All Films

Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me

1988 • 55 min • United States of America

Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swift-moving ice floe, cowering before a sadistic brute. The film showcases generous footage of her most memorable performances. In this Emmy-award winning documentary, the celebrated actress reflects on her life and work spanning the 20th century, particularly her years as D.W. Griffith's favorite leading lady and collaborator.

Le Dernier Mot

1988 • 14 min • France

A short commissioned piece on 'famous last words' set in WWII.

The Quest for Tannu Tuva

1988 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel".

Rendezvous Canada, 1606

1988 • 29 min • Canada

The dramatic story of two youths--one French and one Indigenous--who share a pivotal time in Canada's history: the first contact between European and First Nations peoples.

John Denver's Christmas in Aspen

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

John Denver's Christmas in Aspen starring among others The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Number Rap #17

1988 • 1 min • United States of America

Kids rapping about the number 17.

The Pass

1988 • 30 min • Soviet Union

A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a distress signal. But for that they must go through a very dangerous mountain passage.

Cause and Effect

1988 • 11 min • United States of America

Ordinary people of both sexes, and of varying ages, races and ethnicities, tell stories that sound familiar. But each is a construct to plumb reality in a considered, theoretical, and, ultimately, playful fashion, as Delson continues the filmic experimentation begun during her collaboration with Jill Godmilow an the genre-bending Far from Poland.

Chikan densha: Yamenai de

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Pink film from 1988

Rope and Boys

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Yuji is an university student living with his older brother. When he runs into an old acquaintance on the street, the two begin an affair and Yuji ends up getting drawn into the world of S&M clubs, where men put up elaborate and decadent shows for their customers.

Tapestry

1988 • 16 min • United States of America

TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after marriage and child-rearing.

Stephen Hendry: Doing the Business

1988 • 48 min • United Kingdom

A documentary following future seven time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry as a teenager in the run up to and aftermath of his first ever ranking event win at the Rothmans Grand Prix.

Hunter S. Thompson: The Crazy Never Die

1988 • 31 min

Hunter S. Thompson speaks out on: the Iran/Contra affair, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Politicians and Lawyers, John McFarlaine, Oliver North, and Richard Nixon.

TV-Dad

1988 • 30 min

TV-Dad has never had a family of his own, and when he finds out that he is going to die, he creates TV-Dad, a series of videotapes that contain his fatherly and husbandly advice in actions. Follow Judy when she purchases the TV-Dad video services and has a child with it as we watch how her life plays out.

Spit/optik

1988 • 14 min • Philippines

Originally a three-part experimental film, respectively titled SPIT, WORDS AND OUTAKES..., and OPTIK, combining animation, illustration, found footage and liquid mercury.

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History

1988 • 47 min • Australia

A documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests.

Terrible Things My Mother Told Me

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

16-year-old girl doesn't realize that her mother emotionally and verbally abusive to her.

Forever James Dean

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

The life and times of one of Hollywood's brightest stars.

Sanguinary Desires

1988 • 13 min • United States of America

People being offered 10,000 bucks to spend the night in some place by a vampire and his assistant

Secrets of the Unknown: Witches

1988 • 27 min • United States of America

Witches explores the long and clandestine history of this misunderstood group of people. It provides a close look at the black art, and features factual information presented by practitioners.

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

1988 • 21 min • United States of America

Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

1988 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A short movie, made for Comic Relief, in which Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and Baldrick (Tony Robinson) must help protect King Charles I (Stephen Fry) from the machinations of Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads

The Black and Blue Lamp

1988 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

1988 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Stop-motion animated short film in which, among other things, a man made of wire looks malevolent.