Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

Life in a Georgian village as seen from the perspective of a 10 year old girl.

An observational documentary about playwright and writer David Williamson and his work. Excerpts from theatrical performances and films written by Williamson are also shown - including The Removalists, The Club, and Peter Weir's Gallipoli.

Recorded July 13, 1986. New Music Seminar showcase. Clear Out, Fists of Love, Big Money, Passing Complexion, Cables, Pigeon Kill, The Ugly American, Kerosene (Aborted), *Kerosene, *Rema-Rema (*with Peter Prescott)

Documentary about the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where Jews were ordered to create a shop window for the Final Solution in order to dupe the Swiss Red C ross and others into believing that they were being treated well.

Simple in its conceit, the installation consists of a six-minute audiovisual loop comprised of three archival film segments shot by the Edison Film Company between 1889 and 1901, and six passages from the opening pages (or overture) to Marcel Proust’s monumental À la recherche du temps perdu, as read by Vancouver writer Gerald Creede.

This award-winning film is a tightly constructed history documentary, a model of its kind, intelligently and sensitively narrated by the filmmaker, Karin Altmann. It incorporates a wealth of archival material – much of it never seen publicly before - and reveals historical and political connections never previously made.

Three women have a strange claustraphobic encounter in the ladies lounge of a luxurious manhattan hotel. Set in a timeless "twilight zone" where objects bear a menacing aura and seemingly harmless conversation carries a threatening subtext.

A young Italian stops at a filling station on the freeway, and having some time to kill, telephones a friend. He recounts his adventures as a gigolo, but in doing so as a sudden awareness causes him to reconsider certain values that had escaped him, bringing him face-to-face with himself.

Anime based on original story by Kinoshita Renzo.

Premiered in 1733, Pergolesi's La Serva Pedrona is a Major event in the history of opera. Due to the lightheatedness of the plot and the ordinariness of the characters – not to say their coarseness – La Serva Pedrona launched what is known today as "the Quarrel of the Comic Actors" ("la Querelle des Bouffons" in French), a quarrel that brought into conflict the advocates of the French tradition against the proponents of the Italian music, the latter gathered behing the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. If what they were fighting about seems trifling to the modern observer, the quarrel occasioned fierce reactions wavering between jingoistic arguements and unjustified critics of the French style. Be that as it may, La Serva Pedrona is a masterpiece, all the more so with the charmismatic Donato Di Stefano in the role of Uberto and the delightfull Patrizia Biccirè giving life to the mischievous Serpina.

“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature. Nature is always a construction, whether in dynamic processes, dis-analog systems or physical, technical signals. 'Nature' formulates the organizational forms of representational strategies - symbolic structures, both in reality and in fiction. Where are the borders, the interfaces, the de-bordering and the analogies for ‘natural’ nature and ‘technical’ nature? These considerations provided the basis for the video.” – VALIE EXPORT

Augusta tries to pacify her crying infant by feeding it a nutritious meal.

Sedef, who works as a manicurist at a beauty salon, and Gözde go on a summer vacation together. Sedef is innocent, while Gözde is a savvy girl, and the two have very different personalities. Both friends find boyfriends. Sedef's vacation romance turns into a great love, and they get married. However, their differing personalities soon come to the surface. The result is inevitable unhappiness.

Thai action movie.

Short film about otters

The Feira da Sulanca still exists as a famous market in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, that sells and exports items for the national clothing industry. While these markets were once an unfriendly place for women, who were struggling to make a living, Katia Mesel’s ‘Sulanca’ documents the economic revolution of the women of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe: seamstresses who, through collaboration and willpower, managed to make lives for themselves and change the socioeconomic landscape of Brazil’s most neglected region.

Testimony of two women leaders from the marginalized neighborhoods of Lima. One of them organized the Milk Program Committees for children; the other, María Elena Moyano (later murdered by Shining Path terrorists), organized the National Federation of Women.

“Starting Over in America” is KERA’s 1986 documentary about refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia who relocated to the Dallas area beginning in 1975. It tells their stories of challenges as they try to reunite their scattered families and rebuild their lives in America.

The film tells the story of three friends who travel to Cyprus for work. Close friends Cüneyt, Aytekin, and Aykut receive a job offer. Suat Bey, a wealthy businessman, has had his wife kidnapped to the Greek side of Cyprus. Suat Bey promises to pay the three friends a substantial amount of money in exchange for bringing his wife back. The three friends, who are trying to find the woman, will go through many events.

Super 8mm. Colour. Sound on film and with live narration. 24 min.

A student of parapsychology goes to a small town to exorcised as possessed teenager.

Komm, Nurnberg, 14.11.1985 1. Intro 2. Starlight 3. Warrior 4. Reptile 5. Ride The Sky 6. Gorgar 7. Victim Of Fate 8. Metal Invanders 9. Heavy Metal (Is The Law) Markthalle, Hamburg, 2.2.1986 1. Intro 2. Ride The Sky 3. Murderer 4. Gorgar 5. Victim Of Fate 6. Guardians 7. Heavy Metal (Is The Law) 8. Metal Invanders 9. Warior

A plasticene animated film about a lonely lighthouse, a craggy old lighthouse keeper and a mysterious dark figure that moves in the fog. A delightful song ends this tale of unrequited love.

On June 1st International Children's Day, Chubby and friends happily came to the cinema and watched the wonderful performance of "Little Bells".

Terror strikes the citizens as the building of the Museum of Art of São Paulo comes to life and wreaks havoc.

The exuberant irreverence and wit of Butterfly characterizes Paik's stream-of-consciousness visual and conceptual techniques. In a vibrant image/music collage, he ironically juxtaposes high-cultural artifacts (the aria from Madame Butterfly), contemporary avant-garde icons (Laurie Anderson) and Eastern symbols (the butterfly), within a rapid-paced proliferation of vividly computerized visual effects. This abbreviated work is classic Paik.

Gu Ying, a Peking Opera actress, is now growing older and is restricted to smaller roles in the troupe.

Tamtakos, a gipsy, wants to upgrade his family life so he's looking for a house in the city.

A comical exploration of the 50's in the Israeli Kibutz movement, when socialist values were reexamined following the death of Stalin. With their mentor and iconic leader gone, the members of the Kibutz have to face a political and social reality without a leader to encourage and unite them.

A novelist feels the limits of his talent and can no longer write at all. He is lynched by his editor, surprised by a zookeeper that a tiger has escaped, abused by a literary girl, and finally attacked by a real tiger. This ridiculous and tragic story is made into a unique comedy of the absurd through a combination of extremely deformed acting and imaginative visuals, far from realism. In particular, the powerful cutting of the same subject over and over again, from different angles and in different sizes, creates a unique expression, which, combined with the excellent locations, results in a wonderfully calculated fictional space. The use of music is also full of contemporary sensibility, and the combination of music and the scene at the industrial complex is superb.

The condensed filmic work of Abigail Child, borrowing strategies from found footage, Appropriation Art, Language Poetry and experimental music, stands a a landmark in the experimental cinema of the 1980's. The processing of interruption and fragmentation inform the series IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?, reactivating the stakes of montage applied in different artistic practices.

Teréz is an obstetrician-gynaecologist. After her regular working hours she conducts a sociological survey about why couples do not have more children.

Hypnotist Robert Attila Bellus and his wife Stella are interviewed by Jeff Krulik, then Public Access Director at MetroVision Cable in Capital Heights, MD.

Lovely renditions of classic children's songs, nursery rhymes and lullabies fill this special Kidsongs program. You'll enjoy introducing your little ones to beautiful songs like Paul Simon's "St. Judy's Comet," The Beatles' classic "Goodnight" and Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Our House." Ease your young one's transition from a busy day to bedtime with these gentle songs.

A review of film books old and new.

The bar flies prepare for the big day with betting, boozing and banter. But will best man Billy break more than his ma’s heart before the wedding? This award winning drama set in Derry reflects the ordinary ways drinking affects friendships and marriages. It stars Seamus Ball as hapless best man and confirmed bachelor Billy. Described by Alexander Walker as a ‘boyo who tries to drag his marrying pal back from the alter into the drinking circle’s celibacy’. What will happen as Billy stirs up the marital troubles, misunderstandings and regrets that brew in the tension between the pull of the pub and the plea to come home?

A documentary portrait of the city of Memleben in Saxony-Anhalt, counterpointing ancient medieval history and contemporary industrial reality.

A bicycle ride through the streets of Shanghai between spring and summer 1984, from the suburbs to the center of the city.

Episode: The Last Customer based on a play from Julio Ramón Aibeyro. Episode: The Discovery of America based on a short story by Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Episode: Rodrigo in the Labyrinth based on Aura from Carlos Fuentes.

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera.

Hindi mapigil ang init: Directed by Angelito J. De Guzman. With Albert Eugenio, Joy Sumilang, Lampel Cojuangco, Mark Joseph.

The film is about the life of a gigolo. Bekir, a gigolo, is with a rich woman named Oya. One day, Oya hits a woman with her car. Bekir helps the woman who was in the accident. At the hospital, he meets Esra, the woman's roommate. A friendship develops between Bekir and Esra, who is a sex worker. They fall in love with each other. Bekir wants to build a life with Esra. For this reason, he decides to rob Oya's house with his brother. However, things will not go as Bekir planned.

An experimental film by Heather McAdams

A staged premiere performance is reminiscent of when the stars used to come themselves, but the facade begins to crumble with the demolition of the cinema.

The authors set the story in a time when humanity has reached such a stage of medical care that the individual has become practically immortal. This leads to many logical problems. One of them is that further reproduction of humanity is undesirable. Love, emotion and similar concepts are becoming archaic, people are slowly forgetting them and after many years they remain only in the memory of old computers. But there is a diligent curious person who wants to get such information from the computer. True, even he does not remember everything and therefore it is necessary to make a copy of the woman from 1986...

In the Middle Ages, a group of actors travels around the country and performs the legend of the elf daughter Gwyncilla.

Lyrical documentary about the city of Cologne.

College kids end up taping a political assassination, and the trail leads to a cult of cowled masterminds of world government