All Films

Survival of a Small City

1987 • 58 min

Shot in the US between November 1979 and September 1980 in Connecticut's South Norwalk region, this documentary focuses on the city's economic downturn and its collapse under such difficult conditions. Through raising perplexing questions about the sustainability of the then relevant popular solutions for the prevalent conditions, the film brings forward the conflicting perspectives of the local residents, former and current shopkeepers, artists, politicians, environmentalists, urban planners, and developers.

Her Dream

1987 • 18 min • Israel

Time’s Wake (Once Removed)

1987 • 12 min

Described as "a collection of 'windows' on a personal past" "Time's Wake (Once Removed)" incorporates material from an earlier version. On the earlier version: made from material I collected through the years when I went back to visit my parents at L'Ile d'Orleans, Quebec. It includes both home movie and other types of footage. In this film, the camera "I," in extension with home movie reality, is a living participating entity. The film represents an endearing but removed artifact, a strange contradiction between liveliness and frozenness. (VG) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Hungers

1987 • 28 min

Emshwiller introduces this work as a "tapestry of images and sounds suggestive of the hungers that human beings all share for food, love, sex, power, security and so forth." With collaborator Morton Subotnick, the noted electronic composer, and performer Joan La Barbara, Emshwiller weaves together sophisticated electronic and digital technology in conjunction with live performance and music, bringing his distinctive sensibility to a work of contemporary electronic theater.

Very Funny

1987 • 14 min

Using video colorising, pushing u-matic tape –tracking close to breakdown, and slo-mo, a video devoid of narrative structure, interspersed with inserted interpretations on the title and music track, a dance of edited movement in camera, and edit suite.

Komma

1987 • 3 min

"Enigmatic as they seem, these images speak to our thought: it is the first moment, primordial vision even before the birth of the landscape where the vision freed of its mental achievements is decomposed into primordial elements. This is what the film KOMMA explores as a double comma in the German comma word, this interstage of the language that connects the words, and in coma, this between-two of the depths between sleep and death. The camera follows in fixed planes the movement of the fluids and the decomposition of the light spectrum. In this constantly changing topography appear transient forms confronting us with the feeling of ephemeral and metamorphosis. Florence Netzler.

Landscape

1987 • 36 min • Sweden

Landskap is a focused and tightly-constructed series of panorama, whose masterly projection of natural sound and cyclical construction are manifested in seasonal color-and-light variations, glistening sunlight and flowing streams.

Kodachrome Revisited

1987 • 5 min

I made this film by shooting around 180 rolls of 35mm slide film. I then hand processed the film in a very sloppy manner. I never mounted the film into slides I simply took the 35mm strips of film and spliced them together. Some of the rolls used in this film were shot by random people I sent a roll of film to that they shot and sent back to me.

DTV 'Doggone' Valentine

1987 • 60 min

A Valentine's Day special featuring rock and roll music set to scenes from Disney animation.

Juste avant midi

1987 • 7 min • France

Memory of the City

1987 • 4 min • Japan

Short film by Maeda Toshiyuki.

Kidsongs: A Day at the Circus

1987 • 28 min • United States of America

Clowns, jugglers, acrobats, and tightrope walkers amaze the crowd at the circus, where kids get into the act riding elephants, dressing up in clown costumes, putting on makeup, and performing in the center ring. There's a parade of ponies, elephants, lions, tigers, and a group of Dalmatians who dance along with the musical fun! Includes such Big Top tunes as "The Man on the Flying Trapeze," "Polly Wolly Doodle," "Put on a Happy Face," and much more!

Kidsongs: Let's Play Ball

1987 • 28 min

Sportsmanship, teamwork and sticking with it are the themes that run through this energetic collection of music videos for kids! Pull on your uniform and join the team as the Kidsongs Kids conquer the baseball diamond and basketball court. Be dazzled by the young gymnasts on the balance beam and tumbling mats. Cheer for the runners racing for the finish line, share the excitement of sailing and surfing, and explore the fun-filled kids' world of sports with such songs as "I Get Around," "Footloose," "Centerfield," and more!

Thought Crimes in the Satiation Pool

1987 • 7 min

Thought Crimes' manipulates everyday objects and familiar materials, using them to create unexpected powerful effects. The possibilities of vibration and sound are explored through a range of scavenged materials: old bed-springs, metal coils, piano strings, heated metal bars, dropped into water. In the tape's most striking image, a burning chair twists and turns from a cable, as if a symbol for some unexplained spontaneous combustion of domestic objects. While the video uses an almost process-oriented approach, showing the concrete techniques, which create each sound and effect, the elements are brought together in a composition that is almost musical.

Sexy Sad I

1987 • 5 min • Switzerland

In this détourned music video, Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the form and of pop culture in general. Her anonymous male subject is more puppet than star player as he flails helplessly, chasing a receding camera, accompanied by a cut-and-paste remix of The Beatles' Sexy Sadie. Supersaturated colors and a woodland setting further serve to naturalize the surreal scenario.

Light Pharmacy, Parts I-III

1987 • 5 min

A film by Albert Gabriel Nigrin

Anverso

1987 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Un dia crucial para Ausencio Paredes

1987 • 50 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

L'Égalite professionnelle : ça avance dans les transports

1987 • 28 min • France

The film presents a series of portraits of women working in traditional male jobs in the transport industry: the SNCF, the RATP, Air France and Air Inter, and at Paris airports. Each woman talks about her professional choice, her training, what responsibilities she holds, where she fits within the company, and her work relationships. They all underline the need to be organised to manage personal and professional lives, and the growing number of women who choose these jobs. They are on the whole positive and their views often inspiring.

Une minute vingt-sept de frise

1987 • 2 min • France

According to some specialists, the frieze of deers in the Lascaux cave would be the representation of a horde of deer swimming in a river or, according to another version, one same deer, the movement of the swimming being decomposed.

Aaron Siskind

1987 • 16 min

Aaron Siskind is most remembered for his imaginative photography of two-dimensional surfaces. This film surveys Siskind's work over half a century, from his social documentaries of the 1930s to the forms and abstract imagery of found objects, stone walls, and graffiti of ensuing decades.

Au Bon Ceps

1987 • 12 min

A short four-day walk in Burgundy that takes the form of four three-minute reels - there is no editing after the shot.

Piano

1987 • 20 min

Etat des Lieux

1987 • 3 min

A simple overview in one take.