Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

Amiga demoscene short film that showcases computer animation, art and music.

“I created this film using my favourite motifs and techniques - the surface tension of water, the image of night and time permeating the stone, vertical movement in space, and action cutting to transcend distance. I took my time with it, like bonsai or gardening as a hobby. I repeatedly made and remade it, and there were parts I was still unsure of, but I presented it anyway a year later. That's when the filmmaker Kanai Katsu spotted it. I had an idea based on what he pointed out to me, so I remade that part and the work took its final form. Maybe because I enjoyed making it, I'm fond of this work.” (Isao Kota)

In this short fiction film, the observation satellite Zenon has, on its own, left its assigned orbit and is refusing to send back vital data concerning the Earth's water reserves. Those in charge of the Research Center that sent the satellite up are threatening to destroy this free and intelligent "spirit" if Estelle, the scientist controlling it, cannot make her "friend" see reason. A follow-up to the film "The Aquanaut".

"This is anything but the Saturday morning animated clatter kids are used to. Once they see this, they're mesmerized." - Harry Smith, CBS News

Dame Joan Collins takes on all of Gertrude Lawrence's lead roles in rare and entertaining television productions of eight out of the nine thirty-minute playlets by Noël Coward which he and Lawrence performed on-stage in sets of three from 1935 as "Tonight at 8.30". 1: 'Hands Across the Sea' (a light comedy). 2: 'Red Peppers' (an interlude with music). 3: 'The Astonished Heart' (a sad love tale). 4: 'Family Album' (a Victorian vignette). 5: 'Fumed Oak' (an unpleasant comedy). 6: 'Ways and Means' (a light comedy). 7: 'Still Life' (a romantic interlude). 8: 'Shadow Play' (a musical fantasy).

Being where your body isn't. This primer on Virtual Reality, produced for Telepresence Research, contemplated fresh visions and demonstrated emerging technologies for virtual environments and remote presence. With Brenda Laurel, Scott Fisher, Scott Foster, Mark Bolas, and Michael Naimark.

Written by Eric Sykes this is a brilliant little blast from the past with it's slapstick humour and quirky lighthearted spin on the rules of the game it guides the student right through various cheating methods from the tee to the 18th hole a must watch for any avid golfer!

A vibrant and perceptive documentary that celebrates the fiddling dancing traditions of Native American and Metis families on both sides of the United States and Canadian border. Although European in origin, fiddling and step-dancing traditions of both Indian and mixed-blood descendants reflect a strong Native American influence and are sustained largely by Native American spiritual ideals. This remarkable film weaves music, dance, and storytelling into a compelling and entertaining experience.

Two children's television characters from Japan, Gachapin and Mukku, travel to the United Kingdom. During their visit, they stop on Sodor to meet Thomas, Sir Topham Hatt, and the other engines. During the second half of the programme, they visit real railways as recommended by Sir Topham Hatt and learn how steam locomotives work.

With startling immediacy, this short film captures the shock and horror the Chinese students experienced when government troops opened fire on them in Tiananmen Square. We hear students rallying for democracy just moments before they were to be gunned down. Skillfully compiled from still photographs smuggled out of China, eyewitness accounts, and news sound tracks, it recreates this tragic event in Chinese history. This unforgettable document will remind Americans that the dream of democracy does not come without sacrifice. From high school students studying world events to "Asia watchers" at universities, this film is a must.

A musical film depicting the St. Petersburg band "Chimera" at the very beginning of its creative path.

In 1991 Bruce Weber’s parents gave him a reel of family movies made during his childhood. Premiering at the New York Film Festival, Backyard Movie incorporates the private home movies of the Weber Family into the fiber of the film as it connects the director’s past and present inspirations.

A film for 40 Minutes about a man (who had come to Scotland in 1945) returning to his family behind the iron Curtain (but NOT Poland) who thought he had been killed in the war

A David 'The Rock' Nelson short

After her husband abandons her, Madam Min enter into real estate in the hopes of getting rich quickly. She buys out many farms and re-sells them to businesses seeking to build factories and warehouses. Chang-min, in an effort to save his ancestral land from being developed, goes to Seoul to plead with Min not to destroy the land.

Richard Baylor short.

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.

Animated film.

A short film by Marcelle Thirache

Neither this shore of this life nor the other shore of the after life. Had I crossed the other shore? It was a world created by light, shadow, people, and scenery captured on a small camera. A single moment captured on a single frame of 8mm film, small enough to fit on a finger, becomes a continuous string of life when played back.I must have held my breath, steadying my handheld camera as if contemplating, as I crossed the other shore. The footage ended with a view of the ocean at dawn in the middle of winter in the northern country. No, it wasn't over. A long time ago, a friend from my film school days told me, while drunk, "You should live your life like you're singing." I was nowhere near able to live that lightly, but after that, I spent several years creating this film. I drifted with a single will, and I think I finally finished it, even though it was unfinished. At the time, I couldn't respond to my friend's words, but even now I don't know if “Move like a Wind" was my answer.

Animation short.

The Russians left the small Turkmen village. What remains is an abandoned mine, an insane asylum and local residents surviving in the new post-Soviet reality.

High school students Vitaly and Lena met by chance in the slums of the Odesa suburbs. Imitating their parents, the heroes suddenly realized that even unkind attitudes of their relatives could not prevent them from loving each other.

A Christmas Concert at Notre-Dame in 1991

A variation on Bambi Meets Godzilla.

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

A film about the atrocities perpetrated on the populations of Central American countries by US-backed military juntas,and the US’ subsequent refusal to be bound by the terms of the Geneva Convention with regard to the refugees from those countries.

A remarkable collection of examples of dissolute, free, experimental, and avant-garde films. Hassler added dream and fantasy sequences from more conventional films to fragments from complete or incomplete and far-reaching experiments. Images were taken from reality on 16 mm and 8 mm film stock to create a new reality.

A documentary about the feelings of the Nubians after the displacement from their villages in which they lived to build the High Dam in 1960, which brought all the goodness to Egypt and all the psychological harm to the Nubians.

A season review of Newcastle United 1990 - 1991.

Initiation Rite/Sacred Bath (sometimes referred to as Baño Sagrado) (1990) is a single-channel video and the second of thirty-three collaborations by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons with sound by Neil Leonard.

ALENTEJO, AS QUATRO ESTAÇÕES is a gorgeous essay on the landscapes of Alentejo, based on a beautiful text by Baptista Bastos, spoken by José Wallenstein.

A musical montage that imagines the Olmeca culture and the 3000-year-old monolithic heads as female characters.

Round 8 of the ‘91 World Rally Championship saw Lancia’s bid for major honours intensify, in their attempt to stop the irrepressible Carlos Sainz in his Toyota Celica GT4. The Spaniard’s race however was prone to disaster. As early as the 4th stage he had a puncture; by the end of it the wheel was destroyed and his turbocharger had failed. Lancia’s Didier Auriol and Miki Biasion meantime held onto the first two places. Sainz fought back and the three remained in close contention, a mere 8 seconds dividing the leading pair! Watch out for a quite spectacular arrival onto the victory ramp at the end of a superb contest!

A cheerful fairy tale about how honest craftsmanship triumphs over hell... A cheerful fairy tale about the reformation of a lazy princess from an impoverished kingdom, whose extravagance leads her to hell. From there, she must be rescued by the tailor Vojta, with the help and efforts of the reformed Pepina, who has learned to work in the service...

Don Pepe (John Regala) is a policeman whose wife left him for another man because he's poor. He will do everything to become rich and take back his wife.

Using laparoscopic instruments equipped with a camera Jocelyne Saab films the in vitro fertilization process as it takes place. Report on implant operations in a hospital.

binge eating, burping, vomiting and farting

Tawilwil Gang: Directed by Jerry O. Tirazona. With Anthony Alonzo, Juan Rodrigo, Gabriel Romulo, Leo Lazaro.

In 1990, filmmaker Jan Špáta headed to the North Moravian border region to join photographer Jindřich Štreit. His social humanist black-and-white images of the most ordinary life situations were close to his heart and offered themselves as a means of bearing witness to the social and spiritual state of Czech society on the threshold of freedom. "By allowing myself to be carried away by the world of Štreit's photographs, it is, in terms of content, one of my most raw films", Špáta rightly says. Štreit recalls, "I showed him different settings, what he would be interested in, what he would like, and it is true that he had a very easy job in two ways. Firstly, because these people were used to being photographed, and secondly, I chose the most attractive settings and the most attractive people. I knew that they were photogenic and that these were carrying situations".

Does it carry you away, the remoteness of the universe? The light streak on the horizon, do you arch over it? Well, bon appétit! The 16mm film BAUCHLANDUNG (Bellylanding) explores the relationship between longing and hunger, symbol and everyday life, dream and the stomach.

The Dream of the Darkest Hour takes the intrigue and mystery of Bobe's other works but exacerbates it in such a way that it is overpowered by aesthetics and experimental tonality. Within how limited its elements are, each one of them plays a fundamental role since without one, the others tend to remain in the air.

A film by Marico Valente

The first visit to the "Toy Village of Pakistan" and its people before it became the toy village.

"Only at First" was shot over several months from the back of my house in Lewes, East Sussex. It records in part the development of a wetland site into a housing development, using a variety of filming strategies including animated permutations of sets of framings, as well as freer sequences that make use of the Bolex camera’s motorised zoom function. A variety of lenses was used, from 10mm wide angle to 300mm tele-photo, which latter compresses the space, and hence the atmosphere, to create ephemeral, unstable shots full of airy ‘noise’. - Nicky Hamlyn

Part 8 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm