All Films

The Other Side

1989 • 20 min

Three Latino street kids struggle to find a safe haven for an abandoned horse in an industrial wasteland.

Color Schemes

1989 • 28 min

An upbeat, ironic look at America's multicultural society, Color Schemes uses the metaphor of "color wash" to tackle conceptions of racial assimilation. Challenging stereotypes, twelve writer/performers collaborate on four performance sequences—soak, wash, rinse and extract. Spinning through this tumble- jumble of America's washload, the performers scheme to claim racial images that remain color vivid. Color Schemes was also exhibited in its installation form (with a self-service washing machine) at the Whitney Museum in 1990.

Under the Sea

1989 • 28 min

Experimental animation film structured on adaptation of five literary classics: Madame Bovary, Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Gulliver's Travels and The Voyage of the Beagle.

Eyes Above The Crosses

1989 • 15 min • Soviet Union

EYES ABOVE THE CROSSES is a film about Stanislovas Jameikis who was deported in 1941 and overcame a six hundred kilometers long perilous march through Siberia.

Life on Earth as I Know It

1989 • 9 min • Australia

Lois, upon moving to the inner city and finding herself in an all-woman house, becomes most intrigued by her new roommate Kate.

Body Hair

1989 • 10 min • Canada

How do girls learn about the hair that mysteriously appears on their bodies during puberty? This tape takes an irreverent look at the stereotyping that surrounds body hair for women. It mixes historical research, a little personal testimony, ad-copy, and the voices of “hair experts” to create an informed analysis. Body Hair closes, in time-honoured feminist documentary style, with a radical call to action.

Bet Yourself

1989 • 11 min

Screwing a ballpoint pen together is no match! No, not one! But screw up 5000 if da'n, 25000 a week, 110000 a month or 1210000 a year! You may be able to do it for five years-possibly 10-then you have chronic, lifelong aches and can no longer wash your Windows or lift your children. You have invested yourself-like hundreds of thousands of other Swedish industrial workers. From the factory Ballograf BIC in Gothenburg.

Framed

1989 • 8 min

Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S. National Film Archive. These staged films, produced by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), captured a fictional idealized life of Japanese Americans in the American concentration camps during World War II. More than a hundred thousand innocent civilians of Japanese descent were incarcerated solely based on their ancestry. To legitimize the abrogation of civil rights, the WRA produced this wartime propaganda. The second element is the slide show in which the still images reframe the raw material of the WRA films.

True Blue American Coconut Grove

1989 • 11 min • Philippines

A Mowelfund experimental short film by Louie Quirino and Donna Sales.

The Orange Angel

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Household waste containers were not in use in Riga during the 80ies. So the city-dwellers had to wait for the orange rubbish collection cars, Norbas, to arrive at a certain time of day...

Blumenhysterie

1989 • 6 min

Lock and Key

1989 • 4 min • China

This film is one form of the director's explorative expression, utilizing the imagery of locks and keys to symbolize a society turning awry.

Tiziano

1989 • 57 min

Titian’s genius and significance in European art are undisputed. Trained at the Giovanni Bellini workshop and influenced by working together with Giorgione, he came to a masterly use of colour, light and shade. His oeuvre contains everything his times demanded: drama, carnal lust, religious fervour, mythology and portraits. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff takes us to the places where the renaissance artist devised his works and worked for the most influential courts.

Ruimte

1989 • 4 min • Netherlands

Short film about the questions: When does a line become a shape, and when does a shape become three dimensional?

Versailles

1989 • 43 min

Teo Hernandez in Versailles

Bridal Chamber

1989 • 16 min • Iran

A Still image film, narrated by Ghazi Rabihavi.

Mosaics

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

An animated user’s guide to Soviet children’s analog game, which suddenly turns into an experimental animation à la abstract films by Hans Richter or Walter Ruttmann.

Dying IV

1989 • 45 min • United States of America

The fourth film in the Dying series

Dazzle

1989 • 24 min • Japan

This puppet animation is set in a time when darkness still reigned when people were still afraid of what lay beyond the stillness of the night. In the evening, a husband leaves the house with a guilty look on his face, and his wife, feeling something, gently sends him off. The wife notices a shadow on the shoji and chases after it, but what she sees are the creatures of the underworld... The house and the townscape are so elaborate and emotional that we forget that they are models. The house and the town are so elaborate and emotionally rich that we forget that they are models, and the dolls, moving with an awkward rhythm, play out the drama of a mysterious and violent woman in a gentle manner.

Shoji Tabuchi "Fiddlin' Around" (Volume I)

1989 • 31 min

Shoji Tabuchi, his wife, and vivacious emcee, Dorothy Tabuchi, welcome audiences to their brand new theatre in Branson, Missouri with a show that truly has something for everyone! Shoji and Dorothy Tabuchi, and their daughter Christina, are excited to share their love of country music, bluegrass, Cajun, jazz, western swing, and even a bit of Broadway with Branson audiences.

Waiting for de Bil

1989 • 22 min

Beijing Electron Positron Collider / Yangtze Ethylene Project / Qinshan Nuclear Power Station / Guangzhou Peugeot: A New Generation of Motor Vehicles in China

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.

The Drummer

1989 • 7 min

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her on the glass mountain. He sets out to find the mountain and is helped on his way by a rather pathetic old giant and a magic butterfly who lends him a pair of wings. Finally, he arrives at his destination and the witch sets him to work on three impossible tasks... The Drummer was one of the winning entries in 'The Magic Mirror' competition to find new animators for children's stories. The main condition was that the stories had to be adapted from existing fairy or folk tales. The series was sponsored by Kelloggs and the series producer was Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Shown on ITV, world wide TV, video and at international animation festivals.

Viva Eu!

1989 • 18 min

A documentary that celebrates the life of Brazilian artist Wilton Braga, one of the first persons in Brazil to be diagnosed with AIDS. We witness the flesh and soul of a man with remarkable strength and resolve in the face of a life-threatening illness; to find life and faith in the face of adversity.