All Films

Australia's Twilight Of The Dreamtime

1988 • 54 min

Covers a spiritual culture based upon reverence for the land and the spiritual dimension known as the Dreamtime.

OMAN Special Program: News Ecstasy

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Kennywood Memories

1988 • 59 min • United States of America

It’s roller coasters! French fries! And lots of good times! It’s a high-flying, double dipped, screeching, squealing, scream-your-eyes-out documentary about one of America’s greatest amusement parks, Kennywood!

Mansfield K.

1988 • 17 min • France

"Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles. Dominance of whites and blues. Fragility of tapered glasses." A visual evocation of the writing of Katherine Mansfield.

Schildmeyer Darlaten

1988 • 10 min • Germany

In 1988, we watched a lot of horror movies, with curiosity. A few images of monsters were taken that were mixed with shots taken from TV, movies, and a sequence of a porn movie. Some of this material has been treated with corrosive chemicals. The monsters started a new life and it seemed that the film had been lost. But a hedgehog put an end to the nightmare and brought us back to the original fire.

Looking-Rhymes

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A surreal adventure story centered around four characters that are in a hurry for a game of Ludo and make their journey to a meeting point while fighting the colored tokens of the game that have started transforming into gangsters and attacking them.

Here Today, Here Tomorrow

1988 • 16 min • United States of America

A grandfather shares stories with his granddaughter about how wasteful previous generations used to be until they committed to recycling and cutting down on solid waste.

Mausi und Kilo lassen Drachen steigen

1988 • 8 min • East Germany, Germany

It's fall. Mausi and Kilo want to fly a kite. Kilo claims that he has the prettier one. Competitive jealousy arises until the mishap is perfect: Mausi sails away on the kite as if on a flying carpet. Kilo proves to be a resourceful rescuer.

Krepl

1988 • 8 min • Germany

With Krepl, the political dimension of Schmelzdahin's research becomes clearer. The color scales the planes of scientific or colonial documentaries, horrible rubs that require these bodies scaled with the scalpel, these giant hamsters, these natives threatened by a camera that unsuccessfully repel. The inhuman mutilation of creatures determines chromatic pathology, color must be understood, not merely as a plastic liberation, but as a political gesture: it becomes the cinematographic path that today most often follows protest. According to a completely different visual syntax, we are not very far from the concerns that animate Criminals of Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.

Sailor Suit Document: Mango's Confession

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Three school girls confess their experiences...

Weißpfennig

1988 • 6 min • Germany

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN

Chet's Romance

1988 • 10 min • France

The story of a light ray falling from a music note. It's also a tribute to a musician... It's the music of a legend, the portrait of a romance. Not long before his death, on November 25, 1987 Chet Baker plays "I'm a fool to want you" for the camera of a parisian studio.

Falkenau, the Impossible

1988 • 52 min • France

Documentary stems from 1945, when infantryman Sam Fuller, member of the U.S. Army's "Big Red One," helped liberate the Nazis' Falkenau death camp. Fuller shot footage of his commanding officer's marching Czech locals, who denied knowing of the genocide, out from town to view the horrors of the death house. 40 years later, French documentary filmmaker Emil Weiss brought Fuller, who became a famous film director after World War II, back to the death camp to tell the story of the camp's liberation. Fuller's original footage is incorporated in the film.

Changing Places

1988 • 40 min

Ten pupils from an independent public school (Rugby) and a state comprehensive school (Ruffwood) exchange places and lives.

The Milkman Cometh

1988 • 18 min

The Milkman Cometh is a bitter-sweet comedy about an office worker facinated with the simple world depicted on a can of Pacific Milk.

The Fourth Dream of Anna Andreevna

1988 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The film is about an amazing woman, rural paramedic Anna Avzayeva, who was born on the day of the formation of the USSR. She went through the front and the Stalinist camps, where she dreamed of a model of heaven on earth in the spirit of N.G. Chernyshevsky's utopias, about which she wrote to the newspaper. Like the heroine of her idol N.G. Chernyshevsky, Vera Pavlovna from the novel "What to Do?", Anna Andreevna has dreams in which she meets V.I. Lenin.

The Garden of Five Fingers

1988 • 5 min • Japan

A stop motion animation using several phenakistoscopes of a polyhedron and other materials. Five “Egg birds” appears in the artificial garden.

The Nightmare of Méliès

1988 • 4 min • France

An international homage to Méliès in 1988.

Heart to Heart

1988 • 45 min • Soviet Union

A documentary on the Festival of the USSR in India that took place in 1987-1988.

Varför är det så mycket svart

1988 • 7 min • Sweden

Stop motion music video for Andersson's band.

Köln Stadtgarten

1988 • 2 min • Germany

08.04.1988

Morning Become Electric

1988 • 6 min

A satirical look at the role of television in the middle-class family: Dad praises the “automatic homework robot,” saying, “Son, you’ve been missing too many TV shows lately. Why strive for A’s and B’s when you can have C’s instantly?”

Hamburg Störtebeker

1988 • 1 min • Germany

Found footage experiment made using footage from a disaster film. A wide array of colours and textures distort and bury the original footage.

Palestine in Flames

1988 • 30 min • Palestinian Territory

One of the many films Monica Maurer made for the PLO.