All Films

The Answering Furrow

1985 • 20 min • United States of America

Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants. The implements of the garden. Georgic II: The life of Virgil is recapitulated in summer, with a digression on the sacred. The sheep of Arcadia. The handling of bees. The pagan Lion of Kea. Georgic III: The skill and industry of the old man in autumn. Ancient custom and modern method. The use of implements of the garden. Georgic IV: The compost is prepared at season's end. The filmmaker completes THE ANSWERING FURROW with the inclusion of her own image. Note on the music: The music works with the image to parallel the trace of history. Charles Ives recalls Protestant hymns, which recall the origin of the hymn in 12th century Milanese music, which allows for that music closest to the hum of bees and of amplifiers, the Orthodox Greek chant.

Dadabai and the Alarm Clock

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Like a lazy person, Dadabai swallowed the alarm clock.

Hora of Stars

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

About a cheerful autumn holiday in a Moldavian village.

Street Kids

1985 • 21 min • Canada

In this short documentary, a succession of black and white photographs provides a gritty look at juvenile prostitution and at the young people, male and female, struggling to get off the streets. Highlighting the links between being sexually abused as a child, loss of self-esteem, and turning to the streets, the film quickly dispels the images of glamor and big money usually associated with prostitution, and shows the positive efforts of child-care workers to help juvenile prostitutes find a way out.

Flower Song

1985 • 5 min • Soviet Union

About a boy growing flowers on the balcony.

A Brief Visit with Hermann Glöckner

1985 • 32 min • East Germany

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with undiminished creative energy.

Plötzlich ist das Ende da

1985 • 45 min • Germany

An intimate portrait of filmmaker Peter Pewas.

Heaven Is Square

1985 • 10 min

Compositions of planes, which originate from cross-sections of a cube, parallel to its three main axes.

Panteley and the Scarecrow

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Brown Sugar

1985 • 5 min

Two image strips projected side by side confront two types of passages: on the one hand the standard frame can be doubled or reduced and multiplied up to four; On the other hand, the image of the sugar that melts implies another type of fragmentation: the crystalline substance disintegrates into its hundreds of constituents before completely dissolving and then reassembling. The ambiguity of the "double screen" lies in the fact that it does not systematically involve twice as many images, but diversified spatial and temporal interactions.

It's O.K. To Say No!

1985 • 27 min

This classic cartoon video teaches children how to protect themselves from potentially dangerous situations with strangers.

Edith bei Clärchen

1985 • 15 min • East Germany, Germany

A short documentary by Andreas Kleinert about a cashier in Clärchens Ballhaus, one of the last surviving ballrooms from the 1920s in Berlin.

Structures

1985 • 8 min • East Germany, Germany

Far removed from the officially propagated GDR cultural sector, Christine Schlegel created her very own energetic cosmos on 8mm stock between 1977 and 1986. She painted over or scratched lines and shapes on footage of the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski. She projected painted footage on the dancing body during live performances, enveloping and re-shaping it.

Die Sonne sank, ich folge ihr

1985 • 35 min

A stylized costume play filmed on the Externsteine, the Reichstag in Berlin and in a noctural rose garden.

Nyc

1985 • 1 min • United States of America

Delicate fleeting imagery catches, in two minutes, the flurry of the city’s changing moods.

Jac Mac & Rad Boy Go!

1985 • 4 min

Two party bound teens inadvertently destroy a city on their way to hell.

Close to Home

1985 • 28 min • Germany, United Kingdom

Gibraltar as a real place – and an imagined geography and history. In the first part, the camera travels around West Berlin picking out touristic monuments and describing them in terms of their significance to military history… In the second half (in which the commentary also charts the escalation of land frontier sea and air restrictions), a ferry leaves a quayside and sails into the open Strait. It is an image of freedom but also a melancholy image of parting.

Le Paradis Blanc

1985 • 20 min

Mr. Minor and I

1985 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A bicycle seeks revenge for its' 11-year-old owner who was disrespected.

The Miraculous Mandarin

1985 • 20 min • Germany

An experimental film based on an 18-minute version of Béla Bartók's composition of the same name. Bartók's one-act opera is about a young woman who is forced by three crooks to lure men into an ambush, where they are then robbed.

Midweekend

1985 • 8 min

Great Society-era, social services, "how to" films from the 1960s and other footage from travel, education, documentary, edited with densely-painted film leader in rapid sequences of one to three-frame splices.

Twilight

1985 • 3 min • Japan

Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.

Wiper

1985 • 7 min • Japan

Short film by Itaru Kato

Ilha dos Corais

1985 • 22 min • Brazil

Documentary produced by Adriana Althoff in 1985, talks about the enigmatic Ilha dos Corais located in Palhoça - SC and interviews the only resident João Jeca, who lived isolated there from 1962 to 1999