Cinematic Era: 1993 Vintage

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

LIVE RIPPER is a home video by B'z, released on December 9, 1993 on VHS and LaserDisc. The release features the majority of the finale to their tour event B'z LIVE-GYM Pleasure'93 "JAP THE RIPPER" with interviews and rehearsals also included.

When a farmer begins to slaughter his pigs, the remaining swine build a pig that is more than he bargained for...

TOOL performs Live at the Reading Festival. Lineup includes "Intolerance" "Undertow" "Sober" "Opiate" "Flood" and "Jerk-Off"

The leitmotif of this work is the peculiarity, which can be found in many people, of gradually assuming the characteristics of islands. This central theme with its documentary approach is improvised upon in three sequences ("The Turtle Island", "Single Malt" and "Dino's Island")

Starring Timothy Leary

Persian remake of Home Alone

Showing a day from the life of an ordinary young Georgian obsessed with the instinct of self-destruction, desperate protest and morbid nihilism, this film is one of the last Georgian films created at the period of the collapse of the USSR in 1989 1990. Levan Glonti does a wonderful job at portraying a collapse of an empire reflected in the collapse of an individual. Dge (The Day) was released soon after the break up of the Soviet Union, in 1991.

A summer in Ostrobothnia, Finland, with the Swedish country and western singer/songwriter and artist Alf Robertson. He grew up in Gamlestaden in Gothenburg went to sea on M / S Canada in 1957 when he was only 15 years old. In the spring of 1961, Alf Robertson was in New York. At 42nd street he discovered a Record-Yourself-Kiosk. He put in a coin and began to sing the slightly cheeky children's song "Doctor Lisa on touches the tummy", and this record became the first of Alf Robertson. In all he produced 50 albums and about 150 songs during his lifetime.

In 1993, on the 100th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, Wen Pulin mobilized the “Sun 100” series of artistic activities, staging programs at official institutions featuring avant-garde artists in Mao’s hometown, Shaoshan. The film "Sun 100" was intended to be a document of that work, representing the country and the nation thinking about a specific quandary: What is the spiritual heritage that's been left behind by Mao Zedong, if there is any at all? Wen planned for the film to show at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Festival, but withdrew it, and has never finished it, stating that his own views on Mao have shifted. 17 discs worth of footage (roughly 28 hours) from the unfinished film are included in the Wen Pulin Avant-Garde Art Archive held at Cornell University in the U.S.

Curtis Calhoun just isn't in the mood for Christmas and wishes it would all go away. It appears he gets his wish, at least until he finds a strange little man in a red suit stuck in his chimney on Christmas Eve. Is it a cat burglar in disguise, or is it really Santa Claus with a very special Christmas gift for the discouraged Curtis Calhoun?

Robert Sens lives in a degenerate future society. He is an apathetic bureaucrat in a society without values. He finally learns from his foster father that he has already become the victim of a genetic experiment as an egg cell. The latter has separated Robert's hereditary traits of reason, pleasure and aggression and cut up copies of his egg cell. The emotionally cold Robert is left only with reason, but the late side effects cause his cells to deteriorate. To escape the threat of cell death, he sets out to find his genetic brothers.

Even before she discovers she is pregnant, Christine Kinsey's life is spiraling downward at a fast pace. She uses cocaine with her boyfriend, Gabriel; she has a destructive relationship with her mother and she coasts day-to-day at her job. Tragedy strikes when Christina's daughter, Lynn, is born prematurely, addicted to cocaine, and is taken away from her.

While passing the Iranian borders illegally 6 persons are captured by a terrorist group Af'i. The boss of the group is Baktash and they have rivals who are fight them. Meanwhile one of the 6 captured is Shahin who is a secret agent of the Iranian government.

At a very young age, Imran start to be responsibble towards caring his siblings and his family business after the death of his parents in an accident. Can he uphold the responsibilities?

Maria do Carmo discovers she is HIV positive. On impulse, she goes to the home of João, her former partner. Three lives, two relationships. Two women and one man.

The whole of Bredenau wants to celebrate the indestructible Manda Voss with a huge party on her 106th birthday. For grandson Albert, the venue can of course only be his inn. But cousin Henning, the mayor, has other plans for election reasons. Only the jubilarian is not asked. This leads to a lot of hustle and bustle and surprises.

Surrealist animation involving a nightmarish hairdresser's.

Jonah's merry journey to the fair, where he wanted to buy a barrel.

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1992 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

An action film based on an Aguila Komiks series.

Presentation by Bob Dean

A man and a woman meet after a long unexplained separation. Gradually over the course of a strained and oblique conversation, the nature of their shared past is revealed. This film grew out of a casual conversation between feminist writer and filmmaker Shameem Akhter and Masud. When Shameem mentioned the plot of a feminist short story she had written, Masud immediately suggested it be made into a short film. Shameem herself plays the female role, while noted actor Pijush Bandhapadhyay plays the mysterious male visitor who turns up at her door. The theme of an independent working woman, supporting a family household, was new to Bangladesh cinema in the early 1990s. This reflected the changing face of a rapidly urbanizing society with a growing population of educated wage- earning women, and in some ways paralleled the developments of Satyajit Ray’s 1963 classic Mahanagar. In this sense Se was a pioneering work for Bangladesh in expressing the new feminist ethos of the 1990s generation.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Okura Eiga.

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In an age when every fast food place seems the same, diners have remained distinctive, fun places to stop, full of local flavor. This program takes a look at several of the most interesting diners in Pennsylvania, and also considers a few other roadside restaurants (like Midway Plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike) that have interesting histories and reputations for good “home-cooked” food. So get a cup of coffee. Have a seat. And come along as we visit great little restaurants from Wellsboro to Downingtown, from Milford to Conneaut Lake. Let’s go to Potato City, to the Melrose in Philly and to unforgettable little places from Pittsburgh to Poconos. Whether it’s the middle of the night in State College or lunchtime in Smethport, this documentary gives you an unusual taste of Pennsylvania and some of its quirkier cuisine.

These images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience. Yet, that residue is recognition of an image that has somehow survived the experience, recalling the event, like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames. When I began working with film and photography in a materially oriented way, I thought that by working with the surface altering and affecting it I could leave my identity, my personality." - Carl E.Brown

"Awakening from the 20th Century" contends with the collision between the actual and the virtual in the city of San Francisco. "Is life becoming virtual?" Lord asks. "Are we witnessing the end of the City? Will the computer replace the automobile?" These questions are taken up by six prominent writers, musicians, and multi-media workers, who describe their own shifting relationships to technology and public space within the city. Awakening from the 20th Century is structured around imagery from several San Francisco sites: the broadcast transmission tower Sutro Tower; "Critical Mass," an activist bicycle event; and locations from the Dashiel Hammet Walking Tour, which are interspersed with scenes from The Maltese Falcon.

The feeling to ride a 1200cc...feel the wind blow through the hair... Wow!

No Choice is a short documentary that deals with the abortion issue and how it relates to women living in poverty. Five women, ranging in age from twenty to forty speak about the lack of choice available to poor people and how, because of their poverty, their reproductive capabilities are often controlled by extraneous factors. Part of the National Film Board of Canada's "Five Feminist Minutes."

If "light" is the protagonist of film, the idea would not change if "darkness" replaces "light". Yoshimoto proves this point with most simplicity. Placing a tiny point of ray in pitch black, his darkness achieves a limitless depth. This style goes under trial from around 1988 – a squirming object in drowning darkness goes through a transition from a solid machinery part to a soft Japanese architectural fixture to a misty female figure. Each of the objects, a subject of fancy, is placed in good balance, mingling with Rei Harakami's sound effects. This is one of Yoshimoto's most intense works.

Lorenzo Fabbri is a guy who is kidnapped and imprisoned in a cave of Aspromonte. After trying every way to achieve liberation of his son, the mother Elena decides to give life to a desperate protest: enchains on the square in a Calabrian village putting up a sign saying "Free My Son." A dramatic challenge of citizens and the impotence of the police.

TV dramatisation of a novella by Austrian writer L. Ingrisch.

An enigmatic film historian endeavors to unravel the mystery of what may be the world's first ever motion picture.

András comes to Budapest because he failed at his school-leaving exam and he would like his aunt, a maths teacher to prepare him for the next exam. The boy wants to be an actor and intends to get to Hollywood once. His cousins and friends are making a film.

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

Interview, newsreel & performance footage of this twilight zone exotica princess. Includes substantial material documenting her Russian tour of 1961.

In The Intruder Part 1, a young woman (Vanessa Carlton) is stalked by a rapist (David Shore) and then held captive by her attacker until he’s ready to act! In The Intruder Part 2, Vanessa Carlton stars as Devlin, the cop who can’t seem to bring her suspects in alive and in one piece! After her last experience in, Devlin finds herself going undercover in a seedy go-go bar as a dancer in an attempt to stop a serial killer! Her superior, Lt. Juliano (GW Lawrence), has set her up as the next target. But unknown to all of them, a person from her past may cause her untimely death!

Jay Ward is a 21st century private eye who uses a time machine to solve a case of a three year old girl kidnapped before he was born.

Animated short based on an old Japanese folktale

The film uses songs, drawings, amateur films, photos and fragments of texts by Stanisław Staszewski.

Frank has checked into a cheap hotel with the intention of using his pistol to commit suicide there. However, just as he is putting the pistol to his head, a lengthy earthquake begins, and makes it impossible for him to aim as he had intended to. The earthquake also causes him to meet a prostitute who has been working in the next room, and they become acquainted. On more than one occasion as they talk, he has reason to repeat his request: Don't Call Me Frankie.

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A homemade instructional video teaching manners to kids, featuring General Manners. The children perform an educational rap to share what they've learned.

An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil.

A young man enters a mysterious house and witnesses surreal images including a wolf man, a man in a fast vehicle speeding through the halls, and an insane surgeon who severs people's limbs.

Comfort and discomfort: a couple having sex on a train.

The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.

In remarkable footage from 1993 of a conference in Barcelona, participants like Frank Gehry discuss groundbreaking ideas in architecture.

"Viejo pascuero" is the namer under which Santa Claus is known in Chile. Through the comical letter written to him by a poor Chilean street boy, we're invited to think on the situation of extreme poverty in the country.

Let us imagine isolation, fear, almost generic fear, and ancient, pervasive, self-generated. This fear becomes a system. The little man, forced, struggled to maintain his minimal right, the right to survive. But today, this crushed, squeezed, almost destroyed little man stands on the border, the one that separates— or unites—the old system and the new, the world of competition, where survival is precisely through profitability, profit. Then the little man becomes the hero, the model, the hero of this almost demonological thriller.