All Films - Short Movie Database

Calypso's Cloak

1986 • 3 min

The filmmaker courts the muse of computer art. At the gods' demand Calypso grants Odysseus freedom, but gives a cloak designed to drown. The melodic constriction of Schubert's "Das Wandern" paces an emerging imposition of grid upon randomness. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Mt. Buko

1986 • 30 min • Japan

Mt. Buko documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1986, 16mm. A journey through the beautiful nature and cultural importance of Mt. Buko and its local area.

Johnny Dlamini

1986 • 58 min

Johnny Dlamini, a renowned gang leader, is betrayed by his men in a hostile take-over when they execute an assassination attempt on his life.Johnny’s second-in-command takes control of the gang, completely unaware that Johnny actually survived the attack.One by one, the gang members are taken out as Johnny exacts his revenge on his former gang members, and believing he has won the day, reunites with his wife. But crime, it turns out, doesn’t pay very well, when Johnny realizes his wife is in fact an under-cover police officer. In the end, Johnny loses it all and is sent to prison for his criminal dealings

How to Fill a Wild Wet T-shirt

1986 • 51 min

More frivolity. More Fun and even more bodies to behold! "The Girls of Spring Break" are back to warm you up on a cold winter's night. Find out why the girls do it. Find out why the guys love it. Find out why the 1986 Spring Break was the wildest week in the history of Ft. Lauderdale.

I Want to Go Home

1986 • 12 min

Explores the inner thoughts and feelings of Grace Walsh, during the development of Alzheimer's disease.

Cover-Up

1986 • 4 min

Experimental video by Sven Harding.

The Sentinel

1986 • 5 min

Experimental video by Sven Harding.

Les yeux brûlés

1986 • 58 min • France

A young woman comes to Roissy airport to pick up a military canteen that has been returned to her. It is the effects and pictures of Jean Péraud, a reporter photographer who disappeared at Dien Bien Phu on May 8, 1954. Soon, the discussion begins between the young woman and the former press companions of Péraud who are present. Through the memories and stories she provokes, the ever-present questions about what makes the war image resurface: is the reporter a witness or a combatant? Does he protect himself from the effects of war by filming it, or does he take more risks in order to bear witness? Can we speak of art in front of this image made in the face of death?

Headhunters

1986 • 2 min

Experimental video by Sven Harding.

Terrorists in Love

1986 • 5 min

Woman reads a manifesto to a small crowd in a bar.

Molecular Biophysics

1986 • 19 min

Educational film for university students. Questions of molecular biophysics are considered with the help of associations - a circus, playing rugby, etc.

Scenes at the Fountain

1986 • 29 min • Soviet Union

An accident on the Tengiz Oil Field and the steps taken to contain the ensuing fire and oil geyser (the ‘fountain’.)

Thermodynamics of Biological Processes

1986 • 19 min

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

一夜富翁

1986 • 9 min • China

Nova Akropola

1986 • 55 min

Archive VHS for the experimental avant-garde industrial band Laibach making of Nova Akropola with mixed diary intakes. Rich is the earth in the burning evening light, The passion of our mad fathers is tormenting us to the last. Our authority is that of the people.

The Blue Chair

1986 • 1 min • United States of America

A Computer Animated Short

Is What They Learn Worth What They Forget

1986 • 47 min • Norway

Shot in 1986, the film presents scenes from the everyday life of a Mbororo pastorialist family living on the outskirts of Garoua, by then, the biggest town in Northern Cameroon. It documents the gradual sedentarisation and Islamisation of the Mbororo and presents rituals, chants, dances, healing practices as well as the transmission of traditional knowledge about medical plants and local religious beliefs.

Return to Infancy

1986 • 1 min

35mm experimental short film.

The Story of One Run

1986 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The problem of preserving the akhaltekin breed of horses, known in ancient times as ‘sky horses’, pride of the Turkmen people. In 1935 there were tens of thousands – now, fifty years later, only a thousand left, due to their slaughtering for meat ‘for the Motherland.’