Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

Let’s work, but how? reproachfully asks one of the workers from the Station for the Mechanization of Agriculture (SMA) in Țăndărei, where filmmaker T. Barta was sent to document the lives of an agricultural brigade. Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, the film was intended for screening in cinemas. Eight days had been allocated for the full shoot, without prior recce. On the first day, the filmmaker gathered the men round a fire—without having informed the local mayor, the Party Secretary or the head of the SMA, as was customary at the time—and recorded their thoughts about their work: sound only, no images. Once that was completed, the remaining days were dedicated to collecting images of the community.

Mig is cast away to an isolated island of love...

Student film depicting recess at a grade school.

Megha Aa throws light on many social issues: a love story, the struggle of a lonely woman, the misdeeds of the liquor mafia, the spirit of the Indian Army.

When wonders of nature - dazzling metamorphoses of living creatures and the beauty of it all - astound us, we are often captured by mysterious inner functions, mechanisms and principles, as well as what we can see

All I Want To Do - Keep On Moving - Watchdogs - Tell It Like It Is - Please Don't Make Me Cry - Johnny Too Bad - Don't Blame Me - 1 In 10 - Sing Our Own Song - Don't Break My Heart - Rat In Mi Kitchen - If It Happens Again

An animated film about the appropriateness of new technology and its effects on people. The case in point revolves around a bank whose human tellers find themselves unemployed when they are replaced by electronic tellers. A mild-mannered client of the bank is overwhelmed and humiliated by his first encounter with the dispassionate computer.

In the middle of snowy mountains, a yeti stumbles upon a television set and is shocked by his discovery of human entertainment.

How a Hedgehog dug a well in the desert, although everyone around assured that no one needed it.

About a bird that envied others for everything until it acquired a strange tail, feathers, beak and wings. After that he stopped being himself, his own people didn't recognize him and he almost fell prey to a hungry fox.

Chinese emigration in Cuba and its presence as an integral element of national miscegenation.

These are two diaries (filmed) from the holidays at the foot of the cliffs of Etretat, which served as a style exercise for me.

The film presents the most important features of the Rondas Campesinas in their conflict with rustlers in Chota, in the Department of Cajamarca in the 1970s. Ronderos surprise three rustlers stealing cattle and hand them over to the authorities. But they release the rustlers, who go back to steal and kill a peasant. Faced with this murder, the ronderos capture the rustlers and decide to reeducate them, so they learn to work and become useful people for their community. With the participation of the members of the Rondas Campesinas from Chota and teachers of the normal school of Chota.

Bob Hope 1987 Easter special on NBC.

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.

A work of often visceral power, 'An I For An I' is a dynamic cultural statement on the internalization of racism and violence. Andrews assails the cause and effect of institutionalized and mass media exploitation, which he states is "directed at and produced by our culture, attacking the mind and the body." Bold images—a fist punching a stomach, a knife slapping an outstretched palm—convey the impact of what he terms "fighting not to become what we are fighting against." The recurring image and sound of the abdomen being punched are ultimately replaced by Andrews' fist hitting his own hand. In one sequence, he builds an explosive collage of cinematic and media violence, from the mindless warfare of Rambo to blaxploitation and pornography films.

Everything is sunny, everything is colorful, but the most colorful is the flag of Veselyaka, with which he happily goes against the current, storms, and crowds. However, fate prepares trials for him, and each of them tears a piece of cloth from the waving flag, until in the end only the handle of the flag remains. Carrying this stick, the Jolly One joins the crowd. There are thousands like him, ferocious people with sticks.

When a dragon comes to an quiet rural village and steals 1 apple from a tree the village people get into quite a bustle.

An institutional documentary short, produced by EMPLASA, on the fast and messy urban development of the city of São Paulo over the course of the twentieth century, and the problems faced by the city and its inhabitants.

A journey to one of the most controversial places on the planet the NSA, CIA secret base, Pine Gap.

The Best of Electric Blue, volume 6. The World's Most Beautiful Girls.

About animals in the zoo and returning them home.

This magical, haunting film noir reminds us that separate lives and actions often intersect without our knowledge and that man can transcend his fate and purge the terror encumbering human nature. The visceral photography and tightly cut score imbue this dramatic comedy with a celebration of life at its most ironic.

A personal portrayal of Peter Weiss’ period as a painter and filmmaker in Sweden before his rise to fame.

In Tungabhadra, the images are limited to one place. The use of the same way of filming as well as the repeated images structure the film. They accentuate the atmosphere and character of the landscape. Water is an important recurring theme and the Tungabhadra River is as essential to the film as it is vital to the ancient capital of Vijayanagara. The film constantly returns to the river and the reflection of the enormous rocks in it. Here, the tranquility and disappearance of time are reinforced by the slow panoramic views in which reality and its reflection, the past and the present, merge into abstract patterns of light and shadow.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Feature film that shows us the festivities of the Virgen del Carmen in the Colca Valley, through the oral traditions narrated by the inhabitants of the Colca Valley, it shows religious syncretism and how the Spanish implanted their culture and in particular the Catholic religion; Well, this was the justification for the conquest. The evangelization campaigns aimed to destroy the indigenous imagination and convert all indigenous people to the Christian religion.

Film by Jon Behrens

A Northumbrian soul: the language and history of a landscape in the music of Kathryn Tickell.

In Manhattan, garbage pickup requires cars to be moved each night to the alternate side of the street. This video describes the intricate rules & penalties during a frantic comic search for a valid parking space for the following day. The host Happy Parker introduces the rules and searches for space.

After purchasing magical wax, a local window cleaner becomes a surfing legend with his teleporting surf wax. Music by Gang-GaJang

Short film.

Short film by Claude Copin.

A dramatic rendering of an ancient Celtic myth, Cerridwen’s Gift vividly recounts the tale of how the Welsh people received the gift of poetry and prophecy. The film’s heroine, Cerridwen, is a wise woman and brewer of the cauldron of inspiration. The film tells the story of Cerridwen’s plans to bestow a gift on her son, and the twist of fate which results in the wrong person receiving the gift.

From the snow-laden roads of Monte Carlo to the dusty tracks of Spain, the 1987 World Rally Championship provided entertainment to rival any previous race series. This DVD travels the full twelve rounds, with superb camerawork from the very heart of the action. Lancia were favourites but BMW, Mazda and Audi were intent on blocking runaway success for the Italian marque. Reigning champion Juha Kankkunen was the driver they all wanted to beat, but team orders demanded that on occasion he be 'allowed' to win. At other times Micki Biasion led as the HF4WDs were put into front running places. All of the flips, dips and hard-core dirt road action is captured during the battle for finish line honours. Not until the very last round of the RAC Rally could the champion be guessed at, in what turned into a thrilling season finale.

Twelve months after the tragedy-struck Portuguese World Championship Rally, the top teams and drivers returned to the country for the third round of the 1987 contest with mixed emotions. So much had changed. Drivers had changed factories. Factories had left the sport only for others to join in. It was always so, but the major change in the intervening period had been the cars themselves - pulled back more towards standard specification by stringent rule-changes - most as a direct result of Portugal 1986 and the later death of Henri Toivonen and his co-driver in the Tour de Corse. The cameras were rolling just the same though, and some top-class shots and sequences were extracted from the rally, which featured the major factories struggling to maintain progress against the stiff odds of suspension unequal to the very rough roads.

Short documentary about the new ICE. On March 19, 1985, the ICE was officially handed over to the Bundesbahn at Krupp in Essen during a rollout ceremony attended by invited guests, experts and media representatives.

The London Dockland Development Corporation has been given a free hand by the government to regenerate the Docklands, but local people are suffering as compulsory purchase increases homelessness and few jobs have been created for them.

Lisa has a guinea pig and already knows well how to take care of it. Her friend Janis is also allowed to buy one. He prepares a cage and food, and the guinea pig soon feels at home. At the end of the film, both children let their animals play together.

A homeless man lives in a makeshift shack made of cardboard and junk. At night he travels the expressway collecting waste from the city and meets other nocturnal characters.

The protagonist of the film is the director's fellow villager Dmytro Fedorivskyi, nicknamed Mytia Karakhanchyk. He is a simple man - a farm loader who transports milk to the factory in the district, but he has so much humanity and warmth in him. He would bring medicine to someone from the district, buy some groceries for someone, or shovel snow near a widow's house. He was truly a merciful soul for many elderly people in his village.

16-minute film on Medical School surgery class: students watching an instructor operate on a dog. With comments by professionals, criticizing lack of sensitivity and skill. Filmed by the Medical School for internal use only. Obtained and released to the press by P.E.T.A.

Horror film based on the legend of Mae Nak Phra Khanong.

Documentary about the longest running industrial dispute in South Africa between British Tyre and Rubber's BTR Sarmcol and their black employees, represented by their union the MAWU of which two shop stewards, Simon Ngubane and Phineas Sibeya, are interviewed.

This powerful study of the human cost of globalisation connects declining industry and growing social inequality in the UK to the exploitation of labour in the Global South.

Documentary about drunkenness and alcoholism in the Soviet Union.

Anthropological tourism in New Guinea. Ten days of immersion in Irian Jaya.

Erasure live in concert at the Brighton Dome Pavilion Theatre, recorded 17 April 1987.

Goran Rebić’s first film, Gekommen bin ich der Arbeit wegen, is a tracing of the stations that his father Ratko passed through as guest worker in a foreign land, in Austria. Domovina, a musical tale of the old Serbian folksong, leads to Austria and to the Serbian-Romanian border, a dreamlike and melancholic melody of the diaspora. The documentary essay During the Many Years , which requires no socio-historical explanation and no narrator, reproduces a collection of impressions during a journey to Tbilissi (Tiflis) in May 1991.

A caterpillar tries to impress a suitor with his mating dance.

An experimental film in which the viewer is hurtled through a series of dreamscapes. Optical printing is used to alter the experience of time, giving ordinary images a foreboding quality. By Gregory Anthon. 1987, 16mm, 5 mins., B&W, sound.

A recreation of Michael Jackson's Captain EO with Disney characters made by Disneyland Cast Members. This video was shown at area parties at the end-of-the-summer season and after Christmas for Disneyland's cast members.

A GDR documentary from 1987 that shows the lives of commuters from the districts of Marzahn, Hohenschönhausen and Hellersdorf. Historically, it also goes back even further to the beginnings of Berlin's light rail system.

In preparation for the 1987 men’s World Weightlifting Championships, the Bulgarian weightlifting team must endure torturous training in order to reach their maximum potential. But at what cost?