Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

An allegorical film about the historical rise and decline of the USSR as reflected through a chess game.

An industrial communism society of 19 century launches a spaceship via a giant cannon. The ship should carry a man to the Moon but a trajectory was wrong and ship continues flight through space at speed of light. Then, ship hits a desert planet where a hero finds ruins of the cannon which launched his ship.

A documentary on Australian Jazz and improvised art music focussing on its development from the 1950s post war American influences through to the Australian sound in the 1980s-90s. The documentary has interviews with many important figures of the Australian Jazz movement. It is invaluable that live footage of these performers of the time has been documented and their influence on the development of improvised music in Australia discussed in a candid way during the interviews.

A lone man in rubber pants and leather jacket fights against an evil organization. His body has been replaced with internal mechanisms. When equipped with a special chestplate, he becomes Protector, a powerful cyborg fighter. When his friend is killed by the evil organization, he sets out to destroy the organization and its evil robots from around the world. Can he defeat the might of the world's deadliest robotic killers?

After the Rains is about a woman survivor who builds a flying machine from debris. Her vision is a contemporary myth on environmental destruction caused by society ignoring the consequences of its actions. The global effects of Climate Change show that After the Rains is just as relevant now.

There is a very fine line between magic tricks and miracles…

Kagel’s interest in the theatricality of objects is also a demonstration of the detachment he wishes to keep between an object and its function, presenting situations with diverse interpretative possibilities, keeping the audience frustrated as to the purpose of the actions and the objects connected with them. Repertoire, a movement taken from his major theatre work Staatstheater, presents a hundred brief scenes without text or plot, that involve interactions between objects and people.

Two 50-minute documentaries from Billy's travels to the USA and USSR

Hurricane Live 2033: More Music of the Bubblegum Crisis spotlights the music that helped to make 80's series The Bubblegum Crisis the popular early piece of anime that its become. The hard rock songs of Priss and the Replicants are played amidst a video montage of the series' most exciting action sequences, and rarely seen live footage from the musicians themselves is also included.

Reality in Mozambique resembles an unreal nightmare: South Africa refuses to accept the autonomy and independence of this country. More often than not, children are the victims of this situation. Not because they are killed but because they are made into instruments of death. Children in Mozambique are abducted by the Contras and forced to act as murderers of their own people. Their traumatic experiences (abduction, torture, being trained to kill, flight or liberation) and the efforts of the Mozambique government to reintegrate them into society form the basis of this film.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

In 1957, Charles and Ray designed the Solar Do-Nothing Machine for Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. True to the Eameses’ belief that toys are not as innocent as they appear, the machine was one of the first uses of solar power to produce electricity. In the 1990s, Eames Demetrios discovered unedited footage of the wonderful machine. He cut it together to produce a new film that shares a bit of its flavor for future generations to enjoy.

Famous Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken, suffering from prostate cancer, shares his thoughts predominantly on his illness, but also on his life and work.

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

Some old real estate in town has a new owner...and he's a vampire!!!

A man named Zero has sworn to protect the son of a deceased businessman who is threatened by a gang of drug smugglers.

The bright, beautiful and spontaneous ocean is something to wallow in. A young girl plays in the ocean and with the fishes. A dashing surfer rides up on his white steed and declares 'I've come - you'll never have to chop onions again!' Jane wakes up from her dream (or was it a nightmare?) Working at the fish market, she endures the sexual innuendo and double entendres from male customers and fellow workers alike. When matters come to a head, she cleverly takes the situation into her own hands and offers a unique solution to unsolicited sexual advances... An impressionistic animation.

The first art auction in Moscow conducted by Sotheby’s took place in the summer of 1988. It became a turning point in the history of contemporary Russian art, the first time that Soviet art collided head-on with the full Western market force. USSR Art uses this seminal event as a platform from which to explore the effect of glasnost on art in the Soviet Union.

Gay men and women recall their secret lives while serving in the British armed forces during WWII.

This film will provide hope and comfort to the parents of children with Autism. To other viewers it will provide a deeper understanding of Autism and its effects.

A look back at the battles between one of the most hard-fought derby matches in the world, cataloguing Rangers victories over Celtic.

“Made entirely from found footage and found sound deep in the midnight hours when most good law-abiding citizens are sawing logs, the film was made “to amuse myself and prove to myself that you can make films on nothing and out of nothing.” - H.M.

Though performed in the original Italian, Peter Sellars' production of Cosi fan tutte relocates Mozart's comedy of love to the neon-and-chrome glare of a seaside diner, mirroring the turbulent world of late-twentieth-century America.

Documentary on Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog from the BBC Arena series.

Short film commissioned for a presentation on the statue "Groupe impérial en Mars et Vénus", housed in the Louvre's Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities.

Interviews with seven American veterans of the Spanish Civil War who fought for the Loyalist cause during the war and went on to live lives of activism.

Rodrigo and Mariano plot a robbery; Rodrigo's station wagon will be the get away car. They dream of their wealth to be. A triangle is established when a whore appears, creating a relation of treason and mistrust amongst them. The prostitute and the drunkard rob Rodrigo and Mariano, leaving them without their dream and everything else.

Documentary made and dedicated to Sergei Parajanov shortly after his death, featuring archive photographs, his collages, and clips from several of his films.

The camera probes the interior of the Sociéty Céramique in Maastricht, arguably the oldest (ceramics) factory in the Netherlands, where the toppled shelves of the abandoned storeroom once housed countless molds of now-forgotten pottery. This melancholy short was produced from offcuts captured during the NIETS IS VOOR DE EEUWIGHEID shoot. The factory has since been sadly demolished, but the short film functions not so much as a nostalgic afterthought or aesthetic urbexing avant-la-lettre, but rather a call to arms to use and work with all manner of beauty, however useless it might seem.

Two young soldiers find a decomposed body in a river and decide to bury it. A spirit then exits from a tomb and transforms itself into a beautiful lady called Nuan (Trirak Rakkarndee), who then seeks refuse in the soldiers’ home and causes various problems. This Lepso Studio release was issued on VCD stealing the cover art from one film - ปีศาจแมงมุมสาว (aka "Demon Spider Girl") - and title from another film - ล้างเผ่าพันธุ์โคตรผีปอบ ("Holocaust of the Ogre Clan") - which has caused lots of confusion.

A young shepherd in an Andean community hears the ominous omen of the community's chaman. Soon after, a Shining Path unit arrives in the community and assassinates the authorities. The Shining Path assign Jeremías some duties that he will not fulfill. When the army arrives, he has to flee. He leaves for Lima in search of his godfather, works several jobs, but has to flee constantly pursued by the police. Little by little he realizes that the omen is fulfilled and that Lima is a cursed city.

The Inuit folktale of an old woman and the orphaned polar bear cub she took in as her own child.

About A. Luponos, a resident of the village of Monastyryshche, Cherkasy region, who was persecuted for his political views and forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital: with his family at the maternity hospital, at his father's grave in Kyiv.

Based on the book of the same title written and illustrated by his mother, French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle.

A documentary covering the lives of modern day witches living in Salem, MA.

Documentary film created in 1990 based on the script of artists Ada Rybachuk and Volodymyr Melnichenko. Picturesque landscapes of Kolguyev Island, conversations with the Nenets, intimate personal reflections of Volodymyr and Ada and their work in the workshop. "The Cry of the Bird" is a philosophical parable, the main character of which is the Kolguyev Island.

1990 Original Video.

The river Laxá in Laxárdal valley is considered to be one of the best rivers in the world for brown trout. It is definitely the best in Europe and anglers from all over the world come there year after year for fishing. This film is about one such man called Art Lee, a well known sportswriter from U.S.A. He has come to Iceland for many years to enjoy fishing for the Laxá brownie.

Every year 2,500 sets of twins gather in Twinsburg, Ohio for Twins Days. Most are dressed alike, many live together, and all seem to have rhyming names. Standing out amidst the lighthearted contests and games are filmmaker Sue Marcoux and her sister Michele, separated by 3,000 miles and a lifetime of anti-twin behavior.

A 30 minute documentary, made by BBC East in 1990: it was never broadcast at the time, for reasons which are currently unknown. The documentary follows John in his day to day life with his family, as well as documenting his career as a DJ. It also shows him attending a gig from Ipswich band Extreme Noise Terror.

The Medicine Show utilizes narrative storytelling, mock interviews, and staged theatrical vignettes to create a satirical portrait of a day in the life of an HIV-positive gay man named Gregory navigating his treatment options.

Extraordinary imagery conveys the unhappy history of a relationship between two men.

An exploration of chiaroscuro, nudes, movement and film techniques in constantly shifting fields of perception. Eroticism and humor highlight an interracial couple engaged in a tableau vivant of opposites and attractions.

Three little cars, love at first sight and a fight out of jealousy.

Mexican feature film