All Films

Our Uduvere

1987 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A documentary style comedy film about a made up village in Estonia

The Family Stones: A Lesson On Cautiousness

1987 • 33 min • United States of America

Young Matthew is at risk of the invasion of his heart by the forces of Evarg and his bumbling Bad Seeds. If Princess Pearl of Wisdom and her God-loving allies can prevent his sinful behavior, Matthew's life will be saved...

Grateful Dead: So Far

1987 • 55 min

So Far is a music documentary video by the Grateful Dead. Directed by Jerry Garcia and Len Dell'Amico, it is intended to give a subjective view of the Grateful Dead experience. The soundtrack includes Dead song performances, largely from 1985. The visuals combine scenes of the band playing the songs, other Dead related material, computer animation, and found footage that has been altered and edited in various ways. So Far was released on VHS videotape and on laserdisc in 1987, and has a running time of 55 minutes.

The Grabowski Shuffle

1987 • 37 min

He raps and zaps, has smokin' feet and fun!" and introducing... The Grabowskis Ditka has another winning team on his hands... and this one works and plays at life, not football! It's a fun look at some real people who have dreams and aren't afraid to work hard toward those dreams. This video is a treat that's honest, inspirational and fun... it's family entertainment at its best!.

Olf’s Supporters

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Expired film stock, DIY shooting and development often lead to mistakes. For instance, some of the material is good, but some is «sticky» when film sticks in the development tank leaving undeveloped an area up to 20 cm wide.

A los compañeros, la libertad

1987 • 28 min • Argentina

It recounts the prison experiences of political prisoners during the last Argentine dictatorship and questions the laws of due obedience and the final point.

Spring Again

1987 • 48 min • Albania

Dino Bregu, head of a state farm, learns that Ilir, his successor, is having a relationship with his daughter, and must cope with this situation.

I'll take Your Bread

1987 • 54 min • Soviet Union

Documentary film showing authentic Lithuanian traditions & rituals during major seasonal festivals: Winter solstice, Mardi Gras, Easter, Midsummer.

Adieu bipède

1987 • 16 min • Canada

In Adieu bipède (1987), Hébert turned to performance, using the scratching technique for the scenes with dancing and music. He used the same technique in La Lettre d'amour (1988).

Alex

1987 • 21 min • Brazil

Short animation

Too Far from the Norm

1987 • 4 min • United States of America

Too Far From The Norm follows Rick who rudely interrupts his teacher, who is giving an impassioned lecture on post-modernism, and then even shoots him in the face.

Hydrants

1987 • 3 min

Comedy short.

The Last Rung on the Ladder

1987 • 12 min • United States of America

A man, upon learning of the suicide of his sister, flashes back to a summer when they were kids and he saved her from falling from a dilapitated ladder.

Back to Fucking Cambridge

1987 • 60 min • Austria

About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a community of artists in Vienna in 1970 with the aim of exploring a completely free life practice. Since 1972, this society experiment at the Friedrichshof in Burgenland, 60 kilometers from Vienna, further developed. From the mid-1970s, other municipalities were founded in 30 European cities. At Friedrichshof itself lived at times up to 240 members and visitors.

Hedgehog Wedding

1987 • 60 min

Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer.

Infernal Symphony

1987 • 5 min • France

The chance encounter between a rebel devil and a nubile angel.

Gerd Hansen, 55

1987 • 5 min

In the short documentary GERD HANSEN, 55 Jochen Hick talks about an aging gay masseur and the times before AIDS. The film was premiered at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1987 and received the Prize of the German Film Critics.

El tercer sueño

1987 • 10 min • Peru

On a deserted beach, two 17th century gentlemen duel for the honor of a beautiful 20th century woman.

Howie from Maui

1987 • 59 min

Zany stand-up comedian Howie Mandel takes center stage at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel in Waikiki where he and his friends stage a one-of-a-kind loony show before a live audience.

How to Have a Moneymaking Garage Sale

1987 • 24 min • United States of America

Learn today's simple, step-by-step way to make more money with less effort...and have fun! Phyllis Diller shares her "garage sale secrets" with you, digging into closets, plowing through old boxes and clearing out the attic as she organizes an attractive, moneymaking garage sale.

Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré

1987 • 60 min • France

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, becoming a respected and influential historian of religions. He acquired something of the status of a guru, as poignantly told in the 1987 documentary Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré. The film features interviews with Eliade at the end of his life, artfully spliced with cuts to religious imagery on a background of moving spiritual music. It was released in 1987, the year after his death.

Eine Rolle Duschen

1987 • 5 min • Germany

A man wants to take a shower in a public shower, but it is only for "naked showerers". But he is wearing swimming trunks...

Valtos

1987 • 11 min • United Kingdom

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been duplicated during the night, and that I was an inferior replica of myself'. There follows a relentless, epic, pursuit of an absconding phantom - his 'original' - which ends in catastrophe at Valtos, a place at once ethereal and terrifying.

AIDS: Sexual Knowledge Full of Mistakes

1987 • 30 min • Japan