Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986)

Michael Barrack plays artist Michael Mikaele

Mike B. Anderson plays fellow artist Greg(as Mikel B. Anderson)

Michael in his studio at the short factory brewing coffee through a t-shirt

The phone in Michael's studio

A button marked with 'art' flashes when he receives a call

One of Michael's T-shirt designs

Michael is told he has made a mistake with one of his designs

Fellow artist Greg working on a t-shirt design

Greg talks to a girl at a party telling her that Michael designed the t-shirt she is wearing

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Michael is a commercial artist working with fellow artist Greg in a t shirt factory making the artwork screen printed onto shirts. Michael feels unfulfilled in his job making joke t-shirts with slogans such as "Tennis Players Do It With Fuzzy Balls" emblazoned on them and a boss who tortures him by playing loud motivational recordings into his art studio.

One of the popular designs is a t-shirt with Foxy Lady written onto it at the beginning of the film we see a masked man attack a woman wearing the foxy lady t-shirt. As the film progresses we learn the significance of this and why Michael is currently in a psychiatric ward.

Ring a Ring a Rosy - West Country Tales (1983)

Nanette Newman play artist Ellen

Ellen and her daughter Rosie

At the start of the film Ellen is painting a portrait of Rosie

Ellen painting Rosie outside their cottage

Rosie comes and looks at the portrait

While Ellen goes inside Rosie takes the paintbrush and paints onto the portrait

The spoiled portrait

Ellen asks Rosie not to paint onto her portrait and encourages her to finish her own painting of a flying bird. Rosie is upset as she doesn't like her own painting.

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West Country Tales was a series of short films made for TV in the 1980s, they are supernatural tales based on stories and folklore from the West Country. 

This tale is about a mother and her daughter in the 19th century living on their own in the countryside. Her husband had died overseas leaving enough money to provide for Ellen and their child Rosie who has learning difficulties, the narrator says "Rosie, caught in perpetual childhood".  She has a tendency to destroy property, in the very first scene we see her ruin the portrait her mother has made of her. As the film goes on we discover she has a penchant for killing animals too.

Lu bing hua (1989)

Kwan Yuen Wong plays artist Ah-Ming

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A tragic tale of a young 8 year old artist Ah-Ming, who has a great talent and love for painting and drawing. His teacher recognises his talent and wants to enter him into a painting competition, but Ah-Ming's family are very poor and the school choose the mayor's son to represent them. The teacher leaves the school in an act of protest and enters Ah-Ming's work into the competition anyway, which wins the top prize. The ending is however not a happy one for Ah-Ming as he does not live long enough to find out he has won.

Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics (1989)

Daniel Stern plays artist Mat

The artist Mat being fired from his office job while wearing sunglasses

Mat making a stalkery artwork from an old love letter from his ex-girlfriend.
Here we see him blowing up the letter using a photocopier

Mat the artist in his studio cutting up the photocopies he has made from his ex's letter to make his art

Mat's ex arrives home with her new boyfriend and they discover Mat's artwork in the fridge
(all the food wrapped in her love letter)

Mat's ex girlfriend also discovers he has made a paper sheet for her bed using her old love letter

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The Moderns (1988)

Keith Carradine plays the artist Nick Hart

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Nick Hart is an expatriate American fictional artist living in Paris among some of the great artists and writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas.

Nick is torn between his wife Rachel and Nathalie de Ville who hires him to forge her paintings. He must also contend with Rachel's current husband, Bertram Stone, who does not know that his wife is still married to another man.

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Paperhouse (1988)

Charlotte Burke plays artist Anna Madden

Anna's original drawing of the house

We see that Anna was drawing the picture of the house in class at school

 Anna is sent out of class for arguing with another girl over her drawing book

 She faints in the hallway and whilst she is unconscious she sees the house she has drawn

 The empty house from the dream

 Her doctor comes to visit as she has a high fever, she is told to rest in bed until she is well, Anna is very unhappy about staying in bed. The doctor tells her she has another patient who is a boy who is so ill he never gets to leave bed, Anna says she would rather die than be bedridden

 Whilst in bed Anna draws a person to visit in the house she has drawn

 The face she draws comes out unhappy, she tries to erase the sad mouth but it won't work

 She falls asleep and again visits the house she has drawn

 The face she has drawn in the window is a boy who cannot answer the door as there are no stairs in the house

 Anna wakes with a high fever and draws the inside of the house with stairs

 Anna on her bedroom floor with a fever drawing stairs for the house

 The stairs

 Anna falls asleep and goes back to the house in her dream, this time she can go inside and upstairs 

 She visits the boy in the room, he tells her his name is Marc and that he cannot walk. Anna says this is because she drew him without legs

 When she next wakes up she adds lots of nice things for Marc to use in the house. Including an ice-cream machine, a computer and books

 She draws oranges on the tree for Marc to eat

 Anna drawing in bed

 She draws hills that lead to the sea and a lighthouse

 She draws Marc on the stairs, but this time with legs

 When she falls asleep she visits the paperhouse again

 When she opens the door the legs she has drawn for Marc are on the stairs

 She tries the ice-cream machine and realises she hasn't drawn any cones

 She goes upstairs to visit Marc, he is trying to fix the computer she has drawn for him. She says that if her dad was here he would save them from this paper house

 When she wakes up she draws a picture of her dad but again the mouth comes out wrong and he looks angry. She tries to erase the picture but that doesn't work

 She scribbles out the picture of her dad in frustration 

 Then she scribbles out the picture of Marc at the window

 She scrunches up the drawing and throws it in the bin

 When her mum cleans her room she throws the scrunched up paper in the rubbish bin

 The scrunched picture

 Now when she visits everything in the house is broken and dirty

 Plus her dad has now come into her dream and is angry as she scribbled out his eyes in her drawing so he cannot see, he chases her with a hammer

 Marc guides her to pick up the drawing in her sleep and rip off the part of the drawing with her dad on it.

 She wakes in hospital and asks for her drawing book, she redraws the house with lots of nice things for Marc

 Anna Drawing in her hospital bed

 This time she draws a pencil on the drawing incase they need anything else whilst they are in the dream world

 Marc uses this pencil to make a drawing which Anna finds

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While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds a disabled boy named Marc living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person.
Anna sketches her father into the drawing so that he can help carry Marc away, but she inadvertently gives him an angry expression which she then crosses out, and the father (who has been away a lot and has a drinking problem, putting a strain on his marriage) appears in the dream as a furious, blinded ogre. Anna and Marc defeat the monster and shortly afterward Anna recovers, although the doctor reveals that Marc's condition is deteriorating.
Anna's father returns home and both parents seem determined to get over their marital difficulties. The family goes on holiday by the sea, where Anna finds an epilogue to her dream.
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