Cinematic Era: 1995 Vintage

Marcus Kanter from Vienna/Austria has created this short, yet very interesting video-documentary in 1994-1995 about the iconic free-tekkno collective Spiral Tribe from the UK.

Lucie (Sara Haxaire) is a stripper who has a difficult relationship with her disappointed mother (Evelyne Ker). When Charles, the strip-club emcee, brings his blind brother Jean (Jean-Jacques Benhamou) to work, Lucie starts a relationship with him, just for the perverse reason that he can never see her even though she is on view for any paying customer. Jean recently lost his eyesight in an accident, and is bitter and possibly suicidal. His relationship with Lucie is abusive and violent, but that seems to be just what the two of them want.

This is one of the classic animations of the 1990s with its surreal tale of the struggle between the sexes. All the strains as well as the closeness of relationships are shown, the title referring to the repetition of the tensions throughout our lives. It also reveals the role the woman plays in a marriage and the need, though often not communicated properly, of the man for this companionship and support.

The little mole's friends steal his cherries. But the little mole has an idea how to make them feel ashamed.

A Chicago street performer pays a visit to the Detroit suburbs. He encounters two teenage girls and has an Icarus experience.

Luo Qi and Zhang Yuan

Rakia for the Bulgarian is traditionally a strong alcoholic drink. It is boiled in a special cauldron. Around him were gathered the poor and the rich, the atheists and the believers, the rulers and the governed. Everyone philosophizes with a cup in their hand--about the fate of the Bulgarian, about his character, current situation, and future fate.

A housewife named Miho, who has been married for one year and has too much free time on her hands. One day, a saleswoman named Tsuyako who had come to sell cosmetics proposed to her that if she bought them, she would share adult toys at half price. From that point on, Miho, who became interested in sales, came to work at a cosmetics sales company. After Miho learned that the secret of Tsuyako, who is number one in sales, was adult toys, she began to think that she too would provide some kind of service…

When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, while Franz is a tormented artist that lost his family and lived his childhood in a ghetto in Poland but survived the Holocaust. Franz moved to Brazil and recovered life wish living close to nature and inspires Socorro to dream with life again.

In the reading room of the library everything is peaceful and quiet. Until a happy young man comes in. He has had a great experience in the cinema, and he insists on telling the plot of the western he has seen in every hard-hitting detail to a visitor who becomes unintentionally one of the actors of the film.

A short film directed by Paul Schrader following the story of a painting from Schrader's collection.

The characters in this fairy tale dream of love, but they also crave power. They are capable of helping and loving, but also of betraying. They are brave and weak, beautiful and twisted. A painting of a beautiful maiden was hidden in the darkest tower of the kingdom. The prince discovered it and decided to search for his beautiful maiden in the wide world. His dream girl Mahulena really exists and has long been dreaming of the prince. The prince must overcome the intrigues of the evil stepmother and also fulfill three wishes that Mahulena came up with to get rid of her suitors...

A sexually repressed but inquisitive wife stumbles across an interactive pornographic computer program when she borrows her workmates computer. The program is AUDACIOUS; a husband and wife team who invites you to share your fantasies. She submits her fantasies, and becomes addicted to watching them being enacted on the videos they create. Her husband discovers the videos, leading them to question the relevance fantasy has to their marriage. Sometimes simple fantasies are the most telling.

A man is of marriageable age and seeks a beautiful bride for himself. However, with time he realises that inner beauty is more important to sustain a healthier married life.

A short documentary about Jörg Buttgereit's father.

A foul-mouthed bull attempts to entertain a group of children with a story about a moose with enchanted weasels living in his pants.

Peter, Biggi, and Wilfried are cozying up in front of the television. But there's no tennis being played in Flushing Meadow. It's been raining in New York for days.

A documentary that follows the trail of our greatest living writer, Cormac McCarthy, from his origins in Knoxville, Tennessee, through New Orleans and into the vast expanse of Texas. The film deals with the terrain of the American West, McCarthyesque characters and the mystery that is your heart's desire. Join these three pilgrims as they enter the world of McCarthy, and encounter characters that seem sprung from the pages of Blood Meridian, Child of God, Suttree and other dark classics.

Alan Parsons Project concert video in Chile South America 1995, nearly two hours and includes 21 tracks: Sirius...Eye in the sky...Turn it up...What goes up...Luciferama...Old and wise...Take the money and run...Tell tale heart...Can't take it with you...Wouldn't wanna be like you...The Raven...I'm gonna show them all...Time...Money Talks/La Sagrada...Prime time...Standing on higher ground...Games people play...Psychobabble... Don't answer me...You're the voice...Fingers burned...

Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.

All of the band 80's music videos along with some live performances

A recently uncovered concert film thought to be lost, depicting the band's 1995 tour.

Short by Koji Yamamura

Moritz and Karl have a boring job at an advertising company. One day they meet an obscure agent of a rival company who wants to buy information about an advertisement campain their company is working on. Having no access to this plans they have no choice but to make up a fake campaign.

A tribute to the high concept trashiness of B-movies, the film centres on a scientist who is trying to locate the gene that controls guilt, but transforms into a combination vampire and drag queen after being bitten by one of his lab rats.

These five short videos introduce Judy, a paper maché puppet who ruminates on her position in society. Like Judy, of the famous Punch and Judy puppet duo, Benning’s Judy seems to experience the world from the outside, letting things happen to her rather than making things happen around her.

A comedy movie, telling the story of an auto-driver couple by Sasi Shankar.

The film depicts the life at the Larissa Railway station in Athens in the spring of 1995. The camera focuses on the station’s ‘tenants’, Antonia, Florakis and George..

An eleven-minute film by Akram Zaatari from 1995. Memories and images of childhood are reflected both on the screen and in the small mirror that a young boy plays with. Filmmaker and video artist Akram Zaatari was born in Saida, Lebanon in 1966 and currently lives in Beirut. His art practice also includes photography, installation, critical writing and curating.

Two young people stand on a street corner in a run-down part of New York, kissing. Despite the lawlessness of the district they are left unmolested. A short distance away walk Maria and Andreas. They are on their first date. In an episodic style the film tells of encounters and love among young people. The stories are set in Cairo, Paris, on the coast of Normandy and in New York.

A film about the indiscriminate destruction of forest taking place in the foothills of Himalaya, particularly in Bodoland area of Assam (India) and predominantly inhabited by the indigenous Bodo people.

A film about smoking.

A married couple begin playing an erotic game of getting the wife to seduce another man

Vijay meets his college friend Ajay, who is now a successful policeman. Soon, out of jealousy, he kidnaps Ajay's girlfriend.

Sumithra's lover Aravind, a photographer, goes missing after he goes to Shimla for a project. However, Sumithra sets out to look for Aravind after she finds out that he is alive.

The film is about the culture that has developed in public lavatories.

Four children see images of other youngsters around the world who dream of doing great things when they grow up but whose dreams are dashed by the harsh reality of their lives. Shocked, the children urgently ask adults to do something. A synthesis of articles 27, 29, 30, 31 and 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, this film illustrates children's right to a future. Film without words.

10CC play their greatest hits live on stage.

Minister Izzat Nafisli's son is called to the war. Izzat finds a "solution" to this from the documentaries he watched - but the real problems start after that.

Lazy and inveterate player, a French aristocrat has lost everything and his family is ruined. His wife still believes in a miracle. Will this come from their eldest daughter who has developed a gift of double vision since she was pregnant?

Political documentary meets baroque rave video in this computer animated portrayal of Louis XIV and his pleasure palace at Versailles. Courtiers from a Rudolf Valentino movie appear in an environment more reminiscent of Blade Runner, while shots from the Poll Tax Riots are weaved into a virtual diorama of London. Uncover the Seventeenth Century origins of our fascination with special effects, surveillance and addiction to media spectacle.

A glimpse into the junkie scene at Dortmund Central Station.

A collection of several so-called No Comments, satirical depictions of the wild nineties, which the author primarily created for the broadcast on Czech Television.

In this experimental film conceived by Sylvie Guillem, the choreographers become dancers or photographers: William Forsythe dances a superb solo and Mats Ek films his brother and Sylvie Guillem in Smoke, an oniric and sensual duet.

Cyrille Phipps with Paper Tiger TV (1995, color, video) 30 mins.

Marguerite Mercier is a retired seamstress who lives in an old apartment.A real estate agent has come to her apartment looking for Mr. Alphonse Caron, the companion of Marguerite who died some years again.Marguerite has made up a lot of excuses.But Leon , the cabinetmaker of the neighborhood says Marguerite that she must find a fake husband.So Marguerite proposes Leon to be her fake husband.The real estate agent comes again and Leon transformed in Alphonse asks him to go away.In a park Marguerite and Leon meet a boy Sebastien ,who falls from a skate roller and his little sister Stéphanie.They go to the hospital with them.There Marguerite knows Véronique , the mother of the children

Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema.

A dying Nazi war criminal gives a treasure map to his teenage neighbor. The boy goes after the gold and finds himself the target of a Nazi manhunt.