Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

A promotional VHS starring Keiko Hirota.

An old dollar bill tells his story to young coins about his humorous and harrowing travels since his birth at the U.S. Mint. Animated film

Short animated drama in narrative montage with real life moving image to convey a man escaping into his seductive television. Focusing on the human condition in relation to modern consumption and explores themes such as consumerism and escapism.

Body Wars takes you on a quick tour through the human body to pick up Dr. Cynthia Lair, who is investigating white cell response time to a splinter penetration. She gets sucked down a capillary and you go chasing after her, with your power steadily draining all the while.

“This is an official country of battles, officials, monuments, parades; a country that functions throughout the years, the centuries, and on the other hand, a country that functions day by day. It’s the story of a taxi driver who goes out in Lima in the morning thinking: “Today, how the hell will it end up?” and he does it every day. The guy wakes up in the morning and while he shaves, looking at himself in the mirror, he talks to God and asks him for a couple of fares to the airport; God grants him the fares and everything falls into place in a ritualistic way. I mean, the man eats, gets drunk, vomits, makes love, fills the car with flowers, they paint the car white…”*

On 14 May 1989, the Far Eastern Textile Industrial Union passed a resolution in favour of strike action. However, the Hsinchu County government and police authorities actively helped the employers in breaking the strike action. This film documents the 17-day desperate protest lasting until the employers announced a full return to work, finally concluding the battle.

About the life of Archpriest Avvakum - one of the main characters of the cruel historical drama of the 17th century, which received the title "The Schism". With a possible measure of authenticity, the background of an era of political and social upheavals is recreated, which largely influenced the course of Russian history. The biography of Archpriest Avvakum is reconstructed based on his work "The Life of Archpriest Avvakum." Filming took place in locations historically associated with his name.

A JPL retrospective of the Voyager I and II "Grand Tour" of the outer planets, including many of James Blinn's famous CG flyby simulations.

Short film.

A short film made from the documentation of the Zuni Icosahedron performance October/Decameron (1988), with music composed by the pop group Tat Ming Pair. The title of the song, Forbidden Colours 禁色, alludes to homosexuality and other socially taboo relationships. The artist uses the limited video equipment available to them (video-8 camera, television and Betamax player), to experiment with the video signal.

Holy Week in the community of Porcón de Cajamarca is one of the manifestations that reflect the religious syncretism and magic inherent to the Andean being.

Three cards in hand, gold on the table—we are in the middle of a game of prime, a precursor to poker. Eight gold coins lie before the female player, about a dozen before the young man: the stakes are very high. This painting depicts three card players and a servant; their mouths are closed, their gestures and gazes suspended. The cheat looks directly at the viewer, an ace of diamonds hidden in his belt—his face alone is fully illuminated. His diamond cards suggest money and sexual commerce, while those of his opponent, spades, evoke misfortune and a struggle against fate. In La Tour’s time, several edicts were issued against dice cheats and swindlers. This painting, like The Fortune Teller, illustrates a saying common at the time: “Love, wine, and gambling have ruined more than one man.”

The primary characteristic of Vermeer’s work is the assimilation of his perspective to a photographic vision. Everything suggests that he made use of the camera obscura to establish the main outlines and perspectives of his paintings, but the use of this precursor to the photographic camera is only one aspect of Vermeer’s art.

A classic Australian adventure film that shows Aboriginal tribal life in Arnhem Land and an incredible journey through the Gulf of Carpentaria and up Cape York

This film is an intimate and caring look at the Yiu Mien, Southeast Asian refugees who originally settled in the Pacific Northwest. Through the words of the elders and rare archival footage of the Mien in their mountain homeland, their culture is brought to light. Moving Mountains vividly portrays the complex realities of adapting to American life with its shopping malls, freeways, and apartment living.

Shattered Dreams is a powerful and emotional exploration of the experiences of a family forced to deal with the tragedy of schizophrenia in a loved one; not once, but twice. The Martini family of Calgary lived through the turmoil of losing their youngest son Ben to schizophrenia and eventually suicide, only to discover six years later that a second son, Liv, has developed the disease. Clem Martini, a third brother, narrates the film, sharing with us his family's journey through a world of confusion, guilt, loss and ultimately, hope.

A Saint Rosalia in an Italian ghetto in New York. Staged sequences and private Super 8 footage left to the filmmaker by her grandfather, who emigrated from Sicily to the USA, come together to form an experimental reconstruction of a crossing.

In the fall of 1806, Friedrich Hölderlin was admitted to a clinic in Tübingen at the request of his mother and his former best friend. The film deals with two later drafts from the Homburg Folio, the poet's last draft notebook.

A gathering of modern tribes: headbangers at a metal concert, black cliques, and a stoic Native American. It culminates in an invocation of the greats: Eddie Cochran, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Swan, and so on. "Blue Suede Shoes" is transatlantic culture in a nutshell.

Portrait of street musician Thomas Böge.

A visual attempt to respond to a common human behavior: staring.

The filmmaker documents both public-facing aspects of his life as an artist and more personal details about marriage and fatherhood in this long-form diary film.

SUCKDOG Live At E.P.E. (Paris-France)

Commercial film for the Tallinn Department Store (Tallinna Kaubamaja) from 1989.

Retells the Japanese fairy tale about an artistic boy whose obsession with drawing cats leads him to a mysterious experience. Uses cel-animated characters and airbrushed backgrounds

The TISM Television Primer is the first VHS release by TISM (This Is Serious Mum). It features music videos, clips from TISM live at the Old Greek Theatre in Melbourne on 21 October 1988, and TISM's appearances on Hey! Hey! It's Saturday and The Factory on ABC.

Shoddy and Poor is the second VHS release by TISM (This Is Serious Mum). A "cheaply made home video" of TISM live at The Palace in Melbourne, 21 September 1988

Two young women from humble backgrounds are hired as domestic servants in a mansion, where an eccentric and despotic lady lives and educates them. Everything changes with the arrival of a strange man at the house.

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks along the white line painted on the football pitch.

Filmmaker Jeff Titon writes... "Albert 'Hap' Collins was a terrific storyteller, and when I showed some of his stories to my friends they really enjoyed them. It was during that first session that I found out Albert was a poet too. I had known him off and on for about eight years, mostly as a fellow fiddler, but I'd never realized he was a poet.

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Rachel Amado Bortnick takes the viewer on a fascinating journey exploring her Sephardic roots, recalling the rich, vanishing world of Sephardic culture and the endangered Ladino language.

Filmed at the Whisky A Go-Go, Los Angeles, Dec. 14, 1989. Setlist: "Shakedown", "She's No Angel", "Man With No Eyes", "All Night With The Lights On", "Not Fakin' It", "Tragedy", "Malibu Beach Nightmare", "Dead, Jail Or Rock 'N' Roll", "Taxi Driver", A Medley Of Little Richard Songs: Hey Hey Hey Hey, Rip It Up, Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti, Lucille, Ooh! My Soul, Long Tall Sally"

While waiting for their train, passengers at railway stations across Moscow discuss their broken dreams and modern realities.

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

How weird is weird? See for yourself. Join Hurricane Martha on this bawdy romp through Europe's Capital of Raunch. See Amazing Astrid showing her Queen-sized pierced nipples. Not for the faint-hearted. See tattoo museum, sex museum, clubs.

Collectivization was a tragedy experienced by the peasantry, comparable only to the conquest of Rus by the Tatar-Mongols in terms of its cruelty and the drama it wrought on human lives. As a result of the Bolsheviks' aggressive onslaught, traditional peasant culture, which was entirely based on the relationship between man and the land, was destroyed.

In Satipo, in the jungle region of Junín, live the Asháninka, an ancestral ethnic group of the Upper Amazon. Surrounded by the encroaching civilization of the white man, they are living the final days of their original culture, which is rooted in harmony with nature.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

Eye to Eye takes a look at the development in the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and sketches his life up to his last few turbulent months. In the documentary, Mapplethorpe’s long-time lover Jack Walls talks about his ideas and motivation in creating his work. Mapplethorpe's work became controversial in the United States because of their explicit homosexuality, which led to them being deemed pornographic.

A special episode from the tv series "Welcome to Pooh Corner" featuring child actors, which was previously unseen in the show.

An unfinished short film that, at the dawn of contemporary Guatemalan cinema, offered a raw look at the circumstances of marginalized urban youth.

Portraits of women activists in the Philippines and their role in the national democratic movement. Portraits of women women activists from all sectors of Philippine society in the movement to overthrow the Marcos dictatorship in the 1980’s. Women farmers, workers, students, mothers, and revolutionaries of the New People’s Army join forces in the people power uprising that ousts the US-backed President Marcos. We meet beauty queen Nelia Sancho, Sister Mary John Mananzan, head of a private Catholic college, Concha Araneta, guerrilla commander and daughter of a prominent landowning family; Alicia Barros, mother of fallen student leader Lorena Barros, and many more, in this inspiring documentary that introduces some of the heroines of the national democratic movement in the Philippines.

A slapstick OVA featuring super deformed members of the Shinsengumi members.

"MAHIRAP" IS A POWERFUL DRAMA THAT DARES TO PROBE THE DEPTHS OF A WOMAN'S HEART, BODY AND. LOVE IS AN ALL-CONSUMING PASSION, TWO YOUNG LOVE STRUCK WOMAN REALIZE.

Documentary on various jazz musicians, still playing today (1989), who made their names in New York City. Focuses particularly on Scottish baritone sax player joe Temperley who moved to New York in 1965 and played with some of the greats.

The trials and tribulations of Billy Mitchell and his unstable family.

The last days in the life of an old, ill man who is being looked after by a young man.

A Mowelfund experimental short film. A woman runs from something in an entranced dream state.

Ten of the most dangerous and disruptive men in the prison system have been brought together in an experimental unit at Hull Jail. A new softly-softly regime is being tested on inmates like Fred Low, who is serving three life sentences - one for killing a fellow prisoner - and Patrick Mackay, serving five life sentences for manslaughter and robbery. 40 Minutes gained access to the unit as the prisoners started to reveal themselves to the hand-picked staff, and as conflicts began. The most serious clash was over the only woman working full time in the unit, and it involved David McAllister, serving 19 years for armed robbery and assault, who later escaped from the unit and was on the run for five days. This film tells the story of the most controversial unit in our prisons.

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.