All Films

Art With a Message: Protest, Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment

1988 • 35 min • United States of America

This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.

Tenderfoot

1988 • 14 min • Canada

A young window cleaner forgets his work and becomes fascinated by the choreographies perormed by the students of a dance school. He imagines himself dancing with them and dreams of being the star of ridiculous dance numbers. But during this time, someone is stealing his bucket. To get it back, he has to enter a classroom and participate to a crazy dance competition.

Family

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day in the life of a little puppy.

The Urine Crazed Corpse Catchers

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The demobilized Baltic sea sailor met the injustice of the world around him and committed suicide.

Bortom hagan

1988 • 40 min • Sweden

Documentary about Lars Theodor Jonsson who was a cross country skier in the 1920s and 30s and now lives alone in the forest.

Way USA!

1988 • 33 min

Way USA, a pilot for a punk/comedy travelogue that was done for MTV in 1988 and hosted by Tesco Vee (lead singer of the band The Meatmen). Tesco wanders around Baltimore. He tours dive bars, strip clubs, bath houses and greasy spoons. It features John Waters, Jean Hill (Polyester, Desperate Living), and a host of other weirdos, deviants and losers. It was all shot on Super 8 to get that grainy 50's home move/travelogue look.

The World is Yours

1988 • 30 min

Documentary by Mario Cortesi about worldwide drug trade and drug consumption. Many scenes, interviews are re-enacted, recreated or freely invented.

O Vampiro

1988 • 41 min

The World Within Us

1988 • 16 min

Voiced by Jonathan Pryce, Terry Flaxton’s The World Within Us is a lyrical meditation set inside the mind of a dying writer. Combining original poetry with early digital imagery, the film weaves memory, art, and mortality into a haunting reflection on life’s inner landscapes.

Dismal Universal Hiss

1988 • 12 min

Originally a double screen film the titles comes from a book by W.Grey Walter: "The Living Brain", the book is mostly about flicker and stroboscopic response. In 1988 Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum listed this film as Critic's choice.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 16

1988 • 57 min

SWEATER GIRLS Plus 6 voluptuous TITBITS, with dazzling Busty Babes LAINE CARLIN on stage & in boudoir, MICHELLE ANGELO in her infamous black shell brassiere, LILLIAN PARKER really up close and personal, and LEE GERMAINE doing 10 different Tit Wiggles and Tit Jiggles, all from origiiial camera masters.

Noah’s Ark

1988 • 47 min • Soviet Union

The director Rimtautas Silinis combines together metaphorical frames and plot lines, puts Lithuania's past and present next to each other, revealing historical experiences and cultural heritage.

Les Miracles de la Cène

1988 • 3 min • France

Jesus tries to impress at the Last Supper with some miracles but his final parlor trick does not end the way he would like.

Sunday Pranks

1988 • 54 min • Poland

A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.

Sisypot

1988 • 10 min • Sweden

An animated short film about a person who's got their head stuck in a chamber pot and tries to get it off.

The Couch Potato Workout

1988 • 35 min

The wackiest workout video you'll never lose weight following!

Love, Women and Flowers

1988 • 52 min • Colombia

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.

That Rhythm, Those Blues

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

A documentary covering the R&B (rhythm and blues) field from the 1940s to the early 1950s. Included is footage of performances by major R&B singers of the time, and interviews with singers, producers and others involved in the field.

Myth Makers 14: Peter Grimwade

1988 • 57 min

Peter Grimwade started his career at the BBC as a production assistant during the early 1970s and worked on three of Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who stories. He went on to direct Doctor Who in the early 1980’s with Logopolis and Earthshock winning major fan awards. He then moved on successfully to script-writing with Mawdryn Undead and Planet of Fire which he successfully turned into novels for Virgin Publishing. Peter died in 1990, cutting short his life and a promising career. This Myth Makers release is dedicated to him.

Electric Blue: The Best of Electric Blue 12

1988 • 46 min

The best of Electric Blue, Volume 12

Winnebago Man

1988 • 7 min • United States of America

A man experiences frustration while attempting to film a commercial for Winnebago brand recreational vehicles

Tungekysset

1988 • 28 min • Norway

This is a short love story about this girl who's in love with a boy named Tom. He is one of the cool guys and this girl is not, so she watches him play with the cool girls and she dreams about him.

To Shoot Without Shooting

1988 • 25 min • Japan, China

Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance, to shoot a single leaf off a tree. Over several years, the apprentice studies with the master. Finally, after mastering the techniques, as well as his own ambition, he sets off for the mountains, home of a legendary master of archery...

Respected Leshy

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An old witch Baba Yaga tricks Leshy - a shy forest spirit - to turn into all sort of monsters in order to lure little Ivanushka into forest and frighten him. Because "fear means respect".