All Films

Carefully! Crucian Carp!

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The land reclamation specialist did not dare to remake the beautiful corner of nature.

About the Little Camel

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Once at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a rocket launch was stopped in order to save a baby camel that found itself in a danger zone. Based on real events.

Old Cobbler

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A story about a good boy and a shoemaker who wants to do his job, but faces many challenges because of his advanced age. This thoughtful old man takes care of birds, and his good deeds come back to him in caring neighborhood kids who are trying to help the man, making new orders. But will they perform a cobbler’s work well?

Der General

1987 • 12 min • Germany

Der General defies narrative conventions. As a visual experience and thanks to the manipulations of color and the processing of images, Der General deploys its own logic and becomes a consistent whole in its visual expression. Plunged into a world of abstract fairy tale, traces of dreams, the nature and history of Germany converge and shape a timeless and limitless kingdom.

AIDS: A Priest's Testament

1987 • 52 min • Ireland

Shot in the US for Irish television, AIDS: A Priest's Testament is the story of Father Bernard Lynch, an Irish-borh priest and psychotherapist who set up an AIDS ministry in New York. Father Lynch is a daring, eloquent, and passionate missionary who discusses with startling honesty the pressures that have brought him close to the edge of his physical and spiritual limits as he conducts his ministry.

Stop Smoking Forever - Video Hypnosis

1987 • 30 min • United States of America

Stop smoking with this animated film and Dick Sutphen's hypnotic suggestions. The soothing music will help you to relax.

The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much

1987 • 10 min

Educational short film about Pat the Cat, a cat struggling with addiction.

Looking for the Moon

1987 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Tentative gestures of hands and body become symbolic of opposing emotions involved in closeness to one person, trust – the need to escape. Actions merge into one continual unresolved movement.

Fragments

1987 • 24 min • France

Eyes and ears travel discontinuously through everyday life and the sub-worlds of the city and the body. A fragmented and subjective day-to-day chronicle that outlines a recurring obsession for registering even the most ordinary things, where the least poetic aspects of life, that is to say, the most somber ones, become the eye’s filter.

Kashchei The Immortal

1987 • 59 min • Soviet Union

Film version of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera.

Cat & Rat

1987 • 4 min

An animator draws a rat then a cat, who proceed to chase each other through the animator's constantly-changing backgrounds and animation styles.

No No Nooky T.V.

1987 • 12 min • United States of America

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga Computer and shot in 16mm film, NO NO NOOKY TV confronts the feminist controversy around sexuality with electronic language, pixels and interface. Even the monitor is eroticized in this film/video hybrid that points fun at romance, sexuality, and love in our post-industrial age. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

Chromesthetic Response

1987 • 6 min

A collage of human-created worldly surfaces - sidewalks, streets, storefronts - that evoke subtle and mysterious noises. "Chromesthesia" is a condition whereby one sees a color or shape and experiences a sensation of taste, smell or hearing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Eye and Sight: Artist's Life in Danger

1987 • 26 min • Colombia

Ten years after "Agarrando Pueblo", a reunion with one of its protagonists, a street fakir still doing the same show. After watching the film, he reflects on his life, his work, and his image.

Monolithe

1987 • 26 min • France

Penis Puppets

1987 • 12 min

Penis puppets and the making of, all in one. And, a subtle comment on standing armies? Started out as a heterosexual love story acted out by penises. Definitely became something else. Storyline by Bill Kamins.

Donna Haraway Reads "The National Geographic" on Primates

1987 • 28 min • United States of America

How does the "cultured" gorilla, i.e. Koko, come to represent universal man? Author and cultural critic Donna Haraway untangles the web of meanings, tracing what gets to count as nature, for whom and when, and how much it costs to produce nature at a particular moment in history for a particular group of people.

Unfolding

1987 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Unfolding depicts the gendered space of the launderette as both a site of oppression and possible resistance. “I was interested in making a film about women’s work spaces; the launderette is a functional space, but it is also a place where women meet socially. I got to know the women, took my Bolex (a wind-up camera) and after a while I felt comfortable enough to start filming. It made me aware of the way in which documentaries can be a form of control. On the one hand, it was a straightforward documentary and, on the other, it questioned my role as maker. It took a long time to make and was extremely rigorous.” (Alia Syed)

Meaning of the Interval

1987 • 18 min

Meaning of the Interval is an evocative, subjective essay that explores the inherent contradictions of contemporary Japan, from the rituals of Shinto religion to the nation's fascination with Western pop culture. Constructing a densely layered, nonlinear weave of the mythical and the everyday, Velez probes beneath the surface to unearth ancient, often anarchic tensions. In Velez's rich, transequential collage of imagery, emblems of contemporary Japan — the Bullet train, businessmen and McDonald's — collide with traditional ritual, from Kabuki and Sumo to Shinto. Defying documentary expectations of a narrative voice, Velez redefines the content through a carefully structured progression of visual and aural metaphors. The "interval" of the title relates to the Japanese concept of "ma" — the space between things, a source of energy, tension and balance.

The Cat and the Woman, A Cautionary Tale

1987 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A cautionary animated tale in which a woman loses her head to a cat in return for a man. Jayne Parker discovered film as a medium when she was a sculpture student at Canterbury College of Art (1977-80). In early works, objects, performance and gesture were combined by the camera to explore space, duration and the physical body. This is a rare foray into animation film.

The Eccentrics

1987 • 7 min

Words

1987 • 13 min

This short film, released by the Writers Guild Foundation in 1987, honors the craft of screenwriting and the writers behind our favorite lines and cinematic moments. Written and directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Chuck Workman, it was screened at film festivals and college campuses around the country to inspire writers and celebrate the importance of the written word in entertainment.

Halloween '87

1987 • 9 min

Look what I found in the found! This gem was a group assignment for Sophomore English class in 1987, we chose to do a film. HALLOWEEN '87 is the tale of a clown-faced killer terrorizing a town with his Dustbuster and the two skater cops trying to stop him.

Image (Shadow)

1987 • 8 min • Japan

Steps with shadows. An arm shadow in the landscape - concrete/grass/flowers. Flicker and a finger morphs into abstraction. A real hand appears above the animation, a zoom - drawings/hands/feet.