All Films

Hikari Sentai Maskman: The Movie

1987 • 21 min • Japan

Takeru fights to rescue a mermaid living in an underground pool being used by Igam to cause massive earthquakes to the surface.

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01

1987 • 41 min • Japan

Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather carelessly loses the prototype in Tokyo. The MADOX is found by engineering student Sujimoto Kouji, who doesn't take the time to completely read the manual and ends up zooming around Tokyo trapped in a machine he doesn't quite know how to operate. Guess who gets the job of stopping the now mobile missing MADOX? Poor Kouji. If he's late for his date, it's over between him and his girlfriend. His current attire redefines the term "over-dressed." And to top it all off, Kilgore wants to make him late- as in "the late Kouji!"

Kidsongs: A Day with the Animals

1986 • 28 min

Dancing dolphins, mighty whales, singing chimpanzees, elegant elephants, wacky walruses, a regal rhinoceros and more animal friends co-star with the Kidsongs Kids in this magical journey through the animal kingdom.

Roy Eldridge

1986 • 3 min • United States of America

Not long after settling on Camano Island, Bruce Baillie began creating works on video. Many of these shorts and fragments were little-seen since Canyon Cinema, the distribution organization he co-founded in 1961, limited its efforts to film and declined to distribute Baillie's video pieces. Undeterred, this brevity of video feedback and suggestive text was distributed by the French film co-op Cinédoc and now appears here. Unlike a number of Baillie's later biographical video works which are titled after the individuals they profile, ROY ELDRIDGE takes its name from one of the jazz performers on the soundtrack.

Max./Extramax.

1986 • 5 min

Schatzl short from 1986

Anselmo and the Women

1986 • 35 min • Mexico, United States of America

Continuing the life of Anselmo, a Mexican street musician, and his life-long struggle to make a good life for his children. This film focuses on his relationship with his wife Adela and his mistress, Cruz, and theirs with him.

Welephant

1986 • 2 min

Welephant, a character that is still handing out fire safety advice to children today, here appeals to kids not to play with matches. Very commendable even if the hypnotic chant at the end is a bit Children of the Corn.

Concern For The City

1986 • 30 min

"Made at the same time as Koyaanisqatsi, Concern for the City is a very different film. I feel that the sense of place which emerges from the film, sometimes evoking the island as the early Dutch explorers must have envountered its material presence within an envelope of mist and light, is different from the generalization of citiness which Koyaanisqatsi evokes" Patrick Clancy

Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen - Annunciation and Nativity

1986 • 30 min

You will hear the master storyteller, Dr. W. Cleon Skousen, and see the Holy Land right in your own home with this exciting production! Imagine, actually being able to see the sites and hear the sounds and story of the land where Jesus and the ancient prophets walked. The setting for this favorite story is on a hillside, known as the Shepherds' Hill, overlooking Bethlehem. You'll even see shepherds tending their sheep today much the same way that it was done on the eve of Christ's birth. Dr, Skousen brings this story to life and gives a special meaning to the real Christmas story.

Berliner Blau

1986 • 14 min

How does the Wall affect the Berlin psyche? This film shows some possibilities, via artistic antics with Vera Schrankl, Thierry Noir and Arthur Kuggeleyn. With the help of the filmmakers' experimental signature, the wall of shame (West) and protective barrier (East) experience a transformation from political entity to a subjective projection surface that can make concrete crumble.

Red Swing

1986 • 8 min • United States of America

A film about subjective experience. This film should be viewed as one would look at a painting or listen to a symphony. A dynamically quiet mood is created by the interplay between the densely structured sound track and complex figure/ground relationships in the images. The subjective point of view of a porch swing through a partially opened door is the image to which we constantly return as the tonic, the drone that is always present but not always perceived.

Visit Israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen - The Lehi Cave

1986 • 30 min

Explore an archaeological discovery that has been more than interesting to students of the Book of Mormon. You'll learn about the Hebrew writing found in this cave that have been dated 600 B.C. Even the name of the place, Khirbet' Beit Lei, has been carried down for thousands of years and means literally in the Semitic languages, Ruin of the House of Lehi. This film presents a story that will be interesting to anyone who seeks the roots of the Book of Mormon. This find could very well be in the general area where Father Lehi lived before leaving Palestine to come to America.

Golden Nail

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Once upon a time there lived an orphan and he walked around the world looking for happiness. One man told him that happiness is in a golden nail, and for this you need to forge it in a forge. He began to work for a blacksmith, forging his happiness.

Where to Look for Sleep

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how a boy and his grandfather are looking for a missing dream.

Arena

1986 • 6 min

1986 Mexican experimental film

Little Wonders

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a modern house that still has walking boots, an invisible hat, and a magic carpet.

Song of the Bats

1986 • 9 min

How Semyon got rid of mice by giving them wings.

Cardboard Clock Square

1986 • 17 min

Adventures of spectators of a cardboard town, which were cut out of hat boxes by master Tulya.

L'air d'aimer

1986 • 13 min • France

Shipshape Shapes

1986 • 25 min

Emphasizes shape recognition and following directions in short segments using original music, animation, puppets and live action. One segment is based on the book, Elephant and envelope, written by Barbara Gregorich.

Fishing All My Days

1986 • 29 min • United States of America

A 1986 film about open sea sprimp fishing in Florida, showing the techniques, rituals, and superstitions of the African American, Anglo, and Mediterranean fishermen. Included is documentation of the building of a wooden spring boat, and of the various kinds of nets that were developed for the open sea.

A Pocket For Corduroy

1986 • 31 min

Corduroy is back! This time he's finding adventure in a local laundromat and he wants a pocket. But now he's accidentally been taken home by another family! Now he's got to hurry back to the laundromat so his real owners can find him. Will they?

Desnudo con Alcatraces

1986 • 2 min • Mexico

Silvia Gruner was born in Mexico City (Mexico)in 1959. She obtained a degree in the Fine Arts at the Betzalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and a Masters in the Fine Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (US). Her first works in the mid-eighties were performances, which she recorded on 8-mm. film. These include “El Pecado Original/Reproducción”, “Desnudo desciende”, “Desnudo con alcatraces” y “Arena” – all produced in 1986.

Kaspar

1986 • 6 min • Canada

Kaspar is drowning. Several people who want to save him rush forward. Some of them are filled with good will, others are pumped up with pretentiousness. They are all equally inefficient in this satirical animated film about public spiritedness.