Cinematic Era: 1994 Vintage

Documentary about the eccentric sculpture artist Hazel Jones.

A season review of Newcastle United 1993 - 1994.

Short film by Mircea Săucan.

Animated short.

The rarely-seen 1994 BBC TV documentary on the legacy and influence of John Berger, featuring interviews with Alain Tanner, Geoff Dyer, Jean Mohr, Ernst Neizvestny and many more.

Are machismo, infidelity and violence inseparable? When filmmaker Sheldon Schiffer tears off the veils of silence in his Nicaraguan immigrant family, he uncovers the scars left on his mother, aunt and grandmother by his enigmatic grandfather. In a tragically common family saga, Schiffer reflects on his legacy and reexamines what it means to be a man.

Noise performance by Ningen Record at 名古屋 Club Rock'n'Roll (クラブロックンロール).

Experimental short by Utako Koguchi.

Writes Kuchar, "Come join Pepe, the magic puppet, as he transports Blackie, the cat, to a world of magic-marker marvels and Crayola creatures. View Blackie's owner as he wanders around a watery world of aquarium relics and flesh and blood quacking things. A picture for the young at heart."

A documentary film about the Navajo - Hopi Land Dispute told by the youth of Big Mountain.

The splendor and pleasures of Autumn are the focus of this richly textured and brilliantly colored paper emulsion film. The sound is a recording of the filmmaker ripping, rustling and tearing various kinds of paper. These sounds have been synthesized and musically arranged to echo the imaging of the synthesis paper. A reel of paper and fallen leaves unwinds amid calls of birds and the laughter of delighted children.

Iyo ang Hong Kong, akin ang Manila!: Directed by Sonny Abelardo, Phillip Ko. With Jestoni Alarcon, Yukari Ôshima, Karla Estrada, Rando Almanzor.

At Benmington University something very wrong is happening in Jake's dorm room. His roommate is about to take his homework to new heights. College will be anything but educational in this first film outing by author filmmaker Jorge Ameer. In the vein as "Apartment Zero" and "Bad Influence" comes this sordid thriller of depravity and experimentation.

beautiful films

"Isolation is a film about forgiveness. It takes place in basically only one location. It’s a girl in her bedroom that transforms into a prison. The door disappears and it’s very abstract and surreal." — Princess Demeny

As the REFEREE signals the start of the last game ever played at LEEDS ROAD, the story of a much-loved football arena unfolds.

Short film by Kamienska Elżbieta.

Mera Punjab is a 1994 Indian film directed by Krishna Dev Mehra. It stars Haider Bandi. The film is considered one of the best Punjabi films ever made, although it didn't earn much at the box office at the time of release in December 1994.

"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.

Documentary about the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. The film accompanies the DC-10 and its crew, consisting of Captain Stefan Hess, First Officer Michael Beretz and Flight Engineer Joachim Siehndel, on their flight on July 11, 1994 from Frankfurt to Beijing. In addition, interesting insights into the history of the DC-10 are shown.

A documentary of an indigenous artist Pavavalung Sakuliu, who devotes himself to the cultural renaissance of the Paiwan culture, which is endangered throughout the past century when modern economy was introduced to Taiwan by the Japanese colonial government in 1895 and by the Nationalist government which took over Taiwan in 1945.

Is kindness a cloak of invisibility? A bank employee, Taturu, learns that a tax-saving measure he recommended has backfired and destroyed a client's family. Blaming himself, Ken becomes apathetic and refuses to come to work. His girlfriend, Yuki, watches over him warmly. Determined to make a fresh start for himself and Yuki, he takes a job as a hotel clerk, but on the first night, he is caught up in an unexpected incident. The next morning he goes to a place where he knows he will be blamed for the crime. The next morning he goes to a place where he knows he will be blamed for the crime, knowing that no one will understand his feelings. A young man who loses sight of himself on the borderline between kindness and weakness. The film depicts the wanderings of a lifeless adult in the urban landscape that modern society has created.

Arnie, the blustering, brow-beating dog, is continually out-smarted by a parasitic flea, Birnie. Tired of Birnie using his body as a bed and breakfast, Arnie tries to put an end to Birnie, over and over again. Windlight uses motion capture to block out the overall movement, then animates on top of that data to achieve the more cartoony effects and motion expected of character animation. The result is a hybrid of cartoon gags and subtle human movements.

A chronicle of Finnish-born photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's return to her roots in Finland with her daughter Katja, after 23 years in Britain.

Short film by Peter Strickland.

Photography and music by Michael Lee.

Alternating between two cameras three feet apart, shooting black on each to match the image on the other, created in-camera A and B rolls for pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic view of two trees. Natural lighting cooperated.

Smile apologetically next to a beautiful woman. Kyoko Yamada is an ugly woman. She has a man in her life, Momotani, whom she has feelings for. He says to her, "Bring your friends and come visit me. Yamada, who is ugly and has no friends, goes out on the street and talks to girls. There is only one criterion. The only criteria is that the girl has to look good enough to complement him. Finally, Yamada finds a fat girl and takes her to Momotani's flat. But Momotani is a fat lover. The protagonist, who relies on fortune-telling in order to become beautiful and is bossy with the same sex whom she identifies as less than her, confronts the audience with "the ugly part of you", in the form of a laugh, saying "ugly people are such creatures". The film is a radical stomping ground of the looks complex.

Documentary on the Gay Games IV, held in New York City in June 1994, during widespread celebrations commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Providing a comprehensive presentation of the games and various demonstrations that took place during that week, Spikes and Heels deals with homophobia, AIDS, and gay and lesbian identity in the 90's.

Why are we drawn to someone? Is it love, lust or greed? When Hal's longtime boyfriend abruptly walks out on him, he's devastated. Before he's even begun to recover, however, Hal finds himself becoming romantically involved with a handsome stranger.

Five Amazonian women emerge from the ground in search of their queen. However, they become involved in many cases of mistaken identity taking them all over New York City

A Nanna & Lil' Puss Puss Cartoon.

A short documentary that highlights the presence of gays and lesbians in Brazilian society

A Cartoon by Dan Collins

A poetic film about a magical-realist painting in the house of an elderly woman. The film, a refined game that plays with the concepts of time, place, and space, was produced under the motto ‘what you see is not what you see.’

The story of the Reverend Jane Adams Spahr, a Presbyterian minister and a lesbian, who was called to serve as pastor of a large metropolitan church in Rochester, New York. Although ninety percent of the congregation voted to approve her as their minister, other Presbyterian churches in the area vehemently protested the appointment and her case was brought before an ecclesiastical court. In documenting that trial, the video reveals the struggle of ordinary people to come to terms with their own difficulties around homosexuality.

A weary hunter roams a desolate landscape, searching for his next prey. But the creature he finds dazzles him with it's dignity and makes him question his own nature.

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

This is the same type of film as the one made in Rotterdam in 1991. I tried to film myself while I was taking a shower, but the steam and fog are the main elements.

3D animation by Ignacio Pardo

The painting, the assembly and the metrics of the frame sequence create a body of colour, which is both a three-dimensional time-work and a pulsating organ.

Forget about Chucky and his ham-fisted, Luke Skywalker voiced, corporate remake....and make way for Bobo! Bobo is the titular stuffed menace at the center of Illinois based director Chuck G Gotski's 1994, regional shot on video, killer doll opus. Essentially unseen since its scarce, self-distributed release on Charlie Flick Productions Video, Saturn's Core is ecstatic to welcome Bobo back home to VHS and into the hands of SOV completists worldwide.

Punjabi movie

Only when you thought it was safe to hide in and old, dark house, 'cause a bloody curse will turn your nerves of steel in some sorte of uncontrollable fear!

The "true" story of science gone wrong. Horror comedy inspired by 50s monster movies. Student film by Byron C. Miller and Justin Young.

A look at the history of Charles I, whose religious beliefs sparked the English Civil War.

I filmed myself underwater holding my camera in my hand. The film is shown upside down, so that it feels like I'm drinking all the water around me. Some sequences make me appear like a dead person underwater, others show me catching my breath.

Hijab: in Arabic, the veil, that which hides, that which separates.