Cinematic Era: 1992 Vintage

One of the best Vietnamese films of 1992 by director Lê Dân and the highlight of actress Việt Trinh's career.

In 1981, Yuki [Noriko] Sekiguchi went to Australia to study International Relations. She spoke little English, but quickly befriended Joyce and Jack Hegarty, who became her 'second parents'. While close, Noriko sensed in Jack a buried resentment towards her, perhaps due to his experience fighting Japanese in World War II. Jack died in 1988 with this issue unresolved. Now retired and widowed, Mrs Hegarty lives alone in a Sydney western suburb. She is a devout Catholic and bowls at Ashfield Lawn Bowling Club. Mrs Hegarty expressed a desire to visit Japan and Yuki saw this as an opportunity to right some wrongs. In appreciation of Mrs Hegarty's hospitality, the natural parents of her 'adopted Japanese daughter' agreed to host Mrs Hegarty in their Yokohama home for three weeks.

A city emerges in the middle of the desert and dies in its richness. Women are doubly veiled, and freedoms are even more threatened. Sarah was born the day after the oil boom. She is part of the generation that believes it can get anything with the power of money, and that simultaneously sees its every desire thwarted when it conflicts with the strict laws of its country. She is unsettled by the triviality of her life and unsettles others through her beauty, and her will to push everything to its extreme. She fears not the desert, not the wind, nothing. Her thirst lies elsewhere: to leave the desert, which she hates, and in which she is kept against her will. She wanders the empty streets in her limousine, killing time on the phone, provoking strangers. Gradually, tensions arise in this desert, instilling a latent anguish interrupted by bursts of happiness, of ecstatic laughter, and of sensuality, until everything comes to a head.

1.33 color b/w silent

The Aliwal Shoal off the Kwazulu-Natal south coast in South Africa is an exotic marine wilderness of outstanding beauty and one of the world's top dive sites. This unique environment supports a spectacular coral community and a vast array of endangered fish species including the flagship species - the Ragged Tooth Sharks. it is a paradise to visiting divers and a source of income to those that fish its bounty. it is a protected area and all that use it are its guardians.

Street Fighter II

The first film produced by FAV is a sociopolitical musical featuring Valeriu Sterian and the Sound Company, from which we extracted four of the ten songs of the “album” (Escu, The future political prisoners want to know, We will be what we have been, and A plea without a bridle.)

A portret of the Cobra artist Svavar Guðnason. His life and his art - sources - influences and how he became one of the greatest abstract painters amongst Nordic artists.

Inflatable pool toy Fred Floaty, stuck in a travel-agency display window on a rainy night, dreams of traveling to faraway places. He imagines himself floating in a pool at a sunlit tropical resort. His sunglasses fall off and attract the attention of a passing shark as they sink, causing Fred to realize there are dangers in having one's wishes fulfilled.

This was Carolina Lopez Caballero's graduation film at Farnham (now Surrey Institute of Art and Design), but has a strength and confidence of vision which is unusual in student work. The technique mixes three dimensional work, boiling watercolour, thick paint, ink and collage. The mark-making mixes roughness and calligraphic grace. The film tells a dreamlike story of a king who is attracted to the singing of a mysterious woman. He is disappointed when she turns out to have the head and neck of a swan and finds it difficult to fit into her new role as Queen.

An unknown foreigner's vision of the unreal Bangkok. Digital transfer courtesy c/o Thai Film Archive.

A flight is departing from the airport. An absent-minded mother checks in her child along with her suitcases. When she notices this, there is great commotion and, of course, the emergency services are called.

POOLS OF ANGER tells the modern story of war, inner-city gangs and drugs framed with the problems and solutions of teen runaways depression and suicide. Confronted at every turn by gangs and drug violence, Cody Ryan and his thirteen year-old streetwise pal search for a beautiful runaway Amy in the hostile inner city.

Set in the year 2017 after many atomic and environmental disasters, a giant monster breaks out from under the North Pole and proceeds to destroy cities.

A haunting portrait of a young woman who begins to starve herself in search of the "perfect" body. The film follows four years in the life of Regina Hatfield as she struggles with bulimia.

Short film.

Videotape by Rita Myers

A bored goth girl briefly animates and narrates 8 operas (with no music), catalogs the scandalous actions, and counts the deaths (36). The operas included are La Traviata, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Aida, Tosca, Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, and The Ring of the Nielbelung.

On Shankar Guha Niyogi’s last testament.

María Esther Palant is one of the greatest Peruvian filmmakers. His legacy contains an extensive filmography that portrays painting, sculpture, and art in Peru. This sample consists of 9 restored short films, where we will be able to learn about his record in the Lima cultural world of the time, as well as delve into his enriching creative eye.

Boy Recto is a 1992 Philippine action film directed by Jett C. Espiritu. The film stars Ronnie Ricketts as the title role.

A beautiful young girl becomes an eye witness to a cold blooded murder which leads to her brutal rape rendering her insane. Her erratic behavior condemns her to a mental institution, that forces her parents to bribe a janitor at the mental institution and secure their daughter's escape. Locking her in a secret hide away, they vow to do anything and everything to keep their daughter out of the hands of the authorities. Six teenagers seeking privacy to fulfill their sexual fantasies, accidentally stumble upon the family's secret hideaway. Gradually and innocently entangling themselves in a web of mysterious events and a world of secrets that wants no part of them.

Anna comes from a violent past that has left her a recluse in her solitude.When a man knocks at the door her infancy returns....Will Anna open the door to the universe that she has created for herself to let life enter?

Bintou is a young woman from a district of Bobo-Dioulasso, very happy. But a few months after the birth of her first child, worry mingles with her sense of happiness. After a couple of months, she becomes anxious of not knowing how to take care of the baby.

In 1953, two journalists went in search of former leaders of the Vichy regime. Their investigation allows them to find and film about fifteen former "Hotel du Parc" members who supported the policy of French collaboration.

Ostensibly embarking upon a portrait of a "modern-day Abraham Lincoln", Escaping History traces the development of a relationship between the videomaker and his subject. As the story unfolds, it veers from the objective to the highly personal. The tape relates the story of Mel Glasser, a recovering schizophrenic who, having adopted the persona of Abraham Lincoln, has made considerable progress in the last twenty years. The tape refuses to romanticize Mel's condition; he speaks frankly with intelligence and humour, and takes Applegath on a special journey.

Short animation by Manfredo Manfredi

A lonely man cries, a lonely woman laughs. A young salaryman is fed up with the mundane but secure life he leads and goes AWOL from work. On a whim, he calls Noriko, a woman he once played with, and goes to take care of her in bed with a cold. Noriko is cheerful and innocent, and he begins to tell her about his daily frustrations and his dissatisfaction with society, which he has not even told his wife... Director Sugiura has put a lot of effort into creating appealing characters in this film. The film uses elaborate dialogue and UFO catchers to portray the sense of discomfort that most people today feel at one time or another, that even if they have no clear grievances, they will be taken in by society and become boring salarymen.

Tokyo, 1998. Sisters Keiko and Sumiko learn of their father's death through a message on an answering machine. The weather is abnormal and the winter days continue. Keiko's mental state deteriorates in response, and she is finally hospitalised. Her sister Sumiko, lonely and anxious, begins to use sleeping pills regularly. Yuko, a female friend who had an abortion, left for the south after the man she had been having an affair with committed suicide. In addition, her sister, who has escaped from the hospital, jumps into a train right in front of Sumiko. On television, they report the abnormal breeding of fireflies. In desperation, Sumiko takes the train to the home of the fireflies.

The film is a naturalistic portrayal of the temperament of a single woman of today. The film is a real love story about the life of a single woman. The use of props such as a credit card and an answering machine in an unreasonable setting shines through in the scenario.

The film is a documentary-style drama about the search for OGATA, a friend from the film club at university who disappeared before graduation and is now missing. Carrying a video camera, the protagonist visits his old friends to find out what happened to OGATA. It seems as if his purpose is to go around declaring that he is looking for OGATA (who everyone wants to see). His friends are disgusted and tell him to "grow up". Eventually, the protagonist finds out that OGATA is in Kyushu and goes to see him with his camera. Seeing him for the first time in a long time, OGATA begins to talk about the reasons for his disappearance and his current life. This is a story of self-discovery through the act of searching for a friend. The film is as close to a documentary as possible, but it skillfully approaches the psychological structure of the protagonist, a moratorium man.

A surreal puppet animation about one day in the life of an old man. The story takes place in the house where the old man lives. When the old man gets out of the bath and goes down the spiral staircase, a young man in a bathrobe suddenly appears, ranting loudly about something. Surprised, the old man goes after him and finds the young man in the cellar struggling with another man. The man's head falls and rolls. From then on, a dizzying world of images unfolds in rapid succession, the space becomes cosmic, and various objects begin to float. As the artist himself says, "I created this work as a single image", and it is perhaps best to let the flow of images unfold in front of you, rather than trying to read some kind of narrative. The dolls are grotesquely detailed, the sets like works of art. The props and objects have a natural texture. It is a work of such a high standard that anyone who hears that it took three years to make will nod their head in agreement.

A new kind of mutant alien comes into existence on a blue moon and is persecuted by the original aliens.

Judge Dredd faces off against kidnapper and drug pusher Slugger.

The alien Luri, almost a teenager, fell to Earth on a special mission. The neighbors in the Galaxy were terribly offended by earthlings for their attitude towards their planet and Luri was sent to us in order to inform us that in a few hours time on Earth would turn back - a century ago, and all this so that people could re-live the 20th century "ecologically right and safe." However, for the heroes of the film, this can simply mean death, because there will be no place for the living in the world of great-grandparents and great-grandparents. Luri's meeting with peers, the girl Masha and her friends from around the world can interfere with what was planned and save all those living today.

Contribution to the 11-episode film "Vitaal Filmen", focusing on the cultural significance of the long hair of the filmmaker.

Rose Ukkumaluk, an Igloolik elder, relates the tale of Attagutaaluk, a woman who survived a starvation and lived to become an honoured resident of Igloolik.

An animated short film from Norway.

MAHAL SAAN KA NATULOG KAGABI is a 1992 Tagalog-language Comedy film starring Joey Marquez, Alma Moreno, Anjo Yllana, Bimbo Bautista, Teresa Loyzaga, Conrad Poe and Jean Saburit. The movie is directed by Junn P. Cabreira.

Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.