All Films

8mm maiden film by Jun Kitamikado, 1987. A film that was recorded in a very natural way without hesitation.

Baptized in the aerial battlefields over Europe and Asia the immortal B-17 rewrote the strategies of WWII. Superb footage from the hell of battle, this video salutes the most battled-honored bomber in history.

Characters on different parts of a female body point us in various directions as we follow along.

A ringing sound breaks into a woman's sleep. The sinister telephone becomes tangled in its own cord and plunges into dreamlike oblivion. As no one answers the call, nothing will ever come of it, and it will remain an enigma, cloaked in anonymity and nothingness.

Enter the bizarre world of Strangers in Paradise: a felt animation that takes place in a strange aquatic world - a surreal and loose take on Adam and Eve - if their sin was a shopping centre.

A red table is the central character in a kitchen drama.

Short animation by Reiko Yokosuka.

During the long, dry season in the south of Togo, in West Africa, a woman's day began at 1:00 a.m. with an eight-hour trek for water. Unbeknownst to her, the water so arduously collected was contaminated. Water for Tonoumassé shows the efforts of a group of villagers to get clean water by drilling a well nearby. It chronicles the success of this project in which women played a key role. To the surprise of the village men, the women were capable of making decisions, handling money, and learning the mechanics of keeping the pump in working order. We share their joy as they celebrate when water pours forth.By taking responsibility, these women have transformed daily life, both for themselves and their families. They are able to care for their children better, and have more time to grow food. This vivid example of a development project that works is an excellent resource for exploring issues relating to women's roles in developing countries.

Ghosts & Demons is a single-channel version of the four-channel installation of the same title. In the installation, appropriated broadcast television images — electronically processed and decontextualized by Jones — were rendered as abstract, black- and-white visuals. The visual sources were, as Jones states, "images of Third World People and the images of victimization, deprivation, weakness and the connotation that Third World People are unable to take care of themselves." The soundtrack consisted of sounds gathered from short-wave broadcasts: howls, whistles, high-speed telemetry signals, coded voices, growls, screams. This piece, states Jones, represents "my bad dream and Third World people's collective bad dream."

A mild-mannered farm laborer becomes enraged when the landowner's spoiled son forces the laborer's wife to sing for a foreign guest.

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

A film poem shot in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Huntsville, Alabama and New York City in which missiles, bricks, huts, humanoid-types and people emerge from civilization's whimsical debris. The Apocalypse - now and after. The bomb is in YOU.

I dreamt of finding myself naked sitting in a café. On the table was a cactus. I was watching it. The cactus also looked at me - and the more it looked at me, the more it was blushing.

Short experimental film by Anja Telscher.

A GDR documentary from 1987 that shows the lives of commuters from the districts of Marzahn, Hohenschönhausen and Hellersdorf. Historically, it also goes back even further to the beginnings of Berlin's light rail system.

An OVA supercut of Eien no Once More, Long Goodbye, and Curtain Call

A minimalist adaptation of Seizo Watase's manga of the same name. It contains 5 stories of slow paced vignettes of romance whose only dialogue lies within the "oldies" being played as background music.

Erasure live in concert at the Brighton Dome Pavilion Theatre, recorded 17 April 1987.

Experimental short by Philippe Durand.

An important and stunning documentary on whales and modern whaling with historical and scientific background. Most of the footage was shot specifically for this film in the North Atlantic and there are some shots of whale behavior that have never been captured on film before. The film is a significant contribution to the debate on the whaling controversy.

Anthropological tourism in New Guinea. Ten days of immersion in Irian Jaya.