All Films

Kelimba

1986 • 10 min

Alternating between recognizable and abstract picture worlds, between theoretical reflection and lush sensuality is the main distinguishing characteristic of Peter Tscherkassky's work. That is particularly true when he concerns himself with filmic space. In Kelimba moving plastic objects are inserted, one after another, in a completely flat picture space. At the same time the processes of movement are subjected to a repetitive rhythm and thus transformed into a dance.

Voluntary

1986 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The cook wrote: "Of his own free will" and he was fired from the canteen. The cook took his bag, diploma: "For the best chef", and together with his favorite - a ginger cat - went to look for a new job.

The Garden of Eating

1986 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A short stop-motion collage film that constructs a garden out of materials and objects such as flowers, beads, plastic cellophane, candles, even ketchup and mustard. The soundtrack is the same as in Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart, the first ‘collage film’.

Esquisse d'un portrait

1986 • 7 min • France

Ppii

1986 • 2 min • United States of America

Inspired by Christo, a Christmas celebration wrapping (with red and green ribbons) of a seaside house in Puerto Pinesco, Mexico. (16mm / color / sound)

Who Takes the Rap – Immigration

1986 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Who Takes the Rap – Immigration covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to 1986. The film describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws, which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as ‘undesirable.’ Footage of the Garners’ Steak House strike and the Grunwick strike is included to show how these workers fought back against racism. Specific laws are examined, and the film includes interviews with a number of immigrant women. The voices of two female rappers provide commentary throughout.

Of Lives Uprooted

1986 • 10 min

The civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala are described by the children of those country through their words and drawings, based on their experiences in their home countries and the refugee camps. This film was adapted from an exhibition entitled Disrupted Lives which was organized by Linda Dale and sponsored by INTER-PARES and CUSO.

Celebración del Matrimonio

1986 • 29 min • United States of America

Celebración del Matrimonio begins with an historical overview of Hispanic marriage customs, noting how they mirror customs in Spain, Mexico, and North Africa that were brought to the Southwest by the region's first colonists in 1598. Then in the village of El Rito the film follows the entire nuptial sequence - from betrothal through the grand celebration - and shows how it incorporates forms of cultural, artistic, and religious expression unique to the region. The beautifully restored Church of San Juan Nepomuceno, with its painted altar screen, retablos, and carved saints; the ritual of the marriage ceremony itself; and finally the entriega, sung to guitar accompaniment and welcoming the couple into the community, are all aspects of the wedding that reveal the essential values of the culture.

Swan

1986 • 3 min • United Kingdom

A white swan prepares for flight, flexing and caressing, extending and folding its wings repeatedly as if bracing for a long journey. The close-up images of the swan are de-contextualised via repetition and framing; abstracting the natural form until it becomes a blank screen, which the viewer can project their own meaning onto.

Dance Shadows by Danelle Helander

1986 • 3 min • United States of America

At the Art Cinema in Boulder, Colorado, the Sunday Associates staged an adaptation of Jane Brakhage's story of Caesar's invasion of Britain, "Caswallon the Headhunter." I contributed a hand-painted film loop, as part of the special effects, as well as making two films during rehearsals: 1) the first dance film I've made, DANCE SHADOWS BY DANELLE HELANDER and 2) a film which meditates upon the unique process of creativity engendered by Denise Judson and the Sunday Associates in production, THE AERODYNE (Webster: "heavier-than-air aircraft that derives its lift in flight from forces resulting from its motion through air") - the latter two films silent.

Sontag Platz

1986 • 6 min • United States of America

SONTAG PLATZ (1982) is a word to Paul Klee. The first film upon which I painted. The texture here is smoother and the forms closed more than in theater films. Still I was occupied with the concerns I held dear as a painter.

Ulama

1986 • 60 min

The story of sport of Mayas

Seat Belts: The Lifesaving Habit

1986 • 20 min

People from the eighties make excuses for not wearing their seatbelts.

Muybridge Revisited

1986 • 5 min

Iconic images by photo-pioneer Eadweard Muybridge come to life in this striking video collage.

Monet is Monet

1986 • 5 min • France

Round Trip

1986 • 4 min • France

Quest: A Long Ray's Journey Into Light

1986 • 4 min • United States of America

Early experimental computer animated film produced in 1986 at Apollo Computer. Directed by Michael Sciulli and Melissa White and released the same year as Pixar's Luxo Jr.

Question d'identité

1986 • 53 min

A question of identity? First of all what they claim: their city, their Kabylie, their 20 years. Young people from immigrant backgrounds, Farid, Naguib and Abdel Ouab Taalba claim all the more clearly their desire to be young: to be themselves. At the time when they may be summoned to declare their identity, they say let us our questions. Their place? It's a diary of immigrant youth, a boxing gym, a faculty, but also the suburban commute, the trip to Kabylia. The shooting of the film? It was during six months, the young people and the filmmaker, alone with the image and the sound. The time for questions to arise.

Der Fater

1986 • 25 min • Germany

Collage of 30s original black and white films made by the filmmaker's father, and new color films. The intention of the film is to share through the eyes of the girl, the sequences shot by the father, which showed his patriarchal and colonialist point of view, his images of himself and his sexual fantasies. In this sense, it is a film about the problematic relationship, libidinous as well as critical, between a father and his daughter.

The Discovery of the Phonograph

1986 • 6 min • United States of America

D.ei.n.

1986 • 8 min • France

Ce vo a pacienza a magna e carcioffole

1986 • 22 min • France

17 Rooms or What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?

1986 • 10 min • United Kingdom

What do lesbians do in bed? With a star-studded soundtrack, we're shown women doing everything in bed from knitting and drinking tea to having raucous pillow-fights.

Stories From the Old Ruin

1986 • 15 min

Irit Batsry’s hallucinatory soundtrack and disturbing images create an eerie and all too realistic narrative of destruction and ruin. This is a faked report of an imaginary investigation of an event that never happened. Batsry’s purposeful avoidance of documentary only serves to give her allusions to impending disaster more force. Batsry borrows her images largely from the commercial media; pictures of a sprinter, two Oriental women fending off the camera with their hands, a figure skater; all dissolve and are reconstructed electronically so that their ordinariness and lifeless stillness seem a cover for erotic passions and rapid motion. -lux.org.uk