Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

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

The film tells the story of a violin belonging to a man, Rothschild.

Zygmunt Berling (27 April 1896 – 11 July 1980) was a Polish general who fought for the independence of Poland in the early 20th century.

Documents the effects of 25 years of armed conflict and the resulting famine on the people of Mozambique which is under seige from RENAMO, a terrorist group supported by South Africa. This film explores the political and racial background of the fighting and accuses South Africa of waging a campaign of destabilization and terror.

November 7, 1918: Revolutionary night in Munich. After a large demonstration, Kurt Eisner leads the crowd to the barracks. The war-weary soldiers immediately defect. The king and his entourage flee. Without bloodshed, the Free State of Bavaria is born. Subsequently, revolutionary and reactionary forces fight for power with all means. Eisner is assassinated. Two soviet republics are short-lived. The young democracy is vulnerable and fails, is bloodily crushed. It goes through the world a whisper was made in 1988 and interweaves contemporary film documents and interviews. The audience includes contemporary witnesses from the anarchist, communist and socialist spectrum who were already very old at the time, such as Benno Scharmanski, Centa Herker, Hugo Jakusch, Sophie Radischnigg, Minna Dittenheber, Emil Meier and Peter Lichtinger.

Saving the desert from being watered (to grow cotton) with water containing pesticides and other chemicals and that end up killing sheep, camels and other animals of the desert. And yet, ‘Turkmen without the desert is dead,’ says a shepherd. The desert saved the Turkmen people who could hide in the desert from attacking tribes. Portraits of old men and the message that saving the desert is to save the nation.

Mahjong hell" is a common occurrence for university students. One night, a young man who spends all his time playing mahjong and neglects his studies goes to a phone box to call his parents, only to be attacked by a terrifying ghost. A mixture of horror film and slapstick comedy, this is a cautionary tale for all lazy students. The last act of "Father", who makes a grand entrance in the film, brings tears to the eyes.

A heartwarming comedy about three university students who come of age around a pot dish in a flat. The same room, a camera fixed there throughout, and a cast of only three people, and only men. The idea shines through in its ultimate simplicity and low-budget setting. The idea itself is simple, but the calculated direction and the precise atmosphere created by the actors, which response to it, make the viewer feel even more intelligent.

1988 / color / sound / 1S / 45' 00

"40 non stop minutes of brain bending technicolour graphics by Stakker provide a moving backdrop for the most exciting & innovative dance music around..." Contains tracks by S-Express, Marshall Jefferson, Royal House, Baby Ford, Dinosaur L., Pierre's Phantasy Club, Adonis & many more. Also featuring promos from Baby Ford, Meat Beat Manifesto & The Garden Of Eden"

Héloïse in her home waits for husband Abelard and accomplishes many household chores while humming love songs. Fragments of bodies and gestures like the fragmentation of certain women's lives; joy of young brides and self-forgetfulness.

31.03.1988

A TV movie by Edgardo Cozarinsky.

From spring wildflowers to winter snowstorms, you'll discover Death Valley's nature, including visits to Artists Drive, Devils Golf Course, Dantes View, Badwater, Zabriskie Point, the Race Track and Ubehebe Crater including Scotty's Castle.

A mischievous baby embarks on death-defying adventures in the world of adults.

Beware of mother dragons! Longcurl the dragon is so upset she's breathing fire! Someone has taken her babies from their nest and Longcurl is certain they are being hidden in the royal castle of Lovelylocks. Could this be another sinister scheme by Duchess Ravenwaves to take over the peaceful land?

Selections from pirate television broadcasts made with portable equipment built and operated by John Duncan, transmitted after midnight at irregular intervals without prior announcements from randomly chosen sites in Tokyo, over the signal of NHK1.

The Twined Shadow of the Dance. One dancer folding back upon herself.

Irena, a young physicist, along with two of her colleagues, undertakes an important study far from home. She goes for a health check-up at the city hospital and learns that she suffers from leukemia. After recovering from her spiritual depression, she begins to come to terms with reality, appreciating every second of her life and the love she tries to avoid.

Documentary about Herbert Daniel

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Documentary about skinheads in Stockholm.

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and a surprising new generation of musicians and dancers.

This is a documentary about the Finnish-Soviet Winter War (Talvisota) of 1939-1940. It contains rare and never before seen footage from the official film archives (Sota-arkisto) of the Finnish army.

Follows the Pskov's male academic choir of chauffeurs, the beautiful Pskov, which exists not only as a background, but also as an emotional atmosphere of the characters' lives. About people who are in love with their region, their business and the songs they sing.

Colorful impression for the youngest spectators explaining the differences between the circle and the ball, and showing the possibility of turning the circle into an ellipse.

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

A Caribbean sculptor is imprisoned for rape. His wife, a psychologist, visits him and tells him that she is expecting a child.

"Shot in northern Alberta, where the artist grew up, the film consists of ten long-take shots of various lengths divided by black leader bearing a number for each successive shot... notes in origin realizes the subtle lyricism that appears in the last image of its predecessor. Here Epp intimates a mysteriously shared and personal complicity of artist and viewer without, however, abandoning that purity and extraordinary elegance that mark Epp as one of the most accomplished of film artist." - Bart Testa, Art Gallery of Ontario catalogue

Review of the 1987-88 Arsenal season.

Short film from André Almuro

Ruth Novaczeks first film takes the form of a confession to the filmmaker’s new lover. It was originally shot super 8 and re-filmed from two projectors to create various super impositions. For Novaczek, this is a film about what she terms “the typical Jewish London woman of (her) generation”, who grew up in the 1960s, denying her culture and sexuality, only to try to come to terms with it during the tumultuous Thatcherite 1980s.

Documentary by Anne Spoerri.

Award-winning Brazilian experimental animated short film

Schgaguler, an old hermit farmer, is one of the few who still masters the art of cucumber planting. "Growing cucumbers is a woman's job, but it's the man who has to stick them in." Kirchberger sets off with him and his film crew at dawn on a horse-drawn sleigh. The cucumbers they have brought with them may only be stuck into the snow at certain places so that they ward off evil or bring a fruitful harvest.

Passage du désir, a prelude by Jakobois uses the pornographic video-image to which a rhythmical treatment has been given. The sexual activity is explicit. We can clearly understand what is going on. Ultimately there Is the Impression of a stained glass window fixed over the screen. It seems that the desire of the film-maker is to create a new sensual vision out of the perception of the video Image.

In 1915, during World War One, when Australian soldiers were fighting in Gallipoli and casualties were high, a group of patriots from the NSW mid-western farming town of Gilgandra answered the call to serve God, King and mother-England. They set off to march to Sydney and to join the army, gathering volunteer troops for the Dardanelles from other farming communities along the way. They called themselves the “Coo-ees”. In 1987 a new band of “Coo-ees” set off to re-enact the march and put Gilgandra back on the map. Coo-ee captures the spirit and warmth of these true life characters from the enthusiastic send off by the townspeople of Gilgandra to their footsore and rain sodden arrival in Sydney three weeks later. The film captures the spirit of these latter day diggers and the loyalty and mateship which is still alive and well in rural Australia today.

A 1988 Bafta nominated short film by British animator Karen Watson. The film uses mixed media animation and unconventional narrative to explore the issues of domestic violence and child abuse from within the confines of the patriarchal family unit.

Film by Stephan Sachs.