All Films

Fete a Cobonne

1989 • 13 min • France

Corbonne is a small village in the Drôme, near Valence. Before the Second World War there were 140 inhabitants, today there are 30. To stop the decline of the older part of Corbonne, a non-profit society has organised 7 work camps in four years. The highlight of these summer work camps is the 15th of August festival, which enables the friends of old Corbonne and the villagers to get together.

Viva Eu! (Long Live Me!)

1989 • 18 min

This documentary is a tribute to Wilton Braga, a visionary artist who was one of the first people to be diagnosed with AIDS in Brazil. As Braga travels to Barcelona, New York and Sao Paolo, the film follows the quixotic journey of his last days.

Passage

1989 • 8 min • Poland

A black silhouette wanders across some empty white space. In the background, we could see shapes of different equipment items. The routine of everyday life emerges from the play of black and white forms. The contrast between black and white (privacy) turns into grey reality outside the building. Loneliness changes into the indifference of passers-by.

The Bed

1989 • 6 min • Bulgaria

One man and his bed.

How I Was Killed

1989 • 26 min

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

The Ark

1989 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the residents of a two-story house that miraculously escaped demolition in Moscow.

The Old Man of the Sea

1989 • 24 min

An old, bedridden man plays games that have a hint of the sinister about them.

Knights of Heaven

1989 • 20 min

A military group of alpinists are selected to carry out a secret mission. The fate of humanity depends on their success. The rules of the mission require the death of each participant once his or her task is accomplished. After killing one of their colleagues and splitting into several groups, the alpinists continue their journey. But the human unconscious doesn’t follow military orders. Having once committed murder, the “knights” can’t control their desire to kill. They forgot their mission… and kill each other instead. —University of Pittsburgh

The Sid Saga Part III

1989 • 30 min

Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 3 of 3.

Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere

1989 • 7 min • Spain

Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope

Ostensibly

1989 • 16 min

A collage film featuring dual narrations of Ashbery’s eponymous poem of the same name, with both Ashbery and Burckhardt appearing in in front of the camera.

Alter Ego

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Horror Rock

1989 • 40 min • United States of America

"Horror Rock" combines terrifying, heart stopping scenes from the most spine-tingling horror films ever made with some of the hottest classic indie rock music performed by the absolutely wickedest bands! This sizzling collection explodes with searing renditions from such cult classic bands like Del-Lords, Judas Kiss, Hurricane, Over The Edge, Wrath, Children Of The Wicked, Pandoras, Run Down Love Battery, Dickies, Booby Trap, Elvis Hitler and Hot Rod To Hell. If you like your music from beyond the edge, "Horror Rock" will deliver devilish pleasure to your ears as highlights from your favorite horror films make your blood run cold! Get ready for the rock & roll ride of your life as "Horror Rock" burns a hole in your soul!

Aus der Ferne—The Memo Book

1989 • 27 min • Germany

AUS DER FERNE – THE MEMO BOOK (1989) is a reminiscence of a friend who had died of AIDS. His own mourning finds expression in the blending of found and original material, which seems to become one with the film material.

Myself When Fourteen

1989 • 19 min

Brightly coloured animated drawings rotoscoped from high contrast black and white negative film of Ivor Cantrill aged 14, are integrated with the original negative and positive images on an optical printer to create patterns of black, white and colour. The film-maker reminisces about being 14 and describes the rotoscoping process. Ivor Cantrill is autistic, and his attention to detail and his preoccupation with repetition are positive aspects of his condition.

Cincinnati: More Great, Near Great, and Not So Great Moments in Cincinnati History

1989 • 60 min

Take another trip through yesterday's Cincinnati, and its people, places, and events, which includes highlights of Cincinnati's Bicentennial Celebration.

Mein Herz schlägt Blau - Ella Bergmann-Michel

1989 • 30 min • Germany

A documentary about the artist Ella Bergmann-Michel, who was born in Paderborn in 1895 and died in Eppstein im Taunus in 1972. The film focuses primarily on her work: drawings and collages, photographs, and sequences from her documentary films from the late 1920s. The film brings together what is often mistakenly separated, namely the painter on the one hand and the documentary filmmaker on the other.

Godsend

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In this fable inspired by Altai folklore, a child's soul becomes a battleground for spirits from heaven and hell.

Everything's for You

1989 • 58 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Abraham Ravett attempts to reconcile issues in his life as the child of a Holocaust survivor in this experimental non-narrative film. Ravett reflects upon his relationships with his family, from his now-deceased father (who survived both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz) to his own young children. He utilizes family photographs and film footage, archival film footage from the Ghetto Fighters' House in Israel, cell animation by Emily Hubley, and computer graphics to create a film about memory, death, and what critic Bruce Jenkins calls "the power of the photographic image and sound to resurrect the past."

Between

1989 • 15 min • Germany

A summer afternoon full of daydreams. Sexual fantasies are embodied in black-and-white images of androgenic bodies. The boundary between images of reality and desire images becomes permeable, gender is subjected to playful transformations. "Between" relies on lusty fragmentation of the body, surreal sequence of sequences, and an ambivalent symbolism. The desire for a self-titled production of the body dominated the zeitgeist of the 80s. The articulation of a wild "desire" - to catch up with a central concept of the aesthetic as well as feminist discussion of the 1980s - was also reflected in films which in the series of Maya Derens films of the 1940s formulated another feminine view.

Conscience Lost

1989 • 17 min

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Saltykov-Shchedrin.

Homo Paradoksum I

1989 • 17 min • Soviet Union

An experimental film about life on earth as a cosmic experiment and the curiosity and naivete of reaching out to alien life.

Kostroma

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A musical film based on an ancient ritual song about spring and the needlewoman Kostroma.

Goya-Munch-Lautrec

1989 • 2 min • Yugoslavia

Humourist commentary on three famous paintings by the author's most beloved painters.