All Films

Drawn and Quartered

1986 • 4 min

Optically printed images of a man and a woman fragmented by a film frame that is divided into four distinct sections. An experiment in form/content relationships that are peculiar to the medium.

On the Water

1986 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The resourcefulness of friends helped to conquer the huge evil fish.

Nada personal en Obras

1986 • 60 min

Nada personal en Obras is a VHS by Soda Stereo, recorded live in 1986 at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of the tour to present Nada personal, their second studio album. It is the first video album made by the musical group.

Kärleken är allt

1986 • 57 min

Conformity catches up to Hasse and Johanna in this follow up to The Secret

Mommy Mommy Where's My Brain?

1986 • 10 min • United States of America

Part AC/DC, part Jacques Derrida. An experimental film made as a response to the critical theory aspects of the filmmakers degree and academic film criticism.

Return of the Monster Trucks

1986 • 50 min

The Second original Monster Truck video returns with spectacular old-school action on the First Ever monster truck obstacle course, side-by-side car crush drag racing competitions, and unbelievable close-up car crunching . See a monster truck help capture a bad guy by crushing a mobile home, monster truck racing on water, mini-monsters, more. Meet the drivers-own a piece of monster truck history.

Maruhi monzetsu love hotel

1986 • 49 min • Japan

A Trip to the Mountains

1986 • 29 min • Switzerland

While on vacation, a man takes an excursion to an unfamiliar neighbouring country. There, in the alpine confinement, he finds an ideal echo for the rage he had brought with him: rage towards the mountains, civilisation and mentality. At times, a sense of glee even surfaces with this unbridled rage. He needs these forays into the mountains. He uses his anger to get to the bottom of his discomfort.

Introducing 'Scenes from a Marriage'

1986 • 15 min • Sweden

A short documentary about "Scenes from a Marriage" (1973).

Filmbooks

1986 • 15 min

A review of film books old and new.

Le Avventure di Marionetti

1986 • 28 min

Marionetti is a tender, ironic character, always poised between situations of simple comedy (Marionetti/marionette) or sophisticated futuristic atmospheres (Marionetti/Marinetti).

Metamorphose Works No.5 〈Deformation Dismantling and Reconstruction by Rembrandt's Theme〉

1986 • 28 min • Japan

A solemn painting by 17th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly roars, transforming and deconstructing.

Joan Does Dynasty

1986 • 32 min

Joan Braderman talks about and appears in front of a projected version of the soap opera Dynasty.

Thomas Bernhard – Ein Widerspruch. »Die Ursache bin ich selbst«

1986 • 44 min • Austria

Thomas Bernhard in Madrid.

About The Hippopotamus Named Well-Let-It

1986 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A story with a moral about a hippopotamus who misused the expression "well let it", a boastful crocodile, a parrot who, as always, is innocent, a turtle and a wise monkey.

Acid Rain

1986 • 4 min • Canada

Based on Sean O'Huigan's poem Acid Rain, this animated film painted in soft pastels unveils the magical thinking of a carefree little girl. Viewers will delight in the gross comic detail of her fantastic imaginings. While far from a factual treatment of acid rain, the film can inspire activities in art, children's literature studies and film classes while serving as a whimsical introduction to a serious problem.

Rapunsell

1986 • 49 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

1986 • 8 min • United States of America

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased homophobia, sexual discrimination and repression of gays.

Rat Tales

1986 • 50 min

While consuming several bottles of liquor, a veteran member of Alberta's Rat Patrol shows his younger colleague the ropes.

Fraggles Look For Jobs

1986 • 14 min • Canada

Fraggle Rock wrap video taped in 1986, and screened May 16, 1986.

Friskt och sjukt i konsten

1986 • 39 min • Sweden

Documentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed by mental illness.

The Bus Coach Journey

1986 • 60 min • Sweden

Pensioners Alfred, Rut, Sara, Hilma and Bertil are going on an unforgettable bus journey to Holland to meet the spring. During the trip the five recount their lives. Sara's grief, Rut who never got to meet her dad, Hilma and her cottage life and Alfred, who has been in love multiple times.

Life on Ice

1986 • 27 min • Canada

This documentary film focuses on the animal life that survives in this harsh arctic climates at the edge of the ice - from the simple algae to narwhals, polar bears, sea birds, seals, whales and walruses.

The Butthole Surfers Film

1986 • 17 min

1986 performance of the Butthole Surfers, documented on film by NYC filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland.