All Films

Ici S'élevait La Maison de Baudelaire

1987 • 3 min

It is a port familiar to 19th century artists and contemporary upstarts. It is also a very beautiful place, sometimes funny, often melancholy. The film has two parallel views, one tourist, the other personal.

The Life of an Ikoods Family

1987 • 22 min • Mexico

The short film portrays the everyday life of San Mateo del Mar through the story of a family of fishermen, weavers, and merchants in a narrative that blends documentary and fiction. The film thus captures, from the perspective of its members—and specifically through a young female lens—various aspects of the Ikoots people's society and culture, as well as how they wished to document and share them with the outside world.

Out of the Mouth of Babes

1987 • 24 min

This video proposes an ironic metaphor to grasp the follies of U.S. government action and inaction in Central America. The process of learning U.S. policy is similar to the process of a young child acquiring the principles of language. These dual senses of literacy operate on several levels, situating a child’s consciousness within the contradictions of history comments on the illusory innocence of childhood, and the unexamined, but real, guilt of the U.S. government, its supporters and clients.

Man Oh Man

1987 • 19 min • United States of America

Man Oh Man takes a loving, curious look at the forces which mold young boys into men. Men from all walks of life speak with humor and sadness about what is expected of them. This film explores personal definitions of masculinity, inter-gender communications, self-worth, gender stereotyping, and changing roles. As an honest representation of one filmmaker's glimpse into the male world, it is guaranteed to spark audience interest and stimulate discussion.

Lilith

1987 • 9 min • United States of America

Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris Cross) riles and emits unintelligibly to the viewer. Conjuring the mystical biblical character Lilith, Steina's video layers both sound and image to produce an ever-shifting, frustrated presence.

Wagon Pars

1987 • 29 min

Shirdel made a fertile production of highly praised industrial and educational films. "Wagon Pars" is a fine example of his industrial documentaries.

Cantus Firmus

1987 • 10 min

The traditional proscenium arch plays no part in this dance video that takes place in an electronic space which extends beyond the screen's boundaries. A dynamic and colourful digital 'haze' reveals glimpses of the movements and contours of abstracted dancing figures. The music, which has been specially composed for Cantus Firmus, consists of fragments of existing 'classical' ballet music that relates to various of the dancers' movements. This work surpasses the traditional recording of dance because the medium of video functions as an active part of Cantus Firmus and has been integrated into its presentation.

Ocean Symphony

1987 • 47 min

An amazing visual experience that takes the viewer from the ice-strewn waters of the hostile Antarctic to the coral-colored streams of the Caribbean, featuring the film of the Emmy-winning underwater cinematographer Al Giddings.

Lament of the Sugar Bush Man

1987 • 12 min • Canada

Sulfur dioxide and acidic precipitation have added stress to the forest ecosystem and is the unofficial cause of the decline of the Sugar Maple. This is the lamentation of a world slipping away. A farm here, a person there.

An Inside Job

1987 • 11 min • Ireland

A man in a dentist chair finds himself helpless in the clutches of a schizophrenic kleptomaniac.

Tom & Jerry Halloween Special

1987 • 58 min

A 1987 animated/live action television compilation special that aired on TBS. The special includes live action segments hosted by Josh Jarboe and Audra Lee in various Halloween costume in a haunted house, where they would introduce the show's animated shorts.

The Ballad of the Monstrous

1987 • 1 min • Netherlands

Short animation film in which a dancer is beset by a dragon. In avoiding the huge monster's mouth, she changes into a little monster.

Concert

1987 • 12 min • Poland

An angel appears above a gray, large-panel housing estate. He is noticed by a violinist and a party dignitary. For the musician, the angel is a source of inspiration; for the man of power - a pretext for a cynical political game.

Today is Sunday

1987 • 18 min

Today is Sunday is both a still life and a landscape film in which the characters are described by nature. The clouds, the wind, the waves, articulate their presence. A dialogue is established between the external environment, the sound, the weather, and the internal musings of the female character.

The Chekhovs

1987 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the letters and memoirs of Anton Chekhov and members of his family and reconstructs the details of everyday life and of the writer's relationships with his brothers and sister.

Narcolepsy

1987 • 7 min • Japan

8mm short by Yuko Asano.

The Exhibition of Mr. Kant

1987 • 35 min • South Korea

Shear

1987 • 4 min

Using associative imagery, Seaman creates an unsettling world of buildings and objects, devoid of people. Juxtaposing static shots of stone buildings on "sheer" mountain sides with images of empty rooms, a ladder tilted against a wall, and a reflection of a car rounding a curve, Seaman suggests absence, unbalance, and the mystery of the everyday. A pair of hands clasped together, folding and unfolding, links the images together much as Seaman juxtaposes them for the viewer. Scissors on a table echo the "cutting" that is prevalent in Seaman's work, and provide another allusion to the title.

Strange Pop

1987 • 2 min • Japan

夜の瞳

1987 • 3 min • Japan

Owl

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An owl must help an ungrateful old man take back his livelihood from an army of greedy mice.

Tomorrow It's A Holiday

1987 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Reflection on the way the Soviet production system turns workers themselves into commodities.

A Man Playing Movie

1987 • 10 min

"Jun'ichi Okuyama is a cinedoer." Jun'ichi Okuyama plays making a film from the material and accidents that gradually disrupt the natural recording of the camera. It all starts and ends with the noise of the projector. Landscape sequences gradually undergo interference and rhythmic interruptions of one hand, of a reel in motion and then of a crack passing through the photogram from one side to the other, are all tangible signs of the presence of the filmmaker. The universe breaks up and recomposes in this back and forth between reality and its "in the movie" reflection.

Itinerary

1987 • 6 min • Canada

A modest employee, who has become an artist-painter, projects his existential anxieties into his paintings, which are appeased by familiar faces. The technique used: photographs juxtaposed with pastel drawings.