All Films

Melbourne '89

1989 • 13 min • Australia

Various tableaux of Melbourne in 1989, as experienced by the film-maker.

Invention

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A brilliant inventor loses everything after hitting a wall of bureaucracy and corruption.

Numéro 4

1989 • 4 min • France

The single frame is the only visible unit in film, yet it is nearly invisible. To see a single frame goes against the nature of cinema; even if that is its very nature. If every frame holds the same image, there will be no movement; if they are completely different from each other, there will be no movement either, but chaos. By using a still camera like a film camera and a film camera like a still camera, Numero 4 rides on the edge between film and photography. One unedited super-8 camera roll.

The Magician of Messkirch: Martin Heidegger

1989 • 59 min • Germany

A 1989 documentary about Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg.

Joost Prinsen: Caruso & Caransa

1989 • 53 min

Television Registration of the theatre program by the Dutch actor, singer and raconteur Joost Prinsen and the pianist Dick van der Stoep.

The Last Fly

1989 • 6 min • France

A man pays local children to bring him flies. After having cut off their wings and legs, he sticks them on the walls of his apartment. When a prostitute appears at his door, he sees in her the final piece to his work.

The Deadman

1989 • 38 min • United States of America

Made in collaboration with Keith Sanborn, The Deadman is based on a story by Bataille, charting "the adventures of a near-naked heroine who sets in motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die — a combination of elegance, raunchy defilement and barbaric splendor." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.

Hochwaldmärchen

1989 • 9 min • East Germany

A fairy-tale of the Sorbian poet Jurij Brezan as an allegory of threatened nature dedicated to the Sorbs.

Mickey's Safety Club: Halloween Surprises

1989 • 13 min • United States of America

Educational film with Mickey’s clubhouse members learning about Halloween safety rules.

New-Rêve

1989 • 29 min • France

In a post-apocalyptic future, two men who have lost the ability to speak fight to preserve the last remnants of their humanity. They travel across a ravaged France and, in a desperate act, break into Paris. The city, turned into an impenetrable fortress, is the last stronghold of a wealthy and decadent elite.

De blikvanger

1989 • 10 min • Netherlands

In an Escher-like staircase, two characters, a man a woman, move around each other, in full view of the bizarre objects in the space: an infinite clock, a miniature surveillance camera, the hose of a vacuum cleaner. The camera always chooses a subjective point of view, namely from the vantage point of one of the objects or characters, who lose themselves in a game of attraction or repulsion. A surreal universe.

Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9

1989 • 29 min

Examines the history of Sherrill's Restaurant and Bakery in Washington, D.C. How a unique restaurant integrates into the culture of the community.

Act

1989 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

Flames of Passion

1989 • 17 min • United Kingdom

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's stiff-upper-lipped romance Brief Encounter into a rich and witty contemporary melodrama, with two devilishly handsome young men standing in for Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Die andere Liebe

1989 • 34 min • East Germany

The only documentary ever made by DEFA on the topic of homosexuality was this public education film commissioned by the Hygiene Museum Dresden and produced in cooperation with East German gay and lesbian activists. In interviews, GDR lesbians and gay men talk openly about their first sexual experiences and coming out. Though the film tries to convey an official GDR acceptance of homosexuality, they also talk about social discrimination against openly gay individuals.

Before My Eyes

1989 • 26 min • India

A 'filmscape' on the Kashmir valley.

Drawings on Asphalt

1989 • 50 min • Romania

One of the last movies made during the communist era in Romania. The plot : a drawing contest for kids in Bucharest. More important : this is a movie about childhood, creativity. Strange topics for a country that was about to fall apart. 50 minutes - by Elisabeta Bostan, who made great movies for kids in the 60's and 70's (such as Veronica).

Adam Clayton Powell

1989 • 54 min

Handsome, passionate, and an electrifying speaker, Adam Clayton Powell rose from being the son of a Harlem preacher to being a powerful 12-term Congressman--but his many accomplishments have been forgotten in the wake of the self-indulgence, arrogance, and demagoguery that dominated Powell's later years.

The Turd Family go on Holiday

1989 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Using powerful imagery, black humour, and a liberal helping of appalling bad taste, the directors set out to draw people's attention to the state of British beaches.

One-Night Stand: Bill Maher

1989 • 29 min

HBO stand up special videotaped live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California

Lyrics of Antiquity

1989 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Based on Greek myths.

Ladder of Life

1989 • 3 min • Soviet Union

About the fact that each person must go through his own ladder of life.

Serpent River

1989 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario Canada.

Extrait de naissance

1989 • 26 min • France

An apartment, who knows whether it is still inhabited or not, whether the potential inhabitants will ever arrive or are already dead. A man's voice speaks and names the objects and places. Memories appear. An orphan is waiting alone in the hall among luggage. His infancy emanates from the objects and the perspectives subjectively visualized by the authors. Fragments of stories. Condensed emotions. People are suddenly frightening. Video technology draws a map of passages from the real to the imaginary, from truth to the narration of the present, the probability of cathode imagery.