All Films

Confrontation

1987 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Copy Film

1987 • 12 min

A "camera-less" stop motion film made entirely using a photo-copier.

The Merry Man

1987 • 10 min • Bulgaria

Everything is sunny, everything is colorful, but the most colorful is the flag of Veselyaka, with which he happily goes against the current, storms, and crowds. However, fate prepares trials for him, and each of them tears a piece of cloth from the waving flag, until in the end only the handle of the flag remains. Carrying this stick, the Jolly One joins the crowd. There are thousands like him, ferocious people with sticks.

Max Headroom Pirating Incident

1987 • 2 min • United States of America

Illegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and "Doctor Who" episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never captured.

Whose Ears Are Better?

1987 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Kiwi Magic

1987 • 25 min

A fun filled, action packed, madcap adventure in New Zealand's countryside. Set among some of the archipelago's most striking scenery, this comedic romp will show you New Zealand at its best.

Olive Girl's Love

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Interior

1987 • 3 min • United States of America

Short experimental computer animation by Jules Engel

Autobiography

1987 • 5 min • Soviet Union

A short film based on the works of Daniil Kharms.

...And Every Evening!

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Mediocre clown is looking for an easy way to entertain public only to discover that his cat has all the talent he lacks.

Sweet Planet

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Protecting the Earth from the uncontrolled exploitation of its wealth.

Goodbye・Love・Land

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Mig is cast away to an isolated island of love...

Pere...

1987 • 3 min • Soviet Union

A critical short film about Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika.

La cucarachita

1987 • 10 min • Venezuela

An adaptation of the tale by Antonio Arráiz.

Incision

1987 • 22 min • Soviet Union

The film begins by showing the process of preparing for a surgical operation. The action then takes place in the carriages of a steam locomotive. A young man tries several times to set the locomotive in motion, but is thwarted and prevented. At the end of the film he succeeds.

Space Dreaming (Structures from Silence)

1987 • 27 min

Experimental short film. The visuals are motion paintings by Marianne Dolan in 1990. The music is the title track by Steve Roach.

Yartygulak and the Lazy

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story is about how Yartygulak (a Turkmen tom thumb) taught two arrogant lazy parasites a lesson.

Jane･Doe 66

1987 • 30 min

An experimental compilation of live performances and video art by Ranko Shinohara and Hijokaidan, featuring music by White Hospital. Bloody dolls, bondage, malpracticing nurses, Japanoise and more.

In Search of A Portrait

1987 • 20 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on three events in February 1987: the release of the film "Repentance", an exhibition-competition in the Manege of projects for the Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Gora and the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin.

Bunna yo Ki kara Orite Koi

1987 • 52 min • Japan

Animated children's story about a nonconformist but brave frog. Bunna wants to challenge his community's status quo by learning about the world outside.

Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar)

1987 • 15 min

Immediately after David’s friend and mentor, photographer Peter Hujar, died of AIDS in a New York hospital on November 26, 1987, David took Super 8 images of Peter’s body and photographed Peter's face, hands, and feet. David created Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar), 1987, using these and other images. The unfinished, silent, black and white film includes: images of David's hands leafing through Peter's portfolios; David's AIDS Quilt square for Peter displayed in Central Park; urban and industrial street scapes; and several disparate images made in Peter’s East Village loft. “Everything I made, I made for Peter.”—David Wojnarowicz

Self-Portraits

1987 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Дорога в облаках

1987 • 56 min • Soviet Union

There is a Garden in my Head

1987 • 3 min

A film-which objects zoals the body, roses, cats, and leaves are interwoven into continuous movements. The result is not a story, but gives an impression Instead of an animated carpet with pattern-like elements.