All Films

Gas Turbine Flowfield Simulation

1989 • 1 min

This stereoscopic 3D animation shows the pressure distribution obtained from a full 3D simulation of the flow inside a gas turbine.

Unforgettable

1989 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Exploring the deserted city of Pripyat after the disaster.

In Silence

1989 • 6 min

A man living in a hotel becomes obsessed over a sounds of a child crying in a room next door. Based on a story by Julio Cortázar "The Doomed Door".

Euthanasia

1989 • 28 min • Soviet Union

A semi-fictional, semi-documentary study of suicides.

Provocation

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A long road and close-up drawing a giant cross.

Hubog

1989 • 12 min • Philippines

A juxtaposition of recurring images resulting in a montage of ideas aiming to tackle issues concerning the standard male viewpoint on the female body. How the "female body" counter-attacks is shown.

Hardy's Wessex

1989 • 60 min

Exploring the corner of England that featured so strongly in the life of Thomas Hardy.

Félix Leclerc chante Cadet Rousselle

1989 • 6 min • Canada

The song “Cadet Rousselle”, illustrated with drawings by Jean Dallaire and sung by Félix Leclerc.

Saga sachets (Légende du Val de l'Ourthe et du Val de l'Amblève)

1989 • 20 min • Belgium

Saga sachets is a beautifully visualized, fantastical tale that weaves a mythical legend about storytelling. Writes Jacques Louis Nyst, "The satchel sagas are very light envelopes taken about by air streams. They arrive shortly before spring in the Ourthe and Amblève Valley, where they settle upside down. In this position, they whisper to the Planet Earth stories they collected during the year. The earth is attentive to them, it garners these stories in the deep of its memory along mysterious channels. The earth's memory is a deep sanctum where deep calm reigns... Out of this mirror of darkness the earth draws the images that it will later express in the guise of landscapes. Landscapes are born of stories told."

Janghada, Tongilui kkot Lim Su-gyeong

1989 • 50 min • North Korea

In 1989, 20-year-old South Korean college student Lim Su-gyeong crossed the Military Demarcation Line between the two Koreas while thousands of spectators around the world witnessed this controversial act.

Leo Kottke: Home + Away

1989 • 60 min

A sold-out performance at the Bathurst Theatre in Toronto on May 7, 1988.

Paint Film

1989 • 4 min

Iridescent colour, shimmering guitars, shining flute.

The Story of a Whale Who Fell in Love with a Submarine

1989 • 15 min

Dekao, a lonely whale, was swimming dejectedly in the ocean, desperately wanting a partner, when he met a very beautiful whale right in front of him. However, the whale that Dekao fell in love with was actually a submarine built by the Japanese Navy...

Art Moderna Cha Cha Cha

1989 • 6 min

A complete history of modern art in 5 minutes of Spanglish, including a lesson in forging Van Goghs from the late British forger, Tom Keating.

Red Earth

1989 • 50 min

Song Xiebao from the Xinjiang Yili Television Station adopted an approach reminiscent of “the father of documentary,” Robert Flaherty, and his style of “romantic ethnography” in the production of Red Earth, which depicts the everyday life of three generations of a Uyghur family living beneath the Flaming Mountains in Xinjiang. Much like Nanook of the North (1922), the characters in the film are all staged portrayals, and the narrative is deliberately arranged, aiming to present a traditional way of life as understood by the filmmaker—one that reflects what they perceive to be the enduring customs of the local people over the centuries.

The Whip

1989 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A history of man subjugating nature told through the medium of cave art.

A Prayer for the Holy Bird

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A fable on perpetual motion in nature and the transfer of experience across generations.

Fete a Cobonne

1989 • 13 min • France

Corbonne is a small village in the Drôme, near Valence. Before the Second World War there were 140 inhabitants, today there are 30. To stop the decline of the older part of Corbonne, a non-profit society has organised 7 work camps in four years. The highlight of these summer work camps is the 15th of August festival, which enables the friends of old Corbonne and the villagers to get together.

Viva Eu! (Long Live Me!)

1989 • 18 min

This documentary is a tribute to Wilton Braga, a visionary artist who was one of the first people to be diagnosed with AIDS in Brazil. As Braga travels to Barcelona, New York and Sao Paolo, the film follows the quixotic journey of his last days.

Passage

1989 • 8 min • Poland

A black silhouette wanders across some empty white space. In the background, we could see shapes of different equipment items. The routine of everyday life emerges from the play of black and white forms. The contrast between black and white (privacy) turns into grey reality outside the building. Loneliness changes into the indifference of passers-by.

The Bed

1989 • 6 min • Bulgaria

One man and his bed.

How I Was Killed

1989 • 26 min

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

The Ark

1989 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the residents of a two-story house that miraculously escaped demolition in Moscow.

The Old Man of the Sea

1989 • 24 min

An old, bedridden man plays games that have a hint of the sinister about them.