All Films

L’Expédition Fatale

1987 • 2 min • France

After a hellish journey in the bush, Professor Maboulus and his team arrive at the goal of the expedition...

Intimate Adams

1987 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Valmar Adams (1899-1993), writer and literary historian with artistic nature, has played an important part as a mediator of Russian literature and culture while working in the faculty of Russian language and literature at the University of Tartu during 1931-1974. First poems in Russian and German were published already in 1915. However, his hot-bloodedness often caused trouble. Trivimi Velliste, Rein Veidemann and Linnar Priimägi talk to the 87-year-old Adams.

Severed Heads: If I've Told You Once I've Told You a 1,000 Times

1987 • 48 min

Detail from 1987 Australian tour, a collection of music videos from the abstract industrial group.

Alexander Baxter

1987 • 24 min • United States of America

A cat is left homeless when its owner moves to a senior citizens home that doesn't allow pets.

A Gift for Toby

1987 • 7 min

Special Effects by Tim Davis (1958 -2015) and Diane Hammond

Vikings Go Pumping

1987 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Experimental stop-motion film by Dave Borthwick.

San Francisco: A Video Tour

1987 • 30 min • United States of America

San Francisco. One of America's most beautiful cities. Come explore this glittering metropolis from the comforts of your own home with San Francisco: A Video Tour.

Robert Lax: Word & Image

1987 • 58 min • Greece, United States of America

When Robert Lax was approached in the early 1980s about doing a video documentary on him, he had only one condition—that it be focused on his creative work and not a biography of his personal life. “Let’s keep it simple and about the work, with maybe some comments on it. No baby pictures PLEASE!” This documentary is an attempt at an introduction to the important works of poet Robert Lax.

The Merciful Soul

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The protagonist of the film is the director's fellow villager Dmytro Fedorivskyi, nicknamed Mytia Karakhanchyk. He is a simple man - a farm loader who transports milk to the factory in the district, but he has so much humanity and warmth in him. He would bring medicine to someone from the district, buy some groceries for someone, or shovel snow near a widow's house. He was truly a merciful soul for many elderly people in his village.

Touring Alaska

1987 • 57 min • United States of America

This fascinating video captures the uniqueness of Alaska, from the wilderness of the great parks to the life of the people in the cities and countryside. Cruise up the Inside Passage and visit the colorful coastal towns of Southeastern Alaska. Explore Glacier Bay's tremendous fjords and glaciers. Ride the Alaska Railroad from Fairbanks and see Denali National Park (Mt. McKinley), the Matunukska Valley, and Anchorage. Travel to the remote Eskimo lands in the Far North. Other wonders of Alaska included are Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Skagway, Homer, Katmai National Park, Kotzebue, Gates of the Arctic National Park, the sternwheeler "Discovery", Alaskaland and Earthquake Park.

Diosa del mar

1987 • 11 min • Peru

An Inca curaca has a vision of the arrival of a child. Fishermen find a white baby floating in acbasket in the sea, a harbinger of the arrival of the conquerors.

Risk Group

1987 • 58 min • Soviet Union

Against the backdrop of the approaching global threat to humanity - the AIDS disease, threatening to undermine the moral and ethical climate of the USSR and its citizens who lived by the immutable code of the builders of communism, rejecting any moral vices of humanity, the film shows that the "risk group" in the form of drug addicts, prostitutes and homosexuals in the Soviet country not only exists, but its scale is great ... What the heroes of the film themselves, whom Soviet doctors and politicians classified as a "risk group", talk about in this first "revolutionary" video film.

Lenin and the Future

1987 • 19 min • Soviet Union

De las armas y las letras

1987 • 45 min • Chile

Video following the poet and journalist from Valparaíso, Manuel Astica Fuentes, one of the leaders of the Chilean army uprising that occurred in 1931.

Erciyes’s Fertility

1987 • 31 min

The episode titled “Erciyes’s Fertility” from the documentary series “Old Houses Old Masters” is about the unique architectural structure of the Kayseri, Nevşehir and Ürgüp area, known as Cappadocia in the Central Anatolia Region, dating back centuries to the present day.

Poets and Houses

1987 • 30 min

De Weddenschap

1987 • 18 min

Following a bet, two boys open a grave and accidentally free a murderous zombie.

Resolution

1987 • 16 min

16mm experimental film by Masanobu Nakamura.

Write From the Beginning

1987 • 27 min • United States of America

An easy-to-follow instructional guide to help you get up and running on your new Panasonic word processor.

Eyes That Fail to See

1987 • 51 min • United States of America

This early HIV/AIDS film uses the popular and compelling narrative format of the telenovela to illuminate the effects of AIDS on a cross-section ofthe Latino community in Northern California. Different families and individual characters address complex issues such as sexual practice, sexual identity, and drug use in the family. Touches upon safer sex, male homosexuality and bisexuality, and does well representing several Spanish-language idioms. Allows for the development of an elaborate story encouraging honesty and cultural survival as well as self-criticism within the Latino community.

Running Out of Patience: The 1986 Victorian Nurses Strike

1987 • 43 min • Australia

Running Out of Patience documents the Victorian nurses' strike of 1986, revealing various myths and stereotypes which have managed to pigeonhole women as saints first and unionists second.

Pedro Albizu Campos: Un hombre... un patriota...

1987 • 13 min • Puerto Rico

Short documentary about the life of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos.

Wet Venus: Maiko Kitamura

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Ayashī akuma Nakahara Miki

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.