All Films

The Conductor

1988 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A wordless parable about how a living bird turned into a wooden one and began to sing in a wooden choir.

Trees

1988 • 29 min

The film, made in various regions of the country, documents the role of the tree in rituals, certain forms of worship and in the consciousness of rural people. Trees such as oak, willow, linden, birch appear here as carriers of certain archetypal cultural content and their constant presence in culture is a testimony to the “Memory of Generations”.

My Bloody Valentine: Interview Before Concert

1988 • 17 min

Rare pro-shot video of an interview and performance by the group

A Family Gathering

1988 • 30 min • United States of America

Silence - the stuff of assumptions and confusion - is a legacy inherited by many grandchildren of Japanese Americans interned during WWII. Shortly after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Masuo Yasui, a respected figure of Hood River Valley, Oregon was arrested by the FBI as a "potentially dangerous enemy alien." In A FAMILY GATHERING, Lise Yasui, a granddaughter that Masuo never knew, shows that courageous journeys into the past can bring greater understanding of family and personal history to the present.

Louise

1988 • 23 min • Soviet Union

About a person's desire for love, empathy and mutual understanding. A prostitute, having met an honest and kind man, suddenly realized that she was capable of falling in love.

I'm Working Through Everything... Word of Honor!

1988 • 21 min • Germany

Short film made by a group of young directors in Berlin.

Die Mulattin Else oder Eine deutsche Art zu lieben

1988 • 60 min • Germany

Else, a half-breed child from the secretive harem of the German colonial elite, is the daughter of the governor's deputy Jesko von Puttkammer, who disappeared to faraway Germany. Else became an old woman who had suffered all her life from remaining fatherless. The film finally confronts Else's only half-sister from German nobility with the mulatto sister-in-law from Africa.

Stories of the Sylvanian Families

1988 • 40 min

Short stories based on the popular Sylvanian Families toys

Printemps à Beijing

1988 • 31 min • France

"One year before the massacre of Tian An Men [...] a few hundred meters from this immense square, where the tanks were going to crush the resistance, under the debonair gaze of Mao [...] I was loaned a tiny, autofocus camera, allowing me to shoot without framing, the lens wedged on my right hip. Everything is captured in clusters of images, edited directly into the camera. The diary of a stroller who travels through Beijing on foot and by bicycle - a cyclist among the cyclists who circulate in slow and tight flows." - Sudre

Vaquero: The Forgotten Cowboy

1988 • 29 min • United States of America

The unsung hero of the American West is the Mexican American "Vaquero," literally translated as "cowboy" in the Spanish language. Today, there are only a handful of these descendants of America's first cowboys since a rapidly changing industry has quickly made this lifestyle obsolete. Shot on location in South Texas, this moving documentary pays homage to a breed of men that history has overlooked as they continue a trade from an era gone by.

Cowboy Poets

1988 • 53 min • United States of America

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history. Cowboy Poets travels to the big sky country of Nevada, Montana, and Arizona to explore the tradition and to introduce three working cowboys, and the poetry they write about the lifestyle and land they love: Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite, and Wally McRae.

Karlsruhe Forum

1988 • 3 min • Germany

14.05.1988

Working Week

1988 • 34 min

A short film set in the suburb of Broadmeadows, in Melbourne.

Johnny Gopher

1988 • 3 min • Hungary

The poem by Sándor Petőfi emerges from a beautiful 19th century volume with mirrored cover. The folk art illustrations of the poem are shaped into the figures of the cartoon with narration by Edit Domján. The creators dedicated the film to her memory as well as that of Petőfi.

Godot in San Quentin

1988 • 58 min • United States of America

A documentary made at the set up of a theater production, of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", directed by Jan Jönson, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in California.The play is about two men who meet on a lonely country road, waiting for someone called Godot to confirm their lives and make life easier for them to live. Towards the end Godot announces that he will not come tonight, but maybe tomorrow. Producer and director John Reilly and a crew spent four weeks at the maximum-security facility; rehearsal and performance sequences are inter-cut with footage of daily prison life and discussions with the principal characters.

Millennium

1988 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A church events dedicated to the date of the millennium of the Baptism of Russia.

A Bit Of The Other

1988 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Including: Truck Train Tractor, Comin' Through & Automatically Yours.

Kolka

1988 • 28 min • Soviet Union

Life Kolka and his parents were not sweet. Personal happiness was not. They lived in poverty and constant quarrels. Kolka, not to see the parents scandals all the time spent on the street.

Aulas Muito Particulares

1988 • 10 min • Brazil

An 18-year-old boy is forced to attend a course to receive his father's inheritance. In the first lesson, a kiss. In the second, a woman's body. In the third, the primer on the sexual act. Other lessons will come, and the boy will still have to face the final exam.

The Road to God Knows Where

1988 • 52 min • Ireland, United Kingdom

Irish emigrants in London and New York are contrasted with life in Ireland where unemployment and deprivation are said to be endemic. The experience, effects and meaning of emigration in 1980s Irish is examined using a combination of interviews with emigrants, commentators and politicians. The film also features inserts of a stand-up comic performing in various locations, adding a surreal element to the programme.

Trousers

1988 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A clever and cunning tailor deftly deceived his client. He praised the ugly tailored trousers so eloquently that his customer simply couldn't refuse the purchase.

Undercover Me!

1988 • 2 min

A movie trailer for a non-existent Bond-style spy thriller "coming soon to a mini-mall cineplex near you!" Featuring John Sex, Hapi Phace, Laura Levine, Dany Johnson and The French Twist.

Chopper Wars

1988 • 57 min

Fly low, blasting everything in front of you to pieces was one version. The other was send light helos, like the Loach, teamed up with two gunships. Together known as "Pink Teams" they would fly low trying to draw enemy fire. When the V.C. opened up, the gunships would strike quickly with rockets and machine guns. The tactic known as Recon by Fire is just one of the operations you will experience firsthand in "CHOPPER WARS." It is a story about one of the most devastating weapons used in the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong's worst nightmare--the helicopter. "To the grunts, they were a godsend--to the enemy they were beasts from Hell--the "CHOPPERS!" -insane copy from the back of the VHS box.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 14

1988 • 56 min

SWEATER GIRLS With 9 majestic Titbits including VIRGINIA BELL and PAULA PAGE. Other featured pointy pair players are SHERRIE KNIGHT, LEE GERMAINE, ALLISON SANBORN and BUSTY BROWN.