Cinematic Era: 1994 Vintage

A nun enjoys her bicycle.

A life veiled, by a very old tree. Rock solid. One shot. From darkness to light, the aperture opens. Only one thing can be said: vale Karen Carpenter.

They were high schoolers, students, sons of peasants, workers. Among them were Jews, foreigners and Communists. Some were born in France, others in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Spain or Brazil. In 1939, they didn't know each other. In 1943, they took up arms together in Toulouse to fight the Nazi occupiers and the Vichy regime. Here, they tell their stories.

Cabbagetown, a neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta, originally consisted of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the housing built for the factory workers. While Cotton had always been King in the South, that generally referred to the agricultural production of the plant. The actual milling of cotton, the process of turning plant fiber into cloth, was done in the Northern states and even overseas.

“EGG TRYING TO GET WARM features an egg spinning on a hot plate – Trockel’s sly commentary on the sexist social assumptions implicit in the domestic setting.” –Diane Solway

Nanako Kurihara came to the U.S. to escape being trapped as a woman in a repressive Japanese society. In New York she met a woman named Fumiko who had been active in the women's liberation movement in Japan. After the death of Fumiko, Nanako returned to Japan to find out became of the women's movement there

Brother and sister playing in the snow.

An instructional video from the 1990s that teaches the viewer how to put together a truly entertaining New Year's Eve.

Using interviews, personal accounts, and archival footage, this program investigates the major events in the history of American trade unions, from the formation of the first “friendly societies” in the 18th century, to the challenges posed by new technologies in the 1980s and ’90s. Important issues such as minimum wages, health and safety conditions, discrimination, benefits, job security, and strikes are addressed. Veterans of labor struggles, labor historians, and business and government officials reveal fascinating personal insights into labor’s sometimes violent origins and how its influences have changed the workplace over the past 200 years.

An unexpected friendship between two Italian and Jewish immigrant girls provides the backdrop for this story of labor organizing and women’s growing activism. While working in harsh sweatshops and factories, the young women also experienced the thrills of movies, amusement parks and dance halls. As their numbers in the workforce grew and working conditions declined they took matters into their own hands. In 1909, garment workers staged the “Uprising of the 20,000,” a massive strike that won union recognition and transformed the role of women in the union movement.

Starring Viva Kneival "the female Jeff Stryker" and a host of Fisher Price toys in one big Jill-Off.

A woman reflects on her girlfriend in this captivating experimental short.

Short film by Rachel L. Schreiber.

It is 1968 in Greenwich Village and a psychiatrist is becoming aware of a host of young homosexual men falling victim to the dangerous charms of love 'em and leave 'em debonair playboy, Robin Stone.

A fortune teller convinces the deceased in a cemetery in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico to cross the U.S. border.

Engkwentro: Pagsikat ng araw: Directed by Jhun M. Ortega. With Jess Lapid Jr., Allan Ortega, Tony Ferrer, Johnny Vicar.

A criminal with AIDS serving a 25-year prison sentence.

Innovative and outspokenly gay, Bob Smith was a performer and head writer for Comedy Central's Out There, the first special to feature gay and lesbian comedians. After winning acclaim as one-third of a New York comedy team called Funny Gay Males, Smith appeared on The Joan Rivers Show and Comedy Central's For Comics Only. In addition to headlining at comedy clubs nationwide, Smith worked on a book, Growing Up Gay, as well as a screenplay based on Paul Monette's book about a gay stand-up comic, Halfway Home.

One woman's tale of her history of domestic violence.

An exquisitely lyrical montage.

A village in Brittany. During the ten days leading up to All Souls Day, we can see it in its entirety "inhabiting" the cemetery, going from gravestone to gravestone for the rituals of cleaning, flowering and praying. Telling its story through its faces, its voices and its ambulations.

This film casts a curious and critical eye at North American discourses about motherhood since the 1950s. Through conversations with seven mothers, a selection of archival footage and stills from the 1950s, as well as some home movies, this film offers new ways of thinking about what it means to be a good mom.

Film portrait of dutch director Karel Doing

The film attempts to analyze Franz Kafka's personality in confrontation with the feelings of today's man using distinctive cinematic means. The plot follows the main character, who identifies with the character of Josef K. while reading the book The Trial.

This interview included beautiful stories and reminiscences by Papaji: . Papaji recounts having darshan of Shiva and Parvati in the Himalayas, where he went aiming at reaching the heavens following on Yudhishtira's steps. Parvati offered him a sweet and the taste of that nectar is still in Papaji's fingers. What a prasadam! . Papaji tells the story of how he guided a Russian Iskcon follower to have darshan of Radha. . Papaji speaks about his connection with Osho and the difference between teacher and sadguru.

The construction of the Brokopondo dam and hydro-electric plant in the 1960s gave an important boost to the economy of Surinam, a former Dutch colony. However it also caused the flooding of lands and villages of 5,000 Saramaccan Maroons. In 1994 filmmaker John Albert Jansen returned to the site of devastation, together with Surinam writer Dorus Vrede who was born in one of the drowned villages. In the documentary Brokopondo: Stories of a Drowned Land Jansen traces the origins of the Brokopondo project, the benefits to the economy of Surinam and the consequences of transmigration for the Maroon people, who after having lived a secluded life in the area since the eighteenth century, were forced to leave their traditional lands. Their rich hunting ground now at the bottom of Afobaka Lake. The building of the Brokopondo dam and the forced departure of the Saramaccan people is a powerful example of a clash between economic and cultural systems.

Bay Area Graffiti features classic graffiti from 1994 showing spots like SF's own Psycho City (RIP), The Fruitvale Tracks and tons of dope murals from San Francisco, Oakland, Berkley and all over The Bay Area. No interviews, no bios just piece after piece from legendary Bay Area graffiti artists.

Directors: Noli S. SalvadorJerry O. Tirazona Writers: Randy SantosJerry O. Tirazona Stars: Jess Sanchez, Jess Lapid Jr., Cristina Gonzales, Tony Ferrer, Jorge Estregan, Nick Romano, Dan Fernandez, Perla Bautista, Chai Romero, Isabel Granada, Nazareth Sanchez, Derick Hizon, Roldan Aquino, Romy Diaz, Bert Olivar, Usman Hassim, Robert Miller, Falcon Laxa

The NFB and National Action Committee on the Status of Women commemorate the work of Studio D over its 20-year history.

Chronicle of a Visit Foretold is part of a series of three music videos made by Andrieș at FAV and talks sarcastically about the visit of King Michael I, which was blocked by president Iliescu.

How four women (one from Italy, one from Zaire, one from the Philippines and one from Morocco) started a multiethnic restaurant.

Made in conjunction with the NFL’s 75th season in 1994, this documentary traces the origins of the National Football League while providing highlights from all its teams.

Christmas is also coming to the Emergency Brigade House. Silink, Potterick and Bembelat's preparations for a nice evening are interrupted by another call. But you can't refuse a desperate mother whose children are waiting for Father Christmas.

A girl looks for a boy for her bi-sexual boyfriend.

Film by Liisa Roberts

Short film animated by children.

Animated short.

New Mexico camera roll, a Kodachrome home movie, with compass.

Two Dublin youths inhabit their own autonomous teenage world where adult moods have no sway, cigarettes are the standard unit of currency, and alcohol the usual means of escape.

Short film.

Film originally shot between 1990 and 94 in Super 8, and which has been restored in 2022 for its premiere at the B-series Festival, B-Retina. A man runs desperately through a forest. He runs away from something or someone, but falls off a cliff before we know what or who is after him. Two years later, several seemingly unrelated events set in motion a gear where death, legends and madness have their own names.