All Films

African Odyssey

1988 • 53 min

Tracking efforts by zoologists Delia and Mark Owens to begin new research in 1985 in Botswana's Kalahari Game Reserve, where the couple conducted landmark studies from 1974 to 1980.

Clause and Effect

1988 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Clause and Effect is a tape that combines documentary footage with positive images of gay men and lesbians to show the impact of Clause 28 of the Local Government Bill both on them and the wider community. The tape is framed by an exclusive interview with Derek Jarman who talks about the origins of the Clause, ‘its roots in the moral majority and their interpretations of the Bible’, the effect that it will have on the community and on his work as a film maker.

Trap

1988 • 6 min • United States of America

A film composed only of abstract images animated with black litho pencil on paper. Inspired by a quote from Burning Souls by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: "I'm trying to imagine my grandfather on the train taking him far away."

Dogplant

1988 • 4 min • United Kingdom

A peculiar plant produces puppies.

Sonata

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A mesmerizing wordless combination of surreal animation and classical music

One Every Mile!

1988 • 54 min • United Kingdom

“Fear enters the management style.” Banned by McDonalds, this Channel 4 film has never been shown before. After working in McDonalds, Jane Gabriel was given full access to film the McDonalds outlet which held the world record for the amount of money taken in one hour, and to Hamburger University in London. This observational documentary reveals why McDonald employees run, and how the shouting and the “warm fuzzies” and “cold pricklies” affect the employees. They describe what it’s like inside McDonalds as it plans to open a new McDonalds in the UK every mile for the next 25 years.

Sunday

1988 • 8 min • Ireland

A deeply religious family's dinner turns hostile after uncomfortable notions are raised.

Illegal Tender

1988 • 14 min

A queer, psychedelic portrait of a young man’s desires in an industrial wasteland, this film by Paul Bettell contrasts tenderness of two men together with sequences of cranes and high buildings, and the piece builds to a transcendental and intense conclusion. Filmmaker Bettell sadly made only two films before dying from AIDS-related complications.

How To Carve Great Faces For Halloween with Gordy Falk "The Pumpkin Man"

1988 • 30 min

Oggi è primavera

1988 • 4 min • Belgium

A street with pedestrians. Music. A voice reads the credits and clarifies, "This is a very violent film." The action begins: a man crosses the street and enters his flat. He opens the door, puts out the fire under the kettle whistling in the kitchen, and enters the living room…

Chasing the Rat

1988 • 1 min • China

The dog chased the mouse, the black cat prevented the dog from scratching, and he didn't catch the mouse and let the dog nosy.

ACT UP Kiss-In (April 29, 1988)

1988 • 4 min

This Kiss-In took place the evening of April 29, 1988. It was cold and pouring rain, but the demonstrators soldiered on. The Kiss-In was a favorite tactic of ACT UP because it defied the homophobia of the larger society, demonstrated a lack of fear and stigma around AIDS and fostered camaraderie among the demonstrators and within the group as a whole. It was also a whole lot of fun, which is evident from the footage.

Watching the Back of your Neck

1988 • 58 min • Uruguay

We learn about arbitrary rule under the dictatorship, the torture, the ill-treatment in prison and the plight of the Tupamaro hostages, told in the words of former political prisoners, psychologists and family members who had their lives turned upside down in a raid, or who suffered the anguish of searching for someone who had been “disappeared”.

Crystal Ship

1988 • 2 min • Japan

Picnic

1988 • 4 min • United Kingdom

British animation short from Paul Vester.

Ohi Ho Bang Bang

1988 • 4 min

Holger Hiller and Karl Bonnie create different sounds from every item in a room, from those sounds a song is made by means of cutting, where every sound is still in sync with the video footage of its creation.

Research

1988 • 1 min • Netherlands

Short animation using stop-motion, in which a female dancer dances against the background of a white wall and a painting.

Misei

1988 • 34 min

A Shin Harada short film, 8mm. Harada making full use of the famous Single-8 FUJICA ZC-1000.

Bass, Amaryllis

1988 • 39 min • Japan

Bass Amarillo was looking for "his own sound". He sings he shouts, he thumps. But his sound was hard to find. "This is not the sound I want to hear! The journey to find the sound continues sadly. The sounds and images that are repeated over and over again eventually reach the audience's antennae in the form of pop music. The film's main point is to show the video generation's visual play on film. This is the real image of young people who are now trying to run at the cutting edge.

The Tree of Iron

1988 • 58 min

This is one of the few films to document archaeological work on ancient civilizations in Africa. It also deals with an important subject, African iron smelting, and presents convincing evidence for early indigenous technologies far more complex than previously expected. The Tree of Iron is set in Tanzania, East Africa, on the western shores of Lake Victoria, where Haya people have lived for centuries.

Fontana

1988 • 4 min

in the shower: after the grotesque fountains I saw in Rome.

PAL or Never The Same Color

1988 • 6 min

Short film.

dB

1988 • 23 min • United States of America

An early Scooter McCrae short film

Með allt á þurru

1988 • 20 min • Iceland

Dramatized educational film about alcoholism in the past and the present.