All Films

Hannover Kommunales Kino

1988 • 1 min • Germany

Another film made using roughly the same footage as Bremen Lagerhaus, this really showcases the uncontrollable and chaotic nature of the Schmelzdahin process.

Conversation Act

1988 • 1 min • Soviet Union

Experimental short.

Wessen Straße ist die Straße

1988 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

Documentary short about Husemannstraße in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg.

Super Lewd Match: Aoi Sakita vs Rei Kazama

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The Best of Ernie and Bert

1988 • 27 min • United States of America

Big Bird and Gina are entertaining Ernie’s baby niece, Ernestine, by showing her Uncle Ernie’s scrapbook. When Big Bird turns the pages of the book, each picture comes to life and everyone gets to relive the hilarious adventures of Ernie and Bert.

The Secret Garden

1988 • 18 min • United States of America

"No filmmaker of the 1980s knew as much as Phil Solomon of affirming the importance of multiple layers in the visual production of images. Solomon perpetuates the Brakhagian tradition of creating a succession of images whose logic comes from a large number of rhythmic sources, formal, associative, and whose coherence passes from one source to another. Here, as with Brakhage, one must be spoiled in the trance offered by Solomon, and be sufficiently assured to follow a structure that is based as well on the melody, the harmonics and the flashes of metaphors as on a narrative plot. The Secret Garden is one of Solomon's best films. Like Thornton and Klahr, there is the shadow of a story here, which has to do with the passage from innocence and experience to terror and ecstasy." – T. Gunning.

Coffee Coloured Children

1988 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Coffee-Colored Children is an autobiographical portrayal of Ngozi's, and her brother's, sad welcome to the world where the color of your skin dictates the amount of respect & love you receive.

Swayze Dancing

1988 • 57 min

Patrick Swayze and his dance teacher mother, Patsy, take four dancing partnerships through their paces from beginners to championship level accompanying some of the best chart hits and more of the seductive dancing technique which brought Swayze such success in 'Dirty Dancing'.

Olssons pastejer

1988 • 13 min • Sweden

Olsson has baked his famous pasty for 30 years. But one morning when he comes to the factory, he notices that everything isn't right.

Ulm Kinole

1988 • 3 min • Germany

30.03.1988

Amada

1988 • 2 min • Mexico

An old lady reminisces about her married life.

Warm Broth

1988 • 35 min

Everything will be ok, just close your eyes little thing go to sleep little fuck feel my hand on your warm forehead It's cold isn't it? Ice cold. Dream of something real sweet for mommy Mommy likes sweet things Dream of a merry-go-round and cotton candy Mommy's hand got all warm resting on your tiny head See, look at mommy's hand It got all warm now You're running a slight fever Mommy will get you some water And you're running a slight fever Little fuck don't have to go to school tomorrow but no playing in the yard Someone could see you And I'll be an unfit mommy You'll have to stay in all day but now, dream of the prettiest flower for mommy I'll make you oatmeal first thing And you could tell me the color of the - prettiest flower.

Corvus Cornix - From Latin as Raven

1988 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The time of action is the beginning of perestroika. A young girl, an employee of the LOMO association, an incorrigible idealist, endures a serious unequal struggle with the plant management for the ideals in which she recklessly believes. She is sent to a psychiatric hospital, they say that her “straightforward character” is a disease, that she has “truth-seeking syndrome.”

My Brother's 24th Birthday

1988 • 4 min

A short film created by Gondry on the 24th birthday of his brother Oliver ‘Twist’ Gondry

Clip Clap Jazz

1988 • 2 min

Experimental short by Teo Hernández.

Ulvens läge fastställt

1988 • 60 min • Sweden

Documentary about the Swedish submarine Ulven which was sunk by a mine in Swedish waters in 1943 killing all 33 crew members.

Unknown Title

1988 • 1 min

A short film by Andrei Ventslova

Lies & Humiliations

1988 • 4 min

Lies & Humiliations is a haunting and lyrical work that merges poetic language and Super-8 images to invoke memory and its ghosts. Infused with an almost ethereal light, images of a house evoke its past — an old-fashioned kitchen and dining room, an ancient roof. Visions that recall childhood memories are superimposed like apparitions onto images of the present. Spoken in voiceover, a Carlos Drumond de Andrade poem, LIQUIDACAO/Special Sale, becomes a denunciatory litany that emphasizes the past's inability to cope with the future: "The house was sold, with/All its remembrances/All its furniture/All its nightmares/All its committed sins/Or those about to be..."

Frogs and How They Live

1988 • 15 min

We've all read funny stories about frogs, why there's Mark Twains Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and The Frog Prince, and who could forget Kermit the Frog! But what about the real thing?

Mistertao

1988 • 3 min • Italy

The mountaintop is usually the object and purpose of the trip. But for the small and serene Mr. Tao is a step on his continuing quest, that perhaps will never end.

Dumbass From Dundas

1988 • 7 min • United States of America

Two lunkheads get dumped by their friends in the desert.

Boys Night Out

1988 • 58 min • United States of America

A few boys have a wild evening as they engage in sexual adventures.

Belly and Soul

1988 • 4 min • East Germany

An elegant crowd attends a meeting but, while they listen to the speech, all they really care about is the buffet.

Raigyo: Swan

1988 • 31 min • Japan