All Films

Spiral Zone: Ride the Whirlwind

1988 • 45 min

Zone Riders are shot down while escorting an evacuation detail to San Juan before a tropical storm hits. The Zone Riders attempt to clear a zoned area of higher ground in order to evacuate the civilians by land.

Pearls

1988 • 1 min

With minimal tools and the limitation of a single image of a woman’s head a set of pearls activates a woman’s inner drive expressing freedom of movement. Animation suggests quickly a series of possible choices. The decision is ultimately hers. An animation exploring metamorphosis accompanied with music by Meredith Monk.

Baby Dreams at the Airport

1988 • 6 min • Bulgaria

A mischievous baby embarks on death-defying adventures in the world of adults.

A Lover & Killer Of Colour

1988 • 9 min

A young painter appreciates the versatility of colours. She tries to come to terms with her loneliness in Germany with poems and paintings.

Antigone’s Cut

1988 • 11 min

Fragments of Marilyn Monroe’s gestures are wrested from the narratives of Hollywood cinema and transformed through the use of an optical printer.

How We Cut Up and Flipped Rambo

1988 • 14 min • Yugoslavia

A three-projector Super 8 film.

Fast nur wolken (+ blumen)

1988 • 40 min • Switzerland

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.

Five Year Diary, Reel 56: Christmas ‘87, New Year ’88 (November 21, 1987–January 22, 1988)

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

Omen

1988 • 13 min

『兆』Omen 1988/13min

the capacity of absorption

1988 • 30 min

Shows a part of the body filled beyond its capacity to absorb a flow of water.

John Huston and the Dubliners

1988 • 60 min

John Huston and the Dubliners is a valentine to the late director and a relatively standard production film about his making of The Dead. Much time is devoted to the actors' understandably admiring comments about Mr. Huston, and to the disposition of the prop department's fake snow. The film has the potential to seem ordinary, but it becomes touched with magic whenever the director makes his presence felt. Mr. Huston displays his characteristic gallantry and his keen attention to seemingly unimportant touches ("Don't worry about what you say, just keep talking," he tells one actor, and gives precise instructions for reading the line "Would you please pass the celery?"). He describes The Dead as "lacework," and this film makes the aptness of that description very clear.

Au mode oblique

1988 • 22 min

I went out of the room and chose two poets as "objects". One is Harumi Kawaguchi, who worked for a trading company at the time and was a dealer for buying and selling yen and dollars. The other is Toshiharu Kishi, who raises and lives dairy cows deep in the mountains of Yamagata. I sketched their lives and had them read their own poems.

Cinématon n°1083: Sergueï Paradjanov

1988 • 3 min • France

Poetry Collection New People

1988 • 25 min

In 1988, the poet Ikuo Yamamoto's poetry collection "New Man". There was a plan to make it with the participation of artists of various genres. I participated in the project with an 8mm independent film.

The Irresistible

1988 • 30 min

Comedy, philosophy, gunfights, music, and chases.

Little People: Christmas Fun

1988 • 30 min

Based on the Little People toy and book line

Hana

1988 • 3 min

A companion to the film Poetry Collection New People 1988.

Home Is the Best

1988 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

Josko Marusic's comical muse about a cat who takes over a man's household.

Sanday

1988 • 16 min

Shot on Sanday, one of the Orkney islands, the film is in four sections, each representing (and transforming) the filmmaker's actions in and experience of a place at a particular time. Drawing on the qualities of these places and the long history of human habitation of the landscape (evidence for which goes back to 3500 BC), Nick Collins' intention was to make possible the experience of a series of linked mental/emotional states, seen through a landscape and movement within it.

Famine '87

1988 • 52 min

The film examines the impact of sustained scarcity and flawed ideas of modernization on the lives and land of the pastoral Banni community in the desert region of Kutch in Western Gujarat.

Skidmakaren i Gielas

1988 • 52 min • Sweden

Documentary about the making of a pair of skis using old methods, from the scouting for the perfect tree to finished product.

46Bis, rue de Belleville

1988 • 3 min

"Pixilation applied to dance, on the theme of tango." -PB

El Hombre de una sola nota

1988 • 14 min

Table Kick Piece

1988 • 1 min • Netherlands

Experimental animated dance film