Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

Molin is a tailor who tells a lot of tall tales.

Shot in the transition period between the forming of Albania’s first opposition party and demonstrations calling for a democratically-elected government, this doc follows the excitement generated by a budding group of rock musicians prepping their concert debut, performing Dire Straits in an industrial factory.

A follow-up video to Pilař’s programme works of destructive animation which started in the 1960s. In Flare Up, plastic cones and toys are subject to destruction, but it is again a revision of his previous work with a new video technology. Pilař electronically embedded his original film There is a Doll Living in the Apple Tree (1984) into his assemblages and supplemented it with computer animation by Martin Hřebačka.

A film miniature to classical music inspired by the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Praise for the joy of life, synchronously set to the vocalization of Mozart's piece.

A growing problem among American youth is satanic occult worship. Bored with drugs and alcohol and left unchallenged by the church, American young people are experimenting in increasing numbers with satanic worship and occult practices.

Video on needle exchange and harm reduction.

A rich old man pays a young lady, Duong Chan (means “moon” in Khmer language), for pretending to be his second wife, because his first wife has mental illness and she cannot take care of their small daughter. Dung Chan loves the little girl as her own child. A few years later, the old man’s son returns to Cambodia and he hates Dung Chan so much. Can hate turn into love?

“I was fascinated by the distance Australia has travelled in the past 50 years, and by how this evolving complexion continues to be indelibly, almost unconsciously, recorded by simple family and tourist images (today via video camera). History, place, time...and how we feel compelled to endlessly photograph one another. We’re all in a way little ham actors...a wave, a smile, doing a little dance...performing for the camera in front of landscapes and monuments. I worked with some old 16mm home-movie footage I’d been given, shot in the Blue Mountains [a favourite tourist destination and wilderness area close to Sydney]. Through optical printing and camerawork in the field I managed to combine the feel of then and now. [...] I used a prism in front of the lens, which chased the images (including some of me, photographing) ‘round and ‘round...mirroring the way history endlessly repeats itself.” (Paul Winkler)

Never broadcasted film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning. Whether it's a feature or a short is not known.

The twelve-year-old Jåvna is the guide to the Sami everyday life. He talks about his culture and about his future as a reindeer herder. The film depicts the conflict between Swedish society and the Sámi world.

A hand-processed film that blurs the false duality of gender roles and the dubious distinctions between femininity and masculinity.

A bold portrait of an emotional ponderance about sex, trust, and power.

This documentary looks at lesbian and gay participation in sport; the excitement, the sense of achievement, and the pressures of being "out" in the sporting world.

An attic man named Edward uses his hands to fulfill the wishes of lonely ladies.

Traces elements of nature common to Vermont and Norway.

The dark beauty of the evergreens in Englemann Canyon, the bright Autumn gold of the aspens at Mountain View and the majestic rocky slopes at Windy Point are all more spectacular with bright red trains in view. Enjoy Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, deer, wild flowers, a waterfall and alpine lakes. Rare historic still photos and motion pictures chronicle the works of man along this rail line. The Half Way House Hotel, the offices of the Pike's Peak Daily News, the Alpine Laboratory & the town of Minnehaha are some of the historic sites, now only a memory along the rails. The oldest hydro-electric plant operating in the American West, steam locomotive water tanks and an old stone section house are still visible.

I dreamt I had left the walls of my room to descend and immerse myself in things. What wind was it that moved me, when I felt the lake, the woman in the fire, the nets, the stone labyrinth, the bowl, the clay and the sound?

Stand up special.

About loneliness and feeling isolated.

In five different villages, a teenage angel narrates five different fables.

"A thing or a being veiled by the light: we look at it with intensity and our eyes close to bring it back to us, so we watch the silhouette left by the light now printed inside our eyelids. The echo of the thing, of this being... She was caught in mid-geste, pulling a lock of hair away from the eye and her gaze leans out of the image, twice, three times..."

Flip tries to overcome several obstacles in order to spend the day with his girlfriend, Clarisse.

A rollicking drumbeat roils over different playful spellings of the film's title.

Time goes by; the past powerfully remains as a memory in the present. The film is expressively visualized as a psychological description of the tormenting present haunted by the memory of the past. It is an act of incantation to expel the frozen memory and to escape from the melting past.

Stone cold and black in appearance but stone / ivy, like a labyrinth blinded by the rain which shimmers in lines of light, stone / ivy which diffuses a little geological water.

Blues and jazz singer Jodie Drake is a legend. From her beginnings in Detroit to her many years of breaking ground in Canada, she has consistently promoted Black music, often simply through the power of her voice. Blues in my Bread made for a CBC national broadcast, presents the women in all her glory. Browne had full access to the singer, her interview and performances combine with now rare footage from Drakes TV appearances in the 60's and 70's add an important chapter to the history of jazz and blues in Canada.

A woman’s psychological journey which externalises an inner world filled with suspense and pursuit. Animated ink and wax drawings are inter-cut with pixilated sequences originating from dreams of a woman and a crow. The structured footage is then painted, and edited to a composed soundtrack. – K.P.

"Forerunner of the legendary X-Mix series, the 3Lux videos took the very first step in the visual realisation of techno. In the early 1990's, to a soundtrack of now classic tunes the hot producers of the day - including Dave Angel, Visions of Shiva, Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Alec Empire, Neutron 9000, Mixmaster Morris and Cosmic Baby - young computer artists began exploring the possibilities of computer animation and new digital technologies. They hit the ground running, through pulsing shadows, distressed landscapes, whirlpools of sound and vision. Fresh and raw, exuberant and optimistic, the 3Lux series was a bold expedition into the uncharted imagery of techno, early trance and ambient. Where these groundbreaking animations would lead, much was to follow. This was the foundation of the videoscape electronic dance music would inhabit from here on in." (Cover text of the 3Lux - DVD Collection)

In a world that has shifted to being information and service based, industrialists are corralled on a reservation named Lorado, to sell plastic things as remnants of their past culture. The reservation is built on a polluted lake which is a tourist attraction. In Lorado there are many forms of love and every one keeps a pet. The story turns on the suicide of Fashionette’s fish, because of bad water conditions, and ends with a large scale chemical fire. This project took over three years to produce and all of the images are computer generated and animated.

A 'Filmperformance' by Klaus Lutz, described as 'the rendering of the hieroglyph for the word «ARABIA»'

A biblical worldview brought to bear on the hip-hop industry.

The first part of Clown by Luther Price.

Saint Agapios was alone with his Elder in the Vatopedi Skete of Kolitsos. According to Gerasimos Smyrnakis, the area was named after the Elder of Saint Agapios, the quiet Koletios. When the saint once went down to the beach for a specific job, he was captured by pirates. Saint Nicodemus of Mount Athos mentions how they were Saracens and how their saint changed and baptized them.

1991 version of Requiem For a Smoker by Frédéric Sojcher.

A film by Günter Zehetner

A film by Günter Zehetner

A film by Günter Zehetner

History of the Pennsylvania amusement park, open from 1896 to 1975.

At 6 AM in LA, a man gets the newspaper, shaves, brushes, flosses, and reads. A headline reads, ”Tenants want quake safety.” In the next apartment, a clock radio blares Latin music, waking a young couple and their baby. They argue about the music, then tickle, laugh, and return to bed. As the man sits, the couple’s bedstead bangs against the wall, causing plaster to fall, medicines to spill, the toothbrush glass to shatter, and car alarms to go off. Is it good sex or a 6.9 earthquake?

Video souvenir of a visit to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.