Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

Everybody he encounters appears to be having the head of an animal, so the man starts to question his sanity.

UAKTI - INSTRUMENTAL WORKSHOP is a documentary about the musical group UAKTI, which creates its own instruments from materials such as PVC tubes, glass and gourds, reproducing the sounds of nature in its pure state. The film freely discusses the indigenous legend that gave rise to the group's name, the various influences contained in its work and the process of creating and manufacturing its songs and instruments.

The short film portrays the everyday life of San Mateo del Mar through the story of a family of fishermen, weavers, and merchants in a narrative that blends documentary and fiction. The film thus captures, from the perspective of its members—and specifically through a young female lens—various aspects of the Ikoots people's society and culture, as well as how they wished to document and share them with the outside world.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

The beast within and without makes an attempt to fuse with culture and the denizens of a Frankensteinian legacy.

Tillebille is a little mouse who has a hard time standing up to the sneaky fox. Nevertheless, she manages to secure her little territory for herself and her friends to drink tea together.

1. Wasteland 2. And The Dance Goes On 3. Garden Of Delight 4. Let Sleeping Dogs Die 5. Serpents Kiss 6. Over The Hills And Far Away 7. The Crystal Ocean 8. Sacrilege 9. Stay With Me 10. Wake (RSV) 11. Blood Brother 12. 1969

Eugene Chadbourne presents desert hijinks, a jam with the Sun City Girls, and various epileptic fits brought on by camera spin and clip collage.

A short film directed by Zeinabu Irene Davis.

Sophia Whist is a character on a journey of enquiry. She discovers a magic book in the Public Library - an old leather bound volume called SNAKES AND LADDERS. In its pages she meets ten women between the ages of 16 and 94, who talk about their education. Their stories are about wanting an education; wanting more from their education; fighting to extend their options, and demanding to be taught material that incorporates the experience of women.

The Ultimate Surfing Film - by Scott Dittrich and his network of cameramen around the world. Six action-packed stories that capture the essence of the surfing experience. Brilliantly photographed and edited, Gone Surfin' shows perfect waves in exotic lands like Fiji, Tahiti and Baja California, explosive power surfing on the North Shore of Oahu, hotdogging in California and Florida, winter surfing in New England, snowboarding in Colorado, radical sailboarding in the largest waves ever ridden, bodysurfing as never seen before, and some of the most insane skateboarding ever. Set to a blazing soundtrack from Virgin Records, Gone Surfin' is truely the Ultimate surfing Film!!

Ritter, Dene, Voss is a stage play by Thomas Bernhard from 1986. After the Premiere the same year at the Salzburger Festspiele under the direction of Claus Peymann, the play was taken into the repertoire of the Burgtheater in Vienna. It was named after the three actors that were to play the roles in the world-premiere: Ilse Ritter, Kirsten Dene and Gert Voss. Thomas Bernhard started off writing it with a note saying "Ritter, Dene, Voss. intelligent actors". The play was inspired by the family of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his (Wittgensteins) nephew Paul, who was a friend of Bernhard and protagonist of his novel "Wittgensteins Nephew" from 1982. This DVD is a 1987 recording from the Akademietheater Vienna with Ilse Ritter, Kirsten Dene and Gert Voss.

A trivial compilation of West German short films

A portrait of the people in the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District.

Old cinema creates new cinema in a new context. Stolen old images, someone’s audio track, someone else’s soundscapes – they re-create, reinventing interactions, relations and dialogue in familiar footage. Telling new stories. Transforming it back into cinema.

Sirens, Unusual, Beyond the Doors of the Dark, Legions, The Dungeons Are Calling, Guitar Solo, City Beneath the Surface, Twisted Little Sister, Drum Solo, White Witch, Strange Wings, I Believe, Hall of the Mountain King, Power of the Night, Last Dawn, Devastation, Warriors, Midas Knight

Men sitting on the street.

A WWII vet who wins the lottery kills his wife so that he may live what's left of his wasted life in peace and quiet.

Camel Trophy 1987 takes you through the torturous jungle tracks, swamps and desert roads of Madagascar. Share the experience of the fourteen two-men teams as they take on the elements and each other along their fifteen hundred mile, three-week journey.

Puppet/live actor movie; "Skeletown" is where Dia de los Muertos candies and baked goods come from... but USA industrialists are trying to suppress the local traditions, flooding the market with plastic novelties and mass-produced snack foods.

A look at the mechanized nature of modern times.

A documentary on youth gang violence in Los Angeles and the special police detail which is designated to fight it. Nominated for the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar.

Based on Jafar Jabbarli's play.

Banka is the son of Ben Bal. Balkan is his brother. Kankan is their maid. They are all cannibals. But Banka loves Nil... The story is about the introduction of portable television. Everyone is everyone else's enemy, but in the houses where the electronic ghosts wreak their stationary havoc, there is human emotion.

Notable painters, writers, poets, and critics discuss Soviet art of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

In an affluent area of downtown New York City, a Sunday evening dinner party is taking place. Hosted by Libby, an insecure thirty-something widow who lost her husband in an unfortunate accident, her guest of honor is downstairs neighbor Alice, a successful novelist, and Alice's lesbian lover, Boo, a family therapist. The other guests are Griever, Libby's best friend from group therapy; Norbert, Libby's gentle skydiving instructor; Tom, an old high-school boyfriend of Libby's now working as a jazz musician and composer, and Emily, Tom's current live-in girlfriend.

A philandering East Village performer gets his just rewards when he hooks up with three beautiful women after his show.

Based on a story of a man who goes through a series of frustrations, who seeks help, but then finds escape. The film images follow the story through a series of meditations on the most incidental and marginal visual events. It is the details that surround the action which constitute the main focus.

Follows the difficult role of the apple tree in the fate of people.

The cruel Snake King tyranns the people, and only the brave blacksmith Kova dares to challenge him.

A César award nominated short drama about some hopeless small-time crooks.

The story of Paul's life culminates in a sign, after he leaves his monastery...

A sixty-year-old woman fights to survive and rescue her youthful dreams, bringing a circus show to the marginal towns of Peru… despite the bad conditions that entails.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1987.

As seasons and events unfold in the village of Octeville-sur-Mer, the filmmaker describes the close and affectionate ties that have grown between the villagers and Jean-Jacques, a curious fellow who should in no way be likened to a “village idiot”.

A Confessional Documentary is a 1-minute long short film directed by noted film critic Gene Siskel, originally shown alongside his partner Roger Ebert's short film (Citizen Yuppie) on the 1987 broadcast of their annual Holiday Gift Guide program. It was shot entirely on a (then-new) Fisher Price PixelVision PXL2000 low-fidelity camcorder in monochrome on compact audio cassette, inspiring Richard Linklater to utilize the same technique in his 1991 feature SLACKER. The film recontextualizes the image of Roger Ebert's face to provide some humorous jabs at the nature of film criticism.

Two women communicate in a language of art, working men in a pub speak in their Viennese idiom, patients of a psychiatric hospital arrive at speech through improvisation – all these diverging portrayals do not merge into one another but communicate by their proximity.

A madcap anthology of 60's and 70's television, featuring parodies of Star Trek, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, Wild Kingdom, and more.

Drug addiction and trafficking, a taboo subject in Turkmenistan of the 1980s. Sanitary engineers go underground into the sewer system. A girl recovers from drug addiction. An Uzbek woman and her two daughters arrested for transporting narcotics on the bodies. The police involved with trafficking with Afghans. With their working mothers in the fields, infants are given milk with opium.

Lakis works at the funeral home "O Psychovgaltis" and manages to make a living through various schemes, even selling flowers from cemeteries at nightclubs...

Chel White.

Girl meets girl, still likes boy, and all hell breaks loose.

Awarded Gold Prize at the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago.

Rossini's opera for La Scala. Considered one of Rossini's most brilliant compositions, The Thieving Magpie stars Ileana Cortrubas and Nucci Condo.

Rock music. If there are abuses, what are they, and how serious can they be? Through the combined research of the Parents Music Resource Center and Teen Vision, the themes of aggressive rebellion, drug/alcohol abuse, explicit sex, the occult, and violence found in some of today's music are examined in this eye-opening video. 30 minutes of carefully documented evidence sure to change the way you and your children listen to music!

A naive village girl leaves for city during transitional times for Costa Rica.

Universal Citizen is a multifaceted personal travelogue that brings us to a real Universal Hotel, in Guatemala, and to the same public square in Siena that appears at the beginning of Universal Hotel; at the center of the film are Thompson's off screen meetings with a Libyan Jew and former Dachau inmate who works as a smuggler in Guatemala and refuses to be photographed. (Jonathan Rosenbaum)