All Films

F.X. Messerschmidt

1988 • 11 min • Netherlands

A study of the sculptures of the Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783). Messerschmidt became well known for his ‘character heads’; which were highly realistic pyssionomic studies of conditions such as madness.

Global Warming

1988 • 1 min • Canada

Satirical short animation; on the Earth's beauty and how to ruin it.

Don Gay's Worst Wrecks at Mesquite Rodeo 1987

1988 • 57 min • United States of America

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1987 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

El precio de una esclava

1988 • 11 min • Peru

A woman tries to get money to get back her husband's valuable bracelet that he pawned to bet on horse racing.

Octavio Podestá

1988 • 21 min • Uruguay

A record of the works and reflections of this notable Uruguayan sculptor as a starting point to question the fate of art in our society, a question of how this artistic expression remains limited to a restricted area due to the lack of a true cultural policy.

Desde la tierra

1988 • 11 min • Uruguay

In 1988, the indebtedness of the land adjudicators of the National Colonization Institute faced a controversial refinancing law that made their subsistence unfeasible. The settlers envisioned an opaque future in which the depopulation of the campaign was going to worsen with more emigration and with the disappearance of more rural establishments.

The Bee and the Honeypot

1988 • 9 min

Experimental short film by Sarah Turner.

How Do You Do

1988 • 29 min • Soviet Union

About prostitution in late USSR. Who are they? Why are they doing it? Are they ashamed? What do foreigners feel and want from it?

Vidöppen stad

1988 • 18 min

A lyrical, impressionistic tribute to Stockholm where images from today's Stockholm are interspersed with short scenes from Arne Sucksdorff's film People in the City from 1947.

Substance of Dreams

1988 • 40 min

'That man came to die here ... for a reason.' It is 33 years after Final War and an outsider has broken in to the City. Only Solus can probe his memories to discover his purpose, the substance of his dreams.

Thirst

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The equipment is in a dark room, the lights are flashing. The hand turns the adjustment knob. The sun shines through the arched openings of the palace windows, "Aquarium" music sounds behind the scenes.

A Glimpse of Tove Jansson

1988 • 34 min • Finland

Tove Jansson became world-famous for her Moomin characters, but over time she began to dislike the commercialization of Moomin and lost the desire to write about him. Here she talks about how fame affected her and how the book Moominland Midwinter (1957) became a turning point, thanks in large part to the support of her life partner Tuulikki Pietilä, who suggested that Moomin be set in a new world – something that helped Jansson find the joy of writing again.

Shameless Video League Final Issue: Make it clear who's the pervert!!

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Soma Sema

1988 • 12 min

The mummy signals from the threshold of the living and the dead. Secrets seep through the skin, and tattooed oracles reveal the body is a sign divine. This film is an inscription of the mysteries in action.

Every Tenth

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short documentary on the plight of people with disabilities in the Soviet Union.

Working for the Skin Trade: Duran Duran

1988 • 57 min

Live Duran Duran concert performance recorded in May 1987 during The Strange Behaviour Tour.

Forward, Labor warriors

1988 • 44 min

Television Spots

1988 • 5 min

Produced between 1987 and 1988, the Television Spots are exactly what they claim to be: these twelve, short video sequences were originally planned as inserts within the regular advertisements on Canada’s private television network.

Powell Peralta: Axe Rated

1988 • 25 min

The 5th movie in the Bones Brigade series. Powell Peralta went on to produce the Bones Brigade videos which became some of the most influential skateboarding videos of the era. Powell Peralta started to produce videos in 1982. These videos are: Skateboarding In The Eighties (1982) The Bones Brigade Video Show (1984) Future Primitive (1985) The Search for Animal Chin (1987) Public Domain (1988) Axe Rated (1988) Ban This (1989) Propaganda (1990) Eight (1991) Celebrity Tropical Fish (1991)

A Nice Day in the Country

1988 • 8 min

An amorous couple prepares for a picnic in the country. But the man's rage at a stuck doorknob leads to tragedy for both of them.

Rarg

1988 • 23 min

All is peaceful in the lovely land of RARG, that is, until an old professor & a tiny baby make an alarming discovery about the nature of dreams...

XX/88 Pelczyn

1988 • 12 min

Pelczyn is a journey back to a childhood home in Poland's former Silesia region, a flowing sequence of images in restless Super-8 shots. Superimposition is a defining feature of the film; images are layered on top of each other and intertwine, creating profundity, sketching inner landscapes and interweaving fragments of memory and recollections.

Like the wind, my longing fades

1988 • 59 min

A portrait of the musician and composer Ralph Lundsten in a film about art, music and philosophy - a cosmic journey in Sweden in music and images.

Farewell

1988 • 8 min • Brazil

Award-winning Brazilian experimental animated short film