Cinematic Era: 1994 Vintage

5 concept videos based on the Carman's Yo Kidz series, with behind.the-scenes & interviews.

For a day we meet a shepherd in the Cévennes region of southern France, he tells us about his work during the summer transhumance season, his life, his animals and his hopes for the future. An interview with Jean-Claude Boisson and his partner Geneviève, as well as trusted assistant Germain.

Escape the stress of everyday life and let the surreal visual images of Animation Dreams take you on a fantastic voyage beyond the realm of the sense, to a world where imagination rules supreme and the stark boundaries of reality hold no power. Animation Dreams is a magical tapestry of twelve dynamic, computer animated vignettes created solely to explore the innermost boundaries of your mind. Set to a moving original soundtrack from the compact disc One by John Flommer's Primal Cinema, Animation Dreams probes the eternal mysteries of the cosmos, and pushes the limits of human experience.

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around them. Beth B’s short film is a stirring reminder that drag-queen performances may be accepted in the mainstream today, but there was a time when they were strictly underground.

A 5-minute single-channel video made in 1994 that is a visual poem spoken by Victoria High-Quality, Apple’s first MacInTalk speech synthesis voice. Early word processing software reads an alphabetized text list of 644 keywords downloaded from a CompuServe photo forum titled “Plain Brown Wrapper.”

A story about the different lives of a philosopher and a small restaurant owner. Through this contrasting fusion, the film considers the connection between philosophy and life.

Bridging the insights of visionaries with the antics of fools, "Seers and Clowns" weaves a delightful tapestry of cross-cultural vignettes. A Siberian shaman scales the Tree of Life and attains enlightenment. The Contrary Clowns descend to an underworld of improbably hilarity. A Chinese oracle foresees the collapse of an unbalanced civilization. A Zen frog smiles. Zen clowns act out absurdity in the maze. Cybele, the Anatolian goddess of wildlife, sees a wasteland of loneliness and oppression. In the distance, a familiar song is heard. Winter ends with the coming of spring. Her longed-for partner returns. Accompanied by drums, cymbals and pipes, the worlds of Chief Seattle, Lzo-Tze and Kabir illuminate the way. Love and boundless creativity are celebrated by seers, clowns, and all their friends.

An essay on love and death, with fragments of Arseny Tarkovsky.

A series of experimental short clips that Mohamed Soueid directed while part of the team of TéléLiban, Lebanon’s main public television channel. Initially intended as a special filler program on food and scheduled to be aired during Ramadan in 1994, these 34 films, each five minutes, were turned into a controversial satirical daily series criticizing Lebanese food culture and depicting the ongoing changes impacting postwar Lebanon.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

Sonya, a successful advertising executive and widow, finally lowers her guard when she falls for Benno, a talented young photographer at her firm. However, their blossoming romance turns toxic when Benno, driven by deep-seated insecurities, accuses her of trading sexual favors with a wealthy client to secure a massive contract. As these baseless accusations mirror the trauma of her past marriage, Sonya finds herself trapped in a destructive cycle of jealousy and suspicion that threatens to unravel both her career and her sanity.

A young man, who is short-tempered, is sent to jail for committing a murder. However, his life takes a turn for the better when a prison officer tries to bring about a change in him.

It tells about the friendship between middle-aged boys and girls and the misunderstanding between teachers and students.

The story begins on a hilltop, at an old castle that served as a German observation post in 1942. The traces of German fascism have also left their mark on this landscape.

An instructional video from the 1990s that teaches the viewer how to cook a tasteful, sumptuous Thanksgiving meal.

Learn how to create the perfect holiday village display.

A tongue-in-cheek response to the "recruitment of children to the homosexual 'lifestyle.'"

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

Short documentary film directed by Shi Jian. Aired as part of Oriental Time and Space.

Iris is a meditation on the death of a family member. Here Cho deploys the camera as metaphor, likening the opening of the camera's iris and its saturation with light to a form of video tears. The resulting piece depicts a stark, white landscape of mourning. The soundtrack uses soft, whispering, dreamlike voices and a musical droning to quietly convey a sense of personal loss.

An anime made entirely in sumi-e following a child fox spirit and his morphing ability for haunting but he ends up getting scared himself.

Demon King Atler seeks to conquer the Magical World. It's up to magical girl Melul to stop him.

Two men track down a blood-drinking serial rapist/killer who commits his crimes in graveyards.

Hilarious send-up of psychoanalytical propaganda films, illustrating every absurd cliche about the 'lesbian nature' and raising issues of self-representation and media production. Witness the witty appropriation of the 'mannish lesbian' into a sexy drag king and see the lesbian filmmaker as the ultimate action hero(ine).

Workers are doing their work on construction site. But something unexpected calls them away... from the city... And that is only the begginging...

Checko returns from the cities to his home in the Allgäu region. He wants to check on his grandfather Felix, who now lives alone—a loner, a recluse, as they say. The old man and the young man set off on a journey. Felix is searching for the story, for history, but also for the story of his friend Anton, with whom he distributed leaflets against the murderous regime during the Third Reich and with whom he also shared a girlfriend.

Hayama's first video, includes his best performances at Instick Suzue, Nippon Seinenkan, On Air Shibuya, W'OHOL and Yellow.

The epic tale of a longhaired loser getting mugged by a bunch of rug rats in a laundromat at 22nd and Guerrero.

An old woman dies alone in her apartment, save for her hound dog, while the young man living below her is oblivious.

In a German city, horror strikes as a mad killer with a hedge trimmer murders everyone in sight. He carves them up left and right. How many will he kill? Is there any hope to stop him? Some zombies rise from their graves as well. What will they do?

The true stories of modern history's most notorious serial killers. This horrifying account of their vicious crime sprees will shock the most callous viewer. This extensively researched history of crime and violence offers an unforgettably gripping account of a horrifying odyssey of death.

Documentary about the music scene of Barbados.

A portrait of Dana Plays' 90 year old paternal grandmother, Peggy Regler, reminiscing about her love affairs and significant relationships. Regler tells about her failed first marriage, the agreement she had to stay until the children were grown (but to see other lovers) which resulted in the true love she found with her second husband and renowned writer Gustav Regler, who later died a tragic death in India. The love affairs are historically rooted in the political and technological developments 20th century, and are narratively based in a complex sound/image structure. Interludes (silent optically printed film passages narrated with inter-titles excerpted from her diaries, and early childhood memories) formalistically refer to early cinema. The footage in these passages is re-contextualized and interwoven metaphorically throughout the text.

A man, irritated by his childhood friend's refusal to marry him, steals her beloved grey mare in order to force her to agree.

Lab Kita Bilib Ka Ba is 1994 Filipino Action-Romance film

Following the thread of his own reflections on life and infused with his spirit Cristina Esteban tries - using Val del Omar's narration - to explain him, now that he is 'neither time nor space'.

This short tells about Hank, an honest worker in ‘Joesville, at the wrong side of the Mississippi’. Hank works at a building site, and all his colleagues are stealing stuff, but he won’t.

This short tells about two astronauts, Tex an Mary Lou, who have feelings for each other, which they don’t express, because of their questionable marriages on earth.

Old Abraham Bentley hid the remainder of the family fortune at one end of a rope he arranged in the barn - the noose at the other end is in plain sight. He receives his prodigal son, Luke, with a mixture of obvious joy and of inarticulate urgings for him to hang himself.

A luscious mélange of bodies and edibles.

Early clay animated student short made by Kevin MacLean at the age of 14.

Join Construction Foreman Dave as he explores the endless fascination of heavy construction. From jack hammers to the largest bulldozers, kids will experience up-close all the exciting sights and sounds of a construction crew at work. From their safe front-row seat, kids will find out what it's like to operate a dump truck, a crane. a concrete mixer and other huge ground-shaking machines! Filmed on location at actual construction sites.

An international documentary about the deaths of Admira Ismić and Boško Brkić. The couple were natives of Bosnia and Herzegovina living in the city of Sarajevo. She was a Bosniak, and he a Bosnian Serb.

A tale of tragedy, confusion and murder as the lives of a man grieving the death of his daughter, two would-be thieves, and a madman and his servant intertwine with each other when a cosmic phenomenon causes one day to become longer than the rest.

Ghost stories of the Ozarks.

A spew of images swarm the screen; appearing before no answers-man and his machinery, denuded wholly of its grace and beauty.

Touching documentary which interviews over 30 HIV-positive New Yorkers. Director Kermit Cole turns the statistics into real-life faces and stories as a range of people--black and white, male and female, gay and straight, young and old--share their experiences of living with an illness that is still stigmatized by public ignorance and fear.

Film by Luis Franco Brantley and Edgar Soberón Torchia.

Filmed and recorded live during performances at the Paulo Eiró Theater, São Paulo, 1994.