Cinematic Era: 1995 Vintage

The legend of Doctor Faust tells of man's desire for knowledge and fulfillment in life.

A short gore film by the Neo-gore group from Zaragoza in 1995

Take a tour through a neighborhood wonderland. These are the same beautifully adorned and fabulously decorated homes you hear about every holiday season. Now, instead of traveling miles to see them, Homes for the Holidays brings them right into your living room, for you and your family to view again and again.

Top gaming instructor David Wilhite shows you video poker strategies!

Filmmaker Kevin McMahon examines the Cold War's impact on the Inuit, a primitive culture of the Arctic. Meryn Cadell narrates.

In the desert of Namibia, life has always been a harsh struggle enriched by a feeling of oneness with the land. The people of Ova Himba were cattle herders, who followed the rains and knew where to find water and vegetation. They migrated between their encampments, the women repairing the huts with cow dung. Chief Kamasuthu, his mother, children and three wives always lived in the manner prescribed by their ancestors. They ground ocre with butterfat and herbs and decorated their bodies with this deep-hued mixture. This honored the fine cattle of their ancient gods. The drought and the war in Angola forced them into shanty towns and took away their dignity. Their children grew scornful of the old ways. This ancient, nomadic tribe, which had been untouched by the 20th century, now faces an uncertain future.

There are many memories of childhood that have slipped through the cracks. Most that I can recollect were of the differences in myself in comparison to the others around. Taken away at one week of age from my Indian community and given to a white foster family, my experience of the authentic Indian and where my placement is, within this dream of authenticity, comes from an infected locale.

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and disposes of her body. We learn almost nothing about either the victim or her tormentor, and the film contains no moral judgments –Tony Rayns

It all started when Smilingüido decided to clean up his gloves and yellow boots. That day the Queen praised him greatly. Despite the great friendship between Piriá and Smilingüido, things change between them. Feeling rejected, with envy of his friend, Piriá looks for a way to be accepted by the Queen and thus get the admiration of all the ants.

The triangle — husband, wife, lover — is transformed into a square. A business partner saves the family from the threat of disintegration. However, the husband turns out to be a gentleman in the end...

A conflicted mestizo man in Quito rejects his roots and tries to pass as part of the white elite, building a fragile identity based on appearances. As his ambitions clash with reality, his relationships and sense of self begin to unravel.

A live, comprehensive demonstration that shows you how to model realistic terrain and landscape using Woodland Scenics products.

A collage-letter to friends I lost, or who drifted away. A film about the end of adolescence in the 1990s, set between Athens and Brussels. Fragments and snippets of memory, stitched together in the way memory actually works: through the flow of emotions. Letters inspired by those my friends sent me in Brussels, Super 8 footage I shot myself, photographs, Video 8 material, and newly filmed standalone scenes. The final medium is 16mm film.

The S/N installation/performance project began in 1992, took its title from the “signal/noise ratio” of electronic communications and applied it to the dissonance surrounding contemporary social issues — sex inequality, racial and ethnic minority discrimination, politics of gender, HIV/AIDS and sexualities — in an effort to go beyond the theatrics of art toward activist engagement and community outreach. The conceptual author, director and performer of the work, Teiji Furuhashi, who came out on stage as gay and HIV-positive and died of AIDS-related septicemia on 29 October 1995, characterized S/N as “struggle.”

After befriending a young prostitute and junkie named Cathy, Declan, a social worker, is horrified when she turns up missing. A year later, she returns and tells him the horrifying truth about what happened. This all leads to one man...Detective O'Brien.

A film by Dmitry Lurye.

All the Goals & Games from Liverpool's 94-95 Season

A monodrama consisting of the content of the letter from the short story "A Letter from 1920" by Ivo Andrić. The story was published way back in 1946, and through the pen of his main character Max Levenfeld, a doctor who is fleeing Bosnia for good, Andrić writes about the hatred that has haunted this country and its people for centuries.

A collection of four Nanny Lynn stories: Cookie Crunchers, Jake and The Peanut Butter, La Petite Mouffette, and Jake and Dylan Vacuum the Universe.

A Japanese PSA about AIDS

A documentary profile of Lester Brodzik and his alter ego Lestushka

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

The World's Greatest Train Ride" video series takes you on the train adventure of a lifetime! Filled with all the breathtaking excitement of authentic train travel, this exhilarating journey through Russia takes you on a complete rail tour.

As distinct fishing societies of great spiritual, cultural, and economic wealth, Indigenous peoples have always respected the resources of their rivers and oceans. But within their own lifetime, they have watched governments ​“manage” the fishery into a state of crisis. Filmmaker Barb Cranmer, a member of the ​‘Na̱mǥis First Nation, explores the rich fishing traditions of the Sto:lo, Heiltsuk, and ​‘Na̱mǥis peoples of Canada’s West Coast in Ƚaxwesa Wa—Strength of the River. With over fifteen years’ experience fishing Johnstone Strait with her father, Cranmer presents rarely heard stories of traditional fishing practices and documents Indigenous peoples’ efforts to build a sustainable fishery for the future.

Mr Ikegami is in Sydney on business. Back in Tokyo, his wife Seisuko is expecting their first child. A tale of divided loyalties.

Computer animation.

A pensioner decided to treat his 100th birthday guests to a unique cake in the shape of the Tower of Pisa. But, alas, no one will bake such a cake! As always, the men of the Emergency Brigade save the day...

The New Schoolteacher describes the life of Ella, a young teacher in the 1850s. Not much older than the senior students in her charge, she is responsible for everything in the school from teaching all grades, all subjects, to discipline and housekeeping. It is a difficult job but Ella proves that she can do it and starts a baseball team too.

Jenny Cool interviewed women in a suburban housing development outside Los Angeles, discovering a fragile lifestyle dominated by social pressures and the daily commuter grind.

The concert is recorded in Japan in support of the Chicago Night and Day (Big Band) album. Not released and performed with a Japan Big Band ensemble and one of my personal favorites in my Chicago live concert video collection. Setlist: Band Introductions Saturday In The Park Questions 67 and 68 You're The Inspiration Free Hard Habit To Break Colour My World Look Away The Making Of Night and Day - Big Band Night And Day Chicago Don't Get Around Much Anymore Moonlight Serenade Goody Goody Make Me Smile Beginnings Just You And Me Does Anybody Rally Know What Time It Is I'm A Man Hard To Say I'm Sorry In The Mood 25 Or Six To 4 If You Leave Me Now

“A land art film that examines the poverty of a residential block in the South Bronx. Torched stolen cars, abandoned mutt dogs and dirty laundry are a few of the visual anchors that weave this location study together. This film was shot on Tri-X film and in-camera edited using a 16mm Bolex camera” (Joey Huertas). (Screened 2/17/22 at MoMA as part of Millennium Film Workshop: “Nighttime” NYC event).

Documentary produced for Channel 4 interviewing lesbians about their relationship to butch and femme culture.

Dog Eat Dog: Live at Dynamo Open Air in 1995.

In a small town plagued by mysterious sightings of several large creatures roaming the streets, Gavin, living with his insensitive father; believes he will have more freedom as a frog than a human being. Gavin Frogboy is a story of a neglected boy, his unconventional solutions to his problems and the paranoia of a small town.

This comedy chronicles the experiences of Juliette, a young woman who undergoes a deep exploration of her sexuality as she is given a series of special lessons in sex and philosophy by the extremely decadent Dolman. During the course of an evening Dolman helps demolish Juliette’s conservative ideology and replaces it with his own libertine perspectives. Juliette becomes an enthusiastic convert in this bicentennial production of the Marquis de Sade’s classic book.

Chinese filmmaker Ah Nian's second film.

Using Julie Andrews and origami patterns, this film plays with notions of power and pleasure in an interracial, sexual relationship.

This investigative, fast-paced documentary examines censorship in Vancouver from a Generation X point of view. Discussions about the banning of queer newspaper from a Vancouver suburb, the negotiating of queer theory in academia, and the interplay of race and self-censorship in lesbian/gay communities make this video a welcome update on aspects of the anti-censorship debate.

"Cosmodrome" (= Launch pad for space rockets) is a film about the connection between cinema and cosmos. A revolving globe; the distribution logo of the Universal film studio shows the viewer an act of "initiation" taking place in the cosmos - a key image between cinema architecture and cinematic space.

The year is 1945. The final battle for Vienna has begun. Hitler declares the capital of the "Ostmark", as Austria was called then, a stand-off of the Third Reich against the Red Army; a last attempt to turn the tables yet. A group of Austrian resistance fighters recognize the impossibility and enable the Russians to occupy the city - this action was known as the "Radetzky Operation" - and with it Vienna was saved from complete destruction by the Allies. The operation was headed by Carl Szokoll.

The 8mm videocassette lost footage contained in this VHS tape you are about to see was found disposed of in a Utah county thrift store dumpster. It is a true reality account of the bizarre pizza party which befell a group of three friends. They could not have expected nor would they have wished to see as much of the strange and surreal in their party host as they would see that day. For them an idyllic party invitation became a totally bizarre outing. The events of that 1995 day would later be revealed with the discovery of one of the most bizarre pizza parties video footage in the annals of American history.

The film tells the story of 78-year old writer Fritz Habeck. The two essential themes of his cinematic interpretation of the artist's destiny are the lack of direction in a person who is creative, but trapped within himself, and the psychology of individual failure.

Some farmers kill some motorcyclists believing that they killed a companion, but the real killer is still alive.

Documentary film about the life of Neuquén bishop Jaime de Nevares.

Timith, a chatty and needy young man, pushes himself upon Belky, a nearly-wordless immigrant waiter who works at a cafe Timith frequents. Timith projects all kinds of attributes onto Belky, gets the waiter to visit his apartment, and invites him to stay. They become lovers. Can Timith see past his own projections to something real in Belky? In a dream, Timith finds an answer.

Peter returns to Mexico to see his old pals and his mother but leaves everyone stunned with his sexy rich wife.

Street-life at a busy intersection beneath a freeway in San Francisco. An urban landscape film with an underlying formal structure.

An exploration of homoeroticism in male nude photography as told from the point of view of the photographer and his models.

YE WONZ MAIBEL: DELUGE is a personal visual meditation on history, conflict and the roads to reconciliation. It is a tale of love and betrayal, of idealism and the lure of power. It is a memorial to a brother who disappeared and a best friend, executed. It is a story of the Ethiopian students, their “Revolution” and its aftermath – a brutal military dictatorship.