Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

3D animation.

The Architect of Louxor is an intimate portrait of Olivier Sednaoui, a disciple of the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathi, as he explains the philosophy behind his decision to build a house using traditional techniques and local resources, linking the ancient to the modern and ‘the infinitely small to the infinitely grand’.

A singular and poetic evocation of what Alexandria was, a multifaceted city, when it was at the heart of the Arab and European worlds. The men of letters Cavafy and Lawrence Durell are evoked by a few quotes describing the city, scattered throughout the film. The mixture of cultures and languages is the very essence of Alexandria, its inhabitants testify to the memory of a lush and harmonious cosmopolitan city, under the eye of the director's camera...

Depicts the moral values of Rio de Janeiro's middle class in the 1950s as Lurdinha and Marcos fall in love at first sight, but her parents don't approve of the boy because his parents are divorced. They are very conservative and try to keep the young couple apart at any cost. Unable to defend her love for Marcos, she keeps her love affair a secret.

This film shows three different methods for catching herrings which Icelanders have used in the past century. The use of the nets is illustrated with animated graphics and then matched with live action on board. Live footage is shot off the south and east coast of Iceland.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

Kontra Bandido is a 1986 Filipino action comedy film co-written and directed by J. Erastheo Navoa and starring Ramon Zamora, Rey Malonzo, Paquito Diaz, Bernardo Bernardo, Janice Jurado, Lito Pastrana, Max Alvarado, Arlene Muhlach, and Niño Muhlach.

Computer animation / live action short. In a boy's room, his toys come to live to combat the giant ape on his TV.

Amoroso takes up the question of memory concomitant with the filmed diary. A memory of Rome, a memory of Tivoli but also a memory of Kenneth Anger's Tivoli, this sequence could be a tribute or a snub.

Isusumpa mo ang araw nang isilang ka: Directed by Nilo Saez. With Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr., Ramon Revilla, George Estregan, Rez Cortez.

The unsimulated sex scene between Mark Joseph and Cherrie Madrigal is included in the sex documentary 'Orgasma 2009

Dreams, memories and death are imaginatively treated in a compelling barrage of visual and aural imagery as a young gay man sits at the bedside of his dying father.

All the goals from the 1986 world cup

Short film.

A young girl, Grace, bemoans her plain looks

A critical mission will be given to Daniel, to subdue the rebel Commander Rosas. But will he pursue the mission when he finds out that he is his father?

Lillie Santangelo had for most of the 20th century owned and operated a wax museum at New York's Coney Island. She leads us on a final tour, just before her museum is closed and her wax figures and exhibits are auctioned off. Old age and declining attendance have forced her to close and sell everything. This film deals with the loss of her "friends" (the wax figures), she has known for so long. She reminisces about her years as a Coney Island fixture as she visits the ocean boardwalk one last time.

Lillie Santangelo had for most of the 20th century owned and operated a wax museum at New York's Coney Island. She leads us on a final tour, just before her museum is closed and her wax figures and exhibits are auctioned off. Old age and declining attendance have forced her to close and sell everything. This film deals with the loss of her "friends" (the wax figures), she has known for so long. She reminisces about her years as a Coney Island fixture as she visits the ocean boardwalk one last time.

Since Mada has a good looking and a polite manner, no one realises that he is a member of a criminal gang. He also has a girlfriend, Puji, whom he wants to build a good family with, and to live without money from robbery. Puji advises him to quit from crime and to build a future with his savings. But Mada continues his crimes and even robs a gold store. He marries Puji, and runs away with the loot. Then he establishes a small business by selling cigarettes and gado-gado (an Indonesian salad). The other gang members look for him and force him to rejoin the outfit. Mada refuses so Puji is kidnapped. Mada and Puji manage to fight them but in the end, they are arrested by the police.

Noam Chomsky, the extremely influential dissident, linguist, and media critic behind such works as Manufacturing Consent and What We Say Goes. In this Paper Tiger classic he deconstructs several New York Times articles by historians Bernard Wertzman and Thomas Friedman in order to examine the foreign policy of the United States in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Chomsky examines how these articles skew the facts through “suppression” or “framing” in order to recreate history to meet the needs of current U.S. foreign policy.

An individual finds that the world that intrudes upon his personal life cannot be escaped, and he turns to the next generation.

The Motherland is an ironic parable of Downey's native Chile. Returning to Santiago, he finds a society in the grips of the military dictatorship of General August Pinochet. In a scenario that suggests the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Downey visits the suburban house of his youth and stages a surreal re-enactment of the Motherland "giving birth" to a duck, while the crucified Prophet looks on. This overtly symbolic scene is intercut with the spectacle of General Pinochet and his troops in full regalia. In an unsparing indictment of the economic and political reality of the dictatorship, The Motherland offers the Prophet as a sacrifice to the goose-stepping ranks of Pinochet's junta. This savage allegory, in which church and state conspire to oppress society and the individual, merges the subjective and the cultural, the autobiographical and the political.

A short film based on motifs from Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš' book "Es stastu savai sievai" (I Tell My Wife).

"Trzy młyny" is a television series based on the stories of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz "Młyn nad Utrata" (1936), "Młyn nad Lutyniu" (1946) and "Młyn nad Kamienna" (1950). The action of the miniseries takes place from 1928 to the 1950s.

The car skids and rolls to the bottom of a mountain gorge. The driver, a young man, survived and did not even suffer any injuries. It's just that the wreckage of the car became a prison for him. Establishing contact with people crossing the nearby road also turns out to be impossible. The unfortunate driver begins to closely observe nature, which initially disturbs him, but later the world of plants and animals becomes close to him. Finding a sense of connection with nature, he can overcome a difficult situation and get out of oppression.

Tadeusz reminisces about his childhood, when he met his current wife.

It follows a group of women working in maquiladoras on the U.S.-Mexico border; their testimonies tell the story of their working conditions.

Short by Vera Neubauer.

Experimental video by Sven Harding.

Based on a short story by James Reil, this sensitive animation film evokes the flavour of days gone by and pays tender tribute to those who farmed the Prairies in the 1920s. With a few deft strokes, the film portrays the hardships these people had to endure in their struggle for survival. The film's focus is on the life of one family whose autumn harvesting days are coloured by the death of a neighbour during childbirth.

Michael Brynntrup takes the biblical prohibition of images literally...

Encouraged to talk about what they watch on television, workers at the Santana Mill give their testimonies on the subject. One interviewee emphasizes the importance of being filmed and seeing herself on the screen. The opening of Globo's telenovela Selva de Pedra is repeated several times and some scenes from the plot are shown. Other scenes from Globo: Jornal Nacional, the American series Duro na Queda, and the opening of Fantástico. Man uses tractor battery to turn on TV. In the end credits, the director comes on stage and records her image handling pictures of the interviewees. The credits are presented "inside" a TV set. A TV set "planting" on the floor turns on the opening of the soap opera.

Peter Wollen gives a critical analysis of "People" and "Scientific American." Wollen is a British filmmaker and theorist.

The Korean Trilogy consists of Lung, Feng Huang and Stone Lion. Work on the three animations started in 1984, after Robert Darroll returned to Europe from Korea, where he had been studying Asian Philosophy at the Song Kwang Sa. Obviously the works were strongly influenced by ideas, motifs and experiences relating to Korean culture. Production support: Katrin Magnitz

In short sequences of images pointedly set to music by Louis Armstrong, the film follows the pleasurable triumph of young life over the obstacles of setting out into the world. As short as the film is and as curious its contents, the chequered story of its working and release titles is just as interesting. In 1987, the industry magazine “Film und Fernsehen” presented it simply as “A DEFA film by”. The text printed there ends with a sentence in brackets: (And many a viewer may marvel at the courage of the little ducklings and feel encouraged themselves.)

a space alien struggles to ingratiate himself among humans without blowing his cover

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

Featuring interviews with five young career people who have disabilities, director Sharon Greytak questions the general public's attitudes toward physical disability and our perceptions of the disabled as somehow either weaker or more courageous than the non-disabled.

A short documentary based on the book "A Bedouin Physician".

This early Chinese ethnographic film documents festivals of the Yiche people of the Hani ethnic group -- their folklore and cultural phenomena, such as reproductive worship dance; their collective socializing on festival nights and marriage customs; and the "haruzhe," which has both characteristics of blood sacrifice and prayer, a ritual to offering for a good harvest. The directorial debut of documentarian Hao Yuejun, the film uses the language of documentary but with a specifically ethnographic focus on history and customs, and is recognized as an important historical work in its own right for 'restarting' ethnographic filmmaking after the end of the Cultural Revolution; in fact, this particular method of had never been used in China before.

8mm film, directed by Omote Toshihiko.

Asha loves Baldev Singh. she is pregnant and Decieved by him. After years she comes back for avenge.

After the brutal slaying of his truck-driver father, Gurmaan lives a life of near-destitution with his widowed mother. He is even separated from his childhood sweetheart, Pali, as her mother, Sarla, does not approve of him, while his mother wants him to locate his father's killers. After he matures, he becomes wealthy as a singer and earns a lot of money. He then decides to become a truck-driver and try to locate his father's killers.

This observational documentary follows an episode in the routine life on Collum Collum cattle-station in northern New South Wales. But, as the filmmaker notes, it's a story that could have occurred anywhere.

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls “digital/laser/videos”; he makes a large number of these “arresting, provocative and suggestive” works

A group of journalists gather together in secret meeting to share their best stories.

"The conceptual and minimalist aesthetic seen in this film refers to the more complex metaphysical and alchemical transformations which occur when silver is exposed to tungsten light. These currents of light, like Daniel Burren's striped conceptual art, refer to the basic nature of representation while attempting to resist and transform traditional viewing habits or consumption. 'Current' is a beautiful meditation on these realities." - Maria Insell

An abstract meditation on urban shapes and sounds.

In this video from 1986, go behind the scenes to see how thousands of sparkling lights and electro-syntho-magnetic musical sounds were created and presented to guests each night. From the music to the electronics to the performers, all the incredible details are in this special

A film that focuses on hidden locations and hidden truths.

Computer graphics, computer imaging, computer animation, digital image synthesis, digital scene simulation. These terms refer to one of the most profound developments in the history of human communication: the computer as a visual instrument that combines the objectivity of the photograph, the subjectivity of the painting and the gravity-free motion of hand-drawn animation. It is possible to view the entire career not only of the visual arts but of symbolic discourse in general as leading to this Promethean instrument of representation. Its aesthetic and philosophical implications are staggering, and they are ultimately of profound social and political consequence as well.