Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

To the child mind, the transformative sacrificial power of "O, Lamb of God" is a daily manifestation - not as an adult shift-of-interest, but rather as ritual magic in which a toy train ("-of-thought," an adult might say) becomes medium of shifts-of-scene, soforth, wherein an elephantine shape transforms to a more "real" (i.e., less metaphorical) train, in sacrifice of transformative elephant, so on-&-on. An earlier film, THE MACHINE OF EDEN, is of some similar construct (as is a good deal of western painting) in its insistence upon contemporary mise-en-scene as grounds for Biblical lore.

Battling Beauties! Sexy Victims! Countless Deathtraps! Mystery & Adventure! All these and more combine when Fanny Starr, private eye, becomes involved in "The Case of the Kidnapped Heiresses!" But in order to solve the case, Fanny must survive being a human sacrifice, being blown to bits, and being suffocated in a locked coffin!

90/1 is a diary for 1990 – or an electronic photo album. Through its pages we glimpse what separates the previous year from the new, past from present – ​​as we scroll clockwise down to the zero point, the eternal now, or the joining of all that begins and all that ends.

Behind the scenes of Jörg Buttgereit's Der Todesking.

The interaction of viewers and films on the screen.

In the arrangement of Leo Deliba's Lakme, a woman does her chores and calls her cousin and friends.

Short film.

Three delusional drunks talk nonsense about the people around them.

Music video for R.E.M.'s "Low" from their 1991 album Out of Time

Jerry Tartaglia's irreverent papal fashion short.

Far from the sophistication and relative tolerance of urban centers, gay people are beginning to lead integrated lives in small towns throughout rural America. Danny Cooper has been upfront about his homosexuality since his teens. Now he lives openly with his lover. As the local mailman in a small Louisiana town, he has come to be accepted in a friendly and courteous manner by his neighbors. Although Danny has been through fights in school, was once fired fromhis job, and even evicted from his home, he has never failed to stand up for his right to be himself. In the end, he is changing the face of anti-gay prejudice in his town. Today, Danny is fighting his hardest battle-against HIV infection-withthe same openness and courage. And even though his T-cell countis near zero, he describes himself as "the luckiest human in the world."

The action takes place in the 18th century, in the convent of Kaufbeuren in Bavaria. A young nun, Sister Crescence, has a vision of the Holy Spirit in the form of a handsome young man.

Stand up Special

In graffiti style and with rap rhythms, characters from marginalized groups in our neighborhood are introduced: alcoholics act macho in front of their families, young people who have run away from home take their first steps on their own, children are afraid of aggressive family atmospheres.

The Upper Gate was about Sidon (The capital of the south of Lebanon), the filmmaker Arab Loutfi’s home town; in which she wove a history of the city through the stories of its people. In her film she tries after the 1982 Israeli invasion, which caused so much damage and chaos, to reconstruct her own memories of the place offering accounts of herself, her sister Maha, her uncle and her friends, interspersing them with newspaper clips and personal photographs to illustrate her preoccupations and concerns in relation to Sidon at different times.

A cosmic voyage into hidden knowledge.

From 1984 to 1988, Robb Moss travelled around the world as a free-lance cameraman. In 1984 he got married, to Jean. They decided to start a family. During the subsequent four years, Robb's life moved to and fro between his job as a cameraman and the regular, but failing attempts to have children. In THE TOURIST he brings these two worlds together and examines the various ways in which the personal and professional crises mirrored each other: at times comically, sometimes ironically, at other times confusedly. A reflection on fertility, uselessness, and making documentaries. -IDFA

An immortal psychopath, a transvestite zombie and a homicidal nymphomaniac go on an all out blood drenched killing spree to release from hell a demonic beast who will grant them ultimate power.

Jeffrey Strouth spontaneously recounts the true adventures of his wild and creative life, weaving an often lurid tale filled with hilarious characters, run-ins with the law, and his unapologetic provocations of society in general.

Izkor is about the orchestration of memory. The film shows how school children of all ages in Israel are taught to pay tribute to their nation's past. It keenly observes how some memories are even physically conditioned into the future generations. "One of the most truly, most intelligent, most terrible and sharpest films about Israeli society. A film on memory and politics: this is the way that Israeli society exploits its myths to train people to have no doubts or remorse, creating the soldiers of the future wars." (Tom Segev - Haaretz)

Directed by Mehdi Charef.

A filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.

A talented young tambourine player joins an ensemble in the capital of a West China province.

Ten years after making Women of the Planet, María Barea's film portrays Rosa Dueñas's leadership in the women's grassroots organizing movement in community kitchens, this time as a councilwoman for the Municipality of Lima. The film reflects on the struggle of working-class women in Lima to organize themselves for their livelihood, their autonomy, and to fight against sexism.

Mottinelli, nature painter, fantastic resource of unchangeable wealth. His exhibition in Brescia.

Seven men who have never met in real life come together on the screen of a cinema on the Portuguese Atlantic coast. They talk in their different national languages about their lives, their thoughts and feelings, and their different European cultures. What they have in common is their proximity to death...

This short segment by Manfred Blank for the magazine Buchladen focuses on Luis Buñuel.

A journey through Georgia in the midst of conflict with South Ossetia. The story of an impossible encounter.

Concert film of Eartha Kitt performing many of her greatest hits.

Tracking a storm in the bedsheets.

The 20th Latvian Song and Dance Festival was the first in which compatriots from all corners of the world gathered in a free Latvia, including those who had gone into exile in the West and those who had been forcibly deported to Siberia. Director Dzintra Geka also brings together those who were unable to return to their homeland – footage for the film was shot in Sweden, at the 6th European Latvian Song Festival in Norrköping, where Latvian Minister of Justice Laila Freivalde, who is of Latvian descent, marches alongside her compatriots, and in Siberia, in the village of Lejas Bulāna, where Latvian women sing "...because this is Latvia, this is Bulāna...". The older generation of Canadian Latvians also dance at the festival with the Dardedze dance group from Toronto, while Mārtiņš Brauns prepares his song Saule, Pērkons, Daugava (Sun, Thunder, Daugava) for the choir.

This video opera incorporates improvised singing and some unusual instruments. The narrative centres around a Queen who, fearing revolution, seeks to find out what goes on outside her castle walls. Her personal joys and emotions and those of her people are woven into a collage of sound and imagery climaxing in the attempted murder of the young crown Prince and the siege of the castle.

A cinematic diary that examines the nature of remembering. Assembled in the spirit and memory of the late filmmaker and friend, Will Hindle. -Canyon Cinema

Documentary on journalism in Berlin.

For the world, the Auschwitz camp is a symbol of the Holocaust, genocide, and terror. Never before in human history were so many people murdered in a planned way. In such a short time and in such a small space. Between 1940 and 1945, the Nazi Germans deported over a million Jews, nearly 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma, and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and about 25,000 prisoners of other nationalities here. The overwhelming majority of them perished in the camp. This film is dedicated to the memory of each and every one of them.

Stealth bombers hover over crashing waves and ruined land. Using found footage and several thick layers of video, Jeff Keen presents and visceral version of Armageddon

Billy's gay. He has a lover, Gregory, but he can't bring himself to come out to his roommate and best friend, Rufus, a macho homophobe who also mistreats Natasha, his live-in girlfriend. When Natasha's sister Evelyn pays an unexpected visit, she catches Billy and Gregory fragrante delicto. Billy tries to buy her silence, but after collecting several bribes, she contrives to force the issue into the open. Rufus's response is just as Billy feared, the friendship ruptures, and then Rufus picks a fight with Nasasha that gets physical. She dumps him. Rufus is bereft and starts to get a clue about himself. Will Billy forgive him?

An unconventional release from H-Street Skateboards that serves as a collection of leftover and unused material from earlier H-Street productions. There are two versions of this release with different soundtracks; one featuring Operation Ivy and Sub Society, and another with Bad Religion and Black Flag.

Collective documentary on the S. Mamede region of Lisbon shot on early video

Beşir, a cemetery keeper and a collector. Every dead person who comes to the cemetery becomes a part of his collection.

A Russian Anna and a German Anna begin their dialogue in the middle of a backdrop landscape in a birch forest. During the conversation, they change their points of view and positions. In the end, it's all about the question of direction: Anna, where are you going?

The histories of the Lithuanian state and Lithuanian cinema intertwine. The film incorporates documentary footage from various Lithuanian directors, excerpts from feature and animated films, and interviews with people.

Animated film in which a cat chases a mouse from Earth to Heaven and Hell then back to Earth.

Adapted from Youssef Idris’s story