Cinematic Era: 1989 Vintage

Experimental short directed by Mario Valentin

The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.

Documentary about Tristan Da Cunha, one of the world's most isolated islands, with a population of only 300 people. Its only contact with the outside world at the time was a once a year mail boat. US producer, John Hemingway travelled to the island on that boat and spent two weeks on the island. The film is a record of his journey and his experiences during his stay.

A fantastic story of an ordinary Soviet citizen, not the smartest drinker, whom aliens have chosen as the object for their experiment. They intended to change the brain of an earthling, to improve his intellectual abilities, so that life on our planet became more civilized. But the consequences of the experiment turned out to be so unpredictable that the aliens from outer space even had to turn back the time and cancel their far-reaching plans.

Handle With Care European Tour '89 is a live video released by Nuclear Assault in 1990. The video is a recording of a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England on October 4, 1989. Set List: 01. F# (Wake Up) 02. When Freedom Dies 03. Rise From The Ashes 04. Brainwashed 05. F# 06. New Song 07. Critical Mass 08. Game Over 09. Nightmares 10. Buttfuck 11. Fight To Be Free 12. Survive 13. Torture Tactics 14. Trail Of Tears 15. Mothers Day 16. My America 17. Hang The Pope 18. Lesbians 19. Emergency 20. Funky Noise 21. Good Times Bad Times 22. Technology 23. Equal Rights

Gothic horror film set in London and sold as a sequel to the film "The Antichrist" from 1974

This film, which includes archival footage and interviews with convicted killer James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King III and former police officers, looks back at Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968 and lingering conspiracy theories.

This movie is about sheer coincidences. We follow a young man who is running. Then we introduce a girl also in a hurry. Are these two going to meet each other? Than we find out that there is a third person, another young man, waiting for someone. Who will meet with whom, and what surprises await us at the end? Furious editing rhythm builds up, until an audiovisual crescendo shows us what it's all about!

TV drama written by Milan Begović that tells about the pathological jealousy between a man and a woman.

It is a fairy tale about kind and responsive boy who won cruel Dav.

The legend about Jurat and Kastytis. It was a long time ago, even when the most important among the gods was the god Perkunas, and the goddess Jurate lived at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in an amber castle. In a small village on the seashore lived a handsome and strong fisherman, Kastytis. Once he caught fish of the royal kingdom with his nets. Jurate sent her mermaids to warn Kastytis not to muddy the Baltic waters and not to frighten the fish...

A folktale of the Zhuang nationality of Guangxi province about the daughter of the King of Feathers wedding night.

Summary of VHS tapes filmed by Raimo Mikkola from the production of Jouko Turkka's TV series Seitsemän veljestä.

Three families in Germany - three reactions to the fear of nuclear war. The family of market researcher B. emigrates to Australia. The second family trusts the small nuclear bunker in the garden. The third is involved in a peace initiative.

Crime / drama movie

Video poem about New Hampshire and its foliage in Autumn

Apocalyptic experimental film incorporating found footage, including from the 1962 educational film of the same name.

The 1981 murder trial of Alwyn Peter made Australian legal history when his defence lawyer successfully argued that charges of murder and manslaughter were inappropriate for dispossessed, semi-tribal Aborigines.

Round 3 of the 1989 World Rally Championship took place over the combined gravel and asphalt stages in Portugal. Joint championship leader and reigning world champion, Miki Biasion again led the Italian marque's entry. Able support came from Portuguese specialist, Markku Alen, and the dynamic Frenchman Didier Auriol. Alex Fiorio was also entered in an Integrale. The other joint leader, Ingvar Carlsson was absent, Mazda electing to give the event a miss after a disastrous Monte Carlo. Toyota were out in force and had three GTA's for Kankkunen, Waldegaard, and Sainz. Enjoy watching the cars 'yumping' almost at head height - without putting life and limb at the risk to the same extent as the Portuguese spectators.

Short film by Max Müller.

A young woman in her home begins to bake a cake, but finds that she doesn’t have any vanilla essence. Never having stepped outside her house before, she decides to go out to find some vanilla essence, and she finds the external world strange but also surprisingly rewarding.

The owner of the crate is murdered and the three murderers take his two babies. When grown up, the children find out the truth and they in turn defeat their father’s murderers.

Educational short

Short directed by Frank Titze and Uwe Steeb

A travel video about the sights and locales of east Asia.

A man becomes obsessed with ocular nightmares.

The zither and me.

A documentary programme about jewish refugees who settled in Iceland in the 1930's.

Short art film with animations starting with a rhinoceros

A New York dentist moves to a small town where she meets Sue, an undertaker and, after a very tentative beginning, they start a relationship.

An itinerant drummer boy is visited in his sleep by a beautiful princess. She requests his help in escaping from an evil witch who has entrapped her on the glass mountain. He sets out to find the mountain and is helped on his way by a rather pathetic old giant and a magic butterfly who lends him a pair of wings. Finally, he arrives at his destination and the witch sets him to work on three impossible tasks... The Drummer was one of the winning entries in 'The Magic Mirror' competition to find new animators for children's stories. The main condition was that the stories had to be adapted from existing fairy or folk tales. The series was sponsored by Kelloggs and the series producer was Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions. Shown on ITV, world wide TV, video and at international animation festivals.

The forest is used here as a metaphor to explore the tenuous relationship between nature and culture. Through text and personal commentary this work also raises the issue of the complexity of human relationships.

"blind spot: term for a currently not reachable or visible space."

The port of Maputo in Mozambique is a natural outlet for goods and products from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The railway line that links these countries was built to decrease their reliance on South Africa's transportation system. Though first destroyed by the Rhodesian army and since then under constant attack from the Renamo rebels, attempts are now being made to reconstruct the Limpopo line.

Short film about the question: Why are oranges orange?

Like a mantra, performer Gabi Stötzer repeats the question that gives the piece its title, which becomes increasingly unnerving. With her body paint, she opens up a wide field of associations ranging from loss and grief to activist determination.

Somewhere in an unknown land of turtles, an old turtle wants to see the world. After hearing a cancan record she wants to dance and decides to take a ship to Europe - to Paris. Once there, she learns how to do the cancan, wears sequinned dresses, stiletto-heeled shoes and net stockings. She loses these wonderful things on her journey home but she still has her memories and the zest for life.

The desperate fight between police and an international gold smuggling group.

An upbeat, ironic look at America's multicultural society, Color Schemes uses the metaphor of "color wash" to tackle conceptions of racial assimilation. Challenging stereotypes, twelve writer/performers collaborate on four performance sequences—soak, wash, rinse and extract. Spinning through this tumble- jumble of America's washload, the performers scheme to claim racial images that remain color vivid. Color Schemes was also exhibited in its installation form (with a self-service washing machine) at the Whitney Museum in 1990.

An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his inebriation, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space, which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.

Scenes of a big city follow one another and turn into alienated settings using grafitti painting and rap music.

An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Saltykov-Shchedrin.

Berlin scenery, intercut with scenes of Broodthaers smoking, reading, eating and daydreaming.

A Documentary about the Making of Peter Brook's "Mahabharata".

A documentary film about the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize in 1955 for "... renewing the Icelandic tradition of saga-literature and the Icelandic language". The film gives a portrait of this great writer who was very much disliked as a young artist, when he was describing the situation in Iceland between the first and the second world wars. To date, he has written over 70 books, novels, essays, plays and memories which have been translated into more than 50 languages.