Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

"Dr. Madblood's Halloween Film Festival" was a hosted horror movie special with host Jerry Harrell as "Doctor Madblood".

A film by Mischka Popp & Thomas Bergmann

A masked giant exterminates people with cold blooded cruelty on the streets of Leningrad.

Even heroes can turn into raging rioters by chance. A cartoon of a distinctive personality - author, artist and director Jaroslava Havettová.

A woman in the year 3000 asks that age-old question: "What's for dinner?"

documentary about Hong Kong citizens immigrated to America, Canada and Australia, due to the uncertainty future of Hong Kong

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

A short film.

A high percentage of men on the frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black. By most accounts, they had the highest casualties. But these young men say they were fighting two wars-against the enemy and against discrimination. Correspondent Wallace Terry, the author of ‘Bloods,’ the national bestseller on which this film is based, talks with black veterans who fought discrimination in Vietnam and who later confronted disillusionment when they came home.

Absurd animation on the pastry cook's wife who pampers a burglar.

A beautiful young girl takes on the Los Angeles underworld to avenge the death of her brother.

The swirling lights, the shimmering colors intertwine in a symphony of electric movements. Three little tricks and the evocation of the special atmosphere of funfairs at night summon memories and emotions from childhood. The mix of swirling colors and juxtaposition of sounds evoke Christmas and all the excitement that comes with it.

Shots inside and outside a house.

Promotional film about British Rail’s Rail Drive service which offers business travellers combined rail tickets and car hire.

Documentary: the Doro-Chiba labor union strikes against the privatisation of Japan National Railways.

Film on the reconstruction of the country during the Derg administration

After a few exterior shots in a small mountain town setting, in the noir shadow of a hospital aisle Ana finds out she is very sick from one of her doctor colleagues.

The zany and the funny facets of American popular culture.

Two drivers were still capable of securing the World Rally Drivers’ Championship as the 1986 series was wound up in the United States of America. Juha Kankkunen (Peugeot) and Markku Alen (Lancia) battled it out through the forests of Washington State with scarcely a thought that the issue would really be decided by an FISA court later in the month. That situation was reached after Peugeot protested against their exclusion from the San Remo event in Italy, which significantly affected the points score. However, as the cameras show to great advantage, the action on the Olympus Rally was fast and furious, with local star John Buffum going really well in a semi-official works Audi Quattro and providing substantial opposition to the big two. But all eyes were on the Flying Finns as they ignored the political wrangles and got on with the driving. Hurtling along the smooth wooded straights and screaming round the curves, the French and Italian manufacturers top men tried all they knew.

The Paris-Dakar Rally is one of the last great motorsport adventures, travelling thousands of miles through the most challenging terrain on Earth. In 1986, the event was rocked by a series of serious accidents, and a tragedy which would stun the sport. An horrific helicopter accident in Mali killed five, including Dakar Rally founder Thierry Sabine. The tragedy shocked everyone involved in the 1986 event, but it was decided to complete the rally raid in Sabine's honour. So, 22 days after leaving Paris, the surviving cars, motorcycles and trucks rolled into Dakar, bringing an emotional end to the 15,000km adventure. Treacherous terrain, wild weather, confusion and controversy made 1986 one of the toughest years for the Dakar Rally, with just 81 of the 478 competitors making the finish. This comprehensive review follows the dramatic story, with extraordinary action footage, interviews and rare behind-the-scenes access putting you at the heart of the 1986 Paris-Dakar Rally.

Papa is ambitious to win a pumpkin carving contest and Brother and Sister are also joining in. Papa is extremely secretive with his own pumpkin and guards it closely. Papa then has nightmares and he chooses to miss out on the contest.

A boy is sent down to the supermarket by his mother to buy eggs, but when he steps out of the elevator he is in the forest of a fairy tale.

A metaphorical tale about the creation of humankind.

Documentary report in which two young men from the North of England follow the Conservative MP Norman Tebbit's advice to get 'on yer bike' and travel 300 miles south to look for work in High Wycombe.

Short documentary about police work.

Silver Feet follows three teenage ballet students through auditions for the SF Ballet school, a critical first step towards a career with the professional company. One succeeds; the other two must come to terms with devastating rejections that bring to an end their life-long dreams.

From the series L’immaginario scientifico

Documentary directed by Bernd Krieg, Malte Rauch and Eva Voosen

This film is a modest attempt to better understand a situation that my own country's government and media have mystified and depersonalized by reducing the representations of Nicaragua to a war zone rather than a place where people live their lives. Using the process of making the film as a starting point for my own engagement with my subject, a world so different from my own, I begin with a question: As a North American, what is my relationship to Nicaragua?

Horror-comedy short.

A melancolic time in the continuum of time.

This animated short depicts the evolution of the alphabet from Egyptian picture-symbols to Roman letters and the modern English alphabet. Each letter is traced from its Egyptian inception through Semitic, Phoenician, Greek and Roman usages. Dates on the screen indicate the approximate period of each change.

Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas Dunn and his remarkable company. The natural humor and classically tender abruptness of their gestures and phrases are beautiful enlargements or details of, in human scale, in animal scale, body to body, the vectors of form and relation in the carefully eyed city life outside.

A tribute to experimental cinema of the '60s and '70s.

From mountaintop to barrier reef, the tiny Central American country of Belize features one of the most diverse natural environments in the world. Journey into this exotic world and witness all the fascinating creatures.

From one room to another, through space, the new threads from New Jersey.

A portrait of the Copts, the oldest Christian community in Egypt, of its links to ancient Egypt and, in the face of rising Islamic fundamentalism, its traditions and way of confronting this growing threat to its existence.

Doug is a high school teen who has everything: Loving parents and younger brother, terrific girlfriend, and a rock band he plays in after school. Doug also has a drug habit, and all those good things begin to fall by the wayside as his drug dependency and erratic behavior worsen and alienation sets in.

Pin-Pin is a circus artist penguin who goes around the world to find partners for a new show. After countless adventures, Pin-Pin returns home, to the circus, with his long-dreamed partners.

Short film.

A film by Keith Sanborn

Drawing from Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony, his letters, travel journals, and biography, this video layers fantasy, sexual obsession, morbidity, Romanticism, and boredom alongside the ghostliness of empty hotel rooms, aural atmosphere, and an homage to surrealist and horror films.

City of Perm. Views of wooden sculptures of gods in the Perm Museum. The museum houses more than 350 sculptures. The announcer's voice-over tells about A. V. Lunacharsky's visit to the museum.

Mga anghel ng Diyos: Directed by Agustin dela Cruz. With Gloria Diaz, Jaypee De Guzman, Precious Hipolito, Glaiza Herradura.

The story of an energetic Russian woman, Tamara Fedorovna who moved to Leninabad in the 1950s and, as a pensioner, became a trainer for a men’s soccer team and performed in the local amateur theater. Then, after three or four years, thousands of Russians would have to leave Tajikistan as would Tamara.