All Films

On the Balance

1989 • 14 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Video Catnip

1989 • 25 min • United States of America

HEY KITTYS LOOK! YES! It's time for kitty's favorite show...VIDEO CATNIP! We'll start with some fun and games for you and your human, then go right into the "Cats Only" part of the show. So get ready for some CAT-A-CLYSMIC fun with NO PAWS in the action.

Too Many Captain Cooks

1989 • 18 min

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance.

Imaginary

1989 • 18 min • United Kingdom

Imaginary is a film in three parts (From Today, Touched and One) shot in varying intimate and personal environments. Fleeting images are re-filmed and stylised in an unsentimental manner.

No. 5 Reversal

1989 • 9 min • Canada

No. 5 Reversal opens with a close up sequence of two women in animated conversation, followed by an aural page/station structure. The film combines elements of horizontal and vertical montage in the soundtrack, using white noise, and radio static as a fragmentation device. The visually striking black and white photography weaves lyrical, pastoral nature with the de- and re- construction of civilization. No. 5 Reversal ends with a filmic signature, an image of its maker framed in front of a window against a backdrop of ruins.

Erwartung

1989 • 35 min

Film version of Arnold Schoenberg's one act monodrama.

Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home

1989 • 5 min

A hauntingly beautiful film, the poetic reflections of a disturbed mind.

The Passenger of the Night

1989 • 24 min • Colombia

Where is narrated the unpleasant trip of Mr. Isaac Ink and the vicissitudes that happened to him with his dead.

Left Handed Memories

1989 • 15 min

“Like any worthwhile piece of art, Left-Handed Memories can be read several ways. Images of frames and framed materials recur. Pages of a dictionary flip by, and it is here that the viewer can see a reference to Will Hindle. Entry words echo his film titles - Billabong, Chinese Firedrill etc. A soft-focus female nude, reminiscent of an Edward Weston photograph, becomes increasingly scratched as the footage runs, a memento mori of the plastic material itself. Much, the film tells us, is beautiful, and much will be forgotten.” (Tom Whiteside)

Dolce vagare in sacri luoghi selvaggi

1989 • 11 min

Tas de beaux gosses

1989 • 5 min • France

A pile of cuties. Fashion and its code somehow shaken.

Tracks

1989 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Tracks uses the character of a struggling female teacher in order to connect areas of pre-feminism such as the suffragette movement, contraception and abortion rights, motherhood, later feminist writings and poverty, whilst highlighting the contradictions and differences within feminist discourse at the time. It’s a collage film which combines photographic, animated and live-action parts, black and white and colour footage. The voice-over soundtrack is partly a reworking and rewording of individual experiences and also a reflection on perceived actions of women due to historical and contemporary circumstance. It draws on a rich collection of personal and public imagery, re-made and manipulated, layered and textured, while taking a critical look at certain feminist theories.

She Said Why Me

1989 • 9 min

A woman travels, blindfolded, from an ancient countryside temple to a bustling city. Her surroundings change, but her sense of unease lingers. The director uses a distinctively female perspective to combine the past and present. Made in December 1989, the film expresses a sense of anxiety permeating Hong Kong during that time.

Fjellet

1989 • 19 min • Norway

A short essay from Anja Breien about her father

Lenz of Spinoza

1989 • 10 min • Japan

Home Turf

1989 • 44 min • United Kingdom

Home Turf addresses the content of cinema as an element of reality. It is what is real in the film, and yet it’s neither the characters – who stay as characters - nor the story, which is still a story, but the ideals, the ideas and the perceptions of the characters which are the reality.

Gavora

1989 • 5 min • Japan

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

The Window

1989 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Shot in Lithuania, the film is a portrait of the artist’s grandmother. A quiet film, it builds on themes of childhood and old age, with a sense of transition between worlds, revolving around the symbolic window.

Gruß aus Libyen oder Grün ist eine schöne Farbe

1989 • 22 min • East Germany, Germany

The film provides a reportage-like insight into the country of Libya and its social development. The focus is particularly on the "Green Revolution", i.e. the fight for water for a large-scale national agricultural program. This has led to the settlement of new settlers in the coastal strip between Benghazi and Dorna, whose lives are also reported on.

The Station

1989 • 16 min • Sudan

Sudan, in the late 1980s. People cross the desert on foot or cover long distances by car and truck. In Al Mahatta, Eltayeb Mahdi shows encounters at one of the large crossroads between the capital Khartoum in the centre of the country and Bur Sudan on the Red Sea.

Somewhere in Europe

1989 • 19 min • Luxembourg

A bar, somewhere in Europe. A young nocturnal man thinks about death and tries to make sense of his life.

Keep Your Laws off My Body

1989 • 14 min

Intimate scenes of gentle sexuality and domesticity set to the mechanical cadence of a projector (evoking a feeling somewhere between the repetitive labour of a sewing machine and violence of a machine gun) are juxtaposed with images of police and sirens to highlight the alarming intrusion of America’s laws on queer people and women’s bodies in healthcare, sexual expression, and desire.

(Do You Remember) Piss Factory?

1989 • 40 min

Hijokaidan 1989 live performance

Left and Right

1989 • 17 min • Japan

8mm film by Ohtani Jun