1986 Movies

Debut studio feature from Zhang Jianya.

Children’s film from Peng Xiaolian.

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...

Meticulous stop-motion techniques, brilliant set-design and an eerie percussive musical score distinguish this unlikely mini-epic about a showdown bet...

This experimental film, reminiscent of Csontváry's paintings, creates the character of the "Lenz" of the 20th century. The hyper-sensitive polihistor...

A biographical documentary about the actor Long Lance.

An experimental short film about birth and death.

In Newfoundland for the 1986 Sound Symposium Fest, I stayed at the home of Isabelle St. John and Paul Steffler on the Harbor (just below the hill, Sig...

Fair Doctrine is a newsreel documentary covering a variety of political subjects during the 1980's that never received major media coverage in the U.S...

A film by Michael Mideke

A film by Michael Mideke

A Super-8 film by Scott Stark

The story of the mafia, who wants to prevent him, with a journalist who prepared a series about drugs and white woman trafficking in his newspaper.

A film by Dietmar Brehm

Artifice and reality, identity and disguise, representation and transformation are woven through a powerful pastiche of theatrical performance, mass c...

In Lynn Hershman’s Confessions of a Chameleon the artist shares intimate but highly suspect stories about her past. To cover her tracks, Hershman unsw...

According to director Bob Visser, Plan Delta (from 1983) is a 'time fiction', a film that examines rising sea levels in the future. Around the year 23...