All Films - Short Movie Database

Vacancy

1989 • 50 min • Soviet Union

The shortcomings of the era of stagnation are criticized in a grotesque manner - it takes place at a train station and on a train.

A House

1989 • 13 min • Montenegro

A big modern house has only two inhabitants: an elderly couple, humble peasants. They seem rather lost and not too much accustomed to such a space. They are waiting for somebody. The objects and sounds in the house help us realize that "somebody" means: the son, daughter-in-law and grandson, living in France... Coloring Easter eggs (Orthodox folk custom) for all of them, knitting the sweater for grandson, waiting. Will the awaited ones come...!? Eternal, metaphysical waiting.

The Hunger

1989 • 11 min

A Mowelfund experimental short film

Balat II

1989 • 5 min

Collage of cartoon images of the nuclear weapons protest and images of Filipino tribal rites.

Dirty Power

1989 • 2 min

This “powerful” animation was inspired by the artist’s exploration of the oftentimes seductive nature of 3D computer graphics and the sexual-social crises of AIDS.

Displacement Animation of Intelligent Objects

1989 • 2 min

Motion studies of humans and animals with an emphasis on single skins and musculature.

Asa Nisi Masa

1989 • 15 min

An exploration of the televisual through interviews and film clips.

Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From

1989 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC 'Omnibus' shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream - about the people whose dreams go belly-up.

My Paradise

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the poetry of A. Čakas. The action takes place against the backdrop of pre-war Riga. In the contrasts and poetry of the city, we recognize the world of A. Čakas' poetry with its basic intonations - pain, kindness, self-irony.

Cradle

1989 • 49 min

First film released on central television where were showed problems of USSR indigenous people, who are suffering from confrontation of traditional culture and oil rigs civilisation.

El Vuelo

1989 • 15 min

Silvia Gruner showed a diversity of artistic strategies to intertwine, in the material, erotic or ritual uses of the body, a variety of dichotomies: the feminine before the masculine, the national before the global; the organic and the historical.

Jurate and Kastytis

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The legend about Jurat and Kastytis. It was a long time ago, even when the most important among the gods was the god Perkunas, and the goddess Jurate lived at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in an amber castle. In a small village on the seashore lived a handsome and strong fisherman, Kastytis. Once he caught fish of the royal kingdom with his nets. Jurate sent her mermaids to warn Kastytis not to muddy the Baltic waters and not to frighten the fish...

I knew the King in You

1989 • 10 min

A story about the poet Vytautas Mačernis (1921-1944)

Sunday

1989 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A day in the life of a young man - relationships with friends, unexpected encounters.

Tolle Masche - Popgymnastik

1989 • 6 min

This film is the second in a series about new individual sports and promotes pop gymnastics as a healthy and attractive leisure activity for girls and women.

Zeitverläufe

1989 • 9 min • East Germany

The film creates a vision of the destruction of the world and warns against its realization.

Black Square

1989 • 56 min • Soviet Union

A brief history of Russian unofficial art from 1953 to 1988.

Good Intentions

1989 • 4 min

In this short film Peter Wells makes a personal 'Postcard from New Zealand' as part of a series for England's Channel Four. Looking for a "Kiwi Greek god" to showcase his "Gay Lynn" garden, he enlists Richard, third place getter in Mr Gay Auckland. While posing Richard tells them about his costume for the Sydney Mardi Gras. "Skirt in the shape of Rangitoto, a hat like Auckland's Harbour Bridge: Dame Edna would've loved it". Richard models the costume which also features budgie smugglers with 'NZ' sequined into them, a Southern Cross singlet, and ugg-glove sheep puppets.

The White Room

1989 • 47 min • United Kingdom

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.