All Films

Crows

1988 • 45 min

The life of some homeless teenagers in Tel-Aviv, many of them homosexuals. Seventeen-year-old Maggie decides to leave her father and rural life behind and make her way to Tel Aviv. She ends up in a commune, living with Yuval, Ellie, and Daniel – three young queer men from the furthest fringes of Tel Aviv’s nightlife scene. The tensions between the three may be palpable but that does not stop the flatshare from being a home to all its residents – whether permanent or transient.

New York City of Cities

1988 • 49 min • United States of America

Take a tour of New York City like never before.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1988 • 26 min

Washington Irving's eerie tale of romantic rivalry along the Hudson pits the new schoolmaster Ichabod Crane against the local hero and bully, Brom Bones, for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. The drama climaxes with the appearance of one of the most legendary ghosts of all time - the Headless Horseman.

Incidence of Catastrophe

1988 • 44 min • United States of America

In the video, Thomas the protagonist is played by Hill which confounds the self-reflexive nature of the book’s relationships all the more, making the video something of a “transcreation.” The “reader” begins in the liquidity of the text almost as if he were waking from drowning. Images of the sea ravishing the shore – small cliffs of sand eroding and collapsing – are inter-cut with extreme close-ups of text and the texture of the page and book itself being flooded with ocean waves. In scene after scene the reader attempts to re-enter the book only to find himself a part of intense dreams and hallucinations.

Tatak Avellana

1988 • 48 min • Philippines

The musings and works of artist Lamberto V. Avellana.

Bremen Lagerhaus

1988 • 2 min • Germany

A found footage experiment made using old horror footage. There are lovely transitions between colours and textures.

The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out

1988 • 58 min

The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out is a 1988 documentary film directed by Robert Bilheimer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Flores Amargas

1988 • 60 min • Portugal

A festive day in the Timorense community stranded in the Jamor Valley. A partisan who came from Timor and his story. A look at an abandoned people.

Transsex

1988 • 33 min • Poland

The director takes a look at the situation of transgender people in Poland in the late 1980s. He interviews trans people themselves and polls passers-by on the street about the topic they’ve given very little thought to. Among expressions of disgust and condemnation, there is only one completely different voice.

Good Morning, Alice Cuckoo

1988 • 7 min • Sweden

Gerda Gök has breakfast in her kitchen. She's madly hungry!

Art in the Public Eye: The Making of Dark Star Park

1988 • 33 min

This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows the visitor to reconsider the experience of space, earth and sky within an urban context. It also serves as a kind of contemporary Stonehenge: once a year, on August 1 at 9:30 am, the shadows of the objects exactly align with outlines on the ground. Interviews with the artist, the architects, engineers, contractors, and the public, among others, reveal Dark Star Park as both a public sculpture and a functioning park that reclaims a blighted urban environment.

The Look of Love

1988 • 4 min

THE LOOK OF LOVE is about a serial killer…who finds his next victim and turns into a shark rolling his eyes into his head…

From The Life Of Pencils

1988 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Two stories about how pencils colored and decorated the world.

Kolobok, Kolobok!..

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The parable of a wasted life is a new interpretation of an old fairy tale.

Andante Ma Non Troppo

1988 • 11 min

After eight years of feminist activism, ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO was Meters’ first step back towards experimental film. The camera observes a street corner from a window in Meters’ house. Turkish women meet on the sidewalk outside. Children play, dogs walk by. The shots repeat, just as the actions recorded reoccur every day.

Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe!

1988 • 43 min • United Kingdom

Explores the subject of gender identity and the issues that rage around transsexuality. Problems do not go away once the operation has been performed: non-recognition of their new role, and and fear of exposure, especially in the popular press, continues to affect the lives of transsexuals.

Fortitude

1988 • 3 min • Soviet Union

A three-minute long insight into the life of completely unusual people – a group of pacifists forced into hiding in the cellar of a ruinous house to escape a war tribunal. The difficulties of war are manly endured by the film’s characters. This film, like most of Yufit’s works, shows his love of 1920’s avant garde cinema, which was considered the highest pinnacle in cinematography. The director believes the art of moving pictures was more heartfelt before sound and colour. “The development of technologies is not a particularly positive thing for human existence,” says Yufit. —Arsenals Film Festival

Intifada: Road to Freedom

1988 • 21 min • Palestinian Territory

The film explores the first Palestinian Intifada against the Israeli Occupation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It shows moving images of resistance against the Israeli occupation, while exploring the steadfast determination of the Palestinian People, confronting a modern army with stones. The film highlights the active and important role of women in the intifada.

Growth Vitamin

1988 • 6 min • Soviet Union

The teacher at school made a scientific experiment - he put two rats in different cages. One of the rats was given carrots containing vitamin of growth, and the other did not feed. Time passed, and the rat, to whom nothing was given, became thicker than the rat that was fed. It turned out that one student from pity fed another rat.

One Candle, One Projection

1988 • 10 min

One Candle, One Projection

Jour de fête: In Search of the Lost Color

1988 • 30 min

Episode of the French television series "Cinéma Cinémas" which documents the discovery of the negatives that led to the completion of the color version of Jacques Tati’s 1949 film "Jour de fête".

My African Farm

1988 • 40 min • United Kingdom

An old white woman colonial settler staying on in up-country Kenya.

I Focus on That Which Interests Me

1988 • 5 min

1988 short film

Sweet Miss: The Disco Years

1988 • 4 min • United States of America

When the Glitter Punks move-in, only one thing will make them jive their way out of the house