All Films

Swimmer

1987 • 7 min • France, United Kingdom

A beautiful photographic quality characterised Maziere’s Swimmer which used freeze frame and repeat shots of a swimmer in what could only be the Mediterranean Sea and light. With a fractured ‘found’ soundtrack, what it lacked in depth (and this may be due to its ‘series’ nature) it made up in its surface tension.

Metamorphosis

1987 • 6 min • Poland

Nightmarish fusion of Francis Bacon and Gerald Scarfe in this perverse and disturbing game of spite and malice between three grotesque figures. A striking and unusual work by Łucja Mróz-Raynoch, a lesser known figure in the world of Polish animation.

Tugging the Worm

1987 • 9 min • United States of America

An allegorical film that takes place in a utopian society which has faced the prospect that complete annihilation is an ever present possibility. Cork, an innocent bird-like creature, in a militaristic world that is dominated by high fasion and flashy billboards is befriended by the not too trustworthy bad boy named Vouku. Vouku’s tendency toward violent entertainment and vehicular homicide only serve to increase Cork’s angst. After a trip to the game their attitudes are changed by a vision of angels dancing at a ho-down on the head of a needle.

Gravity

1987 • 3 min • Canada

When you wake up and you have so much to do that you just want to go back to bed. The illusion created by shooting the entire film in reverse emphasizes the entire cycle of life.

Psychick Television ‎– 8 Transmissions 8

1987 • 51 min

8 Transmissions 8 crosses the borderline between entertainment and instruction, switching the viewer between the accessibility of pop videos and depth of ritualistic forms and images. These videos are celebratory, drawing a modern parallel with pagan rites of initiation. Setlist: Godstar Good Vibrations Unclean Catalan Intermission Terminus Moonchild Godstar (Hyperdellic) Scared To Live

Mouseferatu

1987 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

A bizarre look at the Dracula legend.

Pas de ciel

1987 • 29 min • France

“Specially created for the Rencontre Danse / Image in Chateauvallon, this film is the result of the encounter, confrontation and then the almost miraculous match between the light and violent camera of Téo HERNANDEZ and the dancer-choreographer Bernardo Montet in the midst of improvisation. A body between sea and sky, the silent presence of the wind, a few birds: the elements of a fundamental mythology transformed into lyrical abstraction.”

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster's Workout

1987 • 28 min

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster's Workout is a film about legendary folk artist Howard Finster of Summerville, northwest Georgia. At the age of 60, after forty years as a Baptist preacher and "small motor repairman", Finster heeded the call to "paint sacred art". In a tour-de-force of self styled "talking art", Finster describes the prophetic dreams, spiritual inspirations and visionary experiences that led him to become a painter. His work was selected in 1984 to represent the United States in the prestigious Venice Biennale

Power of Love

1987 • 45 min • Yugoslavia

Slovenian film shot in Lendava in 1987.

Track Moss By-Pass

1987 • 9 min • France

Who Do You Think You Are

1987 • 10 min

In “Who Do You Think You Are” (1987, 10 minutes) the main character, a filmmaker, investigates her own cigarette smoking habit while wishing she could make “a film about injustice.” She wishes, in other words to do something heroic. She has been seduced by the image of the cigarette-smoking hero, but an image is only an image.

Effeuiller l'acanthe

1987 • 9 min • France, Italy

Total Recall

1987 • 30 min

"Gretchen Bender’s Total Recall (1987) is the artist’s largest realized work of electronic theater, an eleven-channel performance choreographed across 24 television monitors and three projection screens ... Bender mined the mesmerizing, banal imagery of mainstream media, television, and movies, edited together in a barrage of quick cuts, allowing the subliminal meaning of the images to surface in the mind of the viewer as their eyes move from screen to screen. Set against an abrasive score by composer Stuart Argabright, the piece creates a jarring experience that mimics the immersive, yet assaulting image-world from which Bender felt her viewers were increasingly unable to disentangle themselves." - Red Bull Arts

Summer Is Soon

1987 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The everyday life of the candy factory. A gray, exhausting life, and a guest lecturer talks about beautiful feelings, about love and courtship. He does not know what it costs to make a box of chocolates that someone will bring to his beloved woman on March 8. It's snowing, covering the streets. Then spring will come, then summer, but still in the smoking room, the workers of the candy factory, in rare moments of rest, will talk about their lives, which are passing.

A Dream

1987 • 9 min • Poland

This short impression was made from the film footage which had not been used in the film ‘Hommage à Beksiński’ screened at the Film Festival in Cannes in 1986 and is a product of one artist’s fascination with another artist, outstanding painter Zdzisław Beksiński. It is an attempt to add extra meaning to well-known works by Beksiński using the means of expressions applied in the film. The challenge for the viewer is to discover references.

Création du Printemps

1987 • 3 min • France

The creation of spring.

Roadshow

1987 • 22 min

Shot entirely using a Steadicam. A video version of a dance piece by the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.

Trois études

1987 • 7 min

The rain, the ruins and the mausoleum: experimental tryptic where the visual form is closely related to the rhythmic form.

Preparation to Take Off

1987 • 10 min • Japan

The Mission: Crusade

1987 • 59 min • United Kingdom

1. Wasteland 2. And The Dance Goes On 3. Garden Of Delight 4. Let Sleeping Dogs Die 5. Serpents Kiss 6. Over The Hills And Far Away 7. The Crystal Ocean 8. Sacrilege 9. Stay With Me 10. Wake (RSV) 11. Blood Brother 12. 1969

Set in Motion

1987 • 4 min

Colored bars and other shapes travel across objects inside the rooms of a house.

Tillebille

1987 • 18 min • East Germany, Germany

Tillebille is a little mouse who has a hard time standing up to the sneaky fox. Nevertheless, she manages to secure her little territory for herself and her friends to drink tea together.

Stuttgart Filmwinter

1987 • 2 min

Degraded found footage of a silent comedy.

Divers-epars

1987 • 12 min • France

This film is a series of shot or found sequences (about, of cities that I frequent) which, in the editing, display a fluidity and continuity eluding narration. The sequences are shaped by the editing according to various arrangements which respect the film possible direction: passage from one place to another, from one moment to another. To pass, bridging one point to another, is to transform oneself, become other. The film employs certain leitmotivs which relauch the flow and facilitate diverse transformations of scattered sensations. This film, although renewing lyricism, does not deny formalism which it uses in another manner, while taking into account the meaning/possible meanings produced through linking images and their evocative passage.