Cinematic Era: 1988 Vintage

Mexican feature film

CROSS ROAD (1988) was a film made after having fallen down on my knees. A painted salutation to Hermes.

A powerful mythic poem about women, the Goddess and the human spirit. It examines our foibles and frailties and how we can grow out of them.

When Mr. Dlamini, a wealthy businessman, and his wife, Gugu, fall victim to a trio of crooks seeking revenge and money, they are forced to flee to their beach house.

"Elder's most philosophical film ... subtly woven connections ... proceed under a contemplative regime" that "solicits the memories of the whole cycle in more delicate ways." Bart Testa

Regurgitated Guts, Left to Die, Torn to Pieces, Pull the Plug, Denial of Life, Born Dead, Zombie Ritual, Infernal Death, Open Casket, Sacrificial, Mutilation, Choke on It, Scream Bloody Gore

An old white woman colonial settler staying on in up-country Kenya.

The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump Village, Brooklyn, New York. Shot from one vantage point over a period of fifteen months, THE BALCONY, speculates on the evanescence of all our lives.

Bollywood 1988

Film with a soundtrack featuring Chitra and S.P. Balasubrahmanyam.

The story about The Children's Storefront School, an independent tuition-free school in Harlem, set up in 1966 to help kids from poor neighborhoods get better education and support.

Big brother Rabbit takes care of his little sister all day while their parents are sleeping after a carrot hunt the night before. And he has a lot of patience with his stubborn and waddling little sister.

With a history of intrigue, romance, opera, festivals, old world grandeur, Austrians blend tradition and culture to live life at its best. What other countries say with words, Austrians say with the music of Mozart, Strauss and Schubert. This video tours a land of spectacular beauty, sounds of music, tastes of strudel and Sachertorte, touches of history and the pleasant smell of a winter's fire after a day in the Alps.

A beautiful woman inhales the ashes of a demon and becomes a flesh-eating creature!

Suddenly, there is a huge explosion and the world is destroyed. The story unfolds without any context and ends with a bang. 7 minutes of parody, clever use of frame dropping, and pop laughter.

When Susan tells Donna her dream, she finds it may not have been a dream at all, but a dream come true. After her first lesbian love, Susan begins a whirl of one night stands, leaving her partners wanting more. That is, until she falls for the mysterious Claudia, who outdoes Susan at her own game. Ultimately, a wiser more mature Susan finds her source of confidence and sexuality within her own strong woman centered self.

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.

Tomasz, an old peasant, tries to find himself in the new reality after the First World War.

About processes in the living cell, photosynthesis. The study of biophysical aspects of photobiological processes is the central section of quantum biophysics.

Yeranouhy and Mariam Aslamazians. Two sisters. Two elderly women with young glittering eyes. Two outstanding artists presenting a big number of their works to a gallery in their native town. 'Father to be proud of his daughters', - one of them said.

Folkways: A Vision Shared--A Tribute To Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly pays stunning tribute to two legends of folk and blues. Narrated by Robbie Robertson, this documentary features performances by John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger and U2.

“The body, culture and nature are also at stake in Body Politic, a film that goes to a hospital operating room, research laboratories and a family picnic to outline the issues raised by genetic experimentation. With her typical serious humor, Bromberg explores both the claims of science (we can improve human life) and the claims of religion (God made perfect beings) and implicitly asks the question, “How do we know when we’ve gone too far?’…There’s no voice-over and the argument is made by an athletic juxtaposition of imagery and testimony.” – Helen Knode, L.A. Weekly

How does the Tallinn old town look to a wanderer who has strayed off the main street and is discovering the courtyards on his own? Is it still the same city?

Themes of 19th century opera are reprised and enacted in silent movies and old postcards. The program begins with a contemporary executive reenacting the aria from Don Carlos ("She never loved me...") for his lover. He uses household props to stage the aria, he "air conducts," and the couple sings along to what is evidently a recording. Gruesome acts from five different operas (massacre, infanticide, revenge, execution, sexual exploitation and abandonment) are suggested by silent movie footage from two films framed like a backdrop within a window or theater, interspersed with two segments of a graphic color-ball and two male radio listeners.

Documentary about the brothers Skladanowsky and their first films.

A Berlin filmmaker observes local reporters and photographers from two Cologne daily newspapers at work. The insight into the mechanisms and constraints of their work repeatedly expands into a panorama of big-city life with all its tragedies and grotesqueries.

Based on the works of S. Yesenin, staged by the Moscow Art Academic Theatre of the USSR named after M. Gorky. The performance incorporates documents, letters, and memoirs of A. Blok, S. Gorodetsky, M. Gorky, B. Pasternak, A. Yesenina, E. Yesenina, A. Lunacharsky, V. Mayakovsky, V. Meyerhold, and A. Miklashevska.

Patrick Chaput and Laurence Drummond invite us to explore Naples during the Holy Week festivities, using the collages created on the city's walls by Ernest Pignon-Ernest (b. 1942). As brass bands play and processions take to the streets, the artist scours the Baroque city in search of wall surfaces suitable for his silkscreens of Caravaggio's bodies.

This portrait of the late 1920s and the first half of the 1930s in Peru offers the perspective of historically silenced sectors. With testimonies from former union leaders, archival photographs, film material, workers’ songs and filming of key places, a transcendental era is reconstructed, where José Carlos Mariátegui and Haya de la Torre played a decisive role in the popular movement.

A bunch of teenage boys in Mora, Sweden, who are torn between their great interest in cars and their girlfriends. The film especially follows Jan Broberg and his rebuilding of a Volvo Amazon, year model 1966.

Reconstruction of the last days of Stanislaw Witkiewicz's life and recording of the ceremony of bringing his remains to Poland.

Short film.

A mysterious man enters the night bar. There is no one inside except for a bartender and a black cat. Alcohol and imagination from noir comics will do their job.

One Candle, One Projection

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

Disturbance (among the jars) is a multi-lingual adaptation of selected Gnostic texts from the Nag Hammadi library discovered in 1945/46. The structure of the piece is based around the metaphor of fragmentation, more specifically, that of a broken sentence reflecting the original condition of many of the texts. In a completely white room lit with several thousand watts of light, a veranda with seven straight-back wooden chairs faces a low pedestal of the same height on which seven 27-inch bare cathode ray tubes (display bulbs of video monitors) are positioned to form a fragmented line. The positions of the monitors can be seen in a multiplicity of ways.

Short animation film in which a male and female dancer move in front of and behind a square frame using stop-motion.

The film’s protagonist is Zion Cohen (Arik Ohana), a boy who grew up in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Beit She’an and was sent at the age of eight by his grandmother—with the help of a social worker—to a foster family in Haifa in the late 1970s. The foster family is the Sharonis—a well-off family consisting of the mother (Tchia Danon), a psychologist by profession, the father Elimelech (Roberto Pollak), and their young son Nir (Roie Bar-Natan), who do everything in their power to support Zion. The film depicts the various difficulties Zion encounters in his new life as a foster child and his feeling of not belonging; he often tries to return to his childhood neighborhood and his friends, something his grandmother and the social worker try to keep him from doing.

Director: J. Erastheo Navoa Writer: Jojo Lapus Stars: Vic Vargas, Dante Rivero, Beth Bautista

What does a lion think when he sees a person in a wheelchair in the desert? - "Meals on Wheels..."

Mexican feature film

Reflection on the history and place of the Earth in space. Question about the role of man in subjugating nature. Does human intervention end the world as it began - a big bang.

"The Crown of the Sultan" - a fairy tale/comedy/drama taking place in an ancient court where a mole is conspiring.

Using Baseball as a metaphor, this film explores the world of William Blake.

Documentary on aïta, a Bedouin musical style that originated in the countryside of Morocco. Women aïta singers are shown performing and discussing their nomadic lifestyle and profession.

After eight years of feminist activism, ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO was Meters’ first step back towards experimental film. The camera observes a street corner from a window in Meters’ house. Turkish women meet on the sidewalk outside. Children play, dogs walk by. The shots repeat, just as the actions recorded reoccur every day.

Just as the word Idyll of Faust's Part 2 is rooted in the Greek idein/to see, so is "candida" in candidatus, as used in the white robed army of martyrs' of the Te Deum, as well as Albicare/to be white or Albicore out of the Portuguese (or Arabic origin) designating a kind of tunny (or white man): thus, Faust's 3 is white/white as well as (from sugar's white) candy, and fish: it is the modern Walpurgisnacht to Faust, but the day-dream of his Emily: it exists that a woman has, finally, something of her ritual included in the myth of Faust..... and that muthos/mouth become a vision.

Half comedy, half horror story, this disturbing film focuses on several spokesmen for America's survivalist movement as they reveal the way they think, the way they play, and the way they prepare for the next world war.

In this film, made two weeks prior to his death from AIDS, San Francisco performer Rodney Price sings and tap dances a darkly humorous song about his own death, "I've Got Less Time Than You." It is a heartening and powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield suddenly decide to abandon their suffocating universe. They embark on a trip around the world in search of an impossible sanctity.