All Films

Kader, Gaël

1989 • 4 min

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Forest Dance

1989 • 14 min

In this work, Sekine steps into a deep forest in Tama Lake and shoots a strange copse he finds there in single frames. Through camerawork that moves in all directions (it could be called "body action to the camera"), he attempts to existentially observe the invisible vibrations and rhythms of life itself.

Manager On The Case

1989 • 11 min

This instructional film is an outline of how rehabilitation programs are administered in Australian Commonwealth Agencies, with specific reference to the role of the case manager.

Elixir do Pajé

1989 • 20 min • Brazil

Three schoolgirls secretly read the erotic-comic poem Elixir do Pajé, by Bernardo Guimarães. First published in 1875, in Ouro Preto, the poem is an amusing monologue by a man with his (no longer) virile member.

Mind the Steps!

1989 • 6 min • Hungary

A typical apartment building in Budapest and their residents from the aspect of a young boy playing football sometime in the end of the 1980s at the time of the change of regime in Eastern Europe. Is there a way out from here? A geometrical paradox and a political parable at the same time.

Rumpelstilzchen

1989 • 14 min • Germany

Based on the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm this montage brings together heterogeneous super 8 Found Footage and own personal shots. By hand developement and chemical influences an interwoven story about the conversion of simple elements to gold came out.

Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance

1989 • 37 min

Live recording of Sinéad O'Connor's concert at the Dominion Theatre in London, on June 3, 1988, in support of her debut album "The Lion and the Cobra" (performed in its entirety except for two songs).

Aschermittwoch

1989 • 19 min • East Germany, Germany

Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.

Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress

1989 • 46 min • Germany

An intimate portrait of director Mai Zetterling that includes interviews with Zetterling, David Hughes (Zetterling’s ex-husband and the cowriter of LOVING COUPLES, NIGHT GAMES, and THE GIRLS), and actors Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Bibi Andersson.

Midget Madness: A Look At The Lighter Side Of Midget Wrestling

1989 • 27 min

Take a hilarious look inside the wacky world of Midget wrestling, with 30 minutes of fun filled bloopers and action packed excitement. It's all here: the colorful characters, the high flying body slams, last second pins and dirty tricks. There's even a section on the Midget Wrestling awards! Footage provided by The American Wrestling Association.

Losev

1989 • 56 min • Soviet Union

Director Victor Kossakovsky dedicated his documentary debut to the Russian philosopher and religious thinker Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988), who died shortly after the completion of the film.

Well

1989 • 34 min • Soviet Union

Road workers, having paralyzed traffic on a busy street, dig a well into which they intend to lower a concrete pipe. Two passers-by watch them...

White Flag

1989 • 36 min • Soviet Union

A young man from a Christian family falls in love with a Muslim girl who lives behind the mountains in a village. The girl's relatives believe that according to Islamic tradition, a relationship between them is impossible, and they kill the young man.

Cosas de Mujer

1989 • 10 min • Cuba

A short film about Cuban women, post-revolution.

Other People's Families

1989 • 21 min

If you lived in a children's home, had step-parents, just one parent or lived in a 'community' what would the word 'family' mean to you?

Loop

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short.

Play 33

1989 • 12 min • Switzerland

Melbourne '89

1989 • 13 min • Australia

Various tableaux of Melbourne in 1989, as experienced by the film-maker.

Invention

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A brilliant inventor loses everything after hitting a wall of bureaucracy and corruption.

Numéro 4

1989 • 4 min • France

The single frame is the only visible unit in film, yet it is nearly invisible. To see a single frame goes against the nature of cinema; even if that is its very nature. If every frame holds the same image, there will be no movement; if they are completely different from each other, there will be no movement either, but chaos. By using a still camera like a film camera and a film camera like a still camera, Numero 4 rides on the edge between film and photography. One unedited super-8 camera roll.

The Magician of Messkirch: Martin Heidegger

1989 • 59 min • Germany

A 1989 documentary about Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg.

Joost Prinsen: Caruso & Caransa

1989 • 53 min

Television Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch actor, singer and raconteur Joost Prinsen and the pianist Dick van der Stoep.

The Last Fly

1989 • 6 min • France

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a prostitute appears at his door, he sees in her the final piece to his work.

The Deadman

1989 • 38 min • United States of America

Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die — a combination of elegance, raunchy defilement and barbaric splendor." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.