Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

"My legs and feet appear different in the light of the setting sun. The effect of shadows; using a macro-lens, I explore my skin‘s surface until my heartbeat becomes visible." —Milena Gierke

In This Nervous Thing, Santos questions the ways we perceive and receive information through the media. Santos writes, "Lost in our creations, we must use artificial means, such as newspapers and other media to simulate knowledge of what is around us. In doing so, we create heroes, cities, characters, icons and monuments. The result is "this nervous thing, this image that doesn't stop, this quick dialogue, this dynamic and superficial reading of the essence of the human being." A driving soundtrack propels the viewer through a frenetic trans-cultural landscape.

Ottone, Ottone is a video adaptation of a stage production of the same name from 1988. The video was shot in the Théâtre Varia in Brussels.

TV-film from Kyrgyzstan about an elderly couple.

A portrait of the Finnish filmmaker Rauni Mollberg who made a notable splash on the international festival circuit in 1974 with his feature debut, “The Earth Is A Sinful Song”, based on a novel by Timo K. Mukka, one of Finland’s most controversial young writers.

Sam-su is a strict and authoritative father. He seems displeased by his second-born child Jae-hyo. On a picnic day, Jae-hyo takes his father’s camera with him but he loses it. The very next day, he gets involved in a gang fight, so he is sent to a country.

This program shows how simple and logical it all was—one step at a time, from the bitter defeat of World War I and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, the wrangling of the Weimar democracy, the economic crisis... Then the fear of Communism, the threat of violence, and the Nazi promise of law and order was so seductive that the mass of Germans were willing to overlook a little repression here and a little there, until it became a point of honor for Germans to witness brutality without flinching. Forced after the war to look at what they had done, the Germans would not or could not see.

This abstract travelogue flies just over the surface of the Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario. "Plein Air" is an engrossing sonic and visual trip and a continuation of Kerr's fascination with landscape cinema.

All children except one grow up. We all know this has to happen… I dont ever want to grow up, said Peter. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun!

Recorded at Indigo Blues, New York City, Feburary 2, 1991.

A profile of the Australian poet Les Murray. Shot on location in Northern New South Wales. Featuring dramatisations of his poems and evocative footage of the most unusual landscape. He talks illuminatingly about his life and work.

In the summer of 1914, Collioure was a small, quiet fishing village, sheltered from the convulsions of a blazing Europe. Matisse painted a curious picture Door-Window in Collioure. Homage to Collioure, nod to the cubists, reference to Matisse; offering to the wind and to the sea. The furious Tramontana sends you in spasms its rumblings in the air which has become crystalline. The sea rages under the effect of the wind, which suddenly desert the various small boats; SOS for the unwary. Large breaking waves delight children on the beach.

Paul Schmidt sent me a set of five poems from a series called WAR SONGS. He treats the war in a brilliant and sarcastic way, evokes his seduction. Mark Bennett's score is itself provocative, languorous, and close to a waltz. The whole thing is a series of songs cast in the mode of melodrama, that is to say music in tandem with a narration. My contribution lies in the superimposition of war scenes, coupled with what I called an image of Gabriel: a young and handsome soldier, a personification of the good warrior, a protective image. He gives off strong impressions throughout the duration of the film. She makes him appear sometimes active and aggressive, sometimes asleep or beckoning. The film uses footage from the Vietnam War and World War II. They show soldiers marching, tanks rolling. Explosions reveal in passing our dear “Gabriel”.

Contemporary criticism in a Turkish setting.

Documentary film.

A story told in the off about the growing discomfort towards the new roommate Valentin. The camera pans through the empty room, over the shadows on the wall and the wallpaper, the yellow scarf and the postcard from Italy with the sunflowers

This intimate portrait of writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up African American, privileged and enthralled by literature. Archival footage and photographs, interviews and excerpts from her autobiographical novel, THE LIVING IS EASY, capture West's fascinating story.

This essay about the policing of young black men, foreshadows the 1992 outcome of the trial which acquitted policeman directly involved in the brutal beating of a black motorist, Rodney King, was made as my graduate school thesis in the film school at San Francisco State University. It also underscores a series of escalating gripping actions and murders of black men and women in America-by police or individuals policing black lives...that would provoke the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was nearly orphaned until I received a request from a scholar looking to write about video tape imagery & justice-just recently. This is the best result of the rescue of footage locked on an obsolete medium- hi-8. Boots Riley, one of the young men interviewed on the grassy knoll has become an important voice in Oakland and across the globe as an activist and cutting edge musician.

Story of a two woman who goes to the hammam for the first time.

Documentary about a whole day of cinema projections.

About a girl named Gülcahan, who was exiled to the desert by Padishah Shirvanadil for her impudent speeches. But Gülcahan's kindness made her the mistress of the city of justice and happiness, where the best craftsmen who fled from the Padishah of Shirvanadil gathered.

Unfinished at the time of the artist’s death, this AIDS-era love story is frank and poignant in the simplicity of its notepad animation.

Song Sing Chart Ai Sur Dir: Panna Rittikrai Thailand - 1991

Documentary about African Music performed in Berlin.

"While not addressing the issue in a very overt manner, this piece has something to do with the thrilling and 'awful' process of actively engaging in perception and how we oscillate between forgetting and remembering that activeness as we age. In 'Principles of Harmonic Motion', I take a painterly approach to the image and rely on a subtle but carefully composed stereo soundtrack to amplify the sense of physical and psychological space. The images, sounds and structure are sometimes somewhat abstract while preserving a strong grounding in representation." –Leighton Pierce

A critique of the unrestrained consumption on the island, the film portrays what happens to a couple who begins to fill each other with objects in place of love.

Louisville Cardinals vs Alabama Crimson Time on 1/1/91. The Complete 1991 Fiesta Bowl Game in Full Screen Digital Video

A richly conceived essay about the evolving image of disability. Dwoskin begins with the declaration that the historically distorted images of people with disabilities constitute a “negation of selfhood”. He then traces this concerted effort through two thousand years of Western culture, beginning with the Greek notion of the idealized body and its opposite, the fabulous races. Using contemporary films clips, literary quotations, performance, and pictorial records, Face Of Our Fear looks at the Court’s infatuation with “monsters” during the Middle Ages, the “charity cripples” of the Enlightenment, the freakshows of the nineteenth century, each a resort to oppressive stigmatization.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Of all the foods in the world, it was only a tiny part that achieved the honor of being called SNOP. Blue plums, bananas and coconuts - none of this was SNOP. No SNOP was all the sweet, mild, sour, sticky candy a child's heart could desire. We meet Hjalmar Bue and Hurry Harry Olatyggis and Zorro at the cinema in a Bergen 50s, still marked by rationing and shortages. This is a animisjonsfilm based on a story by Stig Holmås.

A short animation in which characters from 39 paintings in the Frans Hals Museum move from one artwork to the next.

A humorous look at non-fatal crashes in a variety of motorsports: formula races, hill climbs, rallies, motorcycle races, truck racing and some stunts. Mostly European but other locales from around the world.

Film starring Pomy Dev, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Johnny Lever

Drama from Indian director Shyam Benegal.

Celebrating an artist who helped shape American popular music for more than 50 years, some of Ray Charles's biggest admirers throw him a party to remember. Star-studded performances captured in this memorable live concert feature the likes of Stevie Wonder, Gladys Night and, of course, the legendary piano man himself, while celebrities Paul McCartney, Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones, George Lopez and Gloria Estefan deliver touching personal tributes.

The four Ryuudo boys continue to master their supernatural powers (they are the 117th generation of Ryuudo clan and the reincarnation of the four dragon kings), all the while battling enemies who would do anything to see them dead. In these episodes, Owaru flees from merciless cyborgs dispatched by Dr. Cranshaw to kill him. On a more prosaic level, he also must deal with neighbors who want his family out of the neighborhood.

A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her brain. A boy inherits his mother's depression. Short of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide. It's like a punch in the stomach.

1 MANDELA 2 IT`S A JUNGLE OUT THERE 3 SOMEWHERE IN HEAVEN 4 CHILL OUT 5 BLACK MAGIC WOMAN 6 OYE COMO VA 7 FOR THOSE WHO CHANT 8 BLUES FOR SALVADOR 9 SAVE THE CHILDREN 10 SPIRITS DANCING IN THE FLESH 11 EUROPA

Blues Brothers Intro Time Madhouse Caught in a Mosh Keep it in the Family Got the Time Indians Antisocial I'm the Man Won't Get Fooled Again I Am the Law

Hey Kids! Ready for some wacky wild Kool-Aid style fun? Sit and listen to what I have to say...I'm Kool-Aid Man and we're gonna play. Rap and dance to my funky beat. See Zany flicks and laugh out of your seat. Play awesome games that will make you scream and shout. Try something really daring...a wacky workout. Try to stump an unstumpable dog. Learn how to protect yourself from a hedgehog. so much wacky stuff...you'll never get enough! Oh yeah!

Nikos Triandafullidis made this short documentary in 1991 as part of his course work as a film student at the London International Film School. It focuses on accusations of sexism against the singer Momus by NME writer Betty Page, and gets evidence pro or contra from other female figures in Momus' life.

Seen Between the Lines is a live Testament home video that was released June 25, 1991 on VHS and re-released to DVD on March 8, 2005. "Eerie Inhabitants" "Face In the Sky" "Greenhouse Effect" "Souls of Black" "Sins of Omission" "Disciples of the Watch"

A dog attempts to crap on a man's well manicured lawn.

A new car from one of the most magical names in motoring - Lamborghini -has always been an occasion. When the Diablo was introduced to an adoring publicit was not only one of the most beautiful looking performance cars of its time butthe fastest of them all! This programme traces the development of Diablo, from thedrawing board to the Autostrada. We go on the road with one of the world’s most experiencedhigh-speed test drivers, Mario Mezzanotte, and ex-world rally champion Sandro Munari.At the Nardo test track the cameras actually record a lap at 212 mph (340 kph)! Equallythrilling is the experience of 160 mph on a busy motorway!

Funny Chaplinesque cartoon short as seen by Writer/Director Whitney Ransick by way of Spaghetti Westerns and Dr Seuss.

The attempt to deal with a magazine format. Topic: Work situations. "We had a binding structure. From the idea to completion four weeks à five working days. The beginning was the 1. May, we finished in time; hence the title. Nevertheless, it is not only the result of a concept, but also the masterpiece of several years of cooperation.

The events of 1935–36 sent scientists, cultural figures, and Comintern workers to Solovki. Instead of a realm of free labor, there were prisons and camps; instead of blue socialism, there was the tyranny of petty Macbeths at the bottom of the camp hierarchy. This is a short documentary about Mykola Kulish, a Ukrainian writer.

Rare multicam concert done in protest against the Gulf War.

In the 1880s, the Tuvan arats rebelled against the enslaving noyons. The uprising was brutally suppressed. With ethnographic accuracy, the film recreates the patriarchal life of the Tuvans, their morals and customs.

V-cinema where Risa Honda, an idol of the 80's, played the female leader of a yakuza. For some reason, a naive young lady takes over the name of the yakuza's leader, causing a terrible uproar. A comedy about the lightness of director Yoshihide Ide.

TV documentary film about the Operation Grapple nuclear tests.

The second student film made by Shinya Takeshita at the Osaka University of Arts. This serves as a Godzilla fan film where Takeshita reuses his concept from his previous short, and portrays every character as an homage to classic kaiju egia as well as the jidaigeki drama series.