Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

The real story of Monika Ertl, the woman who avengeded Che Guevara.

A bedridden husband and his deranged wife live in a shabby old mountainside house. One day, the bored wife goes out to collect trash. As she passes by a deserted cemetery and ruin, she comes across a mirror and takes it home. The mirror connects the past with the present. The bedridden husband can see the reflection of the yellowed photos on the wall in the mirror, prompting him to reminisce about his past affairs during the Japanese rule. One day, the wife ventures out again and encounters a nightmarish air raid…

Larry & Darrell go to Sunburst Records in Huntsville Alabama, and make a few stops along the way.

An intimate portrait of the film maker's family home located in an apartment above his parent's Chinese restaurant in Saint Catherines, Ontario.

Mirror Mirror depicts an intimate friendship between two gay Chinese-Canadian men in Toronto, Lloyd Wong and Paul Cheung. Over food and intimate conversations they discuss family, identity, culture, friendship, and dating.

"Material that has collected me throughout my life, embedded into the pages of a book, using film as a transferring, alchemical tool. The birds fly, the candle is lit, the eyes open and the powers of pixilation brings active the dead." – P. R.

The Schoolboys Who Cracked the Soviet Secret recreates the story of a British schoolteacher and his students who discovered secrets of the Soviet space program. In the 1960s, Geoffrey Perry at the Kettering Grammar School gave his students used short wave radios for a science project, but the school project had international reach when the group connected with Soviet transmissions.

An examination on helicopter related deaths and accidents in film; from the Twilight Zone: Movie to Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection with interviews from those involved.

Jean Paul returns to Guadeloupe after two years of studies in France. Cecilia, who has stayed in the country, tries to seduce him, but to no avail. She even tries to drug Sarah, her rival.

This video in English tells of Ukraine Christianity since 988 and plight and persecution of martyr Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in soviet era by Russia and visions of hope of Mary in Seredne, Hrushiw, Mother of Jesus, especially post-WWII. Dissident Josyp Terelya provides testimony, insight.

A nocturnal adventure presented in beautiful traditional cel animation.

Laurie Dunphy’s Journalism Conducts a Tour takes as its subject “news” as delivered by television and movie newsreels and the effect on us of the media labyrinth we live in. The short film combines found footage and images filmed off television in a staccato rhythm that assaults the viewer, denying understanding or even entry.

One winter day, a young man named Yutaka, who is haunted by an "inexplicable tiredness", meets a mysterious white woman. One day in winter, he meets a mysterious white woman and lets her rest in his room. He becomes intensely curious about her identity, but she simply tells him her name is "Nana", and her silence and wandering continue. Who is she? A unique drama that uses the emptiness and loneliness that all of us face today as a motif to vividly cut through the fundamental problems of human existence. The director's ability to create tense and suspenseful images is so imposing in scale that it is easy to forget the 8mm frame.

Dr Kido, a superhuman genius with the brain of six Einsteins, is developing an ultra-high capacity information processing system that can process 100 million gigabytes of information at once. Then, one day, an accidental explosion causes Dr Kido to lose all his intelligence and turn into an ape. Then Dr Shishimen, who has been plotting against him for some time, arrives... Suddenly, a meteorite falls to the earth and a dragon emerges from the meteorite and begins to run rampant. This is a nonsensical science comedy that ironically pokes fun at scientific civilization and provokes black laughter.

Report from life at a campsite on Samsø. The campsite is seen as an introduction to Denmark, as a Danish microcosm.

The program starts with a look at Whiteley's studio — a Pandora's Box in which there are clues to his free-ranging talent. He talks of being "born with a gift" and the desire to test and abuse that gift, to enhance it with addiction but ultimately to share it. Whiteley is seen at a huge blank canvas as he makes the first strokes. During the film this work reaches completion. The artist talks of eroticism - the major driving force behind his painting and one of the themes of the film. The landscapes of Byron Bay, Sydney Harbour, Oberon, and Tuscany dissolve between reality and his paintings. The film-makers travel with him and his girlfriend to London where he makes a drawing in a London cab. He then visits the Chamber of Horrors at Madam Tussaud's and talks of his Christie series of paintings. Whiteley's greatest influence is Francis Bacon and in the film he embarks on a major portrait ultimately destined for the Archibald Prize competition.

The film shows Poland regaining independence in 1918 and the formation of the first government of the Republic of Poland.

Mikage is unable to bear a child due to fibroids in her uterus. On the night she breaks up with her lover, she gives herself up to Sakurai, who adores her. Sakurai tells her that he will take Mikage's place as her child, but the next day he turns into a real boy. Mikage is surprised, but she begins to love him like a mother and a sister. At the same time, a news report about the unsettling world situation comes on the radio... The film is a realistic portrayal of a fantasy, with a tightly constructed structure and assured direction that adheres to theory. The ending, which seems to foretell of Japan in the near future, is a heartbreaking coincidence with the title of the film.

A flock of birds flies in and around a temple building and courtyard, joined by human and animal figures running and dancing. This computer-animated short from 1989 has appeared in a number of animation compilations since then, sometimes abbreviated or with an alternate soundtrack. It was notable at the time for the research done on flocking and animal gaits and transitions.

From Tel Aviv, the first Israeli lesbian love story, It's That Age. Daniella is a bratty, confused teen who keeps singing "The Man I Love" to herself; instead of a man, she finds Michal, a 32-year-old sculptress who lives in a seductive, overblown studio apartment. They embark on an intense and moody affair, bound to end in tears - but affecting along the way.

Shoji Tabuchi, his wife, and vivacious emcee, Dorothy Tabuchi, welcome audiences to their brand new theatre in Branson, Missouri with a show that truly has something for everyone! Shoji and Dorothy Tabuchi, and their daughter Christina, are excited to share their love of country music, bluegrass, Cajun, jazz, western swing, and even a bit of Broadway with Branson audiences.

The fourth film in the Dying series

“About ten years ago I produced and hosted a program on Vancouver Co-operative Radio called Soundwalking, in which I took the listener to different locations in and around the city and explored them acoustically. Kits Beach Soundwalk is a compositional extension of this original idea. The recording on which this piece is based was made on a calm winter morning, when the quiet lapping of the water and the tiny sounds of barnacles feeding were audible before an acoustic backdrop of the throbbing city. We explore the world of high frequencies, inner space and dreams.”

Titian’s genius and significance in European art are undisputed. Trained at the Giovanni Bellini workshop and influenced by working together with Giorgione, he came to a masterly use of colour, light and shade. His oeuvre contains everything his times demanded: drama, carnal lust, religious fervour, mythology and portraits. Didier Baussy-Oulianoff takes us to the places where the renaissance artist devised his works and worked for the most influential courts.

Abandoned rooms filled with rhythms created through successions of different exprosures.

Artful History offers an engaging, and unexpectedly frank, look into the business of art restoration, including backroom dealings and restorer shenanigans, such as cutting up paintings and sculptures to make them "better" or removing an element from a painting for one client and then replacing it for another. The word artful in the title of this work does double duty: the video illuminates a largely invisible and unregulated aspect of the art world in which the preservation, restoration, and sale of art can involve nefarious doings, and it reveals the cunningly manipulative power of the pairing of image and text in the cinematic context. Dion and Simon, longtime interlocutors who collaboratively produced this work, share in their individual practices the desire to examine regulatory structures that shape culture and normalize tendencies that would otherwise seem bizarre.

An artistic and historic walk through the gardens and buildings of the Moorish castle called the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.

The adventures of a 12-year-old girl named Sandy and her koala friends, Blinky and Pinky, who are from the extra-dimensional realm of Koalawalla Land.

Bold, upbeat, and powerful, this 28-minute video spotlights eleven suburban women, ranging in age from 25 to 67, who speak easily and frankly about their families, friends, and loves. Out in Suburbia is perfect for raising lesbian issues and consciousness for the first time.

Documentary of the Voyager missions.

A sunny day with little sister, 8mm unfinished film by Toshihiko Omote.

"'Drop' restages Newton's celebrated encounter with the heaviest and most voluptuous fruit of the vegetable kingdom. It tracks the eye's apple from the graceless decline of the primal couple to our own fall into the orbits of applied science. Begun at a crossroads soon abandoned, Drop's anxious recollection services this passage from orchard to orison, reminding us of Toto's immortal quip from 'The Wizard of Oz': the less the firma, the more the terra." (Mike Hoolbom)

Here, a wilderness of lakes, mountains, meadows, forests and rivers has been set aside as a wildlife sanctuary. It is one of the largest such habitats in the world. From grizzlies to moose, watch as the young grow through the seasons.

EYES ABOVE THE CROSSES is a film about Stanislovas Jameikis who was deported in 1941 and overcame a six hundred kilometers long perilous march through Siberia.

Bat Megmel is a girl that lives in the Magical World. One day, while practicing magic, she accidentally unleashes the demon king Atler. She must seal him again.

Hank performs his greatest hits live at the Omni, Atlanta Georgia in 1989. Intercut with concert performances are profiles of Hank relaxing at home in Tennesse and his hunting refuge in Montana.

Plasmo, a three-year-old alien, has his hatchday party gate crashed by the two mercenary bounty hunters Brucho and Coredor.

This ethnographic documentary explores spirit possession in the healing complex of the Tumbuka speaking peoples of northern Malawi. The program focuses on healers called nchimi who employ elements of Christianity and traditional spirit beliefs in the medical practice creating a syncretic form of religious healing. Music and dance are featured in footage of divination trances.

Restricted area in the middle of Lower Austria's Waldviertel region: Allensteig military training area: on the map, a patch mostly shaded in red. The little-known history of this landscape of ruins begins in 1938, when, in the wake of the annexation by Hitler's Germany, the area was declared a military training ground. As a result, more than 40 villages were resettled between 1938 and 1942.

Intervalometered cafe scene from 1988. The transient beauty of Paris in Summer captured on so many 8mm frames.

We are in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic. A glimpse of night life in a cabaret, unrestrained abandonment, escape by jazz. Then suddenly a man carrying a swastika bursts in. And everything changes, a giant hand grabs the beautiful singer - a trav - and drops his wig. Artists, lovers, Jews find themselves in a "salad basket" towards the camps. The camera points to one of them, who is wearing a pink triangle. Animated on dark backgrounds in a style akin to German expressionism, Triangle laments but does not preach, producing a very moving effect in this.

A short film about the actress Black-Eyed Susan

Called by one philosopher "the noblest beast God ever made", dogs have served mankind in more ways than any other animal. In THOSE WONDERFUL DOGS, you'll see loyal canines at work as they searched for buried victims of an earthquake disaster, assist the physically disabled, and pull sleds in the blizzard conditions of Alaska. You'll see how dogs are trained to "act" on Lassie, and the dogs that served as messengers on the battlefields of WW II. Marvel at the tireless determination of these devoted creatures, and applaud the enduring partnership between man and his best friend. If you like dogs, this video is a "must"!

Short Documentary by Manfred O. Jelinski

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film