All Films

...And the Ball Flies

1987 • 34 min • Soviet Union

The girl Zhenya strives to be a leader among teenagers: she moves from one roof to another at a dizzying height, she is not afraid of anything except mice... The film tells about one day of the girl - the day of her birth.

Why Can't We Live Together?

1987 • 30 min

One in three marriages in Britain ends in divorce; perhaps more would if it weren't for the couples staying together for the children. How does it affect the kids? Are their views taken into account? Scene investigates and interviews parents, children and young adults.

Demons and Wonders

1987 • 49 min • Brazil

An autobiographical docu-drama that chronicles the filmmaker's struggle with narrow minded authorities, critics, and personal tragedy.

Chonma Sticks His Tongue Out

1987 • 15 min

Based on a novel by Ryusuke Saito. An educational film about oppressed farmers in the Edo period who tried to better themselves only to get crucified.

The Art Of Surviving If You Are A Little Worm

1987 • 6 min • Sweden

A earthworm must be very cunning to cope with large clumping shoes, sharp shovels and other attack-like objects in a dangerous world.

The Red Thread

1987 • 17 min • United States of America

Mostly shot in San Francisco and Northern California, material filmed (using the camera almost as a p[r/a]inter, a means of shaping the visual world as film, but without reflection) in response to what that world was opening in me. "Material!" - analogies between weaving and spinning thread and images already a pattern within film history (e.g., in Deren) is here carried into further ramifications of unraveling and patterning in fabric- and cinema-making, as well as in personal and mythic dimensions. The open unfolding structure, which pulls away from the balanced design of much of my work, gives equal weight to the sound composition. Involves "opening" with its perils and ambiguities.

Filmy Film 001

1987 • 5 min • Japan

Seance

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Composed of two narrative layers. The first layer includes a visit to the cinema (including a projectionist) and a reflection on their perception and experiencing the projection. The second layer is the projected work, ie film in film. This is based on the structure of the myth: at the beginning we see a tree that seems to refer to the tree (life or knowledge) in Eden. This is followed by a correlation of the images of Michelangelo Buonarroti's The Creation of Adam (1512) and other Renaissance works. The following shots from the Nazi concentration camps, ie the presentation of manifestations of human evil, are then an allegory of the fall of a man who was the result of the original sin in paradise.

Farewell, Terminator

1987 • 28 min

In futuristic Israel a special police force terminates criminals. The terminators who reach a certain killing qouta can leave the country for good. One cop discovers the truth behind this arangement, and now he has to fight for his life.

Ave Maria

1987 • 4 min

A blown wick, a rejected corner stone, multiplied loaves, mown wheat and the mower watching us. Some Bible verses illustrated by plans stolen in the countryside during the summer.

Message From Budapest

1987 • 15 min

A poetic and ironic tribute to the city of Budapest using footage filmed on the Mayday worker Festival and archival photographs from the turn of the century. A celebration of the city akin to the city ‘symphonies’ of the 20’s and 30’s with the iconography of the old Eastern Europe, its architecture, trams and its people set in a series of fleeting glimpses and rhythmical paces.

Der Himmel der Helden

1987 • 16 min • Germany

Ronald McDonald and the Adventure Machine

1987 • 8 min • United States of America

This 8-minute short film was produced on VHS tape by Sinnott and Associates in 1987 for McDonald's restaurants. The tapes were never sold to the general public and were only available for viewing at birthday parties hosted by the restaurant. In this film, Ronald McDonald and his friends Grimmace, Hamburglar, and Birdie meet the Professor, who has created The Adventure Machine. This machine transports the user to various locations to find adventure, but it requires Ronald McDonald and friends to test it. In the end, the group finds adventure, but it all proves to be too perilous for them. This is compounded by the Professor losing the key necessary to operate the machine and bring them home. When they do return home, they decide to take a calming walk and enjoy the beautiful day.

Murders Most Foul

1987 • 5 min

Made as one of a four part series exploring different aspects of women and the law, on which all the women animators involved researched and worked as a group, before then making individual films, each quite different in content, tone and style. Based on a real case and devised as a 'melodrama' set in a Crown Court.

On the Edge

1987 • 55 min • Uruguay

After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past. In this documentary the CEMA camera team roam the city streets and find out what Montevideans think about bringing armed forces personnel to justice. This tour reveals a climate of scepticism, a climate of fear and suspicion, but also a will and a desire that justice must be done.

The Apartment

1987 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Several people make an apartment so they can all live together in it, but when the apartment is ready, the system breaks down around a simple toilet.

Nuit de Chine

1987 • 30 min

Strange comings and goings in a boarding house kept by two old Buddhist Asian women: the recalcitrant cook chats up the idle chamber maid by going to fetch crabs in the attic; a hunted man, after sensual exchanges with a bare chested boy, ends up upstairs and dies; a motionless female client unsettles, by her silence, the habits of the household who dance before her…

The Conversation

1987 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Stop-motion experimental short where two men communicate with one another, talk on the telephone, smoke cigarettes, and contort themselves. Produced 1987 and released in 1988 on the VHS compilation Fat of the Land, released via Factory Records video imprint IKON. "Here is the first tape of a new British cinema which should be seen by everyone who loves film. The official British cinema is truly dead, alive only in admens bought dreams. This is the way to go."- Derek Jarman

Only Hell

1987 • 12 min • United States of America

An early Scooter McCrae short film

Pleasure Domes

1987 • 8 min • Australia

The reshaping of the St Kilda landscape into a Hollywood fantasy of the Riviera, reflected upon from the narrator’s balcony overlooking the bay. An introspective look at the nature of the landscape and the human response to it.

Treiler

1987 • 6 min • Brazil

The last attempt of two selfless filmmakers, Donkey and Urubu, to take the negative of their feature film to a laboratory, facing a series of enemies along the way. The film is the trailer for a supposed animation super-production, which will never be produced.

Viedma hoy

1987 • 6 min • Argentina

Short documentary film directed by Gustavo Mosquera R. during Raúl Alfonsín's presidency (who also narrates the short). It illustrates the landscape of Viedma, during the planning of a later failed project that consisted of moving the capital of Argentina from Buenos Aires to this other city.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: Il Treno delle Cinque

1987 • 45 min

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror

The Idiot

1987 • 52 min • Soviet Union

This film-concert is a ballet based on the novel "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, set to the music of Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and featuring artists from the State Theatre of Modern Ballet.