1989 Movies

Marks another stage of work which I called “distributed narrative”. In this a strand of thought, an idea or a story, and related or unrelated material...

The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary j...

A statement directed at the limbic mind about secondary forms of communication developed over time to compensate for the cultural denial of primary si...

About Ivan Selivanov - an artist, a representative of "naive art" from the Kuzbass. Director Mikhail Litvyakov met Ivan Selivanov in 1968. Since then,...

“Abigail Child’s series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? is one of the most assured and important projects to have emerged over the last decade. Constr...

Through a rush of abstract and allegorical connections the film touches on transience and desire, and the silence and concealment surrounding sexualit...

An urban fairy tale in which three characters negotiate a space where myth and reality constantly collide. Syed uses the character of The Lady of Shal...

An innovative animation touching on a series of interlinked concerns around issues of intensive farming, animal slaughter, famine, the Food Mountains...

Tracks uses the character of a struggling female teacher in order to connect areas of pre-feminism such as the suffragette movement, contraception and...

Encounter Belfast's very own manic street preachers in this powerful documentary.

Gospel singer and preacher Vernon Oxford journeys from his home in Franklin, Tennessee to Belfast on a mission to bring the healing power of Jesus bac...

"If a body meet a body, comin' through the rye. If a body kiss a body, make a body cry"-- From an old folk song, "Comin' Through the Rye." This painte...

A journey that begins in a Kansas City hotel and ends up in New Mexico. The bumpy ride is fuelled with libidinous juices as it lurches through college...

Pipeline workers at the end of 1989. Daily life seems as ever to be determined by the rhythm of work, and the time spent in the workers' cabins. The c...

A film after Oskar Schlemmer’s dances.

A few former pupils of primary school teacher Aishi-Aly meet again for a party on the top of the sacred mountain that dominates their village. But wha...

Out of the blue, harmless citizens suddenly fall upon their fellow men and brutally slaughter them. The authorities are puzzled. Only Fritjoff Dumpf,...

For a long time the KMT government has held a monopoly over Taiwan’s TV channels, using the lack of channel bandwidth as an excuse for its stranglehol...

Three commentators sit in a news studio in front of a TV discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre as reported by local and foreign media. This film ai...

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 E...