All Films

The Trip to Orion

1986 • 17 min

A spaceship on it's way to Orion.

Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream

1986 • 53 min

Decades after the Titanic sank into the Atlantic, the dream of investigating the wreckage was finally realized by undersea geologist Dr. Robert D. Ballard. Only one camera crew was permitted to join his historic expedition in 1986. In this remarkable program, high-tech cameras attached to submersibles take us to the frigid world two and a half miles below the ocean’s surface. Spectacular colour photography illuminates the ship’s once luxurious interior.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

1986 • 9 min • Poland

Author's vision of "life after life". The man for whom death comes with a scythe is taken to the hospital. With the help of complicated equipment, he undergoes resuscitation procedures.

Investigation Held by Kolobki

1986 • 21 min • Soviet Union

Two crazy brothers-detectives from a weird provincial town are searching for a rare striped elephant stolen by a suspicious foreigner.

A Passage to Wisbech

1986 • 40 min

A documentary about the work and life aboard the old coaster "Carrick" as she plies the waters of the North Sea and the English Channel trading to the ports of Southern England and the Near Continent.

Wonders of Technology

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The plot of the cartoon takes place in a world where ordinary people of the 1980s coexist with fantastic household appliances - robots and computers.

A Seaside Story

1986 • 27 min • United Kingdom

On a weekend trip to the seaside town of Lyme Regis, two seventeen-year-old boys - Sam with an interest in ecology and Martin with an interest in girls - are the youngest residents (ever) at a guest house run by a highly eccentric old lady.

Whiteness

1986 • 47 min • Albania

Film inspired by the harsh winter of 1985. The film follows two storylines: the story of a young girl who studies to become a nurse and the story of some pilots who have to make a delivery.

Panzer World Galient: Chapter of the Land

1986 • 57 min • Japan

Recap of episodes 01-13 from the Panzer World Galient TV series.

Lost Property

1986 • 50 min

Anne and John Forrest live in an old Victorian school building. But what for Anne is the fulfillment of her childhood fantasy about a “pretend” school is too real for John and a former pupil at the school.

Birthmark

1986 • 25 min • Soviet Union

The alien ship in the rays of the evening sun seemed like a cloud, devoid of clear shapes, iridescent and completely safe. At that moment, Marya Stepanovna, her daughter Leocadia and granddaughter Sashenka, who was sick with a sore throat and was capricious, were in the house. Semensky, Leocadia's husband, has not yet returned from work. A cloud hung over the house for several minutes, suddenly fell on it, enveloped the house like fog, then rose again, picking up speed until it mixed with other clouds and clouds. The house has disappeared...

The Resourceful Peasant

1986 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A king believes the peasants are hoarding all the good food.

Baited Trap

1986 • 12 min

Short film by Jon Reiss, featuring machinery and effects by Survival Research Laboratories.

Days Are Numbered

1986 • 16 min

Christine Vachon’s story of a man haunted by the grotesque memory of having stepped on a dead animal's carcass is an artistic tour de force starring Michael Sean Edwards (the voice of Richard Carpenter in Todd Haynes’ Superstar) and a young Steve Buscemi.

Brasília, Uma Sinfonia

1986 • 10 min

Ungentlemanly Conduct?

1986 • 30 min

For more than 100 years rugby union was for men only - until women, like those from the South Wales village of Magor, started their own teams.

Fotofinish

1986 • 17 min • Germany

A man in financial debt is asked by his little son if the photographer of the famous picture which shows the Hindenburg zeppelin going up in flames early this century has become rich by that. The father quickly concludes that he only has to take the right picture in order to be able to pay his debts. After contacting a underground explosives engineer he takes off to the Munich Olympic Tower with his camera...

Blatzom

1986 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Jeff Keen dons paper masks and his knitted Artwar jacket, after avoiding bombs and pacing a moonlike landscape.

When You Get Separated From Your Friends

1986 • 53 min • Albania

Within a short time, Namik disturbs the optimistic atmosphere of a group of welders, which is also reflected in his private life.

D.O.A. Live at The Jockey Club

1986 • 57 min • United States of America

Canada's Hardcore legends, D.O.A., ply their political brand of Punk Rock in Newport, Kentucky in 1986.

Streetstyle in Tempe

1986 • 47 min

Highlights from the NSA Pro-Streetstyle Skateboard Competition held at Tempe Diablo Stadium October 1986.

Lugosi: The Forgotten King

1986 • 46 min • United States of America

A one hour documentary on the life of one of Hollywood's neglected horror icons, hosted by fear fan extraordinare Forrest J Ackerman & interviews with Hollywood legends John Carradine, Ralph Bellamy, Carroll Borland and B-movie producer Alex Gordon.

When It Rains, It Pours

1986 • 2 min

Experimental short film by Caveh Zahedi featuring the music of Satie.

The Unanswered Question

1986 • 18 min • Netherlands

The film consists of two basic components: the music of Charles Ives, 'The unanswered question', from 1907, and a letter written by an old woman who has lost her memory. Between these two elements, which are often repeated, a story like an abyss is built, in which information is progressively reduced. The words become music, the music becomes a rustle, the rustle turns into silence.