All Films

The Land Above The Trees

1988 • 20 min

Documentary about a place in Canada above the tree line.

Sari Red

1988 • 13 min

Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young British-Indian woman murdered in 1985 in a racist attack in England, Sari Red examines the effect of the ever-present threat of violence upon the lives of Asian women in both private and public spheres. In this moving visual poem, the title refers to red, the color of blood spilt and the red of the sari, symbolizing sensuality and intimacy between Asian women.

Paramount

1988 • 21 min • Germany

Film by Stephan Sachs.

Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China

1988 • 8 min • United Kingdom

A 1988 Bafta nominated short film by British animator Karen Watson. The film uses mixed media animation and unconventional narrative to explore the issues of domestic violence and child abuse from within the confines of the patriarchal family unit.

Both

1988 • 2 min • United States of America

A beautifully ambiguous study of the nude in light and movement, this short silent film focuses on the dimly lit bodies of two women shot from Child’s distinctly non-male perspective.

Truck Song

1988 • 14 min

Accompanied by song and poetry, a trucker transports a load of honey across the United States. Based on a children's book by Diane Siebert.

Tending Towards the Horizontal

1988 • 33 min

The voice-over text, written and performed by France Daigle, creates three images which recur alternately throughout the film: a bird flapping its wings tirelessly; a figure (man, boy?) who sits on a hay bale, watching the city below; and a woman in a library who reads only what others have left behind. The filmed images are predominantly houses: houses seen in passing along the horizontal; houses reflecting sky and trees in their windows; houses partially hidden by trees or the shadows they cast; houses and office towers simultaneously pictured in stages of demolition and construction. The images dissolve in and out of the flickering light and dark (sunlight and shadow and the emulsion of the film itself). The site of the self is home. A house is a construct and, per Heidegger, language is the house of being.

Field Study #2

1988 • 8 min • Sweden

A collage film with sequences of live action with animation using cut-outs, found footage and pouring sands. A dark delicacy lingers. Superimpositions of dark pourings are perceived through the film. Suddenly a bright colour runs across the picture and delicate drawings flutter past. Grunts from animals are heard.

Proménade

1988 • 21 min • France

Marilyn's Window

1988 • 8 min • United States of America

This stream-of-consciousness could be nothing less than pathway of the soul, as images of Marilyn's window are remembered from inside-out, its "view" interwoven with all of other windowing and the Elements of the known world.

Primiti Too Taa

1988 • 3 min • Canada

An excerpt from Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" (Sontata in primitive sounds) parades across the screen thanks to a Remington typewriter.

The Walk

1988 • 8 min • Sweden

A boy is pursued by a witch while taking a walk.

Greenhouse Effect: Steven Brown Reads John Keats

1988 • 23 min • Italy

An electronic edition of some Super8 film intended to be projected at the concerts of Steven Brown.

Bǔpiào

1988 • 10 min • China

Tao-Tao the baby rabbit goes to a theme park and goes on a pretty cart ride.

Nocturnes

1988 • 9 min • Canada

Animated short film by Francois Aubry

Children of Wax

1988 • 7 min • United Kingdom

An enchanting tale from Africa about five children made of wax. They are industrious, loving, and they feel no pain. But because they are wax, they can only go outside in the cool of darkness. One child, however, determines to see the world by day.

Tea Leaf

1988 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Ruth Novaczeks first film takes the form of a confession to the filmmaker’s new lover. It was originally shot super 8 and re-filmed from two projectors to create various super impositions. For Novaczek, this is a film about what she terms “the typical Jewish London woman of (her) generation”, who grew up in the 1960s, denying her culture and sexuality, only to try to come to terms with it during the tumultuous Thatcherite 1980s.

The Randy Band Film

1988 • 4 min

In the mid 1980s, I heard Memphis's very own RANDY BAND and decided I would collaborate with their bass player Randy Chertow on a movie. Tommy Hull wrote this song "You" and I shot this Super 8 Movie to go with his great melody. In this movie, you will see band members Chertow, Tommy Hull and George Reineke. You will also see my wonderful sister Dana Sachs and great friend Kathy Steuer. I too have a small cameo you might catch. Some of the film is shot in the Fairgrounds in Memphis and some in the now long gone but dearly cherished MUSEUM OF THE UNKNOWN in Marin County, California.

A Lost Body

1988 • 21 min • France

Short film from André Almuro

Lonely Piggy

1988 • 9 min • China

Hedgehog, Goat, and Rabbit teach Piggy the consequences of lazy selfishness after being targeted by a crippled wolf.

Catching the Tide: Sam Hunt's Cook Strait

1988 • 48 min

Originally made for NZ television in 1988, this one hour documentary is now something of a time capsule or historical piece. It's also a record of a peerless performance by one of this country's greatest poets.

Le Jour où Antenne 2 m'a cinématonné

1988 • 4 min • France

Just Listen

1988 • 12 min

A woman has a fight with her boyfriend and runs off only to run into a killer.

The Heartbeat of Anubis

1988 • 5 min • Germany

The tape is a video collage of models and lighting effects. The models are based on Ancient Egyptian culture and its mythological figures, staged as tableaux: «Anubis-Charon-Tableau», «Isis and Osiris-Tableau» and «Horus-Tableau». The single scenes are acted out using paper models of the figures and mythological objects. Different scales of light and shade form the background and help to evoke thematic atmospheres such as «The Air under the Wings», «Circling Night» or «The Black Shadow».