Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

The haunting qualities of the English countryside are evoked in this enigmatic film: part fake public information film, part occult jaunt.

A down-to-earth portrait of art school life.

Two lunkheads get dumped by their friends in the desert.

Irish Folk Band, The Dubliners, guide us through the history of Dublin.

A mad killer is loose, preying on the residents of a male dormitory.

Objects in the world given luminousness, light, are here less apprehensible to knowledge than that which has less light.

A film about a woman called San Mae, she had volunteered to herd the cattles in the mountains as young. When she is asked by her sister to go back to the city to get married, Min Suk Jo, the team leader of the pasturing unit tries to convince her to stay, as she is much needed there. But trouble soon appears, when the team leader himself is asked if he himself really would be able to send one of his own daughters to the mountain side for pasturing, thus leaving their comfortable life in the city.

A summer themed tale of a group of school boys living in the capital who help an older neighbor build a boat. When the summer comes and the boat is transported to the sea, they join the neighbor and experience many adventures together.

A guest murders his host after an argument, then becomes increasingly worried about removing all his fingerprints from the crime scene.

Instead of explaining the scientific concept, Kobrin derides person’s implicit faith in his own knowledge and raises an ontological question: “Who are we?”.

Bandiwan Mi Ya Sansari is a Marathi movie that released on 30th December 1988. Produced by Prakash Joshi & directed by Arun Karnataki. The plot of the movie is based on sacrifice and turmoil faced by the female protagonist.

"Victory Under the Sun" chronicles the making of Laibach's "Opus Dei" album.

The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out is a 1988 documentary film directed by Robert Bilheimer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

An account of the major political events that took place in Santo Domingo from the government of Juan Bosch in 1963, until the rise to power of Dr. Joaquin Balaguer in 1966. The military outbreak in April 1965 and the subsequent U.S. invasion are treated in detail.

A silent film essay in Super 8 on the aftermath of the Chernobyl atomic reactor events. Filmed in West-Berlin, three and a half years before the Berlin Wall fell, while shooting another documentary.

For its reproduction, the megaloprepus dragonfly specifically relies on periodic puddles in tree holes and bromeliacea in tropical rain forests. Territorial males tenaciously defend these resources. Females lay their eggs in the water holes of the territorial males and are guarded by them. Any satellite male - i. e., one without a territory - who tries to grab a female is driven away by the territorial male.

A film about German artist Joseph Beuys's art where the artist speaks about his work and explains it to an American audience.

29.03.1988

A squad of supernatural investigators are Earth's only defense against an evil ghost wizard and his minions.

The view of an amusement park that's shot by a fixed camera changes into an uncanny one by painting directly onto celluloid and strange sounds. It is an attempt to approach the inner world through the common view by private eye of the author himself.

How the estates are getting painted in Saratov.

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Trying out some grammar shared with experimental filmmakers. The look of this film was inspired by the connotation of the word "limn" that evokes 'to paint in watercolor.'

A mesmerizing wordless combination of surreal animation and classical music

Experimental film by Amanda Forbis.

A small village during World War II. Driven by misery some peasants smuggle goods across the mountain frontier. Thus an ever-greater gap opens between them and those who are fighting the invaders.

Girls of War is the story of three girls who decide to stay and fight alongside the army after the Iraqi forces enter their city.

"Nelson experiments with presenting his viewer with the two sides of every subject in a dense visual masterwork of stark superimpositions." (Mark Toscano) "An experiment in group portraiture in which we are simultaneously seeing opposite sides of the sitters# heads. Probably not a solution for every group portrait, but a distinctive result has been achieved here nonetheless." (Q.A. Standish)

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

One of a series of humorous claymation films about an alternative distribution of household responsibilities between men and women.

Produced between 1987 and 1988, the Television Spots are exactly what they claim to be: these twelve, short video sequences were originally planned as inserts within the regular advertisements on Canada’s private television network.

A short film about how the cunning grey squirrel will overcome any barrier put in its way, so they can steal the bird feed from our garden feeders.

He's dead. Dead? Really? My baby is dead... maybe !

Milton Smythe is unable to accept the death of his beloved wife. Basis for the 1999 film of the same name.

The original artist Oleksandr Semernya never studied painting, but has been drawing for as long as he can remember.

Delinquent boy Osamu and erotic novelist Hideyuki spent their days in love. However, Osamu began to feel bored with such days, and by chance, he entered a suspicious store and was drawn down a dangerous path by a man he met. The yakuza who tried to kidnap and keep Osamu violated him violently...

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The protagonist of this short, filmed entirely at one table in a college-town pub, is Paul, a lovestruck student whho decides to tell his friend Jill how he feels about her. Steve, a mutual friend, joins them and talks about "players and jokers," the difference being in the sincerity department. This romantic comedy humorously demonstrates that sincerity can triumph over good looks and pick-up lines.

The International Folklore Festival in Riga brought together groups from all over Latvia, neighbouring Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Belarus and the Baltic Sea Basin. The documentary covers the main events of the festival, concerts, parades and meetings.

Tribute to the old and closed movie theater palaces in Lima (Perú) and to the movie going rituals of the fifties.

As a pioneer of the cosmetics industry, Elizabeth Arden built up a business worth billions. Her goal was to make decorative cosmetics – previously the preserve of actresses and ladies of ill repute – accessible to women everywhere. Eila Hershon and Roberto Guerra paint a portrait of an ambitious woman who equipped the suffragettes with red lipstick, had her own radio show and whose company still stands for innovative cosmetics today.

The relationship between Mexico and its rich neighbor to the north has always been ambiguous. Using mostly stock footage, this collage-like documentary “stars” Robert Redford, John Gavin and Superman in an exploration of the largest border separating the First and the Third World—that separating the United States of Mexico from the United States of America. Incorporating texts by Octavio Paz and others, images from Mexican melodramas and Hollywood movies, this film forces American viewers to consider the question of cultural imperialism from “the other side.”

Sam Li'a was a Hawaiian song composer who spent his life in the remote valley of Waipi'o on the Big Island of Hawai'i. There he perpetuated the tradition of celebrating the beauty of one's place and memorializing the events of its people. Among the musicians inspired by Sam Li'a is Eddie Kamae, a major force in the revival of Hawaiian music. In this film, he translates his gratitude and love for Li'a into a visual song, in which music, place and people find their original harmony.

A documentary filmed in nine countries.

A film directed by John Canalli

The film by Ido Sela, who recorded with his camera Meir Ariel's special concert tour throughout the country in October 1987. This is a concert tour structured like an American election campaign: Meir Ariel and his band land without prior notice in various places throughout the country - Tiberias Beach, the Acre Theater Festival, Kibbutz Mishmaret that Ariel was A member of it, Pituach towns - build a temporary stage and sell their musical "merchandise" and their illusory sleep to the curious locals. Sela uses wisely and is completely unconcerned with the differences that exist between the people of Tel Aviv and the people of the suburbs.

The film delves into the experiences of Finnish youth activists from the 1970s who were part of Marxist-Leninist organizations, often referred to as “taistolaiset.” It reflects on their ideological fervor, the disillusionment that followed, and the personal transformations they underwent as they matured.

A film about the life of teenagers in a modern city. They are united by their love of rock music. To buy an expensive synthesizer, they are ready for anything: to play at a funeral, and even steal a windshield from a car.

In Time Squared, Miller creates a vibrant collage that captures the spirit and pulse of New York City's Times Square. Mixing nostalgic black-and-white archival footage with the brightly hued neons of Times Square today, she allows the ghosts of the past to haunt the present.

A documentary about the Icelandic sculptor, Sigurjón Ólafsson. Shot between 1978-1984, the film shows Mr. Ólafsson making a portrait in clay of the late president of Iceland, Dr. Kristján Eldjárn. The proces is shown almost from the beginning until the sculpture has been moulded into bronze. The film also deals with some of Ólafsson's other work and a visit is paid to the artists's place of birth, Eyrarbakki, a small village on the south west coast of Iceland.

Computer animated short from the perspective of a gold fish.