All Films

El retorno

1985 • 27 min

The Butting Lamb

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A little lamb is so proud of his new horns he cannot help but keep butting everyone he meets.

The Nightmare

1985 • 7 min • Romania

An accident with incalculable consequences triggers the "nightmare" of a pilot whose aircraft is carrying dangerous cargo.

The Bridge

1985 • 7 min • Romania

Two characters separated by a deep gulf strive to build a solid bridge between the two sides.

Musica

1985 • 59 min

This film is an odyssey through the eyes, words and music of individuals who pioneered Afro-Cuban music in the United States. The video offers a rich overview of a wide number of musical styles from "Cubop" to Salsa, Big Band to jazz, and of musicians from Chano Ponzo to Tito Puente and Desi Arnaz to Johnny Colon. It examines the significant role of women performers and contains interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzy Gillespie as they reveal the parallel course of jazz with the "latin sound".

Corps/vetement

1985 • 20 min • France

MYTHING : our eyes always have a great number of bodies to look at. They allow themselves to be caught by them. The more the clothes are beautiful and the more they play hide-and-seek with the bodies, the more the eye is caught. Our eyes indulge in that game of picturing, beyond or through an elusive body, what is most powerful in it : its nakedness. VIDEO STRIP doesn’t tell a story. It is simply about a body that separates from its clothes – or is it the reverse ? – and disappears as mysteriously as it had appeared. The clothes are the only thing left at the end, as if they were substitutes for the body. Their crumpling is the evidence that somebody wore them. They are the signs of a moulting, of the transmutation of a female body into nothing.

Story About the Road

1985 • 14 min • Bulgaria

On the country road, he gets tired of being trampled by horses and carts and sets off to see where the world is going. After encounters with intercity roads, the main road, and the highway, it finally reaches the end each time— where the road begins. Then a small path appears, along which the man walks up— Charlie Chaplin's little tramp.

Fatale Femme

1985 • 19 min • Germany

A structuralist self‑portrait that cycles repeated frames of Schillinger’s own body and face through generational processes (film to video back to film), using slow-motion and flickering grain to evoke and deconstruct the archetypal femme fatale image and female desire on her own terms.

Rural Propagandists At Work

1985 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A short documentary on the work of Soviet propagandists in the rural organizations of the Gomel region in Belarus.

Dal De rerum natura

1985 • 11 min

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Time Waits for Snowman

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Greg Stump and Bruce Benedict capture the original Snowmen. Featuring skiers Geoff Stump, Jeff Coffin, Robert Aguirre, and Scott Kennett.

Mamasunción

1985 • 21 min • Spain

Lyrical and critical look at the effects of the Galician diaspora by the portrait of an old woman who waits for her son to return.

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date

1985 • 30 min • United States of America

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date is a 1985 American short documentary film directed by Jim Wolpaw. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo

1985 • 55 min • United States of America

Little magic and plenty of imagination turns a young man's room into a hub where various adventures await him.

Lumberjack

1985 • 11 min

Violence in the snow! One of the most radical shorts ever made behind the iron curtain, a special document of the Necrorealists' art group, in the former USSR. "Lesorub" (Lumberjack) is a reaction full of energy and morbid rage against the rigid rules of socialist realism - Claus Loeser, Gegenbilder

The Lull

1985 • 3 min • Portugal

A journey through the fears and ghosts of Portuguese popular culture

Valletta

1985 • 3 min

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat, showing these elements individually and then projecting them on top of each other.

Okay, Okay...

1985 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A grandmother tells her granddaughter fairy tales, rhymes, wearing gloves with colorful fingers and portraying the heroes of fairy tales. The first fairy tale was about a white—haired magpie who cooked porridge and fed the children. And the second tale was about a clumsy goat…

The Road to Palestine

1985 • 7 min • Palestinian Territory, East Germany

In Layaly Badr’s documentary short, Road to Palestine, seven-year-old Layla – who has been badly injured in an air raid – lives in a refugee camp outside Palestine. Layla and her friends describe how they imagine Palestine, despite never having seen it.

Calculated Movements

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and dark grey. In five episodes, he alternates single events involving ribbon-like figures following intricate trajectories, with more complex episodes consisting of up to 40 individual events that appear and disappear at irregular intervals. Electronic sound scores accompany.

Bihotzez

1985 • 25 min • Spain

The documentary makes a tour through the streets of Bilbao, showing the daily life of the people and their customs. The images reflect the recovery of Bilbao's Old Quarter after the floods that took place in August 1983. The documentary shows, on the one hand, the floods that took place at the end of August 1983 and, on the other hand, events such as Santa Águeda Day, the market in Plaza Nueva, Christmas, the Athletic de Bilbao's Gabarra in the Nervión the year in which the Biscayan team won the League and the Semana Grande.

Hemophilia

1985 • 17 min

In a near future : A private underground line team most major cities, security systems are " heavy handed" : firstly , a militia composed of heavily armed mercenaries and secondly , the police ready to intervene immediately. However, in a network , a series of atrocious crimes hits the headlines. Every user is liable to become a death sentence. Including this very old lady , dressed all in black, wearing hat and purple , which, relying on his cane painfully , dared to venture into the Death Row ..

The Animated Haggadah

1985 • 25 min

This telling of the Passover story explains the Jewish people's liberation from slavery in claymation. The film, narrated by a 12-year-old named Danny, begins at a modern-day family Seder complete with parents, grandparents, and siblings. The family is quickly transported to ancient Egypt, where the evil Pharaoh, enthroned amidst a very sandy desert, performs wicked deeds in colorful ways. They witness reenactments of the Burning Bush, the Ten Plagues and other events, along with depictions of ancient Egypt itself, a land of swaying pyramids and wily men.

Negative Man

1985 • 2 min • Germany, United States of America

A talking man and a scratching female artist.