Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

Live In Osaka, Japan 7/3/89

A family dinner is experienced through the eyes of a little girl called Alba, who inherits the magical qualities of her dead grandmother and thus inhabits another world, that of the good spirits. Inspired by Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits".

Tells the story of Sara, a girl of Greek descent, who lives in a small village on the French Atlantic coast and dreams of traveling to the country of her ancestors. It tells the story of her love for Simon, a young theater manager in Paris.

The bizarre often surreal adventures of an old man who becomes a priest.

“Conceived as a homage and an answer to Len Lye’s hand-processed FREE RADICALS. Lye’s film consists of direct, non-photographic markings on the emulsion, accompanied by a soundtrack of African percussion (surely exotic for the time). Lye’s choice, after a long career in both commercial and experimental cinema, to turn to such bare and primitive material (“aboriginal” was his chosen term) fits with my own obsession with sticking as closely as possible to the primary elements of the film in order to invoke the underlying and real power of cinema.” —Fred Worden

This unusual romantic film takes a documentary-like approach to depicting a breakup that unfolds over the course of just two train stops. The narrative time aligns exactly with the film’s real time, and the restrained direction, free of elaborate camerawork or unnecessary music, draws the viewer directly into the scene. Its raw, realistic sense of melancholy leaves a lasting emotional impression.

Marcellin Babey, from the Swiss Jura, is thirty-five years old. He works in an old workshop in the heart of Lausanne, concious that building speculators will oust him some day. As there are no longer any apprenticeships in wood turning in Switzerland, Babey learned his craft from the former owner of his Lausanne workshop, and by going, on foot, to visit old turners in France and Spain. When he learned from old documents that the inhabitants of the Swiss canton of Vaud used to play bagpipes on holidays before the Bernese Protestants forbade it in belief that it was an instrument of the devil, Babey decided to build the instrument as it used to be. In the film, we see him make and play the bagpipes.

East German short documentary

Grandfather Samson lived an interesting life — he fought with the Turks and with the fascists. And now, when there is no one to fight with and the children have grown up, I could not find a job for myself and demanded a premature monument to myself on the grave. He tormented his grandson so much that he jumped from the roof of the village church.

Hanna-Barbera's Christmas Sing-A-Long was a Sing-Along video produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1989. It features songs from some of Hanna-Barbera's earlier Christmas specials, plus classic Christmas songs set to clips from other Hanna-Barbera Christmas productions.

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

A silver alien entity explores a primordial wasteland, searching for a dancing elf.

The last day in the life of a NYC streetwalker.

This relatively unknown Jeff Keen film presents an insistent series of exquisitely composed action and animation sequences and must be one of the only 8mm 'cinemascope' films in the world

Directed by Merzak Allouache.

Directed by Jun Huang.

In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete

Pavlova, Tristan, Henry and the boy Mikko find a city built by a mysterious ancient civilization at the bottom of the ocean. The discovery of the wonders of the underwater city and meeting with an embrasure terrorist make up the plot of the film.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

The Final Chapter of 'The Creature' Trilogy (1987).

American horror short from 1989.

The trees, plants, flowers, leaves, fruits, rivers, lakes, and trees that grow and grow like a baby is formed and born at the sound of a song. This movie tells about love.

Five young orphans end up on the streets fending for themselves after their own relatives turn them away.

With frank language and explicit imagery, this video addresses difficult issues such as sex and injection drug use in the age of AIDS. It is non-judgemental in its portrayal of young people acquiring, using, and sharing knowledge about safer sex and needle use. The video was produced by, for, and with "street youth" by the STD Prevention Project of Youthlink—Inner City in Toronto, Canada.

In 1989 Japanese teams took the rallying world by storm, sparking one of the most exciting series in rally history. The Italian camp had pinned their hopes on LanciaÍs new 16-valve Integrale in an attempt to counter the growing challenge from Japanese manufacturers Toyota, Mazda and Mitsubishi. Outstanding performances were produced by world favourites Jorge Recalde, Juha Kankkunen, Hannu Mikkola and Ari Vatanen. The sensational Carlos Sainz, Didier Auriol, Alex Flori and Miki Biasion also appear in record-breaking form. On-board and helicopter cameras follow the action through over 28,000 km of snow, mud and dust from Sweden and Africa to Australia and New Zealand. The East vs West battle reaches a thrilling finale, topping off a highly successful season.

Documentary about the late-era German Democratic Republic

The film is narrative-free. Both the sound effects and the images, accompanied by multilingual subtitles and changing like a kaleidoscope, evoke in the viewer's imagination a shooting range where the targets resemble human silhouettes. Lively folk melodies juxtaposed with the sounds of gunshots create a contrast and become a means of expression. The shooters' skills lead to the elimination of their opponents. The funfair comes to an end, traces are covered up, and the ground is leveled. From under layers of accumulated earth (history), the previously seen targets emerge to the surface. They take on the shape of human silhouettes and come to life with color. This image is accompanied by a musical memento—a wail full of regret. Both the image and the music that accompanies the film contain many symbols, so any attempt at an unambiguous interpretation would be a simplification of its reception.

Documentary about the industrial region of Borinage in Belgium

A film about the life of pater Jón Sveinsson, author of the books on Nonni and Manni.

Two friends beat up a man while drinking so he goes out for some help.

"Shut up! Sam Fuyui appears as if he were in an Eguchi Hisashi manga. As captain of the rugby club, he is a passionate youth who chases the ball every day. One day, he is accused of murder on campus. One day, he is accused of murder on campus, and he discovers that a real culprit is a fake man named Fuyui, but will he be able to defeat him? And what is the fate of Sakura, the beautiful girl who loves Sam? A series of gag jabs. The story is easy to follow, even though it breaks cinematic grammar to the limit. "You can't complain when you get this far!" A powerful comedy.

A dance film shot inside the medieval walls of the Cloisters in Manhattan. It shows a young woman who becomes aware of the cosmic forces, forces which inhabit her.

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?

Freyja, who is twenty-seven, comes to the capital from a provincial village. Freyja is commissioned to do research for a film about Margareta Glas-Larsson (78) and Emil Ostermann (93). The encounter with these people who were both persecuted during the National-Socialist period - Emil was able to escape, Margareta was deported to Auschwitz - causes Freyja to delve into her own past - a confrontation with life and death.

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

While on a camping trip, three teenage brothers go from being the hunted to the hunters in an effort to snare and catch a dangerous thief.

Jacklyn Zeman, long-time star of American soap opera General Hospital walks us through the six steps to successful "couponing".

Two men rob a grocery store in a rural community and kill the town's sheriff. The angry townspeople arm themselves, and the chase is on.

A modern fairy tale about a computer nanny.

With Lorie, Wind and BB.

The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which people have vanished, and buildings from which the decorations have been stripped away and the inner organs exposed, I walked all over Tokyo taking photographs, then animated them. (T.I.)

About the life and work of the documentary film director, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR V.M. Shevchenko. The film shows the congress-festival of the International Association of Scientific Cinema in Pardubice (Czechoslovakia). Archival film and photo documents are used.

Darshall Lall is a gangster with many political connections. And it is for this reason that no police officer has dared to arrest Lall or any of his men. But when Public Prosecutor, Janki Rai's rickshaw-driver husband, Raghunath Prasad Rai, witnesses Lall's son, Surendra Pal, kill Ram Mohan Tripathi, Lall's son is arrested and brought before the court. Lall's offer to bribe Janki are in vain, and as a result Surendra is convicted and sentenced to die.

A significant historic record of proceedings in the Queensland Supreme Court regarding the Murray Islanders’ native title claim over their traditional lands.

Feeling like kids don't have much of a say in the world, Rikki and Revver call it quits on being children. Enter Doc and Dewey Decimole, who offer up song-filled accounts of the great stories of children in the Bible. Responding to the power of these tales and their pint-size heroes, Rikki and Revver slowly rediscover the blessings of childhood in this installment of the inspirational Christian animated series.

The film was created from almost 50 hours of long video footage of rehearsals for Tadeusz Kantor and Cricot 2 Theater’s spectacle "Dzis sa moje urodziny" (Today is my birthday). The rehearsals were recorded between October 13, 1989, and December 7, 1990.

Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a feminist theologian, environmentalist, and futurist. She speaks to us about the severity of our global environmental crisis, and analyzes the root cause of this crisis as lying in the perceptions, beliefs, and assumptions of the patriarchal system we have inherited.

The story is about a tribe of primitive people who did not want to listen to the advice of a dissident, which led to a dangerous neighborhood with an approaching glacier.

A Mowelfund experimental short film

An Italian movie about racism.