All Films

STD Street Smarts

1989 • 30 min • Canada

With frank language and explicit imagery, this video addresses difficult issues such as sex and injection drug use in the age of AIDS. It is non-judgemental in its portrayal of young people acquiring, using, and sharing knowledge about safer sex and needle use. The video was produced by, for, and with "street youth" by the STD Prevention Project of Youthlink—Inner City in Toronto, Canada.

O Reino Azul

1989 • 14 min • Brazil

A tyrant, to escape boredom, decides to paint his entire kingdom blue. But things don't go exactly as he had planned.

A Parable About an Artist

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Based on drawings by Ildar Urmanche, the cartoon tells the story about actor who gives people experience of grief and happiness.

Self-Control

1989 • 2 min • Soviet Union

About how strict self-control can hinder the development of personality and a full-blooded life.

Jason Still Lives!

1989 • 40 min

"Jason Still Lives!" tells the tale of Jason Myers who is a hockey masked killer on a cruise ship who comes ashore and starts killing people in Ohio.

Lepatriinutalv

1989 • 36 min • Soviet Union

At the end of the 1980s, there were two boarding homes for children and young people with mental and physical disabilities in Estonia, Imastu and Karula, with 300 children in one, and 160 in the other. There are children of all ages here, very small and teenagers. There are those who speak and those who cannot. Who walk on their own, who crawl, who is forever chained to a bed. Most of them can only be alive. All these children long for love and care, they all deserve it. They exist, although for decades society did not want to see or hear them.

Regional Domino Competition

1989 • 22 min • Soviet Union

Rock opera based on the story of the same name by Kir Bulychev.

Vacancy

1989 • 50 min • Soviet Union

The shortcomings of the era of stagnation are criticized in a grotesque manner - it takes place at a train station and on a train.

A House

1989 • 13 min • Montenegro

A big modern house has only two inhabitants: an elderly couple, humble peasants. They seem rather lost and not too much accustomed to such a space. They are waiting for somebody. The objects and sounds in the house help us realize that "somebody" means: the son, daughter-in-law and grandson, living in France... Coloring Easter eggs (Orthodox folk custom) for all of them, knitting the sweater for grandson, waiting. Will the awaited ones come...!? Eternal, metaphysical waiting.

The Hunger

1989 • 11 min

A Mowelfund experimental short film

Balat II

1989 • 5 min

Collage of cartoon images of the nuclear weapons protest and images of Filipino tribal rites.

Dirty Power

1989 • 2 min

This “powerful” animation was inspired by the artist’s exploration of the oftentimes seductive nature of 3D computer graphics and the sexual-social crises of AIDS.

Displacement Animation of Intelligent Objects

1989 • 2 min

Motion studies of humans and animals with an emphasis on single skins and musculature.

Asa Nisi Masa

1989 • 15 min

An exploration of the televisual through interviews and film clips.

Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From

1989 • 60 min • United Kingdom

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC 'Omnibus' shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream - about the people whose dreams go belly-up.

My Paradise

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the poetry of A. Čakas. The action takes place against the backdrop of pre-war Riga. In the contrasts and poetry of the city, we recognize the world of A. Čakas' poetry with its basic intonations - pain, kindness, self-irony.

Cradle

1989 • 49 min

First film released on central television where were showed problems of USSR indigenous people, who are suffering from confrontation of traditional culture and oil rigs civilisation.

El Vuelo

1989 • 15 min

Silvia Gruner showed a diversity of artistic strategies to intertwine, in the material, erotic or ritual uses of the body, a variety of dichotomies: the feminine before the masculine, the national before the global; the organic and the historical.

Jurate and Kastytis

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The legend about Jurat and Kastytis. It was a long time ago, even when the most important among the gods was the god Perkunas, and the goddess Jurate lived at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in an amber castle. In a small village on the seashore lived a handsome and strong fisherman, Kastytis. Once he caught fish of the royal kingdom with his nets. Jurate sent her mermaids to warn Kastytis not to muddy the Baltic waters and not to frighten the fish...

I knew the King in You

1989 • 10 min

A story about the poet Vytautas Mačernis (1921-1944)

Sunday

1989 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A day in the life of a young man - relationships with friends, unexpected encounters.

Tolle Masche - Popgymnastik

1989 • 6 min

This film is the second in a series about new individual sports and promotes pop gymnastics as a healthy and attractive leisure activity for girls and women.

Zeitverläufe

1989 • 9 min • East Germany

The film creates a vision of the destruction of the world and warns against its realization.

Black Square

1989 • 56 min • Soviet Union

A brief history of Russian unofficial art from 1953 to 1988.