Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

Italian film-maker Tonino De Bernardi meets in rural Liguria an old countrywoman, Agnese, and her chickens.

On the motives of the same name story of Tomazo Landolfi.

A 16mm independent film about the young Irish in London in the 1980s. Made by John Fleming and Mark Stewart. Shot over six days in December 1987. Broadcast RTE in Aug 1989. Screenings: Dublin Film Festival (1988); Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival, Dublin (2009); Los Angeles Irish Film Festival (2009).

Back in 1989, Miss Asia-Pacific was hosted by Hong Kong and where our rep, Lorna Legaspi, won the crown and effectively became the first Filipina

Documentary about the life of an elderly Tatar couple who live in Kruszyniany village in Podlasie. While Islam and the proximity of a mosque are still important to older people, youth are fleeing from the countryside to the city.

This documentary about ritual clowning on the Polynesian island of Rotuma in the South Pacific was produced to accompany Vilsoni Hereniko's dissertation titled 'Polynesian Clowns and Satirical Comedies, ' later revised and published under the title 'Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma.' A social institution that is now very rarely practiced, ritual clowning at traditional Rotuman weddings may appear to the uninitiated to be for the sole purposes of entertainment. This effort to record and document a unique Rotuman tradition, however, suggests that ritual clowning deploys humor for social, cultural, political, and religious purposes that are central to understanding Rotuman history and culture. For a better understanding of the role of ritual clowning and humor on Rotuma, consult not just 'Woven Gods' but Hereniko's feature film 'The Land Has Eyes.

Shot in Burkina Faso, Wassa, which translates “come out and play”in Wolof, is a transcultural music video that unfolds with lush imagery and the evocative music of Moustapha Thiombiano. Jones creates a dreamlike vision, capturing the vibrancy and sensuality of the everyday. This rhythmically textured work is part of his exploration of African diaspora culture through nonverbal storytelling and a transcultural language of sound and image construction — the development of codes based on what Jones terms "emotional progressions and an African sensorium."

A César award winning short documentary about a young boy who sings and plays the drum in the market on the Chilean island of Chiloé.

Short by Maurizio Camerani.

"Deathbirds: birds, e.g. raven, dove as animals of the soul (see soul)"

In the Volyn region, in a monastery of the XVI century, an old people’s home is located. However, mental patients and former criminals also live there.

This puppet animation is set in a time when darkness still reigned when people were still afraid of what lay beyond the stillness of the night. In the evening, a husband leaves the house with a guilty look on his face, and his wife, feeling something, gently sends him off. The wife notices a shadow on the shoji and chases after it, but what she sees are the creatures of the underworld... The house and the townscape are so elaborate and emotional that we forget that they are models. The house and the town are so elaborate and emotionally rich that we forget that they are models, and the dolls, moving with an awkward rhythm, play out the drama of a mysterious and violent woman in a gentle manner.

A sketch of the first summer of the first year of the Heisei era, with episodes surrounding a university student. The film unfolds in a gentle rhythm of independent episodes, such as his interactions with his friends over compulsory reports and job-hunting activities, the beautiful young man he is interested in for some reason, and a visit from his sister. In addition, by placing the characters in the distance, the surrounding space is incorporated into the picture, and the freshness characteristic of early summer is expressed in a natural way. In combination with the unusual character of the protagonist, Sabu, the film depicts his "uneventful" daily life in an unhurried manner, and it is a strange work that draws the viewer in.

In his Video Griots Trilogy, Jenkins creates a series of video meditations on history and culture. Using archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack, he pulls together diverse strands of thought to construct an "other" history. "Self-Divination" speaks poetically about origins and the realities of the African diaspora.

Part of The Videolabel series. Approx Running Time 25 Minutes Stereo-Mono Compatible © 1989 Stakker Communications Ltd.

A certain part of ourselves that we cannot see, represented by the "back of the front", is the key to understanding ourselves. To eat, to excrete, to reproduce... what is the meaning of life? Often, when we lose sight of this, we become ghosts with substance, wandering the streets. A familiar nursery rhyme melody, a door that suddenly appears in a river or in the grass, an Okinawan woman. An anthology of images using experimental techniques such as multiple exposures and elaborate filter work.

An computer animated short film. The humanoid figures were quite cutting-edge for the time.

Documentary showing the social moods related to the construction of a nuclear power plant on Lake Kopań, near Darłowo. The documentary presents the position of members of the Ecological Civic Committee "Vigil" against the initiative and the voices of regional authorities, seeing the construction as an opportunity to develop the community.

Loosely based on the book series by Charles Exbrayat.

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.

Hand-processed 16mm. Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and a political perspective, the film intertwines two main motifs: memories of Roger Jacoby, a filmmaker who died of AIDS, and the development of a mass response to AIDS. The collective response begins with mourning at a candlelight vigil and the deep sadness of the AIDS Quilt and then progresses toward a much more determined reaction by ACT-UP: first, in the Gay Pride March in New York City, then in separate demonstrations that build in militancy -- with a corresponding increasingly heavy-handed response by the police -- culminating in a demonstration during a baseball game and the thumbs-up sign of a teenager sporting a Silence = Death button.

Short film by Raymond Red.

A piano player is trying to find the one and only true note. He finds it.

Franz, Thomas, Nick have been friends since they were young. Now they're thirty. Time when you have to be careful how you evade the seriousness of life.

Film critic and scholar analyzes Jean Renoir's two films "Le Testament du docteur Cordelier" and "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe".

Maik Ude's first movie.

The time has come to life and went backwards, and gained all its losses. All the dead have given their time, all the time of their love and their hatred. The cycle of present has opened. And in the ashes of the burnt lives a new fire flashed, and lit the way for those who went to the beginning of all beginnings. And I have witnessed it.

This documentary goes behind the scenes of the cabaret-themed show Zumanity.

Voguing: The Message traces the roots of this gay, Black and Latino dance form, which appropriates and plays with poses and images from mainstream fashion. Voguing competitions parody fashion shows and rate the contestants on the basis of movement, appearance and costume. This tape is a pre-Madonna primer that raises questions about race, sex and subcultural style.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Eight groups of children from around the world, assisted by adult instructors, animate their interpretation of the question: What does love mean to you?

Live from Lincoln Center: A Classical Jazz Christmas with Wynton Marsalis

Educational film with Mickey’s clubhouse members learning about Halloween safety rules.

This film documents The Mission's 1988 tour of South America, on and off-stage in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.

The game is the same...only the rules have changed.

In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.

Shot in Lithuania, the film is a portrait of the artist’s grandmother. A quiet film, it builds on themes of childhood and old age, with a sense of transition between worlds, revolving around the symbolic window.

Alannah Myles concert at The Diamond Club, Toronto, ON, Canada on October 31, 1989

Egoli is a BAFTA nominated and International award winning animated film directed, animated and art worked by Karen Kelly. The film was inspired by Nelson Mandela and pays tribute to the South Africa gold miners who worked in harsh conditions in the days of apartheid.

Stefan, Sam, Bernd, Volker and Norman are five young people from Berlin whose main occupation is music and to hang-out. When Stefan lands in a mental hospital, he meets Lissy, a singer and diva from the 30s. When the friends Stefan, they take the "grandma" Lizzy with them.

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

"This film was originally intended to set up the projector scratching the film and destroying the image. But, I don't know why the work stored in VHS format." [Jun Kurosawa]

In a water world, two men fight for their childhood love.

1989 computer animation produced by IBM.

Documentary film.

A top administrator in the Federal German armed forces measures the machinery of murder at Auschwitz according to the effiency principle, and deems it a triumph. Militaria dealers market all the components for a do-it-yourself SS officer. The film assembles on, piece by piece, from a price list: the complete Hauptsturmführer for 2,921 Deutschmarks, ready to meet the trains arriving at Auschwitz with the appropriate aluminium lurex armband at 45 Marks.

A visual allegory connecting polynesian mythology with the notorious atom bomb testing.

Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf, a trainee on local private television, uncovers the mystery and takes up the fight against evil