All Films

Patas en la Cabeza

1985 • 13 min • Spain

A short film concerned with the more or less imaginary love of its protagonist, who uses a mutual friend for his continuous and nervous messages to the girl who is the object of his desire.

Hommage

1985 • 13 min • Cameroon, France

Filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno pays tribute to his late father.

Merry Christmas Deutschland

1985 • 19 min • Germany

Gray urban architecture is the starting point of an atmospheric appraisal in Raoul Peck's MERRY CHRISTMAS DEUTSCHLAND

Don't Be Afraid of Me

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about how the little hunter Nikita and the puppy Bobik helped Zubrenok find his mother.

Dehors

1985 • 25 min

Landscapes. A utilitarian nature. Contemporary. Cruel images. Changing. Seasons. The watch could be eternal. Each image transparent and non-avenue. Only the sound volumes will unfold an obscure duration.

Cartouche

1985 • 9 min

Cartouche is the third part of an unfinished four-part series (Narratives of Egypt) by Cartmell. It’s an audio-visual tombstone for his friend Cathy (Ca-thy, Ca-rtouche) whose pyramidical face is offered in between glimpses of Egypt and whaling and sex.

Cucumber Horse

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The story of the girl, Masha, who grows a cucumber in the garden and protects it, with the help of a dog, from a goat, a rooster and a crow. At night, Masha dreams about a star rain falling and watering a cucumber patch. At dawn, the girl sees a cucumber horse, which takes her for a ride.

Great Kendo Commercial

1985 • 13 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Nu Wa Patches Up Sky

1985 • 9 min • China

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens

Dancing with Trees

1985 • 3 min • Poland

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks, turns and spins with his head up in the woods.

Birthday Party

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker Tony Buba.

The Bag Lady

1985 • 2 min • United Kingdom

In Candy Guard's debut film, an overweight woman with a bag on her head sits down and swears at everyone she sees.

Sylvia

1985 • 10 min • Canada

A mother chooses her dream of the day from the shelves of magazines: she will therefore be “Sylvia, the-beautiful-heroine-courted-by-two-men”.

Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada

1985 • 1 min • Canada

This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.

The Magic Quilt

1985 • 13 min • Canada

Visual gags, humour, sound effects, live action and cut-out and embroidery animation combine to make this an enchanting parable of good will and understanding. A group of children finds a magic quilt that is their passport to a voyage of discovery. They step inside the quilt and as they travel through its velvet farmlands and satin cities, they experience the multiculturalism of Canada. The quilt is torn and the magic broken when a quarrel breaks out. Once the quilt is repaired and harmony restored, the children have learned that patience and goodwill are needed to mend and maintain quilts, friendships, and nations.

Living At Risk

1985 • 59 min

Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict. Instead of fleeing their country, the siblings are guided by a religious and socialist desire to help those most vulnerable and destitute, mostly peasants in the rural areas.

One Woman Waiting

1985 • 8 min • Canada

One Woman Waiting evokes questions of subjectivity in the mirrored performance of two women. The single take, tableau composition forms the structure for catalytic change between the characters. The sensuous desert environment accentuates the poetic and ephemeral quality of this film.

Christmas In Alaska

1985 • 32 min • United States of America

Alaska's number one storyteller, Larry Beck, and his traveling Christmas show crew perform in four of Alaska's most exciting and colorful Arctic communities. Experience Eskimo villagers' drumming and dancing. Join the crew in dog sledding, ice fishing, and share their visit to these delightful and friendly Alaskan "Bush" areas.

National Geographic: Land of the Tiger

1985 • 60 min

Take a spectacular journey. It starts right here... Explore a strange and mysterious world. Explore the LAND OF THE TIGER. A rare and fascinating study of the enormous jungle cats, LAND OF THE TIGER features spectacular footage of tigers stalking their prey, caring for their young, swimming, playing... and fighting- as well as glimpses of the other animals with which the tiger shares its domain. Come as close as you dare to these wild cats in all their royal splendor as you and National Geographic journey deep into the LAND OF THE TIGER.

Departure

1985 • 26 min • East Germany, Germany

Dresden old and new, in between photo documents from 1945/46, the time of resurrection, enriched by very personal commentaries by woman director Annelie Thorndike. Music for solo trumpet, composed by Reiner Bredemeyer and played by Ludwig Guettler, is set to this film.

Filmy Film 000 – First Breathing

1985 • 4 min • Japan

Lost Portraits

1985 • 58 min • Mexico

Between documentary and painting in movement, poetry and magic, these film portraits intend to capture the spirit of each of its subjects, as well as that of a genetration (early 80’s). The portraits present generally Mexican and New York City artists, friends and contemporaries of the filmmaker.

Fumée

1985 • 3 min • France

The real is consumed and goes up in smoke. All that's left is an elusive shape, endlessly transforming. The frame limits its ascent to the top, depriving us of its disappearance in the air.

Floréal

1985 • 25 min • Belgium

"Floréal" is the name of a garden city in a district of Brussels (Boitsfort). Hundreds of small houses with black and yellow woodwork, in streets named after flowers. This garden city was a first attempt to solve the problem of workers' housing after the First World War. A cooperative system ruined any hope of speculation since the land capital had to remain the property of the community. The director, who lived in Floréal until he was 18, filmed his "encounter" with this neighbourhood. A double portrait of its inhabitants and its architecture, sometimes reduced to abstract motifs, punctuated by the minimalist music composed by him.