Songlines is a video released by the German band Alphaville in 1990, created during the production of Alphaville's 1989 album The Breathtaking Blue

The Breathtaking Blue

The Breathtaking Blue is the third album released by the German band Alphaville in 1989. A companion video, Songlines was released in 1990. The Compact Disc release of this album was one of the first commercial CD+G format discs...

. Nine acclaimed directors (or directing teams) were given a different track from The Breathtaking Blue and asked to make a short movie inspired by the song (the tenth track, "Anyway", is played over the closing credits).

Christoph

Christoph Lauenstein

Christoph Lauenstein is a German Producer and animator.Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Kassel, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Wolfgang, created the animated short film Balance. It received an Academy Award in the animated...

 & Wolfgang Lauenstein

Wolfgang Lauenstein

Wolfgang Lauenstein is a German film producer and animator.Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Christoph, created the animated short film Balance. It received an Academy Award in the...

's video for "Middle of the Riddle" was later
retitled Balance

Balance (animation)

Balance is a German animated film, released in 1989. It was directed and produced by twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein.The film depicts five individuals living on a small platform floating in space. Whenever one of them moves, the others must do so as well to ensure that the...

and won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Academy Award for Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....

 (albeit with different music).

Track listing

1. "For a Million" - 9:21 (directed by Alexander Kaidanovsky, U.S.S.R.)
2. "Romeos
   Romeos
   Romeos is the first single from Alphaville's 1989 album The Breathtaking Blue. It was released a month ahead of the album, and was the first single by Alphaville to be released as a CD single, previous singles having preceded the format's rise in popularity.-Reviews:Graeme Kay praised singer &...
   
   " - 4:58 (directed by Ian Pringle, Australia)
3. "Middle of the Riddle" - 5:00 (directed by Christoph
   Christoph Lauenstein
   Christoph Lauenstein is a German Producer and animator.Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Kassel, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Wolfgang, created the animated short film Balance. It received an Academy Award in the animated...
   
    & Wolfgang Lauenstein
   Wolfgang Lauenstein
   Wolfgang Lauenstein is a German film producer and animator.Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Christoph, created the animated short film Balance. It received an Academy Award in the...
   
   , F.R.G.)
4. "Heaven or Hell" - 3:38 (directed by Slobodan Pesic, Yugoslavia)
5. "Ariana" - 3:49 (directed by Ricky Echolette & Olaf Bessenbacher, West Berlin)
6. "She Fades Away" - 5:02 (directed by Mao Kawaguchi, Japan)
7. "Summer Rain" - 4:14 (directed by Susanne Bier
   Susanne Bier
   Susanne Bier is a Danish film director best known for her feature films Brothers, After the Wedding and the Academy-Award-winning In a Better World.-Life and work:Susanne Bier was born to Jewish parents in Copenhagen, Denmark...
   
   , Denmark)
8. "Mysteries of Love" - 5:02 (directed by Alex Proyas
   Alex Proyas
   Alexander "Alex" Proyas is a Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing such films as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He is known for employing a stylish photographic techniques in his films, with dark overtones usually in a post-apocalyptic...
   
   , Australia)
9. "Patricia's Park" - 4:19 (directed by Godfrey Reggio
   Godfrey Reggio
   Godfrey Reggio is an American director of experimental documentary films.-Life:Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Reggio co-founded La Clinica de la Gente, a facility that provided medical care to 12,000 community members in Santa Fe, and La Gente, a community-organizing project in...
   
   , U.S.A)
10. "Anyway" - 2:56