All Films

Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch

1988 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain.

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

1988 • 59 min • United States of America

A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and such songs as "Sleeping in a Jar," and "Strictly Genteel." The inside history of the first feature-length film to be shot on video in 6 days.

The Amorous Crow

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a fickle crow who changed the objects of her hobbies without thinking about their feelings.

The Woodcutter and the Poacher

1988 • 9 min • Bulgaria, Soviet Union

Embryo

1988 • 3 min • Japan

Psychedelic CG animation by Yoichiro Kawaguchi.

Nürnberg Filmvilla

1988 • 3 min • Germany

19.03.1988

Pforzheim Cinema

1988 • 2 min • Germany

26.03.1988

Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars

1988 • 24 min • United States of America

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are dueling VJs in this showcase of musical segments from classic Warner Brothers shorts.

Mirthworms on Stage

1988 • 30 min • United States of America

The Mirthworms take center stage at the Wormingham Bowl as they present "Sleeping Beauty." The wicked Wormaline Wiggler tries to wrangle the lead but Crystal Crawler wins the prize. Wormaline attempts to steal the show, but her sneaky shenanigans bring down the house instead.

Joka Sanso Cursed Slope of Horror

1988 • 25 min • Japan

A group of friends gather at a mountain loge for a few days of skiing and relaxation. However, there are rumours that the mountain lodge is haunted by evil spirits, and soon eerie things begin to happen.

No Further Cause for Concern

1988 • 60 min

Prison inmate Danny Monk does not foresee the circumstances when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with Prison Officer Green as hostage.

Mama

1988 • 12 min • Spain

There is an attack from outer space and a family descends to the basement, not without problems, and an electric saw ends up being the protagonist.

Die Lüge und der Tod

1988 • 34 min • East Germany

Together with Stephan Hermlin, H&S examine two five-minute film documents in this film, which were shot in 1941 on behalf of the Gestapo. The comparison with a written eyewitness account exposes the first film - "about the dazzling supply of food to the Jews" - as a propaganda lie, while the second - made 14 days later - conveys a complex picture of the Nazi extermination bureaucracy.

Hide and Seek

1988 • 13 min • Brazil

A couple, locked up in a secluded house on a rainy night, decide to play hide and seek. She hides. He seeks. The house becomes a huge box of surprises, and terrible sights hide behind every door..

Satanism Unmasked Part 2

1988 • 58 min

"Satanism Unmasked" investigates the supernatural influence Satanism, witchcraft, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Candyjam

1988 • 7 min • United States of America

Candyjam is a whimsical, animated collaboration by 10 animators from four countries: David Anderson (England), Karen Aqua (USA), Craig Bartlett (USA), Elizabeth Buttler (USA), Paul Driessen (Holland), Tom Gasek (USA), Joan Gratz (USA), Christine Panushka (USA), Joanna Priestley (USA) and Marv Newland (Canada).

Hockney at the Tate

1988 • 52 min

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an exclusive private view of the exhibition and they were filmed discussing pictures from all stages of Hockney's remarkable career.

The Making of Dead Ringers

1988 • 8 min

A short behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of "Dead Ringers," including interviews with writer-director David Cronenberg, star Jeremy Irons, co-producer Marc Boyman, and optical effect supervisor Lee Wilson.

The Wedding Waltz

1988 • 56 min • Finland

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.

Sss

1988 • 7 min

SSS is composed from footage of movement improvised on the streets of pre-gentrified East Village by Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye, Harry Shepperd, Lee Katz, Kumiko Kimoto, David Zambrano, Ginger Gillespie, Mark Dendy, and others, painstaking synched to music previously improvised for the project at Noise New York by Tom Cora (cello), Christian Marclay (turntables), and Zeena Parkins (harp). Beauty emerging from rubble. (Henry Hills)

Oh! The Four Seasons

1988 • 20 min

Aurand and Pfeiffer filmed each other at four famous sites in Europe: walking in a summer dress through the snow in front of the Reichstag in Berlin, spinning a young boy again and again through the air in Red Square in Moscow, climbing on a hot day into the waterfall at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, and, as two angels in London, walking through the night of the City. The film begins with a text about improvisation by Jonas Mekas read by himself.

Touch of Night

1988 • 12 min

Two boys uncover their boss's drug stash, leading to theft and sale. Their actions provoke a confrontation, resulting in a larger catastrophe that casts an irreversible shadow over their lives.

Wenn der Richtige kommt

1988 • 28 min • East Germany

This educational film is aimed at 12 to 15-year-old boys and girls and depicts the attitudes and experiences of this age group in relation to their first sexual and partner experiences.

Unusual Meetings

1988 • 36 min • Soviet Union

In the film-performance, actress Nasiba Zeynalova once again encounters the characters she has created over many years.