All Films

Baby's Storytime

1989 • 30 min • United States of America

Legendary singer-songwriter, ARLO GUTHRIE, brings his whimsical wit and music to this warm, lighthearted re-telling of such all-time children's classics as "The Thee Little Pigs", "Henny Penny", "Little Red Riding Hood", and other cherished favorites.

Mercy

1989 • 10 min • United States of America

Images and sounds of American mass media, are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work. The myth of the 'body beautiful' is effectively debunked in an overwhelming swirl of movement and sound

Migration of the Blubberoids

1989 • 11 min

"The whiteness of winter cannot bury the blubbery things that splash and frolic among the frozen memories of Heathen harvests, in a land haunted by lard and ancestral lip-smacking." The collision of an overly dramatic film score/soundtrack with the banal yet enigmatic images of snow covered streets leads to a dissonant effect; the expectation of one is not fulfilled by the other.

The Pecking Order

1989 • 5 min • United Kingdom

An innovative animation touching on a series of interlinked concerns around issues of intensive farming, animal slaughter, famine, the Food Mountains of the West and devastation of the rain forests. The reality of violence is represented by live action black and white shots of two knives being sharpened for the slaughter. Different sound effects relate to the collage of diverse animated images chaotically linked together to signify global distress.

New Order: Brixton Academy

1989 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Live concert from 4 April 1987 by the British band New Order at The Academy in Brixton, a fundraising performance for International AIDS Day. Song list: Bizarre Love Triangle, Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Dreams Never End, Love vigilantes, Confusion, Age of Consent, Temptation.

Am Kai

1989 • 2 min • Germany

A fisherman waits on the quay for prey. But when a fish finally bites, unusual things start to happen...

Toto's Rescue

1989 • 42 min

The Wicked Witch of the West comes to Kansas (which looks suspiciously like the grounds of a California college campus) and steals Dorothy's dog Toto. The Good Witch tells her that the moral code of all Witches must give her a chance to earn back her dog. The Wicked Witch decides Dorothy must go to Storybook Land and correctly guess the identities of ten storybook characters in the order she encounters them. She is also allowed the help of all children (watching at home) between the ages of two and twelve. She opens a posterboard door to reveal the greenscreened world of Storybook Land, encountering lively personalities like a rapping Little Boy Blue, beautiful Rapunzel, and goofy Pinnochio [sic], as well as thesped characters like Jack and Jill. Upon encountering each one, the image grows still and pale and the lyrics to a song being performed are chyroned up on the screen. —Scott Hutchins

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

1989 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Brian Cox leads a group of young actors in a workshop exploring techniques in performing Shakesperean tragedy, using Macbeth and Titus Andronicus as example texts.

Violetta Clean

1989 • 30 min • Germany

Documentary film about the therapy facility ‘Violetta Clean’, founded in Berlin in 1983, the first inpatient therapy facility in Germany for drug-addicted girls and women.

Bicycle Safety Camp

1989 • 25 min

Five kids are taught the invaluable lessons of bike safety by bike safety wizard Sam Sprocket.

Énumérations

1989 • 53 min • France

In a house half devastated by a cataclysm, men and women take inventory of the sonic rubble of their memory during a musical ceremony.

Clownery

1989 • 53 min • Soviet Union

The tragicomedy of the absurd, is based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate reality 30s, who came to the flowering of creativity Harms, the director plays the style of filming, acting at that time and enters into the picture, "the aged" sound. Thus, it is possible to achieve maximum reliability of the author's text and sound to help the viewer to immerse themselves in the atmosphere in which he lived and worked classic absurdity. This is - a world of illusions, allusions and associations, reflecting a stream of consciousness of the creator living in an era of silence.

Ang magkakahoy

1989 • 10 min

A man enters a mysterious city.

The Card

1989 • 18 min • Australia

SuperOutro

1989 • 46 min • Brazil

Schizophrenic tramp performs outrageous acts in the streets of Salvador, and in the end tries to fulfill his ultimate dream: to fly over the city, as a superhero would.

Charles Gatewood's Weird Thailand

1989 • 54 min • Thailand, United States of America

Charles Gatewood's tour video of the weird and wild in southeast Asia. Featuring sex shows, opium smoking, primitive piercing rituals, spitting cobras and "Exotic Erotic Bangkok, Sin City of Asia!".

Kenny, Dolly & Willie: Something Inside So Strong

1989 • 48 min

This was a concert performed in Houston for employees of NASA and their families to celebrate the US space program. Archival footage of NASA space missions was shown throughout the concert.

Chuck Mangione - Jazz Legends Live

1989 • 56 min

This performance of Chuck Mangione was recorded live at Palais Festivals Halls Cannes in 1989 with musicians Gordon Johnson, Mark Manetta, Joe Bonadio, Rob Mathes and Billy Martin. Includes the tracks, Chase The Clouds Away, Feels So Good and more.

The Chore

1989 • 2 min • United States of America

A harried husband is asked by his wife to put the family cat outside. He comes up with a novel solution to the problem.

Taking Off

1989 • 42 min • Soviet Union

Simple, unremarkable guy living an ordinary life at the intersection of roads leading into the village to the cemetery, to the airport. Maybe it determines his fate.

Drinking Battle

1989 • 15 min • Germany

A vivid document of the hard-drinking West Berlin scene of the late eighties, and at the same time one of the last important events before the fall of the Wall. “On the afternoon of 25.06.89, my good friend Wolfgang came to me and told me about a tequila fight drink that Andi wanted to organize with friends in a tin store in Mittenwalderstraße in Kreuzberg. We grabbed the VHS camera and went along. 13 hard-drinking participants, including two New Zealanders, took part. The rules were simple: "One tequila every five minutes! If you don't drink, you're out!" Our plan: Wolfgang was to drink along first and then take over the camera later to film "insight", so to speak. I was supposed to film the beginning and then, as a non-alcoholic drinker, support him. After a short time, however, Wolfgang got so carried away that everything turned out quite differently...“

Groper Train: One Shot in the Morning

1989 • 52 min • Japan

Yoriko hears an unexpected story from lawyer Sanada. Her great-aunt, who lives in America, says that if Yoriko marries Daizaburo, she will inherit all of her 2 billion yen inheritance. However, Yoriko has never him and does not know where he is. All she knows is that he is a habitual groper and has a star tattoo on his groin. With the help of her best friend Ryoko, Yoriko gets on the train and approaches a group of men...

Open Sesame

1989 • 6 min

Riddles in the LAByrinth. A ritual shadowplay in 7 movements with intertitles, from a live performance at The Gas Station, East Village NYC circa late 80's. Thanks Jack Vengrow for the welding light, and thanks to the FDNY for dousing the burning chair (oops). Creating an intense aura in the blue light of the electronic cave, two creatures in conflict, creation, communication, and the urge to liberate.

Out of the Ruins

1989 • 40 min

"Out of the Ruins is a documentary film about coming to terms with grief after the Armenian earthquake of 7th December 1988. I made it as a twenty-something trainee producer at BBC Television in 1989. The suffering, faith and hope of the Armenian people at the time shook me profoundly, forever more. Almost 20 years on, we are releasing the film again in the hope that it can be used to help raise money for the Armenian people today. May their courage and strength be an inspiration to us all." - Agnieszka Piotrowska, director.