All Films

Above It All

1988 • 3 min • United States of America

The joy of flying.

Computer Dreams

1988 • 58 min • United States of America

A documentary about the exciting possibilities of computer animation and the shaping of never before imagined worlds.

Threshold

1988 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Andrei Buslai, a drunken, morally degraded man, accidentally ends up in the apartment of the writer Pokutovich, where he meets Alina and Dragun. Under the influence of these people with difficult fates, yet kind and honest, Andrei begins his moral awakening.

Crowded House - Live At The Sydney State Theatre

1988 • 55 min • Australia

Crowded House perform some of their classic songs from their first album along with their latest album release. Their performance of "Sister Madly" was also used as their released video clip.

Reverse Soapland Eruption!

1988 • 60 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Lamento pour un homme de lettres

1988 • 31 min • Canada

Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.

Disney's Magic in the Magic Kingdom

1988 • 45 min

Television special focused on magic acts in the Magic Kingdom

Baseball Funnies: The Unofficial Baseball Handbook

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

Baseball bloopers and amazing plays from the likes of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, George Brett, and Dave Winfield.

BBC Behind The Beat Special, Michael Jackson: The Magic Continues on Tour

1988 • 25 min

A BBC documentary capturing Michael Jackson’s Bad Tour, with rare footage of his travels across the globe. It showcases the scale of the tour, the cultural impact of his concerts, and the excitement surrounding his visits to different countries, offering a vivid snapshot of Jackson at the height of his international fame.

All That Is Solid

1988 • 54 min • Australia

Partly funded as a Bicentennial commission through the University of Queensland Art Museum and the ABC, Hughes’ speculative, essayistic documentary is an examination of the future of Australia in light of the processes of post-industrialisation, Walter Benjamin’s ruinous “angel of history” and Marx’s quixotic vision of modernity.

Hadley’s Hellhole

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

Hadley’s Hellhole finds a female reporter (Clancey McCauley) and an archeologogist (GW Lawrence) investigating the reopening of an old mine that was rumored to be haunted by the men who died in a cavein back in the 30’s. Will they find themselves confronting the ghosts of the past and will they be able to escape?

Out of Town

1988 • 11 min

A man walking on a country road gets his foot stuck in a hole. But why will nobody stop to help?

Reverse Soapland Eruption!! Maya Shiraki's Counterattack

1988 • 60 min • Japan

A woman learns the ways of the soapland.

G. Aravindan - Interview with Thomas Waugh

1988 • 47 min

Interview with Indian filmmaker G. Aravindan, conducted by Thomas Waugh, 1988.

Death on the Rock

1988 • 45 min

Documentary which examined the killing of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in Gibraltar in March 1988 by the British Special Air Service (codenamed "Operation Flavius"). "Death on the Rock" presented evidence that the IRA members were shot without warning or with their hands up. It was condemned by the British government and denounced in the press as sensationalist. After one of its witnesses retracted his statement, "Death on the Rock" became the first individual documentary to be the subject of an independent inquiry, in which it was largely vindicated.

Disney's Sing-Along Songs: You Can Fly!

1988 • 27 min

You and your family will soar to magical heights of fun with this sparkling collection of Disney hits! This volume of Disney Sing-Along Songs features music from the wondrous Peter Pan, as well as high-flying favourites like Dumbo, Mary Poppins, and others!

Radio Bikini

1988 • 56 min • United States of America

It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy Sailors who were exposed to radioactive fallout. One interviewed sailor suffered grotesquely swollen limbs and he is shown being interviewed with enormous left arm and hand.

The Sun

1988 • 16 min • France

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

Nonsense. A Story About Nothing

1988 • 27 min • Soviet Union

The absence of speech of the characters, and the only dialogue is whistled, because you can feel, but you can't talk.The background sounds like parallel, fictional worlds - worlds that exist simultaneously with ours, but independently of it, especially the sounds of radios (as the reference to the search of "another life" in the radio broadcasts).

Cycling the Frame

1988 • 27 min • Germany

In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle - starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate - accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. As Swinton travels through fields and historic neighborhoods, past lakes and massive concrete apartment buildings, the Wall is a constant presence.

Gustaf Edgren - flitig, folklig, framgångsrik filmregissör

1988 • 60 min • Sweden

Documentary about the prolific Swedish director Gustaf Edgren.

Hunting Season

1988 • 29 min

Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others.

Prisoners of Yamagiri Maru

1988 • 25 min • Soviet Union

Student biologists of the future, Alice and Paul visit the island of Yap looking for treasure in this beautiful stop-motion animated adventure.

Kenritsu Umisora Koukou Yakyuubu-in Yamashita Tarou-kun

1988 • 34 min • Japan

Based on the popular 80's baseball manga by Koseki Kouji. Tarou Yamashita loves baseball, but he was always the worst player. However, through effort and dedication he begins to shine in the Umisora High team.