Cinematic Era: 1994 Vintage

An instructional video from the 1990s that teaches the viewer how to cook a tasty Christmas feast.

St. Ambrose in Brunswick has a rich history that mirrors the waves of change in the Australian Catholic Church and migration to Australia since the 1870s. In the 1990s, at the centre of even greater upheavals is the enigmatic priest, Father Bongiorno. The priest presides over a fascinating stream of factional battles, entrenched Church policies, diverse ethnic needs and the faith of the population of St Ambrose.

Two brothers regularly visit the grave of their brother, who died far too early. Being with him is their deepest wish.

A 1994 Yorkshire Television Production for Discovery Channel documentary - Hacker Attack, is a well balanced account of the hacker, security, and electronic crime worlds in late 80s and early 90s. It begins by featuring Mark Abene incarcerated in Schuylkill talking about his views on hacking and the story of MoD. Emmanuel Goldstein is displayed throughout the documentary talking about the hacker community during 2600 meetings and on the Off the Hook radio show. Next 'Hacker Attack' turns to the darker side of hacking when we jump into unmarked NYPD surveillance van to track down cloned cellular phones. There is an extensive coverage of credit card fraud, high tech robbery, and industrial espionage. At last we can watch Winn Schwartau and Dan Farmer talk about threats to our financial and military infrastructures. Throughout the documentary, there are snippets of anonymous hackers breaking into various computer systems.

Obsessive journal entries, clinical reports, varied sources of music, and a series of watercolors depicting a pierced and bleeding brain are among the many elements that make up a narrative around the occasion of mental breakdown. Instruments of electrical transmission are metaphors for the diseased brain, as reconstructed by a woman who has lost her reason, her body, and her foothold in personal identity. The unseen protagonist at first attributes her illness to repeated hearings of a Chopin mazurka on the radio.

The film was previously titled " Bete Hindustan Ke".

A teacher accidentally picked up a skeleton with a curse in the school yard.

"Don't Eat Crow", a somewhat situational piece, consists of an audio narration by Katherine Grevatt, an unpublished novelist who lives along the South Shore of Nova Scotia. For a full day David Askevold set up a feeder to see the reaction of the crows (who regularly fly around his backyard) to his camera he had placed on a tripod nearby. The resulting footage is juxtaposed with the letters Grevatt wrote to long time friend Norma Ready between October 1993 and July 1994. Background sound consists of appropriated music from the radio and original keyboard music by Askevold created while listening to the three tracks and viewing the edited footage.

A sentient shot glass tries to join his friends.

Single-8 film by Tachibana Kaoru

‘Amores de Rua’ questions the attitude towards sexuality espoused by a society in which sex workers fight for the right to citizenship. The film travels through Vila Mimosa, Praça Mauá and erotic nightclubs frequented by all genders, where performers mouth along to camp hits. The film presents a discussion about sexuality based on testimonies from sex workers, transgender women and representatives of associations including Euridice Coelho (then president of the Association of Prostitutes of Rio de Janeiro) and Gabriela Silva Leite (from the organisation Vida Prostituição, Direitos Civis e Saúde).

The skyline of San Francisco. It is about the filming of a friend, Inga, and of myself sunbathing and playing with the camera.

Arranged from A to Z in 26 segments, the video looks at the relationship between image and text. In a playful and satirical manner, it roams through past and present of the Asian experience within North America and beyond, from the Chinese railroad laborers, Hiroshima and the Korean War, to the arrivals of the Boat People and the Hong Kong money. Both simplistic and complex in its presentation, The Yellow Pages seeks to interact with the viewers, never allowing one single reading.

A satire on pop culture, gay porn, and not being able to live "if living is without you".

A lyrical study of movement and light reflecting on Western man's struggles with his need for freedom and self-expression.

Examines how the privatized market economy in southeastern China has paradoxically led to the emergence of a new public spirit as peasants and merchants donate money to nongovernmental organizations. The NGOs examined here include a lineage association, a deity temple, a private school, old people's association and a Catholic church. Includes interviews with a wide range of Chinese, as well as contemporary scenes of daily life, a rural market and a factory (UC Berkeley Library).

Freshman Year brings a romance between two very different young men.

This award-winning video explores signs of God’s mercy in our time. It takes an unflinching look at the biblical witness of God’s judgment and mercy, the offer of God’s mercy in Christ, and the troubles of today’s world - from recurring natural disasters and environmental threats to the growing list of human tragedies.

Documentary about the prophet Gentileza, a "madman of God" who lived in Rio de Janeiro and preached throughout Brazil his anti-capitalist, ecological, social and religious message, whose starting point is the maxim "Gentleness breeds kindness". Gentileza's testimony, his performance on the streets of Rio de Janeiro and the record of his pictorial work are the great attractions of the film.

Silence Sea and Marcel Duchamp was created from found 16mm footage of Marcel Duchamp and his wife Teeny playing a game of chess. He is pretending that he is winning but he is losing.

Littlewood talks candidly about her life and work in the theatre with contributions from various actors.

A tale of an HIV positive young man, his lover who died from AIDS and axolotls- the larval stage of a species of salamander which give birth and die while still physically immature.

Recorded live at Michelangelo Studios (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano) for television show "Acoustica" on VideoMusic TV Channel; June 3, 1994.

‘The film is set in a fast food take-away, at a roundabout where the excess of traffic, light and sound forces us into dream space. Projections of desire and place are carved into this nocturnal city. Moments of convergence and detachment intercut, forming narratives of expectation. Notions of home surface in this place of inherent transience, where only some gestures mark a continuity, where time and people pass through, fluid like water.' - LUX

A few days in the life of the postal workers and customers at La Courneuve.

A documentary chronicling two years of conflict at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial site, where a controversial director dismantles exhibits honoring anti-fascist resistance while pushing to equate Nazi crimes with a Soviet internment camp, as former prisoners fight to preserve the historical truth of their suffering.

Raised in Osaka by his Japanese mother and Korean father and now living in London, the filmmaker returns to his aging parents' home where he must address his family's secretive and complicated history. Additionally, he must decide whether to disclose his sexuality to them.

Anne’s niece Emily dies. Anne goes into a deep depression.

Brest is not situated in Brittany. The terminus Brest is the frontier station between Belorussia and Poland. This place has seen many conquerors come and go. Therefore the terminus is a real and an anonymous space for telling about history and human fate.

Three women (Russian, Norwegian, Italian) recall their experiences in Nazi Germany during the war and revisit the places where they stayed voluntarily or involuntarily at that time.

An experimental dramatic documentary which explores loss and denial in an African American family through the filmmaker's story of her kidnapped twin sisters, erased from family history for 24 years.

SVP National Councillor Arthur Aebi has checked into the Parkhotel for a fling with SP secretary Anita Fröhlich. But when they go to admire the view, a dead body is found on the balcony. As nobody is allowed to know about the meeting between Aebi and Fröhlich, the body has to disappear. Aebi calls his secretary Willy Waser, who then gets involved in the whole mess, not entirely voluntarily.

An essay on street art in Sao Paulo during the early 90s.

Upon returning home from college, Mitch wastes no time getting together with life-long, best friend Tom for a night on the town. But things have changed at home. Tom has a very attractive, seductive, live-in girlfriend, who has no intention of letting boyhood friendships come between her and her man.

Woke up walking alone from a dream toward a translucent sky a run day ... The edge electric against infinity revealed everything it was the moment before I was born the moment before I died I was pressed between glass I could see myself walking past I could see my eye looking at my eye I was standing someplace far away looking at myself pressed between glass I looked like I was moving but it was more like the way a worm pushes into itself to get to wherever it goes I could slip through those spaces and rest for awhile then distribute everything I am and all that I was but I panicked I continued to push my body into itself I woke pressed between glass I thought I was walking I saw myself walking I could see my eye looking at my eye and the place where I died when I was born

This version of Artwar builds from performances with paper masks and implements and various sequences of gunfire.

Wake compares colonial paintings of New Zealand intended to encourage migration to the colonies in the 1850s, with filmed images of the same country 100 years later, shot by the filmmaker's father. This experimental film compares the vision of a "promised land" with the lived memory of migration and explores too, the misrepresentation of indigenous people during both these eras. The half-hour experimental film is a response to the death of the filmmaker's father, an event that ultimately led to her return to New Zealand after a decade in America.

We all know the events preceding the death of Jesus Christ, but few know how he actually died. For the first time, explore in depth how he passed on through this methodical look at medical, forensic and historical facts about his crucifixion. Learn about his last hours alive on the cross, as well what renowned experts, including a historian, medical examiner and archaeologist, have to say about his ultimate sacrifice and eventual departure.

A documentary about Finnish neo-nazis.

From complete darkness, the audience suddenly hears explicit conversations between a man and a woman.

Are you going to heaven? How can anyone get to Heaven anyway? Is Jesus the Only way? Is Jesus God? All important questions and popular searches on the Internet. This classic video Are You Going to Heaven? has been seen by millions of people over the years and shows why the bible is so fundamental to understanding Jesus, Christianity, heaven and hell, and what happens after you die. Many people, when asked "what qualifies you for heaven?", say "I'll go to heaven because I'm a good person". Is that really true? The Heaven video makes it all very clear.

In a world divided between great nations and engulfed in war, a deserter attempting to cross the border encounters a border patrol unit. A fragile friendship emerges between enemies, only to fade away as quickly as it was born.

Shot on video, zero budget Christian scare film based on the song "Pray For Daddy" by Ken Parker about an alcoholic, atheist, deadbeat father and his Christian son who prays for him to turn to jesus and change his ways.

An image video starring Yuko Sakaki.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Jaganadan's daughter takes up her father's business after his sudden death. She faces many challenges as her father's enemies try to plot against her.

The cartoon tells about the era of the 80s, when the authorities often dealt with the unwanted with the hands of psychiatrists.

In october 1888 Vincent Van Gogh who has been living for eight months in Arles, paints his room. A year later, when he is at the Saint-Paul de Mausole Hospice near Saint-Rémy, he feels compelled to paint two copies of this picture which he is especially fond of. It is deliberately simple and yet seems very strange. Vincent wanted to see it as a symbol of rest but the objects in it seem to retreat and space seems to become deformed. Detailed researchs, as in the series "Palettes" has made it possible to reconstitute exactly the room in Arles. Vincent painted it in fact with the detail which fascinated him in the work of the old Dutch Masters. But he brought to it the extraordinary gift of his brush stroke and his new range of colours. That autumn, between the sunflowers, the harvest and the room in Arles Vincent reached the "higt note in yellow".