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Clocks of the Midnight Hours

Clocks of the Midnight Hours

1989 • 27 min • United Kingdom
Max Eastley uses various musical instruments to create mysterious and hypnotic music, exploring their most basic sound characteristics, as well as incorporating the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges.
The Cage

The Cage

1989 • 9 min • Soviet Union
For his own safety, the hamster settles into an old cage he accidentally found.
An Ordinary Woman

An Ordinary Woman

1989 • 35 min
Jackie is 38 years old. She lives with John and they have two small children. Once she wanted to be an opera singer. Once, she had a boyfriend called Paul who married someone else. Once she travelled overseas. In the sixties she was in love with Charlie. In the seventies she sang in a band. In the eighties she makes scones with the kids. In the process of (re)presenting an ordinary woman's life this film explores questions of identity, representation and truth.
That Really Obscure Object of Desire

That Really Obscure Object of Desire

1989 • 5 min
A short personal documentary about a man’s obsession with his 1928 Model A Ford.
Thread

Thread

1989 • 9 min • Soviet Union
Short film by Sergey Alibekov.
Granpa

Granpa

1989 • 35 min • United Kingdom
Granpa tells stories to his granddaughter Emily, who imagines them as crayon drawings in motion.
Suco de sábado

Suco de sábado

1989 • 8 min • Argentina
Saturday night in the humble house of a working-class family, narrated in parallel between the mother and a night out and the son who lives among street children.
The World at War: The Making of the Series

The World at War: The Making of the Series

1989 • 50 min • United Kingdom
The making of 'The World At War'. Each film in the 26 episode series had to be an essay on an aspect of the war, because the length and separate aspects of the war was far too much to cover in detail. Jeremy Isaacs talks about the production process and the aims of the project. The intention of the crew that were involved with the various skills in making 'The World at War' had no desire to use film from British, German, French, Polish, Russian, Japanese, or the Americans because of their specific means of showing the winning side of a specific action. Rather, an effort was made to interview people who were not part of the establishment, but rather the common people or assistants and secretaries of historical persons. Film was researched for those films from cameras where there was no special subject, but those that would allow the viewer to make their own decisions about what they had just seen and heard.
The Making of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

The Making of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

1989 • 30 min • United States of America
A behind-the-scenes television documentary of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

1989 • 50 min
In 1986 as a teen, Mike Diana bought a video camera and using his younger brother and sister as actors made a gore film inspired by the horror videos he was a fan of...
The Painting

The Painting

1989 • 52 min • Soviet Union
An engineer's hotel stay is interrupted by a visit from a stranger.
The Spirit Of Witkacy

The Spirit Of Witkacy

1989 • 17 min • Poland
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, better known as Witkacy, enivsages the future horrors of the Polish nation, as embodied by Stalin and Hitler, and the world collapsing into chaos.
Dzieci śmieci

Dzieci śmieci

1989 • 56 min • Poland
Witek dreams about going to Great Britain. To afford a ticket he starts to sell old newspapers.
The Railway Dragon

The Railway Dragon

1989 • 30 min • Canada
Emily, an 8 year old girl, and a centuries year old Railway Dragon, share an adventure that they'll never forget.
Starlight Fantasy

Starlight Fantasy

1989 • 40 min
Suzukaze Mayo's dinner show.
Chutes de Versailles

Chutes de Versailles

1989 • 11 min • France
Outtakes from the movie
Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

1989 • 5 min • Canada
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
Crazy

Crazy

1989 • 25 min • Soviet Union
A young woman from the provinces arrives to disinfect an apartment and finds a man drinking alone. He confesses to having a terminal illness. Moved by pity, she spends time with him, shares a meal, and ends up in his bed. The man, an actor, soon leaves for his country house where his entire family, including a gravely ill brother, is waiting.
Island of Hope, Island of Tears

Island of Hope, Island of Tears

1989 • 28 min • United States of America
The story of Ellis Island and the American immigration experience. This film is a tribute to the 18 million men, women and children who made the torturous journey from the Old to the New World between 1890 and 1920, in the single largest migration in human history. The film radically tells the immigrants' stories as they braved the unknown, from the time they left their homelands, their journey across the ocean, to the moment the doors of Ellis Island opened, revealing the great promise of America.
L.A. on $5 a Day

L.A. on $5 a Day

1989 • 19 min
Four Los Angelenos, a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest, and a stripper are brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.
Gary Numan - The Skin Mechanic Live

Gary Numan - The Skin Mechanic Live

1989 • 52 min
Gary Numan rose to prominence with his heavily stylized synthesizer music and unique personal style. Gary is still recognized as one of the pioneers of electronic music, still creating challenge work some 25 years after enjoying early success with Are Friends Electric? This 10 song live concert includes all of his hits including "Cars," "America," "Hunger," and more.
Zajota and the Boogie Spirit

Zajota and the Boogie Spirit

1989 • 19 min
Openly addressing sensitive issues of slavery and the African diaspora, this animated short traces the origins of funk, soul, and rhythm from the "boogie spirit's" original home in Africa, to its worldwide influence in today's popular culture.
Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting

1989 • 23 min • United States of America
After their trip into the big city in the movie Chris once again is asked to baby sit Brad, Sara and Daryl for the night when a simple trip to the store turns into a hostage situation. Chris and the kids have themselves yet another adventure.
25 Ways to Quit Smoking

25 Ways to Quit Smoking

1989 • 5 min • United States of America
The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.