All Films

Nevada-Kazakhstan

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The feeling a nation undergoing change through the movement to close an atomic testing and dumping site.

Dreamkeeper

1989 • 5 min

A document of the artist's three-channel audio/video installation of the same title, Dreamkeeper is the second part of Jones' ongoing transcultural dialogue, a commentary on the emerging global African diaspora culture. Here he uses a drum to signify the link among diaspora peoples, stating, "The drum, the sound, is the translator of the unseen, to guide the seeker." Using footage and ambient sounds recorded in Angola and Burkina Faso, he explores what he terms a "narrative structure based on emotional progressions." Dreamkeeper continues Jones' search for images and sounds that speak to African diaspora cultures throughout the world. The drummers and music in the tape are indigenous to Bobo-Diolaso, Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Zapach Islamu

1989 • 10 min • Poland

Documentary about the life of an elderly Tatar couple who live in Kruszyniany village in Podlasie. While Islam and the proximity of a mosque are still important to older people, youth are fleeing from the countryside to the city.

Songs of Pasta'ay

1989 • 58 min • Taiwan

The Pasta’ay, which means "the festival of the legendary little people," is a significant ritual held every other year in the Saisiat aborigine group in Taiwan. Every ten years, they hold the Great Ritual. This film focuses on the Great Ritual in 1986. It tries to convey the Saisiat people’s affection for and belief in the legendary little people. At the same time, the film brings into light Saisiat people’s ambivalence towards tourist invasion, and their dilemma of being caught between tradition and modernization. Structured by the Pasta’ay songs’ movements, the film breaks down to 15 chapters. It carefully juxtaposes the visual with the aural elements, which are conveyed in the conceptual dichotomy between “the real” and “the artificial.”

The Herders of Mongun-Taiga

1989 • 52 min

Examines the life of nomadic herders-hunters-farmers in a remote region of an automous republic of the former Soviet Union. Mountainous terrain forms the dramatic backdrop against which a state farm operates. Modern influences are changing the lives of the young people.

Cravings

1989 • 6 min

A performance film of Lee Bul and company moving around the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea museum lobby, wearing Lee’s white, red, and black soft sculptures. Microphones hidden inside the costumes amplify the sound of the performers’ movements.

Along and Lili

1989 • 10 min • China

Tea for Two

1989 • 16 min

"It is only an alternation of energy that operates here" is the visible inscription on a man's grave where another man can be seen lying on his back. The man, professor of Physics, is explaining the theory of relativity "One of the most important concepts used in the description of natural phenomena is that of energy ..." In physics, this is always associated with some process or some type of activity: " it can change shape, but nothing is lost… ". During the explanation, he traces, outside of chronological conventions, in an alternation of situations and thoughts, even paradoxical ones, part of that path lived with his man, abruptly interrupted by death.

Obataleo

1989 • 11 min • Cuba

The music band Síntesis recreates the Yoruba music, a key part of Cuban cultural heritage, and fuses it with rock sounds. The result is a new rhythm with a contagious dancing character.

Mirror Mirror

1989 • 21 min

Mirror Mirror depicts an intimate friendship between two gay Chinese-Canadian men in Toronto, Lloyd Wong and Paul Cheung. Over food and intimate conversations they discuss family, identity, culture, friendship, and dating.

Hum-Hum Show

1989 • 4 min • Bulgaria

A guard looks after the Golden Apple, protecting it from creatures that try to eat it.

Wolf Suite

1989 • 10 min • Bulgaria

In a village, wolves threaten the herds of sheep. Shepherds kill animals. The clerk comes and shows them the Red List of Threatened Species. It turns out that wolves are on this list. The villagers begin to take care of the only surviving pair of wolves. They even protect them from sheep that have gone berserk and become bloodthirsty.

Morris Goes To School

1989 • 14 min

Morris (a moose) decides to go to school so he can learn how to count and read. He is a big hit with the children there. His takeaway from his experience there: "He never knew how much he didn't know."

Plutonium Nightmare

1989 • 9 min

Short film by George Snow.

Structure

1989 • 6 min • Poland

An experienced prison guard, who also gives talks at a primary school, shares his thoughts on such topics as upbringing, order, young people, freedom and Solidarity.

Between Dog and Wolf

1989 • 7 min

Short film.

Dream

1989 • 5 min

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

Henry's Decision

1989 • 26 min

Henry, a shy, awkward fifth-grader, is afraid of girls, avoids sports, and is hounded by class bullies Leslie and Tom. The situation changes, however, when newcomer Brian arrives in class and replaces Henry as the object of ridicule. Henry succumbs to peer pressure and joins the other children in teasing Brian. Fortunately, a series of surprising events in gym class allows Henry's true character to prevail.

Statue

1989 • 3 min

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

Revolution: The Beautiful France

1989 • 5 min

A comical saga about the French Revolution, as seen by an Englishman, to music by Offenbach. The film's script was selected as part of the Revolution contest organised in 1987 by the CNC, the INA, Canal+ and the Annecy Festival.

Noshörning

1989 • 4 min • Sweden

Short art film with animations starting with a rhinoceros

Pride

1989 • 28 min

On the 20th anniversary of New York City's gay and lesbian pride movement.

Collage

1989 • 16 min • Japan

Le Drapeau de l'étoile

1989 • 8 min

Short film by Teo Hernández.