All Films

Green TV's Inaugural Film

1989 • 11 min

For a long time the KMT government has held a monopoly over Taiwan’s TV channels, using the lack of channel bandwidth as an excuse for its stranglehold. During the build-up to the elections at the end of 1989, Green Team set up a satellite transmission channel on its own, poking a hole in the KMT’s argument.

The Making of Halloween 5

1989 • 22 min

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1989 horror film, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Includes cast and crew interviews, produced as part of Drew Cummings' "Making Of" series.

Droit de passage

1989 • 4 min

Tipsy Turvy

1989 • 2 min • United States of America

1989 computer animation produced by IBM.

Pentecost

1989 • 7 min • Germany

Walking a thematic tightrope, Norbert Meissner here puts media technology to the test. The universal event of pentecost is the moment of the highest realization: technologically, the moment of all possibilities, i.e. white noise and snow. The text spoken by a TV announcer tries to create a hierarchy, but it is constantly disturbed, subverted, and displaced by electronic image distortions and fade-ins and fade-outs of multilingual versions of the text and of signal terms in various alphabets. A work to be read with differentiation on truth, sublimity, and the media.

Exposures

1989 • 13 min

Short film by Jon Behrens

Nico: In Memoriam

1989 • 38 min

"Not a documentary but the the ruins of an attempted documentary." - Grashina Gabelmann

She Wanted Green Lawns

1989 • 4 min

Featuring the Carpenters song ‘Close To You’, this is an ode to love and fantasy. Filmed in a gay bar, the roving camera hesitates on a woman’s face, on some lilies, on small groups of people drinking and enjoying themselves and on the proverbial kiss between two women. As if on cue, ten lesbians gather in line at the bar and nonchalantly perform a synchronised dance. A sublime fantasy, with pleasure as protest.

Voodoo and the Church in Haiti

1989 • 45 min • United States of America

Western and African cultures collide in Haiti resulting in religious conflict between Christianity and Voodoo. Despite centuries of vigilant opposition from the Christian Church, Voodoo has flourished in Haiti and continues to be one of the strongest elements underlying Haitian culture. This film dispels Hollywood stereotypes and presents Voodoo as a belief system that has been passed down from African ancestor to slave to present day Haitian. Traveling from the intensely overcrowded streets of Port-au-Prince to the serenity of the Haitian countryside, the viewer comes to see how the Haitian has accepted both the Christian and Voodoo mythology for use in daily life. The highly integrated Haitian culture is truthfully revealed.

The Weasel That Dripped Blood

1989 • 18 min

From the pages of Videohound's Cult Flicks and Trash Pics

The Earring

1989 • 6 min • Brazil

A droll Brazilian short on the theme of an incriminating earring.

Requiem

1989 • 13 min • Japan

Sola y tranquila

1989 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Dino-Riders in the Ice Age

1989 • 22 min

VHS special produced to promote the new range of "Ice Age" figures, released as "Ice Age Adventure" (but with the on-screen title "Dino-Riders in the Ice Age")

A Winter Too Many

1989 • 52 min

16 years have elapsed since Too Long A Winter and a combination of failing health and a series of devastatingly bitter winters culminates in Hannah being heart-wrenchingly driven off her beloved farm.

Mondrian Voor Rebecca

1989 • 3 min

I don't know what to say because the film was practically made itself. Definitely a gesture of admiration in the Netherlands and Dutch things. Certainly it is the 30 kilometer dyke which stretches in Friesland, to the north, "De Afsluitdijk". And certainly, I am sure, it is about grids and primary colors, and about Rebecca (the Beautiful one) that I know only slightly, and of this feeling of being (squarely) at the bottom of a landscape sculpted, refined and wild - a landscape (mooi ... mooi ... mooi ...) that made me silent, even peaceful ...

Video Ergo Sum

1989 • 3 min

The title alone sums up the concerns of this work, which extends the problem of self-representation to two supports; video and film. The monitor can be perceived in its specular dimension and / or in its capacity to open up a new field (not “outside” but “in” or “on the spot”).

The History of the Luftwaffe - A Phoenix Rising

1989 • 52 min

A History of the Luftwaffe containing rare footage from the Eastern Block

La Queue Tigrée D'un Chat Comme Un Pendentif de Pare-Brise

1989 • 26 min • Canada

Difficult to say what this film is about. I know it is the product of much anger. Anger against TV, the media, cinema, politics, social, economy, history, finally a lot. Above all I wanted to stop making illusions.

A Contemplation of the Cross

1989 • 27 min

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand painted footage, live-action and optical effects. The soundtrack is composed of a wide variety of music including Gregorian chant, Kodaly, Liszt and electronic music.

Akira-kankan

1989 • 49 min

A sunny day with little sister, 8mm unfinished film by Toshihiko Omote.

Glances

1989 • 10 min

A minimalist epic – a theme and variations on a single brushstroke, with a great deal more discovered from it than one would have thought possible. Though we never learn the identity of the film's protagonist it develops a definite character and personality – sometimes mercurial, sometimes determined – which makes it as endearing as the human characters in many other films.

Dusi & Jenõ

1989 • 45 min • Hungary

The private diary of a couple in a ghostly Budapest before, during and after the Second World War, between poetry and historical re-enactment.

Het misverstand

1989 • 5 min • Netherlands

Short film about the question: Why are oranges orange?