Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

A documentary about Elizabeth Weinzirl who got her first tattoo in 1947.

Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.

A group of average college students go about their daily lives without a clear goal in mind. The protagonist, Ryoji, wavers between several girlfriends while maintaining a delicate relationship between "more than a friend, less than a lover". Their youth is in full bloom. But the day will come when they will have to say goodbye to their flexible relationship. The anxiety and emptiness of a young man who has taken the first step on the road to adulthood are portrayed with such naturalism and freshness that one wonders if it was staged.

Aamar Tumi is a 1989 Indian Bengali-language film directed by Bimal Ray (Jr.) and produced by Dipti Pal. The film features actors Prosenjit Chatterjee and Farah Naaz in the lead roles. The music was composed by Bappi Lahiri. (From Wikipedia)

Profile of political activist Claudia Jones, the woman who started the Notting Hill Carnival and founded the West Indian Gazette, the first popular newspaper within the Black Community.

『飛画』Flying images 1989/11min

Lita Ford and her band play live at Wembley Arena, London in 1989

A mad scientist and his gang kidnap the cheerleader daughter of a guard at a nuclear power station. They need her for their experiments in "fertilichrome", a substance that will cause women to have one baby a month.

Cut And Paste Movie from Filmark International Ltd.

8mm film by Ohtani Jun

Inspired by the Communist president Najibullāh's grand project to bring about reconciliation with the mujahidin, the story of Baba concerns two small villages drawn into conflict by a murder, a revenge plot, and the dishonorable dealings of a spy. The villages are finally reconciled by the advice of a wise old man, Baba, who has kept out of all the quarrels that have separated everybody else by retiring to a cave. The character of Baba is based on a real hermit, Baba Firoz, who lived in a cave in Goldara surrounded by tame animals and supposedly lived to be 127 years old.

A film crew with a group of young actors arrives at a factory in Lorraine. They shoot a fiction inspired by the real ghostly pace of the factory.

A television production for the playwrights debutant scene.

A woman travels, blindfolded, from an ancient countryside temple to a bustling city. Her surroundings change, but her sense of unease lingers. The director uses a distinctively female perspective to combine the past and present. Made in December 1989, the film expresses a sense of anxiety permeating Hong Kong during that time.

George Smilovici Performs live

Evidence that the United States and Britain knew beforehand of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

With his hit music videos, "Radically saved" and "No way", Carman helps expose idols for what they are.

Film made with a tiny pinhole camera and 16mm film.

The cameraman's hand was filmed against the Ethiopian sunset and the surrounding scenery using different shutter speeds(1/2, 1/8 etc.). The footage was edited to produce a work centering around the image of the hand. Stravinsky's music was used for soundtrack. Shutter speed and imagery was applied experimentally.

Gospel singer and preacher Vernon Oxford journeys from his home in Franklin, Tennessee to Belfast on a mission to bring the healing power of Jesus back to Northern Ireland.

Ayumi, a young girl who frequently runs away from home at the slightest opportunity, is once again brought back by her older brother just 20 minutes after her latest escape.

Often regarded as Kondo’s culmination, this is perhaps the most absurd and directionless anthology film produced by the Film Research Club. Its highly original, strangely deadpan tone somewhere between deliberate humor and unintended awkwardness leaves viewers both baffled and oddly compelled to watch it again.

Robert Wilson and the dancer Suzushi Hanayagi bring to life Paul Cezanne’s painting, “La Femme à la Cafetière”.

The film provides an opportunity to get acquainted with Old Belief—a religious movement that has preserved its individuality, strict observance of rituals, and the canons of the ancient faith over the centuries. The film features: Father Ioann Mirolubov, spiritual mentor of the Riga Grebenshchikov community, Metropolitan Alimpiy of Moscow and All Russia, Priest Leonty Ivanovich, and other Old Believers.

The evening of the day dedicated to Saint Blas, patron saint of Paraguay, Thursday, February 2, 1989, seemed peaceful. However, the night brought an event that took almost everyone by surprise. A coup d'état deposed General Alfredo Stroessner, dictator for 35 years, the longest in all of South America. The following morning, citizens took to the streets that, for decades, had been controlled by the police. This is a documentary that shows the events that followed.

The main character, Lê Văn Đó, is poor and ignorant. He is sentenced to 5 years in prison for stealing a pot of pig's porridge to feed his wife and nephew, and his sentence is increased to 20 years for escaping. While in prison, Lê Văn Đó is under the supervision of Phạm Kỳ, a prison guard who always strictly enforces the law. After successfully escaping, Lê Văn Đó meets a Buddhist monk and is influenced by him. Thanks to his diligence and luck, Lê Văn Đó becomes a wealthy landowner, but he also helps the poor. Lý Ánh Nguyệt is the daughter of a scholar. Due to her father's sudden death, she is burdened with debt and has to work as a servant for her creditors, the couple Đỗ Cẩm and his wife, to pay off the debt. Đỗ Cẩm is a greedy and cunning man who will stop at nothing to get money.

On the right, a very dark tree clings to the slope of a hill. At the center stands Saint Anne. She wears her hair in braids, her eyes lowered, smiling. Seated on her knees is the Virgin Mary, dressed in a low-cut, billowing pink gown. She leans toward the Child Jesus, a two- or three-year-old baby. Naked and very curly-haired, he is stepping over a rearing lamb. Behind them, the landscape reveals mountain peaks and glaciers from which roaring waters emerge. Anne seems to envelop Mary; Mary wraps her arms around Jesus, yet he escapes from his mother’s embrace, as if symbolizing a new birth. Painted between 1500 and 1515, The Virgin, the Child Jesus, and Saint Anne accompanied Leonardo da Vinci when he settled in Amboise in 1517 at the invitation of Francis I. The painting never returned to Italy and entered the Louvre in 1801.

Alain Jaubert uncovers the details, interprets the symbols, and analyzes the composition. Why did the painting spark such controversy when it was presented in 1831? Was it the nudity of this armed woman? Or the triumphant people depicted in a realistic staging?

Eden to Southport along the east coast. Great yarns and spectacular footage about the dangerous bars and dramatic boating accidents.

Indian Erotic Movie

Video essay that collects the legacy of the photographer Francesc Català Roca

Three directors – Richard Eyre, Ron Daniels and Yuri Lyubimov – discuss the merits and relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, aided by Orson Welles, Tyron Guthrie, John Barton and Michael Pennington. Performances are provided by Hamlets past and present including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Derek Jacobi, John Barrymore and Sarah Bernhardt.

The view from the living room extends to the facade of a newly born metropolis.

A one-boy monologue about the shape of things in his life circa 1989.

The defeat of the squatters at Marienstrasse in Cologne - Ehrenfeld / Germany is for Michael and Angelika Cording a cry-out about their own failures and the failures of the others.

Have another drink, you don’t know what’s waiting for you outside, advises a FAMU’s cinéma vérité-style report, filmed in the U Kocoura pub in the velvet year of 1989. The pub chanson, sung by Petr Hapka, accompanies the turmoil of overflowing human emotions, from exuberant merriment, to drunken melancholy, to a universe of silence, spilled tables, and empty chairs.

A short on why you need good windows during a zombie attack.

A man who works at the TV station is fired, and decides to get revenge by staging a takeover of the Halloween broadcast.

Film by Jorge Solé.

A portrait of David, a boy diagnosed with autism.

An accident on a gas pipeline near the Chelyabinsk-Ufa railway section leads to a powerful explosion and fire in two passenger trains, Novosibirsk-Adler and Adler-Novosibirsk.

A documentary about the life and culture of the Hungarian Roma.

It's not until you actually sit down and relive those great ELECTRIFYING '80s year by year that the myriad of memories come flooding back. Trying to work out which was the greatest highlight of the decade is the hardest part, but they're all here. The great Grand Finals, the marks of the decade, the bone jarring stoushes and the Brownlow Medals - one by one, year by year, they're all here, making up the ELECTRIFYING '80s.

This 30-minute documentary offers a rare glimpse into the fragile beauty of Alchi Monastery, a remote Buddhist site nestled in the highlands of Ladakh, India. Shot by photographer and filmmaker Jaroslav Poncar, the film documents the endangered state of 11th- to 13th-century wall paintings and architectural details, capturing them just before the site drew broader international attention. With a preservationist eye and a deep reverence for cultural history, Save Alchi stands as both a visual archive and an urgent call for conservation. Music composed by Michael Ranta.

Educational film about different kinds of the gemstones.

First sketch of a new work featuring the movement of objects and devices. From one screen to another, without changing platforms, we change trains or boats. Zazie is no longer on the subway.

Animation for Siggraph 1989