All Films

The Days of the Dead

1988 • 50 min • Argentina, Mexico, United States of America

A documentary exploring the varying cultural practices of the Day of the Dead in both Mexico and Chicano/a communities in the United States.

A Little Hawaiian Style

1988 • 60 min

World-famous surf photographer Don King and hi wife Liysa King welcome you to join them as they take you on a laid-back look at some of Hawaii's premier watermen going for it... HAWAIIAN STYLE

Rights and Reactions: Lesbian & Gay Rights on Trial

1988 • 56 min • United States of America

In this 1987 documentary, the issue before the New York City Council is a resolution concerning gay rights. The voices of citizens and witnesses for and against this resolution are heard as they testify, and in interviews in the council chamber and on the sidewalk outside. Advocates on either side of the issue are shown to be earnest and sincere, and despite the fact that emotions are running high during the debate, basic civility somehow prevails.

Eat

1988 • 14 min • France

An observation of humans' and animals' table manners as they gulp down breakfasts, lunches, cocktails and dinners in a variety of situations.

The City

1988 • 14 min • Soviet Union

A short animated film about horrors of urbanized city.

The Pleiadian Connection

1988 • 50 min • United States of America

A look at the Billy Meier case

Born to be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case of Baby $/M

1988 • 35 min • United States of America

Born to be Sold is Paper Tiger Television and Rosler's acerbic and witty interpretation of the notorious "Baby M" case, in which a natural — "surrogate" — mother and father of a baby fought each other for custody of the child. Rosler assumes various roles of the participants in the controversy, from the baby to the sperm, from the lawyer to the judge, as well as the two women in the case. Reconstructing the story from its trial by media and the court transcripts, Rosler views "surrogate" mother Mary Beth Whitehead's actions as an attempt to defy the identity assigned by her class and gender, and sees the verdict favoring the Sterns as an endorsement of the father's phallic right, his jurisprudential entitlement. Her analysis demonstrates how political, class and ideological systems are played out on the body of the woman.

Klossowski, peintre-exorciste

1988 • 25 min

A rare short film presented as a game of mirrors doubling and refracting what Klossowski’s plastic work shows in strange, ambiguous staging and disturbing evocations.

Quem Foste, Alvarez?

1988 • 60 min • Portugal

Documentary about the life and work of the painter Dominguez Alvarez, interspersed with fictionalized staging of some moments of the life of the artist.

Je veux ce que je veux

1988 • 10 min

Green on the Horizon

1988 • 17 min • United Kingdom

The haunting qualities of the English countryside are evoked in this enigmatic film: part fake public information film, part occult jaunt.

Rückfällig

1988 • 30 min • East Germany

The life stories of four people struggling with alcohol addiction allow for conversations about the apparent "normalcy" of alcohol and the subsequent difficulty of recognizing it as a potentially dangerous drug. The documentary stresses that alcoholism is a disease which must be treated medically and socially. Instead of turning a blind eye to others' problems, it is important to realize that people of all ages, genders, and social backgrounds can potentially be affected and that both the individual and society share responsibility for preventing relapse to alcohol abuse.

Una novia en Nueva York

1988 • 9 min • Peru

A 68-year-old peruvian writes to a marriage agency in New York hoping to find a millionaire wife who will save him from poverty.

Cross Road

1988 • 2 min • United States of America

CROSS ROAD (1988) was a film made after having fallen down on my knees. A painted salutation to Hermes.

Choices

1988 • 54 min • United States of America

Teenage brother and sister Jim and Sonia Peterson navigate tough times in high school when Jim befriends a young man who turns out to be a bad influence.

Monologue in My Bad Taste

1988 • 5 min • Japan

The view of an amusement park that's shot by a fixed camera changes into an uncanny one by painting directly onto celluloid and strange sounds. It is an attempt to approach the inner world through the common view by private eye of the author himself.

Vicious

1988 • 15 min • Brazil

Sid and Nancy: impossible love between unviable beings. Anguish explodes into blood delusions. Torn by contradictions, the desperate search is the only way. But every crime brings its punishment. The synthesis between agony and ecstasy is often fatal.

The Hunt

1988 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A hunter tracks a ram through the snowy mountains.

Cry, Beloved Land

1988 • 16 min

A portrayal of Finnish deep ecologist Pentti Linkola’s lost childhood surroundings on the shores of Lake Vanajavesi.

Dornröschen war ein schönes Kind

1988 • 5 min • East Germany, Germany

Puppets play the story based on the famous children's song.

3 Jours...

1988 • 15 min

An arrogant parisian guy is stuck in a small village for 3 days waitng his car being repaired.

There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

1988 • 58 min

"A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash flood in the desert. The tape makes no claims to telling the “truth” about Isabelle, choosing rumors about her tyrannical, nihilistic father, and her flight to Armenia, where she dressed as a man and “wrote one of the strangest documents a woman has ever given to the world.” Following Eberhardt’s travels and the strangely syncretic vision of her father, Thornton creates a portrait of cultural cross-breeding in which “neither this world nor the other remains.” In all, There Was An Unseen Cloud Moving is an arresting mixture of rare and iconic images that undermines its authenticity through re-enacted “historical” scenes and deliberate anachronisms that place Neil Armstrong in 19th-century Geneva." - Video Data Bank

O Mundo de Aron Feldman

1988 • 25 min • Brazil

Low Light Life

1988 • 15 min

Shot in low-light style, Kuchar documents his experiences with various underground filmmakers such as James Broughton and Ken Jacobs, then moves on to the other side of Hollywood lifestyle to visit Nicholas Cage. Images of crowds and facial close-ups comprise this haunting tape.