Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

An old book opens a gateway to another world.

In the beginning there was a very terrible murder. And everyone's hair stood on end. But everyone combed their hair and went to shoot a movie again.

A compilation of trailers and coming attractions from various horror and sci-fi movies.

A parodic story about a crime punishable by the laws of a totalitarian society.

Lena Cronqvist is one of Sweden's greatest contemporary painters, whose pictures have aroused great engagement and interest in the public. Lena Cronqvist has depicted life's drama in small and large ways. It is often about identity, about being a child and being a parent, taking care of and being taken care of. In this film from 1989, we follow along during an exhibition at the Art Academy, which becomes a success and after only fifteen minutes, all the pictures are sold out.

The space of the museum as the visitor travels through it is a long sentence of sleep. But if suddenly this sleep is interrupted, if this space is torn apart, if the hydrometric devices go haywire, then like a sleepwalker who is awakened at the edge of a roof, the object decomposes as everything has decomposed before it. which allowed it to exist. When tuberoses decompose, Zola notes, they smell human.

A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.

A film-maker struggles to live. She makes films. She makes love.

Both famous and infamous lesbians talk about love and sex, and relate some of their funniest experiences about the realization of their love for women.

Three animated chapters by Polygon Pictures are featured in this collection: In Search of New Axis, In Search of Muscular Axis and In Search of Performing Axis.

Photographer and documentary film director Schadt follows in the footsteps of his role model Robert Frank. The important photographer and director traveled through the United States in the mid-1950s and recorded his photographic impressions of this trip in the photo book "The Americans". Schadt visits some of the places where Frank had photographed 30 years earlier, talks to the people living there and interviews Frank himself.

A former film producer attracted by the beauty and sensuality of a beautiful young woman, enters into a stormy love relationship with her. Lilian, with supposed ambitions for stardom, convinces Daniel to recover important documents in the possession of her former partner. Upon discovering their betrayal (Lilian with her ex-partner), Daniel decides to take revenge and... the storm breaks out.

The film tells the story of the love between a female university student and a painter. Ayşe, who has come to Istanbul to attend university, is staying in a student dormitory. However, since she wants to move out of the dorm, she and her roommate Hatice start looking for a rental apartment. The two happen to rent Reşit Bey's house. One day, Ayşe and Hatice are invited by Reşit Bey to his nephew's art exhibition. Ayşe meets and befriends Reşit Bey's nephew Bedri there. As the two begin spending time together, their relationship gradually turns into love.

East German short film directed by Andrea Ritterbusch

Training for tank drivers in training. The techniques for overcoming obstacles and driving through restricted passageways are taught.

Short film about the coelacanth

Short film about the German painter Emil Nolde

Sometimes there's more than one bandit, and little fellows can be pretty mean!

About reconstruction, about the difficult path to democratization of society. Speaking are Georgian director Lana Gogoberidze, representative of the Memorial Society, editor Aleksey Adzhubei, Orthodox priest Gleb Yakunin, leader of the Latvian Popular Front Dainis Ivans, politician Marju Lauristin, a victim of Stalin's repressions recalls his deportation to the Vorkuta camp. Stalin Museum and Memorial, Nikita Khrushchev's grave, events, public rallies in Tbilisi, Russia, Tallinn, Riga, scenes at the Riga Brothers' Cemetery, at the Freedom Monument.

Experimental short film

"L'art pour l'art" is a principle that also applies to short films. It remains to be seen what interpretation of meaning would be appropriate for the film, as its design in terms of images and editing, color and sound conveys appealing aspects, evokes associations and, moreover—once again in a tradition of deep meaning—takes up the doppelganger motif.

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.

Documenting the process of writing and submitting a song to Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. It follows Torgny Söderberg who wrote the 1984 winner Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley as he tries to get a new hit with the unknown singer Sofia Källgren for the 1989 contest.

A uniquely powerful and intimate look at the lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Angeles. Made by Tom Seidman with the help of a crew that included camp "residents," Lost Angeles graphically and unsentimentally portrays the complicated realities of life on the streets.

In Going Up, the creation of a skyscraper is transformed by director Gary Pollard into a breathtaking visual experience as time-lapse photography, hard hat banter and construction worker choreography are set to a score by 15 new music composers in an urban ballet forty stories above New York harbor.

In a village, wolves threaten the herds of sheep. Shepherds kill animals. The clerk comes and shows them the Red List of Threatened Species. It turns out that wolves are on this list. The villagers begin to take care of the only surviving pair of wolves. They even protect them from sheep that have gone berserk and become bloodthirsty.

During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed. His route was marked out by diaries of former prisoners and the deportation chronology.

Musical based on the works of Kozma Prutkov.

Examines the life of nomadic herders-hunters-farmers in a remote region of an automous republic of the former Soviet Union. Mountainous terrain forms the dramatic backdrop against which a state farm operates. Modern influences are changing the lives of the young people.

The Pasta’ay, which means "the festival of the legendary little people," is a significant ritual held every other year in the Saisiat aborigine group in Taiwan. Every ten years, they hold the Great Ritual. This film focuses on the Great Ritual in 1986. It tries to convey the Saisiat people’s affection for and belief in the legendary little people. At the same time, the film brings into light Saisiat people’s ambivalence towards tourist invasion, and their dilemma of being caught between tradition and modernization. Structured by the Pasta’ay songs’ movements, the film breaks down to 15 chapters. It carefully juxtaposes the visual with the aural elements, which are conveyed in the conceptual dichotomy between “the real” and “the artificial.”

Examines the destruction, waste, profiteering and corruption that is stripping Papua New Guinea of its forest resources. Interviews with villagers reveal how ordinary people have been taken in by the promises and propaganda of the logging companies.

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

The Tokyo Tower is a symbol that has become an indispensable part of the Tokyo landscape, even if it is said to be an imitation of the Eiffel Tower. The story of Yumiko, who comes from Wakayama on a school trip to Tokyo, also revolves around this symbol. Yumiko is 17 years old and in love with a classmate. Three years later, Yumiko's love blooms again in this city at the age of 20... This is a movie "by girls for girls", with the sharp point of view of a female director, which exposes the cuteness and ugliness of women through the simple, pure and honest protagonist, without any pretence. Yumiko runs around the screen in a cheerful yellow voice, explaining the subtle psychology of a girl in love.

In the summer of 1988, a wave of strikes broke out in the mines. Miners protested against unsafe working conditions and low wages. The government threatened with reprisals.

A short documentary produced by the National Film and Sound Archive to promote 'Operation Newsreel', a project to collect and preserve Australian newsreel films, done in the style of a vintage newsreel.

A touching cinematic portrait of a woman who survived the 1933 Holodomor and whose life comprised more dramatic moments than a screenwriter could possibly describe. This is one of the first films raising the issue of the Great Famine.

A personal, poetic approach to narrative, originally shot on 8mm film and mastered to ¾” video. Created in collaboration with Gabriel Cohen

The story about Uncle Jem, who worked in the wardrobe of the theater, and about his leg, which possessed an unusual ability to sing.

How do girls learn about the hair that mysteriously appears on their bodies during puberty? This tape takes an irreverent look at the stereotyping that surrounds body hair for women. It mixes historical research, a little personal testimony, ad-copy, and the voices of “hair experts” to create an informed analysis. Body Hair closes, in time-honoured feminist documentary style, with a radical call to action.

Lois, upon moving to the inner city and finding herself in an all-woman house, becomes most intrigued by her new roommate Kate.

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.

Wild and incomprehensible, from the point of view of a white man, African native rites. But these are not just rites - this is witchcraft. Is it possible to raise a person from the grave? For the local dark-skinned population this is reality. And visiting white people, who consider all these stories about zombies to be stupid fictions, will have a nightmarish encounter with the walking dead - terrible killing machines.

The men in FINDING OUR WAY range in age from twenty-seven to seventy-one and come from a variety of backgrounds: a writer, an insurance agent, a clergyman, and the owner of a dry cleaning store. They are heterosexual, gay, and bisexual. FINDING OUR WAY is a first step toward creating new role models and moving beyond the stereotypes surrounding male sexuality. The program helps men feel less afraid of closeness with other men and encourages both men and women to talk more openly about their sexuality.

Sight For Sore Ears is the first video album from the rock band Poison, featuring all the Poison music videos from the first two albums, Look What the Cat Dragged In and Open Up and Say...Ahh! and also features behind the scenes footage and in depth interviews. The video compilation received gold certification.

In a little Icelandic island, 15 years after a volcanic eruption, the inhabitants remember the events but also their premonitory dreams. Outside, the wind fights with the sea, and the volcano is still fuming. Here, the nature is the master.

A despotic youth spends his vacation oppressing the peaceful inhabitants of an island with his evil fantasies.

Zombie Party features blood and gore, rap, and blond bimbos who sing.

Mexican feature film

WINTERWHEAT was made by bleaching, scratching and painting directly on the emulsion of an educational film about the farming cycle. I wanted to manipulate the found footage to create lulling, hypnotic visuals while also suggesting an apocalyptic narrative. Though the images can be viewed purely for their graphic idiosyncrasy, a quiet but persistent theme of destruction winds its way through the film.