All Films

Love Aborted

1985 • 51 min

In the year leading up to a 1985 international conference on gender equality in Beijing, filmmakers all over the world took part in a series of documentary films exploring changing relationships between men and women. Amiralay, invited to explore the changing social and economic status of women in Egypt, chose his female protagonists from across classes—lawyers, actresses, domestic workers—and dared them to reveal the intricacies of their interior worlds.

Ka

1985 • 5 min • France

City

1985 • 17 min

A sequence of shots from a fourteenth floor flat in the City of London, starting with a building shattered by the IRA, focusing on a crane and its driver, roadworks, a building site, passing seasons. The last minutes of the film pass into abstraction accompanied by sounds which could be fireworks or gunfire. Footage dates from the 1980s up to 2015. Soundtrack composed by Daniel R. Wilson in 2018.

Buzz Box

1985 • 15 min • United States of America

Experimental animated short about television five days a week.

Suspicious Circumstances

1985 • 10 min

A pair of dancing duck heads and a squadron of flying hands invade Herbert and Lenores' happy home. Herbert gets his revenge though. Sort of...

Intellectual Properties

1985 • 60 min

'Intellectual Properties' is a noir about romantic meetings, betrayal, surveillance and intrigue. But it is also a deconstruction of these genre tropes. As in much of his practice, Adams examines the intersections between personal lives and mass media in a self-referential and ironic style. The artist has constructed a multi-layered text that asks if linear narratives, intellectual property, and holistic experience can exist in a media-saturated, decentered, and fragmented social realm.

Oltremare

1985 • 9 min • France

Nagel

1985 • 9 min

‘Nagel’ is the result of the interaction between two creators, Andrés Nagel and José Julián Bakedano, a sculptor and a filmmaker (Azkuna Zentroa).

Where the Rats Are King

1985 • 56 min • Netherlands

Once, the Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood in Amsterdam was an autonomous state for squatters, punks and the original inhabitants who united in the 'Woongroep Staatsliedenbuurt'. The city council's authority had eroded to virtually nothing after years of failing housing policy. The neighbourhood took matters into its own hands, which became painfully apparent when Amsterdam's mayor Van Thijn was roughly kicked out of the area at the close of 1984.

Imitating the Flower of Hydrangea

1985 • 54 min • Japan

Film by Shirouyasu Suzuki, 1985, 16mm, 54min

How To Conduct Yourself At School

1985 • 13 min • United States of America

Explains the importance of paying attention, asking for help when it's needed, being prepared, developing good study habits and respecting school property.

S.F.3.D Original Video: Nutrocker

1985 • 27 min • Japan

The year of 2884 A.D., December, a battle broke out between the Mercenary troops and Shutral Forces in the Australian desert. Surrounded by strong electromagnetic active waves, without any hope of reinforcement, the battle was getting furious and also, it was getting dark.

The Night Could Last Forever

1985 • 9 min

35mm experimental film by Dean Snider.

Better Dead - Then and Now

1985 • 39 min • United States of America

As well as the original film, Better Dead, this programme contains a follow-up of some of the addicts originally featured. Some have given up drugs altogether and are working to help others through rehabilitation; of some there is no trace. But Steve, the most persuasive and articulate of the original group, is still addicted and still talking, nearly 15 years later. Includes notes.

Com Um Monte de Beijos

1985 • 10 min • Brazil

The government decides to change the way people kiss. There is a youth competiton to invent a new kind of kiss, and the final is between two groups, one from the north and one from the south of São Paulo.

The People United

1985 • 49 min • United States of America

Boston, 1978: It was an intense period of racial conflict over school bussing and escalating incidents of police brutality in the predominantly Black section of Roxbury. In the wake of growing racial tension and violence, 12 black women were brutally and mysteriously murdered within an 18-month period; their murders remained unsolved. There are moments in the history of any community when its people are sorely tested and the floodgates break. This film captures one of those moments and the community's united response.

Coca Strip

1985 • 6 min • Sweden

Coca Strip was shot in a bathtub. The film is a visual representation of the ‘Coca empire’s artificially flavored, canned music. A black and white walk in the subterranean ruin of the Empire builders alone with Felix the cat. Pursued by submissive, radar-controlled dogs, in a shadowy world with no return. Hanging in the umbilical cord of Imperialism, force-fed and preserved on the point of total disintegration before final misery.’ (Olle Hedman, 1991)

Showtime

1985 • 5 min

A montage tribute to motherhood to the song of the same name by Minimal Man.

Whispering Light

1985 • 11 min • Japan

Whispering Light, 1985, film, 10:50 min, color In this emblematic personal film, light and shadow of plants is successfully constructed over the subjective gaze of the narrator who is working through her mother’s death.

The Unwritten Letter

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A penetrating and psychologically subtle story of one separation and what remains after it. How much a letter, which never saw the light, meant in the life of a loving couple? The palette of the human senses comes alive with graceful images. The beauty of the figure, a variety of techniques and mesmerizing melody of musical accompaniment subdued the jury of Animated Film Festival in Minsk in 1987, in Czechoslovakia and in Kyiv.

Diario di Manarola. Appunti per un film sull'esperienza di Telemaco Signorini alle cinque terre

1985 • 30 min

Made for the Liguria program: 90 years of cinema. The precious superimposition of two diaries: the personal one, written and filmed by the director and his companions of moments lived in Manarola, and that of Telemaco Signorini, an artist focused on the Cinque Terre who feels the need to nourish his figurative obsession with theoretical insights for that same place where Amico's daily life takes place with Olympic prosaicity.

Film n. 13

1985 • 7 min • Italy

Last abstract movie made by Veronesi. The work is obtained by working directly on the individual frames of the film. Veronesi developed a systematic method for the visual transposition of sound, fully exposed in some theoretical writings published in the 1970s.

Artsistria

1985 • 30 min • Yugoslavia

A video art based on “Zaludna mistrija” (A Vain Trowel) by Bogdan Bogdanovic, a book that deals with indoctrination and practical use of golden (black) numbers.

Halloween Make-Up

1985 • 30 min

A Halloween Make Up tutorial by The Salt Lake Costume Company