All Films

Lemon-chan Risa Hayakawa

1986 • 30 min • Japan

Starting with an embarrassing confession, a film crew forces an actress into bizarre experiments that include lemons.

Sune Mangs - en bred underhållare

1986 • 60 min • Finland, Sweden

Portrait documentary of the Finnish-Swedish actor Sune Mangs.

Little Eddy

1986 • 1 min

A man looks into the camera.

One in a Million

1986 • 17 min • United States of America

This film is about a teenager who struggles over his purpose and meaning in life. One day, he saves a child’s life and tells his girlfriend that that act may have been the reason he was born. That weekend, while cleaning his mom’s attic, he discovers in her diary that he was never born. At that moment, he ceases to exist and because he never existed, the child he had saved is killed because he wasn’t there to save him.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 10

1986 • 57 min

Plus 6 TITBITS magic moments. Starring pneumatic MICHELLE ANGELO romping in a mountain stream with her nudist girlfriend, vivadous VICKI LANE, luscious ANN COOPER and cute little MICKEY JINES, with 4 other fetchingly full nude figure model immortals induding the rare ‘Japanese Glamour Girl’.

Crocodile Conspiracy

1986 • 13 min • United States of America

This charming tale focuses on Willa Ledbetter, an African American middle-aged school teacher in Watts, and her longing to visit her parent's homeland of Cuba. In the face of unexpected political and familial pressures to forego her dream, Willa struggles to make her decision. The title of the film refers to the shape of the island - the crocodile being its national symbol - and the menace socialist Cuba represents to many people in Willa's world.

Oraingoz izen gabe

1986 • 45 min

Ramón and Manuel, brothers, live alone in the mountain. One day, Ramón arrives home with a prostitute, who disturbs their monotonous and peaceful life.

Edge

1986 • 12 min

War and violence against women in videos and on the news.’This short, named after Sylvia Plath’s last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter; icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy. She is also a mother drawing her two children with her into this death-in-life. Edge is the irony, which is the poet’s defiance. And it is the blade … how far can those controllers go with their instruments and armaments and still act as though our pieces and feelings can be stuck together again? There is no illusion of the woman’s ‘resistance’. Yet in this theme of woman as medical and war guinea-pig the silent scream becomes audible in lines of poetry and song.

The Suicide Squeeze

1986 • 27 min

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

Querido amigo

1986 • 45 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Mayami: Between Cut and Action

1986 • 14 min

Artifice and reality, identity and disguise, representation and transformation are woven through a powerful pastiche of theatrical performance, mass cultural appropriation and fragmented narrative. Deconstructing an episode of TV's Miami Vice that features crude representations of Latino drug dealers, Labat constructs a multilayered psychological drama of converging realities. In a studio (the space between "cut" and "action"), artists Tony Oursler and Winston Tong provide commentary. Playing out a tragic drama with dolls, Tong also tapes his eyelids down and applies make-up, transforming himself from Asian to Caucasian, male to female. In a final confrontation of identity, Tong steps through the enlarged television image, devoid of masks or make-up.

The Reel Thing Tingles

1986 • 5 min

Experimental short film by Dean Snider.

Black Fire

1986 • 5 min

Gorewitz employs an ancient metaphor drawn from Jewish ritual in Black Fire. The light of a flame used by Jewish mystics as a source of contemplation is transposed by Gorewitz into a collage of ominous, erupting images. Juxtaposing scenes of urban decay with pastoral landscapes, he ultimately transforms the screen into a burnished, glowing icon that echoes the ritual's origin.

Ceasefire: Countrysides

1986 • 10 min • Philippines

Repetitive camera movements combined with protest songs to produce a strident political statement.

The Arrow of Time

1986 • 50 min

From the point of view of science: what is time?

Europe in Five Minutes

1986 • 14 min • Brazil

A short film by Eder Santos

Varokaa heikkoa jäätä

1986 • 3 min

A children's winter safety PSA starring the Pikku Kakkonen mascots.

Indigenous Summer in Geneva

1986 • 52 min • Switzerland, Norway, Denmark

A documentary following Indigenous struggles in the Americas and the pursuit for audience at the United Nations.

Tratwa

1986 • 3 min • Poland

Obscenidades

1986 • 10 min • Brazil

A bourgeois housewife's life is shaken by a series of anonymous letters that she periodically receives, increasingly obscene. At first, she believes the sender to be a complete stranger, then she begins to suspect her husband's friends. But she doesn't dare talk to her husband about the letters or their contents: she remains anxious, thinking about suicide, and always waiting for the postman.

Amber

1986 • 3 min

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

Donna Weiss

1986 • 25 min • United States of America

Portrait of Donna Weiss, a Philadelphia singer and songwriter, who is blind. Her career began at Philadelphia's Suburban Station where passers-by have been serenaded by her for many years. With her guide dog Conner, Donna negotiates her route through the city, performs in a local restaurant, and shows how she copes with blindness

Famous Dogs

1986 • 3 min

Wild times at the dog show.

Soldier and Imp

1986 • 32 min • Soviet Union

Based on Russian fairytales.