Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Titles, a crocodile crossed with Big Ben roams the UK.

Satirical short animation; on the Earth's beauty and how to ruin it.

Documentary about Ukrainian folk singers.

Documents the growth of jazz in New Orleans highlighting the contributions of Armand J. Piron.

A film by Marico Valente

A film by Marico Valente

This work was part of my M.S. thesis Perceptual correspondences of abstract animation and synthetic sound developed at the MIT Media Lab in 1988. It is primarily a 3D visualization of synthetic sounds based on four types of audiovisual correspondences: spatial coincidence, temporal coincidence , volume/brightness, timbre/shape-color. Once created, the abstract objects, and consequently the sounds associated with them, were used to compose the audiovisual work.

This László Vitézy documentary examines the sensitive topic of drug use in Hungary. The work, dating from 1988, was the first to give a voice to disadvantaged individuals whose very existence had been a taboo. In addition to unpicking the tragic personal stories of drug users just surviving on the fringes of late Kádár-era society, another important purpose of the film was that it investigated the ‘official’ side of the problem as well. It is evident from what those interviewed had to say that meaningful steps were put off for decades by the fact that the whole issue of drugs was a forbidden subject in Hungary.

Shot in 1987, it offers a different vision of Puglia than the stereotypes in vogue today. It is a story only through images and music built around faces, gestures, details, natural and urban landscapes.

Filmed on the eve of the release of the Abbey Road LP-the last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let it Be was the last Beatles album to be released)- this is the only performance ever caught on film of John Lennon & The Plastic ONO Band. John and his wife Yoko Ono, guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White traveled to the Toronto Rock ʻNʻ Roll Revival. Other guest performances were Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard.

Marie, a healer in Antananarivo, the capital city of Madagascar, takes care of people in the name of the ancestors who guide and advise her. She uses plants and soil from worship places dedicated to historical ancestors. In the high central lands, on the summits of the Ankaratra mountains, she participates to the Alakaosy celebration, an important date in the Malagasy lunar calendar.

In 1953, the artist Poty Lazzarotto created a panel for the facade of the Iguaçu Palace, seat of the Government of Paraná. The Palace was inaugurated without the panel and remained that way for 34 years. It was up to the Álvaro Dias Government to redeem this old debt. The "Iguaçu Panel" was built and inaugurated in December 1987.

A documentary film about soil conservation and those areas where it has been successful. The work of the Soil Conservation Service is discussed and the need to expand its resources.

Tracklist 1 Revolting Cocks – Cattle Grind 2 Front 242 – Masterhit 3 Borghesia – 133 4 Front Line Assembly – Body Count 5 The Neon Judgement – Miss Brown 6 Laibach – Geburt Einer Nation 7 Front 242 – Quite Unusual 8 Laibach – Life Is Life 9 Fini Tribe – I Want More 10 Coil – Tainted Love 11 Young Gods – Envoye

Computer animated short from the perspective of a fly.

Computer animation. A sentient lighter and cigarette engage in forbidden love.

A touching personal story of a woman losing a friend to AIDS.

A woman is ironing a man's shirt. The man and woman begin dancing to a tango rhythm. A seductive scene plays out between the shirt and iron that are left alone. Love, desertion, and then everything ends up in smoke and wastes away.

The film is centres on an actors examination and involves themes of corruption and immorality in important exams.

Experience time-lapse photography.

Iranian experimental film by Farshad Fadaian on stone cutting

Gambling in the night, four men throw the dice of fortune. Suddenly, all sounds are gone from their lives. The adults are muted. Even the babies cry silently. The only sounds left are the pressing knocking from the outside and the tense nerves inside. Who is at the door?

The film takes place in a strange hierarchical society of rabbits and chickens. From his plot, we can find out the answer to the exciting question, which came first: the egg, the hen, or the rabbit?

A Bollywood drama.

The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following their herds across north China. Part Two (28 minutes) gives a more contemporary view of the Mongols trying to reclaim the desert in a more sedentary lifestyle currently encouraged by the Chinese government. The second section highlights disturbing environmental issues regarding the destruction of these northern grasslands.

At the end of his second term, Ronald Reagan finally addressed the issue of AIDS. Or did he? Certainly not without the homophobia, insensitivity and blatant lack of knowledge which plagues the whole of government around such issues. “Transformer AIDS” looks at the governmental response to AIDS at this crucial point in history, when activism forced the issue onto the public agenda. A sarcastically funny, yet poignant critique engineered spearheaded by critic Bob Kinney.

Watch eagle-eye video and performance artist Martha Rosler tackle the case of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead as represented by the main-stream media. This tape uncovers the class and gender bias of the media coverage and the courts. X-tra inventive graphics and kooky dress-up illustrate Rosler's insightful analysis of the court battle, waged within the tricky issue of contemporary reproductive control in America. Fun for the whole family!!!

Short documentary about the life of foreign students studying at the University of Lodz and living in a dormitory for foreigners.

Profile of the animator Richard Williams, creator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British Aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at gardeners in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The film brings out the conflicts within a development project, where expectations of European market capitalism clash with the local subsistence system.

An animated cartoon with an anti nuclear theme made by David Stone while a student at the Royal College of Art.

A barefoot boy with frightened eyes. He wanders the streets, rides the bus, and wanders the fields without speaking. In the passing landscape, he sees red balloons, deer heads, puddles of blood, the Japanese flag, the Old Testament, an old man...Then, with a gunshot, he collapses. In this film, the boy's closed mind to the outside world is painstakingly portrayed through a variety of images, and his sincere feelings are quietly conveyed.

A woman who models hands is suddenly kidnapped and her right hand is amputated by a mad scientist who wants to take the beautiful hand for himself. When the scientist's assistant realises that the woman will die if he leaves her alone, he takes steps to save her... In the end, the film ends up as a profound love story. The film ends with a profound love story. The filmmaker's attention to detail and taste is astonishing.

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

A bold adaptation of Koharu Kisaragi's play of the same name. Four girls in a high school drama club try to put on their first play, "DOLL", but it doesn't go well because they have many differences. This 102-minute film follows the emotional trajectory of the girls as they hurt each other, come to believe that no one needs them, and end up committing suicide. The truth of these four people, who tried to live pure and beautiful lives, is heartbreaking.

Animated characters from the film prepared by Joanna's father come to life and run away to the streets of Bielsko-Biała.

It is late autumn in Kyoto. A woman who is about to graduate and become a teacher in her hometown and a young man who has been offered a job at a publishing company in Tokyo begin to think seriously about their future together. Then she meets again a young man who has a secret crush on her. Through various conflicts, they come to a conclusion... This authentic melodrama skillfully depicts the psychological twists and turns of a group of young people at a turning point in their lives, set in the tranquil and emotional landscape of Kyoto.

Sequel to Death Faces

MAD Video mondo film exploring the Nazi death camps.

an Animated Short Film about Waddles

Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an attack helicopter squadron, a firebase outside Kabul, and a guard post near Kandahar. Then the film moves to the monument to the dead of WWII beside the Kremlin wall, to a Moscow cemetery filled with dead from the Afghan war, and to the heartbreak of a mother of one of the dead soldiers

01.04.1988

A TV movie by Edgardo Cozarinsky.

Short animation using stop-motion, in which a female dancer dances against the background of a white wall and a painting.

"Focusing on the confident and sensuous movement/"dance"/embodiment of performance artist Lynn Book - and energetically bypassing the strictures of everyday language as well as the demands of narrative - BOUQUET unleashes the visceral force of often-repressed joys. Filmmaker Sharon Couzin and performance artist Lynn Book co-perform the galvanizing sound of BOUQUET. We are invited to experience two women's voices in a marvelous cascade of prelinguistic utterances, laughter of every conceivable joyful "color," evocative breathing and moans unleashed and released in order to close off the need for everyday language. It is as if some pre-Socratic mystery cult materialized by the waterfall, by the garden and in the artist's studio. Yet Couzin's film also amplifies primary energies with modern, subversive and ever-so-sly wit. Dynamic montage and joyful camera movement secure BOUQUET's place as a visionary film that invites the attention of critics and fellow artists alike." - Zack Stiglicz

Sometimes there's a fine line between harvesting the land and ruining it. That's what Tommy discovers when he steps in to help run his late father's logging company - and butts heads with a most unlikely enemy, his brother. Tommy wants to slow their production rate in order to avoid stripping the mountain of all its trees; his brother wants to make a quick buck, the quicker the better. After an explosive confrontation between the brothers, Tommy must make the decision of his life by choosing between his family and his environment.

A man’s naïvely drawn tattoos and grotesque body art – at the intersection of profane and sacred, of folklore and high culture – come to life.

This joyous, upbeat film explodes with color, music, and pride of tradition as America's largest Caribbean community puts on their annual festival to celebrate their vibrant culture.