All Films

Hochwaldmärchen

1989 • 9 min • East Germany

A fairy-tale of the Sorbian poet Jurij Brezan as an allegory of threatened nature dedicated to the Sorbs.

Mickey's Safety Club: Halloween Surprises

1989 • 13 min • United States of America

Educational film with Mickey’s clubhouse members learning about Halloween safety rules.

New-Rêve

1989 • 29 min • France

In a post-apocalyptic future, two men who have lost the ability to speak fight to preserve the last remnants of their humanity. They travel across a ravaged France and, in a desperate act, break into Paris. The city, turned into an impenetrable fortress, is the last stronghold of a wealthy and decadent elite.

De blikvanger

1989 • 10 min • Netherlands

In an Escher-like staircase, two characters, a man a woman, move around each other, in full view of the bizarre objects in the space: an infinite clock, a miniature surveillance camera, the hose of a vacuum cleaner. The camera always chooses a subjective point of view, namely from the vantage point of one of the objects or characters, who lose themselves in a game of attraction or repulsion. A surreal universe.

Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9

1989 • 29 min

Examines the history of Sherrill's Restaurant and Bakery in Washington, D.C. How a unique restaurant integrates into the culture of the community.

Act

1989 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

Flames of Passion

1989 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Die andere Liebe

1989 • 34 min • East Germany

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and produced in cooperation with East German gay and lesbian activists. In interviews, GDR lesbians and gay men talk openly about their first sexual experiences and coming out. Though the film tries to convey an official GDR acceptance of homosexuality, they also talk about social discrimination against openly gay individuals.

Before My Eyes

1989 • 26 min • India

A 'filmscape' on the Kashmir valley.

Drawings on Asphalt

1989 • 50 min • Romania

One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie about childhood, creativity. Strange topics for a country that was about to fall apart. 50 minutes - by Elisabeta Bostan, who made great movies for kids in the 60's and 70's (such as Veronica).

Adam Clayton Powell

1989 • 54 min

Handsome, passionate, and an electrifying speaker, Adam Clayton Powell rose from being the son of a Harlem preacher to being a powerful 12-term Congressman--but his many accomplishments have been forgotten in the wake of the self-indulgence, arrogance, and demagoguery that dominated Powell's later years.

The Turd Family go on Holiday

1989 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Using powerful imagery, black humour, and a liberal helping of appalling bad taste, the directors set out to draw people's attention to the state of British beaches.

One-Night Stand: Bill Maher

1989 • 29 min

HBO stand up special videotaped live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California

Lyrics of Antiquity

1989 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Based on Greek myths.

Ladder of Life

1989 • 3 min • Soviet Union

About the fact that each person must go through his own ladder of life.

Serpent River

1989 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario Canada.

Extrait de naissance

1989 • 26 min • France

An apartment, who knows whether it is still inhabited or not, whether the potential inhabitants will ever arrive or are already dead. A man's voice speaks and names the objects and places. Memories appear. An orphan is waiting alone in the hall among luggage. His infancy emanates from the objects and the perspectives subjectively visualized by the authors. Fragments of stories. Condensed emotions. People are suddenly frightening. Video technology draws a map of passages from the real to the imaginary, from truth to the narration of the present, the probability of cathode imagery.

Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris

1989 • 8 min • South Africa

William Kentridge’s ironic tribute to his hometown, animated on the basis of 25 drawings, is the first film of his “Drawing for Protection” cycle, in which he unfolds the triangle between Johannesburg building tycoon Soho Eckstein, his wife, and the dreamer Felix Teitelbaum. In this film he introduces the central characters of his meta-narrative which, located in a South Africa of the last days of a crumbling Apartheid, becomes an allegorical reflection on socio-political power relations.

Yellowstone Aflame

1989 • 30 min

Digitally re-mastered for amazing picture and sound quality, this fast-paced DVD presents Yellowstone before, during and after the Great Yellowstone Fires of 1988 and lets you learn the complete fire story. Discover the ecological role of fire and learn how it burned nearly a million acres of trees yet gave birth to a new cycle of growth. Through spectacular footage taken during the fires, see and hear the awesome phenomena of America’s greatest forest fire. Yellowstone Aflame is not only the best, most exciting fire video available, it offers valuable insight into the extreme conditions that led to the fires and explores important ecological changes in the park.

Filmfabriek Hollandia

1989 • 48 min • Netherlands

Portrait of the Hollandia film factory in Haarlem, where during the period 1912 to 1923, some sixty feature-length fiction films and hundreds of documentaries were made under the leadership of Maurits Binger. This laid the foundations of professional filmmaking in the Netherlands.

Earthquake

1989 • 59 min • Soviet Union

On December 7, 1988, a catastrophic earthquake occurred in Armenia that claimed more than 25 thousand lives. The film tells about the first days after the tragedy.

Boys/Life

1989 • 10 min • United States of America

An unfashionably joyous celebration of safe sex (group masturbation parties) and affection (fondling in public places) among gay men.

Remains to Be Seen

1989 • 17 min • United States of America

Solomon uses chemical and optical treatments to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then dissolving.

How the Fox Judged the Wolf

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a wolf who gate crashes a wedding. Based on a Belorusian folk tale, although the decay of the Soviet Union at the time show through the pores of the depiction of the tale.