All Films

Tr'Cheot'My P'sy

1988 • 3 min

Tr'Cheot'My P'y is a hiccuping audio news segment to which footage from many sources is loosely choreographed. The film is intended as a portrait of the body and embodiment, systems of information and representations of the body itself.

Camcorder Atrocity

1988 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Various Evil Dead (and possibly Napalm Death) inspired lowjinks, starting with early turntablism experiments and classic lines such as "whether you like it or not I'm an anarchist", early primitive gore effects, an abandoned film which may be really famous who knows, even one kid on the news slagging off politicians, and for the climax ye olde melting polystyrene head trick. Oh, and skateboarding.

Fourth of July

1988 • 2 min • United States of America

"Unable to attend official functions, I discover instead the adolescents in the streets."

notes in origin

1988 • 17 min

"Shot in northern Alberta, where the artist grew up, the film consists of ten long-take shots of various lengths divided by black leader bearing a number for each successive shot... notes in origin realizes the subtle lyricism that appears in the last image of its predecessor. Here Epp intimates a mysteriously shared and personal complicity of artist and viewer without, however, abandoning that purity and extraordinary elegance that mark Epp as one of the most accomplished of film artist." - Bart Testa, Art Gallery of Ontario catalogue

Narcisse et Lilas

1988 • 10 min • France

Monodie parsemée

1988 • 9 min • France

Brooding Angels

1988 • 6 min • United States of America

From its fiery outset, Brooding Angles is decidedly gothic and the mood anxious. It is a dark rumination on the specter of authority, resistance and paranoia marking the close of Reagan's second term in office. Born in 1945, Auder came of age during the 1960s, a decade as tumultuous in France as it was in the United States. The decade culminated in the student/worker strikes of May 1968 that shut down the city of Paris. Auder's value system was in many respects shaped by this anti-authoritarian milieu. Its remnants are to be found in his preponderance with issues violence and conflict as they serve to question moral progress. The soundtrack's ominous melody is recycled from footage of cellist David Soyer that can be seen in A Portrait of Alice Neel.

Spool - 26 janvier 1988

1988 • 3 min • France

Stief

1988 • 12 min

STIEF is abstractly interested in the energy of color, using flowers and groups of arranged objects as pro-film material. The artifice of certain compositions of images is opposed to the botanical naturalism of other compositions, and makes the tension between the different compositional and photographic approaches becomes a new challenge. The film includes several chapters or stanzas that differ in their rhythms, dominant colors and emotions.

Terrace of Unintelligibility

1988 • 20 min

Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985.

Invasion of the Dinosaurs

1988 • 30 min

This educational documentary for young people looks at the lives of the biggest creatures to ever walk the earth. Invasion of the Dinosaurs explains the difference between the different species, explores the environment in which they lived, and compares the most common theories about what led to their extinction.

Butch/Femme In Paradise

1988 • 5 min • Canada

Lorna Boschman’s Butch/Femme In Paradise follows the moves of a butch as she chases an elusive femme around the beautiful coast of British Columbia. Mixing fast-paced editing with slow and sensual long shots, the film walks to the beat of its own drum.

La danseuse

1988 • 3 min

Experimental film that combines a statuette and Spanish music.

Faded Wallpaper

1988 • 20 min

Based loosely on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ‘Faded Wallpaper’ is concerned with visual perception, madness and the search for identity. A woman, isolated within a room, becomes obsessed with the wallpaper surrounding her, seeing within its faded patterns strange images – at times pleasurable and seductive, at times threatening and dangerous. As these images become more insistent she begins to strip the wallpaper away in an attempt either to banish the images or get to their source. Words and sounds run through her head as she peels away the layers, questioning her own self-image, her imagination and her sanity. No solutions are given, only more questions… T.K.

Once you’ve shot the gun you can’t stop the bullet.

1988 • 8 min

From accumulated live footage recorded over a period of three years, this piece weaves itself in and out of experiences of differentiation and distance, closeness and otherness and questions of discourse and construction in the viewing and constitution of the subject.

Skinheads

1988 • 59 min

Documentary about skinheads in Stockholm.

Cricket

1988 • 7 min

“Cricket refers to mass communication, which bridges the gap between residents in different cities separated by geography and culture. This video also reveals how appearances can deceive, for a sense of individualism is born out of harmonious unity. Like crickets, it takes shape, gently splitting and singing at first and ultimately subsuming the entire body to bring a person to madness and schizophrenia. The video images are reconstructed montages of performances that have been reassembled in chronological order. The conclusion appears sinister; but, what is worse, a detached mass person, all parts behaving as one, or a personality scourged by individual desires?” – Marikki Hakola

Fragmentos de un cuerpo

1988 • 57 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Name Your Poison It's a Scream Channel N° 5

1988 • 5 min • Canada

Lust, violation and contamination intersect and cause, through the window, the Chernobyl disasters, AIDS and rape. The sound, taken from the radio (shortwave), an Italian B-movie and an advertisement for Chanel is a real cacophony behind which we can see the ultimate profanation.

Autorretrato

1988 • 9 min

"The experiment consists of saying in front of the camera the word self-portrait in an increasingly loud tone of voice until exhausted with a cry, although the mood of the self-portrait is the same at all times" Gerardo Armesto

Super Powers

1988 • 8 min • Iran

Super Powers...

Helge och hans värld

1988 • 34 min

Helge, 83 years old, lives a simple, secluded life in his house without electricity. We see him tend to daily tasks such as chopping wood, fetching water and sharpening his tools. He eats, knits, and spends time with his cat. Occasionally he watches the news on an old battery driven television.

Bigfoot: King of the Monster Trucks

1988 • 60 min

A collection of monster truck action with hill climbs, rollovers, truck jumping, obstacle courses, and exhibitions

The Story of Ilves

1988 • 51 min

Rein Maran's film about one of the most beautiful and mysterious animals in our forests. Maran was assisted by cameraman Tõnu Talpsep, artist Ants Säde, sound cameraman Enn Säde, composer Urmas Sisask and others.