Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil.

Bad Girl starring Cristina Gonzales

The second Little Polar Bear OVA, following on from the previous year's Shirokuma-kun, Doko e? Lars gets caught by a fishing boat while swimming in the ocean, and is whisked away to a far-off place unlike anything he's ever seen.

In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world’s most visible symbol of hardline Communism and Cold War lore. They thought they were making a documentary on the community of tourists, soldiers, and West Berliners who lived in the seemingly eternal presence of the graffiti emblazoned eyesore. But in 1989, as the original film neared completion, the Wall came down, and McElwee and Levine returned to Berlin, this time to capture the radically different atmosphere of the reunified city.

This short documentary follows 10-year-old Tamar, a resident of Jerusalem, as she recounts the experiences of her daily life in Israel. She practices her baritone tuba and attends school, the local market, and a religious youth camp. She welcomes cousins who have emigrated from Russia, and expresses her desire for peace between Jews and Arabs. The film offers a brief glimpse into the life of a child in contemporary Israel.

A visceral homage to those living and dying under the shadow of AIDS in a world run amok.

The younger brother-in-law pays back to the widow of his brother.

A fantasy film, which mixes fact and fiction, based on director Michael Kohler's time living among the Samburu people of Kenya.

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

In memory of a friend who died of an AIDS related illness, this tape is a representation of the grieving process and an act of mourning. In examining the whirlwind of emotions felt upon the death of a friend, the artist confronts the fear, guilt and anger which arises from the dominant ideological construction of the AIDS epidemic.

Evangelical Peter Lalonde explores the not-so Christian influences that are making meals of our kids, from popular toys to Saturday morning cartoons. Along the way, watch Peter and his panel try to make sense of early 90s youth culture from The Simpsons to TMNT, which seem to have evil undercurrents based in pagan philosophy and...Hinduism?

Film by Bob Chinn

Little Tony does not have a father, but her mother is just an obstacle. The child often stays outside the locked door while the mother has fun with another guest. Tony wanders in the streets or walks to Pipe doll artist's studio. Here the girl is immersed in a fairy-tale world, very different from the one around her. But Fipo has his own life and problems. Tony is not mad at her mother, loves her and wants to live with her. But for neighboring children, Tony is a bad example. Their parents are doing their best to put her in a boarding school without being interested in her opinion. Is this better for the little girl?

A primetime special featuring the stars of ABC's "Family Matters" in a preview of the network's Fall 1991, Saturday morning lineup.

Peklenski načrt is a Slovenian Fiction TV Film. Featuring Andrej Miljković, Katarina Čas, Maja Medvešek. It is defined as a youth. It was directed by Anton Tomašič. It was produced by RTV Slovenija.

A strange love-story between a mad butcher and a young prostitute, they both inserted in a paradoxical Time structure, like Escher engravings.

A first-hand account of the tumultuous events of 1989 when a student-led revolution succeeded in overthrowing Czechoslovakia's repressive Communist regime. The film, which includes rare government and underground footage, follows the lives of three Czechoslovak students whose leadership helped ignite the 'Velvet Revoution' and eventually establish a democratic government. Directed by Oscar-winner Allan Miller, it features interviews with students, activists and the country's new president, Vaclav Havel.

A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène Bromberg; but especially Henri Alekan, who was the Director of Photography of the film.

November 5th 1991

Four students of Unarius share their overcoming and healings using the Science of Past Life Therapy

Hands are magical. You can draw with them, grasp the reigns of a carousal, and reach out to be called up.

This is a short edit of the performance that was made to accompany an installation piece for lalapalooza's traveling art tent. Unfortunately it doesn't convey the intensity of the show, which laster for about 15 minutes, or show the bombarding of the standing room only audience of nearly 200 and including being sprayed with various colors of paint as the the monster as the monster sex ritual climaxed. A longer edit and all the original footage were lost, leaving this as the only document.

Featurette of a mule.

this film stands as one of Kylberg's most personal works of art, where the image, music, movement and animations form a highly personal expression. The watcher is challenged to take part in an experiment intended to reach into the undiscovered areas of thinking. An attempt to give us something we have never experienced before.

Documentary by Christine Choy

On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse.

The film is about stuntmen.

An attempt to simultaneously picture the two big, contradictory myths of U.S. America: the myth of unlimited individualism and the myth of the "melting pot". All kinds of people are all in the same way, mostly alone, caught in their cars, which also remind us of similar box-like containers such as houses, offices, factories, etc.

Nawab, a police officer, does everything he can to fight injustice. However, his path is not as easy as it seems and is filled with hurdles.

An examination of the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Janie Hunter (80 years old) of Johns Island, S.C.; ballads sung by ex-coal miner and union organizer Nimrod Workman (91), of Chatteroy, W.V.; fiddle tunes and tales of moonshining and feuds from Tommy Jarrell (83) of Toast, N.C.; and footage from the Alabama Sacred Harp Convention in Fyffe, Alabama, in which people of all ages gather to sing old-time shape-note hymnody.

South Korea's answer to Tim Burton's Batman.

Paranormal documentary in which investigators talk about ghosts, and eyewitnesses explain their paranormal experiences.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

The Visible Compendium constructs bits of unnamed meanings, fragments of light. Photography is, to me, not about things, but about light. Light is our primary reality when we are at the movies. Light which suggests things, the secondary reality, a construct by the mind.

1991 film by Thai martial arts director, Panna Rittikrai.

The film portrays life on the Balduintreppe in Hamburg during the 1980s and early 1990s and thus takes us right into the heart of the time of the Hafenstrasse squat, which in many respects was a turning point. It circles the harbor steps, relives the squatters' battles with the police and visits the residents between utopia and the housing struggle.

The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...

Nobody gets turned on by lists of do’s and don’ts. We need different strategies to help change sexual behaviour in the age of AIDS. This tapes attempts to eroticize safer sex practices and latex use. Rather than using explicit porn, the signifiers become gestural and facial to create an aura of eroticism. The address is pluri-sexual, the audience, everyone.

A film essay documenting the devastation of the Lausitz region. The Sorb writer Jurij Koch describes the destruction wreaked as a component in an act of ethnocide:"The end of a language; even if the step is appantantly an economic necessity in terms of furhtering the region, it signifies impoverishment, the excavation of an ethnic habitat - a restriction of human richness."

A woman is torn between wanting and not wanting.

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

Animation by Liu Zuofeng

In the late 1980s, an era of great hopes and great disasters for Russia, art proved to be a social barometer, predicting the imminent political upheavals. This film's screenplay was written overnight in February 1991, soon after the World Economic Forum, where Olga Sviblova was asked the question, "What will happen to Russia?", and answered: "A putsch."

Inspired by songs by Arrigo Barnabé, the film tells the story of a young man who was the victim of a scientific experiment on a TV network. From then on, he begins to commit a series of crimes whose objective is to take revenge on those who induced him to experience it.

The village of Trimojevici (Montenegro) consists of a single household – an old, blind woman who lives alone and does her daily chores by herself.

The republic, known for its tonnage of grain, has a scarcity of bread. The story is told from the viewpoint of a breadseller, Salmen Sharipov.

Rescue Rangers Chip and Dale, along with their friends, must foil the plans of Fat Cat as he leaves a trail of fire hazards throughout the fire station and neighboring bank.

A woman remembers her past by faces she sees while travelling on the London Underground. She begins to believe that these people, like her, have all taken part in the same event. She composes a letter to her friend Fatima – a personal documentary around journeys, memories and watching. The story is spoken in Urdu with sub-titles in English, although the subtitles do not always appear in conjunction with what is spoken.

Reviewers found this art film extraordinarily grating even for a film of the "high art" genre but admitted that some of its imagery was striking and original. The ostensible subject of this basically storyless film, shot with black-and-white and color segments, is the depressing, aimless, and futureless life of a sodden former trumpet player in the slummiest sections of Los Angeles. However, the main theme seems to be the imagery the film captures of the bleakest and most decayed portions of that famous city. Another plus is the film's jazz-oriented soundtrack.

Interviews with the latest heavy metal bands

A small man sits on a station bench. A chunky, initially polite guy joins him, uses his newspaper, eats his travel provisions on the train, follows him and harasses him on the bus, in the cab, in his house, makes himself at home. When the harassed man calls the police, the patrol arrests him and the ruffian triumphs. The little boy is released. Now he is helplessly at the mercy of the intruder's harassment and is thrown out the door by him.