All Films

Reserve dla Cudzoziemców

1988 • 4 min • Poland

Short documentary about the life of foreign students studying at the University of Lodz and living in a dormitory for foreigners.

A Little Night Music

1988 • 9 min • Netherlands

When everybody is asleep at night, the objects in the cabinet make music. A meddlesome cat is the last thing they need.

Tower Dance

1988 • 3 min

A playful depiction of the World Trade Center.

I, Alison...

1988 • 40 min • United Kingdom

1988 follow-up to an acclaimed 40 Minutes film about Alison French, who has athetoid cerebral palsy. Alison is getting married and must adapt to being a clergyman's wife in south Wales.

Egg

1988 • 58 min • Netherlands

An unlikely romance blossoms between an introspective, illiterate baker and a woman he met through dating ads.

Girls Night Out

1988 • 6 min • United Kingdom

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

Irish Ways

1988 • 52 min • France

Irish Ways focuses on daily confrontations between the British Army and Irish Nationalists. It reveals discrimination in housing and employment, and laws permitting arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Irish nationalists. The film investigates the pervasive atmosphere of fear and mistrust - constant surveillance of neighborhoods and business districts, television advertisements encouraging citizens to report suspicious neighbors to British troops, and the commonplace bombings and shootings. Giving voice to soldiers on both sides and to ordinary citizens who must live in wartime circumstances, Irish Ways provides important background to the continuing civil war over Ireland.

Freiburg Kommunales Kino

1988 • 2 min • Germany

an experiment made using footage of a western. The film is extremely damaged and degraded, rendering it a mainly textural experience. The short is mainly a warm yellow, punctuated occasionally with blue.

Bedtime Stories

1988 • 33 min • United States of America

Three short films. I: The Wet Dream-Questions of seduction, viewer/viewed and personal stories are collaged in this heavily postproduced account of a 'hot tub relationship. II: The Erotic Intellect-Shot in Garbo's Hairdressing Salon, Hammer suggests intellectual stimulation to be as provocative as overt sexuality. III: Clip, Grab, and Paint-A sunstroke delirium as the videographer identifies with Georgia O'Keeffe and her radio obituary using a frame buffer and computer program for paintbrush and easel.

Kun for forrykte: Eik Skaløe og Steppeulvene

1988 • 39 min • Denmark

A film documenting the life and death of Eik Skaløe as a poet and singer for the danish band Steppeulvene. A symbol for the Danish hippie-movement.

Newark: The Slow Road Back

1988 • 58 min

Documentary on the past and future of Newark, New Jersey after the racial riots of 1967.

Electronical Politics

1988 • 6 min

Made in 1988 at the University of California, San Diego in Standish Lawder's Experimental Film course.

Mulheres: Uma Outra História

1988 • 35 min • Brazil

Filmed as Brazil was transitioning back into a democracy after over two decades of dictatorship, ‘Mulheres: uma outra história’ focuses on various aspects of women's participation in the Brazilian political scene and features interviews with some of the 23 women newly elected to the Constituent Assembly who managed to gain the approval of some of their proposals for the Brazilian Constitution which was being written at the time. The film features appearances from suffragist Carmen Portilho, who reminds viewers about the long history of struggle for women to earn the right to vote in the country, and Jandira Feghali and Benedita da Silva who would become some of the most influential political leaders in the country’s history.

2+1

1988 • 27 min • Japan

An omnibus made up of three stories featuring the characters "Man A and Man B", "Woman A and Woman B" and "Man A and Woman A". What happens when two people with completely different personalities are brought together? Something seems to happen, but in the end nothing happens. This film looks at the subtle twists and turns of communication between people from a pure perspective. The characters of the actors are hard to ignore.

Beyond the Mirror

1988 • 43 min • Japan

A barefoot boy with frightened eyes. He wanders the streets, rides the bus, and wanders the fields without speaking. In the passing landscape, he sees red balloons, deer heads, puddles of blood, the Japanese flag, the Old Testament, an old man...Then, with a gunshot, he collapses. In this film, the boy's closed mind to the outside world is painstakingly portrayed through a variety of images, and his sincere feelings are quietly conveyed.

Rahutaevas

1988 • 55 min • Soviet Union

This is a film about Juhan Peegel, a linguist and lecturer, professor and writer, a former soldier. Against the background of all these facets, the viewer is presented with an amazingly simple and modest human nature, who values ​​the warmth of home and the land of his birth above all else.

Choir on Its Own

1988 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The Norwegian Drillbit Massacre

1988 • 28 min • Norway

Norway's "The Driller Killer!" A 28-minute shot-on-video slasher flick with no plot, but lots of (cheap) gore.

The Children's Storefront

1988 • 14 min

The story about The Children's Storefront School, an independent tuition-free school in Harlem, set up in 1966 to help kids from poor neighborhoods get better education and support.

The Displaced View

1988 • 52 min

The Displaced View traces a personal search for identity and pride, within the unique and suppressed history of the Japanese in Canada. Through an examination of the emotional and cultural links between the women of one family, the processes of the construction of memory and the re-construction of history, are revealed. Utilizing an innovative combination of experimental, dramatic and documentary forms, the film emerges as a deeply moving and compassionate love letter. Just as the official history of the Japanese Canadians has been thrown into question, so does the film’s fictionalized narrative, question documentary as truth.

No Danube - Kurt Kren and His Films

1988 • 55 min • Austria

Documentary by Hans Scheugl on Kurt Kren.

Clothes

1988 • 3 min • United Kingdom

Ever wondered what your wardrobe is up to when your back is turned?

The Way

1988 • 36 min • Soviet Union

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the subconscious of each. And none of them are unaware of the existence of the world of the forces that awaken in man hidden until the time of the dark side of their personalities. The metaphor of the film is laid bare hidden from direct view the laws of nature to be reckoned with, are unaware of their presence, man.

THEATER. Afterword

1988 • 5 min • Soviet Union

The film was shot as the final part of the play "Drink the sea, Xanthos" theatre-Studio "NEO" (St. Petersburg 1987-1989). As a result, the performance was changed and the film gained independence. He became an allegory of acting.