All Films

Knights of Heaven

1989 • 20 min

A military group of alpinists are selected to carry out a secret mission. The fate of humanity depends on their success. The rules of the mission require the death of each participant once his or her task is accomplished. After killing one of their colleagues and splitting into several groups, the alpinists continue their journey. But the human unconscious doesn’t follow military orders. Having once committed murder, the “knights” can’t control their desire to kill. They forgot their mission… and kill each other instead. —University of Pittsburgh

The Sid Saga Part III

1989 • 30 min

Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 3 of 3.

Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere

1989 • 7 min • Spain

Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope

Ostensibly

1989 • 16 min

A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front of the camera.

Alter Ego

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Horror Rock

1989 • 40 min • United States of America

"Horror Rock" combines terrifying, heart stopping scenes from the most spine-tingling horror films ever made with some of the hottest classic indie rock music performed by the absolutely wickedest bands! This sizzling collection explodes with searing renditions from such cult classic bands like Del-Lords, Judas Kiss, Hurricane, Over The Edge, Wrath, Children Of The Wicked, Pandoras, Run Down Love Battery, Dickies, Booby Trap, Elvis Hitler and Hot Rod To Hell. If you like your music from beyond the edge, "Horror Rock" will deliver devilish pleasure to your ears as highlights from your favorite horror films make your blood run cold! Get ready for the rock & roll ride of your life as "Horror Rock" burns a hole in your soul!

Aus der Ferne—The Memo Book

1989 • 27 min • Germany

AUS DER FERNE – THE MEMO BOOK (1989) is a reminiscence of a friend who had died of AIDS. His own mourning finds expression in the blending of found and original material, which seems to become one with the film material.

Myself When Fourteen

1989 • 19 min

Brightly coloured animated drawings rotoscoped from high contrast black and white negative film of Ivor Cantrill aged 14, are integrated with the original negative and positive images on an optical printer to create patterns of black, white and colour. The film-maker reminisces about being 14 and describes the rotoscoping process. Ivor Cantrill is autistic, and his attention to detail and his preoccupation with repetition are positive aspects of his condition.

Cincinnati: More Great, Near Great, and Not So Great Moments in Cincinnati History

1989 • 60 min

Take another trip through yesterday's Cincinnati, and its people, places, and events, which includes highlights of Cincinnati's Bicentennial Celebration.

Mein Herz schlägt Blau - Ella Bergmann-Michel

1989 • 30 min • Germany

A documentary about the artist Ella Bergmann-Michel, who was born in Paderborn in 1895 and died in Eppstein im Taunus in 1972. The film focuses primarily on her work: drawings and collages, photographs, and sequences from her documentary films from the late 1920s. The film brings together what is often mistakenly separated, namely the painter on the one hand and the documentary filmmaker on the other.

Godsend

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In this fable inspired by Altai folklore, a child's soul becomes a battleground for spirits from heaven and hell.

Everything's for You

1989 • 58 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Abraham Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental non-narrative film. Ravett reflects upon his relationships with his family, from his now-deceased father (who survived both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz) to his own young children. He utilizes family photographs and film footage, archival film footage from the Ghetto Fighters' House in Israel, cell animation by Emily Hubley, and computer graphics to create a film about memory, death, and what critic Bruce Jenkins calls "the power of the photographic image and sound to resurrect the past."

Between

1989 • 15 min • Germany

A summer afternoon full of daydreams. Sexual fantasies are embodied in black-and-white images of androgenic bodies. The boundary between images of reality and desire images becomes permeable, gender is subjected to playful transformations. "Between" relies on lusty fragmentation of the body, surreal sequence of sequences, and an ambivalent symbolism. The desire for a self-titled production of the body dominated the zeitgeist of the 80s. The articulation of a wild "desire" - to catch up with a central concept of the aesthetic as well as feminist discussion of the 1980s - was also reflected in films which in the series of Maya Derens films of the 1940s formulated another feminine view.

Conscience Lost

1989 • 17 min

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Saltykov-Shchedrin.

Homo Paradoksum I

1989 • 17 min • Soviet Union

An experimental film about life on earth as a cosmic experiment and the curiosity and naivete of reaching out to alien life.

Kostroma

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A musical film based on an ancient ritual song about spring and the needlewoman Kostroma.

Goya-Munch-Lautrec

1989 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

Humourist commentary on three famous paintings by the author's most beloved painters.

On the Balance

1989 • 14 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Video Catnip

1989 • 25 min • United States of America

HEY KITTYS LOOK! YES! It's time for kitty's favorite show...VIDEO CATNIP! We'll start with some fun and games for you and your human, then go right into the "Cats Only" part of the show. So get ready for some CAT-A-CLYSMIC fun with NO PAWS in the action.

Too Many Captain Cooks

1989 • 18 min

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance.

Imaginary

1989 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Imaginary is a film in three parts (From Today, Touched and One) shot in varying intimate and personal environments. Fleeting images are re-filmed and stylised in an unsentimental manner.

No. 5 Reversal

1989 • 9 min • Canada

No. 5 Reversal opens with a close up sequence of two women in animated conversation, followed by an aural page/station structure. The film combines elements of horizontal and vertical montage in the soundtrack, using white noise, and radio static as a fragmentation device. The visually striking black and white photography weaves lyrical, pastoral nature with the de- and re- construction of civilization. No. 5 Reversal ends with a filmic signature, an image of its maker framed in front of a window against a backdrop of ruins.

Erwartung

1989 • 35 min

Film version of Arnold Schoenberg's one act monodrama.

Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home

1989 • 5 min

A hauntingly beautiful film, the poetic reflections of a disturbed mind.