All Films

Chôjin densetsu 3: Kanketsu jigoku hen

1989 • 48 min • Japan

The Hen House

1989 • 60 min

Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.

When I Put My Hands on Your Body

1989 • 5 min

The series of five videos Collaborative Film Collection made in collaboration with Marion Scemama in 1989 is emblematic of Wojnarowicz's artistic practice, it unfolds through performance, films, photographs, texts and paintings. Taking a highly subjective point of departure he shares poetic and moving moments, moving through the material until his voice achieves a universal dimension.

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

1989 • 60 min

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.

A Town's Revenge

1989 • 60 min • United States of America

A teenager who tries to convince his town to farm without using pesticides finds many of the residents resistant to change.

Bakom Sällskapsresan III

1989 • 45 min • Sweden

Come along behind the scenes when Sällskapsresan III is recorded. The documentary alternates between the filming of many of the well-known scenes, clips from the film and interviews with the actors such as Lasse Åberg, Jon Skolmen and Birgitte Söndergaard, as well as the creative forces behind the camera, including producer Bo Jonsson.

The Night is Rose-Colored, My Way

1989 • 60 min • Japan

A pair of robbers break into a loan shark company. I thought they were breaking in for money, but not only that, but they started raping and toying with male employees who were tied up and deprived of their freedom. In fact, the robber was a gay man who once came to borrow money from a loan shark, but he was turned down and made fun of because he couldn't lend money to a homosexual who works at a gay bar.

Number Rap #11

1989 • 1 min • United States of America

Kids rapping about the number 11.

Coffee and Cigarettes II

1989 • 8 min • United States of America

A brother and sister, sitting in a coffee bar, bicker mildly about whose idea it was to come to Memphis and which kind of cigarette is fresher. Danny, their waiter, comes by offering refills; after determining they are twins, he guesses which is the evil one. Without a pause, he sits down and offers his theory about Elvis's twin. He drones on. The good twin finally speaks up, giving her own opinion. The waiter is unfazed. After his boss finally calls him back to work, the twins are free to resume their bickering amidst the coffee and cigarettes.

The Gun Is Loaded

1989 • 35 min • United States of America

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.

Stalking bôkôma

1989 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

The Making of Slipstream

1989 • 25 min

The making of Steven Lisberger's 1989 Sci-Fi film Slipstream

Inside Hawaiian Volcanoes

1989 • 26 min • United States of America

A short documentary produced and directed by famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft in order to educate audiences about how volcanoes are formed, erupt, and are studied.

La vie en couleurs

1989 • 52 min • France

Laura, 35 years old, is married to Ricardo, an Argentinean cameraman, political refugee in France. They have two little girls, Ariane and Amélie. Laura works in a printing company, as a machine operator. When democracy is re-established in his country, Ricardo wants to return with his wife and daughters. But Laura refuses and the couple separates. Three years later, the young woman meets Didier Caillaux-Lalande, a young man who comes to print a book on Gustave Doré.

Employees From Hell

1989 • 12 min

John Cleese training video about employees.

Today in Our City...

1989 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Beyond Gravity

1989 • 50 min • New Zealand

Richard, an astronomy-obsessed worrier spends his time fantasizing about outer-space and the cosmos, an activity which antagonizes friends and family. One day, he meets Johnny, a handsome Italian man, with an enormous appetite for life, whose idea of a holiday involves breaking into the nearest small holiday home. He offers him love and an escape from the monotony of work.

Part of the Whole

1989 • 2 min • United States of America

Demonstrates how one part of an object can affect the whole thing.

Death of Emperor Showa

1989 • 40 min

In 1989, Emperor Shōwa passed away. The procession was televised, and between 800,000 and 2 million people watched it in person.

Visions in Meditation #1

1989 • 16 min • United States of America

This is a film inspired by Gertrude Stein's "Stanzas In Meditation", in which the filmmaker has edited a meditative series of images of landscapes and human symbolism "indicative of that field-of-consciousness within which humanity survives thoughtfully." It is a film "as in a dream," this first film in a proposed series of such being composed of images shot in the New England states and Eastern Canada. It begins with an antique photograph of a baby and ends with a child loose on the landscape, interweaving images of Niagara Falls with a variety of New England and Eastern Canadian scenes, antique photographs, windows, old farms and cityscapes, as it moves from deep winter, through glare ice, to thaw.

From Prison: Young Devil Worshipers

1989 • 40 min

Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.

William Holden: The Golden Boy

1989 • 59 min • United States of America

It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance.

You Won't Get Her, Bastard

1989 • 2 min • Argentina

A historical short film, which was a job for the university.

Flamme

1989 • 9 min • Japan

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).