All Films

The Death of a Government Clerk

1988 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. A government clerk sneezes on a department general. Although the department general immediately dismisses the incident, the clerk cannot let it go.

Promises to Keep

1988 • 58 min

Promises to Keep follows agitator Snyder and the Community for Creative Non-Violence by showing film-fragments, news-bulletin images from records, and newspaper headlines about the fight to force the government to live up to their promise to provide the homeless of Washington D.C. with proper shelter.

Martín

1988 • 30 min • Spain

The young Martín reluctantly spends the hot summer in Madrid with his parents, porters for a farm in the center of the city where they live. One day Julia arrives, an actress who comes to spend a few days in the vacated apartment of a friend

Chainsaw Scumfuck

1988 • 7 min • United Kingdom

A couple of slackers' apartment is invaded by a garden shear-wielding maniac (think The Burning) bent on brutally murdering everyone in his path.

Mystery Magical Special

1988 • 30 min

Mystery Magical Special is an American television special aired on Nickelodeon. Advertised as a Halloween-themed program, the special was originally produced in 1986, but continued air, often multiple times, every October for several years afterward. Primarily, the special was designed to show off the talents of stage magicians Lance Burton and Tina Lenert, as well as capitalise on Marc Summers' then-newfound fame as the host of the game show Double Dare. Shiri Appleby and Jonathan Brandis and Trenton Teigen also appear, and John Astin makes a cameo appearance.

Two Bad Daughters

1988 • 13 min

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

Caterpillar

1988 • 33 min • Japan

A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.

World Wet T-Shirt Finals

1988 • 58 min • United States of America

Twenty girls compete in this world championship event. Each contestant draws from a hat to see how she'll be getting soaked in this wild contest. Her choices are the "Fire Brigade" - Five guys in the audience with seltzer bottles and a good aim to boot! "The Beer Bust" - Six guys with 36 ounce glasses of beer to pour on her shapely T-Shirt and finally the "Champagne Bubble Bath" - Yes, we'll dump $50 bottles of Champagne on our lovely ladies to make sure she's wet and full of bubbly excitement from her top to her bottom. Topless. Fourteen beautiful dancers cavort and gyrate their dripping bodies to compete in the World Wet T-Shirt Finals, climaxing in a steamy strip to reveal their golden assets.

Boczny tor

1988 • 55 min • Poland

Old couple dreams about a cruise.

The Odyssey Tapes

1988 • 30 min

A study of concert-artist Richard Dyer-Bennet at work on Homer's Odyssey - that is, developing a strategy for performing, in English, and in 1978, with harp in hand, this monumental 24 hour poem, which, in Homer's time and Homer's life, only existed in oral form - a long song, performed in public as entertainment and as tribal history.

Crimes of Passion

1988 • 50 min

Lives are changed forever by obsession and violence in this Emmy-nominated program that examines the dark and tragic side of love.

The Evolution Conspiracy

1988 • 56 min • United States of America

Unmasks fraudulent cover-ups, wild speculations, and deceitful myths that have been presented as the absolute "facts" of evolution. Should evolutionism, the foundational faith of eastern mystical thought, be taught in schools as science, when Creationism, the foundational belief of Judeo-Christianity, has been expelled?

The Crown Prince

1988 • 38 min • Canada

Frank Robinson abuses his wife verbally and batters her physically, with frightening consequences not only for her, but also for their sons, Billy and Freddy. This thought-provoking drama delves into the complexities teenagers encounter when faced with such issues, highlighting the beginning of a healing journey for this family.

Jake's Journey

1988 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.

Devil's Circuit

1988 • 8 min • Japan

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its 400 or 500 meter radius on the skyscraper and divided it into 48 sections, then took photographs from those spots and shot the photographs frame by frame.

Dog Story

1988 • 30 min

A mother and daughter disagree about whether to put their dying dog to sleep.

Baquet's Comeback

1988 • 24 min • France

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the mountaineer Gaston Rebuffat is waiting for him. A few days later, the two men achieved a historic first, that of the south face of the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m), a magnificent wall rising like a rampart above the Vallée Blanche. July 1988: to pay tribute to the memory of his friend Gaston, now deceased, Maurice Baquet once again climbed this wall suspended between heaven and earth with the man who, 50 years his junior, is considered one of his best contemporary mountaineers: Christophe Profit.

Cynical Hysterie Hour

1988 • 28 min

Four short films directed by Kubo Kiriko.

MTV Special Weekend, Michael Jackson: Bad Tour Special

1988 • 58 min

This 58-minute documentary presented on MTV as part of a Special Weekend, follows Michael Jackson on the Bad Tour (1987–1988) across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US. Featuring concert highlights, backstage views, and interviews, it offers a raw, unembellished perspective on Jackson’s first solo world tour. The NBC version (Friday Night Videos) that followed added hosts and commentary.

Deep Red Instant Love

1988 • 12 min

Budding romance and political subversion create a headache for the manager of Superstore in Rik Lander’s colourful satire on capitalism.

Prelude

1988 • 13 min • Japan

First part of Tezuka's Elements films series representing "fire".

Exiles: Edward Said

1988 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Edward Said, critic, tells his story and the story of Palestine.

God, the Universe and Everything Else

1988 • 51 min • United Kingdom

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'

1988 • 57 min • United Kingdom

BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990. This documentary is one of the ten films of “The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)”.