All Films

Metamorphosis

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A film-parable about the eternal movement of mankind from the Stone Age to self-destruction.

A Dog's Tale

1988 • 14 min • Sweden

When Grandpa is on his way home, he finds an abandoned puppy on the street. He takes it to his wife and it grows up on their farm.

X

1988 • 6 min

A dirge, a dance. A portrait of stillness and silence disturbed by the urgency of sadness. The film is composed of paintings from the Northern Renaissance, collaged and combined with hand-painted, hand-processed and optically manipulated images of seashells, hands and dolls. The Ave Maria is sung by Rosa Ponselle, the dancer is Annie Morad.

El pájaro muerto

1988 • 60 min

Some Imaginary Far Away Type Things a.k.a. Lost in the Meshes

1988 • 34 min

Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985.

Pure Image

1988 • 3 min • Hungary

A man’s naïvely drawn tattoos and grotesque body art – at the intersection of profane and sacred, of folklore and high culture – come to life.

The Goddess and the Computer

1988 • 52 min • Indonesia, United Kingdom, United States of America

For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Through an analysis of ritual, resource management practices (planting schedules, irrigation vs. conservation, etc) and social organization, anthropologist Steve Lansing and ecologist James Kremer discover the intricacy and sustainability of this ancient water management agricultural system.

Stuttgart Kommunales Kino

1988 • 2 min • Germany

29.03.1988

Visual Art Songs For The 80's

1988 • 23 min

Short film by Anne Wilson and Marty St. James.

Frauen am Ball

1988 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

Turbine Potsdam was one of the GDR's most successful women's soccer teams, thanks to the hard work and dedication of the players and the strict coaching of Bernd Schröder. This documentary includes interviews with the team and footage of their practices and competitions.

Game

1988 • 7 min • Poland

A mysterious man enters the night bar. There is no one inside except for a bartender and a black cat. Alcohol and imagination from noir comics will do their job.

Red Rooster

1988 • 4 min

RED ROOSTER takes place at a street cafe, in Paris … This guy and a groovy chick hit it off and end up at a flat; nothing/happens…

Kakadu: Land of the Crocodile

1988 • 50 min • Australia

Val Plumwood, environmental philosopher returns to Kakadu, where she was the victim of a crocodile attack. Against the backdrop of the steamy, intensely beautiful Kakadu National Park, she shares her thoughts on wilderness and wildlife.

DDT: Thaw

1988 • 56 min

The Russian Rock Legends DDT performing live at VI Leningrad Rock Festival of 1988

Aladdin and the Magic Lamps

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Follows the story of a unique collector of antiques.

Achisai

1988 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Lost among the mountains is the small town of Achisai with a mine - the embodiment of the ideal Stalinist paradise.

Ganbare! Moudouken Serve

1988 • 27 min • Japan

About a guide dog for the blind called Serv (サーブ). This dog lived in the real world, and died shortly before the anime production.

Starwatch

1988 • 13 min • United Kingdom

In the late 21st century, planet Earth is suffering. Deep under Stonehenge lies a giant crystal - our world's Sentinel, which regulates the conditions for life. Throughtout the universe are many such Sentinels, each relaying information in the cosmic network of stability. But the relay point for ours is malfunctioning. This will have catastrophic results, as the Sentinel loses control, creating tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes - even the ozone layer will dissipate. In the next decade, the Earth will cease to support life of any description. The Sentinel is aware of its plight, and reaches out to archaeologist Professor Caldeon, who in turn convinces former UN advisor Jason Havlin something must be done. Together they form a team who will explore both the Earth and the Universe in an array of hi-tech vehicles, battling natural disasters, and hoping against hope they can save the planet...

Aber wenn man so leben will wie ich

1988 • 21 min • East Germany

When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something in life, to be a human being at all." Three years later, the movie tries to find out what has become of him.

The Carbide Factory

1988 • 25 min • East Germany

Morbidly beautiful images show the unreasonable working conditions at a rusty factory.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 15

1988 • 56 min

7 hi-point TITBITS. Classic Burlesque Stage Strippers in action with BETTY HOWARD, TEMPEST STORM in her classic ‘Desert Dance’, LILI ST. CYR in 2 stylish routines, and BLAZE STARR in ‘Dance of Fire’. Also lovely CANDEE EARLE, ELAINE JONES, gorgeous GABY and 8 more nicely naked nymphs.

(Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes

1988 • 11 min • Switzerland

Precisely edited to the start-stop rhythm of a martial beat and post-punk rock music, Absolutions glories in organized disjunction, juxtaposing images of the artist collapsing to the ground with bursts of wildly scrambled electronic distortion.

An Architecture of Desire

1988 • 15 min • United States of America

"Davis's earlier explorations of the body and sensuality come to fruition in this, her latest film. Through rigorous cross-cutting and use of extreme close-ups, manmade and natural manifestations of architecture merge with the physical body into palpable delineations of form and function." – San Francisco Cinematheque program notes

Hoppla!

1988 • 52 min • Belgium

In Hoppla!, two choreographies by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker are brought together and performed to the music of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos, seven short works for two pianos, and Quatuor no. 4, Bartók’s fourth string quartet. The reading room of the Ghent University library, designed by the renowned architect Henry Van de Velde, serves as location.