All Films

The Grumbilla Witch's Book of Spells

1989 • 36 min • Soviet Union

Based on French folk tales.

A Lesson in History

1989 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Lesson in History was produced when Peters was a student at the West Surrey School of Art and Design. Having read The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton, she was inspired to make what she describes as 'the stories of black achievement and how stories had not been told.' The animated film was subsequently screened on the BBC as part of the series 10X10. It was shot on 16mm using cutouts, photography and masks.

Myth Makers 18: Doctor Who Magazine, Vol. 1

1989 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Intrepid Nicholas Briggs delves into Doctor Who Magazine’s past, studies its production and looks to the future. Along the way he talks to editor John Freeman, artists John Ridgway and Lee Sullivan, long term contributor Gary Russell and many more. This is a fascinating look at a unique publication in its 10th year, covering every aspect of its production and development.

Home Avenue

1989 • 17 min • United States of America

An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.

Catwalk

1989 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Super-model Celia Hammond and her obsession with caring for unwanted, frightened and injured cats.

Blackpool Wakes

1989 • 57 min • United Kingdom

From political conferences to the George Formby Society's annual bash, and Pleasure Beach to the weather, an Arena documentary on the seaside town of Blackpool and its history.

La Lettre d'amour

1989 • 16 min • Canada

Such diverse modes of expression as dance, music, poetic narration and images drawn directly on film combine to tell the story of a letter and the joy it carries to its destination. In French, with English sub-titles.

Kader, Gaël

1989 • 4 min

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Forest Dance

1989 • 14 min

In this work, Sekine steps into a deep forest in Tama Lake and shoots a strange copse he finds there in single frames. Through camerawork that moves in all directions (it could be called "body action to the camera"), he attempts to existentially observe the invisible vibrations and rhythms of life itself.

Manager On The Case

1989 • 11 min

This instructional film is an outline of how rehabilitation programs are administered in Australian Commonwealth Agencies, with specific reference to the role of the case manager.

Elixir do Pajé

1989 • 20 min • Brazil

Three schoolgirls secretly read the erotic-comic poem Elixir do Pajé, by Bernardo Guimarães. First published in 1875, in Ouro Preto, the poem is an amusing monologue by a man with his (no longer) virile member.

Mind the Steps!

1989 • 6 min • Hungary

A typical apartment building in Budapest and their residents from the aspect of a young boy playing football sometime in the end of the 1980s at the time of the change of regime in Eastern Europe. Is there a way out from here? A geometrical paradox and a political parable at the same time.

Rumpelstilzchen

1989 • 14 min • Germany

Based on the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm this montage brings together heterogeneous super 8 Found Footage and own personal shots. By hand developement and chemical influences an interwoven story about the conversion of simple elements to gold came out.

Sinéad O'Connor: The Value of Ignorance

1989 • 37 min

Live recording of Sinéad O'Connor's concert at the Dominion Theatre in London, on June 3, 1988, in support of her debut album "The Lion and the Cobra" (performed in its entirety except for two songs).

Aschermittwoch

1989 • 19 min • East Germany, Germany

Sketches from a store cashier's everyday life.

Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress

1989 • 46 min • Germany

An intimate portrait of director Mai Zetterling that includes interviews with Zetterling, David Hughes (Zetterling’s ex-husband and the cowriter of LOVING COUPLES, NIGHT GAMES, and THE GIRLS), and actors Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Bibi Andersson.

Midget Madness: A Look At The Lighter Side Of Midget Wrestling

1989 • 27 min

Take a hilarious look inside the wacky world of Midget wrestling, with 30 minutes of fun filled bloopers and action packed excitement. It's all here: the colorful characters, the high flying body slams, last second pins and dirty tricks. There's even a section on the Midget Wrestling awards! Footage provided by The American Wrestling Association.

Losev

1989 • 56 min • Soviet Union

Director Victor Kossakovsky dedicated his documentary debut to the Russian philosopher and religious thinker Alexey Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988), who died shortly after the completion of the film.

Well

1989 • 34 min • Soviet Union

Road workers, having paralyzed traffic on a busy street, dig a well into which they intend to lower a concrete pipe. Two passers-by watch them...

White Flag

1989 • 36 min • Soviet Union

A young man from a Christian family falls in love with a Muslim girl who lives behind the mountains in a village. The girl's relatives believe that according to Islamic tradition, a relationship between them is impossible, and they kill the young man.

Cosas de Mujer

1989 • 10 min • Cuba

A short film about Cuban women, post-revolution.

Other People's Families

1989 • 21 min

If you lived in a children's home, had step-parents, just one parent or lived in a 'community' what would the word 'family' mean to you?

Loop

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short.

Play 33

1989 • 12 min • Switzerland