All Films

Dr. Seuss' ABC

1989 • 27 min

Beginner Book Video When The Cat in the Hat was published in 1957 as the first Beginner Book, it revolutionized reading. Today, Beginner Books are still revolutionary - and just as much fun! Now new generations can enjoy Dr. Seuss' unpredictable humor in these great DVD's. Three classic Dr. Seuss stories: Dr. Seuss' ABC I Can Read With My Eyes Shut Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?

Amazon Diary

1989 • 17 min

Oscar nominated short film from 1989. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The First Love

1989 • 20 min • Japan

"Hatsukoi" (The First Love, 1989) is a rarely-seen early short film from a Goth-lolita-oriented experimental film-maker, Mari Terashima. Ritualized action and repetitive elements might remind some viewers of Maya Deren's strategy.

Les Silences de Manet

1989 • 56 min • France

In this in-depth portrait of painter Édouard Manet, filmmaker Didier Baussy visits the milieus that fueled the vision of the celebrated artist -- hailed as the leader of the French impressionist movement -- whose works had a sweeping influence. Filmed throughout Spain and France, the rich retrospective traces the roots of such Manet essentials as Le déjeuner sur l'herbe and the controversial Olympia.

Testing the Limits: NYC

1989 • 30 min

In 1987, the Ronald Reagan administration faced criticism from AIDS activists for its mismanagement of the AIDS crisis. Chanting "Test drugs, not people" and "Educate, don't isolate", activist groups took to the streets of New York City to denounce mandatory testing as a discriminatory practice and to demand more HIV/AIDS research and educational initiatives. Shot by the Testing the Limits Collective, this video is an informative record of the early struggles against the federal government's inaction over the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Pinhole Film (The Man Without a Movie Camera)

1989 • 13 min • Italy

Film made with a tiny pinhole camera and 16mm film.

Stiff Sheets

1989 • 19 min

Stiff Sheets indicts public health officials and politicians for the lack of adequate and humane care for people with AIDS in Los Angeles, this time documenting a mock fashion show staged by ACT UP activists.

Lightning

1989 • 9 min • Philippines

An editorial cartoon-like satire of a truth-seeking journalist up against a crooked politician and his private army. Like Pinocchio's nose, the newsman's pencil acts as a barometer of the lies being fed by the unfinching politico, as they play a game of cat vs. mouse, truth vs. lies.

Hotel Acapulco

1989 • 12 min • Germany

A man tells a strange tale about a hotel he once visited.

My Family

1989 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A student must do his homework, writing a story about his family. As the boy was watching a program about animals, he inadvertently added fantastic facts, such as the number of a million people, and described special feature of relatives using phrases that inform about the different birds and animals. The writing, of course, turned out to be funny and ridiculous.

I Wish I Knew

1989 • 4 min

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

Hi-Fi Cadets

1989 • 11 min

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk

1989 • 30 min

Jane Castleton leads a farcical tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Sisters Habits

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Three punk girls exploit their slave in different ways.

Our Mother is a Hero

1989 • 45 min • Soviet Union

The film, shot in 1979, but allowed to be shown only 10 years later, talks about the traditional hero of Soviet propaganda. It consists of two parallel plots. The first is the classic "newsreel" about the hero of labor, a noble weaver Golubeva. Golubev at the machines, Golubev on the podium. The second line of the film is the life of the Golubeva family. More precisely, the life of her husband and son. Mom is not at home.

Witchcraft - Yesterday And Today

1989 • 60 min • United States of America

This is a video by recognized Witchcraft authority Raymond Buckland, whose purpose is to straighten out the popular misconceptions about the Wiccan religion. For the approximately 70,000 to 75,000 people in the United States who consider themselves Wiccans or Pagans, this is the only completely factual "how-to" depiction of the rites and practices of their religion in the world.

Hard Core Home Movie

1989 • 5 min

HARD-CORE is a frank and irreverent documentary that asks the question, "what is hard-core?" Seedy, grainy, and fast-paced, this is a nostalgic look at an ephemeral moment in the history of a subculture: punk rock in San Francisco in the late eighties. Everyone from fucked-up teenagers to elderly Mexican tourists attempts to explain the allure and mystique of the scene. Filmed at SF's historical petting-zoo/theater/punk rock emporium The Farm.

Girlfriend

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short Russian animated film about a man and a fish.

Self Portrait

1989 • 1 min • Japan

Renzo Kinoshita's animated self-portrait.

SCHMANTZ - Der Untergang der Menschheit

1989 • 33 min • Germany

Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf, a trainee on local private television, uncovers the mystery and takes up the fight against evil

Le troisième oeil

1989 • 27 min

In association with Jean-Luc Guionnet (image/sound). Film haptique», shot in outdoors locations with electroacoustic music. Two male bodies being a unique eye, witness and anamorphique, in a sort of a sexual whirlwind.

Cassandra

1989 • 3 min • United States of America

"If a body meet a body, comin' through the rye. If a body kiss a body, make a body cry"-- From an old folk song, "Comin' Through the Rye." This painted film is for the daughter of Troy as it fell to the Greeks and to all girls seeking womanhood by way of tears.

Three Paces

1989 • 14 min • United Kingdom

An urban fairy tale in which three characters negotiate a space where myth and reality constantly collide. Syed uses the character of The Lady of Shallot as the films’ central theme. Interweaving sections of the poem ‘The Lady of Shallot’ by Tennyson, with her own text, the film explores feelings of isolation and the desire to connect.

Tesito

1989 • 30 min • France, Senegal

In 1989, this film was part of the PAMEZ project in Senegal which was part of the sea program of the CCFD, Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development. It presents the economic and social role of women in the Casamance region for the development of fishing. These women who process and market fish, who are responsible for management, have a voice and express their opinion.