All Films

Frankfurt mal sehn

1988 • 2 min • Germany

31.03.1988

Hedgehog and Girl

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A story about a girl who befriends a hedgehog. The girl did not like that the hedgehog was prickly. Then the hedgehog decided to cut all his spines to please the girl.

Effetto Puglia

1988 • 26 min • Italy

Shot in 1987, it offers a different vision of Puglia than the stereotypes in vogue today. It is a story only through images and music built around faces, gestures, details, natural and urban landscapes.

Voices & Visions: Wallace Stevens

1988 • 57 min

The hero of Wallace Stevens’s poetry is the human imagination. Like Emily Dickinson’s, Stevens’s sedate and uneventful outer life concealed a lush and adventurous inner one. Such adventures were for Stevens not an escape from reality but a journey toward a new reality. Although Stevens was no philosopher–he was a bold and brilliant poet–he explored the workings of the human mind with a precision philosophers might envy.

4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg

1988 • 47 min

4 Artists: Robert Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg acts as a collective portrait of creators linked only by their stated intention of expressing ideas through art. Unconnected to traditional concepts of beauty, storytelling or pictorial representation, the artists discuss the context of their art and how their work and the public's perception of it have changed over time. This film offers the rare opportunity to see a large body of work in their studios.—Michael Blackwood Productions

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Vasily Ivanovich once met with his killer… Collectivism, freedom, stupidity, fun - the main principles of the St. Petersburg underground are filmed with the help of a new myth about the heroic Chapai.

Untitled

1988 • 3 min

Short film about dogs in the snow.

Omega Rising Women of Rastafari

1988 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A ground-breaking documentary, Omega Rising Women of Rastafari was the first film to explore and challenge myths and stereotypes about the Rastafarian movement; and give voice to women of Rastafari, who speak for themselves about their relationship to the movement and its development. A self-taught camerawoman who began her career documenting community issues in Tottenham, D. Elmina Davis was a Rastafarian herself and had travelled extensively in Africa and the Caribbean. Poetry, mythology, archive footage, interviews, music and dance are skilfully folded into her film’s narrative, revealing the journey to higher consciousness for Jamaican and British Rastafarian women. Interviewees include Judy Mowatt, reggae solo artist and a member of Bob Marley’s backing trio, The I Three.

Remembering Means Living

1988 • 59 min • Germany

In this film, Róza Berger-Fiedler traces the history of the Jews in Berlin from the Middle Ages to the present day and connects it with his own biography.

Light Pharmacy Part 4

1988 • 6 min • United States of America

Light Pharmacy: 4.1 is part of a series of 'film haiku' concerned primarily with the reflection and refraction of sunlight, and dream representation.---AGN "A surreal fantasy - almost a homage to Maya Deren. Nigrin has a fine feeling for imagery and pacing."---William Sloan, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1988.

Last Night at the S&S Diner

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

Story about the last original "American Diner" in Miami, Florida. Since 1938 the S & S has been owned and operated by the family of the present owners, Charles and Jean Cavalaris. The S & S Diner is the ubiquitous Miami landmark on Northeast Second Avenue, known for serving large portions of homestyle food.

The Enchanted Wheel of Life

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The original artist Oleksandr Semernya never studied painting, but has been drawing for as long as he can remember.

Passage du désir

1988 • 11 min • France

Passage du désir, a prelude by Jakobois uses the pornographic video-image to which a rhythmical treatment has been given. The sexual activity is explicit. We can clearly understand what is going on. Ultimately there Is the Impression of a stained glass window fixed over the screen. It seems that the desire of the film-maker is to create a new sensual vision out of the perception of the video Image.

For Official Use Only

1988 • 14 min

The problems of transparency, freedom of speech, and bureaucracy in the field of ecology.

In the Month of Crickets

1988 • 14 min

A short animation film by Lewis Klahr.

Alternative Fringe

1988 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Famous for combining extremely simple line drawings with biting humour she lays bare the frustrations encountered by ordinary women in their daily lives. Candy Guard once disarmingly described her job as "writing funny stories and then drawing pictures to go with them", which goes some way towards explaining her success as both an animator and newspaper cartoonist.

Sky Light

1988 • 24 min • United Kingdom

An idyllic river flows through a forest, flashes of light and colour threaten to erase the image, bursts of short wave radio and static invade the tranquillity of the natural sound. The camera searches amongst the craggy rocks and ruined buildings of a bleak and windswept snowscape, a Geiger counter chatters ominously in the background. The sky is overcast at first but gradually clears to reveal a sky of unnatural cobalt blue.

The Inspector

1988 • 11 min • Brazil

Crime and crime-fighting in Rio de Janeiro. With the master of disguise, the great police inspector Jamil Warwar, playing himself in the film. Jamil became famous by solving the Caso Cláudia, denouncing the involvement of politics and famous personalities of Brazilian society with the international drug traffic. He was punished by his superiors, being transferred to an obscure small town of the hinterlands. The psychology, the methods and philosophy of a detective known as the Brazilian Baretta. A sort of popular Hamlet, a lone star lost in the very dangerous galaxy of the police of Rio de Janeiro.

Zeus, Eagle, Shard Beetle

1988 • 10 min • East Germany

A little beetle plans to take revenge on an eagle family for killing his friends. Although the eagle family teams up with the powerful Zeus, the little beetle finds a cunning way to fight them.

Cockfighting

1988 • 3 min • China

One egg gives birth to two chicks, one black and one white. The two chicks are cultivated into gladiatorial killers.

The Cold Sunday

1988 • 39 min • Japan

Three women and two men appear one after the other without any context and continue to act in a disorderly manner through cutbacks. However, as the scene progresses, the relationship between each of them begins to emerge, and eventually, the five are connected by a single thread. This is a typical relationship between a man and a woman, or a woman and a woman, but the sharp images accurately capture the emptiness of the relationship. The line in the film, "I'm all alone", is unforgettable.

Thomas Müntzer

1988 • 30 min • East Germany, Germany

The documentary reports on the most important stages of Thomas Müntzer's life, from his birthplace in Stolberg to his place of death in the Heldrungen fortress. The film looks at the preacher, his fight against social grievances, the German Peasants' War, the preservation of monuments in the GDR and Müntzer's legacy today.

The Witch

1988 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Everything seems to be fine in the life of a young woman who works as a paramedic. She has chosen a profession that requires understanding and compassion, but she herself needs help in quieting the restlessness in her soul. As a doctor, she lacks an emotional bond when interacting with her patients, she feels alienated from her surroundings and her fellow people.

Para

1988 • 49 min • Japan

Para" means "paranoia", "paradox" and "paradise". The protagonist, "I", has a tendency to take things too seriously, or perhaps he is too pure, but every day is a battle of worry and reckoning. He has an unusual knowledge of SM for a high school student and is even picked up by a beautiful boy... This is a documentary-style film essay of his youth, coloured by various ironies such as "quantity over quality" and "compromise is a virtue".