All Films

Winnebago Man

1988 • 7 min • United States of America

A man experiences frustration while attempting to film a commercial for Winnebago brand recreational vehicles

Tungekysset

1988 • 28 min • Norway

This is a short love story about this girl who's in love with a boy named Tom. He is one of the cool guys and this girl is not, so she watches him play with the cool girls and she dreams about him.

To Shoot Without Shooting

1988 • 25 min • Japan, China

Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance, to shoot a single leaf off a tree. Over several years, the apprentice studies with the master. Finally, after mastering the techniques, as well as his own ambition, he sets off for the mountains, home of a legendary master of archery...

Respected Leshy

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An old witch Baba Yaga tricks Leshy - a shy forest spirit - to turn into all sort of monsters in order to lure little Ivanushka into forest and frighten him. Because "fear means respect".

Alien Sex Dream

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.

Dawn of an Evil Millennium

1988 • 20 min • United States of America

An epic, 20-minute, completely fabricated theatrical trailer for a crypto-Vestron Video cheapie (by way of Willow-era Ron Howard)—a supposedly 18-hour movie about a Jeff Daniels lookalike demon sent to destroy the planet (and possibly the universe) with his "Turbo-power!" Olds dragster. There are shades of John Carpenter's They Live, caffeinated Evil Dead speed-freakery, a cameo by Miles O'Keeffe, and uncanny movie preview clichés, such as sentence prepositions that never reach a resolution: "On an alien planet…the beauty and wisdom of a sorceress…." Sometimes the liner note blurbs speak for themselves: "Damon Packard is to Stephen Spielberg what George Kuchar is to Douglas Sirk."

On the Record

1988 • 1 min

Titles, a crocodile crossed with Big Ben roams the UK.

Lune Froide

1988 • 26 min • France

A César award winning short drama based around Charles Bukowski's two stories "Copulating Mermaid of Venice" and "Trouble with the Battery"

Little People Video - Three Favorite Stories

1988 • 30 min

The Little People Family recount three of their favorite tales in a delightfully animated story.

The Artist Was a Woman

1988 • 59 min • United States of America

The history of Western art has few examples of great women artists. This documentary uncovers the works of some gifted women, while exploring why talent such as theirs was overlooked. We learn that women were denied admission to art school, or if admitted, not allowed to study the human figure. Also, male art historians did not take their work seriously, denying them the recognition they deserved. Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe bear witness to the fact that talent knows no gender. Jane Alexander reads from letters and diaries and Germaine Greer provides wry social commentary.

Taraz

1988 • 55 min • Iran

The documentary "Taraz" is about a group of nomads in Bakhtiari alley who live in two provinces of Khuzestan (tropical region) and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari (cold region) every year according to the hot and cold seasons. The group, which spends seven months of the year in an area north of Masjid Suleiman (Andika), migrates from this area to their summer territory on the southern slopes of Zardkuh in late April. As the weather cools in their cold territory and before rain and snow fall, they return to their winter territory in Khuzestan province in September. (A group of nomads about whom the film Taraz has been made is a few families from the "Bamdi" tribe of the "Haft Lang" Bakhtiari tribe.)

The fairy-tale world of Aleksandr Ptushko

1988 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The wizard Finn sends Masha and Vanya on a journey through the fairy tale films of Aleksandr Ptushko, many dangers await them there.

Super Lewd Match: Toyomaru Special

1988 • 60 min • Japan

A Japanese woman is invited by her friend (a UCLA student) to visit Los Angeles. She soon meets an American man and another Japanese tourist. To pass the time, the woman and her friend compete...

Jean-Michel Jarre - Destination Docklands - The London Concert

1988 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Destination Docklands was an event consisting of two concerts by musician Jean Michel Jarre on the Royal Victoria Docks, Docklands, London on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th October 1988, to coincide with the release of Jarre's new album Revolutions. The concerts were attended by 100,000 people on each night.

Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul

1988 • 60 min

Aretha Franklin's recording career is examined through archival footage and interviews with family and prominent figures within the music industry.

Yanks

1988 • 2 min

The Deadly Rapeman 3: Pleasure, Feeling, Beast, Demon

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

From Us To Me / Vom Wir zum Ich

1988 • 60 min • East Germany, Germany, United Kingdom

This first co-production between the GDR and Great Britain is intended to contribute to an understanding of the situation and attitudes of millions of working people in opposing social orders. Using the example of shipyard workers, fishermen, the brigade and family of a trade union active cook and unemployed person of various ages and professions in Newcastle on the one hand and a brigade of crane operators of the Warnowwerft and fishermen of the Warnemünde cooperative on the other hand, insights into the way of life and attitudes of people of our time are to be conveyed.

Life without…

1988 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Estonia's suicide rate is one of the highest in the world. The author tries to trace the social causes of the tragic cases in the footsteps of one schoolboy's suicide.

Five

1988 • 4 min • Canada

Five deals with questions of identity and self-perception, highlighting the inherent difficulties (impossibility?) of expressing or communicating such. Four individuals appear alternatively : although they seem to be describing someone, it is not always clear to whom each is referring.

Zukkoke Sannin-gumi: Zukkoke Jikuu Bouken

1988 • 57 min • Japan

Three reporters from the school paper get transported back to the Edo period.

The Lure and the Lore

1988 • 15 min • United States of America

A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore of his native Jamaica to dramatize his migration to New York in the 60's.

An All-Star Toast to the Improv

1988 • 60 min

To celebrate the "birthday" of the famous Improv comedy club, 6 famous comedians get up on stage and do their thing. However, to make things interesting, while each one does his particular routine, the other 5 comics sit at the back of the stage and heckle the performer. This video is especially notable for Martin Mull issuing a zinger at Robin Williams that shuts-up the otherwise motor-mouthed comic for at least 5 seconds.

Rite & Expression

1988 • 9 min

Originally an eight-monitor installation, Rite and Expression is an impressionistic evocation of the cultural history of Our Lady of the Rosario Church, a Baroque edifice in the central Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Built during the seventeenth century in the historic gold-mining town of Ouro Preto (Black Gold), the Rosario Church was intended as a cultural and social locus for African slaves. Santos draws on the natural (earth, wood, stone, gold, inks and paints), the human, the social and cultural (the Rosario Feast, African garments and ritual objects) in his electronic reconstruction of the sole Minas Gerais church imprinted with Italian influence. The church's round shapes and forms evoke both Baroque motifs and African cultural rituals.