Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Computer animated short from the perspective of a mouse.

The eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is the last island in the Malay archipelago where the majority of the people still follow their ancestral religion, called marapu. This film, shot in 1986, focuses on a challenge to the authority of the spirits and ancestors in a village ritual to restore fertility after a fire and famine. Narrated by the priests who communicate with the spirits in prayers and sacrifices, it documents a week of offerings, dancing and oratory in "Dream Village" in the western Kodi district. The name comes from a dream of prosperity the village founder once had, and dreams are also the ways in which priests are called to serve the spirits.

Based on the popular book by Krystyna Siesicka, "Zapałka na zakręcie", the story of two teenagers who were connected by an unexpected feeling. Marcin, who has a history of drug addiction behind him, is afraid to tell Kasia about it. She feels that the boy is hiding something, but does not want to ask anything. Mutual misconceptions make it more and more difficult for these young people to communicate. They misinterpret the facts, and as a result their relationship begins to fall apart. Will they be able to save their feelings in time? Will Marcin overcome his own inhibitions and distrust of his beloved girl?

About the brightest genre of Russian folklore.

This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows the visitor to reconsider the experience of space, earth and sky within an urban context. It also serves as a kind of contemporary Stonehenge: once a year, on August 1 at 9:30 am, the shadows of the objects exactly align with outlines on the ground. Interviews with the artist, the architects, engineers, contractors, and the public, among others, reveal Dark Star Park as both a public sculpture and a functioning park that reclaims a blighted urban environment.

Though Emily Dickinson spent almost all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, her poems represent a broad range of imaginative experience. They are rich in feeling, wide in their knowledge of nature, books, and geography, and expansive in their vision. Dickinson’s training in science suggests a source for her skill in accurate observation, whether of plants and animals or the workings of her own mind. The greatest effect of her scientific studies, though, is in her experimental attitude about life’s great issues.

Including: Truck Train Tractor, Comin' Through & Automatically Yours.

Holger Hiller and Karl Bonnie create different sounds from every item in a room, from those sounds a song is made by means of cutting, where every sound is still in sync with the video footage of its creation.

A companion to the film Poetry Collection New People 1988.

Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an almost indiscernible complexity, until the lined background ruptures and the sounds and visuals become scattered and disordered. The "girlie" cards break out onto saturated color fields and eventually find their way into the real world, aggressively flickering by against backgrounds of earth, concrete and other surfaces. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

One after the other... Me and my friend bought all cheep barbies we could afford at Woolworth, lined them up at home and had immense fun making them fall down...

Super Powers...

They are: 1) a man in a house (see N ° 3) 2) a radio 3) a man who is fascinated by short waves (see N ° 8) 4) love songs, songs war 5) languages, songs, tribes 6) antennas, transmissions, frequency 7) remote voice 8) death (see No. 11) 9) the kilohertz, megahertz, numbers (see N ° 6) 10) the mask of God, the mask of the Devil and the veil between the two (see N ° 4)

Lust, violation and contamination intersect and cause, through the window, the Chernobyl disasters, AIDS and rape. The sound, taken from the radio (shortwave), an Italian B-movie and an advertisement for Chanel is a real cacophony behind which we can see the ultimate profanation.

A short film set in the suburb of Broadmeadows, in Melbourne.

Recorded live at Tokyo Dome in Japan on 31 Dec 1988

A robot plays the drums. An insect, bearing a familiar logo, buzzes around it.

A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

The body energy, contained, frees itself through the contrasting gaze's light, through the fragmented play music. Energy is concentrated in the gesture time and in the wait of the matter. Ex-Tension: Meeting of a body writing with the duality Image/Music.

A teen (Robyn Stevan) and four of her friends form a leftist urban terrorist group in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A woman has a fight with her boyfriend and runs off only to run into a killer.

The only movie directed by Serge Daney, a famous french film critic.

From its fiery outset, Brooding Angles is decidedly gothic and the mood anxious. It is a dark rumination on the specter of authority, resistance and paranoia marking the close of Reagan's second term in office. Born in 1945, Auder came of age during the 1960s, a decade as tumultuous in France as it was in the United States. The decade culminated in the student/worker strikes of May 1968 that shut down the city of Paris. Auder's value system was in many respects shaped by this anti-authoritarian milieu. Its remnants are to be found in his preponderance with issues violence and conflict as they serve to question moral progress. The soundtrack's ominous melody is recycled from footage of cellist David Soyer that can be seen in A Portrait of Alice Neel.

A boy is pursued by a witch while taking a walk.

Tom Bearden discussing Tesla, Tesla waves and scalar iunterferometry.

1988 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A rare look backstage at an NWA event in 1988, The Great American Bash to be exact. See a different side of the Road Warriors, Sting, Lex Luger among others as they binge on drugs and alcohol.

A playful La Linea short in which Mr. Linea encounters themes of attraction and romantic curiosity through visual comedy and minimalist line animation. Using clever visual gags and expressive movement, the short explores the character’s reactions to erotic scenarios in his unique world.

A kaleidoscopic film depicting Ireland in the early 80s. These fragments of rural and urban life blend document with fiction showing a teenager in love, a riot outside the British Embassy, a picket at Mountjoy prison, dinnertime in Cork with Nell McCafferty on the radio. Soundtrack by Steve Nieve.

Old Europe: dreary. Kai and Ella want to emigrate. The noble savage, romantic principle, going back as a perspective. Let's go, but the film actually runs backwards. "Someone wanted to become a Negro," and Kai's anxious, conventional neighbor turns out to be the real adventurer.

In a closed-down factory, a small group of men tries to survive somehow. On the eve of the Revolution, a witch hunt begins. As a reflection on the cruelty of a totalitarian society, this film has generated much controversy.

People interacting in a Cologne backyard.

Animated musical telling the story of Lovely Fatma or Beautiful Fatma, it was the only Azerbaijani language feature-length animated film made during the Soviet Union. Göyçak fatma is an animated opera using a mixture of traditional and cut-out animation.

High-level introduction to the autism spectrum (as best we knew in 1988). [CW: comes from the perspective of autism being a disease that needs cured.]

A documentary film about one of the most influential representatives of business circles in the USA, the pioneer of Soviet-American trade, Armand Hammer.

On 3rd May, in a country home in Santa Fé, a small town in the heart of Camajauní, Cuba, the Fusté family, descendents of Cimarron slaves, celebrates the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in a unique religious ritual combining Yoruba, Christian and spiritualist elements. The ritual exorcises the dead and invites them to possess the bodies of the living in order to invoke rain and harvests.

About the all-consuming power of love.

In an institution for deaf pupils, two girls talk about love and their interest in boys.

Thai pop star Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre mesmerizes the audience at the Thailand Cultural Centre during his "Bird Perd-Sa-Kard" concert in 1988

A 1987 documentary about youth crime and their social probation officer. The story of two young delinquents to whom no one could lend a helping hand. The lack of interest from the neighbourhood eventually forced their 22-year-old probation officer Majka to resign. The film is mainly made up of authentic testimonies of the protagonists.

Dr. Sukarya is a docent who is suspended for defending a university student. To support the family, his wife, Jelina, works in a travel agency. There, she a husband and wife from Malaysia who want her to be a host uterus for their in-vitro fertilization baby. Because they offer her a huge sum of money, Jelina agrees. But when the baby is born, a conflict arises when she can’t let go of the child.

This documentary film shows the development of the wool industry in Iceland, and the old ways to work the wool, used on Icelandic farms throughout the centuries are demonstrated. In the film, visits are made to modern wool factories and the process of the production is followed from the beginning to the finished product.

"Originally conceived of as a remake of Disney's Parent Trap, the Parenthetical Trap was made by the women who are often mistaken for each other. We explore the resentment and affection that accompany mistaken identity. We were concerned with determining the cause of our resemblance — sugar addiction — and with the concept that all women are interchangeable in the movies. This film incorporates 8mm, 16mm, Letraset, and borrowed sound." —E.C

This film is an invitation to see Javanese palace dancing as performed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and to go beyond appearances to discover what the dance means to those who continue the tradition. In this film dancers prepare to entertain guests at a wedding reception and perform the Love Dance (Langen Nawung Asmara). The female dancer, Susindahati, becomes the centre of attention as she does her household duties and then goes to the Secondary School of Performing Arts for classes in teaching theory and practical training in the Golek Asmarandana dance. Susindahati's generation is concerned with the perfecting of technical mastery. It is the older generation who can explain the importance of dance as a discipline, and the ideas associated with it.