All Films

in-sight

1987 • 11 min • Germany

Gerd Conradt's experimental documentary "Ein-Blick" from 1987 captures the rhythms of daily life along Elsenstraße's border in a time-lapse. Over the course of a day, a camera focuses on a house and watchtower within the border zone, snapping one image per second for twelve hours. What unfolds is a surreal ballet of reality, transforming into a slapstick grotesque, all set to the backdrop of evocative piano melodies.

The Ballad of a Singer

1987 • 18 min • Soviet Union

About how wine and fame turned a talented donkey into a stupid donkey.

Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra

1987 • 52 min

This beautiful film is a portrait of the life and work of Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta used her own body, the raw materials of nature, and Afro-Cuban religion to express her feminist political consciousness and poetic vision. Interview footage with Mendieta and her own filmed records of her earthworks and performances are incorporated to render a vivid testament to her energy and extraordinary talent after her tragic, untimely death in 1985.

Trilogy for One Man

1987 • 53 min • France

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb three of the highest north faces in the Alps, in winter: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, and Matterhorn. But over and above this 'coverage' of the feat, we discover the wings, the story behind the project, the peaks and troughs of the preparations for it, and the personality of the man behind the climbs, a dancer on sheer rock faces, focusing all the energy and reflexes of life itself in his fingertips.

Sweet Bird of Youth

1987 • 5 min

A short film directed by Zeinabu Irene Davis.

Light Years

1987 • 26 min • Sweden

A collage film and a journey through the Swedish landscape, traversing stellar distances in units of 5878 trillion miles. It is a film acutely in the present reflecting our temporal existence ... continuous and imperfect.

Montgomery Clift: The Hidden Star

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

One of Hollywood's brightest stars is eclipsed by drink, drugs and self-doubt.

Ramses' Pranks 3

1987 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About the life of a hunting dog. The protagonists get into all kinds of different adventures during their hunt.

The Dream

1987 • 45 min • Syrian Arab Republic

Interviews with Palestinians living in Lebanese refugee camps, some of it shot in Sabra and Shatila before the massacre.

Matisse: Voyages

1987 • 55 min

Voyages traces the development of the artist's brilliantly colored work, from his early canvases, images of dance and music, and odalisques to his cut-out pieces and chapel decorations. Filmmaker Didier Baussy draws on a wealth of paintings, archival footage, photographs, and extracts from Matisse's Notes of a Painter to capture the richness of the artist's legacy and the splendor of his achievements.

Botika Bituka

1987 • 3 min • Philippines

Based on popular Filipino tongue-twisting words "botika" and "bituka" spoken aloud in fast speed till the tongue gets twisted. The film visualizes in rapid succession the correlation of the botika (drug or pharmaceutical store) and bituka (intestine) in social, economic, and political context which gets faster and faster too.

Vrednyuga - The Mischievous

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

One morning, the Girl, the Cat and Drakosha wanted to go to the sea, but they noticed that something strange is happening in the city: bright colors disappear everywhere, birds stop singing, posters fade. Friends decided to deal with Wreck, who stole the rainbow and wants to deprive the world of joy.

Mami Fujimura: WET BOMB!

1987 • 50 min • Japan

Type B is a female spy who has turned into a sex machine. America's CIA is secretly working around Type B, which Japan developed. However, the daughter of the first creation is defective, so she goes sexually out of control and falls in love with her target...

The Touch of the Master's Hand

1987 • 18 min • United States of America

The Touch of the Master's Hand is an inspirational and captivating film that speaks eloquently to the worth and potential of every individual.

Happy Birthday, or Incognito

1987 • 51 min • Soviet Union

The character of “Die Fledermaus”, Count Eisenstein, is quietly aging on his family estate. Every year he celebrates the birthday of Johann Strauss with great pomp. This time a luxurious ball will be given in honor of the great composer. Rumors are spreading that the great maestro himself will appear here, but incognito.

Kuniko Mukoda's Carp

1987 • 45 min • Japan

A unique suspense film depicting a woman's unresolved feelings and grudges through the eyes of a crucian carp. A bucket of crucian carp was left at the home of Shiomura (Jun Inoue), a trading company employee, by someone. Shiomura looks into the fish's giddy eyes and recalls an affair he had with Tsuyuko (Naomi Oki), a woman at a small restaurant who used to be his mistress. She had a pet crucian carp, and the crucian carp always stared intently at their love affair, and it was the same eyes.

Billy Joel: Live in Leningrad

1987 • 60 min

Highlights of Billy Joel's concert performances in Leningrad, USSR in 1987.

Baubas

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A history about little girl and imaginary friend "Baubas".

Washington Monuments

1987 • 30 min • United States of America

Washington Monuments captures the beauty and history of the Capital's major landmarks in a presentation that is informative, picturesque and entertaining.

Black Fragments of Samba - Zezé Motta, The Enchanted Woman

1987 • 56 min • France

The life and work of Zezé Motta.

Strange Thing

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Humorous tales about the life of a little boy. About how he was born without a father and mother, how he was hit by a snow lying on the oven in his hut, how he walked into the woods being a kid, and the miraculous things he had seen there. In his fantasies he could fly, make friends with birds, climb trees, and most importantly – do it all in infancy and without looking at anyone else. Based on poems by Stepan Rudanskyi.

Les Piliers Du Rêve

1987 • 22 min • France, Switzerland

On the Thessalian plateau, a place famous in ancient Greek history, enormous and steep rocks rise, almost representing an epic clash of giants. In this mystical environment, Meteora once served as an aerial refuge for hermits and then for nuns of strict orders, who, renouncing the world, lived in the celestial peace of the peaks. This area is today a silent and fantastical climbing site, and some caves carved into the rock face remain inaccessible. Mountaineer Patrick Berhault and his French partner Patrick Cordier, one of the classic leaders of modern climbing, have set out to conquer these peaks steeped in history, which will never cease to be "The Pillars of Dreams."

Strange Walks In and Through and Out

1987 • 54 min

A personal portrayal of Peter Weiss’ period as a painter and filmmaker in Sweden before his rise to fame.

The Reluctant Dragon

1987 • 30 min • United Kingdom

A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.