Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

Old wolf Seromanets is the only surviving member of a pack hunted by humans. A young boy struggles to save the animal life.

A documentary about the life and work of the Icelandic writer Gunnar Gunnarsson.

Yonko is a young man from a provincial town. For the fifth time, he is not accepted into the art academy. His father comes to help. But this can happen at the expense of humiliation. There is a gap between father and son. What kind of artist would Yonko become if he didn't have dignity?

När dä va då! is the first film featuring the comedy duo Stefan & Krister, recorded in 1989. The film consists of a compilation of sketches and the duo's usual performances on stage in front of an audience, featuring their songs and discussions. Directed by Anders Wällhed, who later formed the company Buskafilm together with Stefan and Krister.

An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and industrial footage accompanied by a noisy soundtrack of music and voices from the past, as if echoing the ether of the viewer’s mind. Thornton’s distinctive visual style of collaging random elements elicits an eerie sense of being lost amidst past and present, breeding a confusion that complicates any clear reading of the image.

Short film directed by Johannes Grieser

A comedy that shows the different customs that Mexicans have to face everyday problems. It shows the way to deal with the infidelities of the couple in order to move on.

Se Met Ko is a model fictional analysis of attitudes and misconceptions about AIDS within a Haitian-American neighbourhood. The video uses indigenous cultural references and socially-specific occasions to demonstrate how communities, with individuals acting in enlightened co-operation, can responsibly respond to the AIDS crisis.

A short collage revealing invisible phenomena.

A TV drama originally written by Vaclav Havel.

Theoretician Apostol Sacco writes articles and gives lectures on free love of youth at a time when a major conflict going on in his family.Conflict resolved through sitcom.

Based on French folk tales.

Live at The Stone Balloon, Newark, DE - August 7th, 1989

a cross between impressionist documentary, music video and live-action photo-essay

Mr. and Mrs. Padmo celebrate their 25th anniversary but Mrs. Padmo's jealousy towards her husband's secretary, Ms. Retno, is sparked. The jealousy leads to many misunderstandings.

Time Flies When You're Alive is a gripping one-man show. Paul Linke recounts, in no small detail the highs and lows of his marriage, specifically around his wife's losing struggle with breast cancer. Solemn as the topic is, Linke finds ample opportunity to lighten the mood and even crack honest, respectable jokes. The 79-minute production is well worth the watch!

In a house half devastated by a cataclysm, men and women take inventory of the sonic rubble of their memory during a musical ceremony.

A harried husband is asked by his wife to put the family cat outside. He comes up with a novel solution to the problem.

Written, produced, photographed, directed, and manipulated during performance by Rafael Corkidi, the "video theater" Querida Benita (1989) is a spectacle that breaks with the formats of film and video by situating itself in a sui generis setting (the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts or a small stage in the basement of the El Juglar bookstore in August-October 1989), but it encounters the limitations of the dramatic current that it, moreover, inaugurates. These are the limitations of Mexican socialist unrealism.

Tak Kisahlah Beb is a Malay movie published in 1989. The film was issued in the form of color film. It starred Faizal Hussein, Melissa Saila and many more.

This sci-fi telefeature for kids follows the adventures of runaways Peter (Toby Laing) and Maggie (Toni Driscoll), who meet when Maggie’s attempt to get Picnic bars on a five finger discount go awry and "rich brat" Peter is on the lam on a 10-speed. After falling into a grave of golden light at a farm cemetery, they wake up in the house of the strange Piper family.

With a heavily pregnant empress at the altar, a completely new history begins: the Bishop of Vienna declares the pregnant Sissi and Emperor Franz Joseph to be husband or wife. This is followed by the painless birth of the heir to the throne, his abduction to Hungary and the revelation of an astonishingly momentous love affair between the empress and Ludwig II.

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose of the body himself without alerting anyone else to it, but when the body is discovered by another villager the same cycle begins again, with the body eventually passing through the hands of half of the village.

Roman, a television student, invites his former lover, Lilia, to his apartment. With a small video camera placed at ground level, he will try to record the seduction and the subsequent intercourse. The film, made entirely with a Hi 8 video camera, plays with the viewer's perspective by presenting a set of situations susceptible to different readings.

Short documentary about the effects of climate change on the Arctic.

After an attempted rape at a party goes horribly wrong, a local headbanger is viciously assaulted and crippled by a group of vengeful jocks. Upon his recovery, he utilizes a mysterious book and black magic ritual to harness the evil powers of Satan. After luring his unsuspecting assaulters to the ominous Devil's Playground, he enacts a thoroughly unhinged throat slashing and entrail ripping revenge!

Experimental short film

This film, set to Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) by Jorge Ben, was created to accompany Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics 1, the first in a series of albums compiled by David Byrne to promote the unique music published by Brazilian artists during a repressive period of military rule in the 1970’s-1980’s. The aim was to visually invoke the album’s sensual and lyrical breadth and depth, and to subtly reflect the underlying social and political issues of that time.

Solomon uses chemical and optical treatments to coat the film with a limpid membrane of swimming crystals, coagulating into silver recall, then dissolving.

An exploration of non-violence as the means to achieving social reforms, focusing on the downfall of Pinochet in Chile, the Palestinian Intifada, and Cory Aquino's "people power" revolution in the Philippines.

Police Report is a 1989 Indian Telugu film.

Video art by Vibeke Sorensen made at Calarts in 1989

After the establishment of Soviet rule in Armenia, the Dashnaks stir up a rebellion , which fails...

The film gives home-safety information and tips to children home alone.

A documentary mini-series about sexual maniac Gennady Mikhasevich better known as the Vitebsk Strangler. From 1971 to 1985 he committed 36 murders, 14 innocent people served time in prison because of him, one was sentenced to death.

A tour of the mountains, valleys and cities of this beautiful country. Visit Neuchatel, then shop in elegant Lausanne. The dungeon of the Chateau de Chillon, the city of Geneva and Zermatt's magnificent Matterhorn.

In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from the Hamlet principle in favor of the market economy" was taking place. In this interview, he elaborates on the parallels between the play and contemporary reality in terms of the plot and the characters (for example, Günter Schabowski as well as the problematic role of Fortinbras).

Computer animated short film created to commemorate the National Film Board of Canada's 50th anniversary.

Ken Loach documentary; made for Central Television in 1988, but rejected, and not shown until the following year, when it was taken up by Channel 4. It tells the story of the West Midlands-based Young Foundry theatre group members Stephen Page,Paul Harper, Jimmy Dunn,Chris Dunn, Caroline White and Roy Stokes who act out a series of scenes reflecting their past, unemployment, homelessness and drug abuse that is rife in the local area.

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether acts as erotic retaliation on legislation such as the Supreme Court sodomy ruling — declaring the private bedroom as open target for the State — or the Helms Amendment — the U.S government's refusal to fund explicit AIDS prevention information for gay men, lesbians and IV drug users. An attempt to reclaim eroticism and to address the contradictions of sexuality and romance in the face of a monolithic and culturally compulsory heterosexuality, They Are Lost To Vision altogether finds queer history where it can and invents the rest.

Ramanujacharya is a 1989 Tamil film written and directed by G. V. Iyer. The film is a biographical film on Ramanujacharya.

After her mother and some others are slaughtered, Rani decides to investigate. She's aided by her two friends, Tina and Ika, Tina's policeman father Dewo and plantation owner Guntur, on whose property the massacre took place.

A teen (Yannick Bisson) tries to go for a pro hockey career.

After months of negotiations, U.S. and Russian forces join together to save the tiger. For Jeff Cox, big game animal trainer, it’s a dream come true, but for his long-time girlfriend, Barbara, it’s the end of a perfect fairytale. Jeff’s partner, David Mirschkov returns to the U.S. with unsettling news for Barbara. Jeff will be staying with the tiger project for an indefinite period. Feeling betrayed by Jeff’s unrelenting career, Barbara throws herself into a steamy affair with David. Barbara now has an insatiable desire for love and commitment, but her desperate need for traditional values contrasts with David’s inexhaustible search for utopian idealism. When lovers confront one another with opposing values, ‘Heartstrings’ get tangled in this racy, modern love story.