Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

Documentary about the lone soldier who works as a cattle herder on the Horqin grassland.

a Béla Vajda Cartoon

Depiction of the birth of alternative lifeforms on a strange planet

The film deals with an imaginary journey. The visionmresulting from the desire to view an object while grasping the "workings of nature" is exposed as being itself riddled with clichees. The film, as artistic medium par excellence, offers the opportunity of reflecting on this longing in a way that is partly critical, partly also indulging in personal obsessions.

Seven couples in Hammersmith Hospital go through the long and painful process of trying to conceive a test-tube baby. one succeeds.

When a person lacks a sense of rational attitude towards nature, what happens is what the film tells about: people built another city, displacing the last tree from it.

In post-World War I Zurich, out of the conflicts' sobering aftermath, there was born an artistic movement that preached a baffling, radical-yet-whimsical philosophy of creativity.

Short by Papić.

A Gold Medal recipient at the 1987 Student Academy Awards.

" The Department of Applied Electronics at Bucharest's Polytechnic Institute created and tested a computer-based image-processing installation. The ways in which the discoveries could be used are presented. "

In free association of ideas, around 1200 drawings created with a black marker on "transparencies" follow one another in continuous metamorphosis.

An animation.

A Keaton-like hero tries to rescue a young maiden imprisoned by an evil character.

Student film project from Rhode Island School of Design.

Marionetti is a tender, ironic character, always poised between situations of simple comedy (Marionetti/marionette) or sophisticated futuristic atmospheres (Marionetti/Marinetti).

Short film by Gérard Samson.

A variety show that takes the viewer on a roller-coaster ride through haywire narratives, wacked-out video effect humor, spiraling video artists/performance artist collaboration, and modified dirt hot rods. The line of irreverent narrative fragments runs from empty-headed high school reunions at convenience stores to the thrust toward consumer rapture.

Always one of the toughest events in the World Rally Championship, the 1986 Safari Rally lived up to character. A field of 76 set off from Nairobi, including defending champion Juha Kankkunen of Finland (Peugeot 205) and twice former Safari winner Bjorn Waldegaard of Sweden (Toyota Celica Turbo). As this video forcibly demonstrates, the terrain of the 2,600 mile event provided a severe challenge, taking crews first to the south-east of Kenya, including the night-drive through the Taita Hills. Marku Alen in the Lancia showed that his vivid style is not restricted to tarmac road events, while Lars-Eric Torph (Sweden) provided admirable back-up to Waldegaard. The punishing heat, strength-sapping sand and grass lanes and dunes tested the world championship aspirants to the limit, and it's here on this film waiting to be seen and re-seen.

Thieves of Bangkok

So close to one of the largest cities in the world, Xochimilco defends itself tooth and nail against the disasters of constant modernity, taking refuge in its customs and traditions.

Various stages of the school career and career choice of a Greek boy from Macedonia, who has lived in Cologne since the age of 8, are shown.

Short animation film about a hen.

A woman at a bus stop contemplates her past.

Portrait of a baby monkey, "Britches", who was artificially blinded as part of a $275,000 research project at the University of California at Riverside. Short scenes from the 1985 ALF break-in and rescue of animals at that lab, and later recovery of Britches.

Silent and unusual walk in the abandoned villa, before its restoration, of the Viscount of Noailles, built in Hyères in 1923 by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. Snomers appear and disappear as if by enchantment: they are the characters of a film improvised by Man Ray in 1929, The Mysteries of the Château du Dé.

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

Promotional film for a monorail.

CG animation.

Recurring nuclear nightmares.

A Nasty Creature from deep space invades St Andrews college

Battle for the central plains during the late Yuan dynasty.

New policies for modernization of the countryside arrive in Sihao village.

An in-depth look at Winnipeg's most enterprising children's entertainer, Al Simmons, modern high vaudevillian and cowboy hero. A film about an artist with a pioneer spirit and an infectious nature appreciated by both young and old.

Short film.

This video portrait of Nam June Paik was made during Bielický’s studies in Düsseldorf. Paik’s gaze steadily confronts the lens of a camera attached to the iconic Paik-Abe video synthesizer, his face dissolving in the mutating video signal.

VHS release of 6 music videos by UK band Scritti Politti Tracklist: 1 Wood Beez 3:36 2 Absolute 3:47 3 Hypnotize 3:30 4 The Word Girl 3:16 5 Perfect Way 4:05 6 Wood Beez (USA) 3:36

Dream Land is a one-year ink painting project by GAO Chun-fu. Every night, in the late hours, GAO captures the busy and chaotic state with ink painting. Applying the flowing technique, he paints the images and illusions emerging from deep within. The spontaneous gathering and scattering of water and ink reflect the artist’s internal breathing as well as the passing of time.

The problem of preserving the akhaltekin breed of horses, known in ancient times as ‘sky horses’, pride of the Turkmen people. In 1935 there were tens of thousands – now, fifty years later, only a thousand left, due to their slaughtering for meat ‘for the Motherland.’

Behind the scenes on the set of Hawk Jones, the 1986 shot on video action movie featuring a cast of all children actors.

Shot in 1986, the film presents scenes from the everyday life of a Mbororo pastorialist family living on the outskirts of Garoua, by then, the biggest town in Northern Cameroon. It documents the gradual sedentarisation and Islamisation of the Mbororo and presents rituals, chants, dances, healing practices as well as the transmission of traditional knowledge about medical plants and local religious beliefs.

Archive VHS for the experimental avant-garde industrial band Laibach making of Nova Akropola with mixed diary intakes. Rich is the earth in the burning evening light, The passion of our mad fathers is tormenting us to the last. Our authority is that of the people.

An angel and devil fight for the soul of a drunkard who cannot resist just one more drink.

Educational film for university students. Questions of molecular biophysics are considered with the help of associations - a circus, playing rugby, etc.

The direct cinema film touches on various passages in the alternative lifestyles of three wilderness "bush" couples living on the Yukon River, 100 miles below the arctic circle. The camera follows the central couple while they salmon fish on the Yukon by boat in summer, hunt bear in fall and caribou by dogsled in winter.

Fusing graphics, illustration and animation, Jones creates a spare, intense evocation of sexual and metaphoric love, desire and loss. According to the artist, this short piece was originally intended as a "love letter, inspired by a broken heart." What Goes Around/Comes Around is composed of four hundred ink drawings, spoken text and percussive instrumental sounds — all created by Jones, who states, "I was trying to make hand-made video."