Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

Animation short.

In Native American culture homosexual men and women were accepted as being two-spirit people and were thought to have the power to bridge worlds between the present world and the spirit world. This documentary interviews present day lesbian and gay native Americans about their lives and the homphobia that they face.

Video for Bathory's "One Rode to Asa Bay"

The creation of video poetry: a scale of sequences shaped by René Magritte’s painting as a lyrical excess of the real world and the Macedonian landscape and architecture with distinct ethnographic dimensions.

A philosophical story about Crime and Penalty.

A drama/dance adaptation of a collection of poems by Grace Nichols. By drawing on elements of African culture, it tells of a spiritual journey of an African woman taken in captivity to the Caribbean, her experiences as a slave, and how she survives being uprooted from her native land. Dramatised sequences are interspersed with Grace Nichol's comments about her poems, placed in the context of Afro-Caribbean history.

Astrid Heibach offers a fictional and humorous portrayal of the hyperbolic reality of the “American way of life” using the famous New York City Marathon as an example. The artist herself embodies a woman who comes to the United States to fulfill her parents’ instruction to give everything and make the best of herself. By incorporating excerpts from conversations with residents of the city and historical references, the popular myth is constantly critically scrutinized.

Short film by Phillipe Muyl.

Augusta kisses her reflection in the mirror, only for it to turn into a toad. The toad comes out of the mirror, and changes to a prince when she kisses it - but as usual, everything goes wrong.

The East German Volksmarine Academy "Karl Liebknecht" introduces itself.

1990 was set to be a fantastic season, with Toyota taking on Lancia and the Europeans taking on the Scandinavians head-to-head. Manufacturer interest was hotting up again with five entering the championship, and the name Subaru was beginning to make a mark on the world rally stage for the first time. Rallying came alive again as spectators enjoyed the spectacle of such brilliant drivers as Carlos Sainz, Timo Salonen, Didier Auriol, Colin McRae, Hannu Mikkola, Juha Kankunnen and Tommi Makinen, behind the wheel of machinery with performance on a par with the old Group B ïsupercarsÍ which so entranced world audiences in the mid-80s. From the first special stage in Monte Carlo to the final chequered flag in the RAC Great Britain Rally the white-knuckle action never ends!

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.

J'ENTENDS LE NOIR (WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) is an original semantic exercise in which the subtitles gradually emerge from their traditional function to acquire autonomy in relation to the image and thus provide information about the conditions of production of the film. The story, supported by a voice-over, is based on a series of haunting images showing the body of a woman dead in a forest, then carried by a naked man: it is the story of a crime of passion. But this story is gradually diverted by the gap between the narration and the subtitles, then by the sound interventions.

The tragic effects of incest on a young girl. Possibly one of the first films made on a home pc. It was executed on the (now defunct) Amiga written entirely to floppy disks, before hard drives were available, using DeluxePaint software, in its proprietary halfbrite mode, which allowed users to use 64 colors, 32 of which were half-bright versions of the the other 32.

Suburban apathy is no excuse for a bad hair day but it is every excuse to keep the martinis tuned. The comedy in this tape is dry, wry and slightly sick, as the narrator takes us through what appears to have been a very, very bad day.

Refugees from the GDR in Warsaw, shortly before the fall of the Wall. Emotional fates, unfiltered. The interviews were forgotten and were only rediscovered 20 years later.

This program is about the effect human interference has on nature, and on the Illinois River in particular. The program includes archival video footage and photographs of the Illinois River, in addition to interviews with people who have fished, hunted, and lived near the Illinois River through the years.

The reknowned advaita master and teacher, Ramesh Balsekar in his first ever interview. Conducted by Advaita Fellowship co-founder Rifka Hirsch. Recorded in 1988 in Hermosa Beach, California Ramesh S. Balsekar (25 May 1917 – 27 September 2009) was a disciple of the late Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a famous Advaita teacher. From childhood, Balsekar turned to the non-dual teachings of Advaita, especially those of Ramana Maharshi and Wei Wu Wei. He wrote more than 20 books, served as governor of the Bank of India, and received guests daily at his home in Mumbai until shortly before his death.

Experimental short film

A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

Experimental short film

The final exam is the most stressful and tough test that students undergo. Your future will depend on a single question. Everything is black or white.

The prolonged drought that occurred in Peru between 1983 and 1984 led the farmers of Mollepata to rehabilitate an ancient irrigation canal. This effort was significant for the community and its ancient techniques. The Apu Salkantay is appeased and provides the runa with the necessary inspiration to achieve their goal and make the water flow again.

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.

Short documentary

16 mm film painted and refilmed on a virtual image bench for the ballet Shazam by the DCA Philippe Decouflé company. It was projected onto a dancer whose costume gradually inflated.

World In Action presents evidence of the birth of a new neo-facist anti-semitic movement in the USSR.

Experimental short directed by Dorothea Grießbach

An unknown young man with a speech impediment explains how to properly rob a grave.

Tranquil and melancholy film shows Plaat's picture of landscapes in e.g. Turkey, India, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Bolivia, Argentina and Iceland.

1990 Pink film directed by Akio Watanabe.

Concert in the Street (RTV Koper Capodistria) presents a traditional concert in Ljubljanska Street in Izola, where many musicians perform every summer. In 1990, Drago Mislej Mef, Franci Blašković, Drago Mlinarec and Vlado Kreslin performed.

Nine peasant woodcarvers from Poland, their works, their thoughts, and the unexpected elements in each personal view. They draw their themes from biblical characters, the day-to-day pleasures and labours of village life, their historical heritage, but also Auschwitz and the devil next-door. Existential difficulties pose challenges. Lending them form is a way to master them, to constrain them within an image.

The movie is inspired by the book "Nova Klasa" by Milovan Đilas, a close associate of Josip Broz Tito, who later became a famous dissident. The book analyzes the process in which former "revolutionaries" become petty bourgeois. Wanting to imitate the classical bourgeois class in Serbia (which they destroyed with genocide, ethnocide, culturocide and urbanocide), they only manage to reach the level of provincial petty bourgeois. Their world resembles the world from Branislav Nušić's comedies. The quasi-elite even has fun with the characters and situations, recognizes themselves and enjoys their stupidity. Two horses in front of the National Assembly unsuccessfully try to prevent other "horses" from entering. The absurdity of what is happening in today's National Assembly even exceeds the imagination of Nušić.

A documentary about the Jarocin festival in 1990.

This program profiles ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), the effective and inventive national AIDS activist organization. In 1989, ACT UP, a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis, spawned DIVA-TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) to organize independent video makers involved in AIDS activism. Working collectively to produce images of ACT UP's often massive, always colorful, protests, DIVA-TV is a prime example of how to use television as a tool for empowerment and organizing with an activist organization. BE A DIVA! is a compilation of works documenting the dynamic political activities of ACT UP.

These narrative texts are selections from the ongoing piece The Library, a projected 100-volume library of videotapes with stories/histories, facts/fictions, poems/descriptions.

3 performances solo and one with Keiji Haino.

A documentary about the pedagogic theories of Loris Malaguzzi and their application in Icelandic primary schools.

A news documentary about the negotiations of EFTS members (European Free Trade Association) with EBE (EEC European Economic Community), with a special emphasis on Icelandic issues.

Jan Mayen is a narrow island, 50 km long, northeast of Iceland. It belongs to Norway which has a weather- and military station situated there. The island is uninhabited but still has remains of the whaling and fox hunting that once took place there. Birdlife is abundant and a very beautiful stratovolcano, Beerenberg (2200m) crowns the island. The volcano is active, last eruptions occurring in 1970 and 1984.

A film about the life and work of the Icelandic poet Matthías Jochumson.

A retrospective of the Icelandic cinema from 1980-1990.

Jose Dela Cruz (Jess Lapid Jr.) goes to Manila to avenge his family who died in the hands of Paterno (Paquito Diaz) and his men. One by one, Jose kills his enemies, believing that justice can only be served through death, to ease the pain, anger, and emptiness that he feels inside.

A trip across the bay to Concord yields a harvest of non-fruit-like beings who celebrate a housewarming that simmers with macho machinations and family discord. The mood is upbeat while the company is lowbrow, and coming out of the bushes rather than the woodwork.

This film is made out of found footage and stuff that I shot. It starts out like a real documentary and gets increasingly more absurd. Probably good to watch if you're on mushrooms.

Atorni Agaton: Abogadong de kampanilya: Directed by Jose 'Pepe' Wenceslao. With Dolphy, Gloria Romero, Vivian Velez, Aurora Sevilla.

Decades before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Shirley Bear was defying repressive colonial narratives with inspiring imagery of Indigenous womanhood. Catherine Martin profiles the Wolastoqiyik/Malecite artist known as Minqon Minqon (Rainbow Rainbow).