Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

A young, inexperienced, and deeply in love man takes everything seriously, unlike his friend, for whom everything is just a fleeting game.

Comedy about Harry Ackerman's nightmares about fun seekers and their skiing adventures. Rodney Mullen and Robby Naish are also included.

Pervin is the daughter of a millionaire factory owner. One day, one of the workers on her father's farm catches her attention. She decides to help Arif, whose voice she admires, become a singer. Meanwhile, Arif falls in love with the girl, but she is engaged to Tarık, the manager of her father's factory.

Directed by Suresh.

Alternatively known as Bottle, this PIF dates from 1987 and warns of the perils of littering

An ancient fairy tale tells that Athanga created the world with animals and humans. Since the creatures soon began to quarrel with each other, he decided that from then on, everyone would only live for a short time and then die. This brought much suffering upon the people, but the power of laughter remained with them.

The title means "fire poker" in Hokkaido dialect. It could be said to be a 3-minute condensed version of "Guiding Star." Using film I shot when I was a freshman in college and footage of my current shadow, I made this film wondering how much story I could fit into the limited 3-minute 8mm cartridge.

The film depicts life in Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war through the characters of the fighters Jabbar and Imad (played by Jalal Kamel and Nizar Al-Samarrai). They live in the city of Basra and the Iraqi countryside amidst the war atmosphere. Jalal develops a love relationship with the beautiful girl Soha, and they both join their military duties.

Am is a singer in a music club and needs to be hostess with customers. A producer and a journalist are looking for new singers. They notice Am. Nowadays being capable is not enough, the journalist would like to request more from Am but she doesn't play such bad game. She made a first music album with the producer. The journalist writes a bad article on Am regarding her relationship with a married man in order to boost record sales. She has to deal with these bad articles by the journalist. Meanwhile, she falls in love with Win, a man who was coming to see her sing every evening.

On the banks of a marvelous lake lost in the sands of Qazaqstan, there were four strong houses interconnected with striped gardens. Hermits lived there: grandfather Matvey, Baba Verunya, Marusya and Lenya. They lived at odds with nature and were happy. But once aliens visited the Seventh Edge – those were stray Moscow scientists who inadvertently disrupted the peaceful life of the quiet place.

An angel appears above a gray, large-panel housing estate. He is noticed by a violinist and a party dignitary. For the musician, the angel is a source of inspiration; for the man of power - a pretext for a cynical political game.

Three stories in which one of the protagonists is a metered car driver.

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris Cross) riles and emits unintelligibly to the viewer. Conjuring the mystical biblical character Lilith, Steina's video layers both sound and image to produce an ever-shifting, frustrated presence.

The film is an illustration of Wanda Chotomska's poem "Neon Cow." Panorama of Warsaw. Neon rain falls, creating neon signs on the streets and buildings. The main character, a neon cow, wanders around the city. A drop of neon milk falls and the rain washes away the traces of her walk.

Laura, a very talented 11 year old violin player, is mentored by her teacher.

A short film by George Kuchar.

A sexual assault and its consequences. The 2nd of three self-contained shorts from Helke Sander's series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services.

The film presents a series of portraits of women working in traditional male jobs in the transport industry: the SNCF, the RATP, Air France and Air Inter, and at Paris airports. Each woman talks about her professional choice, her training, what responsibilities she holds, where she fits within the company, and her work relationships. They all underline the need to be organised to manage personal and professional lives, and the growing number of women who choose these jobs. They are on the whole positive and their views often inspiring.

Halloween television special loosely based on the Mexican version of "The Rocky Horror Show".

A short film about the events of life taking place in a sink.

It was Antonio Vivaldi who developed the classic symphony orchestra, added coloration to the strings and wind instruments to the ensemble, originated the concerto for solo instruments, and was considered to be one of the greatest violinists of the 18th century. This biographical program chronicles the life and musical styles of Vivaldi, with on-location footage and lush studio re-creations of original settings showcasing the astonishing variety of Vivaldi’s works. Included are extracts from operas, oratorios, masses and sonatas, and concertos for flute, oboe, and trumpets, as well as such violin concertos as The Four Seasons. Fifteen-year-old prodigy Corey Cerovsek portrays the young Vivaldi, and world-renowned violinist Steven Staryk plays Vivaldi as a grown man.

This early HIV/AIDS film uses the popular and compelling narrative format of the telenovela to illuminate the effects of AIDS on a cross-section ofthe Latino community in Northern California. Different families and individual characters address complex issues such as sexual practice, sexual identity, and drug use in the family. Touches upon safer sex, male homosexuality and bisexuality, and does well representing several Spanish-language idioms. Allows for the development of an elaborate story encouraging honesty and cultural survival as well as self-criticism within the Latino community.

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

The film tells the story of a prisoner who is exiled to a village. Kemal, who has been in prison for many years for murder, is released. On his way home, he kills a man who is harassing his wife. He is imprisoned again before he can reunite with his family. He serves nine years in prison. During this time, his reputation as a tough guy grows. In the last two years of his sentence, Kemal is given a banishment penalty. In the village he is banished to, he will get into trouble with the village chief and the tough guy.

Documentary by students of the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam about memories of Camp Westerbork.

Hides fragments left out of the films, but also independent sections. Offers the opportunity to observe the experiments and fantasy mobility of the creators.

“Two color monitors placed in the window played one of Nauman’s most recent videos, that of a clown jumping up and down shouting ‘No, No, No, No!’ endlessly. Nauman’s videos confront the viewer with behavior normally thought unacceptable. The clown’s simple declarative statement takes on new meaning and creates tension and anxiety for the viewer.” The New Museum Annual Report, 1988

At the end of the first World War, Canadian soldiers revolt against the bad condition they endured while in Wales.

Alfons Karásek has an important task ahead of him – to introduce his young protégé, who is still very inexperienced in this field, to the art of seducing girls. The opportunity arises on a hunting trip…

The Xerox photocopies of the source material were reproduced through approximately five generations. Through two vectors movement through space and movement across generations of copies the work attempts to expose what exists between the image and ourselves. The original motivation behind the piece was the desire to create a perspective-shifting photographic animation using Xerox copies. However, during the production process, the theme gradually shifted toward depicting “something invisible between the subject and the object.”

The film explores the theme of war, depicting the extremely harsh realities of people’s lives, interwoven with love stories of young people during wartime.

A crazy rich girl, Sissy Ronasi, turns the island upside down, where she has gone on vacation. The active charmers come up with tricks to seduce her. Who will Sissy choose in the end?

Colorful, energetic, delicate and sensual, this early short by M.M. Serra presents her unique vision of eroticism and poetic cinema in a fast-paced collage of dreamlike imagery. Fragments of a poem by C. Breeze are read and manipulated in a manner recalling the tape experiments of Steve Reich. Rich reds and deep blues stutter and sparkle along with her descriptions of love and "canine sex." TURNER is a brief glimpse at Serra's roots in the New York avant-garde and the Film-makers' Cooperative.

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been duplicated during the night, and that I was an inferior replica of myself'. There follows a relentless, epic, pursuit of an absconding phantom - his 'original' - which ends in catastrophe at Valtos, a place at once ethereal and terrifying.

Three masked crimefighters travel to South America to battle a gang of counterfeiters.

This analysis is based on an ideological commentary on Renoir's film. From the beginning, the reading, unilateral, gives keys to interpret the characters: "These are shadows returning to the castle". Renoir "paints the lie of a society that no longer believes in its own values".

Three brothers, who spy on and mistrust each other, live together in a large neglected house. They are holding an elderly painter prisoner, trying by all means to make him paint again.

Volume Three

Blue-collar workers, executives, and other people at the Pirelli Bicocca plant talk about the upcoming shutdown of the factory. It's the end for a piece of history of Italian industry and also for a place of memory of workers' struggle: the movie documents the different reactions and scales of awareness determined by class belonging to the functions held in the factory by the interviewees.

Part 1 of the "Images of the Unconscious" documental series.

About the fact that honesty will get you the furthest... The main characters of the fairy tale are two tinkers, a now extinct profession in which men travel the countryside and repair earthenware pots for peasants and the like. The older of them, Jura, tries to earn some extra money in all sorts of ways other than honest work, while the younger Martin is an honest man from the bone and a hard worker to behold. We also meet poor Vojta, who catches birds, the beautiful and rich Eliška and robbers, but most importantly we understand that honesty will get you the furthest in life.

In this work of documentary fiction, an archivist attempts to put together the "lost years" of Eleanor Antinova, the once-celebrated black ballerina of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, when she returned to her native America to eke out a meager living in vaudeville and early cinema. Eleanor Antin uses fictional characters, autobiography, and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls "the slippery nature of the self".

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and maestro, Paulo Moura, talks about his influences and show his passion for the samba.

A highly subjective documentary about the life of “professional criminal“ Bernhard Kimmel, who became a serious criminal as a teenager after the end of the war in 1945 by committing petty crimes with found weapons and made a name for himself as the head of the Palatinate Al-Capone gang in the early 1960s. Peter Fleischmann observed Kimmel between 1970 and 1987, interviewing acquaintances, police officers and repeatedly Kimmel himself, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1985 for the murder of a police officer. The grand design of the long-term observation of a human life itself contributes to the creation of legends and is criminologically and psychologically unfounded.

Big Black's final show, at the Georgetown Steamplant in Seattle, August 9, 1987.

Donna Edmondson was Playboy Playmate of the Month for November 1986 and Playmate of the Year 1987. She was awarded the prestigious title of Playboy Playmate at the age of 20.

A young vagabond travels along the Aurelia roadway in northern Italy where he meets a woman.

Vangos and Thomas, two twin brothers, live together and have the misfortune of looking like two drops of water. On the one hand, Vangos is a cleftron, while Thomas is a policeman in the Department of the neighborhood where they live. Their similarity and their opposite views, about what is right and honest, confuse them and create a series of misunderstandings...