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Meet the Raisins!

Meet the Raisins!

1988 • 34 min
Meet the Raisins! spoofs musical documentaries with its use of anthropomorphic food characters. Through its historical perspective, the special also provided an opportunity to elaborate on the personalities and introduce names of the simple yet popular characters. It follows the California Raisins' humble beginnings, rise to musical success, fall from stardom, and eventual comeback. This includes "home movie" clips, scenes of the group's early days as the Vine-Yls, concert footage, and interviews with the people behind the success of the California Raisins including manager Rudy Begaman. The group is also shown performing various hit songs
Balikbayan: Return to Manila

Balikbayan: Return to Manila

1988 • 20 min • Canada
Two Filipino couples in Canada as political refugees, the Ordonez and the Yuitungs, return to the Philippines of Cory Aquino.
Angola

Angola

1988 • 45 min • Brazil
Captures the tenacity and diversity of Angolan society. Beginning with a brief history of Angola's war for independence from Portugal, the documentary's up-beat pacing provides an engaging overview of Angola's social and economic landscape. City life, music, the economy, rural communities, and the effects of civil war and apartheid in neighboring South Africa are covered using scenes of every day life in Angola and commentaries from Angolans themselves.
Adolphe Appia Visionary of Invisible

Adolphe Appia Visionary of Invisible

1988 • 35 min • Switzerland
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in contemporary theatre. Through the dynamic alternation of animated drawings and choreographies specially conceived for the film, we discover the steps of his artistic evolution.
Tattle: When To Tell On A Friend

Tattle: When To Tell On A Friend

1988 • 60 min • United States of America
The tale of four friends who are members of a high school swimming team, and the threat to those bonds when two of them experiment with cocaine.
Dorf and the First Games of Mount Olympus

Dorf and the First Games of Mount Olympus

1988 • 30 min • United States of America
Avid diminutive sportsman Derk Dorf is now an Olympian who must organize the first Olympic Games. He presents various disciplines, but his fellow citizen Leonard keeps beating him which only increases Derk's frustration.
Tokyo Days

Tokyo Days

1988 • 20 min • France
Chris Marker’s Tokyo Days follows the filmmaker and actress Arielle Dombasle as they wander through Tokyo, beginning with an encounter with a live mannequin in a shop window. Mixing casual observation with playful edits, Marker captures everyday scenes—from subways to markets—in a personal video diary of the city.
Downfall of Dieties

Downfall of Dieties

1988 • 30 min • Soviet Union
While watching Dovzhenko's Earth a young man imagines himself a painter in a Ukrainian village in the 1930s. All is pastoral idyll until the authorities arrive with Soviet wrath for tradition and religion.
Show Us Your Belly

Show Us Your Belly

1988 • 10 min
A series of on the street interviews with people celebrating the Washington Redskins winning the 1988 Superbowl. The questions range from "Are you a Redskins fan?" to non-sequiturs like "What is your favorite fish?" Interviewees are repeatedly asked to show off their beer bellies.
The Cat Came Back

The Cat Came Back

1988 • 7 min • Canada
A pesky yellow cat becomes the bane of Mr. Johnson's life as it constantly outsmarts his increasingly desperate attempts to get rid of it.
Michael Jackson: The Magic Continues on Tour

Michael Jackson: The Magic Continues on Tour

1988 • 45 min
"Michael Jackson: The Magic Continues on Tour" is an 1988 documentary produced during the Bad World Tour. Mixing concert highlights, travel footage, and interview segments, it provided an in-depth look at the scale and atmosphere of Jackson’s first solo world tour. "The Magic Continues on Tour" served as the source production later re-edited into multiple specials, including "MTV Special Weekend, Michael Jackson: Bad Tour Special", "NBC Friday Night Videos Special, Michael Jackson: Around the World", and "BBC Behind the Beat, Michael Jackson: The Magic Continues on Tour".
Dissolves

Dissolves

1988 • 22 min • Israel
In December 1987, the (first) Palestinian Intifada broke out and the Occupied Territories were set alight with a mass wave of demonstrations, protesting the ongoing Israeli occupation – the largest scale, longest-running ones seen in the area since 1967. The IDF was sent in to quash the uprising and before long, TV screens across the country were inundated with footage of burning tyres, stones thrown about, and baton-wielding Israeli soldiers chasing after teens and children. In the face of this new reality that made the question of the Occupied Territories the single most pressing issue of the time, the Jerusalem Film Festival went ahead and commissioned the following project. The result is a classic, Heffner-esque film – an intelligent labyrinth containing the most fundamental of Israeli tropes: The Holocaust; Arabs; us vs. them – all of which find themselves clashing and intermingling, and ultimately rendering the viewers helpless and cringing with awkwardness.
Mysteries of the Unknown - Psychic Powers

Mysteries of the Unknown - Psychic Powers

1988 • 48 min • United States of America
This intriguing examination of the world of the psychic is based on the best selling Time-Life book of the same name.
Picking Tribes

Picking Tribes

1988 • 7 min
A girl growing up in the 1940’s makes humorous and heartfelt attempts to be “more than ordinary” as she struggles to find an identity between her Black American and Native American heritages. Semi-animated with vintage photographs it features original water color and animation cell art by Carlos Spivey.
Goodnight Mr. Vagabond

Goodnight Mr. Vagabond

1988 • 30 min • Sweden
The three children in this story are left at home alone one evening when their parents have to attend a funeral. They are warned to not let any strangers into the house but they forget to put the latch on the door and a rather scary vagabond turn up and lets himself in. There is an authentic air of menace about this tramp, which initially frightens the three children in the story and children in the audience find exciting, although in the end he turns out to be merely eccentric in a way that all children find irresistible.
I Drew Roger Rabbit

I Drew Roger Rabbit

1988 • 28 min • United Kingdom
Profile of the animator Richard Williams, creator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Lea Press on Limbs

Lea Press on Limbs

1988 • 3 min • United States of America
Yet another miracle of modern science is presented in a parody of the "Lee Press-On Nails" ads.
One Step Beyond

One Step Beyond

1988 • 23 min • Soviet Union
Short feature film, filmed in 1988. One of the first works of the film director Alexei Balabanov, at that time an assistant at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. The film is a course work, filmed while studying at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors; the materials of the film became the basis for the thesis work of the director, the film "Nastya and Egor" (1989).
Crack Dog

Crack Dog

1988 • 5 min • United States of America
A dog gets a taste of crack.
The Dingles

The Dingles

1988 • 7 min • Canada
The Dingles are Doris and her three cats. Life is idyllic, until the day a big windstorm threatens to blow the cats away.
Cat and Clown

Cat and Clown

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union
A clown adopts a talking stray cat who is also a shapeshifter. The cat assists the clown on stage, where he loves the public's ovations.
Uniform Play: Body Typhoon

Uniform Play: Body Typhoon

1988 • 60 min • Japan
Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Michael Jackson: From Motown To Your Town

Michael Jackson: From Motown To Your Town

1988 • 20 min • United States of America
This documentary follows Michael Jackson during the Bad Tour, featuring footage from his 1987 concerts in Japan and Australia, before concluding with his arrival in the United States for his first show in Kansas City. Showcasing interviews, rehearsals, and concert highlights, it captures the scale of the tour and the excitement surrounding Jackson at the height of his fame.
Bikapo

Bikapo

1988 • 25 min • Soviet Union
The first and last comedy about percussion industrial music in history. Folows the experiment in crossing a man and a monkey to create an ideal worker.