Cinematic Era: 1986 Vintage

Grandma drops her spectacles. A mouse, curious, notices it enlarges, and she appears enormous to the cat and the dog, and they scare back. But then Granny takes back her spectacles.

One week before Prince Charles opens the Peddars Way Long Distance Path, local journalist Bruce Robinson talks through the book he has written about the historic Roman road it follows.

A children's TV series produced by Jiangxi TV.

Episode #108 Colombia University Professor Rashid Khalidi offers an informed critique of the US media’s stereotyping of Palestinians as Terrorists. In this straightforward documentary, Khalidi reveals the insidious political techniques, which have been used to turn the occupation of Palestine into a simple case of us vs. them. Khalidi contends that misinformation and misrepresentation of Palestinians has left most Americans in the dark as to the true nature of the Israeli occupation.

Documentary on the Caohai Lake of Guizhou Province, how it was destroyed in the past and restored later.

Michael Parenti's speaks on domestic Anti-Sovietism in the USA at UMass

Wild times at the dog show.

A funny film about DOGS—an analysis of the wide range of treatments, feelings, reactions, opinions, etc., Cubans have towards "man's best friend".

"SICK is a video I made in 1986 while in grad school at the San Francisco Art Institute. The voice-over is extemporaneous, created after I had shot and edited the image. The effects were done in-camera - the Art Institute had a studio with a large Grass Velley switcher and it coould generate a lot of colors - whatever you wanted - and it wasn't digital, so the colors are all along an analogue spectrum." - Cecilia Dougherty

Fairytail Hessen. Here you can discover your love.

A Betamax tape provided to Sears employees to teach them about properly dressing and displaying mannequins. This was part of Sears' way of providing a sleek and modern image for the 1980s.

A rare look into the private world of Maurice Sendak, who describes the significant events of his own life and their impact on his work.

With 'AUGENBLICK' (the 'space of an instant'), Franz Reichle has given us a highly unusual work. During turbulent times, two young people find each other, fall in love, fight and ultimately separate. They are looking for new directions and ways of life, taking things one day at a time and squeezing the fulfilment of their desires out of every moment. The 'space of an instant' is surprising in form and style: Reichle positions himself against conventional ways of seeing, and takes an almost anarchic approach to the rules of drama. His point of view is shaped by interior processes: sensations, rather than events, are portrayed in the images appearing on screen. One of the few films which attempts to expand the language of the cinema. Urs Jäggi in Zoom-Filmberater, March 1986.

Film feature about a small movie theater in the provinces whose evening screening is saved by the "heroic" efforts of the projectionist.

The film is built like a huge "jam session" in which there is a lot of good music and in which jazzmen participate, many of whom have become famous virtuosos."

Doctors from Ward 5B and Ward 5A at San Francisco General Hospital were at the front line of the AIDS crisis. In 1985 they produced a VHS video to share information about symptoms of AIDS and what health care workers would experience as they worked with patients.

Plasticine animation film, which has received honorary diplomas, diplomas and commemorative awards from the Jelgava City Culture Department at the 29th Kurzeme area amateur film screening in Jelgava. The film focuses on the importance of the environment and the quality of education in the learning process and children's personal development.

Covering everything from the Spoleto Festival to Vegemite, the team led by Host and Producer Rick Sebak experienced Melbourne, Australia. They also make stops at Port Fairy in Victoria, and in Hamilton near the Grampian mountains where they met emus, kangaroos, and koalas. The crew returned to Melbourne to film the rest of the Spoleto festival and interview festival founder, Gian Carlo Menotti.

That provincial time flows differently and allows you to see differently, to look at the world more closely.

Chick Corea Elektric Band playing live at the Bern Jazz Festival (1986)

A several-second passage depicting a woman's agitated face is repeated in a loop that decomposes, distorts and reassembles her expression and gesture into an image of masochistic violence, whipped by gusts of voice synthesizer-induced, destroyed sound. The author appropriates the videotape and, through jerks of fast-forwarding and rewinding, it disintegrates the temporality not only of the original shot but also of the event depicted.

Documents one of the most important traditions of Boston's Italian-Americans: the annual celebration of the Feast of the Madonna del Soccorso, popularly known as the Fisherman's Feast.

An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

This movie, based on the famous play "The Hollow of Vision" by the writer D. Namdag, shows how a government official works sincerely for his country and land.

In Visual Shuffle, Moulton's choreography becomes part of a fantastic landscape of floating pop icons and symbols.

An overview of the international performance art and music scene that stumbled through Los Angeles between 1982 and 1985.

Anti-alcohol animation short for adults.

The work revolves around a new teacher who is hired in a girls' school that suffers from a high rate of failure due to mismanagement and lack of attention to female students, who tries to change the school system to lead it towards success, but finds many difficulties facing him in order to achieve this

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

BDSM Pinku distributed by Million

An animated film for children on the theme of childhood fantasy.

A César award nominated short animation.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The short cartoon follows a troupe of young Soviet artists who mount an experimental “capriccio” performance in a provincial town, only to find their creative freedoms at odds with local authorities and their own turbulent personal relationships.

A trip to the Grampians, and Melbourne at twilight.

Sports competitions hold an extraordinary status in our country. Athletes who achieve success are elevated to the status of gods, though even minor missteps can change the attitude of the masses. The director presents the customs and habits of Polish fans in a satirical manner.

Different Hells, Different Trips.

A documentary about Minnesota's Split Rock Lighthouse, it's history and impact.

Short film.

A woman betrays her ordinary husband with his best friend and both decides to scape.

"Steinriegel" hedges are introduced as representatives for hedges of the Swabian Area. They dominate the landscape's appearance and provide a habitat for certain communities of plants and animals.

Non-Narrative experimental short by Richard Heslop and Carrie Kirkpatrick produced in 1986 and included on the 1988 VHS compilation Fat of the Land, released under Factory Records's IKON imprint. "Here is the first tape of a new British cinema which should be seen by everyone who loves film. The official British cinema is truly dead, alive only in admens bought dreams. This is the way to go."- Derek Jarman

The film is a reflection on the paths of nuclear energy development in the country and the peaceful use of atomic energy.

for Teresa Di Sio's song

Theo Eshetu uses the manipulation of television language as a means for artistic expression. His work unites a formal research on the grammar of video with themes taken from anthropology so as to create personal statement on the nature of video as a form of expression.

The film combines two stories - "Vetranie drevenice" (Ventilating the Wooden House) and "Dovidenia mama" (Goodbye, Mom). Two wooden houses cover the lives of the people who lived in them for generations... In the first, they inspired the great poet P. O. Hviezdoslav to write the poem "Hájnikova žena", and the inhabitants of the second belong to the present day.

What if Willis O'Brien made a stop-motion short subject based on Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein? This animated short, shot on 8mm by Tom Triman, won an award and got mentioned in the final issue of Cinemagic Magazine in 1987 (issue 37). He was a writer for such magazines as Scary Monsters. He also made a stop-motion gangster drama inspired by those Warner Bros. gangster films called You Dirty Rat (1982).

The film Les temps des Assassins is not only an extraordinary work, but it is also an extraordinary exegesis of Rimbaud's clairvoyance. It begins with the seer: the reflection of a fight in the glass of her glasses, while the wind moves her hair, how the clouds move, how the duelists move, perhaps the murderers. But "I is another," Rimbaud wrote. To be, to know how to be a witness, the visionary must begin a journey to discover the depth of this "other" which is the self. Meet houses, antennas, clouds along the road that winds fast through the car windows, while the sun beats on the glass, refracts on the glasses, making the visionary's gaze invisible. And then there are the mysterious intermittences: the galleries, "the connections, the passages, the representations", which, according to Novalis, are the landscape of the unknown self. And here fragments emerge that are no longer composed in a landscape: a gun, a face, a head, a body, a mouth wide open in the silent scream, and colors.

A documentary that offers an intimate glimpse of three respected yet controversial Québec writers. Now recognized at home and abroad, Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault and Nicole Brossard have contributed greatly to the creation of a distinctive women's literature. Confirming that fresh approaches to literature are still possible, they have helped to heighten the awareness of the politics of language. Excerpts from their works vividly convey each woman's style, concerns and rhythms. They examine personal and global issues from a feminist perspective: human relationships, work, justice, poverty, loneliness, women's spirituality, and the future.