Cinematic Era: 1993 Vintage

Snapshot from the life of two men, Gary and Jeff, who met in the street on a Sunday morning and now reflect on life and death. Both are gay and both are sero-positive. Shot in black & white in a uniquely economical style.

In this montage a melding of camera original and found material hints at a realization which is evident only in the fissures of splintered associations. Obscured among visceral absurdities and lightweight witticisms there seeps a viscera, an acrid recollection, coiled in the intangibles of puzzled shadows.

"FaerieFilm" is Eugene Salandra's 1993 animated documentary short about the Radical Faeries. Audio interviews with seven members of the New York Faerie community in the early 1990's are combined with colorful animated images.

Cinematic flicker: flicker is introduced into the flutter of butterflies shot from small books. My intention was, here as elsewhere, to animate what is inexorably locked up in the fixity of typographic ink in a book. In this attempt, I brought into play the rhythm of some erotic film images, making butterflies and eros pulsate together.

An allegorical found footage film mix, featuring fragments of TV ads of Calvin Klein fragrances, feature films about the Nazis, and Leni Riefenstahl’s works from the 1930s. With added iconic images of the Third Reich – photos of Nazi architecture and sculptures by Albert Speer and Arno Breker. Digging into the “unconscious” of contemporary advertising, the artist traces its aesthetic genealogy. Toporowicz’s analyses (with the element of allegorical meaning added to the films) reveal the extent to which contemporary commercialised visual culture maintains fascination with Nazi aesthetics.

In early times, evil spirits were thought to possess people and make them act in strange and frightening ways. By the 1800's, the study of this hysteria led some doctors to believe one person could have separately functioning personalities. In this rare research film from the 1920's, a woman has different personalities who believes they are separate people. One is a male that is not comfortable in women's clothes. Another is a small child. The affliction has been known by different names, but recognized for centuries. Today it is called multiple personality disorder. Why have they become tormented and broken into different personalities? What is the childhood pain that lies buried in the unknown depths of their mind? How can they search for the deadly memories that holds the secrets of their paths and the promise of their healing?

Based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai, Blind Man's Bluff takes a bittersweet look at the life of a young Israeli woman. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her parents' house in search of her own identity. She moves into a small apartment but remains caught in a lattice of demanding relationships. Tension increases as Micki tries to succeed in the classical music world. Her eclectic new neighbors, though, introduce her to a new world of desires in which Micki finds the courage to confront her problems and emerge as an independent and mature woman.

Analog video by Milan Bukovac which interprets television as a dictator of our perceptual habits.

A Taylor comes to town looking for top-quality leather. From his apartment window, he watches the comings and goings of the other inhabitants. He grows obsessed with a woman who is also desired by the rich, powerful owner of the building. The rivalry between the two men leads to a series of events culminating in a dramatic ending.

An independent, shot on video horror anthology featuring three stories that aim to shock and terrify: Satan's Necklace, Sliced in Coldblood, and Level 21.

In this campy send-up of the James Bond flicks, evil Blofelch Industries plots to rule the world by supplying the antidote for an impotence-causing virus -- which the company unleashed. It's up to Lames Blond (John Wardlaw), aka Agent Double O Zero, and CIA operative Felix Heavier (Bill Garst) to scotch the villainous plan. Along the way, the duo battles the malevolent Mr. Cowabunga and seductress Sherly Bilt (Suzannah LeGault).

En vivo 1993 Argentina (Spanish: Live 1993 Argentina) is a live album of Hermética. It was recorded in 1993 in Stadium.

Recorded in 1993 during Raffi’s record-setting run at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, this concert is a celebration of all that we love on this big, beautiful planet. This stylish production delighted New York Children and their families with some of Raffi’s most exciting and moving performances.

Features the works "Flipper" by Leslie Signer, "handmirror/brush set included" by Liz Canning, "Convulsive Stripper," by Monet Clark, "I Love You Mom," by Madeleine Altman, and the live staging of the performance piece "Goldfinger" by Meg Mack.

Sam Tucker was just released from prison. Now, he stalks the Utah desert searching for his next victims-brutally torturing them until his bloodlust is satisfied. But in a strange twist of fate, Tucker finds that he himself is being stalked. What once was a killer's joyride is now a desperate fight for survival.

In a cafe, people talk, their words become expresively-shaped balloons. An older waiter tries to connect with a young woman who's reading. She brushes him off, but gets into an animated and romantic conversation with a young man. A dog goes from table to table drinking beer and wine when people aren't looking. Older men talk about sexual conquests until one of their wives interrupts them. The young couple argues; he starts to leave, she pleads, he leaves anyway. The waiter tries to help. Old guys talk until they nod off. Women chat. Later, as the waiter cleans up, the finds the young woman's book. He sighs, the dog sleeps it off.

No one infuses power ballads with the blues quite like Foreigner, and the band breaks out its best in this entry in the SOUNDSTAGE series. The 1980s pop superstars wow fans with "Cold as Ice," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Feels Like the First Time," and 13 additional blasts from the past.

This documentary explores a real-world interpretation of the 1967 Leonard C. Lewin book, The Report from Iron Mountain.

A lonely ranchwife's life is changed when a Japanese-American man's pilgrimage to the west opens new horizons when he returns to the former concentration camp where his family was interned during World War II.

To entertain the guests at a party, a little pale girl is asked to recite some rhymes. But these rhymes are not childish in the least.

Based on Grimm's fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats," this animated film tells a menacing story from the age of consumerism and media. The kids admire the wolf as a hero on television and fail to recognize his dangerousness even when he stands at their front door. Only the youngest kid finds a hiding place from him—in the television. Although their mother rescues the kids from the wolf's belly, he has already left his mark.

"Un bel dì vedremo", from Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, sung by Felicia Weathers. The story of Cio-Cio-San's tragedy is rendered through animation in the style of traditional Japanese watercolors.

The set of "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper" provided the backdrop for ABC's 1993 Saturday Morning Preview Special, highlighting the new and returning kids' programming for the upcoming season.

A 1993 Russian language short film written and directed by Vladimir Tyulkin, starring Ivan Makhlin, Aleksey Katsovitch and Elena Shemyakina.

The musical by Pepe Cibrián Campoy and Ángel Mahler tells the story of the deformed Quasimodo and the gypsy Esmeralda in which love triumphs over beauty.

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising director, creating 25 films in 25 years. Internationally honored and beloved for his poignant, often irresistibly wry view of the human condition, Truffaut embodied the auteur's intimate grasp of the film medium. This documentary package -- a special supplement to Truffaut's films in The Criterion Collection -- is a multi-feature tribute that includes Truffaut's rare 1957 film, Les Mistons -- which foreshadowed The 400 Blows.

Construction camp! A film about routines and fantasies on a building site, shot at World Square and featuring the work of dancer and choreographer Mathew Bergan. Commissioned by the SBS program Carpet Burns.

The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Even for sheep.

For his own trauma, which he hates but cherishes. There is a man who was sexually violated as a child. He is troubled by the presence of another self, who appears before his eyes and reminds him of that time. The man hates the boy, but not completely, as he tries to control him by force but cannot. The boy silently adores the man. In the end, the two decide to live together in a world that is always looking for curiosity. The psychological symbols hidden here and there are not only rhetorical but also beautiful and striking enough as visuals to give a sense of sadness born of inevitability. The fact that the faces of the people are not shown clearly gives the film the effect of a scene from a dream.

The second in Wang Haibing’s ‘Three Families’ trilogy (which also includes 1991’s Northern Tibetan Family and 2000’s Days in the Mountains) -- all of which won the Sichuan International TV Festival “Golden Panda” award in their years of premiere. This is the story of an ordinary farmer in the mountainous Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province, a place called Fankuai. The river flowing through Fankuai is called Qianhe, and upstream of the Qianhe River is the town of Bailixia. There is no road or electricity in the Bailixia area; and the only means of transportation is boats. The mountain people use the boat to carry their goods and freight their living supplies. Nowadays, though, a new road leads up to the mountain area — the boatmen’s livelihood may end with the opening of this road, and so the boatman and his family are faced with new choices.

A young boy from the province goes to the city for the first time and learns about the urban life through the characters inside a jeepney.

Based on his ever-changing performance Indian Tails, this video features Luna sitting alone in his darkened room in front of the TV on Christmas Eve. As he sits, he calls friends, family and ex-lovers, excusing himself from all their celebrations. Luna tells us, "In the work there is a thin line between what is fictional and what is non-fiction, and what is real emotion and what is art. … There is a cultural element where I let (or seem to let) people in on American Indian cultures. There are also elements in the work about American culture that everyone can identify with, and that makes for an understanding that we are all more alike than different."

A seven month journey on foot through Italy from the Swiss-Italian border down to Sicily, with a rucksack containing a camera, a tape recorder, and the traveller's tale "A Walk to Syracuse in 1802" by the German author Johann Gottfried Seume. A cinematic essay on travelling, the south and Arcadian longings; on everyday life in Italy in the year of the soccer world cup and the death of Alberto Moravia; on Italian rain and nights in Rome; on the landscapes of childhood and on the fact that strangers are the only exotic in Italy.

Two children work very hard to buy the ball they dream of so much. When they manage to buy it, it falls inside a house, and the owner, angry, destroys it. From then on the boys try to locate the mysterious adult.

The Execution Protocol tells the harrowing story behind capital punishment in Missouri. It follows the daily lives of three condemned men and focuses on the execution team as well. "We are the instruments of the people and the justice system," say the officials. But the condemned men respond, "What they do is murder, as premeditated as any man here committed."

The fourth in a four-part video art series produced by duo Christiane Dellbrügge and Ralf de Moll in the early-'90s, this piece continues the series' themes of incorporating art theory into video art, particularly through the juxtaposition of words and images. Here, text exploring the intersections and conflicts between electronic media and the creation/reception of new media art is dissected into individual words that are then pair with split-second images and sound clips, typed across the montage until it fills the screen.

A short animated film, adapted from the Jack London story "Moon-Face."

A young painter, and his somewhat slower roommate, talk of paranormal occurrences in a room of charcoal canvasses and ephemeral renderings. Eavesdrop on the improbable and the impossible (BUT TRUE!).

Interview with southern gays and lesbians highlight the issues surrounding being "Out" in the south as well as the impact of AIDS on the rural south.

Along with the album 220 Volt Live the video Three Phase was released in 1993. The video imagery is arranged according to the tracks of the soundtrack with emphasis on the Seattle 1992 concert. Short vintage shots of the band retrospective have been edited down from 16 hours of archival film supplied by TD. Live shots are mixed up with pictures of three bicycles pedaling in the desert (Dolls In The Shadow), a despaired man on the streetcorner (Treasure Of Innocence), neon effects and San Francisco night shots (Oriental Haze), night skies (Graffiti Street and Backstreet Hero), colourful geometric patterns (Phaedra) and older shots with longhaired Chris Franke and Johannes Schmoelling (Hamlet).

The visuals of the Heavy Electronics festival held in Ubstadt/Weiher, Germany, in 1993. Featuring Genocide Organ, Brighter Death Now, The Grey Wolves, Con-Dom, Advokat Ihrer Hoheit, and Deutsch Nepal.

The world as a plaything for a giantess from outer space. A Godzilla-imitation on the way to herself: the giantess from outer space in the streets of a big city, fooling around, producing destruction, copulating with the Eiffel Tower. An orchestra of big feelings, the melodrama, defamed in infantile sounds and absurd costume, in make-up-persiflage and grotesque body-art-performances.

A hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to create varieties of tempo in mimic of sparking and molten rock.

This film deals with the atrocities of war as portrayed by a film student who spends some time working as a medic. One of the duties he performed was to carry amputated limbs to the cremation furnace. This is a film about the collective madness that engulfed Sarajevo. A one-armed boy is troubled because he can't make big, firm snowballs; a man who lost both legs demonstrates walking on his stumps... The film and the director's story help us understand the commotion and tumult that have occurred in the minds of Sarajevans.

Directed by Alain Ferrari and Thierry Ravalet.

Documentary on a year in the life of the Choir of King's College Cambridge. Amongst the choristers featured are cellist Guy Johnston and current Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral Ashley Grote.

Playwright and poet Aleksandr Volodin looks back at his life and career.

Portrait of the mexican composer Conlon Nancarrow and his player piano.

Humorous cut-out animation based around the mysterious designer of the Soviet Space Programme during the 1950s and 60s - Sergei Korolev.

In this brightly coloured animation, Prince Cosmos and Princess Solitaire, bored with their palace lifestyle, decide to go and stay on a desert island in a giant's timeshare.

The Jenkins family are selected by a computer to be the first visitors of the nation’s newest and most exciting theme park - Thatcherworld.

Masao is a clumsy, timid, weak, and frequently bullied university student. Every day, he is relentlessly bullied by Yoshizawa’s gang, along with his dog. Still, Masao instantly becomes happy whenever he catches a glimpse of his beloved Sayaka.