Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

The birth of the alphabet.

Aqabat-Jaber is one of the sixty Palestinian refugee camps built in the Middle East by the UN at the beginning of the 1950s. Filmed in 1987, a few months before the Intifada, this film tells the story of a disinherited generation brought up in the nostalgia of places they never knew and which no longer exist. The story of a temporary solution that became a permanent way of life.

A young man is hired as the new room service waiter at the Bay View Hotel, but he soon comes into conflict with the sinister night clerk.

Cyklar is a film of a sketch show by the Swedish group Aftershave och Galenskaparna

The Hanseatic City of Hamburg is documented without narration.

Experimental film by Yosuke Okawado.

A 1987 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Faruk Piragic, starring Dubravka Ostojic, Zarko Lausevic and Dragan Jovicic.

The story of a young woman's journey through life represented by the London Underground.

A documentary report on Hu Jieqing, Lao She's wife.

The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war’s twentieth anniversary, Frontline finds a nation struggling with its image and its role as a democracy and reveals what has happened to the dream.

Portrait of a family isolated from civilization, and the aspect of death, seen from the viewpoint of a child.

Gerd Conradt's experimental documentary "Ein-Blick" from 1987 captures the rhythms of daily life along Elsenstraße's border in a time-lapse. Over the course of a day, a camera focuses on a house and watchtower within the border zone, snapping one image per second for twelve hours. What unfolds is a surreal ballet of reality, transforming into a slapstick grotesque, all set to the backdrop of evocative piano melodies.

Experimental portrait of New York's 42nd Street in the late 1980s set to Miles Davis' "On The Corner."

Giovanni who lives with his mother and is engaged to Tiziana, hides his homosexuality out of shame and fear, but on the point of getting married, something happens to him that will lead him to refuse to live it again in a clandestine and guilty way, and so, after a somewhat troubled personal analysis, he recovers a certain existential courage and decides to live it "in the light of the sun".

A short film made in 1987 on the occasion of Serge Lemoyne's exhibition "Station supplémentaire. Hommage aux artistes vivants". The exhibition paid homage to several figures of the contemporary art scene whom the painter named as influences : Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Ulysse Comtois, Armand Vaillancourt, COZIC, Yves Gaucher, François Sullivan, Guido Molinari, Claude Tousignant and "the unknown artists".

Modern Mayan medicine

Discusses aspects of pet ownership, including quality time, a good home, investment, medical care, and other vital matters in a dog or cat's life.

The folk song "Between mountain and deep, deep valley..." is illustrated. Two hares think the hunter has shot them dead. When they realize that this is not the case, they happily hop away.

This short impression was made from the film footage which had not been used in the film ‘Hommage à Beksiński’ screened at the Film Festival in Cannes in 1986 and is a product of one artist’s fascination with another artist, outstanding painter Zdzisław Beksiński. It is an attempt to add extra meaning to well-known works by Beksiński using the means of expressions applied in the film. The challenge for the viewer is to discover references.

A Valentine's Day special featuring rock and roll music set to scenes from Disney animation.

Two women are trapped in a building with a vampire by night.

Shimon Bar Yohai was a second century visionary who, according to popular belief, wrote the Zohar, the main Kabbalah text of the Jewish mystical tradition. The film's images -- tree, mirror, candelabra and the ten dots with which each is constructed -- are Kaballah figures for how the world got started and keeps going. Once every year there is a celebration honoring Bar Yohai at his tomb in Meron, Israel. The last scene is composed from photographs taken on the roof of the tomb during the celebration. The soundtrack, a song praising Bar Yohai, was also recorded during the celebration in a town (Safed) a few miles from the tomb. Support for the film's production came from a fellowship Award in Film, New York Foundation for the Arts; funds for participation in the celebration were from a Humanities Faculty Grant, Cornell University.

A truly canine Christmas adventure with Milroy, a loveable klutzy pup, who is adopted by Santa and Mrs. Claus

An animator draws a rat then a cat, who proceed to chase each other through the animator's constantly-changing backgrounds and animation styles.

An experimental short by Peter Rose.

The mighty Mississippi River is celebrated in by folk, pop and country singers.

Legendary opera singer Maria Callas had an extraordinary career, colored as much by supreme success as it was by terrible heartache. Yet despite her tumultuous private life, Callas's powerful soprano voice rarely faltered. Narrated by Rosalie Crutchley, this well-rounded documentary features extensive interviews and numerous performances, including the diva's final concert in Tokyo and a rare recording taken a class at the Julliard School.

Performance artist and UT art professor David Leslie (whose New York performance, in which viewers were offered $1,000 to knock out the artist, was mentioned in the Feb. 23 "News of the Weird") is known ­ for obvious reasons ­ as the Impact Addict. A former UT sculpture student who later moved to New York and switched to performance art, Leslie has been called by The New York Times the "Evel Knievel of performance art." Celebrated indie actor/filmmaker Larry Fessenden (Bad Habits) filmed some of Leslie's shows. Four short videos are compiled here in a sampler of performance artist and thrill-seeker Leslie's death-defying feats in the streets and clubs of Manhattan. Included: "Impact Addict," "Chinatown," "Mismatch," and "Kung Fu Fighting."

Experimental short by Yosuke Okawado.

Two flies land on a man's nose and take a bite.

8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.

A landmark Christian music concert film, Sandi Patti: Let There Be Praise – The Concert Video captures the award‑winning soprano at the height of her 1980s popularity, delivering a powerhouse live performance filled with warmth, inspiration, and signature vocal brilliance. Filmed during her 1986 Let There Be Praise tour and released by Word, Inc. in 1987, the concert showcases Sandi Patti’s soaring range and expressive stage presence, supported by the acclaimed vocal trio First Call, who appear courtesy of DaySpring Records.

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric and provides training in body language, gesture and facial expression. The aim of selling something has always been a principle of mercantile action. Yet it was only through the marriage of psychology and modern capitalism that the idea of selling oneself was perfected.

An unprecedented piece of news spreads through the village: a comrades’ court is to be held between collective farm brigade leader Yakiv Brus and an old woman named Motria, whom he struck on the head. The village club fills with people eager to sort out what seems to be every pressing issue at once.

Uncle Tigran purchases some arid desert land which he intends to farm. The land is obviously impossible to render productive; yet the uncle persists in tilling the soil, planting his crops. He decides against all reason to produce pomegranate trees, since he associates the fruit with his Assyrian past.

Malcolm Douglas follows this elusive river through the unique wetlands of the Macquarie Marshes in western New South Wales. In two Canadian canoes, he and his mates push through the lush swamps and film the abundant wildlife.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A comedy about a man living in a remote village who is not feeling well. His wife and his sister must take him to see a doctor. The movie inspired the hit series 'Djekna jos nije umrla a kad ce ne znamo' released the following year.

An abstract animated short in which a solitary figure journeys through a surreal tunnel filled with shifting imagery and symbolic encounters. The film uses experimental visual techniques to evoke themes of introspection, subconscious exploration, and existential passage.

This is 8mm film footage documenting the Democratic National Funeral held for the late Lee Han-yeol on July 9, 1987. It was shot by Kim Si-cheon, a member of Dolbit, the Korea University Film Study Group, as part of the club’s activities. The material was never screened—even within the club—after it was filmed. It includes, among other scenes, a speech in front of Seoul City Hall by Lee In-young, who at the time served as chair of the Seoul Area College Student Representatives Council and president of the Korea University Student Union. A primary historical record of the funeral, captured from the perspective of a student participant.

A film based on the poem of the same name by Georg Heym (1911).

A border village during the Iran-Iraq war experiences the evils of war from the viewpoint of a young man who reflects on the fate that befell his village in this grinding war. The reality of war is reflected by the villagers who try to lead a normal life despite all the hardships they are facing.

Four Texan women, sitting in a living room, are discussing penises.

A misanthrope courts a woman during a weekend retreat, and their parents get in the way.

This Super 8 short film was discovered on May 22, 2024, at the Paraguayan-German Cultural Institute in Asunción. The film is the result of a workshop produced by the ICPA's film department in 1987, led by filmmaker Marie Louise Alemann, a pioneer of experimental cinema in Argentina.

A doll and her plush friend ponders what it means to have a heart.

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A man with no memory and mysterious powers searches for his purpose.

"The presence of two quite different towers on such a restricted space, located each, respectively, at a small distance from the Belgian-Dutch border inspires this video. In 1948, the fall of Prague brought about the birth of NATO and, indirectly, the establishment of supreme headquarter in Benelux, at Brunssum (Netherlands) in 1967 : known as AFCENT (Allied Forces Central Europe). In the second century AD, Hermas, one of the lost prophets of the church of Rome predicted the construction of a tower. It came about in 1964 at Eben-Ezer. Mr Garcet is not merely the builder of this tower, but also the architect of an universal, mystical and deeply pacifist school of thought : "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Isaiah, 2.4) As for AFCENT, they took over Charlemagne's arms and motto : "I fight against injustice and I destroy all trace of evil"." (Site de l'auteur)

A poor African tribe gradually turned into monkeys. In order to become human again, they had to find the person who would lead them to the spirit, to the dream, to climb to the top of the tree of life.