All Films

Morbid Angel: Live Madness '89

1989 • 44 min

Live show, Grindcrusher tour, 1989.

The Johnstown Flood

1989 • 26 min • United States of America

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor maintenance by the dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2000 people lost their lives in the disaster. This documentary tells the story, and tells us that the disaster was easily avoidable.

Sisyphos

1989 • 7 min • East Germany, Germany

Sisyphus has been condemned by Zeus to roll a stone up the mountain. With difficulty he moves it upwards, the colossus regularly rolls back. Sisyphus ages, the stone weathers. They are attuned to each other. Sisyphus accidentally pushes too hard and the stone rolls over the hilltop into the abyss. Sisyphus misses the stone.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 17

1989 • 56 min

SWEATER GIRLS. 15 rare TITBITS provide the antipasti for 7 great classic strip films with JANE REYNOLDS, JENNIE LEE, SHERRIE KNIGHT, LEE GERMAINE and LILLIAN PARKER in lusty good form.

The Witch Who Turned Pink

1989 • 25 min • United States of America

The story concerns Jennifer, a green witch who was especially known for her green thumb - "her garden made her the most famous witch in all of witchdom."

Newsreel 1989: The Double Hell

1989 • 17 min

The first film about people living with HIV/AIDS in Bulgaria. А powerful and deeply moving documentary that exposes the harsh treatment faced by people living with HIV/AIDS in Bulgaria at the hands of the state, medical institutions, and society at large. Told through the voices of several HIV-positive men, healthcare professionals (including gay cardiologist Chavdar Dragoychev), and poet Miryana Basheva, the film is a powerful call for compassion and justice.

Cruises

1989 • 8 min • France

A collage film in three parts, interlacing films through genres and sources of various eras.

Grief in a Snuffbox

1989 • 51 min • Soviet Union

Based on the work of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak “Woe to Fear - Happiness Cannot See.”

Triangle Survey

1989 • 54 min • Japan

The work of throwing the vector of one's own emotions into the heart of another person, and the work of "surveying" a disorderly land, maybe infinitely similar. Yamanaka, an aspiring novelist, moves into the lodgings of his friend Nagai. Nagai's younger sister, Yae, also comes to Tokyo, and the three of them have three different vectors to throw. However, through the making of Yae's video, they gradually come to understand each other's feelings. The director's skill is excellent, making the most of the characters by placing them in the right places. Through trivial everyday events, the film portrays three people who have been unable to communicate with each other coming to terms.

Milwaukee County Zoo

1989 • 27 min • United States of America

Take a tour with the staff of the Milwaukee County Zoo.

A Call to Arms

1989 • 22 min

A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoires unravel in her head. In the final light of day she wakes herself and prepares for ‘battle’… A Call to Arms is an allegory of the emotional and practical struggles of the artist. It also aims to overcome this turmoil with a new mythopoetic legend, differing in purpose and conclusion from those traditionally offered. It pillages a number of tales and images of conflict which form part of our collective memory, and challenges these by placing women as central and powerful figures. Pageantry, flourishing banners and other emblems of war persist but an unusual serenity and poise underlies these suggestions of aggression and battle.

Dead Cat

1989 • 23 min

A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.

What Is Going On Here?!!

1989 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a boy and his lyrical perception of reality. At night, he, along with his cat writes poetry and notices unusual things that always happen to those who believe in them and are waiting for the magic to happen. Imagination draws amazing pictures that give the main characters a lot of experience and good mood.

Amok Assault Video

1989 • 60 min

Made in 1989, Amok Assault Video is considered one of the progenitors of the video mixtape movement, a DIY culture of fan-made, hand-traded VHS tapes containing bizarre compilations of material found on television and beyond. The schizophrenic rhythm and selection of material emulates the channel-clicking of a spectacle-hungry TV viewer.

Difficult People: How to Deal With Them

1989 • 37 min • United States of America

An overview on different difficult personality types and how to deal with them in personal and professional settings.

Travestito

1989 • 48 min

In Italy in the 1970s, L'altra domenica, a variety show hosted by Renzo Arbore, aired on national television every Sunday. Highly popular, its ground-breaking act was a trio of drag queens who called themselves Le Sorelle Bandiera (The Flag Sisters). They were a sensation - their signature song Fatti più in là became a national chart hit and the group a household name. This documentary tells the story of the act and its principal cast member, Tito LeDuc.

Sss

1989 • 6 min

Marina Abramovic collaborated with videomaker Charles Atlas on this striking work of autobiographical performance. Abramovic delivers a monologue that traces a concise personal chronology. This brief narrative history, which references her past in the former Yugoslavia, her performance work, and her collaboration with and separation from Ulay, is intercut with images of Abramovic engaged in symbolic gestures and ritual acts—scrubbing her feet, staring like Medusa as snakes writhe on her head. Closing her litany with the phrase "time past, time present," Abramovic invokes the personal and the mythological in a poignant affirmation of self.

Baby's Storytime

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

Legendary singer-songwriter, ARLO GUTHRIE, brings his whimsical wit and music to this warm, lighthearted re-telling of such all-time children's classics as "The Thee Little Pigs", "Henny Penny", "Little Red Riding Hood", and other cherished favorites.

Mercy

1989 • 10 min • United States of America

Images and sounds of American mass media, are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work. The myth of the 'body beautiful' is effectively debunked in an overwhelming swirl of movement and sound

Migration of the Blubberoids

1989 • 11 min

"The whiteness of winter cannot bury the blubbery things that splash and frolic among the frozen memories of Heathen harvests, in a land haunted by lard and ancestral lip-smacking." The collision of an overly dramatic film score/soundtrack with the banal yet enigmatic images of snow covered streets leads to a dissonant effect; the expectation of one is not fulfilled by the other.

The Pecking Order

1989 • 5 min • United Kingdom

An innovative animation touching on a series of interlinked concerns around issues of intensive farming, animal slaughter, famine, the Food Mountains of the West and devastation of the rain forests. The reality of violence is represented by live action black and white shots of two knives being sharpened for the slaughter. Different sound effects relate to the collage of diverse animated images chaotically linked together to signify global distress.

New Order: Brixton Academy

1989 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Live concert from 4 April 1987 by the British band New Order at The Academy in Brixton, a fundraising performance for International AIDS Day. Song list: Bizarre Love Triangle, Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Dreams Never End, Love vigilantes, Confusion, Age of Consent, Temptation.

Am Kai

1989 • 2 min • Germany

A fisherman waits on the quay for prey. But when a fish finally bites, unusual things start to happen...

Toto's Rescue

1989 • 42 min

The Wicked Witch of the West comes to Kansas (which looks suspiciously like the grounds of a California college campus) and steals Dorothy's dog Toto. The Good Witch tells her that the moral code of all Witches must give her a chance to earn back her dog. The Wicked Witch decides Dorothy must go to Storybook Land and correctly guess the identities of ten storybook characters in the order she encounters them. She is also allowed the help of all children (watching at home) between the ages of two and twelve. She opens a posterboard door to reveal the greenscreened world of Storybook Land, encountering lively personalities like a rapping Little Boy Blue, beautiful Rapunzel, and goofy Pinnochio [sic], as well as thesped characters like Jack and Jill. Upon encountering each one, the image grows still and pale and the lyrics to a song being performed are chyroned up on the screen. —Scott Hutchins