All Films

Impure Heterosexual Friendship

1988 • 41 min • Japan

Chiaki Saito + Sayoko Nakajima in Impure Heterosexual Friendship, 1988.

Snoopy: The Musical

1988 • 46 min • United States of America

The animated adaption of the second stage musical based on the "Peanuts" comics strip, focusing on Snoopy.

Taking Care of Terrific

1988 • 60 min • Canada, United States of America

14-year-old Enid Crowley hates her name and everything about her boring life. All this changes when she becomes a full-time babysitter to a sheltered boy. The two hook up for some hilarious adventures in the park with a mysterious bag lady and a street musician. With the help of Enid's boyfriend, Seth, they try to give the park dwellers a "special evening," but their good deed backfires and lands them in trouble.

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

1988 • 49 min • United States of America

Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1.5 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, enslaves Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello into making Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee's Christmas list was so big, he didn't have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?

The Freddy Krueger Special

1988 • 60 min • United States of America

MTV tie-in special for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) featuring v.j. Kevin Seal going in search of Freddy Krueger only to wind up in the maniac's clutches.

Sex of the Imperial

1988 • 60 min

Life of Eunuchs and courtesans in the royal hinterland from an expert's point of view. Analyse of the life behind the scenes of the palace and detailed explanation of the life of the Chinese court!

Dangerous Prize

1988 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Students of the 5th "B" class were awarded a movie camera for the first place in collecting waste paper. Anton Dudkin was assigned to shoot a chronicle of the life of the class. As a result of all the funny stories that happened to the guys during the filming, they decided to scrap the "dangerous prize" — the movie camera.

Seated Figures

1988 • 42 min • Canada

Although Seated Figures is characteristically confined by a specific placement of the camera — in this case, fixed to the rear of a pickup truck and aimed at the ground — the result is one of Snow's most visually compelling films. As Snow drives the truck over all kinds of terrain — he has offhandedly described the film as a "history of roads" — we see a variety of textures flowing in front of the camera as this road movie unfolds: asphalt, gravel, dirt roads, sand, grass, flowers and shallow creeks. The imagery moves between abstraction and representation as different travelling speeds affect the legibility of the visuals, and as manmade surfaces give way to the beautifully variegated patterning of nature.

Abinadi and King Noah

1988 • 30 min

Abinadi courageously stands before wicked King Noah and his evil priests, calling them to repentance and testifying of Christ. Though Abinadi is killed after fulfilling this mission, his words touch Alma’s heart. Alma, one of the priests, repents and soon brings many people to the waters of baptism as a missionary of the coming Christ. Will these true believers also escape persecution from King Noah?

A Friendly Flying

1988 • 5 min

Animated short with live-action intro.

Greasy Lake

1988 • 29 min

A short film from a collection of four Greasy Lake is a part of the Discovery Program: Four Short Stories (Ray's Male Heterosexual Dancehall/Greasy Lake/Hearts of Stone/The Open Window). "TC (Eric Stoltz) and his friends Digby (James Spader) and Jeff (Tegan West) are intelligent 19-year-olds who have, in TC's words, decided that "it's good to be bad".

Red Account 2: Dirty Play in a Closed Room (Hotel Lady Murder Case)

1988 • 60 min • Japan

A hotelier killed a customer. The play in the hotel's closed room began with sudden violence. As if to ridicule the irresistible woman, a video camera or a horrendous torture device set up by the customer was being used. And then.., When the physical humiliation tore into the woman's heart, she turned into a weapon.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988 • 43 min • United Kingdom

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

Bride of Deimos

1988 • 33 min • Japan

A brother and sister grow beautiful and rare orchids out in the middle of nowhere, however, anyone who visits their house seems to vanish suspiciously. What is the secret of this orchid house?

Matasaburo the Wind Boy

1988 • 30 min • Japan

A foreign transfer student from the city arrives one day in a Japanese country town. Enchanted by his air of mystery, his classmates nickname him "Matasaburou the Wind Imp" after a local legend. Eventually they become friends and spend many days playing in the countryside. One windy day, Matasaburou returns to the city, leaving his classmates to speculate that he really was Matasaburou the Wind Imp and that he flew away on the wind.

Pink

1988 • 15 min • United States of America

Full Tilt/Phoenix Films, 1988. Written, directed, and edited by Roz Sohnen. Starring Flynn Larsen, Renee Flemings, and Sharon Welsh.

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

1988 • 52 min • Yugoslavia

Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.

Diabeł

1988 • 28 min • Poland

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

Catch Me Miho Nakayama Live '88

1988 • 48 min • Japan

CATCH ME MIHO NAKAYAMA LIVE '88 is the third video release released by Nakayama Miho. It was released on April 5, 1988.

The Yob

1988 • 55 min

An illegal psychic teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, and pretentious promo director Patrick gets his genes mixed with those of a football hooligan. Slowly, he begins to change - taking on some undeniably yobbish tendencies.

Hunting Tigers

1988 • 30 min • Japan

October, 1987. American filmmaker Steven Okazaki is making a documentary about laureated japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, but all goes wrong when he finds out that due to "mistranslated facts" the subject of his film has only one day to spare before leaving the country. During their brief interview, Mr. Kenzaburo affirms that the new generation of japanese artists are "spoiled, un-original and too influenced by Western culture." so, having a japanese film crew rented for four more days, Steven decides to roam the streets of Tokyo filming the lives of the japanese emergent underdog artists, trying to make some sense of Mr. Oe's statement.

Self Portrait

1988 • 1 min • Japan

Kawamoto's animated self-portrait.

Antique Heart

1988 • 29 min • Japan

There's an old decrepit building at the edge of the school grounds that hasn't been used for years, and it falls apart a little bit more each day. But the little house holds a secret, as Takahiro and his friends are soon to find out...they wind up making contact with a mysterious entity known as Saki. Can Takahiro save Saki's world from destruction.

Big Bird in Japan

1988 • 58 min • Japan, United States of America

While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.