Cinematic Era: 1991 Vintage

This film shows the extraordinary life of nuns or mothers-in-law.

Amy falls asleep while at the movies and dreams about getting swept off her feet by a handsome man.

Explore, step-by-step, each of the ten CranioSacral Therapy techniques developed by Dr. John Upledger. This demonstration pays special attention to hand placement as well as still-point techniques for the feet, sacral still-point and therapeutic pulse.

In this conversation, taking place shortly after the German reunification, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller discuss historical developments from the perspective of playwright Heiner Müller’s view on subjectivity. Among other things, they talk about the theoretical work of political philosopher Carl Schmitt, Russian literature, Müller’s play “Mauser” and an artwork by Anselm Kiefer.

Young Vishnu and his younger brother live with their hardworking dad, a farmer, and mom a devoted housewife. Their lives are shattered when the land-owner, Thakur Shamsher Singh kills their dad, and brutally rapes and kills their mom.

The Phi Pop ghost is back!

A documentary about music censorship by Channel 4. Is it freedom of expression or are heavy metal artists dancing with the devil? During the satanic panic era of the late 80's and early 90's, there were record burnings, ridiculous accusations of subliminal messages within songs and lawsuits--all aimed at the supression of rock music. Highlights include the senate hearings with Tipper Gore v. the rock music industry, a man who tried to blow his head off from listening to too much Black Sabbath and best of all, some crackpot preacher who plays 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen backwards and shows us what they're really saying--("It's fun to smoke marijuana").

Charlie Costello, a fictional Kennedyesque politician struggles to reconcile ideals with the realities of votegetting under normal circumstances, it is easy to know what to say to someone who assesses the problems of substance abuse as follows: "The Latinos and the Negroes have no respect, that's why they do the drugs." What would anyone say to this person if he is a registered voter in the district you want to represent in the state senate?

This documentary film is a thought-provoking portrait of the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a prominent and outspoken critic of Israeli occupation politics. He famously coined the term "Judeo-Nazi" during the 1982 Lebanon War to describe Israel's military mentality.

A CBC Fifth Estate program, entitled "A Park with no Peace," about the JNF and Canada Park was broadcast on October 21, 1991. This program interviewed eyewitnesses and documented the war crimes committed by Israel and how the JNF was used to cover up those crimes.

About the Russian art association of young artists and art lovers — "The World of Art" headed by A.N. Benois and S.P. Diaghilev.

A musical and visual exploration of Christian symbolism in the pictorial style of Caravaggio and LA Tour. Exposes the nature of sexuality, the status of woman and the Christian doctrine, seen after two thousand years of that morality and symbolism.

An intensely personal and experimental exploration of the shrouded pleasures of gay sex, that also addresses fears and hesitations about being gay.

Three men, Bembelats, Sīlinks, and Poteriks, work at the Opera, each in their own profession. Due to various comical, but for the men tragic, events, the guys are fired from their jobs. What should they do now? Their thoughts are interrupted by the desperate cries of a child. Without thinking twice, the men rush to save the child. This is how the Emergency Brigade is formed.

Niki de Saint Phalle presents and comments on her work from the early 1960s.

A documentary film on Chhau Mask Dance of Saraikela presented by Film Associates of California.

The film is dedicated to the renowned film director Sergey Parajanov; to the unfolding memory of a man who was refereed to as a genius, a gay, a mime, a tradesman, a saint. The film possesses no plain and logical plot line and altogether breaks away from the ordinary conception of any film genre. It is a psychoanalysis of the nether-world essence of the great master, a search for other dimensions about which we dare not even sometimes speculate. The Bobo is also peculiar in that it uses the entire material of the master's last unfinished film "Confession" accompanied by Parajanov's confession why he closed down the film, left it unfinished.

In this tribute to Tex Avery cartoons, a woman falls madly in love with a wolf singing in a lounge, but the affair does not end happily for her.

In César Miguel Rondón's adaptation, a different origin story is presented. The fisherman Ismael (Félix Loreto) is unfaithful to his wife Cayita (Ana Karina) with a witch, Carmelina (Ileana Aloma). She swears revenge when she sees Ismael return to Cayita's arms and casts a curse that will cause the fisherman's death, setting his house on fire. Faced with the tragic event, Cayita, frightened, screams and begs the townspeople for help to save her son, who was inside the house when the fire started. Cayita's son dies alongside Ismael. It is then that she, crazed with grief, cries out for her son for eternity.

Gaby, a gay guy, lives with his sick father. One day Salvador, an ex-lover, appears in his apartment, who comes to borrow money from him and to ask him to be a couple again.

A changing of track. Observations and interviews with border guards and commuters at Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse station in 1990, as the border between East and West Germany was becoming ever more porous and this crossing was already being dismantled.

First Base explores the moment at which sex is still only a titillating possibility and girls are still allowed to be attracted to other girls. It does so in a style teenagers can relate to. Their busts augmented by water balloons, Siler's nymphet heroines head out through their mushrooming slice of suburbia to try their luck with a couple of conveniently available teenage boys. The results satisfy their childish curiosity, but perhaps there is something more promising waiting for them when one sleeps over later....Tasteful and up-beat, First Base is appropriate viewing for all ages.

This collection of videos, gleaned from TV and live appearances, is mandatory viewing for the serious kd lang fan. It's chronological presentation allows the viewer to experience kd in the early years when she made regular apearances on country music's standard bearer, "Austin City Limits," and various other gigs.

Epirus, province of Pogoni, on the borderline with Albania. Emigration and a sense of death scattered in the air, in the light. Few are left. Human figures that look as if they were part of the landscape. In a place surrounded by mountains: polyphonic songs. The silences, the pauses between the voices and the music that stream out of the soil. Through the cross of personal voices, that of parti, giristi, klosti and isocrati, a collective harmony emerges. The film strives to grasp the rhythm of the soul of Epirus.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Using Pixelvision video transferred to 16mm film, these works map the visual space of emotional investigation.

"Monster Fire Baby" by the Blood Pumpers Racing Club was a Hyper-Mega Supercharged monster sex performance - complete with the world's first (as far as I know) live burning-monster baby birth! Performed at WildChild Productions in downtown San Diego sometime in 1991. The all-star cast consisted of 16 performers divided into 4 teams, the team members all wore custom uniforms labelled with a number and a color. 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, a longer edit and all the original footage were lost, leaving this as the only document.

Documentary telling the history of Cinecittà, and how it contributed to Italian cinema development.

"YOU" is a first person perspective animated horror short about a man that wakes up to discover a home invader.

The love story through correspondence between the prisoner A. Yudkevich and the journalist A. Berezhkova.

Uses plasticine animation to portray the homophobia in Britain's Isle of Man, where until recently homosexuality was completely illegal.

A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Taito

Documentary about a family that makes wine on the Argentine coast of the Río de la Plata.

In the Deep South, an unhappy married woman falls in love with an actor's image and finally takes her two children and hits the road.

A portrait of Rome that would have made Plutarch proud, Roman Variations was made during a residency at a studio provided by the gallerist Barbara Gladstone.

A woman in the night.

Newton was the greatest of all the natural magicians, learned in matters musical, theological and in Apocalyptic literature. He believed bodies were composed of "certain aetheral spirits or vapours"; one ... is the ether, "the succus nutritius of the earth, or primary substance"; the second substance disseminated through the first, is light.

In the town that knows no limits, Kinison gives a completely raw and uncensored performance at the very height of his career. Filled with scorching comedy, hot women and sizzling rock 'n roll, this rarely seen live show encapsulates the energy, verve and relentless brand of comedy that was unique to Kinison.

A redub of the 1958 horror classic The Blob, in which the titular space invader wants to impress lead actor Steve McQueen with his "high class act." Some animated movie trickery changes the original look of the film to aid its comedic re-appropriation.

It parodies the name of the famous series Miami Vice, this time to register Peruvians living in the U.S.

Aadi Mimansa is the story of two feuding families located at the edge of a tranquil small town in Odisha. It brings in to focus the struggles, aspirations and the tragedies of two friends, Arakhita Babu and Khetrapal Babu, placed at the opposite ends of the caste hierarchy. Though Arakhita Babu is a brahmin and Khetrapal Babu is from a low caste, they share a dilapidated house as tenants. Their friendship transcends the caste, culture and language divide. But the seeds of discord is sown by an old Brahmin woman who poisons the mind of Arakhita Babu's wife against Khetapal’s wife regarding a clogged waste pipe. The discord between the two families becomes intense so mich so that the families stop talking to each other. Khetrapal Babu decides to vacate the place. However, the solution to their problems comes from the most unexpected quarters and harmony is finally restored.

Set in Sydney, this short film follows thirty-something Stuart as he roams the city's cafes, bars and cruising areas looking for a man to love but finding only sex with a series of likeable men - none of whom offer the likelihood of a relationship.

A film shoot gets out of hand.

A live concert by Rick Wakeman on piano and David Paton on acoustic guitar.

Sobriety, Obesity and Growing Old picks up the narrative and themes begun in Kentridge's first film, Johannesburg the Second Greatest City after Paris, and follows the development of the relationships between his cast of invented characters, Soho Eckstein, his wife and her lover, Felix Teitelbaum. These relationships reflect, metaphorically, the changing political situation in South Africa at the time the film was made. Demonstrations and marches in opposition to the apartheid régime together with the governmental relaxation of most of the State of Emergency regulations and restrictions heralded the beginning of a change in the country's power structure (and white attitudes towards black African rights). Soho, a symbol of South African white power, develops the capacity for awareness, longing and love and the potential for guilt and repentance.

The court of the Qing tries intercept funds being sent by overseas Chinese over the border to revolutionaries.

Mahima Jyotibacha is a movie directed by Bhaskar Jadhav featuring Sudhir Dalvi, Madhu Kambikar.

Jiran, a self-proclaimed art student with both talent and pride, packs her paintbrush and heads to the beach to escape the shock of Professor Baek's harsh critique of her work and the misunderstandings arising from a chance encounter with her friend Eunsook's boyfriend, Junseok. While capturing the freedom of the sea on canvas, Jiran meets Hyunwoo, who is in love with Soyoung, who is dying of an incurable disease. Seeking to help, Jiran offers Hyunwoo a hefty fee to pose nude. Hyunwoo, mindful of Soyoung, accepts Jiran's offer.