Cinematic Era: 1992 Vintage

Short animation film

The film is based on the impression after reading "la maladie de la mort" by Marguerite Duras, and added to, with other text, pictures and allegories. Through these movies I try to symbolically express the relationship (and lack of understanding) between males and females.

Original hi-8 video to digital, color & b/w, sound, 16 minutes. Persons unknown wait on a street in a large city for something to come their way. The greeting is “are you anywhere?” They float past the infinite set of stairs going nowhere during one day out of several days from 1985 to 1995. Land of Nod is an experimental short documentary shot NTSE in the late eighties and transferred to digital. Nod captures a day of black marketeers in the street waiting for action.

Flesh Colored Crayons was completed in 1992. This film includes an array of animated scenes and sporadic phrases flashing on screen. The scenes are all quite different, beginning with dogs, ducks and people in a park, and continuing with a cowboy placing a revolver in his mouth. One of the longer animated scenes includes an outline of what appears to be Jesus Christ filled in with drawings of a rocket ship, a bull’s eye, Albert Einstein, and more. Some of the phrases that flash throughout the film include: “jogging my memory”, “the year was 1953,” “abort”, and “you can’t dance naked in Indiana”.

A travelling journal of 100 movements from 1978 to 1992.

A video dealing with interracial relationships.

A tour of Paris, France.

"A refrigerator truck loaded with humanitarian aid arrives in Armenia. The drivers are unable to locate the road to Yerevan and keep looking for it. Parallel to this a string of ludicrous stories unfolds. This is the story of Radio Yerevan in a nutshell, according to its makers." - IFFR

Describes one subway rider's fantasy about striking back.

"We know the air is filled with vibrations we can't hear. We can't consider environment as an object. We know that it's a process While in the case of the astray, we are indeed dealing with an object. It would be extremely interesting to place it in a little anechoic chamber and listen to it through a suitable sound system. Object would become process; we would discover, thanks to a procedure borrowed from science, the meaning of nature through the music of objects." John Cage

There is no void. The world is full.

Black Body is a harsh and compelling meditation on the contradictory values assigned to black bodies in American culture: they exist as both desired and feared, abject and powerful. The “black body” is a body whose surface reflects projected fears and repressed desires; as such, it exists as a site of ideological struggle, a surface which is simultaneously eroticized and denegrated. With nightmarish narratives and loaded terms hovering over an image of a naked torso bound with wire, Harris shows how these contradictory values continue to cripple and contort the self-image of blacks. The video conveys a powerful sense of confusion and trauma, the problem of inhabiting a body that is a cultural taboo.

A lesbian struggles to overcome her grief over the death of a gay male friend.

This film portrays a jealous triangle. Simone and Kaye are lovers trying desperately to escape New York City and the reality of their friend Ayo's abusive relationship.

The first in a four-part video art series produced by duo Christiane Dellbrügge and Ralf de Moll in the early-'90s, this piece begins the series' themes of incorporating art theory into video art, particularly through the juxtaposition of words and images. Here, abstracted hands are superimposed over a constantly spinning black-and-white, digitally produced background, signing the "text" of the piece while a distorted voice accompanies it.

Ken Nordine’s jazz spoken-word soundtrack was the inspiration for this work and a collection of body parts that Andrew Kötting had accumulated over the years of friends and family on super 8. "The true colour that flesh should be is the colour that flesh is".

A beautifully-shot documentary film on the life of the composer. With footage of the young Tavener as pianist and organist, performances of his music, and contributions from family, friends and experts.

Bouvet, a film actor, having in a moment of bewilderment accepted to perform at the theater, finds himself in exile in Clermont-Ferrand, facing a text of 15,432 recalcitrant words.

‘Once there was a woman who lived alone in a fairly prosperous citadel. If the weather was fine, a rare and precious occurence, she would go out and explore, or she would do the shopping…’ Inspired by the tragedy of Dido and the fall of Carthage, with references to the stoning of Mary Magdalene and the execution of others, The Citadel documents the perceptions, actions and dreams of a woman as she experiences, or rather, doesn’t experience, national and world events. Using a range of stunning imagery within an allegorical structure, The Citadel follows the imaginary journey of a woman through a city of beauty and desolation. Shot in lyrical documentary tradition, akin to the work of Humphrey Jennings, the piece weaves together a subjective narrative with an idiosyncratic vision of London. [NFT programme notes- LEA presents Cordelia Swann]Narration Maria PerryCamera Cordelia SwannProducer/Edit Cordelia Swann/Marek BudzynskiFeaturing Asha Rao

Documentary film.

Canadian Steve Reinke takes brief images from gay porn and turns them into something lyrical and resonant.

Feature film.

A kindly old man sends his grandson off to see the world. From the window of the train, the child discovers the problems plaguing this planet and imagines solutions to promote the happiness of children everywhere. A synthesis of Volume 1 of the Rights from the Heart/Droits au c÷ur collection, this animated film for five- to eight-year-olds puts the issue of children's rights in an international context.

Paris in the 1880s. The Impressionists dominate the art scene but a brilliant new talent is about to emerge. Georges-Pierre Seurat, artist extraordinaire and father of Pointillism, creates a style so revolutionary that it anticipated, over one hundred years ago, techniques used today in television and digital imagery. Seurat is an animated tribute to this visionary painter.

Shot on Super 8 for projections at the legendary sex party Fiend in 1992, this short reel features members of the queercore band Fagbash in solitary erotic exploits. Part portrait and part salacious dare, this work offers an ad hoc glimpse into unapologetic cruising and lust.

A pair of Siamese Twins live and work as part of a travelling fair. One dreams of being a rock and roll star, while the other dreams of scoring the winning goal for England in the 1966 World Cup final.

Another moving image tribute to personal autonomy. What do we as children of this planet consent to? And what are we told we have to participate in? Virtually without words.

Animated magazine cutouts of two men having sex lead into appropriated gay porn images, blurred to the point where they become abstract colour and motion. All this is set to pastoral sounds, sex noises, and a reporter's voice-over about the RCMP’s “fruit box” experiments - official and ludicrous attempts to expose closeted gay men.

film by Ayanna

Multiple camera passes of baroque statuary with a soundtrack of dripping water and a Louis Couperin prelude highly distorted. The centerpiece of the film is Kerry Laitala's Chattertonesque photographic self-portrait.

This is the true story of Malcolm Charles Smith who, like many Aboriginal people, was taken from his family as a child and died a shocking and early death after a life of institutionalisation and deprivation. In this documentary Richard Frankland, who helped investigate his death for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, revisits Smith's friends and family who tell the story of Malcolm's life and death.

An expanded version of a 13-minute short screened in 1991, Beyond Outcasts has since been labeled "counterrevolutionary" by the Cuban government. It is a shocking critique of Cuba's AIDS policy.

An Africanesque lesbian finds what she wants only after she stops looking for it.

Autumn has ended and Frost has arrived. He covered the earth with fluffy feather beds, dressed the animals in white fur coats, and bound the rivers with ice. Watching how women spun lace, painted on the stove and decorated pies, Morozik decides to follow them, drawing beautiful patterns on the windows.

With an all Indian crew, Victor Masayesva visited tribal communities in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Washington and the Amazon to produce this film.

1992 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

The disciple of a Chinese master attempts to use what he learned defeat an evil Chinese master after he plots to use his girlfriend's virginal blood to resurrect a demon. With a low budget not affording much in the way of special effects or art direction (it takes place almost entirely outdoors), a cast of no-name actors and a soundtrack filled with stolen popular music from other countries, this 'B' flick is considered low grade in its country of origin.

Puppet cartoon in which a dreamy boy creates a whole world in his imagination, imagining himself as the captain of a sailing ship.

A brownie has settled in a shopkeeper's large house. He especially liked the porridge that his rich owner treated him to.

Whatley Quarry’s class 59 locomotive fleet filmed in 1992 when the four locomotives had just entered service with ARC Ltd. Part 1 Whatley Quarry rail development The quarrying operation The Class 59 purchase decision The loco‘s specification Construction by General Motors in Canada Delivery Namings Maintenance Cab controls The class 59 revolutionised the stone carrying business. Just one locomotive can haul a train weighing in excess of 4000 tons. Part 2 Road test from Whatley to Westbury Former BR Traction Inspector Chris Crompton and former ARC Rail Traffic Controller Rob Jacob ride aboard loco 59102 with a fully laden stone train. They provide a ‘live’ running commentary on the performance of the loco along with a Driver’s eye view of both the privately owned Whatley branch and the former BR main line. Finally, we see the train’s arrival and unloading at Theale Distribution Depot in Berkshire.

A brief statement on inner and outer beauty...

Documentary about the pastor Oskar Brüsewitz who commited public self-immolation in 1976 as a protest against the suppression of religious freedom in East Germany.

Gwen Mallory is an abused wife who is having a secret affair with office manager, Nick Bevan. Nick decides it is time to free Gwen from her painful existence with her husband Vinny, so with the help of his co-worker, Martin (who has a shady past), he hires a hit-man to kill Vinny. By doing this, Nick has set off a chain of events that will totally shatter his world and put he and his lover in mortal danger.

Short film by Leighton Pierce.

A film by Tacita Dean

William S. Burroughs, footage of the Shotgun Paintings from the 1980's.

Over its thirteen year history, Camel Trophy has become the world's greatest amateur adventure expedition, testing both man and machinery to their limits. From dense jungle tracks to flooded savannah plains, Camel Trophy '92 covered some of the most diverse and spectacular scenery in South America. Equipped with identically prepared Land Rover Discoverys, the sixteen amateur teams from four continents set off from Manaus, Brazil on their 1600km journey, covering some of the remotest and formidable territory in the world before reaching their destination of Georgetown, Guyana. Participants soon realise that no one man can hope to achieve this goal alone. Team work, patience and above all, a sense of humour play a vital role if the convoy is to reach its final destination.

Inspired by the controversy surrounding the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America, Portillo has fashioned a fanciful version of a courtroom were Columbus to return from his grave to stand trial. Cross-examined by the Latino comedy group, Culture Clash, Columbus is charged with atrocities against the Native peoples of the New World, including the rape and violent treatment of women. Satire and parody rule in this dynamic document about American history and colonization.

The protagonists of this documentary are three Palestinian women in a state of internal exile. Dalal, arrested at sixteen for associating with a terrorist organization, returns home after twelve years in an Israeli prison only to face rejection, both because she adopted a male role and because she is a single woman. Um Muhammad, a peasant living in a refugee camp, places her trust in God alone, while Mary Chass, a Christian from Haifa, moved to Gaza only to find herself and her family were strangers there. The film addresses the notion of the ‘other’ from various perspectives, but privileges the perspective of Palestinian women, removed from the focal point of the Palestinian struggle, isolated behind their veil.

A searing documentary about the homeless people and shantytown dwellers of Tehran that has been banned.

Directed by Sandra Nashaat.