All Films

Spaziergänge

1987 • 19 min

Silent Super 8 film by the Swiss painter Miriam Cahn.

The Legend of the Black Wolf

1987 • 8 min • Soviet Union

According to a Kazakh folk tale.

Wheels/Trails

1987 • 10 min

Wheels/Trails draws inspirations from John Cage’s cut-and-splice sound collage, “Williams Mix,” which he composed using chance operations by throwing I-Ching sticks. Wheels/Trails juxtaposes actors speaking inane commercial dialogue that was randomly gleaned from television by means of a recorder programed by weather statistics, with film projection of native beans, feathers, and squash in slow motion, to make the point that the roads and highways of our urbanized civilization are built over ancient footpaths worn by Native peoples. Ultimately, the performance expresses the idea that we live in a mashup of cultures, where the present is a thin veneer stretched over the past. A droning electronic soundtrack by the band Short-Term Memory also suggests a missing presence. - P. V. Z.

Yellow River: Visiting Ancient Sites of Qilu

1987 • 30 min

The first film by Chinese documentarian Chen Zhen. Part of CCTV's Yellow River series.

Future Block

1987 • 10 min • Canada

An animated film about the appropriateness of new technology and its effects on people. The case in point revolves around a bank whose human tellers find themselves unemployed when they are replaced by electronic tellers. A mild-mannered client of the bank is overwhelmed and humiliated by his first encounter with the dispassionate computer.

Such a Short Summer

1987 • 22 min • Soviet Union

An ordinary love story in summer

Und sie, sie liebte Raubtiere – tritt auch in den Garten

1987 • 7 min

Short experimental film based on a quote from Mayakovsky: The crocodile lies lazily, bored in the blue-green water, ready to become a predator at any moment.

Version

1987 • 5 min • Soviet Union

The main motive is the desire of fellow punks to run, jump and pose.

Apples of Chernobyl

1987 • 12 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, shot by one liquidator right in the center of the affected area.

Recess: Incidents in the Playground

1987 • 30 min

Recorded daily at Los Angeles Open School from September 1986 to June 1987, this diary of the playground distills an architectural observation that explored patterns of ritual, improvisation, and territorial dynamics in children's games. Afterword by Alan Kay.

The Holidays That Await

1987 • 17 min • Soviet Union

A documentary film about the problems and prospects of the development of culture and sports in the Dagestan ASSR.

Fazu Aliyeva

1987 • 21 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about Fazu Gamzatovna Aliyeva, the people's poet of Dagestan, writer and publicist.

Fan

1987 • 30 min

A profile of Wiesław Ciasnowski, a tutor of one of the Polish Socialist Youth Union clubs, awarded the prize for the best tutor. He created a fan club "Kora" a few years ago. The fans of the lead singer of the band "Maanam" who are associated in it attend concerts, analyze her work, study her biography.

Presa alla gola. Amor Fati

1987 • 38 min

A writer lives alone in a large, isolated house in the countryside. she is writing a noir book about a murderer, and while typing or doing other things she builds the characters and situations of her story, talking to herself out loud.

Brockside

1987 • 30 min

A look at the tenuous life of the urban Badger, living off its human neighbours as urban devlopment enchroaches on the lands they have traditionally occupied.

Contemplating Icons

1987 • 47 min

An Introduction to Icons and Prayer

Next

1987 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Experimental film with animation elements. Play with editing phases and rhythm.

5 000 000 001.

1987 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Allegory of the birth of five billion people on the globe in 1987 and the threat of overcrowding on the planet.

Mex-Metr

1987 • 10 min

Unusual and suggestive journey through Mexico City and the Metro. In this work the most used public transport system in Mexico City, the Metro, is taken or transformed into a scenic space for a filmic choreography performed by the Ballet Teatro del Cuerpo where the tension between the intimate, the public and the private becomes evident. Music by Vicente Rojo Cama.

Washer

1987 • 10 min

Water spinning in a washing machine is transformed into a swirl of images by optical composition. The deafening concrete music and rotating images give the work a spellbinding rhythm.

Capricious Murad

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A story about a boy named Murad, who is always capricious and doesn't listen to what he is told. However, a magical adventure leads him to understand the importance of kindness, patience, and mutual help.

Naughty Dreams of Miss Owen

1987 • 51 min • United States of America

Stacy Owens spends a nice weekend alone but soon she gets the strange feeling that she isn’t alone.

Shishōsetsu 1

1987 • 8 min • Japan

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

Jessica Mitford: Portrait of a Muckraker

1987 • 57 min

The story of Mitford's life is interwoven with the issues of post war America-- civil rights, communism and the anti-war movement. Personal recollection, archival footage and accounts by family and friends round out this portrait of a woman whose dedication to causes has led to significant social change.