Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

We're gonna squeeze those cheeseburgers outta those hips - alright, and those French fries - and that carrot cake!

Report on the forming of the new residential area Thälmannpark, beginning with the still working gasworks, up to inauguration of the monument of Thälmann.

Karate Kat betrays the myth of a graceful feline in his half-hour animated series. First aired on The Comic Strip in the late '80s, The Aristokratic Kapers follows a martial arts expert who heads the McClaw Detective Agency. The crime-fighting fur ball must contend with a trio of evil-doing misfits: Sumo Cat, Burglar Cat, and Mafia Cat. Karate Kat is joined by other lively characters like Meow-Baby, Katmandu, and Cat Gut. Using his sixth sense and somewhat questionable physical prowess, Kat takes the view on a series of misadventures.

A white deck chair, a large fan, a bonsai, combs of mother-of-pearl, a decapitated head carved out of wood, long hat pins to pierce its eyes and tongue and for adorning the hair, a red dressing gown, a white silk nightdress. Through the justification of the biblical story of Judith, the performance explores the theme of violence and vulnerability, plunging into an ocean of luminous and murderous eroticism.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and later as part of an improvised and computer music performance with Keith Rowe at the London Filmmakers Cooperative, December 1989.

A film on Super-8 by Scott Stark

High in the Andes, the ruins at Pisaq are not as 'spectacular' as they are at Machu Picchu, but the stone work is finer.

The different traditions interfere with the details, but their fire is the same. It is an undeniable fact that Saint Maria lived during the Ottoman domination and even during the time of the tyranny of Epirus Ali Pasha (1788 - 1822 AD). She was a girl of great beauty. But her physical beauty was in accord with the beauty of her soul. Her ornaments were modesty, piety and temperance. Although at a very young age, she had a mature thought. She resisted all the pleasures that sweet and sly come to destroy the youthful souls. She had decided to devote herself entirely to God. She came from a village in Ioannina. According to tradition, Ali's Pasha's spy saw the Holy Koris, and was surprised by her beauty. He ordered with great secrecy to circle her monastery, capture her and carry her to his palace. But God did not leave this youthful soul helpless.

I spent six months in Guinea - Conakry - between February and July 1986; shooting alone in Super8, I filmed elements of people’s lives and fragments of my own. (Françoise Prenant)

A 1987 video by Cecilia Dougherty

Enter the desert's magical spirit by navigating through narrow slot canyons. Gliding past statuesque saguaro cactus and exploring underground caverns. Music score by David Lanz and Paul Speer.

Contains interview footage with Tarkovsky as he discusses each of his seven major films. He also talks about his world-view and his philosophy of filmmaking. The film also includes footage of a Tarkovsky lecture to young film students in which he expresses his thoughts on modern cinema. Tarkovsky’s widow Larissa is also interviewed. Contains no original Tarkovsky footage/interviews.

Mickey Mouse visits the fire station to see how firefighters put out fires.

Inspired by Wendy Lichtman's story, Ustaoğlu's second short film portrays a little girl's discovery of death.

A film on the subject of peace. The authors' discussion partners, who contribute their own reflections and assessments to the film, are the translator Georgia Peet, the toxicologist and chemist Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Lohs, the pastor Jan Laser, the stonemason Ralph Jeremias and Major General Hans Unterdörfel.

Male duet, essentially sexual, treated as cosa mental by repetitive, division of the image, unframed, etc. Shot in interiors, with electroacoustic music.

A earthworm must be very cunning to cope with large clumping shoes, sharp shovels and other attack-like objects in a dangerous world.

Out of time, out of reach of voice, fuzzy and without logic, skeletons dance with raw meat spinning. A horse race within the walls of Berlin. And two halves that leave a gaping hole.

Humorous tale about a boy who imagines that his candle-lit pumpkin turns into a monster on Halloween night.

Documentary that narrates the birth of airships in Germany.

In 1967, in the middle of the Chinese cultural revolution, an opera singer is sent to the other side of the country to be "re-educated". He leaves behind his young pregnant wife. Seven years later, rehabilitated, he is allowed to return to his native village. He will not find his wife, who has since died. And one thought obsesses him: How to recognize his child, whom he has never seen, how to go to meet him?

Film by Matthias Glasner.

A conference given by Gilles Deleuze on the act of creation, taped on video.

An episodic road movie, “Undivided Attention” offers experiences in cinematic metaphor and structure that contradict, tickle and soothe our desire to understand and make sense of what we see or think we see. A young couple driving in an open car take the viewer through more than twenty intriguing sequences that stimulate the visual sensibility as the film explores the relationship between intellectual and sensual knowledge. It also comments on some conventions of narrative and documentary and has some fun with film theory. “Undivided Attention” works on various levels, the most accessible being entertainment value and on a more astute level, the cinematic exploration of denotation/connotation in an oblique narrative. It is a rich and challenging film that is also a pleasure to watch. - 42nd Edinburgh International Film Festival

He raps and zaps, has smokin' feet and fun!" and introducing... The Grabowskis Ditka has another winning team on his hands... and this one works and plays at life, not football! It's a fun look at some real people who have dreams and aren't afraid to work hard toward those dreams. This video is a treat that's honest, inspirational and fun... it's family entertainment at its best!.

Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control. Taking the figure of Thelma, a woman working with the plutonium monitors at the core of a reactor, Lahire questions both the process at the core of the plutonium terminal and that one that constructs female identity. Plutonium Blonde is part of a trilogy of films on radiation (the other two are Uranium Hex and Serpent River) that Lahire made in the 1980s.

Dan Minahan's peculiar take on art critic Gregory Battock( a woman reads Battock's essay; he's in Puerto Rico with his boyfriend).

Based on the episodes about Gavroche from Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables.

An 87 year old clown talks about his life in the circus. He puts his make up on and shows personal belongings that have been stowed away for 20 years. A life full of memories.

In a run-down hotel, only one room with two double beds is still available. The head porter, a former foreign legionnaire, and the shady hotel manager have double-booked this one room. First to an exhausted couple and then to a sales representative who is expecting his mistress, a dancer. But on this very day, his wife visits him as a birthday surprise. So now there are two couples and a dancer in one room, and even the pull-out folding screen is no solution. Everyone discovers a stranger, half-dressed, almost dressed, in the bathroom, in the beds, in the room.

The film follows Eisenberg as he explores Europe, focusing on France, Germany, and Poland. His journey is shaped by questions about signs, landscapes, memories, and fixed meanings. He visits historical sites, including the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps.

In this 80s answer to burlesque for the video age, a comedian hosts / introduces a succession of strippers.

1987, 30 sec, color, sound Produced for an Artbreak segment on MTV Network, this dynamic "thirty-second spot" presents an abbreviated history of animation according to the representation of women, from the cell imagery of Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series to the contemporary digital effects of television. In Birnbaum's vision, Fleischer's spilled inkwell releases cartoon bubbles containing images of women from MTV music videos. With wit and panache, Birnbaum reverses the traditional sexual roles of the producer and product of commercial imagery: The final image is that of a female artist on whose video "palette" we see a glimpse of Fleischer.

Video aspirin starts off getting some of the tricky parts out of the way, like how to properly sit in a chair, breathe and count to 3. Don't worry, trained professionals are guiding you along the whole way. You'll also be able to watch experienced sitters and breathers in action, doing it properly. And there is relaxing ambient music to help CALM you. Additionally, we are treated to such nuggets of wisdom as"you'll do it the natural way, without drugs" That's right , you'll be able to treat your ailments the way God intended, by staring at a screen!

This is a film about the language and perception of love and romance. The film blurs the line between fact and fiction, personal and cultural experience.

The dramatic and scandalous life of the variously renowned and reviled poet, screenwriter and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is reportedly poorly served in this highly allegorical and intellectual film which focuses rather more on his poetic and intellectual contributions to Italian Marxism than anyone except a highly intellectual Italian Marxist could possibly want to know. This is hardly surprising, given that the neophyte director of this film has a day job as an assistant professor of "the sociology of conscience." Pasolini, who at one point was convicted of the crime of "offending the religion of the (Italian) state" (Catholicism), later received the Grand Prize from the Catholic Film Office for his straightforward and stunning film of Il Vangelo Secundo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew).

When his grandfather dies, a young child is comforted by a friendship with an elderly man.

A film about a lonely child and the self-absorbed parents: "What shall we do with little Jill? Imagine sitting in a chair all day. Maybe we should give her something nice - a picture"? But a picture can not want to speak with - or? In the picture sits a girl who wants a horse - and Jill goes into the world to find.

Directed by Ali Al Ghazouli.

'Rapture' is a fierce vision of a Dionysian experience, a tightly controlled visual statement about the abandonment of self to heightened transportive states. It is also an exploration of the similarity between 'religious' and 'visionary' ecstasy and psychotic states.

Chinese movie , Shanghai Film Studio in 1987, the film is based on the French writer Jules Verne's novel "a Chinese gentleman ordeal" , starring comedian Peisi; its main plot: The story takes place in 1915 Shanghai. Jinfu million young master inherited his father's estate shortly after the sudden bankruptcy, since plummeted into a pauper. His whimsical, wanted to use his own life in exchange for huge insurance compensation, to repay worked in distress to help his fiancee Lotus and butler Wang Zhe. After all the hardships, he finally came to understand that money does not equal happiness and joy.

An animated musical short about the strange animal Hugo living in the jungle.

A brunch turns deadly.

Film collage with documentary material from the time of the German economic miracle. The "Golden" 50s run in a serene potpourri of weekly clips, old cinema, and party advertising, demonstrate the attempts of the revived industry to change consumer habits. In between, pictures of the politicians of the first hour. All this in the nostalgia touch of a time when nylons triumphed.