Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

THIS DRAMATIC EXPOSE FEATURES THE TESTIMONY OF ROGELIO ROXAS WHO RISKED HIS TO REVEAL THE SECRETS OF THE HIDDEN.

A documentary that celebrates the life of Brazilian artist Wilton Braga, one of the first persons in Brazil to be diagnosed with AIDS. We witness the flesh and soul of a man with remarkable strength and resolve in the face of a life-threatening illness; to find life and faith in the face of adversity.

Author Christoph Boekel reconstructs his father's wartime deployment in 1941, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, which at the time included Ukraine.

Shot in winter in a difficult-to-reach mountainous region in north-western Iran, the film depicts the lives of nomadic shepherds who are believed to be descendants of the ancient Kadusian people. Mehranfar focuses a family’s daily life, determined by the care of the animals.

Echoes of War is a 1989 episode from the PBS science series NOVA. World War II may have ended with the atomic bomb, but it was the radar which provided the key to winning the battles leading to Hiroshima. The NOVA team recounts the importance and history of the radar in modern warfare.

"The Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Ming The Merciless, The Joker, Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy, Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price -- all of those special antagonists that we loved to hiss and jeer, have made us cower in our seats, look under the bed at night and carefully close our dark closets... They are all here in this definitive history of the movie villain."

Documentary features Serbian traditions: Baptism, Marriage, Slava, Christmas, Easter and Funerals. Produced in Serbian communities in the United States, Canada and Australia in 1989.

A zoo employee learns about the criminal intentions of his neighbor and her partner. The man follows the couple.

Born in the year 1921, Erich Fried, the son of jewish parents, had to leave his Austrian home in 1938. He emigrated to London and became a writer. He faced the public, both in his readings and in personal discussions. His own fate (he was suffering from cancer) remained in the background. He fought for his idea "The whole world or nothing!"

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.

Chinese anthropological film shot between 1986 and 1989, in the township of Gukou, by Professor Zhuang Kongshao. The film is intended as a representation of the traditional customs observed on one of China's most important folk holidays -- and also doubles as an act of preservation, capturing the last celebrations of a village that would be completely relocated following the construction of a hydroelectric dam in 1990.

This animated short film was produced as part of the bi-centenary of the French Revolution, in 1989. A joyful visual creation inspired by the Caribbean song "give me a tibo..."

A prep school student living alone in Tokyo from Fukushima is suddenly visited by his mother. For some reason, she is wearing a white motorbike helmet. I wonder if she has come alone from Fukushima on her motorbike. When she comes into the room and puts her feet up on the kotatsu, she doesn't take off her helmet, and she is still holding the shopping bag with the leek in it. Her mother refuses to say anything. The mystery deepens and fear creeps up from the depths of the night... A Japanese "cautionary" horror film about what can happen in everyday life.

A pretty gray box rests beside me. Every week since January, it has grown a little heavier. Each week, around the hub initially rattling around in the box, some thirty meters of film came to be wrapped. The box is full now. Here I am with a film (?, I am almost more sensitive to the object).

The title inheritance is a square in Buczacz, bequeathed by an American citizen to Leon Zabielak as a token of gratitude for saving his life during the war.

In the film Warsaw 88-89 we observe the city on the eve of the coming changes, captured on VHS tape. Tomasz Dominik and Piotr Rozbicki capture interesting, distinctive details - an unusual balcony, inscriptions on the walls, beautiful but dilapidated architectural details - from the gray reality of shabby tenement houses, blocks of flats, squalid courtyards. In the background we can observe the political, economic and cultural context of the period: lifestyle, cars, clothes, texts on walls. In the public space the sphere of the sacred mixes with the profane.

Robot figures ride unicycles along the top of an endless maze of walls.

This unique documentary explores the remote Nyeshyang Valley situated on the border of Nepal and Tibet, and the lives of its inhabitants, the Nyeshyangba. Life in Nyeshyang, one of the highest inhabited valleys in the world, is necessarily tough, despite the magical grandeur and awesome beauty of the surrounding Himalayan peaks.

BRAND begins like a child's yawn, a fairy tale with an incredible beginning. Brand blends two themes into a fugue of questions and answers. The first theme is a child's play, illuminated here in the flickering shadows of a kindergarten. The second theme shows the red-hot iron that will mark any offspring.

Made at the height of political censorship in Taiwan, Indigenous Peoples traces the emergence of the Return Our Lands movement in the late 1980s.

A short black-and-white silent film, shot in Cornwall in 1980, but not finished as a print until around 1989. Edited to a more-or-less strict mathematical rhythm in terms of numbers of frames within a shot (with some aberrations) , the film has a skeletal narrative running through it.

An Indian classical dancer fights to keep her art from getting compromised by commercialism. She falls in love with a musician, a man who is blind, and marries him against her parents' wishes.

Third film in the series of the five elements, Fire / Agni also speaks of purification. It represents everything that has a purpose in life: what is consumed and reproduced, which gives warmth and creative energy.

This is the account of the Aboriginal People of Perth on protest to protect the Ancestral First Grandmothers' and Grandfathers' Beliefs of the Sacred Ground of the Waugul at the old Swan Brewery on the Swan River in Perth, W.A.

Scenes of monster truck rallies featuring Bigfoot trucks, as well as information about the trucks and other "monster" vehicles

A tragic love story involving time travel.

Foofur and his friends rival with a woman named Mrs. Amelia Escrow and her pet Chihuahua named Pepe. Foofur with his gang occupies a mansion, in 32 Maple Street, which is also his birthplace. Mrs. Escrow does everything to sell the estate, but fails.

A History of the Luftwaffe containing rare footage from the Eastern Block

Difficult to say what this film is about. I know it is the product of much anger. Anger against TV, the media, cinema, politics, social, economy, history, finally a lot. Above all I wanted to stop making illusions.

The title alone sums up the concerns of this work, which extends the problem of self-representation to two supports; video and film. The monitor can be perceived in its specular dimension and / or in its capacity to open up a new field (not “outside” but “in” or “on the spot”).

A literal/metaphorical "map" of anecdotes, jump cut interviews, incorrect "talking head" shots, and hit-and-miss quotations. The film follows the route of a delivery driver encountering various characters, such as the glaucoma-stricken elderly owner of a bed and breakfast and a doctor's office receptionist who steals drugs for her father, a Hollywood producer.

On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’ tour.

Jean, a young housekeeper, arrives at the home of a new patient, Berthe. One day, Jean finds an old photo of Berthe with a young man who looks like Jean.

Three people deceive each other in different ways.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Car parts found at a garbage dump, old mannequins, clocks and bicycle racks find a new purpose as installations in an exhibition.

An optically printed abstract film taken from the outtakes of an action flick mixed with noise, news broadcasts and hardcore music resulting into a raw collage powerfully evoking Filipino politics and culture.

A lavish home is visited, shutters click, bottoms are exposed, water splashes and a welcome wetness stains an area unquenched for so long. A jacuzzi bubbles to life in a bedroom community that floats to sleep on aqua-filled rubber.

"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]

An intertextual essay retelling the reactionary French Revolution thriller The Scarlet Pimpernel and featuring Percy as an apolitical dandy and his estranged boyfriend Justin, an AIDS activist fighting for the release of treatment drugs. Juxtaposed with interviews with AIDS Action Now members who describe their battle against homophobic governents and profit-hungry pharmaceuticals.