All Films

23 Envelope Presents

1985 • 60 min

Documentary on 4AD Records in-house design firm, 23 Envelope. Run by designer Vaughn Oliver and photographer Nigel Grierson, they were responsible for the "Look" of classic 4AD bands like Dead Can Dance, the Pixies, This Mortal Coil, etc. This film features Vaughn and Nigel interviewed in the 4AD offices, along with interviews from Ivo Watts-Russel, Robin Guthrie, and more. Along with plenty of video footage from 1980s-era 4AD bands.

Resist or the Captives of Aigues-Mortes

1985 • 51 min • France

1730: shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, women refusing to abjure Protestantism are imprisoned in the Tower of Constance. Among them, Marie Durand, who would later become an icon of the Huguenots. All these women consumed by loneliness, illness and fear cling to only one idea: to resist.

In the Footsteps of Taytacha

1985 • 30 min

In the Footsteps of Taytacha follows a group of Quechua-speaking musicians and dancers as they leave their remote villages high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and join thousands of other highlanders on the annual religious pilgrimage to the sacred peaks of Qoyllur-Rití. Quollur-Rití, the largest and most important religious ritual in the southern Andes, occurs only five days out of the year and involves walking both day and night in terrain over 4400 meters in altitude.

Not Andy Warhol's Factory

1985 • 8 min • United States of America

A recreation of Andy Warhol's studio, Factory.

Half-sister

1985 • 28 min

At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his 6-year-old half-sister, Toncia. Half Sister is a cinematic amalgam of memory and imagination, inspired by Ravett's conception of a life that would have been.

Viva avis

1985 • 6 min • Germany

Short film directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff.

Maestro

1985 • 17 min • Soviet Union

The filmmakers follow composer and conductor Gustav Ernesaks before and during the final concert of the 20th Song Festival.

Hai Li Bu

1985 • 20 min

Hai Li Bu saves the daughter of Mountain God. She gives him a nut, so he can understand animals' languages but is not allowed to tell, or he will be punished. One day he hears animals talking about a coming disaster, what will he do?

Regulation of Biological Processes

1985 • 20 min

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

Visual Art Songs for The 80's: True Life Romance

1985 • 6 min

Short film by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson.

Borderline

1985 • 6 min

Short film.

Desert

1985 • 9 min

Short film.

Johnny

1985 • 23 min

Short film.

The Age of Invention

1985 • 17 min

An examination of 3 centuries of American invention featuring 300 puppets

Crystals

1985 • 4 min

“But always, from the very beginning, it was snowflakes that fascinated me most.” -Wilson Bentley

Grass or When the Rain Falls on the Water Does The Fish Get Any Wetter?

1985 • 6 min

A meditation on both the creative and destructive powers of human nature.

Friend on the Road

1985 • 28 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

A Peaceful Day

1985 • 5 min • East Germany

A beetle flees from a bird. There is no hiding place where it is safe from its pursuer. It hides in a dark crevice where the bird's beak cannot reach. The beetle laughs at the bird. It has not yet realized that it is sitting in the space between the earth and the sole of a man's shoe.

Les Sangomas

1985 • 54 min • South Africa

Rite of initiation of a Sangoma: medium, healer or sorcerer, which takes place in a neighborhood of Soweto.

Dry Guerlédan

1985 • 6 min

Experimental film in the now submerged valley with Catherine Ferlandin and Corinne Lépine. Lake Guerlédan dry.

Komor's Judgment

1985 • 11 min • France

Based on a poem by Leconte de Lisle.

Weekend Warriors

1985 • 11 min

A student filmmaker documents Toronto's paintball survival network.

Songs

1985 • 8 min

La gesta de una conciencia

1985 • 29 min • Uruguay

Audiovisual on three screens that commemorates a triple anniversary: 70 years of the Association of Medical Students, 65 of the Uruguayan Medical Union and 50 of its Assistance Center.