Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

Cinécabot is a series of one shot portraits between a person and his/her dog(s) interacting together as they please.

Recorded November or December 1991 at the Palais des congrès de Paris.

Anton Webern's "Langsamer Satz" for string quartet was performed as part of the "My GAIA" concert during the Festival's 2012 edition. Composed in 1905, "Langsamer Satz" is in traditional sonata form and in the key of C Major; it would be another twenty years before Webern turned to twelve-tone technique. "Langsamer Satz" premiered in 1962, seventeen years after Webern's death, and has the longest playing time of any piece in his body of work.

William E. Jones's autobiographical film about growing up gay in the small Ohio town of Massillon pushes the boundaries of documentary by offering a moving self-portrait within the context of gay political history. William E. Jones returns to his hometown to construct an unconventional and moving autobiography. Challenging some of the most firmly entrenched notions of filmmaking, Massillon tells its story without a single human actor, by combining beautiful images with a seductive voice-over narration.

Original Video directed by Teruyoshi Ishii

Nudnik runs into the usual troubles.

Aviation pioneer Jack Northrop designed the flying wing - a breakthrough that reduced drag... increased lift... and dodged radar. Northrop fought to get the flying wing into mass production - only to lose everything. But his dream became the B2 stealth bomber, 40 years later. This documentary takes us from the early days of the aviation designer to the final production and test flights of the Northrop B-49 "Flying Wing" jet bomber, which was 50 years ahead of its time and the first true "stealth" aircraft. The film contains archival video and interviews with the original test pilots and Northrop employees.

Open Season considers some of the founding heroes and myths of the American frontier, set within a contemporary landscape. The people we encounter persist in giving sense to their environment which often seems hostile to their concerns. At the boyhood home of Davy Crockett, we encounter his modern day advocate; across the street is a small businessman who sells "Davy Dogs" and tries to keep a failing business afloat. From here, we move across America meeting others who live on the edge of the American dream.

Film-reportage describes the most vital moments in Estonian struggle for independence in 1990, also some typical episodes of everyday life of Estonian people, that altogether should give a concertrated picture about Estonia this year. The documentary is a continuation for the director's former film chronicle "Year of Dragon" (1988).

Made after several Indian folk & wisdom tales. It tells about the absurdity to follow philosophical truths to the letter. One needs to follow ones inner truth and weigh it with ones common senses and ones circumstances. He also plays with his audience by in the end having the wise man in the tale plead for the opposite. So what does one think oneself..?. In the art-direction new and various ways of using paper are being explored in Kalishers last 3 animations. You could also say that this particular animation reflects the Russian situation at the time, with all kinds of Western countries advising & influencing the russian govenment how to proceed dismantling the USSR and stepping over to a capitalistic economy ( with "shock"therapy), which resulted in a 10 years Rulership of all kinds of criminals and the Ultra-capitalistic Putin kleptocracy that's ruling now.

Based upon a novel by Lela B. Njatin, an extremely fragmented piece of narrative. The film retains all characteristics of the original text, introducing the fragmentary structure both in the video image and music score. The heroine experiences only fragments of events, she gets involved in meetings which start but never end, she has wishes which are outlined, but never consumed. In the video film, all these fleeting and intolerable moments, transvestism and changes of identities are indicated with layering of visual levels and mixing of different sounds: narrations in off, dialogues, noises, radio broadcast. The delusive and ungraspable images fluctuate between reality and dreams.

ZZ Top play the Hartford Civic Centre, Hartford, Connecticut, on January 17th 1991. Setlist: Planet of Women, Sleeping Bag, Tell It, Waitin' for the Bus, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Ten Foot Pole, Gimme All Your Lovin', Concrete and Steel, My Head's in Mississippi, Manic Mechanic, Heard It on the X, 2000 Blues, Blue Jean Blues, Just Got Paid, Lovething, Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, Give It Up, Legs, Tube Snake Boogie, La Grange, Tush

"Death of an Arabian Woman" (1991) originally 16mm, color, 12 min. With music by Motherhead Bug. Harkening back to her use of Catholic imagery in "Dead on my Arm," this film positions Stark as a wanderer, able to create life and in the company of religious prophets. The film is shot in Napoli and New York. "The Anarchists" with music by Missing Foundation and Menace Dement "Parades of Crazy" originally super-8, color and b/w with music by The Trees. Incorporates several processions from both Italy and New York revealing them as cathartic and transformative experiences.

A poetic quartet on contemporary Philippine realities.

Tells about 2 groups of sales girls who are in opposite directions in doing their jobs. The one group led by Aunt Dien, who does things that break the law. While the other group led by Sri Dodot, who do it honestly. Everything is aimed at getting profit

A timelapse over an entire day, observing a drive-in movie screen and the landscape around it. The screen gives us an abstract view of the changing of the light of the day, but this is ecstatically transformed at night, when a new, projected light illuminates the screen with images of all sorts.

Dramatization in which two women, two generations apart, challenge their tradition. A Palestinian Arab girl is betrothed by her father to a well-to-do lawyer. She loves a younger man, but would risk being killed by the men of her village if she ran away to marry him. Her grandmother agrees to assist her attempt to climb the barrier mountain and escape

The screen is divided in half: on the left we see the actor's face, on the right - Kondratiev plays this actor.

A performance with an abstract filmstrip, where some of the texts on the cards told a sarcastic tale about composers.

This movie is a movie about the friendship between boys and girls. Tulgaa, who was on vacation at the camp, was accused and expelled from the camp for a crime he did not commit. It tells about how his girlfriend, after suffering a lot, decided to confess all the crimes in front of the crowd, revealing the truth and proving Tulgaa's innocence.

A semi-visible pianist plays. In memory of the poet, pianist and Judo black belt, David Rattray.

The title is a chemical formula: “butyracetic acid: calcium carbonate”. The film consists of the alteration, using vinegar and baking soda, of a segment taken from a 35 mm projection copy of a Russian film, refilmed at one or two frames per second.

According to ancient Hebrew scriptures, in the last days mankind will urgently seek the security of a one-world government. This global desire for a super leader, who will bring peace and safety to a world in chaos, will ultimately leave the human race vulnerable to the beguiling charm and grace of the most intelligent, powerful, and charismatic person of all history. The Bible calls this man the "anti-christ." Ironically, he will dominate the globe and orchestrate society's ultimate destruction. Chuck Smith and Caryl Matrisciana host this exciting blueprint of apocalyptic events. Interviews with prophecy experts Chuck Missler, Hal Lindsey, and Peter Lalonde explain "why" the world will follow this man into perdition. Must viewing for all who desire a glimpse of the future.

Augusta has some visitors from outer space.

Follows rural GP Dr Ylli Hasani who risked imprisonment in totalitarian Albania by listening to the BBC World Service to keep up to date with world events, especially English football.

A drama of political awakenings which connects activism in Apartheid South Africa to Canada in the 1990s.

Training video for new Chuck E Cheese employees.

A documentary studying the UFO phenomenon, examining everything from reports of multiple UFO sightings to cattle mutilations to the famous Roswell incident of 1947.

Russians working at the bazaar near the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw talk about their everyday life.

Stunt coordinator Stefan is forced out of the Institute of Fine Arts for voicing anti-regime views, is pursued and interrogated by the Securitate, and suffers the loss of his friend Stavros during the 1977 earthquake rescue. After illegally emigrating, he returns post-1989 to uncover shocking truths about the very officials who once investigated him.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

For the Igloolik Inuit, summer is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' that is, hunting for caribou to get sufficient meat provisions for the cold winter ahead. During a summer in the 1930s, two Igloolik families go hunting, while an old couple awaits their return.

Intestinal Fortitude is a post-industrial visual monster... The initial idea was to have many films in one and to have each of those films stand on their own. The multiple layers of this film each contain separate and individual films, all of them representing different ideas, and their stacked complexity give it its punch. The ideas range from enjoying coffee to an industrial hell. Driven by the pure apathy of others, this film was an alarm or wake-up call to my then-current peers in school. - Colin Barton

Thai horror.

An old trailer had been in the trees of a garden for months. Now and then it was coated with various chemicals. Through chemical disintegration and weathering the old plot of the film resolved to a great extent. Colours emerged from black and white. Black areas transformed into mountaineous regions.

A portrait of a mother with her arms full in the backyard bathing her twin babies as the early spring light sings and dances. Later the father cooks a fish. Marjorie Keller is the mother.

Feature film.

Jay Clay and Blue are hungry and on the hunt for wild potatoes. But the spuds prove to be elusive. Jay must experience becoming ONE with the potato before he is to have a chance of success.

The greatest author of the twentieth century finds himself in a hotel room with a gendarme and a chicken...

A documentary about the director's maternal grandfather.

Avalanche engineer Robert Shaikhutdinov discusses his work and goes about his daily tasks.

A woman's journey on an imaginary motorcycle and her encounter with a necklace collector.

A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting the walls of their houses.

Five centuries after the genocidal "discovery" of America by the Europeans, the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala and Bolivia question what their future holds.

Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. In 1978 many more cremations than usual were carried out because of the great purification cermony, Eka Dasa Rudra, held at Bali's main temple, Besakih, in 1979. Religious officials recommended that all Balinese cleanse the island by cremating their dead, as part of the preparations for the great Besakih ceremony. Villagers of limited means pooled their resources to perform group cremations which greatly reduced the cost for each family. This film is about a group of villagers in Central Bali who cooperated to carry out a group cremation.

"All In Your Head" raises the profile of epilepsy, aiming to challenge stereotypes about this ‘invisible’ disability which affects nearly 1 in every 100 people in the U.K. Moving away from a traditional documentary format, it explores sensations, vulnerability and emotional dimensions by drawing on personal experience.