Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

Psychobilly farce that quips with cheap horror classics, in particular The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Gags from American horror films are also used. Shorty, a punk heroine, falls into a strange work of real-life horror scenes. In an average day she meets carnivorous plants, giant bean pods and a few living brains. She thinks something in town isn't "right." She tries to warn her friends that danger is around the corner, but no one listens until one day ...

A film about the daily life of reindeer herders and the harsh nature of the northern tundra, about the hardships and challenges faced by people living in the high latitudes.

Recovered Zulueta short.

Documentary film that follows a group of Swedish engineers who build Sweden's first spacecraft.

A mobster tries to destroy the career of a young Black boxer. The same mobster murdered the family of a Korean martial arts master. The two join forces to get even with the mobster and get a shot at the heavyweight championship.

As the title reveals it, this film belongs to a larger multi media project imagined by the artist filmaker Maurice Lemaître, around the theme of the irreversible. Besides the requirement of shooting at the exhibition site of part two of the same project by Hélène Richol, I was free to respond to the concept as I felt it; and according to my usual way of working, I played with materiality of the original footage, manipulating it to its point of no return. By the same time I was also to turn over the meaning of the word, the irreversible became reversible through the flipping of the emulsion right to left, top to bottom, front to back.

A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.

Judith Williamson examines consumer culture in America, from the multiplication of products and their functions to capitalism’s colonization of the body. What is the meaning of freedom in modern day America? Is it the freedom to change the world or the freedom to change our socks?

Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George Csicsery has given his heart to this fascinating subculture where all the women are beautiful, all the men are mysterious and all the endings are happy.

Super 8mm. Colour. Silent with tape, and with in-person performance. 17 minutes.

Work is becoming more service oriented and more and more services rely upon us doing harm to each other. In most people's lives, work operates as a degrading and debilitating force. It disables people's critical and perception capacities. Unless workers assume responsibility for evaluating the meaning and implications of the work they do, there will never be the capacity to redirect the modern work institutions from their courses of violence and exploitation. Built in seven parts which correspond to each day of the week, this film studies the relationship between work being done and the nature of the people that are doing it.

In one neighborhood, Helen has her own band, Rock Panther, which is made up of only boys. In the same neighborhood, Paul has his own band, the Amazons, made up of only girls. Between Helen and Paul there is an unceasing rivalry and an endless hatred, but it hides a great love within. The great dream of both of them is to participate in the Eurovision Festival. Which of them will succeed in getting the golden ticket? Which one will win?

Art Is Reactionary is the 10-minute video recording of a performance by Carolee Schneemann dating from 1987. Carolee Schneemann shares the stage with her ideal double, an African American. On a stage, the two women start their story using the heralding expression of fairy tales: “Once upon a time...” They speak into the same microphone, their voices combine and each becomes the echo of the other. Three people stand downstage, like a Classical chorus. A woman flanked by two men dialogues with the two performers through their voices, but also by an alternating play of the black and white of their clothes and skin. Slides relating to sexuality, close ups of sexual organs, are projected on stage. Schneemann and her double move within the field of projection of the images while reciting a text dealing with the role of women in society and the question of feminism in artistic practice.

A one-woman cabaret show about famous female singers and featuring their songs.

Teenager who's afraid of his sexual impulses and change it all to a disease named Licantrophy instead of being gay.

Original folk craftsmen-sculptors who are united by the traditional, wood carving craft that came from centuries old.

Small explosive monkeys stand guard over the order of the city.

Directed by Tata Nel.

A new prison at Mauzac (Dordogne), built in 1985, opens in 1986. It is designed for 240 prisoners. Its concept and modus operandi are inspired by the liberal tradition of the old Mauzac camp to which it is linked by a bridge.

The story is about how Yartygulak (a Turkmen tom thumb) taught two arrogant lazy parasites a lesson.

Based on the citizens who formed a vigilante group Alsa Malsa, which was created to fight the New People's Army and their insurgency.

Over 9 min. of 5 TITBITS babes and 6 ripe and round BOTTOMBITS girls lead into classic 60s glamour with the elegant CANDEE EARLE, Polynesian LANI doing the topless Hula, the R-rated nude scenes from CANDY BARR’s ‘Smart Alec’ stag film, and 9 more seductive sweeties sensuously stripping off.

Canadian documentary film depicting the world of contemporary dance. Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988.

On an autumn evening, the artist draws a summer landscape on the window pane, and then a young character. Gradually, his whole life begins to pass in the picture.

Thought Crimes' manipulates everyday objects and familiar materials, using them to create unexpected powerful effects. The possibilities of vibration and sound are explored through a range of scavenged materials: old bed-springs, metal coils, piano strings, heated metal bars, dropped into water. In the tape's most striking image, a burning chair twists and turns from a cable, as if a symbol for some unexplained spontaneous combustion of domestic objects. While the video uses an almost process-oriented approach, showing the concrete techniques, which create each sound and effect, the elements are brought together in a composition that is almost musical.

Michel, Clothilde, his friend, and Julien, the latter's brother, spend their holidays not far from Digne. One day, Michel is approached by a beautiful stranger by car, who asks him for his way and soon has nothing more to refuse him. Back with his family, Michel tells his adventure ...

Filmed over a year in Japan, Edín Vélez’s experimental video essay examines the tension between tradition and modernity in Japanese culture. Through a nonlinear collage of layered images—ranging from bullet trains and corporate life to Kabuki, Sumo, and Shinto ritual—the film explores the concept of ma, the “interval” or charged space between things that shapes rhythm, balance, and meaning.

Dancers’ movements are traced out in space, where they hang suspended. The video makes use of audio feedback to bring about a double reading of movement that enables the viewer to better remember the incredible ballet of the human body.

Kreso is in the eighth grade of elementary school and loves motorcycles and playing pinball. Because of his hobbies, he has a reputation as a bad boy, and he doesn't fare any better with grades either. His single mother is torn between jobs and has no understanding for his problems, so the boy is left to manage on his own.

This short documentary follows the custom installation of Isamu Noguchi's beloved sculpture "Water Stone" (1986) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it still resides, and offers a special opportunity to witness a living artist interact with staff as their work is prepared for display.

Documentary exploring the nighttime lives of the greatest of all cats, the African lion. The film follows a large pride of more than two dozen lions as they stalk various prey through the jungle and grasslands.

A White man is obsessed with a Black singer who has stage fright, during her comeback concert, she panics, got drunk and passes out in someone's car (turning out to be the man's car). The man does not realize she is in the car until he brings her to his home, at hom, the fan inspires her to sing again.

Documentary on Black Rhino poaching in Zimbabwe.

Documentary on King's College Cambridge and its chapel choir, directed by Stephen Cleobury.

The film satirically tells about the difficulties and various problems faced by the head of the union.

This is the third of a series of four themed programmes made by Yorkshire Television that aired in 1987 about life on the Manor Estate of council housing in Sheffield, consisting of events on the Estate and interviews with, mostly unidentified, residents. This one focuses on what residents do in their spare time, including pigeon fanciers, fishing, gardening, youth playing on slot machines, boys boxing and down the pub on a Friday night.

A César award nominated short drama.

This is the last film Quade made in College. It won a Student Academy Award.

Cupid fires an arrow at a woman only to find that's she's cold as ice. He tries everything he can to woo her, but when he eventually realises it's a lost cause he reaches into his head for a cassette recorder. He rewinds to the moment just before he shot his arrow at her and then...

Expired film stock, DIY shooting and development often lead to mistakes. For instance, some of the material is good, but some is «sticky» when film sticks in the development tank leaving undeveloped an area up to 20 cm wide.

In 1986, a video was presented to the video art festival of the Chilean French Institute and was censored. Then Maturana devised a thriller in which they searched for the lost video artist named Astica, who had come from Thimor de la Lemuria to show Video Vida, which was opposed to video art. To do this, his friends hired the private investigator Mister Off who solved the case.

Short documentary about the peace and war tasks of the Naval Aviation Service.

The Annaberger Kät is one of the most traditional folk festivals in the GDR. The film conveys humorous observations and the atmosphere at this fairground, with the camera capturing scenes at the boxing machines, the bumper cars, the lottery and shooting booths from an unusual perspective.

Reflection on the way the Soviet production system turns workers themselves into commodities.

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal. Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature. This first part of the project, originally conceived as a long feature film, was finished while Ernst Schmidt Jr. was still alive.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film