The film includes clips from Davis' performance and the narrator's childhood home movies.

An egotistical filmmaker by the name of Psycho Paul shows a number of his bloody works.

A documentation of Jeff Keen painting, using montage to turn a mild-mannered English painter into a Wild West gunslinger.

Jin-geol, a Hong Kong police detective in Thailand, helps Noh Ju-ma catch a pickpocket. Noh Ju-ma is the daughter of Noh Goh a shaman priestess. Noh Ju-ma falls instantly in love with Jin-geol and follows an evil deity's instructions to put potions in teas and give Jin-geol a doll used in exorcism to know exactly where and what he is doing all the time. Jin-geol, who through enchantment, has relations with Noh Ju-ma, soon regrets his actions and leaves Thailand. When Noh Ju-ma asks for help, the evil deity kills Jin-geol's wife Yi Hae who is pregnant with his baby. The evil deity soon turns into a monster and takes over Noh Ju-ma's body and starts killing people and tormenting Jin-geol. Noh Goh, who is aware of what has been going on bands together with the monk Chun Gong-myung to fight the evil deity. But their powers are no match for it at first until the spirits of Yi Hae and the unborn baby enter Noh Ju-ma's body and disunite Noh Ju-ma from the evil deity.

A staged performance of Claudio Simonetti performing his album "Simonetti Horror Project".

A 1990 short film from Alain Guiraudie concerning the conversations of two film makers as they meet each night.

Indigo Girls, live in concert from the Uptown Lounge

Black magic, sorcery and a vendetta threaten the N.Y. streets. Shot in one of Chelly Wilson's abandoned gay cinemas.

The story of Mebrure, who came to Istanbul to search for her father, who went missing after the Greek occupation..

At a playground, two young people arrive to beat up a stranger.

A documentary that aired on January 20, 1990, on NHK General TV. This program focuses on the renowned Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono and his diverse musical journey, capturing various aspects of his creative process and collaborations.

An Iraqi film about a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage to a husband consumed by delusions and suspicion. Seeking emotional refuge, she turns to those around her, hoping for compassion that might rescue her from her suffering, but in vain. Each person is burdened by their own struggles. Left with no one to rely on, she ultimately finds strength in asserting her identity and standing firm in who she is.

Hole’s performance at Club Lingerie on October 10, 1990, documents an early live appearance by the band.

The film captures those sacred moments when a person converses with God, feels their connection to the universe, and their soul is open to the good, the beautiful, the spiritual.

A César award nominated short documentary.

About the Beatles, their followers and copycats.

The history of the Los Angeles Dodgers begins in the 19th century when the team was based in Brooklyn, New York.

When Joe and Vanessa are accidentally left in Silver Canyon on a vacation trip, they meet up with a bumbling detective and a mysterious stranger.

A visit to a very strange pub indeed. Inside, strange creatures belittle those weaker than them for their sick amusement. Dark fantasy puppet horror.

Interviews with the band Ainbusk Singers interspersed with clips from their show "Greatest Tits"

Now a superstar, Brett Ambler performs to a school of children with a plastic microphone and playing all kinds of games, with all kinds of sounds: animal sounds, made up sounds, even songs with funny sounds.

A documentary by Shaun Costello about Time Magazine

Alarms in a military ward. The soldier's behavior is exemplary, but Commander Fatosi is late. He may face military trials because of leintnant Rauf's intrigues. This story tests his relationship with his fiancé.

A video collage created as a backdrop for music.

Tribute to the Carioca poet Ana Cristina Cesar, with quotes from Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Czeslaw Milosz, T. S. Eliot, Armando Freitas Filho, Cacaso, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Manuel Bandeira, accompanied by music from Billie Holiday.

“In NATURAL FEATURES Nelson mingles hundreds of still images with 3-D objects and “real” images photographed through glass layerings into a free-associative and playfully bizarre form of animation. Perhaps no film has more successfully blended an evident passion for painting with a sensitivity to filmmaking such as lush pigments alternate with and punctuate the different photographic layerings” – Steve Anker

Film by Telscher.

Experimental film by François Miron.

Supremely addled mix of live footage, wasted home movies of the Truxes and their nose-rubbing junkie pals, and a police procedural.

Directed by Boubacar Ba.

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

A multifaceted portrait of science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem.

“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers, Antigone is both a documentary about searching for meaning and validity in the old story, and a fiction about the failure to find any value but parody.” - Gary Popovich

On her way home from a date with her boyfriend Akihito, Sayaka is suddenly told that he wants to break up with her. Devastated, she drifts aimlessly through the city, carried along by a train with nowhere in mind.

Documentary directed by Liliane Blaser about the social uprising known as the Caracazo, which erupted in Venezuela on 27 February 1989 and ended with the massacre of between 2000 to 3000 people.

Experimental short by Visual Brains.

A two-hour drama starring Sachiyo Tōshu. It depicts the story of a widow who returns to work after a 15-year absence and strives to become self-reliant. Yoshiko, having lost her husband to overwork, was looking for a job to support her daughter Kurumi and her late sister’s daughter. However, unable to find suitable employment, she was helped by her late husband’s colleague, Tamura, and secured a return to the clothing company where she had worked for 15 years. Yet, she is assigned menial tasks and bullied by her supervisor, leaving her future looking bleak…

A woman dancing in front of a mirror

Dr. Shakibeh Moayyed, a skilled infertility doctor, is unable to have children after ten years of living together with her husband. The two have seen a solution in adopting a girl named Leili; but her husband, a textile design engineer, returns the girl to the orphanage. The girl is given to a wealthy woman.

Short film by Farsa Producciones based on "Batman" by Tim Burton.

A landmark video work from the cyber art scene of the 1990s. The Cyber Dada Manifesto is read out loud over a sequence of hallucinatory and distorted images.