Cinematic Era: 1994 Vintage

K-1 Grand Prix ’94

A young man struggles to define himself in college.

Attempting to name a new "king of zydeco" in the mid 1990s, The Kingdom of Zydeco looks at the Black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana.

“Using straightforward, scientific methods, this video reveals irrefutable proof of the presence of the number 666 in the Universal Product Code, which appears on 95% of all supermarket products. A comprehensive, step-by-step deciphering process is used to break down the UPC into its component parts, and the derivation of the number 666 is made clear. Startling evidence of the role of UPC's in the new monetary system is uncovered--the prophecy of Revelation coming true today!”

A black comedy about self affirmation.

Children of the Grave Children of the Sea Into the Void Black Sabbath Neon Knights War Pigs The Wizard Symptom of the Universe Headless Cross Paranoid Iron Man Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

When Worlds Collide (Cuando Los Mundos Chocan) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event that took place on November 6, 1994, at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. It was produced by the Mexican lucha libre company Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), now known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, and their American partner, International Wrestling Council (IWC). The PPV is considered the first time most viewers in the United States were exposed to the lucha libre style of wrestling. The main event of the show was a steel cage match between long-time rivals Konnan and Perro Aguayo, while the semi-main event was a tag team Lucha de Apuestas, Mask vs. Hair match between the popular duo of Octagón and El Hijo del Santo taking on La Pareja del Terror ("The Terror Team"; Art Barr and Eddie Guerrero).

How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic (spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart to the listener essential aspects of his visionary LSD experiences. While it may have been intended for use with drugs to provide some of the positive "set" and "setting" that he saw as essential for a good "trip", it stands alone as a profound, guided meditation. In it, you will hear some of the central, sacred principles of Yoism.

A tour of the city seen through the eyes of its artists, architects and poets.

Grandfather Evlampy raised his sons: the eldest, Ivan, is a blacksmith, the second, Stepan is a carpenter, the third, Timofey is a baker, and the youngest Fedotka... bought a harmonica, and walks and plays. Grandfather Evlampy decided that there was not enough mistress in their house. Moreover, the eldest three sons liked the neighbor's girl Agafya. And Evlampy went to Vasily, Agafya's father, to woo his sons.…

Focuses on three elderly Jews living out their retirement years in Miami Beach. They talk of searching for the fountain of youth, about the Jewish community that has thrived in this unlikely setting, and the inevitability of growing old and losing friends. Captures the subjects' thoughts and memories, as well as the contrast between the older and younger populations of modern Miami Beach.

Television comedy star Lenny Henry live on stage in 1994.

A lesbian remembers her gay male friend lost to AIDS.

First premiering in the 18th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now Frameline) and moving on to play every major North American LGBTQ festival between 1994 and 1996, Sophie Constantinou’s playful document of trans man Henry gives first-hand voice to his nuanced experience and extolls the singular joy of wearing a suit.

A loving portrait of two motorcycle-riding lesbians.

A queer video-diary following the ruminations of a confused twenty-nothing as he retreats from his urban woes to the pastoral jogging trails of his bucolic motherland.

After doing Before Need, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley embarked on a new creative process. They revisited the film, reworked it and reassembled it creating a shorter new version, called Before Need Redressed. A way to express how the passing time, reflection and accumulating experiences can affect the form and vision of a film. —Ulf Kjell Gür

A large family in London's East End is celebrating a birthday party. Children and grandchildren from this extensive family have come to the party from all over England. At the party the family members talk about hope and dreams for their children. The past and present lives of various relatives are compared with each other, while fragments from radio-programmes from the fourties and the fifties draw an emotional and historical line. Set against this archive material are fierce images of modern day family life in urban England in the year 1993. This makes the film a collage of dreams, memories and images of present-day life.

Schoolchildren tell stories in class. A worker goes home after his work day. A scholar explains ideas about colours and objects in ancient Greek philosophy.

Eyewitnesses (i.e. former prisoners, idealists, survivors) accounts of their/or others ordeal during the 40's and 50's of the 20th century, being convicted as 'peoples enemies' by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and exiled to the gold- and uranium mines in the Kolyma, the most remote -secured by the KGB- region in the Far East of Siberia.

Outrageous and opinionated comic Simply Marvalous focuses on such topics as singing preachers, her size and safe sex.

A video CD by Japanese visual artist, musician, and game developer Osamu Sato.

The awareness of a strange and immaterial presence between the lines of a book.

Perry J. Watkins was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968 and served 15 years reaching the rank of sergeant. He was also openly gay, even to the point of doing drag shows on base. He was discharged in 1982 but fought for reinstatement and the United States Supreme Court ruled in his favor. This is his story.

A group of teens band together to defeat a bloodthirsty monster.

Forgotten Tenor pays tribute to Wardell Gray, considered by many one of the greatest and most unheralded tenor saxophonists in American Black Classical Music. Utilizing a combination of rare archival footage, family photographs, memorabilia, and conversations with family and colleagues, the film attemps to resurrect the presence of this great musician and pay tribute to his accomplishments.

“Uzi Parnes continued his long-running documentation of Pride parades, street festivals, and grassroots activism in My Gay Pride, the highlight of which is a moving performance of “When the Boy in Your Arms (Is the Boy in Your Heart)” by Connie Francis, rendered a capella by Jimmy Somerville of Bronski Beat.” - MoMA

Experimental short on various objects, made in 1994.

Shot in a southeast London shopping mall, Dancing in Peckham depicts the artist freely dancing alone, without headphones and unaccompanied by music. Wearing’s camera also positions passersby as unwitting participants in the performance.

A partly dramatised examination, with animated sequences, of the origins and influences of Black hair styling in Afro-Caribbean culture.

An entertaining and informative film about the building of the Luxor Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, and the creation of it's hi-tech attractions by Hollywood special effects expert, Douglas Trumbull. Look behind-the-scenes at the construction of the 30-story glass pyramid, and see how spectacular miniatures, special effects photography and engineering techniques are combined to provide audiences with cutting-edge entertainment experiences. From pre-planning through grand opening day, The Making of Luxor reveals why Luxor is being called "the eighth wonder of the world."

An investigation of the American media portrayal of black men as misunderstood tragic figures throughout recent history. Secrecy is an African concept which is a ritual element of understanding. The art that conceals and reveals. Which defines an individuals perception of recognition. Therefore, if you know the source of a premise you are the informed. If you don't know the concept of that premise, when you are confronted with it........ it bypasses your understanding.

The story of frivolous and lecherous emperor Qianlong's search for a morally upstanding person is told in a fashion that smartly fuses the puppet proscenium with the conventions of cinematic language. While everything is obviously arranged on a stage, the camera moves freely around in this environment, getting close to the puppets or setting them up in deep focus shots. The result is deeply enchanting, with the puppets soon feeling like living creatures of a very special kind, whose presence and company one cheerfully enjoys.

Volume 2 takes over where Volume 1 left off, in early 1962. We will see passenger trains from: Milwaukee Road, CB&Q, Santa Fe, Penn Central, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, Grand Trunk, Great Northern, Northern Pacific (and eventually the Burlington Northern), and Illinois Central. We haven't forgotten you freight fans either. You'll see freight on most of the railroads mentioned above as well on: Chicago & North Western, Soo Line, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern, Indiana Harbor Belt, Rock Island, Chicago & Eastern Illinois. There are cameo appearances on the Chesapeake & Ohio as well as the Baltimore & Ohio. We'll catch commuter action on many of these roads as well: the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend, Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee, and the Chicago Transit Authority. You'll witness the changes in motive power and equipment on many of these commuter lines. We end our tour of Chicago in 1973.

During the Arad Music Festival, Aviv Geffen preformed for one magical night.

Documentary travelogue through Haiti.

Although Santa doesn´t recreate the hell, but its outskirts, the images of the latter make us afraid of what is coming: after death comes a tunnel, and afterwards is the entrance to hell. But this is where The Dark Forest ends.

Winter of 1919, Petrograd. The wind of destruction is blowing through the city. In a frozen apartment, an Oriental professor sees a living incarnation of the Buddha... A Buddha statue found by a professor many years ago in the Gobi Desert turns his life upside down: by the decision of the revolutionary government, he is included in a group that must return the statue to a Mongolian monastery in exchange for cattle for starving Petrograd. Unusual travelers gathered in a cold carriage around a bronze statue. Everyone pursues their own goal...

Two childhood-best-friends-turned-lovebirds are forced to separate when the space pilot boyfriend is assigned to a mission that will age him forty years. Unable to tear herself away from him, she stows away on his ship, cryogenically freezing herself, but is not quite prepared for the distance forty years in age can bring. The opening animation for Anime Expo 1994.

Based on Battulga's novel "Uyahan Zambuutiv" by writer Zo Pei Jing, this film tells about the love and tragic fate of the brave and poetess Snow White who lived in the early 18th century.

In this illuminating study of cultural contrasts, American filmmaker Lynne Sachs and her sister, Dana, travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, recording conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends. The sisters' expansive travel diary covers tourism, insights into city life, pervasive culture clashes and a bracing historic inquiry. What begins as a picaresque road trip soon blossoms into a richer social and political discourse.

Enjoy your favorite extreme skiers and boarders in some of the most beautiful and deepest powder ever. Chamonix, La Grave in France, Big Sky and Bridger Bowl in Montana, Mammoth Mountain, also Island lake Lodge, Red Mountain and Whistler in Canada. You will see all of the usual suspects and even some eccentric snow bums. Glen Plake's massive Mohawk will be around for anyone willing to rubber neck. Featured music includes Seal, 808 State, The Beastie Boys, Meshell Ndegeocello, Billy Idol, Dinosaur Jr. and Deee-lite.

A short documentary about border guarding.

Hand painted found footage film splicing a re-mix of the movie 'Old Yeller'.

Sue Pettit's son Vince becomes consumed by the "Drug Monster", leading to devastating consequences.

A funny action film about the exchange of a young man who owns a company called "Ertönts" and a young man who believes he is the owner of the world and a prophet from heaven.

When two different cultures meet in Hammerfest, Norway. The second is old nomadism based on a large annual cycle, another contemporary urban culture that has risen around the oil and fish industry. The collision of these two cultures is inevitable but absurd.