All Films

Magician

1989 • 41 min • Soviet Union

A visiting magician arranges a session of collective hypnosis, which reveals the true essence of the town's inhabitants.

Surface

1989 • 3 min • Japan

Lazar

1989 • 11 min

The story of a disgruntled man who fights the constraints and barriers of a walled-in society, one bent on following "The Law".

Martina - med lust och glädje stor...

1989 • 30 min

The fourth film in a long series about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. Tom Alandh documented part of her life from age 5 to 50. In this film, she is in her early twenties.

Jolicoeur Touriste

1989 • 10 min

An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his inebriation, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space, which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.

Buy Me That! A Kids' Survival Guide to TV Advertising

1989 • 29 min

A special that examines television commercials aimed at children. Focusing on the psychological techniques used in TV ads, the documentary is designed to help young people look at commercials with a critical eye.

Chá Verde e Arroz

1989 • 13 min • Brazil

Gnaouas

1989 • 27 min

Film documents the rituals, spiritual customs, music and dance of the Gnaouas, the African religious group originally brought into Morocco centuries ago. Also contains footage of the slaughter of a sheep.

National Geographic: Those Wonderful Dogs

1989 • 54 min

Called by one philosopher "the noblest beast God ever made", dogs have served mankind in more ways than any other animal. In THOSE WONDERFUL DOGS, you'll see loyal canines at work as they searched for buried victims of an earthquake disaster, assist the physically disabled, and pull sleds in the blizzard conditions of Alaska. You'll see how dogs are trained to "act" on Lassie, and the dogs that served as messengers on the battlefields of WW II. Marvel at the tireless determination of these devoted creatures, and applaud the enduring partnership between man and his best friend. If you like dogs, this video is a "must"!

Rhythms of Marrakech

1989 • 26 min

In this film, Marrakech is filled with music, from women singing, dancing and drumming in their homes, to shopkeepers in the old market of Jamaa El-Fna, leaving their shops to follow groups of musicians through the allies of the old city.

Alien Mission

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A fantastic story of an ordinary Soviet citizen, not the smartest drinker, whom aliens have chosen as the object for their experiment. They intended to change the brain of an earthling, to improve his intellectual abilities, so that life on our planet became more civilized. But the consequences of the experiment turned out to be so unpredictable that the aliens from outer space even had to turn back the time and cancel their far-reaching plans.

Staccato I, II, III

1989 • 9 min

Love, sex and death in Paris. And why not? A series of three films, each built frame by frame but, depending on the subject, each using an individual structure. The whole series was done in the camera - nothing was cut, changed, arranged...

Mirrorman hakusho

1989 • 3 min • Japan

Early work of the celebrated director.

Happy Hatchday to Plasmo

1989 • 27 min

Plasmo, a three-year-old alien, has his hatchday party gate crashed by the two mercenary bounty hunters Brucho and Coredor.

Foofur: He Ain't Nothing But A Hound Dog

1989 • 60 min

Foofur and his friends rival with a woman named Mrs. Amelia Escrow and her pet Chihuahua named Pepe. Foofur with his gang occupies a mansion, in 32 Maple Street, which is also his birthplace. Mrs. Escrow does everything to sell the estate, but fails.

C.O.P.S. - The Case of The Iceberg Pirates

1989 • 23 min

A team of specially enhanced policemen fights crime in the year 2020.

Tuba wa duo

1989 • 12 min • East Germany

Two men sit on the top of a roof, playing the tuba. They continually call out absurd messages making fun of official solutions and of their own slogans. The residents feel disturbed by the tuba's sound and start to attack the musicians, while they themselves keep on playing and shouting louder and louder. Finally the house is blasted and the tubas are destroyed.

The Studio

1989 • 10 min

In the calm light of a studio, a man relaxes, a woman draws. They are two strangers for whom the process of creation awakens intimacy that touches their very being. For the artist it is the need to go beyond appearances; for the model it is the refusal to look at the self. From scene to scene the film progresses, transforms, reconstructs the human interior landscape. A dramatic confrontation ensues.

Over the Threshold

1989 • 60 min

Over the Threshold is about intermarriage between Japanese and Westerners. The filmmakers are a husband and wife team who met during their studies at Britain's National Film & TV School in London. The film documents their first visit to Japan together, during which husband Tezuka introduces his non-Japanese wife to his family (his father coincidentally was the creator of the cartoon series Astro Boy). The point-of-view is largely that of the 'outsider', and much of the film is devoted to her attempts to find out what it means to 'fit in' in Japan. At a deeper level, the film amounts to a socio-cultural study of a Japanese family, who seem to adapt surprisingly well to having a 'geijan' or foreigner in their midst. This aspect is strengthened by the incorporation of interviews with other Western women who have married Japanese husbands.

Journey of the Blob

1989 • 10 min • Canada

A boy makes a decision about how to dispose of a green glob he has concocted. What will happen if he dumps it into a stream? Where does water come from and where does it go? This film illustrates the water cycle and raises many questions about environmental responsibility and the consequences of our decisions.

Flying Images

1989 • 11 min • Japan

『飛画』Flying images 1989/11min

Super 8 Diary - 1989

1989 • 37 min • United States of America

Elegy

1989 • 21 min

Amidst the ghosts of his cultural roots, Popovich creates a lyrical and loving light monument dealing with separation, change and death.

Singing Seas

1989 • 10 min

This impressionistic 1989 short film, directed by Mark Summerville, imagines gay tribal life on a fantasy South Pacific Island. Shot by Mairi Gunn, the film ripples with watery blues; a stormy Maggie Rankin soundtrack and whispered narration (from Ivan Davis) backgrounds images of marine sirens, coral crowns, apples, tapa, and entwined seaweed. In the middle of it all — a game of underwater hockey... The short film crossed the seas to gay film festivals in San Francisco, Vancouver and Hamburg, and toured with a British Film Institute selection of shorts.