All Films

A Journey to Quinkin Country

1987 • 19 min • Australia

How the writer-artist team, Percy Trezise and Dick Roughsey came to produce their brilliant award-winning picture book series based on the Aboriginal legends of Cape York.

The Great Illusion

1987 • 2 min • Switzerland

A nostalgic serviceman battling against the recruits of today.

Passengers

1987 • 9 min • Brazil

A typical criminal. A typical taxi driver. A typical route through the night of Porto Alegre, from the bus station to a deserted street. But at the time of the crime, the driver doesn’t react as he should. Meanwhile, on TV, Brazilian Minister of Justice make a speech against violence.

Washington DC: An Inspiring Tour

1987 • 40 min • United States of America

Share your Washington DC visit and learn about our nation's capital with this, a complete Washington video tour. Outstanding cinematography and an original music score enhance this rich tour of the city's great historical and cultural treasures

On the Manor: Spare Time

1987 • 27 min • United Kingdom

This is the third of a series of four themed programmes made by Yorkshire Television that aired in 1987 about life on the Manor Estate of council housing in Sheffield, consisting of events on the Estate and interviews with, mostly unidentified, residents. This one focuses on what residents do in their spare time, including pigeon fanciers, fishing, gardening, youth playing on slot machines, boys boxing and down the pub on a Friday night.

Method

1987 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A humorous recipe for those who want to make a lazy person work.

Harumi Fukano: Virgin Memory Tokimeki Graduation Photo

1987 • 60 min • Japan

A girl models for her friend, Ippei. Another man plots to become her boyfriend.

Rich Mango Cocktail by Manami Aoi

1987 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The Strange Bird

1987 • 8 min

About a bird that envied others for everything until it acquired a strange tail, feathers, beak and wings. After that he stopped being himself, his own people didn't recognize him and he almost fell prey to a hungry fox.

And It Will Echo

1987 • 34 min • Soviet Union

An animated film with elements of feature films based on the fantastic story by Gennady Tishchenko "Heritage".

The Mighty Leek

1987 • 40 min • United Kingdom

An epic tale of pride and passion following competitive leek growers in the north east of England and the event they all dream of winning, the World Open Leek Championships.

Alchemy of the Word (Altered Video Version)

1987 • 17 min

Twelve years after making the experimental black-and-white 16mm film, Alchemy of the Word, I ran the film through a prototype digital video synthesizer called a Chroma-Chron, and added a soundtrack by the East Village band, Liquid, Liquid and the German electronic music composer, Holgar Czukay. The result is a pulsing, meditational, almost tribal film containing lurid colors and dense, finger paint-like qualities. In a sense, the video is closer to what I’d intended when I made the original black-and-white film and follows the same Rimbaud-esque disordering of the senses.

Vaska the Mannequin

1987 • 47 min • Soviet Union

The guys find a discarded mannequin of a boy and make a robot out of it so that he learns instead of them.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 12

1987 • 57 min

Over 9 min. of 5 TITBITS babes and 6 ripe and round BOTTOMBITS girls lead into classic 60s glamour with the elegant CANDEE EARLE, Polynesian LANI doing the topless Hula, the R-rated nude scenes from CANDY BARR’s ‘Smart Alec’ stag film, and 9 more seductive sweeties sensuously stripping off.

24 Hours

1987 • 3 min • Soviet Union

Naked man running through the fields.

Star Nest

1987 • 15 min • Japan

When I look up at the night sky, I sometimes feel like I am on a planet called Earth. During the day, plants communicate with the sun. Spiders climb the sky. I wanted to try carefully editing footage of the natural world around me, so I repeatedly shot and re-edited it, like solving a puzzle.

Terror

1987 • 40 min • United Kingdom

How three people's lives were permanently affected by the TWA plane hi-jack.

Angel of the Ripper: Sex, Reipu, Blues

1987 • 45 min • Japan

Schoolgirls are attacked by three men...

Miss Kunitachi Komachi's Sexual Experience Kaiware Report

1987 • 30 min • Japan

At a 6th annual contest, a woman performs in the park...

Israel The Price of Victory

1987 • 59 min

The Six Day War was a decisive victory for Israel. But many Israelis feel that something has gone wrong. On the war’s twentieth anniversary, Frontline finds a nation struggling with its image and its role as a democracy and reveals what has happened to the dream.

Harriette Simpson Arnow

1987 • 35 min

A documentary about the working methods of acclaimed writer HARRIETTE SIMPSON ARNOW - author of “The Dollmaker.”

The Way Monkeys Descended from Man

1987 • 10 min • Bulgaria

A poor African tribe gradually turned into monkeys. In order to become human again, they had to find the person who would lead them to the spirit, to the dream, to climb to the top of the tree of life.

On Edge...

1987 • 9 min • France

Every day, through the window, the same view is offered to the gaze under a constantly renewed light. These variations accompany the variations of our inner life, whether in unison or not.

A Doll’s Heart

1987 • 9 min • Vietnam

A doll and her plush friend ponders what it means to have a heart.