1986 Movies

Production Notes allows us to eavesdrop on the business decisions behind the creation of seven TV ads by means of repetition, slow motion, and “produc...

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 ima...

A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television.

A short stop-motion collage film that constructs a garden out of materials and objects such as flowers, beads, plastic cellophane, candles, even ketch...

A showcase of the best animation from the USA, The National Film Board of Canada, and The CBC-Radio Canada/Canadian Independent Animators includes int...

The first part of the “Maxhütte Cycle”, featuring six scenes from the control room of the old rolling mill at Maxhütte-Unterwellenborn. The camera fol...

Caught in the infernal trap that a mother prepares for her son, will Cora, a diabolical beauty whose strong personality dominates her torturers, be ab...

The aim of this film was to develop awareness of the dangers of infectious disease. Agriculture was beginning to rapidly intensify when overland refug...

Crystal Light Aerobics Competition, held in 1985, was the first of its kind. Since then, competitive aerobics has become a popular sport. Highlights o...

Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.

Tells the story of two hunters who, after a time-travel mishap, must escape the jaws of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex.

This film portrait of Ethna Duffy (and myself by implication) summarizes several years between us. It consists of images collected between 1974 and 19...

"Phantoms was a transitional film for Swann in that it marked a watershed between her previous work in tape slide with its basis in the manipulation o...

Who Takes the Rap – Immigration covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to 1986. The film describes how different groups of immigra...

Resonating with a melancholy poetry, J.S. Bach is a subjective essay that merges a reflection on identity and the creative process with a lyrical docu...

A film that affords you a glimpse into a world you were never meant to see: the hidden world of animal experimentation where grant-hungry, pseudo scie...