All Films

Barbosa

1988 • 13 min • Brazil

Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.

Jump To The Cloud

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The story about the Kangaroo, which helped the Platypus to find and get the cloud. And the cloud was formed from a lake that evaporated.

Honor and Obey

1988 • 21 min

In Warren Sonbert's Honor and Obey soldiers march in formation, a tiger stalks through the snow, religious processions wind through the streets, and palm trees wave in a tropical breeze. As brightly colored images of authority figures blend into scenes of cocktail parties, this 21-minute silent film flows along with the grace of a musical score built on complex tensions hidden among the notes. "Whose authority will you obey?" the film seems to ask, as it deftly avoids simple-minded juxtapositions. Instead, we see a melange of images so full of geography (Notre Dame Cathedral, the Sydney Opera House, Fifth Avenue), that the work mocks the idea of any specific setting. -- Caryn James, The New York Times. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, in 1998.

Ecosystem 5 ~ A Tremulous Stone

1988 • 16 min • Japan

The ecosystem series which started in 1981 counts 15 and is still growing, becoming Koike's lifework. Through the series, Koike has shot a huge amount – thousands – of still photos of objective motifs, from ocean creatures, microbes, and granite to artificial material such as fishing nets. Those photos are developed with a specialized method then reshot with movie film. The style has been thoroughly continued. The images that are created as a result tower before our eyes as an overwhelming visual experience. Each motif has been repeatedly decomposed and reconstructed of its "attribution" and "meaning", causing a shocking Gestalt breakdown for the audience.

Cezanne's Eye

1988 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Cezanne's Eye is an experiential journey through the body of a unique landscape - that of Cezanne's Provence. Using intuitive and expressionist visual language and a striking specially composed soundtrack (by Stuart Jones) the film is a movement through land, sky, colour, sound and music that is both sensual and visually challenging. In Stan Brakhage’s words, Cezanne's Eye is “the most significant camera as paintbrush film in the history of cinema”.

Mr. Bohm and the Herring

1988 • 12 min • Sweden

Mr. Bohm is a middle-aged man who buys a herring as a pet.

Wendel

1988 • 60 min • Switzerland

David has got himself pretty well organized, he’s got friends, jobs – not bad. Broods a little, but who doesn’t. Occasional political activity. He never really grasped why Wendel, his best friend for years, had left. Just took off. The fool. Emigrated. Back in the seventies, they had shared their lives, their love, their apartment and sometimes even the same woman. And now, what happens? Wendel comes back, out of the blue. They spend the day together.

Pencil Dance

1988 • 2 min • United States of America

A ballet of black and white organic and geometric shapes, dancing to a contemporary arrangement of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" suite.

Business Class

1988 • 45 min • Sweden

Swedish documentary from 1988 about one of the 80's era phenomena: yuppies. Through Tomas Dillén's documentary, we get to meet some young entrepreneurs and financial boys whose goal is to become successful millionaires.

Go Ahead, Baby!

1988 • 27 min • France

At the age of 77, Roger Lapébie is the oldest winner of the Tour de France still alive. Half a century has passed since his legendary victory in 1937. Yet Roger still covers more than 200 miles each week by bicycle on the highways and byways of the Landes. The portrait of a great, good-natured cyclist, who declares: 'I love my bike more than I love myself.'

Papa's Ice Cream

1988 • 5 min

1988 short film

Alone with Nature

1988 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Based on the story "Back" by A. Valton. Music used by Arcangelo Corelli.

Flight

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A gloomy allegory about the difficult human fate.

Berlin Eiszeit

1988 • 2 min • Germany

A very degraded found footage experiment. The film runs slightly slowed down, distorting the soundtrack. Many textures of torn and crumpled film are present.

UORC: The Movie

1988 • 33 min • Argentina

In a hazy, oppressive dystopia, an assortment of men are put through a gauntlet of sensory and physical tortures. Filmed version of Argentinian theater group La Organización Negra's 1986 piece UORC.

Weiterstadt open air

1988 • 4 min • Germany

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Suicide Warthogs

1988 • 4 min

About Sado-masochism, suicide and the irrational nature of the human spirit. The irrationality of the human psyche, sadomasochism and suicide are the leitmotifs of this film. The documentary footage of airplanes and pilots – symbols of courage and honour – become an unexpected counterpoint to the main structure of the film. The combination of documentary footage and poetic storytelling with the inclement northern setting reinforce the ascetic atmosphere of Suicide Monsters and give its self-destructive characters a heroic and noble appearance. —arsenals.lv

Kidnapped

1988 • 9 min

Louis Vincent is found unconscious in a city park. He claims to a policewoman that he has been kidnapped. In addition to narrating the judicial investigation, the film becomes an open reflection on the power of the imagination.

An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis

1988 • 59 min

TV movie starring Sammy Davis Jr and Jerry Lewis.

In Fact, There is not Future

1988 • 26 min • Mexico

Documentary about young people who are dedicated to cleaning windshields in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl to survive.

Voices & Visions: Sylvia Plath

1988 • 57 min • United States of America

In this documentary you will follow in considerable (and sometimes excruciatingly painful) detail Plath's life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her suicide, at age 30, in London in 1963. Included are the candid recollections of her mother, Aurelia Plath, and such aquaintances as Clarissa Roche and Dido Merwin. Providing perspectives on Plath's work are A. Alvarez, a critic, and Sandra M. Gilbert, a feminist scholar and herself a poet.

hi ka ri

1988 • 6 min • Japan

Very Small Tragedies

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

4 small comic mini animations made by Rinat Gazizov and Konstantin Bronzit. It was Bronzit's as wel as Gazizov's debut in animation.

Die Sonne kommt

1988 • 22 min • Germany

A worker returns home after a day's work, fixes something to eat.