Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

This film is a short study of the relation between language and visual experience. Reversal and negative takes are edited together, emphasising the quality of black and white film. The entire film was shot in one room. We hear bits of whispered text dispersed within the film, creating a sense of intimacy.

The saga began on a crisp, calm April night in 1912, as the RMS Titanic slipped below the icy waters of the North Atlantic. It became one of the most shocking and mystifying tragedies of all time... Never again would an ocean liner be as glorified; never again would a ship be considered "unsinkable". Join us in a bold and exciting expedition to the Titanic's resting place 12,500 feet below the surface; a mission as technologically challenging and daring as a trip to the Moon! Witness explorations in and around the Titanic: the retrieval of a ship's safe, navigation equipment, china, and more; plus interviews with survivors and renowned experts. It's the complete saga of the Titanic, from construction to catastrophe and finally, discovery... in one compelling home video.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

A film by Scott Stark

Absurd attempts to produce an amateur film about an amateur film company. The awards ceremony for the film takes place in a town cinema: 1st Prize for the leading lady: a goat.

A man and a woman take photographs in the city. The photographs are shown.

Teenage brother and sister Jim and Sonia Peterson navigate tough times in high school when Jim befriends a young man who turns out to be a bad influence.

An animated film based on the typefaces and scripts of the 1920s and 30s set to an Italian song of the 1950s.

A sweet and savory journey in the company of George traveling from Christmas to New Years, stopping for snacks, drinks, and pets.

1988 film

The film automonosexual describes the psychological state in which an individual is able to achieve sexual gratification by viewing their reflection during masturbation. This film depicts the fantasy and self-fascination necessary for sexual narcissism, and serves as an autobiographical account of the sexual frustration and isolation felt in the face of AIDS. Edgar Barens shoots his own body in more ways than one. He plays with industrial sounds and metaphors while discovering a new way to photograph an act usually reserved for porn.

An electronic edition of some Super8 film intended to be projected at the concerts of Steven Brown.

The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its wings tirelessly; a figure (man, boy?) who sits on a hay bale, watching the city below; and a woman in a library who reads only what others have left behind. The filmed images are predominantly houses: houses seen in passing along the horizontal; houses reflecting sky and trees in their windows; houses partially hidden by trees or the shadows they cast; houses and office towers simultaneously pictured in stages of demolition and construction. The images dissolve in and out of the flickering light and dark (sunlight and shadow and the emulsion of the film itself). The site of the self is home. A house is a construct and, per Heidegger, language is the house of being.

Olavina Aasare is a 1988 Indian Kannada language film directed and produced by K. V. Jayaram. The film starred Vishnuvardhan, Rupini and Sudha Chandran in the lead roles.

This highly stylized short asserts sexual desire over fear in gay romantic relationships.

Short film.

The documentary is dedicated to one of the most outstanding military leaders in world history, Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky.

The film introduces viewers to modern problems of topology in a popular form: a story about a subway train that went into the "fourth dimension".

Animated short film from Elpidio valdés' series. Coronel Elpidio Valdés prepares to attack a spanish fort in Jutía Dulce. He recieves help from foreign friends.

It's February in Eastbourne - a cruel month. Some hotel residents on Grand Parade are being shunted upstairs to new rooms they do not really like. Seaside hotels now chase the conference trade. Permanent residents, once needed out of season, are no longer so welcome. Mrs Sybil Bloom, 86, is unhappy with her move, so is Mrs Muriel McNab, 85. But the two widows have little choice - they move up or they move out, as their hotel gets a £20 million face-lift. Mrs McNab has lived at the Burlington for 17 years and wants to stay. So does Mrs Bloom; "Not many hotels take residents these days, so where would I go?" Only a few years ago there were more than 100 residents on Grand Parade. Now there are just 30 - a dauntless breed of touching, frail, cheerful people, who simply wish to see out their days in peace on this select seafront strip.

This eight minute 'elegy' was filmed in Seattle, Washington, at a little cafe called Sabika where the filmmaker worked as a dishwasher. During the fall of '87 the cafe was put up for sale and he resolved to document its final days. Setting out to capture two things: the spirit of the cafe itself and the essence of the people that worked there.

Documantry

A whimsical ballet involving a real bathtub rubber duck and cartoon ducks designed by Jessie Hartland.

Chronicle of summer 1988: "Antis" band concert, collective actions at the Baltic Sea, political sensations on TV, and clashes with the police

Azerbaijan animated film, 1988. Consists of three short stories: "The Burden", "In a Circle", "The Eccentric" (for adults) by director Vahid Talibov.

A recently graduated journalist is assigned to work at a radio station in a remote mountainous area. There she has troubles with the staff, who are set in their ways.

The London Contemporary Dance Theatre perform a fantasy set in the city’s underground system. A boy meets the girl of his dreams, and their journey is followed, against the background rhythms of the train and tunnel sounds. Choreographed by Darshan Singh Bhuller.

A documentary film about blind, developmentally disabled children who are cared for by Franciscan nuns. From reality to poetry.

College Of Sex is a 1988 Indian Tamil film, directed by Jacob Breeze and produced by A. Raja Rahim. The film stars Raj Thilak, T J Johny, Suganthi and Sheela in lead roles. The music of the film was composed by Ravindran.

A feminine character stages fragments of paintings through dance. The metaphoric body constitutes the essence of this artwork. Two narrations are conjugated in the present and in the past : one speaks of the human quest for survival and the threat of man's intervention in nature, while the other evokes a wild nature where characters and animals are emerging. Paintings of Caravagio, Della Francesca, and Douanier Rousseau overlap the two accounts.

A surreal look at Sydney, shot during 1988.

This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone.

Super 8mm. Colour. Silent.

The film is about a train carrying fuel for the army in 1979 during the revolution movement in Iran but with the help of revolutionary forces the train is redirected to a cold region of the...

The tapes shows a blackhooded face - interspersed with slide projections of torture and brutality - scratching at her eyes with a sharp knife as we hear snips of news accounts of the eradication of the Palestinian people.

Shot in low-light style, Kuchar documents his experiences with various underground filmmakers such as James Broughton and Ken Jacobs, then moves on to the other side of Hollywood lifestyle to visit Nicholas Cage. Images of crowds and facial close-ups comprise this haunting tape.

Historically, the phenomenon of St Vitus’ Dance (Veitstanz) first appeared in the Middle Ages, when groups of adults and children danced in public until they lost consciousness. In 1988, 13 women and men attempted to revisit the power of this ancient ritual in Erfurt. Dancing at sites of their own choosing, each one developed, without any music, their own movement which they then repeated to the point of ecstasy.

Glastnost and Lithuania’s eventual independence from the USSR open up the possibility of examining previously banned subjects: death, postwar resistance and – as in We Were at Our Own Field – the damage done by the Soviet occupation and the simple longing for home.

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent difficulty of recognizing it as a potentially dangerous drug. The documentary stresses that alcoholism is a disease which must be treated medically and socially. Instead of turning a blind eye to others' problems, it is important to realize that people of all ages, genders, and social backgrounds can potentially be affected and that both the individual and society share responsibility for preventing relapse to alcohol abuse.

Morbidly beautiful images show the unreasonable working conditions at a rusty factory.

Human subjects and their verbal discourse, dealing with fleeting and shifting identity.

Short film by Leslie Thornton, part of the Peggy and Fred in Hell series.

Four Inuit families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to mark the approach of spring with singing and games. A young man woos a girl but her parents are in disagreement over whether he shall get to marry her.

With Krepl, the political dimension of Schmelzdahin's research becomes clearer. The color scales the planes of scientific or colonial documentaries, horrible rubs that require these bodies scaled with the scalpel, these giant hamsters, these natives threatened by a camera that unsuccessfully repel. The inhuman mutilation of creatures determines chromatic pathology, color must be understood, not merely as a plastic liberation, but as a political gesture: it becomes the cinematographic path that today most often follows protest. According to a completely different visual syntax, we are not very far from the concerns that animate Criminals of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.

Grampa Munster introduces some of the best and worst horror trailers from Universal's classic horror films.

Bollywood 1988

Two great colleges & two great college coaches. Woody Hayes & Bo Schembechler met on the field of battle from 1969 thru 1978. Bo & Woody discuss behind-the-scenes strategies of these big games. These physical and psychological battles became “The Ten Year War.” At stake: National Ranking, Big Ten Bragging Rights and the Ultimate Prize…a trip to the Rose Bowl!!! Relive these moments with Woody & Bo and view great highlights of each game.

The time within a film’s frame generates a sense of reality through its synchronization with the viewer’s perception. The moment this synchronization is disrupted, the image moves to the foreground, and the viewer becomes aware of themselves as an external observer. Beyond the film (a thin membrane), there is something that cannot be reached, even by extending a hand.

Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.

8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.