All Films

The History of the Luftwaffe - A Phoenix Rising

1989 • 52 min

A History of the Luftwaffe containing rare footage from the Eastern Block

La Queue Tigrée D'un Chat Comme Un Pendentif de Pare-Brise

1989 • 26 min • Canada

Difficult to say what this film is about. I know it is the product of much anger. Anger against TV, the media, cinema, politics, social, economy, history, finally a lot. Above all I wanted to stop making illusions.

A Contemplation of the Cross

1989 • 27 min

A meditation upon the redemptive power of Christ's crucifixion. The film employs a variety of styles including animation, newsreel footage, hand painted footage, live-action and optical effects. The soundtrack is composed of a wide variety of music including Gregorian chant, Kodaly, Liszt and electronic music.

Akira-kankan

1989 • 49 min

A sunny day with little sister, 8mm unfinished film by Toshihiko Omote.

Glances

1989 • 10 min

A minimalist epic – a theme and variations on a single brushstroke, with a great deal more discovered from it than one would have thought possible. Though we never learn the identity of the film's protagonist it develops a definite character and personality – sometimes mercurial, sometimes determined – which makes it as endearing as the human characters in many other films.

Dusi & Jenõ

1989 • 45 min • Hungary

The private diary of a couple in a ghostly Budapest before, during and after the Second World War, between poetry and historical re-enactment.

Het misverstand

1989 • 5 min • Netherlands

Short film about the question: Why are oranges orange?

Warsaw 88-89

1989 • 28 min • Poland

In the film Warsaw 88-89 we observe the city on the eve of the coming changes, captured on VHS tape. Tomasz Dominik and Piotr Rozbicki capture interesting, distinctive details - an unusual balcony, inscriptions on the walls, beautiful but dilapidated architectural details - from the gray reality of shabby tenement houses, blocks of flats, squalid courtyards. In the background we can observe the political, economic and cultural context of the period: lifestyle, cars, clothes, texts on walls. In the public space the sphere of the sacred mixes with the profane.

Indigenous Peoples

1989 • 19 min

Made at the height of political censorship in Taiwan, Indigenous Peoples traces the emergence of the Return Our Lands movement in the late 1980s.

She Is Mine!

1989 • 45 min • Japan

It seems that pure love is a very painful thing these days. Yoshio is lured into a dubious club by Keiko, whom he falls in love with at first sight on campus. His premonition is correct, the club is a prostitution ring and Keiko is the number one girl there. Yoshio is confronted by one fierce opponent after another. It's easy to like a hero who gets beaten up and then gets back up again. It is worth mentioning that the action scenes are very powerful and full of stunts.

The Little Death

1989 • 2 min • United States of America

An computer animated short film. The humanoid figures were quite cutting-edge for the time.

Kappas

1989 • 7 min • Japan

The world of the kappa lives in the water. There they live in a mousy apartment block, surrounded by mousy walls and looking up at a mousy sky. The expression on the back of the Kappa's face is very similar to that of a middle-aged businessman. Eventually, the final war comes to the lives of the peaceful, smiling Kappa. Mass slaughter, spurts of purple blood, and mountains of corpses. But whether this is in the past or the future is never mentioned. A Kappa desperately pedals his bicycle, but where will he end up? A unique animation that captures war as an idea and the Japanese people as an idea.

The Welsh Onion

1989 • 14 min • Japan

A prep school student living alone in Tokyo from Fukushima is suddenly visited by his mother. For some reason, she is wearing a white motorbike helmet. I wonder if she has come alone from Fukushima on her motorbike. When she comes into the room and puts her feet up on the kotatsu, she doesn't take off her helmet, and she is still holding the shopping bag with the leek in it. Her mother refuses to say anything. The mystery deepens and fear creeps up from the depths of the night... A Japanese "cautionary" horror film about what can happen in everyday life.

O Destino de um Homem

1989 • 23 min

A good and hardworking man is married to a merciless woman who makes his life a living hell. Despite everything, a good presence is felt: Margarida, who works in the house and practically raised the couple's children, always cares for her employer’s well-being.

Early Summer in 1989

1989 • 33 min • Japan, India

A sketch of the first summer of the first year of the Heisei era, with episodes surrounding a university student. The film unfolds in a gentle rhythm of independent episodes, such as his interactions with his friends over compulsory reports and job-hunting activities, the beautiful young man he is interested in for some reason, and a visit from his sister. In addition, by placing the characters in the distance, the surrounding space is incorporated into the picture, and the freshness characteristic of early summer is expressed in a natural way. In combination with the unusual character of the protagonist, Sabu, the film depicts his "uneventful" daily life in an unhurried manner, and it is a strange work that draws the viewer in.

More Than Friends, Less Than Loves

1989 • 53 min • Japan

A group of average college students go about their daily lives without a clear goal in mind. The protagonist, Ryoji, wavers between several girlfriends while maintaining a delicate relationship between "more than a friend, less than a lover". Their youth is in full bloom. But the day will come when they will have to say goodbye to their flexible relationship. The anxiety and emptiness of a young man who has taken the first step on the road to adulthood are portrayed with such naturalism and freshness that one wonders if it was staged.

A Vision of Freedom

1989 • 47 min • United States of America

This video in English tells of Ukraine Christianity since 988 and plight and persecution of martyr Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in soviet era by Russia and visions of hope of Mary in Seredne, Hrushiw, Mother of Jesus, especially post-WWII. Dissident Josyp Terelya provides testimony, insight.

Felicity

1989 • 10 min • Canada

During walks around Stanley Park in Montreal, the director became, for several months, the attentive witness of a number of events, gestures, encounters, brief, fleeting moments, privileged moments . Result of this long observation, Félicité depicts the incessant change of the seasons, making us discover, through the eyes of the artist and her magnificent pastel drawings, nature as an object of emotion and its influence on the world of man.

Journey

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the story by Daniil Kharms "First and second."

In the Birthplace of the Tibetan Nationality

1989 • 10 min

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

Vocational Senior High Schools in Beijing

1989 • 10 min

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

Propos contenus à l'aube

1989 • 14 min

The forest is used here as a metaphor to explore the tenuous relationship between nature and culture. Through text and personal commentary this work also raises the issue of the complexity of human relationships.

Le cinéma des pêches

1989 • 52 min

In Montreuil sous Bois, in the Paris suburbs, Georges Méliès set up the world's first film studio in 1896. He built a second one in 1905. He shot more than 500 films there until 1913. In 1904, Charles Pathé built a studio a few hundred meters from there, which completed the installations in Vincennes; in 1909, he sold it to the famous producer Zecca. Later, Max Linder also came to work at the Montreuil studio. In 1920, Pathé gave up film production and sold his studio to Russian exiled filmmakers: Ermolieff, then to Alexandre Kamenka. They were among the most active producers of the 1920s. With great actors like Mosjoukine and a remarkable technical team, Kamenka was to launch such important filmmakers as Volkoff, René Clair, Jean Epstein, Jacques Feyder and Marcel L'Herbier.

The Documented History of the Fabulous Villains

1989 • 46 min

"The Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Ming The Merciless, The Joker, Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy, Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price -- all of those special antagonists that we loved to hiss and jeer, have made us cower in our seats, look under the bed at night and carefully close our dark closets... They are all here in this definitive history of the movie villain."