All Films

Air qui erre

1989 • 6 min • France

Justine's Film

1989 • 45 min

A girl with a broken heart seeks refuge among friends to overcome her pain. Unfortunately, she fails at the task and then, she decides to undetake a treatment: a detoxification of love.

Granny's Is

1989 • 49 min

A fragmented, personal, sometimes confrontational portrait of the filmmaker’s grandmother

The Mission: South America

1989 • 53 min • United Kingdom

This film documents The Mission's 1988 tour of South America, on and off-stage in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Quick Animation

1989 • 12 min • East Germany, Germany

Scenes of a big city follow one another and turn into alienated settings using grafitti painting and rap music.

Self-Organization of Biological Systems

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by slightly accelerated excerpt from Brezhnev’s speeches, as well as by fragments of statements of the mentally ill person with the schizophasia symptom.

Parlez-moi d'amour

1989 • 4 min • Japan

As the filmmaker metaphorically represents the “romanticism as love towards mineral,” they are gathered through the act of shooting (the physical movements on camera) and they are a collection of images being put in the film; these meanings are to be interpreted by the audience.

Executioner: The Musical

1989 • 25 min • United States of America

Chicago-area filmmaker Scott Grenke’s infamous splatter comedy from 1989. When five teens throw a BBQ for their reanimated friend, a singing and dancing Executioner serves up more blood than ketchup. With five original songs, practical effects and hemorrhaging with dark humor, this classic is now available and licensed on VHS for the first time in 19 years (31 years since its Cablecom debut).

Soldier Jack, or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack

1989 • 40 min

Adapted from an Appalachian Jack Tale set in the late 1940s, this tale follows a World War II veteran named Jack who, in return for an act of kindness, receives two magical gifts: a sack that can catch anything and a jar that can show whether a sick person will recover or die. Jack becomes a national hero when he rescues the president's daughter from a serious illness by capturing Death in his magic sack. However, after many years without Death in the world, Jack realizes that he has upset the natural order and releases Death to save humankind from perpetual old age and misery.

The River That Never Dies

1989 • 41 min • Albania

During WW2 partisans try to hide from their enemies, while old villagers mourn the deceased of the war.

Our Teacher

1989 • 47 min

The day before a passionate female teacher moves to another school to be promoted, her student loses his owl. She postpones leaving and tries to get another owl for him. Although she is an experienced teacher now, when she was a new teacher, she made some mistakes, inadvertently hurting her students' feelings.

The Apple Tree

1989 • 10 min • Norway

The Apple Tree is a simple animated film based on the child drawings of a 6-year-old girl. The story is also told by the same six-year-old in collaboration with her father.

O Escurinho do Cinema

1989 • 12 min

Blind Country

1989 • 21 min • United States of America

This collaborative video project is based on a short story by H.G. Wells called "The Country of the Blind"—about a man who travels to a country of blind people and attempts to dominate their sensual, feminine culture with his male, sight-derived power. Following this theme, "Blind Country" begins with animated fruit dancing over Mike Kelley's body and the admonition of "Northerners" to "refill the quickly emptying sack." In the male-dominated land of the North, candy-spurting pinatas stand as phallic symbols. Presumably castrated, and stripped of his authority, Kelley acts the buffoon as he is led through the murky land of the South, a "female," earthy, "realm of the senses" opposing the phallocentric world of the North.

Warlord of Kayan

1989 • 40 min • United Kingdom

This is the story of Sayed Jaffar, a former hippie motorcycle gang member who played the drums in a heavy metal band. Now he returns to Afghanistan to become a key power broker between the Soviets, the Mujahidin and the Afghan government.

Magical Girl Megmel

1989 • 46 min • Japan

Bat Megmel is a girl that lives in the Magical World. One day, while practicing magic, she accidentally unleashes the demon king Atler. She must seal him again.

Finding Our Way

1989 • 40 min

The men in FINDING OUR WAY range in age from twenty-seven to seventy-one and come from a variety of backgrounds: a writer, an insurance agent, a clergyman, and the owner of a dry cleaning store. They are heterosexual, gay, and bisexual. FINDING OUR WAY is a first step toward creating new role models and moving beyond the stereotypes surrounding male sexuality. The program helps men feel less afraid of closeness with other men and encourages both men and women to talk more openly about their sexuality.

The Other Side

1989 • 20 min

Three Latino street kids struggle to find a safe haven for an abandoned horse in an industrial wasteland.

Color Schemes

1989 • 28 min

An upbeat, ironic look at America's multicultural society, Color Schemes uses the metaphor of "color wash" to tackle conceptions of racial assimilation. Challenging stereotypes, twelve writer/performers collaborate on four performance sequences—soak, wash, rinse and extract. Spinning through this tumble- jumble of America's washload, the performers scheme to claim racial images that remain color vivid. Color Schemes was also exhibited in its installation form (with a self-service washing machine) at the Whitney Museum in 1990.

Under the Sea

1989 • 28 min

Experimental animation film structured on adaptation of five literary classics: Madame Bovary, Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Gulliver's Travels and The Voyage of the Beagle.

Eyes Above The Crosses

1989 • 15 min • Soviet Union

EYES ABOVE THE CROSSES is a film about Stanislovas Jameikis who was deported in 1941 and overcame a six hundred kilometers long perilous march through Siberia.

Life on Earth as I Know It

1989 • 9 min • Australia

Lois, upon moving to the inner city and finding herself in an all-woman house, becomes most intrigued by her new roommate Kate.

Body Hair

1989 • 10 min • Canada

How do girls learn about the hair that mysteriously appears on their bodies during puberty? This tape takes an irreverent look at the stereotyping that surrounds body hair for women. It mixes historical research, a little personal testimony, ad-copy, and the voices of “hair experts” to create an informed analysis. Body Hair closes, in time-honoured feminist documentary style, with a radical call to action.

Bet Yourself

1989 • 11 min

Screwing a ballpoint pen together is no match! No, not one! But screw up 5000 if da'n, 25000 a week, 110000 a month or 1210000 a year! You may be able to do it for five years-possibly 10-then you have chronic, lifelong aches and can no longer wash your Windows or lift your children. You have invested yourself-like hundreds of thousands of other Swedish industrial workers. From the factory Ballograf BIC in Gothenburg.