All Films

A Walk in the Mountains

1988 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Follows the Pskov's male academic choir of chauffeurs, the beautiful Pskov, which exists not only as a background, but also as an emotional atmosphere of the characters' lives. About people who are in love with their region, their business and the songs they sing.

Primary Photobiological Processes

1988 • 19 min

About processes in the living cell, photosynthesis. The study of biophysical aspects of photobiological processes is the central section of quantum biophysics.

Ex-Tension

1988 • 6 min • France

The body energy, contained, frees itself through the contrasting gaze's light, through the fragmented play music. Energy is concentrated in the gesture time and in the wait of the matter. Ex-Tension: Meeting of a body writing with the duality Image/Music.

Mylène Farmer: Pourvu qu'elles soient douces (Libertine II)

1988 • 18 min • France

Story of two women's feud continues during the events of The Seven Years' War Music video for Mylène Farmer's song Pourvu qu'elles soient douces

The Goat's Intensity

1988 • 19 min • East Germany

Absurd attempts to produce an amateur film about an amateur film company. The awards ceremony for the film takes place in a town cinema: 1st Prize for the leading lady: a goat.

Cameramen Who Dared

1988 • 47 min

Documentary featuring current and archive footage of documentary filmmakers and camera operators who risk their lives in order to capture vivid images of deadly animals, combat, and natural dangers and disasters.

I Love You, Mom

1988 • 6 min

Sometimes parents just don't understand.

The Great Rubberman

1988 • 2 min • Finland

AIDS information campaign aimed at young people. The animated film tells how to protect yourself from AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Holding Our Ground

1988 • 51 min • Canada

Filmed in a squatter community of Labangon in Cebu, Philippines, Holding Our Ground is the inspiring story of a group of women who have organized collectively to pressure their government for land reform, to establish their own money-lending system and to create shelters for street kids. A story of grassroots organizing that can be a model in both hemispheres.

Dance Within Frame

1988 • 1 min • Netherlands

Short animation film in which a male and female dancer move in front of and behind a square frame using stop-motion.

LIVE GET SMILE Nippon SEINENKAN Live

1988 • 48 min

Chisato Moritaka 1st Live Video. Recorded at December 17, 1987 Nippon-seinenkan 1 GOOD-BYE SEASON 2 {NAMIDA} Good-bye: [Good bye tears] 3 {ANOHI-NO} photograph: [Photograph of that day] 4 {RINGOSHU-NO rule}: [Rule of cider] 5 {YUME-NO OWARI}: [End of dream] 6 WEEKEND BLUE 7 GET SMILE 8 OVERHEAT. NIGHT 9 NEW SEASON

Under Glass

1988 • 3 min

Short film.

The Bitter Berry: The Life and Work of Byron Herbert Reece

1988 • 29 min

A docu-drama depicting the life and work of celebrated North Georgia poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece.

Hamill

1988 • 12 min • Argentina

A depressed son sends voice mesagges to her mother.

John Lennon & The Plastic ONO Band Live in Toronto 1969

1988 • 50 min

Filmed on the eve of the release of the Abbey Road LP-the last Beatles album to be recorded (although Let it Be was the last Beatles album to be released)- this is the only performance ever caught on film of John Lennon & The Plastic ONO Band. John and his wife Yoko Ono, guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White traveled to the Toronto Rock ʻNʻ Roll Revival. Other guest performances were Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard.

História Familiar

1988 • 10 min • Brazil

It's Friday night. Pedro and Anastácia are at home, like millions of other couples in São Paulo. Locked away in the living room of their apartment, Pedro and Anastácia's relationship finds an opportunity to reveal its degree of wear and tear. História Familiar portrays the banality of everyday life and contemporary emotional malaise.

Kyokugen FUCK chōdai! Fuji akane

1988 • 45 min • Japan

Akana atends her coach's special training camp

Vertical Nomads

1988 • 26 min • France

The documentary chronicles the journey and climbs of a group of young French people on the cliffs rising above Wadi Rum, in the desert south of Jordan, guided by two very athletic local Bedouins. The climbers set out to discover new, isolated places, fueled by a spirit of adventure. These places were little known, at least as climbing areas in 1988.

1970 or the Collapse of History in the Hysterical Sublime

1988 • 39 min

8mm-to-digital and 16mm projector performance. This work includes the film NAVIGATION, which has been preserved by Anthology Film Archives.

Super Lewd Match 2: Yukari Okita vs Rei Murakami

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Two women compete for the title of "Queen of Lewdness."

Two Camels Were Flying

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Animal musicians who cannot play well create an ensemble that, oddly enough, is successful, performing the hit song “Two Camels Flew.”

Closed

1988 • 3 min • France

This commercial entry directed by veteran Jean-Luc Godard promoting jeans company Marithé et François Girbaud presents a couple appearing on a beach in repeated moments over and over with some variations during their exchange and their dialogues.

Mylène Farmer: Ainsi soit je...

1988 • 5 min

Tribute to Walt Disney's animated feature, Bambi. The video was the singer's favourite at the time, and was her sole one in sepia tone. It was broadcast for the first time in the television show Top 50 on Canal+ a few weeks after the single release. The scene of the drowning, shot in the same pond and with almost the same team as that for "Plus grandir", was very difficult to film because the singer was then afraid of the water. Farmer said in an interview that the sobriety of the clip was well suited to this song.

Potemkin Villages

1988 • 7 min • Soviet Union

How the estates are getting painted in Saratov.