All Films

I See

1988 • 25 min • Poland

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.

Inside the Soviet Circus

1988 • 60 min

Go behind the scenes at Moscow's Circus School and experience the magic and wonder of the performances that delight millions. See lion tamers risk life and limb, trapeze artists glide through the air, of course, the beloved clowns who inspire imagination and fantasy. With laughter as their language, the Soviet Circus bridges the gap between generations, borders, and all peoples of the world.

Battle on Canvas: The Creation of a Monumental Painting by Werner Tübke

1988 • 21 min • East Germany

In 1987, after over ten years of work, Werner Tübke (1929-2004), one of East Germany’s most important painters, completed the monumental, oil-on-canvas painting The Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany. Painted in the Renaissance styles of Albrecht Dürer and Albrecht Altdorfer, the painting—measuring 14 meters high and 123 meters wide—is in the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia, the site of the last battle of the German Peasants’ War. The museum was specifically built for the painting, one of the most figurative in recent art history.Interspersed with interviews with the artist, the documentary follows the complicated and elaborate creation of the monumental work, from signing the contract in 1976 to the last brush stroke on September 11, 1987. In 2011, the Panorama Museum was awarded the European Seal of Cultural Heritage.

WAVE of Terror

1988 • 55 min • United States of America

Two tales of unending horror! Hadley's Hellhole finds a female reporter (Clancey McCauley) and an archeologogist (GW Lawrence) investigating the reopening of an old mine that was rumored to be haunted by the men who died in a cavein back in the 30's. Will they find themselves confronting the ghosts of the past and will they be able to escape? (25 min.) Road Kill finds a jealous wife haunted by the ghost of the husband she murdered! Will her guilt get the best of her? Starring clancey McCauley and Mike Brady. (25 min.)

Electric Blue: The Best of Electric Blue 11

1988 • 50 min

The Best of Electric Blue, volume 11 11

Bern Reithalle

1988 • 5 min • Germany

23.03.1988

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?

1988 • 53 min

Tim Allen hosts the video version of the annual "Nudes-a-Poppin'" beauty pageant held at the Ponderosa (nudist) Sun Club in Roselawn, Indiana, focusing mainly on the female contestants who are not your typical nudists but dancers from strip clubs in the United States and Canada. Adult film star Hyapatia Lee performs for the crowd and is interviewed by Allen, who is also the sole judge for such events as best breasts, legs and buttocks.

In Stock

1988 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Film-monologue of a young guy, demobilized military service, establishing life "in civilian life". A person recalls how well he served in the army, talks about the present day, about his family, about his son, about working in a factory, about drinking, fishing, friends and acquaintances.

Pizza Hut Training Video

1988 • 17 min • United States of America

In this late 80s training video, you will learn the ways of making Pizza Hut pizza.

Düsseldorf Blackbox

1988 • 2 min • Germany

Distorted found footage experiment of a firing squad sequence from a war film.

Abijévis

1988 • 30 min

On a snowy Abitibi road, a subjective camera shares the nighttime journey of a driver returning from La Sarre. In the storm and blowing snow, strange territories and curious phantasmagorias born out of memories take shape.

Climb Dance

1988 • 5 min • United States of America

Climb Dance is a famous cinéma vérité short film, which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a highly modified four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in Colorado, USA. The film was produced by Peugeot and directed by Jean Louis Mourey. The record time set was 10:47.77.

Krivoarbatsky 12

1988 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A brief overview of the work of the great Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov, with a focus on the famous Melnikov House in Moscow’s Krivoarbatsky Lane and the problems faced by modern architects, echoing Melnikov’s troubles in the era of Stalinist architecture.

Family Photo

1988 • 7 min • France

The fate of a family is registered in a photograph taken by one of its members after their last dinner.

Zentrum Lübeck

1988 • 2 min • Germany

The source material has all but been lost in this Schmelzdahin short. Instead whatever film has been used has been degraded to the point of looking mainly like light brown, sandy textures punctured by damage to the stock.

The Girl on the Screen

1988 • 15 min • Brazil

To pursue the woman of dreams, there are lovers capable of delving into a strange journey - through all the genres and styles that cinema has invented to represent the greatest of all arts: the art of passion.

D.T. in Dawg Territory

1988 • 22 min • United States of America

Cleveland Browns player Mike Golic meets D.T. (D'ruhaul Temahawk), an alien Fetchball player who has been kidnapped so he will miss his teams championship game. Together, the Browns race against the clock to make sure D.T. returns home in time.

Beautiful People

1988 • 28 min • United States of America

Beautiful People was one of the last films David Wojnarowicz made before his death. The film follows Jesse Hultberg as he makes himself up in drag and ventures out onto the streets of New York, then beyond the city limits to a quiet lakeside.

Die Bestie

1988 • 60 min • East Germany, Germany

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name of the notorious tsarist governor Muratov, also known as "The Beast", symbolizes the crimes of the time. During filming, an old, decrepit man comes forward who wants to be in the movie because of his resemblance to Muratov. Could it be possible that this man is the real Muratov? Everyone is so preoccupied with the realization of the material that this incident remains hidden. As artists, everyone has their own visions - which often bypass reality ...

When I Was a Girl

1988 • 20 min • United Kingdom

A story about a young girl, Anne, growing up in Swindon just after the Second World War and how she faces the adult world, parental fighting and her father's death and the awakening of her own sexuality.

Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

1988 • 38 min • United Kingdom, France, Denmark

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing with desert stones, simple geometric figures (straight lines, circles, spirals). In counterpoint to the images, Richard Long explains his approach. Since 1967, Richard Long (1945, Bristol), who belongs to the land art movement, has traveled the world on foot and installed, in places often inaccessible to the public, stones, sticks and driftwood found in situ. His ephemeral works are reproduced through photography. He thus made walking an art, and land art an aspiration of modern man for solitude in nature.

Norman's Corner

1988 • 27 min

A day in the life of a neurotic newsstand owner.

Portrait of Tex Avery

1988 • 51 min • United States of America

Documentary of American animation directory Tex Avery including interviews with his peers including Chuck Jones.

Cat Listening to Music

1988 • 3 min • France

Part of Chris Marker’s Bestiaire (Petit Bestiaire) collection, Cat Listening to Music simply observes a cat responding to the sound of a piano.