All Films

Prometheus' Garden

1987 • 29 min • United States of America

Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses viewers in a cinematic universe unlike any other. The dark and magical images of this haunting film unfold in a dreamlike stream of consciousness revealing an unlikely cast of characters engaged in a violent struggle for survival.

Ginger Fairy

1987 • 59 min • Soviet Union

11-year-old Minko is forced to move from a decaying village to the city with his father, mother and sick grandfather. New apartment, school and classmates greet the boy with hostility. This only strengthens his desire to return home, where there is a forest and his friends. But what Minko misses the most is Ginger Fairy, a tame moose he once saved and which disappeared the day he left.

Superfrank!

1987 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Veteran funnyman Frankie Howerd entertains an enthralled audience at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare, England.

Dance of the Stumblers

1987 • 4 min • United States of America

Stick figures dance, fight, and perform acrobatics (but not very well!) to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov.

Indecent Snake Forest

1987 • 60 min • Japan

A plateau of white birch trees. Sarah, a girl who retains her innocence, is taken by her half-sister Shoji to the villa her parents left her. At first glance, it seems like a simple vacation, but what is Sarah obsessed with?

Hollywood Dinosaur Chronicles

1987 • 42 min

Documentary showing how dinosaurs have been used in films. Trailers and scenes from moving about or with dinosaurs are shown.

The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado

1987 • 38 min

A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.

B.B. King & Friends

1987 • 56 min

Live concert recording of B.B. King playing with many guests, including Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Etta James, Dr. John, Paul Butterfield, Billy Ocean & Phil Collins.

Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record

1987 • 58 min

A documentary describing the devastating deterioration of intellectual documents such as pamphlets, photographs, films, drawings, and maps. Assesses the situation, demonstrates preservation and restoration techniques, and suggests ways to prevent deterioration in the future. Features remarks by several experts, writers, and historians, such as James Michener, Barbara Tuchman, Daniel Boorstin, and Vartan Gregorian.

Treacle

1987 • 11 min

Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.

Conton

1987 • 45 min • Japan

A boy's nightmares about being stalked by a demon slowly transform into a terrifying reality.

A Mouse, a Mystery and Me

1987 • 30 min

A Christmas special about a world-class mystery-writing mouse who spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partners tracking down a missing Santa. The special combines live-action footage with an animated character, Alex the mouse.

A Garfield Christmas

1987 • 24 min • United States of America

Garfield, Jon and Odie go to Jon's family farm for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma.

Strings for Violin

1987 • 51 min • Albania

Andon, a young violinist, is seriously studying for the admission competition at the Academy of Fine Arts. Cosmai, the father, thinks his son cannot win the competition without a bit of external help. He mobilizes all his friends and relatives so that his son can be sure to win. Muco, the chairman of the commission, is incapable of judging clearly and bored from all the interventions pours the anger on the young talented violinist.

Nice Coloured Girls

1987 • 17 min • Australia

Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present.

Stockholmsnatt

1987 • 50 min • Sweden

The film is loosely based on a true story about Paolo Roberto, later a professional boxer and TV presenter. Because of his Italian roots, Paolo is dealing with an identity crisis. With an admiration of Kung Fu films and with his teenage aggressions, Paolo practices violence on innocent citizens in Stockholm.

HighWay

1987 • 12 min • Japan

A woman driving alone at night encounter a man covered with blood on the road.

Magic Lantern

1987 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Nazim, a visionary and a dreamer, accidentally finds himself in a cave, where he meets an old woman who has seven sons. Nazim lied to them that he was an excellent student at school and they decided to check him out. And no matter what the boy did, no matter what he said, the "magic lantern" pointed out all his lies…

Nathaniel the Grublet

1987 • 26 min • United States of America

Nathaniel the Grublet tells the story of a young boy Grublet, his dog Snuggles, and his brothers who live on the outskirts of Agapeland. Faced with the temptation to earn a living by stealing like his five dishonest brothers, Nathaniel must choose to live like them or do what he knows is right. Only when he meets "Majesty" does Nathaniel's life begin to change.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Ragazza con gli Occhiali Neri

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

Rusinoita

1987 • 52 min • Finland

Meet the Feebles for kids.

The Man of the Crowd

1987 • 11 min • United Kingdom

"Perhaps the most striking aspect of George Snow’s work is is its visual richness, vitality and sheer exuberance: whether it is a narrative piece or a more abstract and visceral work, his masterly use of electronic colour enhancement, and virtuosity in manipulation of the image result in a visually seductive experience." - LUX

Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports

1987 • 29 min • United States of America

Bob Uecker hosted this show in the mid to late 1980's, featuring sports bloopers and comedy with Mr. Baseball himself.

Price Check

1987 • 6 min

A colorful comedy about an irritating trip to the grocery store.