All Films

Romance

1986 • 6 min

In this vibrant moving painting, Fitzgerald animates her video canvas with symbols of love and romance. Set to original music by Peter Gordon, Romance merges vivid expressionistic imagery of men, women and animals with landscape. Her strong palette of color unfolds across screen, palpitating with organic form. With a witty visual style reminiscent of Paul Klee, Fitzgerald evokes sexual passion, romantic love and conflict.

Raleigh: The First Few Weeks

1986 • 19 min • United Kingdom

Follows the daily lives of new naval ratings, from their arrival at training establishment HMS Raleigh, beginning the first phase of their training and onwards to the day of their passing out parade.

Almost as Good as Christmas

1986 • 5 min

The swirling lights, the shimmering colors intertwine in a symphony of electric movements. Three little tricks and the evocation of the special atmosphere of funfairs at night summon memories and emotions from childhood. The mix of swirling colors and juxtaposition of sounds evoke Christmas and all the excitement that comes with it.

Invent, Little Wonder

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

An animated film for children on the theme of childhood fantasy.

House Music in Chicago

1986 • 14 min

Short documentary about the House Music movement in Chicago, featuring DJ, Frankie Knuckles and music group, JM Silk. This is filmed at their record release party at the Powerhouse Nightclub in Chicago in 1986.

War of the Monster Trucks

1986 • 50 min

The 3rd original Monster Truck video brings the most spectacular display of legendary Raw Power yet. Witness one of the first Monster Truck Rollovers, trucks in the air, car crunching in reverse, wheel stands, car crush eliminations, monster tank, tug-o-war, mud bogging, ugly truck contest, Monster Truckin' in Australia, death-defying straight jacket escape, and more.

The Last Visit of the Martians

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how the Martians got to a Belarusian village for a wedding.

鏗鏘集：移民有價

1986 • 24 min

documentary about Hong Kong citizens immigrated to America, Canada and Australia, due to the uncertainty future of Hong Kong

The Magician and the Flower Girl

1986 • 13 min

As the wind blows away the magician's magic top hat, a multitude of hats in various colors, shapes, and materials scatter across the landscape. With the unexpected loss of his hat, the magician finds himself unemployed and eventually joins the circus, while the top hat ends up in a florist's shop. Yet, even there, it continues to produce new hats, reuniting the magician with both his original hat and the florist.

Kanbak-Shal and the Giant

1986 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Based on the Kazakh folk tale about the merry adventures of the cunning hero Kanbak - Shala.

Disaster

1986 • 17 min • Poland

A film interpretation of an interesting theory by French scientist Rene Thom, concerning certain events that occur in biology, physics, and economics in a violent way, involving a change of structure or state. This theory allows for a better understanding of phenomena occurring in the world around us.

Flight from Vatersay

1986 • 40 min

Life on a remote Hebridean island. One young man emigrates to Glasgow hoping for a job and a brighter future.

The Cabal of Hell

1986 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A masked giant exterminates people with cold blooded cruelty on the streets of Leningrad.

Ten Days in Holloway

1986 • 40 min

An inside view of Holloway Prison, reflecting the immense problems and tensions of Britain's largest and toughest women's jail.

Em Nome da Lei

1986 • 4 min

Panorama of authoritarianism and oppression, through three characters who move in sync with the musical score.

These Places Are Valuable For Me

1986 • 14 min • Soviet Union

Pre-accident records, weekdays of the liquidators and trips to the pioneer camp to the evacuated teenagers from Pripyat.

Daddy

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

This small satirical film, through the means of a puppet film, addresses the drinking Vice in our lives.

Behind the TASS Message Line. Salute 7

1986 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Follows the unique expedition to the "dead" station of cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savin

Everything is going well

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film’s protagonist, P. Pūras, has dedicated his life to working diligently at the Žiežmariai clinic. He is not a doctor, yet the institution’s daily operations would be unimaginable without him—he is a jack-of-all-trades: driver, electrician, plumber. He performs every task willingly and joyfully, never engaging in conflict with others or himself, never questioning whether helping someone will bring him any benefit. He simply works, and that brings him satisfaction. Šablevičius portrays a man who maintains his optimism and inner clarity in any situation.

Recess V

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon consists of three mini-cartoons: "Not divided," about two schoolchildren who shared a book so much that they tore it up. "The Power of the Word", about a schoolboy who taught something, but mixed everything into such a "mess". "It's cold, it's cold, it's cold," about a boy who hid his diary, and his parents searched everywhere for him.

Felelj szépen, ha kérdeznek!

1986 • 5 min • Hungary

a Béla Vajda Cartoon

Mom on the Tree

1986 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Earth Stone

1986 • 37 min • Japan

I wanted to make a film about an alien wandering around in a field somewhere, observing nature. As he marvels at insects and focuses on wormholes in the leaves, the sun sets and dawn breaks, and then the sun sets and dawn breaks again. There are many familiar things on Earth, but when they get wet from the rain or when we shine a flashlight on them, they seem unusual, like moon rocks. The film is double run Super 8. It's the same width as 16mm film, but after development it's cut in half to make Super 8 film. It's not double 8.

Inside

1986 • 5 min

Dream and architecture merge in this work. A large mall is extended into an endless tunnel, which is then revealed to be a unit in a honeycomb of similar spaces.