1989 Movies

The bear ushered in a bumper grain harvest year. When it happily spread out pancakes to celebrate, it was harassed by a group of mice. After some purs...

Film with a soundtrack featuring Jyotsna and Santosh Kumar

The three documentaries included on this DVD invite the viewers to recall many of the historical events that had made a major impact on our future twe...

Documenting the process of writing and submitting a song to Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. It follows T...

“Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries. It is chara...

"An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an over...

A uniquely powerful and intimate look at the lives and struggles of a group of homeless people who've been moved into an "urban campground" in Los Ang...

Marina Abramovic collaborated with videomaker Charles Atlas on this striking work of autobiographical performance. Abramovic delivers a monologue that...

A musical saga about Brus-Britta and her suitors.

The fourth film in the Slaughter Day series

In the fall of 1945, former front-line soldier Umar Badalov makes his way into a deserted village. He honestly fulfilled his military duty, now he has...

Found material, old home movies, secretly-filmed images of the Berlin Wall, as well as short, staged passages condense into a claustrophobic film poem...

Personal-essay documentary. Via the New York Times: "[Director Ralph] Arlyck uses film of his family and friends in upstate New York as well as bits f...

Zeynep, a young and idealistic teacher, has economic problems. Zeynep enters a world she doesn't want when she starts giving private lessons to a mafi...

An aging man recounts his experiences as a pilot during the war. – Victorian College of the Arts

Intervalometered cafe scene from 1988. The transient beauty of Paris in Summer captured on so many 8mm frames.

A vivid document of the hard-drinking West Berlin scene of the late eighties, and at the same time one of the last important events before the fall of...