Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

The first filmed ascent of Mount Eiger.

A Showtime comedy special featuring Pat Morita as host and three outstanding comedians. This special was filmed at the Civic Theatre located in Hermosa Beach in California, USA.

A documentary about Ibro Ismaili who lost one of his legs due to gangrene bit with strong will and hard work, he achieved extraordinary psycho-physical fitness and set himself a goal to cross 1452 km. by bicycle across Yugoslavia.

In 1985 the Federal Government announced plans to move major naval facilities to Jervis Bay, 200 kilometres south of Sydney. Would the government’s plan to build the largest naval base on the East coast of Australia become reality or alternatively, as suggested by George Brown, a National Park jointly run with the Aboriginal people, for the benefit of all?

A promotional VHS starring Aya Sugimoto.

This film was produced for a briefing to the Ministry of Economic Affairs by the people of Houjin opposing China Petroleum Company’s fifth naphtha cracker plant. It brings together scenes of pollutions caused by the CPC over the previous year, interviews of the people affected, and footage of a series of protests, including that of the residents carrying coffins to the CPC facilities.

Short film.

Short film.

About how dolphins saved children who couldn't swim.

Elena Sergeevna was surprised when four of her students appeared at her doorstep with a bouquet of flowers. They had come to wish their teacher a happy birthday. However, their true purpose was different. Under the guise of a birthday wish, they asked her to fulfill a "trivial" request that would determine their future. As the evening progressed, it turned into a cruel farce, where her beloved students played the roles of real scoundrels and ruffians, justifying their actions by the imperfections of the world.

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.

Indifference is the main plague of our troubled time, and fighting against it is the civic duty of each of us. The film makes viewers reflect on their own stance in life. The motion picture is about human beings and nature, their interaction, as well as the rich spirituality and moral maturity of a person.

An ecological tale about that cardinal fish dying because of men poluting the sea Made by a nation that had the less devellopped animation industry of all soviet nations and none whatsoever port acces to the sea.

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between desire and commodities.

Paul and Bruno, twins in their late 30s, run a general store together in a village. The circle of their symbiotic relationship, broken by Bruno's marriage, closes again when the suicide of one frees the other from the compulsion to do the same.

Two villages are to fall victim to the port expansion: Altenwerder and Moorburg. From idyll to horror, the flushing sand is having a frightening effect.

How much does it cost to enjoy a full bath at an altitude of 1,500 meters in a mountain village without electricity or running water?

If Robert Langer had actually lived, he would have become an actor, but ultimately would not have gotten any work. He would have been involved in the much-publicized "Heino Blesser scandal" at the time, and his career would have been over. That would have been the end of it. If he had lived, people today would refer to him as a failure.

"No filmmaker of the 1980s knew as much as Phil Solomon of affirming the importance of multiple layers in the visual production of images. Solomon perpetuates the Brakhagian tradition of creating a succession of images whose logic comes from a large number of rhythmic sources, formal, associative, and whose coherence passes from one source to another. Here, as with Brakhage, one must be spoiled in the trance offered by Solomon, and be sufficiently assured to follow a structure that is based as well on the melody, the harmonics and the flashes of metaphors as on a narrative plot. The Secret Garden is one of Solomon's best films. Like Thornton and Klahr, there is the shadow of a story here, which has to do with the passage from innocence and experience to terror and ecstasy." – T. Gunning.

Bollywood 1988

Film with a soundtrack featuring music from S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

The Academy of Arts in Hamburg destroys all art and all artists. It seems as if a military unit has lined up for the final solution, it looks as if the whole of mankind has been assigned to carry out the liquidation of art. Is art dead? Yes. Art is definitely dead. All that is left to a human being is his 'I'.... - Vlado Kristl

In Kuchar’s unique video-diary style, we experience the artist negotiating awkwardly with domestic settings, a party and a short trip to the mountains in Boulder, Colorado. Interspersed with these scenes are dated adverts and illustrations that juxtapose and play with his reality.

Anaconda Queen

In sequences structured by location, the film initiates a journey characterized not geographically but rather by the landscape's colors.

Made as a collective effort by the women's filmmaking group Mediastorm, a documentary protesting the barbaric--and much publicized--act of sati as inflicted on Roop Kanwar of Deorala, Rajasthan, and other women like her. It highlights the manner in which a ruling government allows atrocities against women to occur.

Directed by Heather Foxworth.

A stellar array of classic pop and rock 'n' roll musicians takes the stage in this gala New Year's Eve concert to ring in 1989 with some of their most memorable hits, such as "Runaround Sue" by Dion and "I'm into Something Good" by Peter Noone. Other highlights include performances of "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan, "Monday, Monday" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Hanky Panky" by Tommy James and the Shondells," "Laugh at Me" by Sonny Bono and more.

Two couples of dancing partners continually transform into different appearances, including numerous famous historical and pop culture characters.

A portrait of the punk scene of the metropolitan area of ​​the Valley of Mexico in the 80s.

Gullah Tales is a 1988 short film directed by Gary Moss. It follows a an elder woman on a slave plantation in 1830 and tells the story of John Hayes and his literal fight to obtain his freedom. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

The story of a man who wrote a letter to God when he didn't receive money from his brother in Germany.

This is a stark yet emasculated story of a High School gang and their assault against society. Although an attempt toward realism is ventured, the movie never really rises above the 'To Sir With Love' sugary-sort-of-message film. This is no 'Boyz N The Hood'.

The fierce battle of a platoon against vicious guerrillas

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

A documentary about Ibro Ismaili who lost one of his legs due to gangrene bit with strong will and hard work, he achieved extraordinary psycho-physical fitness and set himself a goal to cross 1452 km. by bicycle across Yugoslavia.

In 1985 the Federal Government announced plans to move major naval facilities to Jervis Bay, 200 kilometres south of Sydney. Would the government’s plan to build the largest naval base on the East coast of Australia become reality or alternatively, as suggested by George Brown, a National Park jointly run with the Aboriginal people, for the benefit of all?

This film was produced for a briefing to the Ministry of Economic Affairs by the people of Houjin opposing China Petroleum Company’s fifth naphtha cracker plant. It brings together scenes of pollutions caused by the CPC over the previous year, interviews of the people affected, and footage of a series of protests, including that of the residents carrying coffins to the CPC facilities.

A documentary film about the representation of the Kyrgyz culture in the USSR, as well as the reality of Kyrgyz dancers in Russia.

Short film.

Short film.

Elena Sergeevna was surprised when four of her students appeared at her doorstep with a bouquet of flowers. They had come to wish their teacher a happy birthday. However, their true purpose was different. Under the guise of a birthday wish, they asked her to fulfill a "trivial" request that would determine their future. As the evening progressed, it turned into a cruel farce, where her beloved students played the roles of real scoundrels and ruffians, justifying their actions by the imperfections of the world.

Chamberlain, Mussolini and their aides attend a 1938 performance of Macbeth in Rome. This audience is itself made into the raw material of opera. The site of the negotiations between Chamberlain and Hitler, which resulted in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, is diagrammed, and Chamberlain and his aides are charged with lack of fantasy, a fatal flaw. Meanwhile, in September 1939 a Nazi officer's happy love story is interrupted only to be resumed (we are told) in 1953, as he comes back from Soviet captivity. A film clip of two bodies in the midst of war devastation asks, "Why are you crying, Antonio? Are you afraid to die?" The theme of "a new beginning" is the fantasy outcome here, as a "film" in computer graphics shows a parade of French soldiers in 1918 celebrating the end of war in disbelief and hunger for freedom.

Entrepreneur Veniamin Masarsky was born in the Novgorod countryside. It was here, in his small homeland, that he led the construction and industrial cooperative Volkhov, becoming its chairman. How does philosophy help production? Masarsky developed his own algorithm for success: innovation should be based on tradition, and economic benefits should be calculated with an eye towards the future.

A daughter, a mother, and an angel travel through urban and natural environments which blend reality with the divine.

Compilation of several comedy sketches starring Miodrag Petrovic 'Ckalja' and Zarko Mitrovic in supporting role.

Paul and Bruno, twins in their late 30s, run a general store together in a village. The circle of their symbiotic relationship, broken by Bruno's marriage, closes again when the suicide of one frees the other from the compulsion to do the same.

A young girl at the brink of womanhood is confused by her mother's contradictory ways and begins to desire a man with whom she comes in repeated contact. Follows her as she travels through her youthful interpretation of events to arrive at a sense of her maturity in the end

Student film by Zhang Yuan, shot on film.

A completely incomprehensible film material flashes on the screen. We find out at the end that a filmmaker is watching a projection and he decides to use that material for his next experimental film. Hence - this movie!

A satirical depiction of the national dance "Teškoto" in which the syndrome of mutual human destruction is inserted.

Season of the Sled Dog provides a glimpse of an Alaskan dream; a rustic, adventurous life made possible with the help of a dog team. The sled dogs are the stars of this hour-long program. Their personalities are as unique as the jobs they are trained to perform.