Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

A film about the destruction of the Jewish intelligentsia - from the defeat of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the “Doctors’ Plot.”

A suburban hooligan thinks he's Caligula and wants to wreak havoc on his neighbourhood. But everything turns against him...

A Zimbabwean widow (Jesesi Mungoshi) falls prey to her greedy brother-in-law (Dominic Kanaventi) who takes her children and belongings.

Behind the scenes of Jörg Buttgereit's Der Todesking.

As a young boy, Ramesh witnesses the murder of his father and assault of his mother. Now an adult, he marries the daughter of his mother's assailant.

View of Amazon's myths and folk tales.

A grotesque and absurd school life. Focuses on characters who are incapable of development, who communicate, grow old and die in a classroom.

A tribute to cinema history from almost one hundred years ago to the present day.

Painter and government official – the two sides of Willi Sitte which made him the most important yet most controversial East German artist. Portraying the working class, defying imperialism or revealing intimate togetherness, he became the leading figure of Socialist Realism. His career in the Association of Fine Artists (VBK) and the Central Committee (ZK) of the SED elevated his status to that of ‘Prince of East German Painting’. Reiner Moritz met the controversial, first-rate draughtsman in his studio after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Through his life and work, he traces the story of Sitte’s artistic development in the service of socialist ideology.

HUNTERS IN THE SKY is the most comprehensive film documentary series ever produced on the fighter aces of World War Two. Surviving fighter aces from all sides in the conflict -- British, American, German, Russian, Japanese and many other nationalities -- now share their experiences -- and provide their own, exclusive, vivid and graphic first hand accounts of what it was really like to be a fighter pilot in some of the greatest air battles the world has ever known. This extraordinary series is fully illustrated with the pick of air combat footage shot at the height of raging dogfights, or as fighter interceptors attack bomber formations. You'll relive aeriel combat as the Aces themselves experienced it -- through the gun-sights of their Spitfires, Mustangs, Me 109s and Zeros.

Rosemary House's first film, shot in her backyard, addresses "sex, death and crazy women" in 11 minutes.

A journey through memory, of the experiences of Basques who emigrated to Argentina, including characters such as Juan, María, Pedro, Iñaki, Micaela, Ana and Pablo.

Saddled with a slavish, boring laundry job and no social life whatsoever, Kikuchi rarely leaves his bare apartment except to follow home and spy on a supermarket check-out girl. But there's no one he can tell about his secret passion, least of all his gawping, work-shy colleague. Even a stray kitten can't alleviate Kikuchi's frustration; clearly, something's got to give... This first film by a former manga illustrator, a terse and enigmatic blend of black comedy and psychodrama, has been compared to both Eraserhead and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman; another point of reference might be the slow, deceptively banal domestic dramas of Ozu, with whom Iwamoto shares a penchant for a mostly static camera, simple compositions, and an eye for the absurd details of everyday life.

Part of a trilogy about the reality of living in a French prison.

In this episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, Brenda and Glennda lead a group of drag queens on a trip to Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. Intended to be a drag queen gambling getaway, the trip turns into a moment of protest.

Richard Lewis hosts HBO's 14th annual comedy showcase for young comedians.

This documentary describes one of the greatest monuments in the history of world architecture, the historical, cultural and political past of a magnificent building whose history stretches right back to the 4th century.

A young man starts to drive a taxi in order to earn a livelihood. He crosses paths with a mysterious man but is oblivious to the fact that he is a ruthless killer.

Liu Zeyuan is a farmer on the edge of the desert at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. He grows food and raises camels, and his family's annual income is 5,000 yuan. Liu Picheng is a fisherman on Jingwa Island, part of the isolated Liaodong Peninsula; he is unwilling to attract attention and becomes hostile to the camera. The living environment and conditions of these two families are different, but the directors try to find some common ground while expressing the two respective unique lifestyles. In fact, these lives are firmly swayed by nature: sand storms can destroy everything, just as the ocean tide can destroy everything, and for the two protagonists, the difficult grasp of the future and their children also brings them the same loneliness. Filmed in 1989, Sand and Sea received the Grand Prix award from the 1991 Asian Broadcasting and Television Union.

Experimental musical based on a factual incident, the beating to death of a homosexual man in Toronto, 1985, by five teenagers.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A crazy story set in somewhere Southeast Asia, a group of "crazy apostles" brutally massacred aids patients. The policeman Shao Wen's wife was killed by the group, so Shao determined to chase each member of this group to death.

"Hi Steve" and "Dear Robert" exchanged between two filmmakers: Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin. "The Videoletters strip away the formalities that had littered our work and thinking. Through the making of the 'video letters' we started to relearn and re-look.". The Videoletters provide the benefits of reflection -- a lubricant for thought made out of very basic stuff -- the reduction of complexity -- and they cemented a brotherhood. Sadly, Robert's untimely death prevented the continuation of the "video letters" and they remain unfinished and unedited. (S.D.)

People try to "improve" the classic Venus sculpture.

This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes.

Mr. Ortuzo and his wife Concheta invite a married couple, formed by a voluptuous blonde and a deaf-mute, to spend a weekend at his house in Tigre. Ortuzo is a millionaire poet who inherited a strange personality changing, the day is effeminate but at nightfall becomes "supermacho".

Accidents occur time and again on German highways. The culprits are speeders who do not adapt their driving style or speed to the traffic and harass and endanger other drivers. For months, the two authors Thomas Schadt and Reiner Holzemer observed and interviewed a large number of drivers and accompanied the highway police on their missions.

One weird guy, accompanied by his ambitious neighbor exterminating some aphids.

An animated short about recycling.

Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful, important film about nothing in particular, a love song dedicated to France, French women in general and one Frenchwoman in particular, and a montage portrait of quotidian life in a country at peace.

A documentary about an East Prussian refugee family whose children lost each other while wandering from their homeland and were miraculously reunited. Eberhard Fechner interviewed them and describes the exciting experiences of the siblings and gives an insight into an eventful period of history.

Removal of Soviet troops from our territory. Authentic views of the soldiers, the atmosphere, ideals and a contemporary commentary on the end of an era.

About Catholics exiled to Kazakhstan from Germany, Poland, and Ukraine during Soviet times.

Rob, a young Berliner, travels to Iberá, that place about which so many legends are told, in search of his roots, but instead of exoticism, he finds misery.

This video art piece creates a collage of the people, mechanisms, and advertisements in the transfer station of an underground train.

In this documentary road movie, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann records the diverse views and activities of Israelis and Arabs as she travels along the route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The princess couldn’t choose a bridegroom for so long that the king ran out of patience. He threw the ducat out of the window and decided that the princess must marry whoever took the ducat. The choosy princess was married to a natotata.

Based on the life of James Dean.

The heroine informs both lovers about her pregnancy in order to determine by their reaction how serious the feelings of each of them are.

Anna is in NY writing roach killer commercials while being infatuated with Marta a Barcelona based actress. Anna decides to get out of the closet and she does it to non other than to Marta's partner.

"We hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands... as everything we say and do has the potential to shape another's dreams."

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions of gender and race. During the 1950s and '60s she toured the black theater circuit as a mistress of ceremonies and the sole male impersonator of the legendary Jewel Box Revue, America’s first integrated female impersonation show and forerunner of La Cage aux Folles.

Takashi is a man of extraordinary sexual prowess who cannot be satisfied without having sex with his wife Akiko before going to work. He also has a relationship with his sister-in-law, college student Yoshiko, who comes to visit while his wife is away. His next target is Etsuko, a young wife who lives next door and whose husband works at the same company as Takashi.

The documentary presents the presidential election campaign in Poland in 1990.

A 1991 Australian film starring the popular Newcastle cabaret troupe, The Castanet Club. A movie you can dance to!

The film narrates the day-to-day existence of a filmmaker wandering through his city (Brussels) and who has a notion to follow in the footsteps of dramatist Antonin Artaud and visit the Tarahumara people of Mexico. This is a film about intimacy and friendship. Written in the first person, it places Boris and Brussels in the centre of the universe, here represented by the crazy, vertiginous, endless spiral of the biblical Tower. It is Boris's diary and self-portrait. He plays himself on screen (as do the cast of a hundred who also allowed themselves to be “babelised“).

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

Cowboys trade lewd stories in the spirit of one-upmanship. Beer guzzling, bestiality and hellfire: it must be a Phil Mulloy cartoon.