Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

Lesbians in the Holocaust

Hesitation to recover a dropped pearl results in a delay-of-game penalty play.

Documentary film about the perception of physical disability in Germany, from National Socialism to the present day.

An exploration of Puerto Rico's colonial history (with Spain and U.S.) through different representational strategies.

Documentary about the meaning of bamboo.

Dortmund, Germany: 18 de Septiembre de 1991 The Ecstasy of Gold Enter Sandman Creeping Death Harvester of Sorrow Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Sad But True The Four Horsemen (half) Seek & Destroy For Whom the Bell Tolls One Whiplash Encore: Last Caress (Misfits cover) Am I Evil? (Diamond Head cover) (half) Battery

What is the likelihood of both groups of pupils ending up in the same jobs, living in the same streets, and driving the same cars?" As we approach the end of the 20th century, what defines a person's class in modern Britain? Is it money, or breeding? To find out, Scene conducts a social experiment - inviting two pupils from a comprehensive school to swap places with two pupils from a public school. They will attend each other's classes, move in with each other's families, to get a sense of how how different or similar their experiences are. All four of these pupils see themselves as middle class. Despite seeing themselves as being in the same social class, 90% of the pupils attending the public school go on to third level education, compared with 20% from the comprehensive school. After a week, how different will the pupils find each others schools, homes and social lives? Will they still think they are middle class at the end of the experiment?

A documentary about the last Turkish shadow players and the German orientalist Hellmut Ritter

Film based on the poem by Brian Patten.

A tale of a man, a woman and some strange sexual practices.

Alina accepted the invitation from her Polish friend Elszbieta and traveled to Warsaw. Had she known beforehand that she would not be able to locate Elszbieta, she might never have left. However, then she would never have encountered the two men with the wardrobe, met Mariusz and the musicians, or spoken with Pan Tadeusz...

An ordinary Kyiv family—father, mother, son—faces numerous problems after receiving permission to leave for Israel. And not only organizational ones.

Behind the scenes of Jörg Buttgereit's Der Todesking.

When a group of Quebec farmers organizes to travel halfway around the world to spend time with peasants and farm workers in the Philippines, strong ties of international solidarity and mutual understanding result.

A woman's life is shattered when her husband dies in a tragic accident. A year later, she meets a mysterious man whom she believes may harbor the soul of her deceased husband.

The lesser known follow-up to the broadcast that took place on Tucson's public access channel aired some time in the 90s at around 6:30pm. After the show aired, there was great controversy in Tucson over the graphic content. Perfidio was to be charged with obscenity but fled the state before the charges could be made. This is Lou's slightly longer, but tamer collaboration with fellow banned Public Access star 666Israel.

The rugged beauty of the Northumbrian coastline is the setting for this sharply-written short film about lust, revenge and inflatable sumo wrestlers. While walking along Hadrian's Wall, wounded traveller Sian hitches a lift from two men from the circus. She agrees to join their act but still seeks vengeance on her nemesis in nearby Seahouses. England's North East is bleak yet romantic in Ian Dodd's wonderfully dark comedy-drama.

The film tells the story of the first steps of Lithuanian cinema.

Short film about fire.

A child and his elderly companion are bored in their hospital room.

Teaches the essentials of good table etiquette.

Pat the Cat - Don Spencer White Pyjamas - Franciscus Henri Monster Mash - Ross Higgins Newspaper Mama - Peter Combe On Top of Spaghetti - Joe Dolce Fairy Penguin Strut - Don Spencer Get Ready To Wiggle - The Wiggles Singin' in the Rain - Glenn Butcher Spaghetti Bolognaise - Peter Combe Eating on the Plane - Robyn Archer Down on the Corner - Malcolm McCullum, Chris Lloyd, Armando Hurley & Jamie Rigg

Short film.

Takas sa impiyerno: Directed by Bebong Osorio. With Ricky Davao, Cristina Gonzales, Paquito Diaz, Michael De Mesa.

The film sums up the long-term investigation into the murder of the Russian royal family.

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."

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

Short film by Jan Peters

All are waiting everywhere

The Olim - Soviet Jews who opted to go to Israel - are committing suicide in their promised land.

Stand up Special

Scliar, a painter of the world, immersed in the time of his silence. All that the artist sought to bring to the skin and heart of his painting is the inner vibration of every inhabitant of the world. The chromatic vibration does not come from the paints but from the land he harvests from each place he visits. Scliar used earth to give colour to his canvases.

This video documentary explores the breadth and diversity of Fluxus. Some Fluxus features performances from Miller's extensive archive, including works by Ay-O, Eric Anderson, George Brecht, Philip Corner, Jean Dupuy, Ken Friedman, Al Hansen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone, Yoshi Wada, Ben Vautier, and Robert Watts. Excerpts from Miller's 1978 Interview with George Maciunas are intercut with the performances, providing historical contextualization for this highly influential movement.

The NAGRA (Swiss National Association for the Storage of Radioactive Waste) plans to build a permanent waste disposal site in Wellenberg, Canton of Nidwalden. A regional citizens’ action group is formed to protest against it.

One of the most spectacular protest actions took place during the final prayer of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1991. After the arch-conservative Bishop Dyba wanted to have the registered demonstration of the ACT-UP movement ("AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power") in front of the cathedral banned, the activists decided to take the protest into the cathedral.

A cosmic voyage into hidden knowledge.

At the center of the film is a man in a monkey mask inhabiting various anthropogenic spaces, such as a zoo, city streets and a farmyard. But the attributes inherent in human life (work, marriage, military service, leisure) do not release him from an animal form.

Two women are in search of a home in the Southern California landscape. From the outside looking in, they see the single-family home as the locus of the exclusion of the other. It is also unaffordable. They both feel as if they are invisible citizens. They witness how the architectural landscape imposed on the California desert appears as a reversal of nature, where exclusive living, gated communities and segregation go hand in hand. They dream of escape.

HEREIN charts the movement from political activism to filmmaking through the metaphor of a dwelling. An FBI film obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Emma Goldman's autobiography, the making of films on the Lower East Side in New York, street prostitution and drug addiction, all inflect the sense of place, space and history.

1991 experimental short by Aryan Kaganof, made under his birth name: Ian Kerkhof

A sci-fi post-holocaust tale set in Singapore. Civil defence and futuristic weaponry are highlighted.

Evangelical Peter Lalonde explores the not-so Christian influences that are making meals of our kids, from popular toys to Saturday morning cartoons. Along the way, watch Peter and his panel try to make sense of early 90s youth culture from The Simpsons to TMNT, which seem to have evil undercurrents based in pagan philosophy and...Hinduism?

Big Country: Live at Rockpalast 1991

The beloved fairy tale is brought to life, faithfully following the traditional storyline, with gentle touches of humor.

01. Metal Eater 02. Thunderforce 03. We Want It Loud 04. Timebomb 05. Commentary (Mathias Dieth, Thomas Smuszynski) 06. Princes Of The Dawn 07. In The Darknes 08. Commentary (Seppo Ruonakoski) 09. Kick In The Face 10. Animal House 11. Commentary Fan 12. Solo Guitar 13. The Want War

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.

An action-packed political thriller about injustice

Epic story of courage and loyalty in the Kingdom of Ponorogo.

Amid the greenery of what should be a White Christmas, there sits the blackness close to my heart; and beyond that there bellows a legion of behemoths who know not shame nor guilt. A homeless herd of heaven on earth that smell of fish and exotic ports of call. A call I fail to heed.

Documentary about the clandestine German jazz music scene in the 1940s.