All Films

T.V. Tart

1988 • 9 min • United States of America

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

The Thing What Lurked in the Tub

1988 • 3 min • United States of America

After a night of debauchery, our hero Lugmeyer becomes the only piece of meat standing between us and the wrath of an abused sewer system.

Wind

1988 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Anti-nuclear cartoon about a soldier at a nuclear test site. Among other things, the mutating effect of radiation is shown in a bizarre form.

Michael Jackson: Another Part of Me

1988 • 25 min • United States of America

1988 MTV special following Michael Jackson on the Bad tour

Crystal☆Rehearsal

1988 • 10 min • Japan

Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).

The World Is Watching

1988 • 58 min

The World is Watching is a political film about the moral issues surrounding news gathering and newsmaking in the electronic age. Who decides what constitutes the news? How do they decide? And what about the men and women who report from the field. Are foreign correspondents allowed to tell all that they see? The film examines these complex issues by focusing on several international journalists in Nicaragua as they cover the negotiations surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. With unprecedented access to the inner workings of ABC News, what follows is a unique portrait of a news crew in the field, as it interacts with the editorial process in the newsroom in New York City.

Trouble in the Forest

1988 • 47 min • Canada

In this compelling film, David Suzuki investigates the frightening phenomenon of forest dieback caused by acid rain and proposes some solutions.

An Audience with Peter Ustinov

1988 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A classic live performance of Peter Ustinov, actor and raconteur, in which he shares his comical stories with a celebrity audience.

Wesley Willis: Artist of the Streets

1988 • 10 min

A short documentary for Chicago public-access television focusing on Wesley's art.

It's Richard I Love

1988 • 9 min

A neurotic love story about a woman obsessed with a man who doesn’t love her.

Pretty Body: Frankenstein's Love

1988 • 54 min • Japan

Izumi has moved to an apartment near the shore. Dr. Takasaki's and his assistant Kyouko also lives near by. They became friends to each others. One day, Izumi enters Takasaki's laboratory during his absence, and she meets a monster, then, falls in love with him. (jhmd.jp)

Rock Paulista

1988 • 12 min • Brazil

A brief overview about the rock movement from São Paulo bands such as Titãs, Ira!, RPM and Mercenárias, presenting their performances from the festival Hollywood Rock in 1988. The documentary also presents interviews with some rock n'roll fans.

Virile Games

1988 • 17 min • Czechoslovakia

A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways. The players then leave the football pitch and invade the spectator's flat.

The Mon, The Al & The O

1988 • 59 min

A slightly goofy look at the three rivers that help define Pittsburgh

The Fourth Dimension

1988 • 27 min • France, Italy, United States of America

Shows a couple (Adam and Eve) and various objects, simultaneously, in time, space and movement.

Don Gay's Best Rides At Mesquite Rodeo 1987

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the best, toughest, most heart stopping moments of the 1987 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

Street Kids

1988 • 26 min • Brazil

Documentary about a group of children who live on the streets of São Paulo and come together to survive the harsh reality of hunger, violence and oppression.

James Bonk in Matt Blackfinger

1988 • 12 min

The parody of the famous agent thriller is a production of The Japanese American Toy Theatre of London. The cast was recruited solely from a toy depot. 0017 James Bonk, for instance, is played by a small plastic Godzilla, his colleague 0016, who is murdered by being painted black, by a wind-up eggplant.

Los oficios terrestres

1988 • 27 min • Argentina

A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief

1988 • 13 min • United States of America

Living in a fictional world all their own, the machines of Survival Research Laboratories act out scenarios of perpetual torment, exasperating consumption, and tragic recognition

No Address

1988 • 56 min • Canada

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life. Often arriving without money, friends or jobs, a number of them quickly become part of the homeless population. Both dislocated from their traditional values and alienated from the rest of the population, they are torn between staying and returning home.

Rainy Story

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A beautiful Russian animated short about a baker and her cat and some extraordinary events which take place on a rainy day, all told without words.

Sortie 234

1988 • 27 min • Canada

Sortie 234 portrays Renaud's passion for Frank. A passion that reaches its bursting point. But between these two poles of attraction, there is Lucille, Frank's love. Lucille, whom Renaud tries to approach. Lucille who becomes the link between the two men. 'Sortie 234' constitutes a trajectory, beings both similar and different will try if not to join, at least to join and understand each other. You never know what can change your life.

The Chalk Mark

1988 • 23 min • United Kingdom

In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends and the local ‘bad man’.