All Films

Eve

1989 • 28 min • Soviet Union

Silent serious people buy weapons. They are taking him by a caravan of trucks through Moscow. One of them changes into new clothes and leaves the others for his beloved girlfriend, who lives in the capital.

The Great AZT Debate

1989 • 30 min

AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.

Auf den Spuren von GutsMuths

1989 • 26 min • East Germany, Germany

Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759-1839) was an educator and co-founder of gymnastics. He developed an entire system of gymnastic exercises for young people and summarized it in the book "Gymnastics for Young People" as a kind of instruction book. At a time when sporting activity was frowned upon, he had at least one hour of gymnastics a day at the Salzmannsche Erziehungsanstalt in Schnepfenthal (Thuringia). GutsMuth's work as the founder of the Volkssport movement is brought to life through contemporary testimonies, pictures and quotes.

The World is Sick (sic)

1989 • 38 min

An experimental documentary on the activist interventions at the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Montreal, in June 1989. While making fun of television news conventions, the tape prioritizes the voices of grassroots AIDS educators and People with AIDS activists from Trinidad, Thailand, South Africa, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Demonstrations and interventions by AIDS activists from Montreal, Toronto, and the United States take centre stage, literally.

Faces of Dying III

1989 • 46 min

The third film in the Death Faces series

The Flower

1989 • 24 min • Japan

Ueda, Koike and Keiko are in their fourth year at university. The time limit on their paradise of university is drawing to a close, and they are all feeling impatient in their own ways. Keiko is unable to find a job. Ueda is unsure of Keiko's feelings. Koike is torn between her dream of becoming a novelist and the reality of finding a job. The summer is passing. As if to hold on to their time in paradise, they enjoy a late night of fireworks. In his dreams, Koike sees a strange family picture. The image of the three of them sitting around a make-shift table on a riverbank overgrown with summer grass softly and unobtrusively conveys to the viewer their anxiety about their ambiguous future. The film's sincere image of adolescence is heartbreaking.

Born to Be Babe

1989 • 30 min • Japan

Mikage is unable to bear a child due to fibroids in her uterus. On the night she breaks up with her lover, she gives herself up to Sakurai, who adores her. Sakurai tells her that he will take Mikage's place as her child, but the next day he turns into a real boy. Mikage is surprised, but she begins to love him like a mother and a sister. At the same time, a news report about the unsettling world situation comes on the radio... The film is a realistic portrayal of a fantasy, with a tightly constructed structure and assured direction that adheres to theory. The ending, which seems to foretell of Japan in the near future, is a heartbreaking coincidence with the title of the film.

Peedee Meets the Dragon

1989 • 1 min • United States of America

Twisted computer animated short from 1989. The fire effect was impressive for the time, created on the massively parallel Connection Machine 2.

Roxette: Look Sharp Live 1989

1989 • 46 min • Sweden

Look Sharp Live is the second concert film by Swedish pop music duo Roxette, released on 2 October 1989 on VHS format by EMI and Picture Music International.. The footage consists of two edited concerts filmed on the Borgholm Castle ruin on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland on 25–26 July 1989. The project had a considerable budget, with the production crew hiring two helicopters from the Swedish Air Force to film aerial shots. Footage from this film was used to create two music videos: "Listen to Your Heart" and "Dangerous". Included as an unlisted track on all editions of the film is a remix of "The Look", which mixes the song with footage from two preexisting music videos directed by Peter Heath: "The Look" and "Dressed for Success".

Slap

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A collection of satirical short stories for adults.

Fast Food

1989 • 3 min • United States of America

Three chefs compete to create the perfect frog-based dish on St. Patrick's Day

Madame V. Monsieur S.

1989 • 52 min

Betty Van Sevenant, a young resistance fighter from Bruges, arrested in March 1942, was declared "Nacht und Nebel". She recounts her deportation to the Ravensbrück and Mauthausen camps until liberation. Tobias Schiff, a Polish Jew from Antwerp, was deported with his parents to Upper Silesia on August 28, 1942, on convoy No. 25. His story begins upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau and concludes with the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp. (2 x 26 min.)

My Melody's Little Red Riding Hood

1989 • 33 min • Japan

My Melody stars in the re-created story of Little Red Riding Hood.

My Sole Family

1989 • 10 min

1989 short film

3 tage strahlendes wetter (streng chronologisch geordnet)

1989 • 20 min

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.

The Charming Traveller

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Animation short.

The Oddballs of Saint-Michel

1989 • 39 min • Soviet Union

The suzerain of Saint-Michel was cruel and merciless. He had already executed everyone he could, even the executioner himself. But he couldn't get rid of the only doctor in Saint-Michel, Dr. Loshar. And then the cunning abbot suggested to him a way to lure the doctor to the palace...

Halloween Party

1989 • 38 min • United States of America

A ghoulish farmer rises from the grave on October 31st and inexplicably begins terrorizing a group of local teens at a Halloween party!

Friendly Witness

1989 • 30 min

In Friendly Witness, Sonbert returned, after 20 years, to sound. In the first section of the film, he deftly edits a swirling montage of images - suggestive of loves gained and love lost--to the tunes of four rock songs. Fred Camper said, "At times the words of the songs seem to relate directly to the images we see...; at other times words and images seem to be working almost at cross-purposes or relating only ironically. Similarly, at times the image rhythm and music rhythm appear to dance together, while at others they go their separate ways." -- Jon Gartenberg. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS in 1998.

Nuklear Zombies

1989 • 22 min • Germany

In the year 2047 Ray City has become the refuge for a totally infested world. Max Maker is sent via a landspeeder! to search the jungle for survivors of the nuclear disaster. But what he finds are 'nuclear zombies', which prey on fresh human flesh…

In Manila

1989 • 7 min • Philippines

An impressionistic portrait of a Philippine metropolis.

Favorable Circumstances

1989 • 8 min • Soviet Union

In a closed room. A man freed by drops of water from a thick layer of plaster also frees his colleagues. Great! No?! It was better for the plastered.

Camel Trophy 1989 - The Amazon

1989 • 52 min

Camel Trophy 1989 took competitors into the 'Green Hell' - the Amazon - or the toughest event to that date. As if 1000 miles of gruelling rainforest track wasn't enough, the organisers chose the rainy season to do it, adding another, rather muddy, dimension to the challenge

Fill Thy Crack with Whiteness

1989 • 11 min

A music-filled tour of Christmas good cheer overtakes this gastronomically oriented excursion through the winter season of discontent and yuletime yearnings craving ignition.