Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

My day in the yearly film.

In the autumn of 1987, the air in the Bulgarian city of Ruse contains more than ten times the normal ammount of chloride. The reason is apparent - the Romanian factory "Verahim", situated on the opposite shore of the Danube river. This documentary film showcases the local outcry and the political stance that the ruling body takes.

Working from the premise that there is no such thing as safe sex, this film is designed as an arcane storybook with each sexual act being contained within a 100 ft.-roll of film. A structural film with content, each roll contains layers of sexual illusion amid subliminal messages created by in-camera effects. The soundtrack starts from a single cat's purr and is manipulated with each sexual act, creating a climatic fever sounding like a buzzing chainsaw.

A unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragments of group activities and statements of the participants.

30.03.1988

Observations by the film group in the village of Basi, Kuldīga district, in the summer of 1988.

I went out of the room and chose two poets as "objects". One is Harumi Kawaguchi, who worked for a trading company at the time and was a dealer for buying and selling yen and dollars. The other is Toshiharu Kishi, who raises and lives dairy cows deep in the mountains of Yamagata. I sketched their lives and had them read their own poems.

An experiment in voyeurism and the disruption of the heterosexist contract.

This film takes the audience to the centre for the blind in Laski. We try to get to know the reality of blind children - full of sounds, smells and carefully studied shapes. Carefully, with their fingers, they check the physiognomy of living animals and then recreate them from clay. Thanks to the aesthetics of the film, seemingly simple activities performed by the wards of the establishment gain a deeper, symbolic dimension.

“Fear enters the management style.” Banned by McDonalds, this Channel 4 film has never been shown before. After working in McDonalds, Jane Gabriel was given full access to film the McDonalds outlet which held the world record for the amount of money taken in one hour, and to Hamburger University in London. This observational documentary reveals why McDonald employees run, and how the shouting and the “warm fuzzies” and “cold pricklies” affect the employees. They describe what it’s like inside McDonalds as it plans to open a new McDonalds in the UK every mile for the next 25 years.

Two brothers, one woman in their lives. Their erotic passion brings them face to face. They compete fiercely through the IT companies they represent. Intrigues and murders strike mercilessly at both sides. The law of "an eye for an eye" prevails...

Documentary featuring current and archive footage of documentary filmmakers and camera operators who risk their lives in order to capture vivid images of deadly animals, combat, and natural dangers and disasters.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure. The title includes a double meaning, that is "now here" being here – and "nowhere" to not be anywhere. In this lyrical work, Jun Kurosawa analyzed himself schizophrenically.

A experimental film about the work of José Agripino de Paula, Brazilian vanguard writer and movie director.

The South Shields-born animator Sheila Graber looks at the growing gender bias in toys for girls and boys. At the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, monster killing machines and robots fight each other and toy soldiers in khaki battle against pink clad, cute dolls, threatened animals and fairies. The toys gradually find their traditional roles reversed and harmony returns to the fictional killing fields of a Christmas home.

In the mid 1980s, I heard Memphis's very own RANDY BAND and decided I would collaborate with their bass player Randy Chertow on a movie. Tommy Hull wrote this song "You" and I shot this Super 8 Movie to go with his great melody. In this movie, you will see band members Chertow, Tommy Hull and George Reineke. You will also see my wonderful sister Dana Sachs and great friend Kathy Steuer. I too have a small cameo you might catch. Some of the film is shot in the Fairgrounds in Memphis and some in the now long gone but dearly cherished MUSEUM OF THE UNKNOWN in Marin County, California.

Why take a risk... prepare now, not just for an earthquake but for any emergency. Learn how you and your family can survive the first 72 hours following a major quake.

A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love. Focusing on society's expectations for young women, EXTRA CHANGE is an excellent discussion film on childhood development, self-image and family relations.

Accompanied by song and poetry, a trucker transports a load of honey across the United States. Based on a children's book by Diane Siebert.

ACT Up's closing down of the FDA in October 1988 is dramatically recorded by Ellen Spiro.

September 1944. the Normandy landings took place three months earlier. Paris is liberated, the allied troops are in Belgium. It was then, on September 5 precisely, that the deadliest bombardment of the war in France took place on the harbor. The result is up to the means implemented by the English air force: 3000 dead, the heart of the city razed, annihilated, without any military reason. Table Rase describes this forgotten murder that continues to haunt the city. Military archives, news of the time, intervention of English pilots, hypothesis of a French colonel, views of the port and the city before the war, and especially testimonies of survivors, the film goes around what remains of the event.

Tells of the ancient peoples of the Americas; who they were and where they came from, as revealed in the Book of Mormon. Target audience was investigator families that would have been considered in the 1980s to have been of "Lamanite descent" (First Peoples/Native Americans, Polynesians, Central and South Americans).

A monster/robot made of human parts controlled by crickets Attack peoples.

The villagers one day are surprised by a strange phenomenon - a high embankment begins to form all over the area. Like in a mole pit, the shifting earth destroys everything around it. After the "cataclysm", new blocks of flats - all made of concrete slab - rise in place of the destroyed farms. Only the residents, transferred to new conditions, do not change their habits.

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy,” Internationale Situationniste #10 (March 1966). Along with additional commentary adapted from Barbara Kruger and musicians Morrissey and Skinny Puppy, the text posits rioting as a refusal to participate in the logic of capital and an attempt to de-fetishize the commodity through theft and gift. Cokes asks, “How do people make history under conditions pre-established to dissuade them from intervening in it?”

Social issue documentary directed by Jacob Riis.

In a small town, a nomad cuts down a tree he needs to use. However, he accidentally chops down the wrong tree, felling the tree that sustains life itself. When the latter tree falls, all life disappears. The nomad then finds himself in the middle of a desert that he does not recognize, and he tries to work his way out of it. During this particular quest, he comes across a small tree that is in the process of dying and opts instead to save this one.

Sylwia, a ballet dancer chosen for the lead in “Romeo and Juliet,” breaks her spine and faces a career’s end while her filmmaker husband Andrzej pursues his debut and an affair with his director’s secretary. Conflicted between love, ambition, and sacrifice, they and Sylwia’s devoted friend Agata navigate betrayal, recovery, and the chance for new beginnings.

Pianist Yevgeny Kissin brings his inimitable touch to Tokyo's Suntory Hall in this 1987 concert, when the virtuoso was only 16. A stirring version of composer Sergey Prokofiev's Sonata no. 6 in A Major marks Kissin's longest contribution of the evening. Other selections include Sergey Rachmaninoff's Études Tableaux op. 39, no. 5 in E-flat Minor; Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in F-sharp Minor; and Franz Liszt's Trois Études de Concert no. 2 in F Minor.

A short but sweet meditation on beauty and ephemerality.

The theme of the film is: the peasant question in Russia in the 20th century. Stolypin's reforms, the activities of food detachments, the New Economic Policy and the rise of agriculture. Collectivization and its stages. Arrests of "kulaks", famine of the early 30s. The repressions against Chayanov, Kondratiev, and Markov, Soviet economists, representatives of the "Russian School of Economics" who advocated cooperation. Mass repression. Reflections on the future of the village, on farm (farmer) agriculture. Eyewitness accounts of those events.

Tom Tam takes us to the hub of 1980s Chinese American art movement- the Asian American Arts Centre in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. Through interviews with Chinese American musicians, playwrights, poets, sculptors, painters, dancers, filmmakers, and critics about their heritage, their philosophy of art, and their craft, Tam attempts to answer the question: What is Asian American art? Interspersed with the interviews are the sights and sounds of New York's Chinatown.

Filmed and recorded at the Lagoa Rowing Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, 1988.

Student film by Zhang Yuan, shot on 35mm film.

The foggy November day in Hamburg is not Nowak's day. The Hamburg taxi driver thinks he saw a dead body from "the neighborhood" being taken away in a garbage can. But all he wanted to do was return his son's teddy bear, which he had forgotten during a weekend visit to his divorced father. Suddenly, the taxi driver sees orange vehicles everywhere, and his wife even thinks he has kidnapped their son. He hasn't, so where is Timmy? The police don't want to hear any of it. "Forget it, Mr. Nowak!" Following a hunch, Nowak drives the garbage truck to the waste incineration plant on the outskirts of the city and enters the facility. What he discovers there is not what he expected...

Memoirs of F.M. Dostoevsky about N.A. Nekrasov, performed by the actor Alexander Filippenko.

Early 3D animation.

A gloomy allegory about the difficult human fate.

A woman’s harrowing dance, as she rediscovers her youth and broken heart under the folds of her skin.

Through very personal statements by the protagonists, the film provides an insight into the individual form of (romantic) relationships of young heterosexual adults (15 to 19 years old according to the commentary) and, at the end, focuses against the premature acceptance of sexual relationships. It reveals itself to be an interview film with couples who went on a tandem tour together for the film and were "spontaneously willing" to talk about their relationship.

Experimental short film

This feature documentary offers a shocking look at the living and working conditions of Haitian agricultural laborers in the Dominican Republic. Each year, some 20,000 workers cross the border to cut sugar cane, lured by promises of good money. Instead, they toil up to 14 hours per day and live in unhealthy, cramped camps without running water, electricity, medical or educational facilities.

A gopher experiences misfortune due to his excessive greed and passion for hoarding.

"The images mix fragments of the real and imaginary in a hermetic effort to express the [Breder's] quest for a visual text that is at once personal reflection and cultural criticism." - John Hanhardt, 1989

Wong uses his second generation Chinese-Canadian perspective to frame the Chinese here in the new world, Canada, and in the motherland, China. This is an intimate, personal view. Through his own “family network” and several trips to the People’s Republic of China, the artist gained access to the everyday, non-exotic world of the Chinese. A picture emerges of displaced cultures and traditions in transitions.

This family story contains a private reading of ten years in the history of Spain, from the birth of two brothers of the author until the death of the Spanish dictator in 1975.

A man with a cloak and a sword who is traveling along the road and something attacks him where he has to throw his cloak to the ground and fight.