All Films

The Waxing Book

1989 • 3 min • United Kingdom

"Material that has collected me throughout my life, embedded into the pages of a book, using film as a transferring, alchemical tool. The birds fly, the candle is lit, the eyes open and the powers of pixilation brings active the dead." – P. R.

Face

1989 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Life in the Tajik city, everything a neighbor of everything else: a Muslim burial rite, a Soviet May 1st demonstration, women sweeping the floor, a quarrel in a theater about a contemporary set, old men queuing for groceries, young men leaving home for the army, an elderly women coming up to the camera and asking “And why are you filming?” The film, capturing the time, faces, songs, thoughts and hopes of the people, ends with a panorama of peaceful Dushanbe and a song in the background by Boris Grebenshikova.

Four Wives and a Marabout

1989 • 53 min • Norway

The film is about Al Hajji Malam Schaaway – Quran teacher and court member at the Sultanate of Adamaoua – and his four wives. The camera follows everyday life inside a polygamous household and, also, Al Hajji in his daily work as a religious teacher.

My Room

1989 • 14 min

An intimate portrait of the film maker's family home located in an apartment above his parent's Chinese restaurant in Saint Catherines, Ontario.

Metalhead Teens in a Record Store

1989 • 17 min

Larry & Darrell go to Sunburst Records in Huntsville Alabama, and make a few stops along the way.

On the Way Home

1989 • 12 min • Taiwan

On the Way Home follows a man on his way home on a rainy night, while cross-cutting the happenings after he returns home: doing laundry in a flooded bathroom, drinking tea, reading, and repeatedly opening and closing the door.

The Sword

1989 • 17 min • Soviet Union

On the motives of the same name story of Tomazo Landolfi.

Media Message

1989 • 4 min

Short film by Jill Scott.

Passe Pas Seul

1989 • 4 min

Short film.

Vision

1989 • 2 min

A short film by Abdullah Habib, shot in New York City.

Poet

1989 • 4 min

A short film by Abdullah Habib, shot in New York City.

This is not a Pipe

1989 • 10 min

A short film by Abdullah Habib, shot in New York City.

Panoramicon

1989 • 25 min

Travelogue of journey around Europe

Into the Great Solitude

1989 • 56 min

This now classic outdoor adventure film tells the story of Robert Perkins’ seventy-two day solo canoe journey in the Canadian Arctic. Perkins not only takes on arduous physical challenges, but he lyrically describes in film and language how the journey helps him make peace with a difficult father.

The Animators: Playing God

1989 • 30 min • United Kingdom

BBC documentary about West Country animators. The first half covers CMBT, the studio behind The Trap Door and Stoppit and Tidyup (along with an unmade feature, tantalising concept art for which is shown). The second half covers Maya Brandt, an independent animator who had recently begun her career with a couple of shorts made for Channel 4; again, concept art for an apparently unfinished film is showcased in the documentary.

Target City Hall

1989 • 28 min

About a 28 March 1989 ACT UP demonstration against New York City Mayor Ed Koch's inadequate response to the AIDS crisis.

Gaël lit Pessoa

1989 • 3 min

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Hand In The Sun

1989 • 11 min

The cameraman's hand was filmed against the Ethiopian sunset and the surrounding scenery using different shutter speeds(1/2, 1/8 etc.). The footage was edited to produce a work centering around the image of the hand. Stravinsky's music was used for soundtrack. Shutter speed and imagery was applied experimentally.

Right to Truth

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Kyiv, 1989. A demonstration dedicated to the anniversary of the Chornobyl tragedy is happening at the “Dynamo” stadium – all the seats are filled, the words “Chornobyl, Prypiat, a warning” are visible on the scoreboard. People took to the streets in search of truth because years after the tragedy, there was still no comprehension or public awareness of the real dangers of radiation, and a general feeling that no one from the government had been punished for the accident or for carrying on with the 1st of May demonstration held in Kyiv in the first days of the tragedy.

Phantasmagoria

1989 • 18 min

A student film inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem.

Shadow of the Sarcophagus

1989 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The film is about the consequences of the Chornobyl accident and the concealment of data on the true extent of the damage by the leaders of the medical system of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR. Interviews are conducted with P. Ramzaev, MD, M. Karpan, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and V. Kavun, First Secretary of the Zhytomyr Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The program shows the examination of patients in the radiation pathology department of Kyiv Hospital No. 25 and the examination of cattle by radiobiologists in the Narodytsky district of Zhytomyr region. Scientific conference "Medical aspects of the Chornobyl accident" in Kyiv. Minister of Health of the USSR E.I. Chazov makes a speech.

A Gentle Afternoon Nap

1989 • 7 min

A work filmed in a room at the Washington Square Hotel in New York, created with the technique of multiple exposure. Scenes of a nude couple are overlaid with images of natural phenomena, such as blooming flowers and clouds in the sky. “The scenes of the man and woman were in filmed in the hotel room where they were staying in New York. The summer sky and clouds were shot time-lapse on the roof of a building in Nakano-ku, Tokyo, where I lived at the time. I can’t remember where the cherry blossoms were filmed, but I remember I only saw the petals on the ground rather than the flowers themselves. Three motifs taken at different locations: the activities of men and women, the hot sunshine every summer, and the cherry blossoms that bloom and fall in spring. Things that are fleeting and disappearing, but at the same time, only exist at that moment.“

Der 3-Ecken-Fisch

1989 • 1 min • Germany

My fish has three corners, three corners has my fish, and had he not three corners, he would not be my fish!

Ruppiner Schweiz - Am Ende eines Sommers

1989 • 29 min • East Germany

North of Neuruppin lies the Ruppiner Schweiz, the smallest “Swiss” area on German soil. Fontane loved the seclusion and enigmatic appeal of this region’s landscape. As an idyllic recreational and holiday region, it attracts countless tourists every year. But the industry has left its mark: what were previously common sights in the wild can only now be found by vacationers in museums or small zoos. A film about a regional landscape, its history, and how people treat it.