Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Samad Returns from War

This film is based on the image of three generations of devout monks pilgrimages, an ode to the noble spirit of those who pilgrimage. It's also a film that focuses on, and emphasizes, aesthetic values. Due to the beautiful picture and unrestrained language, in the creation of TV films, the technique of handheld camerawork was used earlier than in films, and the expression of subjective emotions is boldly expressed. Therefore, "The Temptation of Tibet" was one major step in the Chinese film industry's creation. It is regarded as a representative of early handheld filmmaking in China. The film was completed in 1988, and won the first prize of the first national video contest, the national TV literary starlight award, and the excellent writing award.

After watching a documentary on television about Polish refugees who fled to Iran during WWII, a young actor named Sohrab believes that the people in the film may be his relatives. He travels to Tehran to meet the director with the intention of trying to find his lost family.

1988 CBC docudrama on Canada's role in WW1. Terence McKenna tours the Battlefields of Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Paschendaele. Actors portray several Canadian soldiers in WW1 in re-enactments based on their memoirs, diaries and letters.

Pelczyn is a journey back to a childhood home in Poland's former Silesia region, a flowing sequence of images in restless Super-8 shots. Superimposition is a defining feature of the film; images are layered on top of each other and intertwine, creating profundity, sketching inner landscapes and interweaving fragments of memory and recollections.

Tracey Moffatt’s work, influenced by cinema and pop culture, probes misconceptions about Aboriginality and explores gender, sexuality and identity.

World-renowned daredevil Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel narrates this fascinating documentary chronicling his remarkable career, which originally began as a hobby to keep him out of trouble. Showcasing some of his most unbelievable stunts -- including his attempt to jump Snake River Canyon and his successful launch over a fountain at Caesar's Palace -- this high-octane film is a testament to Knievel's cockiness and courage.

Charles Gatewood's SOV tour of underground subcultures in late 1980's San Francisco.

Harrowing story of a man who is forced to travel on a public bus with the body of his dead infant daughter in order to bury her.

Leon Golub's massive canvasses depict scenes most of us would prefer not to see - mercenary killings, torture, and death squads. Golub offers not simply a profile of a painter with a political conscience, but an investigation into the power of the artist to reflect our times and to change the way we think about our world.

The film chronicles the lives of ordinary women as well as individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard, and Abigail Scott Duniway through the great 19th century events: industrialization, abolition, the Civil War, westward movement, temperance, and suffrage. For nineteenth century women, quilts were the podium, the pulpit and the judges' gavel, which their society denied them. Their quilts speak the language of abolition, patriotism, politics, social justice, and westward expansion.

The story of the good citizen and postworker Bernhardt Stachoviak, who ends up running amok. Others would say: Out of his immense hatred towards mankind. He would say: Against his own will.

Erratic, erotic, arrhythmic lunar trauma. Strong poetic textures of female psycho-sexual experience, altering the film’s surface through selective bleaching and scratching, and uncanny percussive editing.

A documentary commissioned by the Executive Committee of the Soviet Red Cross Society for the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin.

Bram Bahrumsyah, a career diplomat, has a wife, Marsya, a successful interior designer. Marsya’s higher financial success makes Bram depressed. Even though he has a good career, he is financially dependent on Marsya. But Marsya’s business ambition is merely to help her husband’s career. In this state of mind, Bram meets Romina who is also in a similar state of depression. Both of them have an affair.

The first and last comedy about percussion industrial music in history. Folows the experiment in crossing a man and a monkey to create an ideal worker.

An imaginative account of an elderly artist's temporary creative crisis.

Comedy, philosophy, gunfights, music, and chases.

Remote Viewing is a clairvoyant perception of a distant location. Mentally, you visit a person or place and use your inner eyes to accurately observe surroundings and occurrences. Astral Projection is leaving your physical body and astrally traveling to another location or alternate realm of reality.

The first genocide of this century occurred during the first World War, when 1.5 million Armenians were killed, and an entire nation was driven from its land. Back to Ararat is the first film to examine this tragic episode in depth. Traveling from the old ruins to new Armenian communities around the world, the film presents a people united in its dream of returning to its homeland. But no one will listen to their arguments. In fact, Turkish representatives in the film argue the genocide never took place. Back to Ararat is a powerful reminder of a global injustice which has gone unaddressed.

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

The mummy signals from the threshold of the living and the dead. Secrets seep through the skin, and tattooed oracles reveal the body is a sign divine. This film is an inscription of the mysteries in action.

Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s documentary is dedicated to Prof. Bolesław W. Lewicki, a film critic, theorist, and historian, as well as the rector of the Łódź Film School.

This picture of Alisher Khamdamov is constructed as a legend of Bakhshi, who pulls his endless song about the brave defender of all the disadvantaged Namaz, thereby brightening up the halt of Russian officers who are serving a dull service in the Turkestan region.

Super 8mm. Colour. Sound on tape.

Outsider develops friendship with a cockroach

A young woman between two men who fight for her in an unusual way.

While Odyssey focused primarily on 35mm back-lit motion graphics and special effects for the first 5 years of its existence, its award-winning release of the world's first home entertainment video of computer animation, State Of the Art Of Computer Animation in 1988 brought about a shift in focus to 3D computer animation. The accolades and sales successes achieved by State Of the Art Of Computer Animation prompted the 1990 release of The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey, a title that would become the first member of the successful The Mind's Eye series. The next decade (1990–2000) would be taken up almost entirely with the production of 19 feature-length 3-D computer animated package films for home release.

The history of the Orthodox Church. Its spiritual ups and downs are inextricably linked to the dramatic life of the Russian people and their statehood. The film is dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus and was made with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and All Russia.

A black and white comedy. They say the game of life is like a chess board, so don't make a move.

Lawrence and his musical family recreate some of the swinging sounds of the Big Bands in this classic show.

Six Brussels children between ten to twelve years old make an animated film together in which they let their imaginations run wild. With great care, they sculpt characters, build sets, and bring everything to life with stop-motion. The end result is a universe full of angels and monsters, a creative translation of the way they experience the world around them. Filmmaker Patrick Van Antwerp gives a fascinating insight into the children’s creative process and the workings of the studio.

The film is set in the Bialystok region on the holy mountain of Grabarka, the areas of Siemiatycz, Milejczyc and others. The protagonist is John Trochimczyk, who driven by misfortune decides to carry the cross before the feast of the Saviour and dedicate it to Grabarka to rescue his sick wife. With a wooden cross provided, he meets along the way local people and all the time is approaching the sacred mountains of Grabarka.

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An early, wire-frame black and white version of the computer animated short film.

While exploring in the attic, a boy discovers a Hawaiian shirt in an old trunk. The shirt comes to life and takes the boy on a wild tour of the reefs, beaches, and mountains of Hawaii. When the boy returns, the attic is transformed by the spirit of Aloha. Includes animation. Without narration

About the struggle of good and evil principles in man.

Retelling of G .B. Shaw's Pygmalion set in Zagreb in the beginning of the 20th century.

The film tells of life and survival in Europe's modern satellite towns, featuring cities that no longer exist—the meta-city of Wulfen in the Ruhr region—and those that are yet to come—the megacities south of Madrid. There is a concrete city on the outskirts of Amsterdam that has become the largest black ghetto in Europe today, and a banlieue in Paris where racism and drugs dominate life. There are houses from which life has been driven out, where people seem like foreign bodies. There is the vital struggle for survival of those who have been driven into the cities, those who have been pushed out of the cities.

Recorded and filmed at The Crickets Anniversary concerts in Universiada Hall 22 to 25 October 1987 and 31 October 1987 in Dimitrovgrad.

He talked about the "Worship between Man and Nature" to make the next generation aware that it is our responsibility to protect and protect the environment, wildlife, beautiful land, mountains and water.

An unknown film director is trying to make a documentary film about a transvestite. A transvestite commits suicide on camera. The film remains unfinished. The unknown film director still goes to the cinema for the premiere of his film.

Documentary short shot at the Annual Fourth of July Yippie Smoke-in in 1988. Filmed by John Heyn and Seth Morris using borrowed equipment from the public access studio Jeff Krulik was running at the time.

Either it happened or it didn’t happen, either in a dream or in reality, but white storks brought spring to the village on their wings...

Four people, at different times, wait at a tram stop. A film about life.

An experiment from the video lab of Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas.

The plot is unknown and not much is known about the film. It's part of the 'French as Seen by...' collection

Expired film stock, DIY shooting and development often lead to mistakes. For instance, some of the material is good, but some is «sticky» when film sticks in the development tank leaving undeveloped an area up to 20 cm wide.

A poetic dissection of the role of women in post-revolutionary Nicaraguan society.

The film is about the villagers of the Chornobyl district of Kyiv region who return to their homes after being evacuated from the Chornobyl exclusion zone.

From Bitter Earth powerfully examines the drawings and paintings that survived the concentration camps, ghettos and hiding places of the Second World War. While most of the artists who created them perished, Morrison interviews painters like Yehuda Bacon, Dinah Gottliebova and Walter Spitzer who talk about the extraordinary perseverance and ingenuity that such artists demonstrated in attempting to capture the world around them, which was often punishable by death. Upon its initial airing on the BBC in 1988, The Independent referred to Paul Morrison’s documentary as “a worthy footnote to Shoah.”

A record of the three-day burial ceremony of Jan Piwnik "Ponury" (1912-1944), which took place in June 1988 in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. The funeral rituals consisted of Christian, Slavic and military customs.

She is a very ordinary girl of today. Her father is an ordinary salaryman, and she has grown up without any problems. But when she turns 18, her feelings are complicated. Things have been a bit weird lately. "I don't think I'm naturally compatible anymore. The film lyrically portrays the true feelings of a lonely, pretty girl who doesn't want to grow up yet and wants to be spoiled more by her parents. The tasteful cutting captures the girl's eroticism in a refreshing way.

On August 9th, the glasswork was distorted. On the dead land, the glasswork was beautiful in the sunset. In it, a girl is trapped. The glasswork that was bathed in the sunset reflects the happiness of the girl. The glasswork that was bathed in the sunset is itself... Happiness has melted away together. And now that I cry again.