All Films

Broom and Bird

1988 • 8 min • Poland

A story about a concrete housing estate where the lack of trees and greenery prevents birds from living.

Anônimo I: Teresa

1988 • 10 min • Brazil

In Belo Horizonte, Teresinha de Jesus has been wandering the same path for 13 years, becoming a well-known figure in the city.

Water

1988 • 2 min • Netherlands

The clip shows a film fragment in which the French film comedian Fernandel shuffles along the street sadly and apparently aimlessly. Colours are introduced onto the original black-and-white material with felt pens and needles.

Kavardak

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animated film based on the poem of the same name by Vladimir Orlov about how "one day, one day, the cuckoo in her favorite clock broke," but a master was found for whom "there is no problem repairing clocks of any system."

James Dean I

1988 • 11 min • Sweden

About Kurosawa, the moon, the ecosystem collapse, and Eva.

Polly Gone

1988 • 3 min

A day in the life of a lone robot, the aptly-named Polly Gone.

The Mystery of Carl E. Lafong

1988 • 10 min • Canada

They are: 1) a man in a house (see N ° 3) 2) a radio 3) a man who is fascinated by short waves (see N ° 8) 4) love songs, songs war 5) languages, songs, tribes 6) antennas, transmissions, frequency 7) remote voice 8) death (see No. 11) 9) the kilohertz, megahertz, numbers (see N ° 6) 10) the mask of God, the mask of the Devil and the veil between the two (see N ° 4)

Pearl in Hades

1988 • 5 min • Japan

Light reflecting on a dark water surface, a drop of light with blurred outline, the sea at night, illumination in the distance, a close-up of a lying female – these are basically all the objects that appear in this piece. Nevertheless, the scale of the story this simple composition weaves out is awesome. The first piece made after moving into Tokyo, this work sieves out Nishimura's negative feelings such as anxiety and solitude and the scent of death from the dark water face. So who is this lying woman, her blank gaze that at some moments gleam with light? The mystery deepens and interpretations expand. Nishimura's true masterpiece, aiming to make "film that the audience can conceive without strain".

Oberhausen 34. Kurzfilmtage

1988 • 3 min • Germany

01.04.1988

Et de trois

1988 • 9 min • France

Third part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

Voices & Visions: Emily Dickinson

1988 • 57 min

Though Emily Dickinson spent almost all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, her poems represent a broad range of imaginative experience. They are rich in feeling, wide in their knowledge of nature, books, and geography, and expansive in their vision. Dickinson’s training in science suggests a source for her skill in accurate observation, whether of plants and animals or the workings of her own mind. The greatest effect of her scientific studies, though, is in her experimental attitude about life’s great issues.

The Writer

1988 • 12 min • Netherlands

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.

Black Sugar

1988 • 57 min • Canada

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.

Beauty and the Beast: Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics

1988 • 45 min • Japan

This 1988 version of Beauty and the Beast is part of the Japanese anime anthology series by Nippon Animation based on the Grimms' Fairy Tales.

Afghanistan Dream Book

1988 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Story of psychological pressure which former Soviet Afghan soldiers have to deal with in peaceful life. Through the story of Ruslan we are shown how public indifference often leads to drug usage.

Modern Madonna - Physically Pure: Nagisa Shirahama

1988 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Mixed Blessings

1988 • 40 min • United Kingdom

An extraordinary story of heartache and humour, of friendship and maternal love. Did two women in a maternity unit somehow end up with each other's baby girl?

Passing Through/Torn Formations

1988 • 45 min • Canada

1988 short film by Philip Hoffman.

The Screen Painters

1988 • 30 min • United States of America

Maryland folklorist Elaine Eff is a champion of Baltimore culture and traditions. In her documentary film The Screen Painters, she sets her sights on a much-loved Baltimore icon: the painted window screen and the artists who created them. This delightful documentary film chronicles the beginnings, the heyday, and the decline of an urban folk art unique to Baltimore -- the practice of painting landscape scenes on window and door screens. It profiles seven artists who have spent much of their lives embellishing the bricks and stones of the inner city with a touch of enchantment. The film reveals how this unpretentious art form embodies the ethnic spirit of urban America and is a testament to the need for art in daily life. -Direct Cinema Limited

Hunters at Rest

1988 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Animated poster on an environmental theme.

Light Years Expanding

1988 • 25 min • Sweden

Light Years Expanding is a further elaboration of Light Years, Nelson’s journey into the Swedish landscape in which she is blending animation with live-action. Whereas movement was one of the prime characteristics of Light Years, Light Years Expanding revolves more around the image-work, thus foreshadowing her last and most complicated collage film Natural Features.

Pause

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

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

Celebration of a Nation

1988 • 2 min • Australia

A music commerical celebrating the bicentennial year of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the convict colony of New South Wales.

Portrait of Imogen

1988 • 30 min

Photographer Imogen Cunningham presents her own work in this Academy Award-nominated documentary.