All Films

Breast of Britain 5

1987 • 59 min

Volume Number 5

Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye

1987 • 52 min • United Kingdom

This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy staring at the sun, to travels around the Pacific and life in New York. It includes excerpts from many of his films, and interviews with second wife Ann and biographer Roger Horrocks. Len Lye himself is often heard, outlining his ideas of the ‘old brain’ and how Māori and Aboriginal art influenced his work. The grandeur of his ideas are only matched by their scale, with steel sculptures designed to be "at least 20 foot high".

Lemuria Rising

1987 • 59 min • United States of America

This enlightening documentary traces the rise and fall of Lemuria, a civilization that began 165,000 B.C. on the continent of Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean. This civilization was eventually destroyed through a cataclysmic event over 70,000 years ago. Discover how the higher consciousness of Lemuria, at its peak of ascendancy, will rise or remanifest within our own consciousness, bringing a new golden age for our world.

De macht der twee

1987 • 10 min • Netherlands

Duality is the starting point for this collection of Luyken-like associations: his two sons at different locations perform small actions; signed a cross returns as three-dimensional shape; indoor and outdoor spaces. The soundtrack features the sounds of drumming on metal. The title lapels to Luyken's two sons.

Apocalypse Pooh

1987 • 8 min

A short film that mashes up scenes from the Disney Winnie the Pooh with dialogue from Apocalypse Now.

Karen Akers: On Stage at Wolf Trap

1987 • 60 min • United States of America

As stunning visually as she is vocally, singer-actress Karen Akers is universally considered this generation's 'Cabaret Goddess.' Just as highly regarded in the theatre and in film, she's never been more captivating than in this live full-length concert DVD. She personalizes her memorable repertoire (from masters like Stephen Sondheim, Jacques Brel, Peter Allen, Andrew Lloyd Webber to newcomers whose names you'll want to remember) into remarkable mini-dramas of love and life... universal enough for all of us to relate to, yet individual enough to be hers alone.

Poor Man's Eton

1987 • 40 min

Sam was 11 and was not quite sure where he lived. The only thing he knew for certain was that he went to Woolverstone Hall - a stately mansion in Suffolk which is now a boarding school. It's not a traditional public school, but a comprehensive - and it's run, improbably, by the Inner London Education Authority. For boys like Sam, Woolverstone is security. Many of the pupils here come from deprived homes. It's more expensive than Eton. ILEA wants to close Woolverstone, but Headmaster, Richard Woolett , is not prepared to give up....

Sulev Nõmmik

1987 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Everyone has their own Sulev Nõmmik. To whom the director Sulev Nõmmik, to whom Kärna Ärni alias Ernst Kern, some remember him as a ballet dancer, others as a satirist. What these parts mean together and whether the whole can be divided, the film tries to answer.

Thérèse II: La Mission

1987 • 3 min • France

Parody trailer: A nun must rescue children trapped in a rural church and finds herself in a fight for her own freedom.

La La La Human Sex Duo No. 1

1987 • 6 min • Canada

Original music by David Van Tieghan punctuates the breathtaking movement of the dancers as they draw us into the dialogue that can only be described as La La La Human Sex. Bernar Hebert has directed this beautifully crafted document.

Horror Brunch

1987 • 5 min • United States of America

A brunch turns deadly.

Uranium Hex

1987 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines. A plethora of images ranging from the women at work to spine-chilling representations of cancerous bodies are accompanied by unnerving industrial sounds and straightforward information from some of the women.

The Little Match Girl

1987 • 50 min

Adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen story about a poor dying child who dreams of different uses of a lighted match - the same pack she'd attempted to sell on the street.

Merlín

1987 • 8 min

The story of Merlín in an experimental manner.

Ciudad para todos

1987 • 11 min • Peru

Documentary short film. It is a portrait of a day in the life of the center of a big city. What Lima was like more than 30 years ago, we are sure will allow us to get to know it, respect it, love it and take care of it much more.

Rita Lee & Roberto de Carvalho: Flerte Fatal 87/88

1987 • 53 min • Brazil

Reframing AIDS

1987 • 35 min • United Kingdom

Through a series of interviews with leading British AIDS activists and cultural theorists, this documentary investigates the way in which AIDS has been used by the media and by the government to increase state harassment of gay men and lesbians, black people and women. Framing the problem in terms of a left politic, the tape reveals how both homophobia and puritanism have been responsible for the slow government response to AIDS.

Pomor True Story

1987 • 10 min

Andrian and Ivan are two brother-sailors who worked in Arkhangelsk as a carved artists. And so, at the end of August they decided, like loons, to go to the island. When the men were already far away in the sea, they moored to a small patch of land and began to have a dinner. After the dinner they decided to go to sleep and go home in the morning. But they could not even imagine what disaster awaited them in the night.

The Return

1987 • 18 min • Soviet Union

About young Soviet men who fought in Afghanistan and are trying to find their place in a peaceful life. They share their experience with older WWII veterans, talk about their post-war traumas and what they think now about violence. At the moment there are almost 2 years left before Soviet troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Measure of the Feat

1987 • 23 min • France

A film about the preparation of the "Trilogy For a Single Man," about the medical and nutritional monitoring of French mountaineer Christophe Profit during his climbing "trilogy" and the period of intensive training that preceded one of the most fabulous "chains" ever made by a mountaineer. On March 12 and 13, 1987, Christophe Profit, then 26, successfully climbed the three largest north faces of the Alps in winter in 40 hours: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, Matterhorn. But beyond this coverage of the event, it is the behind-the-scenes that is revealed, the story of this project, the ups and downs of its preparations and the personality of its author, a dancer of the verticals, who concentrates at his fingertips the energy and reflexes of life itself.

Angry Annie

1987 • 1 min • United States of America

A small girl vents her rage at the world, frustrated by the problems of everyday life, until her younger brother offers her part of his orange.

The Story of Junkie Junior

1987 • 40 min • United States of America

Junior Rios started using heroin when he was 15. At age 29, Junior is a father of three. To support his $200-a-day heroin habit, he scours the rooftops of the South Bronx for materials he can sell. When he's finally caught, he enters an aggressive rehab program. Meanwhile, his ex has moved on, and is trying to make a better life for herself and their children.

Turtle Dreams

1987 • 10 min • United States of America

Film by Robert Withers and Meredith Monk.

How I Was Independent

1987 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Lado really wanted to prove to the guys that he was an “independent man.” One day he was left alone in the apartment. And Lado invited his playmates to rehearse a “yard theater” performance at his home. Mom's cosmetics were used, a curtain was made from window curtains, and a wooden toy horse was turned into a goat. Now the guys were able to verify Lado’s “independence”.