Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

Documentary about a meeting of motorcyclists in the south of Buenos Aires.

Stylized portrait of a Czech disfunctional family. Personal insight into poverty, art, relationships and oneself...

A documentary on the bike messenger community of San Francisco during the 1990's

From the first special stage on the Monte-Carlo, to the final chequered flag on the RAC, Carlos Sainz (Toyota Celica GT4) and Juha Kankkunen (Lancia Delta 16v Integrale) waged a year-long battle for the Drivers World Championship, a battle destined to be won and lost on the very last event of the year, the RAC Rally. Auriol, Schwarz, Biasion, Eriksson, Wilson, Mitsubishi, Ford, Mazda, Subaru gave chase all the way through the 14 round series. The highs and lows of another incredible rally season are yours on this spectacular, newly re-vamped programme, featuring all rounds of the championship.

Hour by Hour I, February 1, 1991: Every hour, I film my portrait in its environment. During sleeping hours, the film is black. Generally with a particular rhythm of images. It is not a self-portrait, because no one else was available to me at all times.

Albano's don't walk makes the simple journey across a city street a palpable psychodrama.

We hear the actor Alexander Moissi reading the fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson (recorded in 1927), while seeing the face of a young woman standing outdoors against a distant hilly summer landscape.

A fourteen minute cine-poem, Memories of Milk City catches Ahmedabad at a time of transition, peeling away layers of textures, gestures and sounds, tripping over a culture and a language at war with themselves.

A film by Julie Murray

Experience nature's most relaxing environment as you dive into an underwater wonderland of gliding dolphins...majestic whales...playful sea lions...and adorable sea otters! Let your tensions ease away as golden sunsets melt into a panorama of spectacular color against crashing ocean waves...and sandpipers dance a delicate ballet on the shore to the calming rhythm of the tide.

Sometime saying 'I love you' is difficult.

This film uses a 'scene' between a woman and a trans man to mobilise Gilles Deleuzes's work on masochism as explored in his book 'Coldness and Cruelty'. Critical of all manifestations of fascism, the film's visuals and sound set up a tension between two libidinal economies - that of fascism (the super father) where the father is everything, and the world of the masochist, where the mother is everything and the father is nothing.

The film reproduces the historic performances by some of the iconic artists of Fluxus from the 60s: Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Ben Patterson, Jackson Mac Low etc.

A personal recollection of a time past, when gay identity was a source of joy rather than of mourning.

This film decisively breaks out of a numerous politicized and social films, it does not dictate to the viewer any particular point of view, perception of the film takes place at the level that the viewer chooses for himself.

"The Red Hotel: flying car. Filmed from the backseat, images scroll at the speed of miles fleeing, forwards, backwards ... and on this road, Venice. Floating lights, gratings, bridges above, below. The city was coming out of the Red Hotel to bend under the magnifying glass and the flashlight of the projector, drunk by the narrow streets and carried by the seasickness emanating from the "flicker" which returns in waves. Venice left the Red Hotel to take another turn, detached from the previous trip, it seems to become a suite of old postcards and gives to people who pass and search at a second-hand dealer, memories of yesteryear.“

Short film by Katrin Barben.

A humorous and yet oddly jarring glimpse of the early relationship between a mother and child, exploring notions of control, power, identity and conflict through a dialogue of discordant and distorted repetition.

Mainly working with simple, soft-lined drawing animation, Yamamoto aggressively takes in live action images from the late 1980s. Though this piece starts out with live action filming, the eventual appearance of the "phenakistoscope" animation composed with live action images is a true gem. Yamamoto always has been acknowledged for her skill in blowing in "anima – spirit" and boldly tries out a new experiment of blending it in with the live action image. What is awesome is that the huge phenakistoscope that appears in the live action shooting with no composites has power to nullify virtual distance and existence within what is called the image. There, a "composite-like reality" emerges.

The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement of 1975, hailed by governments as a model for future land claims and self-government settlements - is considered Canada's first "modern Treaty." 15 years later, Robert Bourassa's dream of northern hydro-electric power has become a nightmare for the James Bay Cree. In FLOODING JOB'S GARDEN, Boyce Richardson revisits communities he first filmed in the 1970s, before Hydro Quebec began its work, documenting 20 years of massive change in Cree country. As Bourassa and Hydro Quebec prepare for Phase 2, the Crees are mounting an international campaign to protect the environment and ensure responsible development.

Kitsch alert! Worshippers at the shrine of Elvis and followers of pop culture take note. Ten Thousand Points of Light is a wry, understated and terrifically funny look at the Townsends, a suburban Atlanta family, who every holiday season for eight years, transformed their Stone Mountain area brick ranch house into a meteoric blaze of Christmas lights. Known as both “the Christmas House” and the “the Elvis House”, the Townsend’s home was visited yearly by vast numbers of people, many of whom viewed a trip to the land of a thousand tchotchkes as an annual pilgrimage.

After studying literature Denis Gheerbrant joined the famous film school IDHEC (now FEMIS) in 1969. When he left the school he had obtained two degrees, one in direction and the other in cinematography. From 1972 on he has had several activities in the movie field: assistant camera operator, cinematographer,and mostly director of (excellent) documentaries. Gheerbrant is also an independent photographer.

Virgil Thomson composed many musical portraits of people as they faced him. Like a visual artist using different visual elements, Virgil established personal sketches using the palette of musical expression. EVERBEST VIRGIL perpetuates this tradition by linking the portrait of a composer to his own composition. I filmed Virgil, in his apartment at the Chelsea Hotel, in Manhattan, shortly before his death. These are the last images taken from the life of one of America's most treasured composers.

Found material about childhood moments

A mammoth who has been frozen for thousands of years has to keep away from scientists and Zoo managers.

You can't be the founder of the nation's largest janitorial services without learning a few things. Like do you dust first or vacuum? Learn how to wash down a whole room in less than 30 minutes and never have a drop of dirty water in your bucket! Find out the hotel maid's secret for cleaning bathrooms. Get the facts on how to organize to clean just once. Once you know how, you'll wonder how you ever did it before.

How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in What's Up? in a motif depicting a postcard of a painting by Titian in an eye-mark recorder.

A hapless babysitter is terrorized by singing gay aliens

Anthropologist Robert Ascher depicts a myth of the Pacific Northwest Coast Tlingit using the purely symbolic, visual language of direct, cameraless animation. Positing an enchanting, engaging, non-Western alternative to verbal, analytical methods of documentation, he also considered this approach a noninvasive method of portraying an indigenous culture.

Feature film.

Documentary film.

It was never easy and it was always controversial, but in the end the birth of the Adelaide Crows - the AFL's 15th team - was one of the most exciting initiatives undertaken. With Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia already joining Victoria in the national competition, the last hitch was coming to terms with the proud South Australians - a state divided on the debate about whether or not it should enter the expanding AFL. The issue was one of the hottest topics in football, but now, with Adelaide crowing in joyful chorus after its initial success, the genesis of the Crows is complete and a magnificent chapter in football history has begun. The entire four quarters of the Adelaide Crows first victory of the 1991 home and away season.

Propaganda anime produced by the notorius Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.

An insane man slaughters and massacres people at the FSK.

A man is trying to put empty cans into his torn coat pockets. There appear to be more and more cans lying on the street.

Bare uses the documentary form to explore an unconventional subject matter-women who shave their heads. Three women talk about various personal experiences, touching on issues of identity and retaliation over the stereotyping of women of color, and how they use shaving as a personal, political action to achieve empowerment.

Serge Daney comments on an interview with Woody Allen by Jean-Luc Godard. As always with him, the comment is a pretext for digressions, and the opportunity to embrace the history of cinema, images and medias as a whole. Odile Converset, blind by birth and film buff, and director Maurice Dugowson accompany him and question him.

Fleming develops a personal visual language through repetition of particular allusions and imagery

The life of prolific Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev is portrayed through biographical, on-location flashbacks from his birth place intermingled with live concert performances from the historical Kirov (Mariinsky) Symphony Orchestra, St.Petersburg, conducted by internationally acclaimed maestro Valeriy Gergiev. These unique musical sequences give the dramatized episodes from Prokofiev's life a time-transcending significance and actuality in todays ever-changing Russia.

The first short film by Chris Landreth

Travelgue through the outskirts of Kairo.

During the past two decades, more than two million refugees have left Ethiopia. Famine, poverty and political strife as well as the religious persecution caused by Eritrea’s annexation have already cost countless lives. Narrated by Salem Mekuria, an Ethiopian filmmaker in the US, this lucid documentary presents the life stories of three women refugees in neighboring Sudan. It traces the attempts of individual women to survive displacement, resettlement camps and ineffectual bureaucracy. An astute, politically sophisticated analysis of social and economic crisis from the perspective of Third World women.

The film is silent except for four short segments of sync sound, interviews with a man and a woman, which touch on two areas: control and anger; and the pressure of history on one’s identity-how do I identify myself as “I”, how as part of a “we”? The film is visual, perceptual; it was made in awe of the world that goes on with and without us and of our personal, human struggles. It is a film about life and death; a film of discrete units of the eternal and a film of living here and now. It was built up frame by frame-a film about power, played in insignificant terms, in the daily, barely noticed gestures, scenes, frames.

Kip Fulbeck's landmark video, Banana Split, defined the genre of multiracial exploration in contemporary video, and established him as one of the premiere artists exploring Hapa and multracial identity. Completed while Fulbeck was still in graduate school, Banana Split screened throughout the U.S. and abroad, and is still used in hundreds of classes today. Fulbeck's brilliant storytelling takes the viewer from childhood fights to adult dilemmas, questions interracial dating patterns and media depictions of Asian men, and explores the idea of ethnic identity in a country which ignores multiraciality. - Video Data Bank

Sacrificial Performance art and exorcism, the object of which is to banish from our collective subconscious the evil spirit of genocide. This video contains a collection of unusual short films such as "The Sacrifice", "Twilight of The Gods", and "Day of Wrath".

The voices say a story. forget it. Of what time. And who speaks. Both of them. One or the other. later. Others may be. Of chance. Which would cross in this narrative. When. The times have intermingled. The winds meet. History. Pictures. The summer. Humble vacancy with furtive foliage. Fragile memory. Light is a trace of forgetfulness.

An animated recreation of Van Gogh's "Les iris" is juxtaposed with audio from the auction of the piece for millions of dollars more than the artist could have ever imagined.

A half-baked, but tenderized world view offered up for the new arrivals. An abstracted experimental narrative based on three images: face, figure, and crowd. A collage film of representational images of the human figure without being portraiture or performance.

Musical documentary reminisces about the in the late fifties in the Netherlands born Indo Rock (Tielman Brothers, Javelins, Crazy Rockers, Black Dynamites).

A film in the old style.

Color work after separation and recomposition of the different colored layers of a documentary (found) in the Paris performance of a Japanese group of butoh dancers.

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

A compelling exploration of life in Exile through the music, poetry, art, politics and culture of Chile set against the personal stories of seven Chilean women.