Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

Through a rush of abstract and allegorical connections the film touches on transience and desire, and the silence and concealment surrounding sexuality, love, death, AIDS, and the fear of bereavement.

East/West is a video with two channels of sound, based on the artist’s citizenship interview. It shows a mouth split in half, with one half speaking English and one half speaking Chinese. Occasionally, the two halves come together to create a whole. The half-mouths reflect the artist’s struggle and conflict in reconciling two cultures.

Short film about oriental dancers.

Feature film.

Renzo Kinoshita's animated self-portrait.

A professional decorator shares his secrets for a perfectly trimmed Christmas tree.

Writers, artists, and musicians celebrate the whale.

An hour-long fiction film by Debra Robinson about a ten-year-old coping with her grandmother's death in a midwest town during the 60s

This is a video by recognized Witchcraft authority Raymond Buckland, whose purpose is to straighten out the popular misconceptions about the Wiccan religion. For the approximately 70,000 to 75,000 people in the United States who consider themselves Wiccans or Pagans, this is the only completely factual "how-to" depiction of the rites and practices of their religion in the world.

Using both found footage and her own material, Nina Fonoroff recollects the memory of her father. Constructing and deconstructing a portrait, she weaves family and friends’ remembrances with an inquiry into her own work process. Her searching attitude suggests that with the loss of her father came a question of the role, not of a particular father, but the father figure—a refusal of authority, and an appreciation of her father’s cycles of learning, teaching, learning. As Danny Kaye, playing Hans Christian Andersen, tells a group of children the story of the piece of chalk that saw itself as a the source, not the transmitter of knowledge, one senses Fonoroff’s sorrow at the loss inherent in the film image, and a yearning for the source of the image, not just its projection.

Surf Nicaragua, Administrative Decisions, One Nation, Violent Solutions, The American Way, War Pigs (Black Sabbath cover), Crimes Against Humanity, Ignorance, Victim of Demise, Death Squad

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side the romantic image of her companion walking and stretching under the sun in a landscape and the gritty realism of a methodical garbage picker on the street of New York city, pushing a shopping cart and moving on to the next waste container. Our world view must encompass both realities, the film indicates. Privilege can’t obscure vision.

Two unemployed girlfriends, bored and needing money, decide to break into the local drug dealer's house and rip him off. However, when they get inside they find that he's been murdered. They decide to track down the killers in order to blackmail them, but they find that it's not going to be quite so cut-and-dried as they thought.

A man enters a mysterious city.

1989 Indian Film

Indian Film

The Ohrid icon 'The Annunciation' is electronically transformed into a video image. Images of biblical themes change into modernistic ones - into a cross. There is a line at the beginning of each image, and the spectator's view is outside the line, allowing him to follow the transformation of the sign, image, world.

Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

This engrossing hourlong video tags along with British goth rockers the Mission during the second half of 1989 as the band records its "Carved in Sand" album, tours Scotland and toplines the Reading Festival. Performance footage includes the tracks "Deliverance," "Butterfly on a Wheel," "Hungry as the Hunter," "Grapes of Wrath," "Tower of Strength," "Into the Blue," "Paradise Will Shine Like the Moon" and more.

Film starring iran Kumar, Mallika Sarabhai, Rita Bhaduri

Recorded live at the Fulham Greyhound in London, England, United Kingdom in 1989.

Director Greg Stitt's 50min short sees actor Mark Hadlow playing Kevin: a pie cart worker obsessed with the singer Mario Lanza. Kevin's idolatry turns into an identity crisis as operatic-scale fantasising clashes with his meek disposition. Further complications arise from a friendship with his brash punk neighbour, and from stage fright ahead of a fundraiser for Kev's Lanza fan club.

A lone eagle guides us towards a secluded canyon where two gunfighters silently face-off, each waiting for an opening.

Live At Technoclub, Belief Tour 1989

01. The Last Act Of Defiance (1:53) 02. Fabulous Disaster (6:00) 03. Corruption (11:05) 04. Chemi-Kill (16:47)