Cinematic Era: 1993 Vintage

A story of the redemptive powers of Christ's love - a janitor becomes the leader of a high school youth group with an unconventional approach. He gradually gets through to the kids relying on his faith.

The second short in the series Karo and Piyobupt by Koji Yamamura

A film essay about the formal similarities between Michelangelo Antonioni and Alfred Hitchcock's work.

In 1972 a family are on their way for a holiday in Essex. The parents argue and the son swears, making obscene gestures. So the father throws him out, drives on and crashes the car. The grandmother flags down a car with three men in it. Too late she recognises one as the man who shot a neighbour...

A gut wrencher of deadly thrills. Dozens of hair raising, action packed stunts are featured in this daredevil super show.

This short animation details Brian's birth and the travails of his early life without the top of his head.

A privately run, popular and thriving obstetrics and gynaecology clinic in a certain town has good reputation, with skilled doctor and kind nurses. However, when couples come in for artificial insemination, the nurse assists the husbands in extracting sperm, and the doctor secretly enjoys himself with the women's genitals, among other rather extreme sexual services. When doctor and the nurse are exposed to the various sexual problems and behaviours of the patients who visit the clinic every day, they gradually begin to lose faith in humanity, and eventually the two are drawn to each other...

A "narrative" thread that emerges from a young man’s body connects a series of objects, people and scenarios.

Autobiographical notes about bringing up children. A birth, the bite in the umbilical cord, a baby between sheets of music. Mimi fiddles educationally on a violin without strings, offers her breast and enjoys the little king with an improvised hysterical performance, and suddenly starts with Dadaistic oracles, letting the blead dance and carrying the child out into big wide world.

A report from Spångens Snickeri in Norrköping, where disabled and odd people work. Each one works to their own ability. The film is about the essentials of life – about community and love, and about what and who really is different. A film about everyday occurrences in a new light.

By interrupting film in the developing stage, the film offers an exploration of the chemical properties of the medium.

A hilarious and moving tribute to the famous comedy duo Abbott and Costello, featuring classic routines, TV appearances, bloopers, and more.

Don Peping won't stop, until he exact revenge to Victor (Vic Sotto). Victor is now a jeepney driver after Don Peping fired him from being a taxi driver for carrying misfortune.

The last eight surviving Munchkins from The Wizard of Oz share their memories in this 1993 documentary hosted by Oz historian John Fricke.

The life path of Patriarch Tikhon (in the world of Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, a native of the town of Toropets) is a real discovery for his contemporaries. Elected the first Patriarch of Moscow since pre-Petrine times and He was called to pastoral ministry in the most difficult years — during the revolution and The Civil War. He was persecuted and persecuted by the Soviet government, becoming a martyr. In 1981, Patriarch Tikhon was glorified as one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

“Sardar Gurcharan Singh was the father of studio pottery in India. "Daddyji" as most called him lovingly was very close to my father. I often tagged along to visit his home studio where pottery wheels were lined up under the big neem trees in his old brick house. My father wanted me to make a film on Daddyji, who was then 95. He was afraid that Daddyji's wonderful story would be left untold. He not only introduced studio pottery in India but due to his longevity, mentored many potters. So despite not knowing anything about films, I made the documentary, Imprint in Clay with a classmate of mine, which was mostly funded by my father.”

Anna leaves Nice to go to Paris after ending a painful relationship. She soon finds a job there as an interpreter for Vincent, a selfish and self-confident architect. The game of seduction can then begin between Anna, Vincent and his intriguing wife

Sequel to a documentary that followed the lives of five very different teenaged girls over the course of a full year.

Deals with the memories of Palestinian female guerilla fighters, currently in their forties, who were involved in military operations during their teen years.

Before there was Tinder and on-line dating, thousands of singles flocked to the Concord Hotel’s famed weekends. Situated in the Catskill Mountains, these unattached people mixed and mingled in a high-pressure atmosphere eagerly looking for love.

The Grove is the second part of Lawrence Jordan's H.D. Trilogy. It continues what began with THE BLACK OUD (again featuring Joanna McClure as the catalyst) and concludes in STAR OF DAY.

A look at the work of the US police.

Toy Porno is a self-released experimental art film by The Frogs. The amateur videotape was compiled in October 1993, as a gift for Kurt Cobain. It would soon become frequent viewing material on the Nirvana tour bus, and later on the Foo Fighters tour bus as well. Later, after generated copies began circulating amongst fans, the band began selling copies at shows. The tape is only available in VHS format. The file is available for download online in various outlets.

K-1 Grand Prix '93 was a martial arts event held by the K-1 organization on April 30, 1993, at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. It was the inaugural K-1 World Grand Prix, featuring an eight-man tournament fought under K-1 rules (3 min. × 3 rounds + 1 extra round). The eight tournament qualifiers were all invited on the basis of their achievements in the kickboxing world. As well as tournament matches there was also a full contact karate bout between Andy Hug and Nobuaki Kakuda. The event featured ten fights with fighters representing seven countries.

Documentary about a wrestling associating located in a mental ward.

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.

The lifelong friendship of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.

A fairy tale that tells us that even an "idea" can be worth more than gold. Vašek wants to ask for the princess's hand in marriage. So he pretends to be Grandfather Know-All to get something extraordinary to give her as a gift. Grandfather gives him a non-existent magic fly. Kvido and Jáchym are also competing for the princess's hand. In the end, Vašek wins over both competitors with the help of his idea. However, thanks to the magic fly, he realizes that even a princess may not be true happiness, so he returns to the simple girl Vendulka.

Documentary filmed behind the scenes at London Zoo as it struggles to survive in the face of financial difficulties following the withdrawal of government subsidies.

May 1945. In a small town of the province of Kazakhstan, far from the front of the war draws to a close, young Vladik and Mary, and Akezhan, a boy a bit ‘largest are among the displaced. It is through the eyes of the latter, his feelings and his reactions, that we enter into intimacy with the different characters and their stories.

Dr. Rottenberg, the greatest Martian scientist, comes to Planet Earth to make preparations for a wild invasion involving re-animated Earth bodies, Martian zombies and teenagers playing in the woods. Criaturas Hediondas is one of the first Brazilian Shot On Video (SOV) to have national distribution via VHS tapes that were marketed in stands at grindcore, death metal and punks shows, becoming a reference (at the time) in the national underground. The video was filmed with a VHS camera and mounted from video to video, in an analog way.

8mm film by Tachibana Kaoru

Post-Porn Modernist documents Sprinkle’s various personae: virgin, whore, sex-positive feminist, tantric sex explorer, business woman, and goddess, which she performed in over 20 countries from 1989 through 1994. The show deconstructed and explored her careers as a sex worker, porn star, erotic educator, sexual healer, pro domme, and artist.

Two Bank Robbers, CARL and BENNY, are making their own GET AWAY from the city. With every one on a collision course for the Australian outback town of Gulargambone, what looked like quiet weekend in the country quickly turns into a noisy nightmare. CARL and his sidekick BENNY rob banks, but the GET AWAY car won't start. RICK quickly becomes lost then is shot at, while at home his best friend has an affair with his girlfriend. Meanwhile SUZETTE who has no money and loves to shop lift, steals RICK'S car. Finally after a madcap car chase RICK arrives at the Midday Motel. Here the tide turns and after a life of taking orders, RICK is forced to stand up for himself, make a decision and change the course of his life. In between sight seeing, breaking down, stealing cars, and machete welding cafe owners RICK and SUZETTE fall in love.

By making even the smallest changes in our daily lives we can all make a difference.

Musical with many classic songs

An educational video with Swedish sex-symbol Christina Lindberg as the host. Christina tells us about the most usual swedish mushrooms and gives us some ideas about how to spend a good day hunting them.

The crew of the Starship Spacehustle BG76 led by their fearless Captain, Steven J. Fever, intently search for a way back to their former world of the 1970s and to boldly boogie where no one has boogied before.

A Mexican scientist flees the US for Mexico with a secret formula he discovered to benefit his country. However, the US government is unwilling to let that information slip away and send a CIA agent to retrieve it.

The story of little Omylka, strong in his faith in goodness, purity, friendship and the great Hndrigul, who was born by human indifference to some essential parts of life. A television production of a rock fairy tale - a clown show about good and evil with an ecological subtext.

Animations from a course at The Animation Center - Tel Aviv Cinematheque, winter.

How do blind people perceive the world and which sensory impressions remain hidden from sighted people? The experimental film explores this question in a multi-layered way. A sculptor's workshop, a painting museum and an orchestra become the settings for the richness that the perceptions of the different senses bring with them. Sound and image merge and bring the theme to life.

This arresting vision of a city's secrets is composed of over 8000 drawings worked on by director, writer, animator, producer Cathy Linsley in her bedroom.

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

Hi-mi-tsu no Nichiyobi. Short 8mm film by Toshihiko Omote.

An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird".

An alien starship commanded by a robot Jay Seven, shipwrecks on earth. Jay Seven is helped in going back to his planet by a twelve year old boy, Bob. When Bob goes back to earth he finds out that five years have elapsed and he has to adjust himself to the new reality.

In a closed room in the city, madness is contagious. On a rainy summer night, Kitamura, a dull office worker, accidentally stabs a man with his umbrella. On his way home, he accidentally opens the door to a room one floor below. The woman who comes out is surprised but welcomes him kindly, cheerfully introducing him to her sister as "the man who is going to marry me, the murderer". His fiancée, who has come to take Kitamura back, confronts the madness but becomes its victim. The situation takes an unexpected turn. The absurd tragedy of one misplaced wheel leading to another is captured in soft-toned black and white. In the director's own words, "A scandalous funeral march that throws a stone at the current age of hyper-individualism begins to play quietly.

Live in Germany was recorded on October 2, 1993, in Koblenz, Germany during the "El camino del exceso" tour. The performance includes 14 of their top songs.

The wish to unglue himself from the ground, to rise above it with only the strength oh his muscles, has been one of man’s oldest yearnings yet to come true. The story of the film is a result of the Mayor’s wish to have his Island enter aviation history, and the impotence of the chosen “flyer”, who in his blind passion for flying doesn’t even notice his wife’s affair with the mailman or the conspiracy of the village big shots, who are ready to sacrifice their neighbour for the dubious distinction of being written of as the first self powered aviator. The church bell, the stake for a successful flight, ends up on the “flyers” yard since the pilot has kept his word :”I will fly. I will rise, glide through the air, or I’ll never walk the ground again.”