All Films

Jerry Baker's Lawn Care Tips & Tricks

1985 • 26 min

Is the grass always greener on your neighbor's side of the fence? No more! Jerry Baker, America's master gardener, shows in this video how you can have a gorgeous lawn without back-breaking work or bank-breaking expense, It's easy to serrate, de-thatch, feed, mow, and protect your lawn using Jerry Baker's techniques and such surprising household items as golf shoes, beer, soap, ammonia, tobacco, and mouthwash. What's the best time of day to cut your grass? How can you conserve water without jeopardizing your lawn? How can you control insects without poisonous sprays? Baker answers all these questions and more in this informative step-by-step video guide to a better lawn. After all, as he says, "Grass is the hair of the earth and nobody likes a bald lawn!'

An Hour Before the End...

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A surreal satire on the religious subconscious of the audience of lectures on scientific atheism.

That's It, Forget It

1985 • 5 min

"That's It, Forget It," Miller's first collaboration with young people, celebrates pop culture, fashion, and music video, L.A. style. Miller follows six West Hollywood teenage girls as they shop, dress up, dance, flirt and drive down Melrose Avenue — all to an audio track of disco music and scratch dialogue (with the title phrase forming a constant refrain). A brief excerpt from MTV self-consciously and ironically places the work in the music video realm, even as it acknowledges the influence that music video has had on contemporary teenage life(styles).

Golden Room, or 16 Positions for Self-identification

1985 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Experimental short.

Beni Rouge Miyuki Kageyama

1985 • 45 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Tokimeki Kaze Matsue

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

After the Inundation

1985 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

After their village was flooded because of the dam construction, some of its inhabitants refused to leave. They are spending their final days by the reservoir.

Hyaloïde

1985 • 27 min

A still from the Hollywood film Dracula, a small pink spade, and a nursery rhyme are the keys that unlock this enigmatic narrative labyrinth. In Hyaloïde, the Nysts create a "beautiful confusion" of childhood memories, associative games, verbal and visual analogies, metaphorical objects, self-referential humor and poetic metamorphoses. This dreamlike, semiotic voyage through memory, language and representation emerges at the psychological and linguistic origins of narrative: "Once upon a time..." The characters Thérèsa and Codca (played by the Nysts) imagine that one can "pass under the level of the story, insinuate ourselves in the mesh of signs as we were able to when we were children... where the opacity of the image becomes transparent (hyaloid) and lets in the light of a legendary world." This enchanted universe of signs articulates the Nysts' unique system of "writing" through video.

A Single Log

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The ant was too lazy to find a suitable log for the bridge, which almost caused him to drown.

Career

1985 • 5 min • Soviet Union

An avant-garde film made in the technique of spatial animation, in which the idea of the vertical of power and the struggle with dogmas is played out. According to the newspaper "Literatūra un Māksla", it is the best animated film with an impeccable plot in the 1986 Latvian SSR amateur film screening.

A Fairy-Tale for Madmen

1985 • 23 min

A Tale for Madmen begins as a fable. The wolf, the main character, first escapes from an imaginary animal republic in the Prague Zoo. He moves around the city in human form, disguised as a clown, in an animal mask and later as a decadent girl. In the process, he confronts the realities of late socialism: he visits the Spartakiad, an amusement park and a dance hall at the Exhibition Grounds. At the end of the film, he transforms into the form of a bird and, under the pressure of the hopeless environment, voluntarily dies. The film authentically reflects the hopeless atmosphere of the timelessness of the late 1980s, combining documentary approaches with stylized scenes. Using this method, it captures the romantic conflict between free individuality and resigned society. The film was shot using Pigi's usual method – by setting a fictional character in authentic contemporary realities.

Larger Than Life

1985 • 2 min

“Larger Than Life” is a digital animation that incorporated early motion-capture techniques and other innovative computer graphics techniques. Using the university's molecular biology supercomputer, this was a project by then UCLA engineering/design student Dave Curlender and UCLA medical research doctoral candidate David S. Goodsell. This finished project premiered to the public at the collaborative event On the Threshold (see “On the Threshold” promotional video) and was one of a number of early computer graphic works screened at EZTV, first as a work in progress and then numerous times over the years. Most recently, this 1985 piece was used as part of the finale for the opening of the Getty Museum's Pacific Standard Time.

Laughter in Gabrovo

1985 • 40 min

Bulgaria - one of Russia's staunchest allies - isn't usually thought of as a great source of jokes -yet it is Bulgaria that mounts a unique biennial laughter festival in the House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo. From around the world wits and comics converge on this Balkan town to exhibit, judge, or simply discuss the serious business of humour. There were two British participants at the last festival. One was exhibiting, the other, 'Larry' of Punch, was a judge. This film tackles the weighty question of whether humour can leap national boundaries, whether the same joke can reduce communist and capitalist to the same helpless giggles.

Fan Film

1985 • 12 min

A study in animation of Japanese ceremonial fans, accompanied by the music of Jason Hwang.

Chatarra

1985 • 8 min

The film follows artist Juan Loyola and his performative actions consisting on painting different kind of industrial junk like cars, appliances or abandoned swings with the colors of venezuelan flags

Eyeglass Adverts

1985 • 2 min

In 1985, M. Henry Jones crafted three Eyeglass Adverts for America's Best.

Über Carlos

1985 • 30 min • Venezuela

A story about the awakening of an artist after spending the night in bed with a mysterious woman. Dreams, hopes and memories are mixed in this modern opera with music by Klaus Nomi, Art of Noise or Goblin.

Kaji no Akuruhi

1985 • 20 min • Japan

A fire safety anime where two boys who work at a barbershop are accused of starting a house fire (when it was the barber's son).

By the Cornfield

1985 • 6 min • Romania

Two boys find a kernel of corn.

Man Is Stronger Than Fortress

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A young man agrees to be buried in a rampart to save his community from invaders.

Charles Gatewood's Weird Mardi Gras

1985 • 60 min

At Mardi Gras, in New Orleans, there are a million drunk people in the streets, all masked and laughing. The energy really gets reporter/filmmaker Charles Gatewood going. It's not just the subject matter, it's also the energy of the event.

Haloperidol

1985 • 19 min

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Rocky Two

1985 • 8 min • Belgium

As part of a school project, a group of children from Brussels create an animated film inspired by the theme of "play." Five stories come to life in sets made from black-and-white photos of their own living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms. From Monopoly to video games, each story offers a unique perspective on creativity and the power of imagination.

Cloudwalker

1985 • 54 min • United States of America, United Kingdom

Cloudwalker, the 1985 Banff Mountain Film Festival award-winning mountaineering film, follows Mark Wilford and Jeff Lowe as they prepare to climb a new route on this wild and majestic spire of the Alaska Range's Bear's Tooth South Summit (the south summit of the Mose's Tooth Massif). Featuring inspiring footage of the two climbers at the top of their game honing their mental and physical abilities to prepare for this challenge, then climbing the classic Naked Edge route in Eldorado Canyon, and interviews revealing the inspiring philosophies of two of America's most prolific and talented climbers, Cloudwalker helps preserve and celebrate the culture and heritage of climbing.