All Films

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

1988 • 59 min • United States of America

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Scattered Remains

1988 • 14 min • United States of America

Broughton reads his poetry over various images.

History of the World According to a Lesbian

1988 • 22 min • United States of America

From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary times with the sarcastic sound of the ’50s lesbian quartet from Seattle, the Sluts from Hell.

Koman i lé la sours

1988 • 26 min

In Réunion, a young woman from La Source, a suburb of Saint-Denis, walks around and goes from house to house to visit. Mother to one and navigating a frustrated love story with a plumber, the home she nurtures is a popular place for gathering the community.

Hack Your Own Leg

1988 • 12 min • Soviet Union, Sweden

An unusually artistic experimental film from Latvia that moves in the sphere of the creation and the world of ballet. Narrated, interpreted and acted by Juris Strenga. - And God said, Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.

Guilt

1988 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Objects in the world given luminousness, light, are here less apprehensible to knowledge than that which has less light.

Fingers on the Belly

1988 • 12 min • France

A young woman wanders through Paris spending most of her time eating all the junk she can: in a fast-food, out of a tin can and so on. She steals some more food in a supermarket, meets a friend who gently carresses her belly in the street, then goes back home where she makes herself vomit in the toilets. She is then ready for the family dinner.

Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No to Cosmo

1988 • 23 min • United States of America

Outraged by the controversial January, 1988 article in Cosmopolitan magazine, the women in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, (Act Up, New York), organized the first AIDS demonstration focused on women. Doctors, Liars and Women:AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo not only documents the efforts of the Women's Committee to organize this protest, it also serves as a how-to-guide for direct action.

Channel 99

1988 • 23 min

Executive returns to her hometown to try to revive the local TV station which is struggling in the ratings.

Oil Gobblers

1988 • 20 min • Czechoslovakia

A zoologist and a biochemist go out into an oilfield with a cameraman and filmmaker to observe and study the elusive oil gobblers.

A Gullible Dragon

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love...

1988 • 51 min • Soviet Union

About the work of Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov — People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, and chief director of the Maxim Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater.

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman

1988 • 24 min • Germany

King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and someone in a cartoon has stolen the Eiffel Tower, which now stands over an abyss in the American West.

Möbius Strip

1988 • 13 min • Poland

Student film of director Łukasz Karwowski, which received a nomination for a Student Academy Award.

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

1988 • 59 min • United States of America

Superhero creator and Marvel Comics legend, Stan Lee, together with Marvel's top artist, John Buscema, demonstrate the skills needed to create compelling characters and scenes for drawing and writing comic books. Based on the book of the same name, the video became an educational classic for aspiring cartoonists and is also available on DVD. Stan Lee's flair for humor and close friendship with Buscema adds to this good-natured instructional video a sense of drama, action and fun. Stan Lee's inimitable talent for creating superheroes (Spider Man, The Incredible Hulk, etc.) and Buscema's own creations (Conan the Barbarian, Silver Surfer, etc.) meshes well in the conversation and makes this a special treat for comic book fans as well as cartoonists on all levels

Silent Hunter

1988 • 52 min • South Africa

Cameraman John Varty spent five years making this documentary about Africa's elusive, silent hunter, the leopard. Included is footage of leopards mating at night, raising a litter of cubs, interacting with hyenas and going for the kill.

Legends of Doo-Wop

1988 • 6 min • United States of America

Presents a hilarious, imaginative mock-documentary about Wayne and Rich, who are two aging background vocalists who claim to have been behind some of the biggest rock-and-roll songs recorded in the 1950s and 60s. We see 'film clips' of them in youthful action and also 'stills of the era'. The flashback performances are all in perfect synchronisation and it is extremely inventive - and it's fun!

Clay Farmers

1988 • 60 min

Mike, a young hired hand in California is working a small farm with a close friend, Dan. Mike is content on the farm and obviously attracted to the handsome Dan. Dan seems to be attracted to Mike as well but is a drifter and not happy as a farmer. He longs to finish out the contract and move on to a big city, perhaps with Mike. Gary, a boy from the next farm over, befriends them during their daily chores. When an innocent session of skinny-dipping is misconstrued, the young hired hands soon find themselves unjustly suspected of wrongdoing in a suddenly hostile small town.

Windham Hill: Tibet

1988 • 54 min • United States of America

Tibet – Mere mention of the word Tibet evokes images of a rich and magical country, its culture shrouded by a remote and inaccessible location. The music on this recording was composed and arranged by Mark Isham for the Windham Hill video, Tibet. It provides a look at the place called the “Roof of the World,” where the heavens and the earth meet, and where centuries old rhythms continue. It is a brief glimpse of vast stretches of empty, high plains and snowcapped peaks. The monasteries and the monks who live there are the last of an ever diminishing religious culture which has no parallel in the West.

Waardenberg & de Jong: de Gekkengalerij

1988 • 45 min

In their second show, Waardenberg & de Jong attack each other with yoghurt, paint, water and wood glue. They end as sea lions, diving in a pool from a water slide.

Wolves

1988 • 49 min • Soviet Union

Rustam is a young guy who lives alone with his mother without a father. He did not enter the road institute, and although his mother every time persuades him to find at least some work, he came up with an original way of earning. He buys a vodka set during the day and hides it in an automatic storage room, and in the evening, when alcohol is almost impossible to buy, he finds customers and resells vodka to them. With the money he earns, he spends time with his girlfriend. But one day, looking for a free compartment in the storage room, he finds bags of white powder in one of them.

Dragonfly

1988 • 7 min • Japan

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

Oh, Where Are You Going?

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on a humorous folk song about a peasant who goes to the market to sell pears and about a girl he met on the way.

For Girls Only

1988 • 58 min

Every teenage girl will want to know all the fashion and beauty tips that are packed into this fast-paced videocassette. Hosted by Miss Teenage America, Lisa Morgan. This video magazine is a step-by-step guide to the latest in teenage makeup, fashion, and personal grooming. Famous Hollywood makeup artist, Mike Michaels, demonstrates how to get the look that's in, and the style everyone will remember.