All Films

Framed

1989 • 8 min

Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S. National Film Archive. These staged films, produced by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), captured a fictional idealized life of Japanese Americans in the American concentration camps during World War II. More than a hundred thousand innocent civilians of Japanese descent were incarcerated solely based on their ancestry. To legitimize the abrogation of civil rights, the WRA produced this wartime propaganda. The second element is the slide show in which the still images reframe the raw material of the WRA films.

True Blue American Coconut Grove

1989 • 11 min • Philippines

A Mowelfund experimental short film by Louie Quirino and Donna Sales.

The Orange Angel

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Household waste containers were not in use in Riga during the 80ies. So the city-dwellers had to wait for the orange rubbish collection cars, Norbas, to arrive at a certain time of day...

Blumenhysterie

1989 • 6 min

Lock and Key

1989 • 4 min • China

This film is one form of the director's explorative expression, utilizing the imagery of locks and keys to symbolize a society turning awry.

Tiziano

1989 • 57 min

Titian’s genius and significance in European art are undisputed. Trained at the Giovanni Bellini workshop and influenced by working together with Giorgione, he came to a masterly use of colour, light and shade. His oeuvre contains everything his times demanded: drama, carnal lust, religious fervour, mythology and portraits. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff takes us to the places where the renaissance artist devised his works and worked for the most influential courts.

Ruimte

1989 • 4 min • Netherlands

Short film about the questions: When does a line become a shape, and when does a shape become three dimensional?

Versailles

1989 • 43 min

Teo Hernandez in Versailles

Bridal Chamber

1989 • 16 min • Iran

A Still image film, narrated by Ghazi Rabihavi.

Mosaics

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

An animated user’s guide to Soviet children’s analog game, which suddenly turns into an experimental animation à la abstract films by Hans Richter or Walter Ruttmann.

Dying IV

1989 • 45 min • United States of America

The fourth film in the Dying series

Dazzle

1989 • 24 min • Japan

This puppet animation is set in a time when darkness still reigned when people were still afraid of what lay beyond the stillness of the night. In the evening, a husband leaves the house with a guilty look on his face, and his wife, feeling something, gently sends him off. The wife notices a shadow on the shoji and chases after it, but what she sees are the creatures of the underworld... The house and the townscape are so elaborate and emotional that we forget that they are models. The house and the town are so elaborate and emotionally rich that we forget that they are models, and the dolls, moving with an awkward rhythm, play out the drama of a mysterious and violent woman in a gentle manner.

Shoji Tabuchi "Fiddlin' Around" (Volume I)

1989 • 31 min

Shoji Tabuchi, his wife, and vivacious emcee, Dorothy Tabuchi, welcome audiences to their brand new theatre in Branson, Missouri with a show that truly has something for everyone! Shoji and Dorothy Tabuchi, and their daughter Christina, are excited to share their love of country music, bluegrass, Cajun, jazz, western swing, and even a bit of Broadway with Branson audiences.

Waiting for de Bil

1989 • 22 min

Beijing Electron Positron Collider / Yangtze Ethylene Project / Qinshan Nuclear Power Station / Guangzhou Peugeot: A New Generation of Motor Vehicles in China

1989 • 10 min

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

The Drummer

1989 • 7 min

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her on the glass mountain. He sets out to find the mountain and is helped on his way by a rather pathetic old giant and a magic butterfly who lends him a pair of wings. Finally, he arrives at his destination and the witch sets him to work on three impossible tasks... The Drummer was one of the winning entries in 'The Magic Mirror' competition to find new animators for children's stories. The main condition was that the stories had to be adapted from existing fairy or folk tales. The series was sponsored by Kelloggs and the series producer was Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Shown on ITV, world wide TV, video and at international animation festivals.

Viva Eu!

1989 • 18 min

A documentary that celebrates the life of Brazilian artist Wilton Braga, one of the first persons in Brazil to be diagnosed with AIDS. We witness the flesh and soul of a man with remarkable strength and resolve in the face of a life-threatening illness; to find life and faith in the face of adversity.

Mercenary

1989 • 19 min

Two friends beat up a man while drinking so he goes out for some help.

This Time Around

1989 • 5 min • United States of America

The camera breathlessly traverses landscapes and whirls into abstraction, all the while eye-ing fanciful foreground objects of domestic life doing their own dizzy dervish choreography, until the hand of the artist reveals the true scale. Just out of camera view are Aaron’s hand-made rigs that guide the dynamic movement.

Epitaffi

1989 • 40 min

A mother with a small bank account and a pessimistic view on the future of humanity. The desire for a nice funeral and a son "too" optimistic and interested in redeeming her. A priest to ask for help.

Immense

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Musical based on the works of Kozma Prutkov.

In-between Man

1989 • 7 min • Japan

Some people say that "movies are made by connecting still pictures”, but that is not true. A frame of the film is not a photograph, but “something that failed to exercise”.

Erythropoieisis and Erythropoietin

1989 • 19 min • Japan

The red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body have a lifespan of 120 days. The living body continuously produces blood to ensure a plentiful supply of red blood cells. This film accurately records the conversion of stem cells into red blood cells. Conditions such as encounters with various other cells and contact with signals sent by other cells are important for the growth of blood cells, and the erythropoietin is one of these important signals. This signal stimulates the stromal cells to produce the necessary number of red blood cells which are continuously sent into the bloodstream. Scientific supervisor Fumimaro TAKAKU, M.D. Ph.D. (University of Tokyo)

Hotel

1989 • 22 min

Short film.