All Films

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1987 • 12 min

Sarah and Paul leave their native California once a year to eat their way through France. They test the Michelin guide’s recommendations for three-star restaurants (the top rating) and between meals still have time to do some wine tasting at the best cellars. The filmmaker follows them around in a second car.

Aleksandr Bashlachev - Concert at LDM (5th Leningrad Rock Club Festival)

1987 • 36 min

This concert was recorded on video by Igor Leonov and audio by Sergey Litvyakov. (Leningrad, 07.06.1987)

Breast of Britain 7

1987 • 47 min

Volume Number 7

Our Stock Exchange

1987 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

Shortie the Turtle Green

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Boats

1987 • 18 min • Turkey

Boats... Boats side by side. Boats waiting for the hour of anchoring away into blue. Soon they will be on the way to the wharfs awaiting them. Desolate, lonely piers... Boats whistles declaring to the world that it is time to set out. Boats rejoicing their encounters. Boats hugging each other, boats that sing parting songs. Tired boats at the end of the day. Boats that are ready to go to sleep in the darkness of night. Boats...

Cityaniscape

1987 • 10 min • Canada

This black and white artistic travelogue pokes and probes the city of Calgary through the eyes of four very different cinematographers. Each looks at a particular and unique area to contribute to an overall sense of the city's texture. The four sections are creatively connected through poetic narrative and accompanying images of transportation, which stress the relationship between working and living in the city.

Indoctrination

1987 • 44 min

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives how to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric and provides training in body language, gesture and facial expression. The aim of selling something has always been a principle of mercantile action. Yet it was only through the marriage of psychology and modern capitalism that the idea of selling oneself was perfected.

Plutonium Blonde

1987 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control. Taking the figure of Thelma, a woman working with the plutonium monitors at the core of a reactor, Lahire questions both the process at the core of the plutonium terminal and that one that constructs female identity. Plutonium Blonde is part of a trilogy of films on radiation (the other two are Uranium Hex and Serpent River) that Lahire made in the 1980s.

Shurale

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

La Mar

1987 • 5 min

Experimental short film by Dean Snider, narration by Bruce Conner.

Cultural Soup

1987 • 6 min

A man makes soup with mayonnaise and dolls. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of editing. I had been given the grant based on a proposal to do a video tape on child abuse. I taped for one day alone and one day with Mike Kelley. I asked Mike Kelley to be the son and I would be the father. There was no written script. After taping for two days, I edited the tapes, making two separate tapes: Family Tyranny and Cultural Soup. They are often shown together."

Continental Divide

1987 • 50 min • Canada

Filmed in 1987, this documentary chronicles the journey of Via Rail's The Canadian as it makes its way across Canada.

Le printemps

1987 • 41 min • France

Treasures From The Past

1987 • 54 min • United States of America

Restore a piece of the past with talented artisans, collectors, and dreamers who restore masterpieces of a bygone era. You will fly the skies in a WW I bi-plane, drive in the glamorous Duesenberg automobile, ride a turn-of-the-century carousel, sail aboard a magnificent tall ship, and finally, promenade through the halls of a breathtaking Russian palace. Saved from obscurity, these priceless TREASURES FROM THE PAST bring history to life once more.

19-Sai haji kashī mezame takakiyōko

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The Ball Bearers

1987 • 11 min • United States of America

Animated short.

Les ponts d'Asnières

1987 • 13 min • France

Worth Every Minute

1987 • 29 min • Canada

A tribute to the late Pat Schulz, an influential Canadian feminist.

Parfait d'amour

1987 • 11 min

If the hands had eyes during the act of love, if the whole body could see. This is what the video simulates. It was filmed with an endoscope, the optical system with which you can go directly on and into the body. Due to technical conditions (light intensity, etc.), it was shot on 16mm film. The trick editing was done on high-tape with a special effects generator. The story is told by a sailor whose sea wife always wants to hear the story again, when she is in his arms.

MosaÏc

1987 • 3 min

MOSAÏC is a collage film using a Super 8 roll that was probably exposed manually, with pretty much failed results, which I reused as a base for collage. To do this, I unspooled the whole roll in order to have a rectangular working base, onto which I applied Super 8 emulsion from another film, in a crosswise fashion, going from strip to strip diagonally and horizontally. The visual effect is totally abstract and resembles a mosaic, with its many little triangular forms.

Rick Danko's Electric Bass Techniques

1987 • 60 min

An instructional video by Rick Danko, bassist and vocalist from The Band.

Tarkovsky's Cinema

1987 • 30 min

Contains interview footage with Tarkovsky as he discusses each of his seven major films. He also talks about his world-view and his philosophy of filmmaking. The film also includes footage of a Tarkovsky lecture to young film students in which he expresses his thoughts on modern cinema. Tarkovsky’s widow Larissa is also interviewed. Contains no original Tarkovsky footage/interviews.

The Cockroach

1987 • 9 min • Poland

An apocalyptic Kafkaesque vision of the end of the world. The man catches cockroaches and splits them under a microscope. He connects thousands of elements to sew a piece of clothing with a hood and a mask in case of a nuclear disaster.