All Films

FloorLight

1987 • 15 min • Japan

A masterpiece of the creator who has continually been expressing the minimal world overflowing with solitude by fixing the gaze on a subject. The camera does not take its focus off the underpass ground. In the beginning of the piece, Ohtani films the floor as he walks, and the paving looks like any ordinary paving. When he stops and repeatedly zooms focus on the floor, the pale floor reflected by fluorescent light starts to transfigure into some cosmic form; a field of clouds or an ocean surface. Eventually, when the humming of the film particles vibrate the light on the floor like a mysterious organism, we encounter the power of minimal gaze that can only be expressed with 8mm film.

Kidsongs: What I Want to Be

1987 • 24 min • United States of America

Play along with the Kidsongs Kids as they imagine all of the wonderful careers they can have when they grow up! Climb aboard a firetruck and slide down the pole with real-life firefighters, take a cruise on a Coast Guard cutter, ride a bucking bronco and sample goodies at a candy factory as the kids explore all the fun things they want to be with songs like "Candy Man," "I Wanna Be a Fireman," "School Days," and more!

Rendezvous in Montreal

1987 • 6 min

Rendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.

Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

"Earth First! - The Politics of Radical Environmentalism" documents the rise of the controversial eco-activist group, Earth First!, as told by its founders, its admirers and its opponents, including rare interviews with its founders, Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle and Howie Wolke. Earth First! burst onto the environmental scene in the 1980s, engaging not only in civil disobedience to protect America's wilderness from exploitation, but ecotage - the destruction of heavy equipment, roads, and mills involved in deforestation. The movement become heroic to some, infamous to others, by scaling and occupying 200-foot tall old-growth trees to frustrate the plans of timber companies; and for "tree-spiking," hammering iron spikes into standing trees as a threat to the machinery of any mill that dared to process it. Earth First! includes rare footage of ecoteurs engaging in their exploits on camera.

Das Pflugwesen - es entwickelt sich

1987 • 28 min • East Germany, Germany

Film about the training and plowing championships of the socialist countries in Hungary. The title alludes to the popular record "Lyrik, Jazz & Prosa", which was later discontinued and on which Manfred Krug reads the Soschtschenko satire "Die Kuh im Propeller", which makes fun of "Flugwesen" in the Soviet Union as a sign of modernization in the countryside too.

We Are Family: Parenting and Foster Parenting in Gay Families

1987 • 59 min

Susan Stamberg narrates WGBH’s documentary about lesbian and gay parents that explores the legal and social implications of homosexual parenting through the lives of three families. Concerns about AIDS, child molestation, sex education and the effect of the absence of a ‘’traditional’’ family setting on foster children are sensitively addressed. A careful look at what life is really like in lesbian and gay families, We Are Family is ultimately about the well-being of children. It concludes that homosexuals are as capable as heterosexuals of being committed, loving parents.

Are you in a Bad State?

1987 • 40 min

A helter skelter ride from the dawn of pre-history to the present day. TV will never be the same again. A beginners guide to situationism from the 'Spectacular Times' creator the late Larry Law.

3 factorielle 1

1987 • 4 min • France

Here, an isolated and surrounded being tries, by arrhythmic movements, to contain a convulsive fear of light. Three stages, three moments, but one and the same creature oscillating between the human and the insect which remains secretly within its own “camera obscura”.

GuachoAbel

1987 • 8 min • Argentina

A man steals a warehouse and, to hide from the police, enters a house where a girl and an old man live. Short film made by Víctor A. González (\" Ciudad de Dios \ ") during his time at CERC (Centro of Experimentation and Filmmaking), which earned him the ban to continue directing within the institution.

A Legacy of Faith: The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska

1987 • 28 min • United States of America

Since the days of early Russian traders in the mid-1700s, the Russian Orthodox church has had a place in the history of rural Alaska. "A Legacy of Faith" looks at the beliefs, traditions, and people of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska. From St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka, to St. Herman's Seminary in Kodiak, to an all-night Easter service in the village of Russian Mission.

Continuous Rectangles

1987 • 13 min • Japan

short film by Harada Ippei

L'escale de Guinée

1987 • 57 min

I spent six months in Guinea - Conakry - between February and July 1986; shooting alone in Super8, I filmed elements of people’s lives and fragments of my own. (Françoise Prenant)

Rent-A-Friend

1987 • 43 min • United States of America

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, along comes Rent-A-Friend. Released in 1987, this video was intended for lonely people with VCRs. Pop in the tape and, voila, your new friend, Sam, is in your living room.

Ready Mades in Hades

1987 • 7 min

Photographed in East Sommerville, MA. An empty lot piled with garbage and remnants of the past lives of its nearby residents cut in with the brave laundry of a preset set of inhabitants next door, the children of whom roam through this claustrophobic making their own private sense of it all.

Emo Philips Live! At the Hasty Pudding Theatre

1987 • 55 min

Stand up comedy

Bonn Experi

1987 • 4 min • Germany

Degraded found footage, primarily of a cowboy.

Aura

1987 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Drug addiction and trafficking, a taboo subject in Turkmenistan of the 1980s. Sanitary engineers go underground into the sewer system. A girl recovers from drug addiction. An Uzbek woman and her two daughters arrested for transporting narcotics on the bodies. The police involved with trafficking with Afghans. With their working mothers in the fields, infants are given milk with opium.

Jaune et bleu III: Les Vagues

1987 • 15 min • France

Dancing Around the Table, Part Two

1987 • 50 min • Canada

Dancing Around the Table: Part Two charts the battle to enshrine Indigenous rights in the Canadian Constitution, capturing a key moment in Canada’s history from the perspective of Indigenous negotiators. The 1985 conference, chaired by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, was the fourth and final meeting to determine an amendment to Indigenous rights as defined in the Constitution. The provincial premiers again refuse to reach an agreement with the First Nations, Metis and Inuit leaders, even though the majority of Canadians supported the inclusion of Indigenous rights to self-government. Director Bulbulian captures the pride and determination of Indigenous leaders and community members who refuse to back down on this historic opportunity to enshrine their rights, and the arrogance of the First Ministers who are fighting to keep power within the federal and provincial governments.

The Teaching Rocks

1987 • 19 min

A visually arresting film, concentrates on the native art of the Ojibwa tribe. Much Ojibwa history and philosophy has been related through the rock carvings and paintings which are featured throughout this work. The voices of the Elders are heard in the film, describing the tales of creation and existence that mark the group's iconography. A sense of mystery informs this evocative film as the realization strikes that no individual can expect to penetrate the mythos of the Ojibwa.

Tempo di Valse

1987 • 9 min

Sirensong

1987 • 8 min

"You are lured into seeing the place, except it's no longer a place - it's a scene, a point of interest." The Moon and Monument Valley are known to us more as icons of representation than as geographical locations. This beautifully executed tape questions our ability to see beyond clichés, in an age of media saturation.

Tales of the Mouse Hockey League

1987 • 24 min

The players in the Mouse Hockey League know that they must be quick and play by the rules to win the precious and delicious Cheddar Cup.

The Mini-Monsters: Adventures at Camp Mini-Mon

1987 • 33 min • United States of America

Monsters send their kids to summer camp in this children's cartoon. Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, Wolfman, the Mummy, the Wicked Witch, and others send their kids to Camp Mini-Mon. Two human kids also come to camp, and teach the monsters about "normal" life.