All Films

Gyurmatek: Mi Kozom Hozza

1986 • 10 min

Animation by Varga Csaba

Yes Frank No Smoke

1986 • 6 min • United Kingdom

George Barber deconstructs two feature films, The Blue Lagoon and The Deep, pillaging ‘moments’ which when re-edited constitute a new totality.

A Boy as a Boy

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The boy possessed an ability to turn into different animals and birds with the help of his imagination. Adults react in different ways: parents worry, and the doctor considers it to be absolutely healthy. His teacher managed to find mutual understanding with him.

The Charles Pathé-Babies

1986 • 12 min • Belgium

The 13th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. The Pathé-Baby, or ‘cinema at home’, the precursor to home cinema, was launched in 1922 and made it possible to watch comedy stars such as Max Linder, Laurel and Hardy, and Felix the Cat, as well as ‘big films’ such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Abel Gance's Napoléon, at home.

Der Führer kommt

1986 • 12 min • Austria

A brief introduction of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. With the emphasis on Der Führer's ambition to clean Germany from harmful, undesirable and degenerate art and culture (Entartete Kunst). Presented by children and teenagers from the Friedrichhofer Commune, Zurndorf/ Burgenland, Austria.

Nakounine

1986 • 6 min • Switzerland

A bicycle ride through the streets of Shanghai between spring and summer 1984, from the suburbs to the center of the city.

The Duality of Nature

1986 • 2 min

“The Duality of Nature is an experimental video that deals with the 'duality of nature', in other words natural nature and technical nature. Nature is always a construction, whether in dynamic processes, dis-analog systems or physical, technical signals. 'Nature' formulates the organizational forms of representational strategies - symbolic structures, both in reality and in fiction. Where are the borders, the interfaces, the de-bordering and the analogies for ‘natural’ nature and ‘technical’ nature? These considerations provided the basis for the video.” – VALIE EXPORT

Baby Bound

1986 • 28 min • United States of America

This film is made up of interviews from preteens to adults discussing their thoughts and feelings on sex, relationships, and parenting in relation to teen pregnancy.

All Under Heaven

1986 • 58 min

The village elders of Long Bow recount tales of famine, drought, disease, and exploitation before explicating various shifts in the political line - from the land reforms of 1949 and the collectivization of the early 50s, through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the current Four Modernizations.

Mid Air

1986 • 16 min • United Kingdom

Short by Vera Neubauer.

REALFilm

1986 • 48 min • Germany, East Germany

This multimedia collage, which includes performances by pantomime artist and dancer Fine Kwiatkowski, painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck and musician Robert Linke, is a reflection on the medium of film and its elements: sound, light and movement. Dammbeck’s goal is to cleanse these elements of ideology and commerce and compose a new film out of them. The process is played out in the space in real time.

Brewers Droop

1986 • 5 min • United Kingdom

The boss makes a surprise visit with some new business proposals. Made for 'Beer and Skittles', a series of short animated films centred around pubs.

Machiko Wadachi: Hot and Abnormal Skin

1986 • 50 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

José José: Secretos y Reflexiones

1986 • 50 min

Live concert from Puerto Rico recorded in 1985.

Skate Witches

1986 • 2 min • United States of America

Punk rock auteur, Danny Plotnick shot his YouTube classic "Skate Witches" in one afternoon in 1986 on Super 8 film at a cost of $60. In it, a group of teenage female skatepunks (and their pet rats) terrorize boy skaters.

Witches, Warlocks & Wizards

1986 • 22 min

Jonathan Harris is the entertaining host & narrator. Witches, Warlocks & Wizards gives a history of witches, their male counterparts, and wizards using pictures, silent movies, older talkies, and some new (at the time) movies.

Elephant and Warbler

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Every year a warbler flies to warmer climes, where her friend Elephant is waiting for her.

Violent Incident: Man-Woman, Segment

1986 • 30 min

In this video work Bruce Nauman explores violence, gender and behaviour. Set around a simple middle class dining table, the scene quickly escalates into a slapstick fight between a man and a woman. Their actions become increasingly more erratic and aggressive yet also ridiculous and cartoon-like as the video progresses. Nauman explores the ways in which anger can be provoked by others and questions the way we can react to them. Much like many of his other artworks, he employs the use of humour and exaggeration to explore serious and even dangerous topics - he produced this work as a result of his frustration with futile acts of violence in ordinary life. He explains, “The viewer is presented with a hypnotic repetition of pointlessly cruel and destructive violence which is both seductive and alienating.”

Oliver Twist

1986 • 46 min

Oliver Twist, orphaned, is raised by a wicked and abusive tutelage, Mr. Bimble. However, an old man who knows about Oliver's family looks for Oliver to rescue him.

Red Shift

1986 • 50 min • Sweden

This magnus opus is a domestic symphony from a woman's point of view, the portrait of a grandmother, mother and child and their home. The women and their personal objects are mostly seen alone or relating to one another (except for touching scenes of the grandmother and grandfather together). A key aspect of Red Shift is the reading of selections from Calamity Jane's "Diaries," the most narrative aspect of the film. The Diaries are read against activities seen through a window, life passing by (people walking in winter, a river flowing). They tell how Jane lost her daughter and had to survive by using her talents to act like a tough and physically competitive man...

Fairy Tales of Grandfather Yegor

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About how grandfather Yegor, telling fairy tales, captivates children playing on the street and brings them to school on time.

My Life Without Steve

1986 • 53 min • Australia

Through the story of one woman’s year in a room with a view, the film catches its audience up in the collective memories of all those who have loved and lost. Through a study of Liz’s obsession and loneliness, the film mixes the particular with the universal to cover the whole gamut of feelings and theories about lost love. Ranging from the popular to the more erudite, snatches of songs, quotes and diary jottings are all stitched together with stories from Liz’s past and descriptions in minutiae of her current existence. The B side of love is richly played out through the words of an A team of interpreters from Split Enz, Laurie Anderson and Bob Dylan to Freud, Marge Piercy, Collete and Roland Barthes.

My Blood, Your Blood

1986 • 51 min

A BBC documentary on the mid-'80s rock scene in Poland, focusing on performers at the Jarocin '86 music festival.

You Bust Your Bunns

1986 • 6 min • United States of America

Starting in 1985, Montañez Ortiz begins a series of what he calls “digital/laser/videos”; he makes a large number of these “arresting, provocative and suggestive” works