All Films

Bad Blood

1987 • 40 min

Riding the Iron Horse - a roaring, full-throated Harley Davidson - across the open prairie is an American dream. Fifty thousand leather-clad bikers make romance come true as they converge, from all over the States and beyond, on Sturgis, a sleepy farming town in South Dakota. The 48th annual Black Hills Motorcycle Rally brings together weekenders on little Japanese bikes and hard-core, all-American Wild Ones. It's a raucous summer week of racing, drinking, partying and generally raising hell. 'The Sons of Silence' is one of the many bikers' chapters here. The Sons believe in America, freedom, white power, and loyalty to each other. They've got their own chaplain; women are not members, but 'property'. Rebels against convention, they live by their own strict code - 'We are the Sons of Silence until death'.

Samovar Ivan Ivanovich

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The pot-bellied bucket samovar Ivan Ivanovich gathers the whole large family for a tea party. And only a small cup of tea is not enough for a lazy couch potato.

Mylène Farmer: Tristana

1987 • 12 min

In the heart of the Russian plains, in a castle, a cruel Tsarina summons her faithful servant, a Monk, to get news of the Kingdom.

Sand Dance

1987 • 4 min

A jazzy exercise in pure movement.

Consequence

1987 • 2 min • East Germany

The fumes emanating from a traffic jam make everybody, and every animal, cough.

Together Forever

1987 • 29 min

Four vignettes from the lives of families, couples, and individuals illustrate powerful truths that make marriage more rewarding and family relationships more meaningful.

Eclipse of Reason

1987 • 27 min • United States of America

Charlton Heston-narrated anti-abortion documentary depicting a late-term abortion.

Landscape (for Manon)

1987 • 13 min • United States of America

A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.

The Last Brigand from Hradec Broshev

1987 • 48 min • Soviet Union

One night, the famous robber Merzavio comes to the house of archivist Jiří Havříček, the most educated man in town. Merzavio asks the archivist to become a teacher for ten years for his two hooligan sons Vincek and Frantik.

Amber Latvian - 87

1987 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Joyful, humorous and slightly ironic look on the daily life in Soviet Latvia in 1987.

Starbooty Trilogy

1987 • 60 min

Starrbooty, Sugarbooty, Sugar snatch- Secret Agent of the United States is from the Ghetto and here to bring peace, justice and the american way. Before the feature-length movie in 2007, Starbooty was a trio of low-budget shorts by director Jon Witherspoon (aka Lahoma Van Zant) starring Rupaul and other drags from the scene. RuPaul Is: Starbooty! - The Mack - Star Booty III: Star Booty's Revenge

Cirque du Soleil: Cirque Réinventé

1987 • 56 min • United States of America, Canada

With our fieriness and our youthfulness, we wanted to reinvent the circus. The appeal of the circus has always been magical. But, Cirque du Soleil has redefined the meaning of the word and has taken it up a level - performance art without boundaries, ballet without gravity. And their intoxicating mixture of costume, music, stage design and showmanship has dazzled millions. Emmy award winning Cirque du Soleil: Cirque Reinvente !

Die zwei Hasen

1987 • 2 min • East Germany, Germany

The folk song "Between mountain and deep, deep valley..." is illustrated. Two hares think the hunter has shot them dead. When they realize that this is not the case, they happily hop away.

Chevaux (Introduction)

1987 • 1 min • France

El blues del Orate

1987 • 60 min • Chile

Puccini/Opera

1987 • 22 min

Taken from the multimedia installation "Puccini/Opera", four synthetic settings from excerpts from Tosca, Boheme, Butterfly, Turandot. Production Pitti Immagine, Florence. First presentation within Pitti Trend 1987.

Summer's Games

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

T&A aplenty in this 80s beach-sploitation featuring dozens of bikini-clad (or less) ladies partaking in "games" like speediest suntan oil application, oil wrestling, human ladder, swimming pool and inner tube racing, wet t-shirt contests and the ever-popular tassel twirling.

Arbitrary Logic

1987 • 5 min • United Kingdom

Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and later as part of an improvised and computer music performance with Keith Rowe at the London Filmmakers Cooperative, December 1989.

Barca

1987 • 5 min • Romania

Two men and a boat

Yoji, What's Wrong With You?

1987 • 18 min • Japan

The psychosexual drama Yoji, What's Wrong With You? examines the identity of women as mothers in Japanese culture, through an Oedipal narrative of a skewed "family romance." When Yoji announces to his mother that he wants her to meet a new girlfriend, the mother's jealousy destroys the relationship. Idemitsu's signature device of using a television monitor within the domestic space works as a powerful metaphor for the ubiquity of the mother in Yoji's psychological life. Idemitsu's melodramas always articulate a double-edged irony: With no identity outside of her maternal role, Yoji's mother fastens onto her son, ultimately destroying him. Yoji himself is seen as emotionally stunted, unable to leave his mother or experience love for any other woman.

***

1987 • 12 min

Sarah and Paul leave their native California once a year to eat their way through France. They test the Michelin guide’s recommendations for three-star restaurants (the top rating) and between meals still have time to do some wine tasting at the best cellars. The filmmaker follows them around in a second car.

Aleksandr Bashlachev - Concert at LDM (5th Leningrad Rock Club Festival)

1987 • 36 min

This concert was recorded on video by Igor Leonov and audio by Sergey Litvyakov. (Leningrad, 07.06.1987)

Breast of Britain 7

1987 • 47 min

Volume Number 7

Our Stock Exchange

1987 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.