All Films

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

1988 • 48 min • Australia

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are dropping everywhere, even Elwood, Melbourne, Australia. In the ruins that follow, three survivors find a bomb shelter. Only to find that the survivors in there are having a party.

Feet of Song

1988 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Joyful, androgynous forms shimmy across the screen to the sound of world-beat music.

Kitten from Lizyukova Street

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In Voronezh in Lizyukova Street lives a kitten Vasily, who constantly has to flee from domestic dogs, and therefore he dreams of becoming such a beast that everyone would be afraid of.

Habatake Pii-tan

1988 • 16 min • Japan

A fire safety anime directed by Tsutomu Shibayama.

And at the Gates of Dawn You Shine...

1988 • 9 min • Poland

The history and present of the painting of Our Lady of the Dawn Gate. The cult of the painting was local for a long time, which changed in 1834 with the publication of "Pan Tadeusz".

Gregory Peck: His Own Man

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to become a famous leading man. Unfashionably modest, Peck describes his fascinating journey from early theater roles, through his first films, to Hollywood’s elder statesman.

Как прекрасно светит сегодня луна

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Shoppin' for Clothes

1988 • 4 min • Canada

Animated film set to the Coasters song of the same name.

Degrees of Blindness

1988 • 19 min

Inspired by a poem by William Blake: a short experimental film about the perception of vision.

Plop!

1988 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Instead of a romantic evening, a woman is greeted by a home that has to be cleaned up.

Cincinnati: Great, Near Great and Not So Great Moments in Cincinnati History

1988 • 60 min

A fascinating, fun-filled trip with segments on the 1884 courthouse riots, the 1937 Ohio River flood, Tony Trabert, Ezzard Charles, the Reds, the Bengals, the Stingers, the Royals, Coney Island's Shooting Star, and the Island Queen steamboat. Relive the Beatles' Cincinnati visits and discover the Cincinnati connection to Charles Manson, Annie Oakley, Jim Thorpe, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

The Old Believers

1988 • 56 min • Canada

This extraordinary film introduces us to the Reutov family, part of an isolated northern Alberta community called the Old Believers. Adhering to the original Orthodox Christian dogma and rituals introduced to ancient Rus (present-day Ukraine, Byelorussia and Russia) by the Greeks of Byzantium, the Old Believers see themselves as the last Christians left on the face of the Earth. Here in North America, for the first time in their history, they are threatened not by persecution, but by economic bounty and the western notion of personal freedom. Shot over the four seasons, the film is both a beautiful rendering of timeless rituals and a fascinating exploration of the Old Believers' turbulent history.

Three Little Froggies #2

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The second issue of the animated film, with the participation of characters already familiar to the children - three funny froglings, who this time go to secondary school and meet with their dried relatives, who were put in alcohol and face new adventures.

We Are Going to Search

1988 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A sad story about how a boy and his parents abandoned a kitten and a puppy at the dacha.

Cheri and the Pirates

1988 • 60 min

Suspecting that her sister has been abducted by human traffickers, Serena recruits an inexperienced but lovely operative to help her board a yacht belonging to Salazar, a reputed mobster, and rescue the innocent ingenue. This hour long bondage cheapie with barely even any nudity is saved by a hilarious performance from Michelle Bauer as Lotta, the maniacal white slaver's assistant.

Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 2: Lunna's Secret

1988 • 43 min • Japan

In Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 2: Lunna's Secret, the mantle of Earth Defense Girl is passed to a new hero after the retirement of Iko Kawai. The new Iko-chan must protect Earth from a new threat, all while navigating the chaos of battling monsters and saving the day.

Scarfe's Follies

1988 • 40 min

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

The Wild Puffalumps

1988 • 22 min

In this animated children's feature, two kids find themselves in the strange and fascinating world of the friendly animals known as the Puffalumps.

Meet ... Bradley Harrison Picklesimer

1988 • 35 min • United States of America

A portrait film about a Kentucky drag queen who ran his own club on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

Tender Infidelities

1988 • 59 min • Yugoslavia

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Dario Vince, starring Relja Bašić, Bozidar Boban and Ana Karić.

Morrissey: Wolverhampton '88

1988 • 50 min

Live at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, England on the 22nd of December, 1988. Setlist: 1) Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before [The Smiths] 2) Disappointed 3) Interesting Drug 4) Suedehead 5) The Last of the Famous International Playboys 6) Sister I'm a Poet 7) Death at One's Elbow [The Smiths] 8) Sweet and Tender Hooligan [The Smiths] *This first solo Morrissey show was unofficially meant as a farewell The Smiths concert. Admission was free to anyone wearing a The Smiths or Morrissey shirt.

My collections

1988 • 9 min • Japan

Memory and reincarnation. The catalog and the anthology is an essential aspect of the art of Ando. His memories are assembled an oblique self-portrait. Ando explores his room and admits that he loves the goods correspond to an image of himself. He suggests that the objects once owned turn. They are associated with memories, and can be juxtaposed.

Schlaf nicht Daheim

1988 • 40 min • Germany

Fred Manela, a Jew, returns to Berlin for the first time in 50 years and speaks about his experiences during the 'Kristallnacht' on 9th November, 1938.

Dogs

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

A short film about friendship, disillusionment, loathing and despair, in which the pictures of three young men talking are juxtaposed with slowmotion shots of aggressive dogs. Three young men are talking about Richie's marriage to Evelyn, which has put their friendship on the back burner. Richie explains how that could happen. "She fell for me, and they hate me for it", he says. Everyone was mad about Evelyn, but Richie makes it clear that their marriage is not exactly a bed of roses. He admits that be bluffed and lied and more or less asks his friends for forgiveness.