All Films

Galaxy Bicycle Night

1988 • 55 min

Katsuyuki Hirano's 8mm movie "Galaxy Bicycle Night". Unlike a feature film, it is a movie that uses one camera and one battery light, and I wander around the city or park at midnight. There is nothing like a drama, it is composed of the first part and the second part, and it is a simple movie that ends with the existence of an ex-girlfriend, I was dating back then. Katsuyuki Hirano released this film when he was 23 years old.

Nanci Griffith: One Fair Summer Evening

1988 • 45 min

For her third MCA album, Nanci Griffith recorded a live set at Houston's Anderson Fair club in August 1988, and she brought along a camera crew for good measure, resulting in this video companion to the audio album.

Letter to a Lover

1988 • 10 min • Canada

Lettre à un amant is the final chapter of Paradis’ video trilogy. It deals with a couple's break-up. It is both a letter and a reflection, and it concerns giving of one's self, sharing and exchanging. It is also a response to the other person's flight, the absence, the void. The images attempt to replace the fear and silence. A need sublimated in the exacerbation of pleasure conveyed by images and sounds, Lettre à un amant is a masterful conclusion to the series. At the same time, it poses several questions about the dichotomous love-image paradox present in love. This work also refers to an earlier work by Marc Paradis, La Cage, because of its erotic homosexual content and its many electronic applications. Richard Anger's original score was composed to emphasize the dramatic aspect while several processes proper to the video medium serve to peg the images in an aesthetic approach.

Waddles

1988 • 2 min • Canada

an Animated Short Film about Waddles

Makkarakalakeittoa, sano Tympee Huttunen

1988 • 51 min • Finland

A 1988 Finnish sketch-based absurd comedy film, set in the village of Huttutörönkylä and following the lives of Reinari "Tympee" Huttunen and other villagers.

The Jackets' Green

1988 • 15 min

"What are you fighting for?" Armed simply with this question, Arthur MacCaig goes to Northern Ireland to confront Irish Republicans. The result is an inside look at the ghettos of Belfast. The Jackets' Green calls no one to arms, but offers simple portraits of a few men and women most often represented as fanatical zealots. As they speak candidly about their cause, it becomes difficult to continue branding them as "terrorists."

Les sept travaux d'Héloïse

1988 • 8 min • France

Héloïse in her home waits for husband Abelard and accomplishes many household chores while humming love songs. Fragments of bodies and gestures like the fragmentation of certain women's lives; joy of young brides and self-forgetfulness.

Propos contemporains sur la femme décousue

1988 • 45 min • France

1988 / color / sound / 1S / 45' 00

Louie Anderson: The Louie Anderson Show

1988 • 56 min

Louie Anderson's second stand-up special

Wish You Were Summer

1988 • 4 min • Japan

The Moon in the One Eye

1988 • 8 min • Japan

Kemikaru Furea

1988 • 3 min • Japan

Cross Talk

1988 • 2 min • Japan

The Revenge of Dr. Yuki!!

1988 • 7 min • Japan

Suddenly, there is a huge explosion and the world is destroyed. The story unfolds without any context and ends with a bang. 7 minutes of parody, clever use of frame dropping, and pop laughter.

Oh! My God

1988 • 23 min • Japan

Mahjong hell" is a common occurrence for university students. One night, a young man who spends all his time playing mahjong and neglects his studies goes to a phone box to call his parents, only to be attacked by a terrifying ghost. A mixture of horror film and slapstick comedy, this is a cautionary tale for all lazy students. The last act of "Father", who makes a grand entrance in the film, brings tears to the eyes.

Let's go straight

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Nakayama is a university student living an uneventful life in a manga club. Aya, a younger student, secretly has feelings for him, but Nakayama's feelings for Akiko Taniguchi, a classmate, and Fujima, a senior student, like Aya. Aya has secret feelings for him, but Nakayama has feelings for Akiko Taniguchi, a classmate, and Fujima, a senior, has feelings for Aya. These emotions intertwine, a casual human drama unfolds, and finally, the seasons shift. The story unfolds in an unhurried manner, without many ups and downs, but with a deep insight into the temperament of modern university students. The tasteful dialogue between the man and the woman is outstanding.

Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby S/M

1988 • 28 min

Watch eagle-eye video and performance artist Martha Rosler tackle the case of surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead as represented by the main-stream media. This tape uncovers the class and gender bias of the media coverage and the courts. X-tra inventive graphics and kooky dress-up illustrate Rosler's insightful analysis of the court battle, waged within the tricky issue of contemporary reproductive control in America. Fun for the whole family!!!

Depending on Heaven

1988 • 56 min

The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following their herds across north China. Part Two (28 minutes) gives a more contemporary view of the Mongols trying to reclaim the desert in a more sedentary lifestyle currently encouraged by the Chinese government. The second section highlights disturbing environmental issues regarding the destruction of these northern grasslands.

Tiag

1988 • 52 min • Ecuador

Based on the work of Monsignor Leónidas Proaño, Bishop of Riobamba, the daily life of an indigenous community is presented. His family intimacy and his spirituality, manifested through a rich religious syncretism, are perhaps the most important aspects shown in this film.

鱼盘

1988 • 5 min • China

Eight Immortals and the Flea

1988 • 9 min • China

The story of the Eight Immortals traveling through the East China Sea.

Easter Greetings

1988 • 2 min • Hungary

The film takes place in a strange hierarchical society of rabbits and chickens. From his plot, we can find out the answer to the exciting question, which came first: the egg, the hen, or the rabbit?

Ugokuna!

1988 • 4 min • Japan

Experience time-lapse photography.

The Devil’s Harvest

1988 • 54 min

“A Colheita do Diabo is my first major film experience (…) in which for the first time, aside from theatre actors, I used people who had no [film] experience. The main characters were former fighters, former FRELIMO guerrilla fighters who took part in the war for independence.” Licínio de Azevedo