Cinematic Era: 1990 Vintage

Charles Gatewood documents a trip across the United States that stops in on many alternative lifestyle activities. Includes stops in transvestite bars, biker conventions, college spring break parties, gay and lesbian parades, and many interviews with people with tattoos and body piercing.

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.

Experimental short film that explores themes of religion, violence, and gender/masculinity.

Rolling animated images of kaleidoscopic heads, skeletons and other absurdities. Abstact, surreal and darkly comic. This short was Run Wrake's (as J.M. Wrake) graduation film from The Royal College of Art, 1990

A squadron of North Korean soldiers during the Korean war must scramble across dangerous terrain to cut off an American attack (with only the eponymous 12 hours in which to do it). With a commander whose health is failing him, a group of young but fiercely patriotic soldiers the DPRK army manage to hold off the Yanks (who foolishly informed the press of their planned attack before going through with it).

A personal, diary film, about love, the cinema, faith, desire, affirmation.

World-renowned zoologist and marine photographer Howard Hall explores the complex ecology of California's coastal kelp forests in this classic underwater production. The film dives deep into this mysterious Pacific Ocean realm, examining some of its odd and unusual inhabitants, from the rare basking shark, to otters and sea lions, and magnificent blue whales, the largest animals on the Planet.

Scotland's great football victories over England, beginning in 1874.

A couple of women meet at a café, where one talks incessantly about the men in her life in a heavy Bavarian dialect, while her so-called best friend sits silently, surrounded by smoke. The conversation is superficial and stilted, highlighted by the exaggerated and caricatured animation style. Only when the talkative woman leaves to meet her new boyfriend does the silent one speak, ordering a beer. The scene critiques the societal expectation that women should focus their conversations solely on men, often ignoring the discomfort of others.

About Esplanade - a square in the centre of Riga. By assembling footage filmed at the Esplanade at different times, the authors give an insight into the historical events in Riga, Latvia.

Puppets made of pliable material, impart the following message : your companion should be a worthier person than yourself so that he can impart knowledge and virtue to you.

This short student documentary made as graduation film for the London International Film School takes a look at Afro-Jamaican musical and religious traditions.

A young man escapes from prison three months before his release, but after communicating with his father and friends decides to declare himself to the police...

A portrait film dedicated to the muralists Leonid Polishchuk and Svetlana Shcherbinina. They talk about their main works: the stained glass window “Hydronauts” at the Institute of Oceanology and the mosaic “The Healing of a Man” on the building of the library of the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute.

Every child's favourite adventure story comes to life in a lavishly illustrated poem by Robert W. Service. Using camera-animated artwork by Yukon artist Ted Harrison, this production is designed to introduce the rich world of Canadian literature in an entertaining way and give students a good foundation for the appreciation of art.

Dr. Beverly Owens (Charity Merrill) survives a space shuttle crash landing in an African terrorist nation unfriendly to the United States. She is taken prisoner by Akmed Najah (Charles Charpiot) who seeks to use a new satellite's plutonium payload as material for a nuclear weapon. The U.S. President (Warren Chaney) sends covert CIA operative Bill Murphy (William Brown) to ask aerial flight ace Zach Taylor (Chuck Stockdale) to lead a secret in-country search and rescue effort.

A Khorasani saffron grower struggles to fertilize the saffron plant with dehydration and the risk of losing the dull flowers of the saffron in order to obtain the flower stigma or saffron root.

Ben & Eddie: The Meeting - Eddie Finds a Home (1990)

A documentary about the Gulag

A film that explores the Teleculture's treatment of AIDS as a consumer image.

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

The Male GaYze presents an individual's observation of sexuality and power relations between men, a young African American dancer's reminiscence of his encounter with a famous Dutch choreographer.

Sanctuary at Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia, PA, USA Eden Lies Obscured Seasons of Destruction Die for My Sins Future Tense White Rabbit Taste Revenge Long Since Dark The Mirror Black Sanctuary One More Murder Battle Angels

A crane, a high-rise building and a water house meet on the Main.

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.

Kafka watches a waitress nibbling from a little pot that she has to serve to somebody. Kafka is outraged and complains about it. The girl gets sentenced to stoning and he complains again and regrets what he has done befoe. When he is not able to stop people throwing stones at her, he committs suicide. However, people help the girl to get up and she continues her usual work.

Based on novel by M. Cihlar Nehajev, this TV drama testifies the position of intellectuals before the First World War. It raises several questions: what is the price of intellectual work, what’s the position of inteligentsia in the Croatian province, and what’s their role in the political movements.

In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life. – Karl Marx A fantastic voyage through the cycles of decay and regeneration in the body and the world. Sublime psychotropic sound and a dark sensibility compels us into molecular memory, the structure of living culture, and the electronic architecture of Apocatopia, where beauty and terror merge. Unique chemical treatments emphasize the film's seething materiality.

A couple's happiness is put in jeopardy due to unsolicited advice.

A steamy New York Latino dance club ("where music sizzles and dancers mingle") is the atmospheric setting for this modernist film noir murder mystery. The central characters include, Jimmy Rey, the suave but offbeat observer of events, Rosa, a sultry dancer in a red sequin dress, and her boyfriend José, an intimidating gangster who cannot dance. Tempers flare when Rosa's former flame Guy Valdez arrives on the scene complete with entourage and much macho posing to challenge José to a knife fight. Later, Guy is stabbed to death by an unknown killer. Accompanying the action are the sensuously choreographed routines of the club's dancers

A one-yen coin becomes a samurai in search of adventure and love.

Augusta tries to get her babies to go to sleep, so that she can too.

Student film using stop-motion. Originally shot on 16mm.

A colorful young windshield wiper makes a living at traffic lights in downtown Lima.

Mirror Mirror provocatively explores the relationship between a woman’s body image and the quest for an idealized female form. Blending humor and candor, the film incisively illuminates the vagaries in the concept of an “ideal” body type. A tension exists between the visual statement created by masks and mannequins and the rich diversity of the voices appearing in the film. Thirteen women, of varying age, size, and ethnicity, reveal the ambivalence with which they regard their own bodies. Their musings about specific body parts are underscored by archival footage of beauty competitions.

Documentary discussing the seven manmade wonders listed by Philo of Byzantium 2000 years ago: the Colussus of Rhodes, the statue of Zeus at Olympus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the temple to Artemis at Ephesus, the pyramid of Giza, the Pharos of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

A film about ignorance, intolerance and the lack of responsibility in people. A political film about human kindness, which in many of the so-called "incidents on the border" has been sadly missing.

Anna, the witch girl, has one short leg and one long leg and is therefore only called the hobble witch. Anna trains until she is far superior to all the others in both running and sneaking races. When she even reaches the end of the world and outwits two clumsy giants who do not want any creature to escape from this terrible place alive, she realises that she can be proud of herself.

Ben & Eddie: Fleas! - Disappointment and Forgiveness (1990)

A portrait of three friends from the GDR. Dieter, a painter, spent ten years in prison on account of his "aversion to work". Alfred, promoted to the position of deputy executive editor, ends up in prison and receiving psychiatric help as a result of a catch-22 situation involving protests and alcoholism. Michael, who had studied foreign trade in Moscow, was kicked out of the Academy and now earns a living crafting lamps.

Secret Agent D'D saves tourist town from the deadly vicious vamp.

A tale of backwoods blacktop mayhem--Two dim-witted, lead-footed guidos from Bayonne, New Jersey bust through stoplight after stoplight in their turbo-charged, fuel-injected Pontiac Grand Prix until their mean machine nearly eighty-sixes another hunk of American steel. And that's just the start of it...A confrontation, an assault, fists-a-flying, and traffic violations.