All Films

Hardworking Old Lady

1986 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A funny story about a cheerful old lady who was tired of her household: an unwashed, always sleepy boy, a lazy cat and mouse and a very lazy and sleepy fly, the old lady fluttered up and flew away to her wonderful and cheerful girlfriends.

The Skateboard Saga

1986 • 8 min • Australia

After a boy is knocked off his orange skateboard by a car, the skateboard continues on its way, developing a mind of its own and wreaking havoc on innocent citizens until it is stopped in its tracks by a clever little old lady with a walking stick. The eight minute saga features live action, animation, claymation, pixelation, stunts, models, puppets, special effects, superheroes, kids, animals, snails, - and no actual dialogue, just music, sound effects and "wordless dialogue" which consists of mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

Morgen

1986 • 22 min • Germany

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Joseph Conrad.

Life in the Saddle

1986 • 20 min • Soviet Union

In 1924 For the first time in the Soviet and world circus, the founder of the dynasty, A. T. Kantemirov, created a group horse riding attraction. The artists of the Kantemirov troupe as trainers, stuntmen and actors took part in the filming of more than 50 domestic films, laying the foundation for a special profession in cinematography - equestrian stuntman.

Curb Dogs

1986 • 25 min

Skaters and BMX riders show off some freestyle tricks. These freestylers demonstrate why the fad turned into a lifestyle choice for many riders and skaters.

Min Tanaka à La Borde

1986 • 24 min • France, Belgium

Japanese butô dancer Min Tanaka performs at La Borde hospital for its residents. The residents reflect on the performance and the collective unconscious on camera. Among the residents speaking, one can spot actor Pierre Clémenti.

L'incident "Jones"

1986 • 8 min • Canada

A short video in three acts that tells the story of an encounter between three men. Possibility, certainty and reality. The place: between Montreal and the Laurentians in the autumn of 1984. The misty and damp atmosphere of late November. The narration is singed by Yves Dionne.

Lucretia

1986 • 10 min • Canada

In an animated film sprinkled with magic and stardust, an impish little girl from Hades turns common assumptions topsy turvy. Lucretia is very curious about Christmas, a subject she has never heard spoken of above a whisper. One Christmas Eve she sneaks away and, after searching the galaxy, discovers Christmas on Earth in the company of a new-found friend. Based on the poem Lucretia by author-journalist Peter Desbarats.

Dialogues

1986 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The film is based on the concert of "Pop Mechanics" under the direction of Sergey Kuryokhin.

When the Fog Is Swept Away

1986 • 41 min • Turkey

Documents rapidly vanishing old houses and craftsmen in the mountainous eastern Black Sea region. The nail-less dovecoting construction of old log cabins withstands earthquakes. Sites in villages like Savsat were chosen both for their protection from snow and avalanches, and built on the poorest soil to leave the meagre arable areas for cultivation. In Ikizdere there are still stone and half-timbered structures. All these spacious homes are notable for their interior panelled walls and ceiling, elaborately carved and embellished. Various other techniques in Sumene and Rize are illustrated.

Socrates Sculpture Park: Ø to ∞

1986 • 23 min

In this memorable footage, Dirk Van Dall combines time lapse video and interviews to capture the community-driven, Herculean initiative to create Socrates Sculpture Park in 1986.

Alice in TV-land

1986 • 25 min • Japan

A modern-day version of Alice in Wonderland using CGI technology. This is a visual fantasy co-starring a girl, who plays Alice, and a CGI "rabbit."

Der Empfindliche

1986 • 4 min • Germany

Mylène Farmer: Libertine

1986 • 11 min

The action takes place in the middle of the 18th century in France. A young woman and the man prepared to enter into a duel with pistols, in the presence of woman in the red. Libertine kills a person and flees on a white horse, while the woman in red is threatening revenge.

Artificial Paradise

1986 • 13 min • United States of America

Aztec romance and the dream of love. The anthropologist’s most human desire, the ultimate contact with the informant. The denial of intellectualism and the acceptance of the romantic heart, and a soul without innocence. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Mañana de cobre

1986 • 47 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Monkey Business

1986 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Computer animation / live action short. In a boy's room, his toys come to live to combat the giant ape on his TV.

El pararrayos

1986 • 5 min • Cuba

Animated sketch dedicated to Benjamin Franklin's inventiveness.

Rooster travel

1986 • 24 min • France, Mexico

Laura Pesce presents the story of a rooster that travels from the countryside to Mexico City, where through images, she is showing the daily life of the inhabitants of this city, the tianguis, the nightlife, the periphery of the city and the fairs.

78 Tours

1986 • 4 min • Switzerland

A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time.

House-Warming At Brother Rabbit's Home

1986 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Sulanca

1986 • 41 min • Brazil

The Feira da Sulanca still exists as a famous market in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, that sells and exports items for the national clothing industry. While these markets were once an unfriendly place for women, who were struggling to make a living, Katia Mesel’s ‘Sulanca’ documents the economic revolution of the women of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe: seamstresses who, through collaboration and willpower, managed to make lives for themselves and change the socioeconomic landscape of Brazil’s most neglected region.

Kiss Me Goodbye

1986 • 3 min • United States of America

Zedd plays D.B. Shane, a dead star who visits a fan in her dreams, kisses her then kills her.

The Bombing of Osage Avenue

1986 • 58 min

Describes the confrontation between Philadelphia Police and members of the MOVE organization on Mother's Day, 1985, which left 11 men, women and children members of MOVE dead and 61 homes destroyed by fire. The events are situated in the history of Blacks in Philadelphia, the MOVE organization, and the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. All this is explored through historical photographs, interviews and footage of the confrontation and its resulting hearings.