All Films

Dead or Alive: Rip it Up Live

1988 • 53 min • Japan, United Kingdom

The ultimate Dead or Alive concert Extravaganza. filmed before sell-out crowds in Tokyo and Osaka. Non-stop stimulation from the masters of high energy!

Beavers

1988 • 31 min

A story about several beaver families in their wild surroundings. The interesting process of building a dam can be watched as well as the dangers arising from hungry bears and other influences on the new-built home.

Feeling from Mountain and Water

1988 • 19 min • China

The story is about an impoverished elderly scholar and a young girl who cares for him briefly in return for guqin lessons.

Images Ireland

1988 • 19 min

A kaleidoscopic film depicting Ireland in the early 80s. These fragments of rural and urban life blend document with fiction showing a teenager in love, a riot outside the British Embassy, a picket at Mountjoy prison, dinnertime in Cork with Nell McCafferty on the radio. Soundtrack by Steve Nieve.

Body Politic (God Melts Bad Meat)

1988 • 38 min • United States of America

“The body, culture and nature are also at stake in Body Politic, a film that goes to a hospital operating room, research laboratories and a family picnic to outline the issues raised by genetic experimentation. With her typical serious humor, Bromberg explores both the claims of science (we can improve human life) and the claims of religion (God made perfect beings) and implicitly asks the question, “How do we know when we’ve gone too far?’…There’s no voice-over and the argument is made by an athletic juxtaposition of imagery and testimony.” – Helen Knode, L.A. Weekly

Joyride (TM)

1988 • 14 min

As guardians of the cultural torch, theme parks and museums herd millions of thrill-seekers through a mental haze towards a re-shaped history and a sketchy future. Here objects and environment become one. A souvenir is purchased and relocated in the home; it is used to unlock the crowded and carbon dioxide-filled corridor to the ‘transcendental.’

Berlin Arsenal

1988 • 3 min • Germany

13.06.1988

Electric Blue: Best of Big Boobs 1

1988 • 50 min

We have milked our collection of BOUNCING BABES to bring you the ULTIMATE in gravity defying BUXOM beauties.

Alan Ford And The TNT Group Against Superhiccup

1988 • 26 min • Italy

In the city of New York new villain attacks... Superhiccup! The one who steals from the poor and gives everything to the rich! The only people that can stop him and his alcoholic gas are secret agents of the TNT group.

Weltgenie

1988 • 6 min • Italy

Shot on a breath-taking and stunning location the camera drifts like a maelstrom through a personal interpretation of Lingotto's urban history. People appear only to disappear again at the horizon of the image and to free the setting for new sceneries. A free adaptation of the life of Nietzsche and the writings of Gottfried Benn.

Wrap around the World

1988 • 47 min

This spectacular satellite link-up, coordinated by Paik, connected the United States, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan and numerous other countries. David Bowie performs with La, La, La, Human Steps, and carries out a conversation via satellite with Japanese musician Ryuichi Sacamoto, who also performs. There are also appearances by Merce Cunningham, the Viennese Art Orchestra, a game of elephant soccer in Thailand and a car race in Ireland. The whole event is held together by Paik's video graphics, which includes one of his stacked television sculptures.

The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska

1988 • 24 min

S02E12 of “The Ray Bradbury Theater.” A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

Cockroach

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The life of a simple cockroach is not easy. Not only are people poisoning him at every turn, he still has to exist without a TV. And our hero has a dream - TV. Unrealizable, but a dream. And yet one morning he believed that dreams come true, because he found a whole penny. We see several episodes from his life in the barn, a trip to a restaurant that is located in the floor of a real restaurant for cockroaches, getting only the TV console instead of the TV itself.

Black Magic

1988 • 55 min • Australia

Although about top Aboriginal sportsmen, BLACK MAGIC is more than a film about sport. It is an account of the creative use of sport made by the Noongar people of Western Australia's south-west to advance their people's standing. Denied access to other areas of social life like most Aboriginal communities at the time, the Noongars, from as early as 1920, channelled the natural talent of their young people into the arena of competitive sport, notably running, boxing and football. Competitive sport, as filmmaker Paul Roberts notes, is 'an open gate, a universal rite of passage, an opportunity to achieve recognition and acceptance.'

Der Hahn ist tot

1988 • 12 min • Germany

An animator tries to get a fictitious audience to sing along to a simple canon.

Completely Pogued

1988 • 55 min

'What we did, right, was we broke open the pop market, right? To trad music, right? Irish trad music, yeah? Now what happened after that I don't know...' So confesses toothy, hard-drinkin' Shane McGowan, lead man with punk-folk megastars the Pogues, the band that has taken traditional Irish folk and ramshackle rock to the bright pop lights of Wembley. In this rather haphazard but proud spirit, the documentary, like the Pogues' career itself, continues: the band and the various famous rockers they've jammed with offering opinions and anecdotes in a surprisingly entertaining and often revealing manner. Even if you have absolutely no interest in the music, the vast array of pasty-faced uglies is really quite stunning.

Kele

1988 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Two young girls meet a flute-playing monster while gathering food.

The Concretization of These Things Flying Around Me

1988 • 5 min

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The Promise of the Third Line

1988 • 45 min • Japan

The struggle of two young people in rehabilitation

The Truth Close-Up

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An animated short film that deconstructs and exposes the exhausted Soviet cliches in search of truth which is traditional for glasnost and perestroika era.

Meyl

1988 • 35 min • Soviet Union

"The Crow" - During the meaningless war years, a new lifestyle emerged in Lebanon : neither capitalist nor socialist. A military lifestyle. A whole generation of Lebanese were born and raised in war climate as a result of their inclination towards death and confusion. This generation does not imagine another life. The sounds of automatic fireworks are mixed with the sounds of folk instruments at every holiday or family celebration.

Where Are You My Horse?..

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of the friendship of a boy and a horse in the bosom of amazing nature. But autumn comes and the boy returns to the big city and its entertainment, forgetting about his friend. When the boy remembered about the horse, it was too late.

Thames Wallah

1988 • 40 min

Documentary on David Triggs, who works for Thames Water, and is also a frequent visitor to India, as a consultant on the Indian Government's £200 million scheme to clean up the holy River Ganges.

La Tueuse

1988 • 12 min

Portrait of a woman, Jocelyne Khoueiry, who, in 1976 during the Lebanese civil war, was the muse of the Phalangist militia in Beirut. Fifteen years later, stricken with remorse, she became a nun and founded a religious order.