Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Computer animated short featuring two little blob creatures.

Follows the problems of introducing inventions into the national economy of the country, as well as about the inventor D. A. Torb.

The director's personal account of a year at Anholt, where he settled down and lived alone in a house: It is my attempt to glimpse an origin and heritage that we all have within us, and on the understanding of which our continued existence depends. It is an investigation of an existence where it is possible to live in an agreement with nature, which makes death present without it becoming frightening, but on the contrary the very prerequisite for a life in peace, security and harmony.

The story of a young Italian girl growing up in the Australian suburbs of the 70s, confused by the conflicting values of her classmates and of her Italian family.

Animation based on R. Kipling's fairy tale about how they wrote the first letter in prehistoric times.

A shot on video parody of Runaway Train filmed and staring employees of Tower Records/Video from 1987-1988. Directors Dennis Rood and Stuart Horne escape from the Maximum Security Video Store and jump on a runaway truck speeding down Broadway in Sacramento.

A narrative, experimental documentary about the personal politics of submission put under a very bright light.

Italian short horror movie from 1988.

Directed by Célia Canning and Néry Catineau.

An essay film about the failure of post-modernism.

Documentary that shows the consequences of the Vevčani case, which was, the violent conflict between the residents of the Vevčani settlement and the authorities of the then SR Macedonia. The film shows how the residents reconstruct the conflict during the traditional carnival, i.e. how they ironically compare the partisan victims in the Second World War, to whom they erected a monument with the inscription "Thank you for freedom", with their own fight against the tyrannical government.

This picture will not leave anyone indifferent. We are talking about Afghanistan, or rather about the victims of the "unknown" war: soldiers who performed their international duty, widows and mothers. The creators of this sharp and harsh tape raised questions, most of which were hushed up. In their work, the truth about the war in Afghanistan, about what the war cost our people, appears uncut and uncomplicated.

Arkady Ruderman (along with cameraman Yuri Gorulev) still shot his film about Chagall, but the figure of Chagall himself remained, as they say, "behind the scenes." At the center of the plot was the story of the dismissal of the editor of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia, Irina Shelenkova, who did not agree with the gross falsification of data on the life and work of M. Chagall in an article for the fifth volume of the Encyclopedia of Literature and Art of Belarus, proposed for publication by the same V.Begun.

The Mississippi Mass Choir was one of the most influential gospel groups of the late '80s and '90s. Under the musical direction of David R. Curry, the 100-voice choir served their Lord with a sound that made them a constant presence on Billboard's gospel charts. Each of their recordings have reached the top position on the charts. Their debut album, Live, recorded during a 1988 performance at the Jackson, MS, Municipal Auditorium, remained on the charts for 45 weeks and earned the group James Cleveland GMWA awards as contemporary choir of the year and best new traditional artist of the year.

Puppet story of a little goose-girl Anka, who grew up among wild forest animals.

ll Flesh Is Grass revolves around the exploration of the ruin of a 19th century shopping arcade in Buffalo NY, combined with footage of spaces, friends, children and characters in Toronto and in New York City. Shot on super 8 and blown up to 16mm Oxtoby allows the rhythm of her editing and the texture of the grain to dance with her own camera movements, layering gesture upon gesture while her generous eye finds tenderness and beauty among the ruins, guiding us out of the gloom and into the light of day.

Emerging talent from the East challenges the front-running rally teams in this riveting review of the 1988 World Rally Championship. All 13 of rallysport's most famous races are covered, from Monte Carlo to Harrogate. On-board cameras show the teams battling through sleet, snow, gravel and mud, while helicopter cameras capture the action from the air.

Delfor Vargas, son of one of the photographers, protagonists of this film, introduces us to the artistic world of the famous Arequipa photographers of the 20th century: the Vargas brothers.

To see the results of the Acropolis Rally, one would imagine that the Lancia's Delta Integrale were back to their once unbeatable form. However, as in the Tour de Corse, the Team Martini backed cars faced a most serious challenge, this time from Juha Kankkunen in a Toyota Celica GT-Four. This was the cars debut performance on a gravel rally, and rally enthusiasts must surely look forward to further exciting events this year, as the might of the Japanese industry join Britain's Ford in an attempt to storm the Italian stronghold! The Acropolis Rally covered over 1,100 miles, with over 300 plus miles of gravel stages. The heat and dusty conditions took their toll of men and machinery, and the cameramen have excelled themselves in providing you with the finest coverage of this, one of the most picturesque locations for a rally in the world.

A superb momento of rallying in New Zealand. Only three European crews made the long trip - Jimmy McRae (Ford XR4), Simon Stubbings (Nissan 323) and Se pages Heider (Opel Kadett GS1). The Australiasian aces gave their all at this combined tarmac/forest stage rally but ultimately they had little hope of catching Austrian Heider despite valiant efforts from Ray Wilson (Nissan 323 Turbo). The slippery conditions caught out many competitors, the quagmire bordering most stages causing havoc, when even the best service crews took an hour to rescue cars which strayed but a few feet from their chosen course! All in all, an action-packed review of this round of the 1988 Drivers' World Rally Championship.

Visual declamation by the poet Gerardo Maloney. Memories of the struggles for vindication of the black ethnic group.

Following the expansion of urban development, land prices in Taipei’s Shilin District soared exponentially. The Shinkong Textile plant in Shilin became the first to close down. Soon, its laid-off workers gathered for a street protest, singing popular songs with altered lyrics. As the battle wore on, they began a long-term protest in front of the Shinkong headquarters lasting for 76 days.

Zooms into the lives of four lesbian roomies who are daffy caricatures of very conflicting dyke lifestyles.

Produced to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the statewide Asian Pacific Student Union (APSU), this collaboration between activists/filmmakers Linda Mabalot and Stann Nakazono observes the rise of a new generation of Asian Pacific American student activists in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1978 Bakke Decision. Interviews with founders and activists involved with APSU members, former student activists, educators, and local and national politicians paint the portrait of the next generation of Asian Pacific American activists and how grassroots activists began the long process towards empowerment and full participation in America’s social, cultural, and political processes.

Djana Mileta was one of the founders of Studio één. Her films have a powerful simplicity. Her oeuvre is only known to a very few people and a re-evaluation is long overdue. In this film, two gloved hands meet each other, at first they are both curious, feeling their way. Step by step they get to know each other, love is awoken, they passionately remove each other's gloves. An unprecedented game of love ensues.

A classic 80's Greek karate movie with Giannis Bournelis.

The video was created by the artist using archival footage of the Japanese poet Yukio Mishima in a failed attempt to occupy an Japanese army barracks which was followed by his suicide. In parallel to the projection the actor Sandro Lombardi did a live reading of Yukio Mishima’s The effeminate intellectuals.

A film by Marico Valente

A series of episodes inspired by the popular Alsatian character "Hans im Schnockeloch", "who has everything he needs, wants nothing he has but has nothing he wants". "We wanted to restore some radical vitality to this typically Alsatian character. Incisive." A. Wicker

1.33 b/w silent. Music by anonymous street cantor & Malcolm Goldstein

A documentary which traces the development of abstract sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson and his major contribution to Icelandic art.

The Very Funny Peter Combe Video Show

Computer animated short from the perspective of a fly.

Short film by Sho Fujiwara, 1988.

Short film.

Short film.

An 8mm study on the synchronization between image and sound.

Return to the House of Pain documents my walking through the turf and sludge of the Big Apple and many worm holes... I chomp my way back west and gnaw on all that sinks stomachward and beyond in vertiginous aching.

Documentary about the night life in Newcastle's Bigg Market.

a Sunday drive down the Jersey shore and back which we often did when Linda's parents (from Wildwood) were alive.

in the shower: after the grotesque fountains I saw in Rome.

A movie about the railroad line built between 1908 and 1912 from Jünkerath to Losheim

“Soma” presents an archaic language of bodily symptoms. In comparison with contemporary medical symptomatology more dependent on quantitative measures, this archaic language of the human body and its suffering seems equally, but more qualitatively, observant. “Soma” goes further, however. These language-encodings of symptoms – Soma’s micro-narratives of pain – must be injured in their turn by the lexical confusion of jokes. The video, “Soma”, was made in 1988 on a Chyron text generator, a hybrid analog-digital device commonly used at that time in television studios and public access cable facilities such as the one in Lockport, New York, where I was able to try one out. “Soma” was originally to be one of a series based on 19th-century medical symptomatology, but this is the only one that was completed.

Imaginary digital universes created using the automapping process (which is repeatedly mapping an animated sequence onto itself).

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.

Super 8 film directed, shot, edited by Jeff McMahon. Featuring dancers David Zambrano and Donald Fleming.

In "Bachdisc", Downey constructs a sophisticated fusion of the classical and the technological, merging the labyrinthine technology of the interactive laserdisc with the intricate, delicately intertwined structure of a Bach fugue and his own nonlinear compositional strategies. Using a performance of Bach's Fugue #24 in B Minor by harpsichordist Elaine Camparone as the work's structural foundation, he manipulates the initial musical theme in twelve successive "chapters" that distill the fugue into its elemental parts. Choosing from the twelve chapters, the viewer can access and recompose his/her own fugue in a real-time manifestation of Bach's musical form. Digital effects such as split screens and inserts, which isolate specific visual elements, allow the viewer to deconstruct - and reconstruct - Bach's serpentine language of counterpoint and theme and variations.

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?

A cinema operator visits a settlement in Bieszczady to show a film. Due to the lack of interest of the inhabitants, he goes to his girlfriend who lives in the mountains.

Jan Wióro is a type of rural mischief. The man dies soon. On the way to the cemetery, the deceased falls out of his coffin and comes to life experiencing various adventures.

A child from the orphanage once again returns to the facility, rejected by a foster family.

The ship sails down the Yenisei River to the city of Igarka. Its passengers are those who in the 1930s and 1940s were repressed, exiled here and lived here for some part of their lives. Those who survived, half a century later, want to return to their own past. It's fun on the boat now. A song is being sung about "... everything will pass, both sadness and joy." Former "convicts" and "special settlers" relax in deck chairs on the deck, in the evenings they dance there to the orchestra, sing to the accordion - and calmly, without anguish, remember the destroyed, crumpled youth. Then some were signed up as fists, others as spies, and all of them were sent to Igarka, almost to the end of the world. And although this past seems like a dream, they cannot escape from it...

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.