Cinematic Era: 1987 Vintage

Video following the poet and journalist from Valparaíso, Manuel Astica Fuentes, one of the leaders of the Chilean army uprising that occurred in 1931.

Nothing could be simpler than quitting smoking, faced with the specter of total defeat in a total war with a wife who is totally helping to defeat the addiction...

Report from the Holy Father's third pilgrimage to Poland in 1987.

Short experimental film by Anja Telscher.

Winter, spring, summer and autumn. Observations in a landscape.

A mild-mannered farm laborer becomes enraged when the landowner's spoiled son forces the laborer's wife to sing for a foreign guest.

38 years after the Pacific War, 84 victims of a mass suicide ordered by the Japanese military were uncovered in a cave in Yomitan village. This film contains the testimonies of some of the survivors, the story of a sculptor leading bereaved family members in creating a statue of peace, and the resistance of a group of girls against the raising of the Japanese flag at the high school graduation ceremony.

Flashing back and forth between the Fifties and the Eighties, the film explores with wit and panache the political and social connections between the two eras, converting a potential nostalgia trip into a sharply focused but entertaining analysis of the pressure placed on men and women then and now.

When you get involved in a love triangle, it's sweet. But what happens when two sweethearts end up in your studio apartment? Ask the young writer, who got involved with not two, but three.

Women in an isolated backwater in the countryside tell the story of how they live, and talk about their work in a cooperative that processes wool to make good quality clothing.

“I was interested in how people behave at street crossings… particularly at ‘Walk’ and ‘Don’t Walk’ signs. With a 200mm lens I shot stills of people at traffic lights and pedestrian crossings. The look was flat and harsh. Again I used the matte-box image shifter, to create motion where there was no motion…to create a tension. I wanted to show the frustration you sometimes feel when the damn light doesn’t change. You stand there…in your mind you’re already moving…but you can’t move.” (Paul Winkler)

Blood and transcendence are themes that permeate Sucker, with its incarnations of religious iconography and sexuality. Life and death, good and evil are evoked as the incantatory voiceovers and sordid images make reference to communion, transfusions, bloodbaths, bloodlust, vampires and the specter of a virus loose in contemporary culture. Steeped in paranoia and dread, this work describes a subconscious search that is, in Oursler's words, "based on a movie, based on a book, based on a poem, based on a myth, which is based on the quest for human immortality."

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.

Peter Grandits is 78 years old and a retired shoemaker. He gets his tools out - probably for the last time - and makes a pair of woman's boots before the running camera. His product - Stinjačke čižme (Stinatz boots) are known far beyond the borders of the village and are an integral part of the culture of southern Burgenland. Documentary film about the making of hand-made women's boots as well as about the changes in the structure of the economy and family life in the Croatian village of Stinatz in Austria.

It's a fantasy come true! Join young joey and learn to BE A CLOWN at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. You'll go behind the scenes of the only educational facility in the world dedicated to the fine are of "clownology." Here, both you and Joey will learn how to apply makeup and put together clown costumes. There's pantomime and improvisation skills to learn, as well as juggling and making balloon animals. And of course you'll learn the craft of clowning! Plus, two world-famous "Master Clowns" will be on hand to help - legendary Lou Jacobs and Frosty Little. So send in the clowns and banish those frowns! Join Joey and these magnificent mischief-makers. The smiles, the grins, the joy, the mirth, they're all here...from the greatest clowns on earth!

A light signal from a side train station stops a night train. The railway worker knocks on wheels to make sure the axles are faultless. All the passengers are asleep, they react to the knocking, but they don’t wake up. Only the passengers in the most expensive part of the train loudly protest and demand that the worker should be chased away. Their wish comes true.

Through dance, voice and photographs, the confident, personal story of a talented young Aboriginal dancer is interwoven with the sombre history of Aboriginal women since European colonisation of Australia.

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! ― Kobayashi Issa

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

The incestuous relationship between Bobby, a doll repairer confused about his sexual identity and his overprotecting mother that abuses him while she, in turn, seeks to relive the days of her youth. They bathe together, sleep together and engage in sexual intercourse as well. In turn, she is jealous of his suggestive relationship with his customers, mostly little girls.

About Women and the Law, made by four different animation directors, but commissioned as one project by Channel 4 in the UK, looks at the status of women in the eyes of the Law. Roche combines 3 brief gems on equal pay, rape, and the myth of the virgin & the whore.

A brief glimpse of the living conditions of the titular snackwhore.

Bodenproben focuses on the Prinz-Albrecht site, the former headquarters of the Gestapo in Berlin, which was used as a rubble dump until the provisional Topography of Terror memorial was erected in the fall of 1986.

Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier version: made from material I collected through the years when I went back to visit my parents at L'Ile d'Orleans, Quebec. It includes both home movie and other types of footage. In this film, the camera "I," in extension with home movie reality, is a living participating entity. The film represents an endearing but removed artifact, a strange contradiction between liveliness and frozenness. (VG) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

The film is about Russian silent movie star Alexandra Khokhlova. She was the first Soviet blacklisted actress. In her 90es, Khokhlova acts in this extraordinary documentary: she acts herself. Film critics recognised her appearance here as the last and brilliant role of great actress.

Midnight Oil, recorded live at RMIT University, in Melbourne Australia, on March 7, 1987. Blossom And Blood, Bullroarer, Who Can Stand In The Way, Dreamworld, Best Of Both Worlds, The Dead Heart, Short Memory, Kosciusko, Hercules, Pictures, Read About It, What’s So Funny About Peace, Love And Understanding?, Power And The Passion, Only The Strong.

A breathtaking journey of discovery into and through the human body, under the ground, into the outback, into the air, into outer space. It is about 'the body' in all of the senses of that word - the body of woman, of man, a body of past work, the body of earth, celestial bodies. It reveals and questions the assumed dichotomies of mind and body, body and soul, past and future, inside and outside, life and death, earth and space.

The land reclamation specialist did not dare to remake the beautiful corner of nature.

Possibly inspired by Bruce Weber's photography and, if so, perhaps anticipating Weber's beautiful black-and-white films, Rock Ross created this luxuriantly monochromatic ode to surfing and surfers. SOSUEME is an unabashed homage to the athletes' graceful, curved movements and the seamless interaction of body and board. Set to a Giacomo Puccini opera enhanced with a spoken-word track by Malcolm McLaren, the film provides unceasing pleasure as a hypnotic escape or an aesthetic tour de force. The joke in the title is explained at the outset by an onscreen confession: "The filmmaker acknowledges the completely unauthorized and illegal use of sound and image in this film." - Michael Fox

American TV-Drama

1. Damnation of Faust: Evocation - Using "found" imagery shot in a SoHo playground, the first part of the Damnation of Faust trilogy explores the possible relations between childhood play and a woman looking on from outside. Without dialogue, the gestures of the characters become their primary mode of communication. Visual motifs of pillars and fans, achieved through video wipes, plunge the viewer into the image while building parallels of movement and feeling. 2. Damnation of Faust: Will-o'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal) - The second part of the Faust project centers on the development of Marguerite, the female character in the Faust legend. 3. Evocation of Faust: Charming Landscape - The final work in the Damnation of Faust trilogy, ironically titled Charming Landscape, investigates the way in which the urban landscape is a place "where you lose your identity."

After Women in Turkey gained the right to be elected, Sultan, one of the women of the village in a countryside, works hard to be elected as Muhtar, first by learning how to read-write. On her success to election, not only her husband but also the men of the village stand as the biggest handicap.

Oliver Baker lives alone, and when two representatives from the Municipal Welfare Division stop by his apartment he greets them coldly. Oliver is jaded by living alone and feeling invisible, but maybe he can help Jeanne and Sheila see the invisible people by letting them know how it feels.

While preparing for a party, a couple encounters a pink butterfly born from the branches of a heavenly cherry blossom.

Pink film by Kinya Ogawa.

The film tells about Fazu Gamzatovna Aliyeva, the people's poet of Dagestan, writer and publicist.

Journalist exposé about how power and money ultimately corrupt the innocent.

Several people make an apartment so they can all live together in it, but when the apartment is ready, the system breaks down around a simple toilet.

This piece is sort of a prologue to East by Southwest. I prepare for that trip while visiting local artists here in San Francisco. You get to see unique sculpture by Mike Rudnick and meet the offspring and pets of the culturally inclined. There is also a gallery encounter with the late filmmaker, Curt McDowell, who attends an opening of his photomontages.

The Greek husband wants to find someone who will take care of him and serve him in the kitchen and in the bedroom. Dreams and reality intertwine, creating a chain of comical episodes...

Jochen Hick talks about an aging gay masseur and the times before AIDS.

Profile of Chuck Solomon, one of the principles behind Theatre Rhinoceros. Actor, Director, gay man and now HIV + man Chuck brings a fresh, life affirming aspect to all that he does.

Luís Medeiros, Azorean painter, meets two odd characters in an exhibit in Lisbon: Inês, a charming woman, and Ed, a sneaky man. The two reveal to have with them a precious document that might be threatening to Luís. He brings them back home but his serenity is over due to an unexpected chain of events.

Bailiffs are people who collect material goods according to the court judgements. In bureaucratic communism, they become ruthless instruments of power, who sometimes resort to violence and don't care about human suffering.

In this film, Mattuschka works exclusively with animation. The cheerful cartoon characters Mimi and Max have a bit of a childlike-bisexuality to them, even when the subject seems to be the desire for and the differences from the other sex: "Look at what I´ve got here," says Mimi when she lifts up her skirt, the reply she gets being, "Is that real...?".

The engineer Manuel Iglesias is commissioned to supervise the expansion of the ChihuahuaPacífico railway; for this he wants his adopted son Julián to collaborate, but he is reluctant.