All Films

La Première Mort de Nono

1987 • 12 min

Nono is in love with Raphaël, but he falls ill and leaves him. Hoping to find him there, Nono hangs around in a strange bar where an old man makes advances towards him.

Lynx Reel

1987 • 15 min • Japan

Why do people wave their hands when they say goodbye? We embarked on a dream journey from Borges' The Circular Ruins. Filmed in 16mm by the Japanese Isao Yamada, filmmaker, graphic artist and manga author.

Eugene Levy Discovers Home Safety

1987 • 45 min

A home and outdoor safety video released for kids. Eugene Levy watches a video that contains cartoon scenarios of the dangers found in and around the house, and how to avoid and prevent them.

The Lesson

1987 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A Soviet Armenian animation from the glasnost era about cosmonauts invading a serene planet where they pay a price for their cruel actions.

Power Porridge

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

We all like porridge. And Seryozha too.

Water Lily

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon based on the tales of the Bondarenko brothers about how the bear Heavy Paw took away the water lily from the hare, which he was carrying for his birthday.

Memória do Sangue

1987 • 12 min • Brazil

Ninety years after the War of Canudos, descendants from the region reaffirm the fight for land on the banks of the Cocorobó reservoir.

Two of Us

1987 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Matthew is a boy who just left school. He is handsome and athletic and believes himself to be gay. He retains a friendship with only one school friend, Phil, who has stuck by Matthew despite hostile reactions from his peers. As their relationship grows more intense, Phil's girlfriend Sharon and his classmates become vindictive and aggressive. The two friends find themselves ostracized by both friends and family and decide to run away.

The Little Stray

1987 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A first-person account of the difficult life of a stray hound.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Parete della Stanza Accanto

1987 • 46 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

Margaret Perry: Filmmaker

1987 • 24 min • Canada

Margaret Perry, now in her eighties, is the unsung heroine of the Nova Scotia film industry. For over a quarter of a century, she shot, directed, wrote and edited all the tourist films for the province. Through her camera, we view changes in the landscape, in lifestyles, and in film technology.

Secrets of the Unknown: The Titanic

1987 • 26 min • United States of America

Hosted by Edward Mulhare, Secrets of the Unknown: The Titanic unravels the mysteries surrounding the 1912 sea disaster which sent 1,500 people to a watery grave in the mid-Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg. Did the luxury liner's crew have fair warning, but fail to react appropriately? The program presents new evidence and insights into the calamity which still baffles historians.

Secrets of the Unknown: Big Foot

1987 • 26 min • United States of America

Big Foot brings together eyewitnesses who relate their encounters with the legendary and mysterious creature. The film probes the intriguing question of whether Big Foot, Sasquatch, and Yeti are myth or reality. Film highlights include possible authentic footage of the beasts.

Bloopermania

1987 • 56 min

Bloopermania is a side-splitting romp through Hollywood’s lost film vaults of outtakes brimming with “more stars than there are in heaven”. Literally right off the cutting room floor comes this raw, uncluttered footage as you’ve never seen it before. See: Rod Serling screw up a Twilight Zone intro. Soupy Sales’ nude girl prank, W.C Fields’ earthquake blooper, Lou Costello pulls a surprise out of his pants, Boris Karloff blows his scenes, Charlie Chan curses, Errol Flynn falls off his horse, Ronald Reagan uncensored, McHale’s Navy & F-Troop guys engage in politically incorrect humor, Goofs from Laugh-In, TV westerns like Gunsmoke, & much more!

Etuda z alba

1987 • 3 min • Czechoslovakia

Etuda z alba, Michaela Pavlátová's first short animation, is about a long married couple and their way of coping with divergences of opinion.

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin

1987 • 8 min • Sweden

A short film about the events of life taking place in a sink.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Zampa del Gatto

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

Secrets of the Unknown: Tornadoes

1987 • 27 min • United States of America

Tornadoes explores nature's deadly spirals. Highlights include actual footage of the violent force and the mass destruction that tornadoes create.

Foontic and the Old Woman With a Mustache

1987 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Dressed in a men's costume, Belladonna tries to kidnap Foontic. She is assisted by the dim-witted police chief Foxtrot and the fussy detectives Dober and Pincher.

Secrets of the Unknown: Life After Death

1987 • 26 min • United States of America

Life After Death explores the ultimate unknown through the beliefs of various cultures. Hear what people have to say who have had near-death experiences. Peer into the next life for answers to this age-old mystery.

Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

1987 • 7 min

Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a woman. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the “gaze”.

Taxi Driver Two

1987 • 7 min • United Kingdom

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the hyper-reality of the media world, he joins Robert de Niro evening classes, but also falls under the pastoral influence of Johnny Morris. From the opening images of night-time, car-ridden streets accompanied by languorous sax on the soundtrack, through to the sub-Chandleresque voice-over narration, Taxi Driver II strikes you with its clever knowingness. But it's more than just a clever nod in the direction of contemporary film noir, just as it's more than an incestuous joke at the expense of the London based media world: it's a telling comment on the contemporary media culture of postmodernism.

The Femme Fatale Meets the Ideal Man

1987 • 13 min • Brazil

A poor woman is visited by the fairy godmother who turns her into a brilliant movie and TV star.

Comrade Lady

1987 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.