Cinematic Era: 1992 Vintage

This story is about a chemist who can't quite seem to get any sleep, and when he does... he truly is terrified.

One family's quick thinking helps them to survive the 1870 fire in Saguenay, Quebec.

A collection of woodworkers' portraits, among them carvers and coopers, roof tilers and toymakers.

A tender but brash short film about the feeling of living in two worlds at once. Meriem, the child of Tunisian-French parentage, shuttles back and forth between Paris and Tunis, and between two men. It takes a long time for her to decide where she belongs.

17 award-winning films from around the world entered in the recent Los Angeles International Animation Competition.

Computer-quickie about air pollution.

A touching portrait of two women in love. Paula plans to go to Russia with her lover, Sylvia. When Sylvia dies, Paula prepares to make the trip alone. Still grieving for her recently deceased lover, she meets a Russian instructor who enables her to come to terms with her past and move on.

P.A.K. is an intensely personal document expressing the alienation, pain, and trauma of a prison experience. Using techniques of German expressionism, it examines the social and institutional forces that inform one's subjective self-definition. Stark contrasts, are combined with harsh prison reality with escape into the fantasy, beauty, and grace of classical ballet. The conflict is underscored by elements of the sound track: reverberating prison noises, the uncompromising music of punk rock and voice-over readings from the poetic works of notable writers and political prisoners Oscar Wilde and Breyton Bretonbach.

Three American nuns (who signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion), inspired by the Civil Rights Movement and encouraged by the internal reforms of Vatican II, accuse the Catholic Church of racism and sexism. A revealing portrait of a 2,000-year-old organization struggling to reconcile authority and conscience, tradition and the need for change.

An experimental video meditation exploring the artist’s position and placement in white culture. Continuing his search for identity within a fractured cultural environment, the artist reflects on his history of dislocation and negotiates with the boundaries that include aspects from within both the dominate White society and First Nations history and culture.

World Industries Love Child video featured Randy Colvin, Chico Brenes, Daniel Castillo, Jed Walters, Chris Branagh, Shiloh Greathouse, Spencer Fujimoto, Jovontae Turner and Daewon Song.

Musical Biography outlining the birth and rebirth of ELP

Filmed at The Stranglers inaugural fan convention along with a report and a live performance on 14th March 1992.

Six deaf performers-three women, three men- are brought together to devise staged pieces based on their experience of gay and deaf cultures intersecting, and the highly politicized nature of both in Britain. The result is a diverse, assertive collage, ranging from advice on how to seduce a librarian( in silence, of course), to the importance of short hair in visibly proclaiming your lesbianism and deafness: plus an essential beginner's guide to sexual signing. Shot entirely in British Sign Language with subtitles for the hearing.

Amang Capulong - Anak ng Tondo II: Directed by Toto Natividad. With Monsour Del Rosario, Tirso Cruz III, Rina Reyes, Johnny Delgado.

SOME DIVINE WIND - a rough translation referring to Japanese Kamikaze pilots (on 'God's wind') - is the story of Ben, an American-born young man of mixed parentage, whose father was part of a bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mother's village and killed her entire family during World War II. Although his father discovers this horrible coincidence when he meets his wife after the war, he keeps this realization secret. Eventually his father has a breakdown, confessing his tragic story, forcing Ben to be torn between his love of his parents and internal feelings of betrayal by his own fervent efforts to assimilate.

An experimental short by Barbara Freund and Rainer Bellenbaum shot in and around East Berlin in 1990.

After her one true love dies, Tessa is determined to continue living but when strange things start happening, she is convinced it is her dead lover, reaching out to her from beyond the grave.

While Millane's magnificent career may have ended in tragic circumstances on 7 October, 1991, his memory will live on. From his first game in 1984, to the crowning glory of the 1990 Premiership - in which he played despite a broken hand - the Darren Millane story isa compelling one.

Ramachari is a village simpleton, while his lookalike, Raja, is a foreign-educated wealthy industrialist. They switch places following a road accident, causing chaos.

2,000 years ago, two families escaped from the conflict between Mongolia and Turkic provinces and were forced into the Ergune-Kun gorge, where there was no other way to enter except for a narrow path. As a result, when their descendants multiplied and their land was no longer contained by the water, they all gathered together and discussed, and by breaking the dam, they made a hole by melting the mountainside.

A boy reminisces about the countryside, enticing people to remember that their large cities were once beautiful open landscapes of trees and rivers.

Graphic and disturbing degraded video signal experiment of faux snuff gore set to an industrial noise soundtrack.

About the housewife Elin Karlsson

The delirium of a neurotic advertising executive dissatisfied with life turns into a hallucinatory nightmare.

The Master of the Order of Unholy Power, who has ruled this order since the creation of the world, returns to his native hell after a long absence to be greatly surprised. The Grandmaster who has taken over the Order has drastically changed both foreign and domestic policy. In an effort to earn God's forgiveness, he has established an ironclad and virtuous order in Hell. He also intends to organize the same on Earth, so that people, like devils, began to walk in formation and eat semolina without salt and sugar. As a model for imitation Grandmaster chose the city of Perm, as the most law-abiding and obedient place on Earth. It is there, under the guise of a scientific conference, that a virtuous sabbath will take place, during which the future mother, chosen by astrologers, must marry one of the two candidates for the role of the father of the future messiah. Not the Antichrist, but exactly the messiah, with the kindest and most glorious tasks, to lead the pacified humanity.

Re-framing the media representation of the Los Angeles rebellion and contextualizing its significance by locating it historically and politically in a timeline with the pro-Democracy demonstrations in Beijing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the AIDS activist movement in the U.S.

In a small town, in a house, Mr. and Mrs. Pugh sit opposite one another, between them a book on the subject of the "greatest murders by poison", a source of inspiration for Mr. Pugh, and an incentive perhaps for Mrs. Pugh to bring about a change in her life.

Feature film.

Documentary Filmmakers go into Patton State Hospital, a 240 acre, maximum security facility housing the criminally insane. Get an inside look at the day to day lives of the criminally insane.

A husband is frustrated with his wife serving him the same meal every night, ape.

Recorded in the Southernaires' beloved hometown, this live performance from Jackson Municipal Auditorium in Mississippi features gospel legend Frank Williams in his final appearance with the Grammy-nominated quintet he helped found. Highlights include "It's Hard to Stumble (When You're on Your Knees)," "Walk Around Heaven (with the Lord)," "What's Wrong with People Today" and "Lord, We Need Your Blessings."

An honest police officer seeks revenge after being framed for murder in this Indian crime story. Corrupt cop Kalimuthu falsely implicates Muthumanickam in a homicide, and he winds up in jail. After serving time for the crime he didn't commit, Muthumanickam is determined to punish the guilty parties. But when Kalimuthu's daughter Radha becomes involved, his mission gets more complicated.

The story of a young, beautiful woman who suddenly finds out that she is terminally ill. After leaving a prestigious job in Moscow, she leaves for a small provincial town, where she finds herself on the verge of despair and meets true love.

A land surveyor lives in his own ordered world, until one day he allows himself to become aware of something which his measuring instruments do not enable him to comprehend further. Searching for a principle of order which will embrace his new experiences, he encounters new spheres of existence...

Strange Fish looks at our quest for someone to love and something, or someone, to believe in. The tyranny of couples and groups, the pain of not belonging and the fear of being alone are all laid bare in a series of powerful images. Strange Fish mixes humour, religious iconography and physicality, taking it beyond the boundaries of traditional dance.

A video designed to challenge existing models of AIDS treatment in our society. Using a collage of elements as well as techniques from video and performance, the themes of mourning, urgency and healing are explored in a poetic and highly charged video. Got Away in the Dying Moments suggests natural alternatives to the current treatments and attitudes that constrain our hearts and minds with respect to the AIDS crisis.

During the 2nd WW a mother have lost 5 boys out of 7. Constrained by unfavorable historical environment (imposed beginning of the communist era in Romania) makes that she will also lost the last 2.

Maren Kea-Freese's short film ZOE is about an elevator girl in Berlin's TV Tower on Alexanderplatz. It shows the daily life of a woman trying to find herself in a city that is itself in transition. ZOE was shot in 1992, not long after the reunification of Berlin. The poetic 16mm black and white imagery shows Eastern districts such as Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg before many buildings there were demolished or remodeled.

During the collectivization of the 1930s a red army soldier is troubled by the affection he feels for the young wife of a "class enemy."

On Christmas Day, Kitty and Mimmy's childhood friend Daniel comes to visit them from New York. They are very happy. However, there is a heavy snowfall in New York on the day, and planes are unable to fly...

Female inmates find themselves the helpless victims of a bizarre weapons testing experiment... but there’s much more going on than it first appears. Can the police woman whose sister is one of the unfortunate victims stop these brutal killings? Or will she just become the next target?

Based on stories by Mykhailo Mohylanskyi. The traditional love triangle—husband, wife, and a third party who appears unexpectedly—ends with an unexpected finale.

Two lesbian hit women are hired to bump each other off in Heidi Kull's darkyl romantic animated film noir.

Luo Ming quits her job as an accountant and despite her husband's objections opens a bar in South China and counsels married couples.

After months on a drawing board, a wooden puppet suddenly comes to life in front of his creator, discovers his body and walks. Thinking he was alone, he stops, surprised and intimidated to be watched by his creator, and bows to thank him for bringing him to life.

Short animated dance film, the first from a series about the street-sweeper Bala, is set in Paris where Bala meets a spider, a street-sweeper and a green dancer.

"Ghost Body" is a personal meditation on the ambivalences of interracial male homosexuality.

His passion for justice puts him again on the path of violence. A dangerous killer from the past has made his family the next victim.