Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Film starring Saroja Devi B. and Thiagarajan

Relive the magic of Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre's captivating performance at Bangkok Youth Center in 1988

This documentary reports on the master potter Otto Engelmann from Klingmühl, who was commissioned to make black painted clay heads of Karl Marx in the spring of 1973. Engelmann briefly explains the individual work steps from mixing the casting slip to firing the clay heads and then painting them. An old craft is vividly captured on camera and accompanied by original sou

Inspired by the ballad of Baba Novac, the film tells the story of the Novacești people, a family of brave warriors who are caught in the fight between the Turks and Romanians in the 16th century.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

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

Mock documentary about Elvis' iconic status in America

Short film by Sho Fujiwara, 1988.

The director takes a look at the situation of transgender people in Poland in the late 1980s. He interviews trans people themselves and polls passers-by on the street about the topic they’ve given very little thought to. Among expressions of disgust and condemnation, there is only one completely different voice.

A series of on the street interviews with people celebrating the Washington Redskins winning the 1988 Superbowl. The questions range from "Are you a Redskins fan?" to non-sequiturs like "What is your favorite fish?" Interviewees are repeatedly asked to show off their beer bellies.

The fate of former juvenile prisoners of fascist concentration camps.

The parody of the famous agent thriller is a production of The Japanese American Toy Theatre of London. The cast was recruited solely from a toy depot. 0017 James Bonk, for instance, is played by a small plastic Godzilla, his colleague 0016, who is murdered by being painted black, by a wind-up eggplant.

Kostas, a disciplined family man, works hard so that his wife and two children can go on vacation. He is baked dry in the oven of Athens and the cloud. A young dancer, Olia, enters his life, like a wave of coolness. Kostas tries to restrain himself, not to sin. But Olia's beauty breaks the security systems and Kostas does not hear the alarm signal. So he gets involved in a crazy adventure with Olia, her ex-boyfriend, the old maid who is flirting with him, and his wife.

A village boy dreams of being like the hero of the epic after whom he was named.

In Berlin, young people search for purpose, happiness, and love on extensive nightly forays. They often get in their own way, masking their disorientation with busyness and self-deception in everyday life.

Hanhivaara investigates the murder of an Olympic champion.

The path takes me home

A medieval writer attracts the attention of Death itself while he writes his stories. Soon Death enters a tale he is creating and attempts to kill his main protagonist.

Musings about what it means to travel, let the imagination fly, and to escape from reality. Combines documentary footage, animation on paper, and hand-painted and scratched film.

This collaboration between dancer Douglas Wright and director Gregor Nicholas was one of a series of music and movement-based films that established Nicholas’ reputation. A dramatised film noir sequence leads to a cross-dressing dance duel between Wright and Debbie McCulloch, shifting between an Orwellian cityscape and a retro nightclub. Wright choreographs the bodies, and Nicholas the bold and sensual visual rhythms (shot by Stuart Dryburgh). Nicholas went on to direct high profile commercials and big screen romance Broken English. Wright died in November 2018.

A young man loses his grip on reality and begins seeing a sinister man in his home.

Portrait of American filmmaker Mike Kuchar, shot in New York (United States of America) on December 2, 1988 at 7:30 PM.

In this documentary you will follow in considerable (and sometimes excruciatingly painful) detail Plath's life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her suicide, at age 30, in London in 1963. Included are the candid recollections of her mother, Aurelia Plath, and such aquaintances as Clarissa Roche and Dido Merwin. Providing perspectives on Plath's work are A. Alvarez, a critic, and Sandra M. Gilbert, a feminist scholar and herself a poet.

A sequel to Dolmen, the work features Rangitoto, a volcano in New Zealand that resembles Mount Fuji. Produced in New Zealand, the project was funded by a local television station.

This program was nominated for an ACE award and aired on The Learning Channel and on PBS as part of the Spirit of Place Series. This timeless production captures an intimate portrait of the traumatic consequences of relocation on one Navajo family. Through Katherine Smith’s eyes and words, as a Navajo matriach, the viewer feels the connection to the land on one of the most remote and traditional places in Indian Country – Big Mountain, Arizona.Broadcast on PBS in ’80.

The film shows the connection between agricultural overproduction in Europe and hunger in Brazil.

In their yellow submarine, a father and son go on a surreal underwater adventure to search for the elusive "Golden Whale". 1988 short film made by Ikko Ohno, using MSX hardware.

The film explores the first Palestinian Intifada against the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It shows moving images of resistance against the Israeli occupation, while exploring the steadfast determination of the Palestinian People, confronting a modern army with stones. The film highlights the active and important role of women in the intifada.

Rooster, cat, dog and donkey become homeless in old age for various reasons, wander and sing together. This gruesomely funny singing may not be enough to become Bremen's town musicians, but it is enough to drive away evil robbers and spend a peaceful old age in their house.

A lonely vampire finally succeeds in inviting a beautiful woman into his palace for dinner. Everything develops perfectly, until she discovers that the vampire has a little defect...

Peter Chow’s 1988 feature focuses on a couple that likes to eat pickles in bed, a man who’s just arrived from Hong Kong (Tomas Hsiung), and a ballet dancer working with kung fu gymnastics.

A filmed stage-play recounting the story of Jesus as set in modern day Georgia with music and reverent humor added. Essentially a one man show with a cast of four musicians fleshing out many of the Biblical characters. The music and lyrics were completed by folk singer Harry Chapin shortly before his death in 1981.

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

Everyday life in a house where death is omnipresent, but in which, in contrast to a retirement home, mainly younger people live. Bailey House is a former hotel where 44 AIDS patients live. A refuge for a fraction of people suffering from AIDS in the city of New York, where they find shelter, supervised by a competent team. Fellow sufferers, perhaps even friends in the face of a disease that is stigmatized by society and means social isolation for most of those affected. People of different social backgrounds meet here. However, the largest proportion is made up of young black formerly drug addicts. Bailey House, the last stop in their young life, is often even the first real home, in most cases also the most beautiful place where they have lived so far.

An enigmatic, dialogue-free short film set on a council estate in Manchester

For her third MCA album, Nanci Griffith recorded a live set at Houston's Anderson Fair club in August 1988, and she brought along a camera crew for good measure, resulting in this video companion to the audio album.

Pictures of everyday life of an old woman: During the week she waits for one event, the visit of her daughter on Sunday.

This film is constructed from the diary films of Zoltan Bartos, amateur filmmaker and composer of popular dance music. Shot from the 1920s through the middle of the 1950s, the film reflects both private and official history.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Filmed in IMAX, Emergency takes you from the far north to two Montréal-area operating rooms, following a patient in urgent need of heart surgery.

Heroes and monsters in the mystical past

A board with moving squares shows a picture of a locomotive in a chaotic manner. It turns out that the squares fit together outside the frame. The animated short film is a praise of unconventional thinking.

Movie starring Usha Chavan, Kuldeep Pawar, Lakshmikant Berde and is directed by Usha Chavan.

Criminals threaten Suro Mantoro’s North-South trade and his guards are defeated. One of the dead is Srikandi’s father so Srikandi pursues her martial arts studies by ascetic meditation. She also has a thin blade that is almost invisible to the human eye. Suro Mantoro and Fatimah, whose father was also killed, want to advance their skills but their teacher refuses. He foresees that their problem will be resolved by Srikandi Mantili, the Eagle from the South. (Film Indonesia synopsis)

The movie compiled from the Swedish TV series "Dårfinkar & dönickar" aired in 1988

A married couple of intellectuals, who have reached their third age, are not ready to get involved and accept the cruel rules that life imposes on them...

Primer Vladimirja Pavlina is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Short Fiction Film. Featuring Brane Ivanc, Gojmir Lešnjak, Ksenija Mišič. It was directed by Jan Zakonjšek. It was produced by UL AGRFT - Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo. It has received 2 awards.

Emrah, who comes from his village to study in the city, settles in a boarding house. He meets a girl who is studying at the university in the same boarding house, and they fall in love, but as always, problems arise between them.

The documentary portrays the art historian Wilhelm von Bode as a realistic visionary.