All Films

This film started out as a sort of music video to a wonderful old song by Pat Suzuki (also known as 'Miss Ponytail'). The song is called Black Coffee. Shots of me crawling the walls and old coffee commercials. –H. M.

Using the basic nutrients protein, fat and carbohydrates as examples, the film provides an introduction to the complicated processes of digestion. Our digestive organs are presented schematically. It is shown that the interaction of the digestive organs prepares the food we eat and makes it absorbable. The absorbable food components enter the organism's metabolism and serve to build up the body and generate energy.

A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the latest technology in ammunition.

Teenagers talk about the butterflies in one’s stomach, their curiosity or their disillusionment after the “first time”.

“I wanted to make a tape about memory, not just ‘about’ memory. I wanted to re-create the actual sensation of memory through texture, colour, mood and movement. I also wanted to examine time in relation to memory and visual experience. With memory, time can be expanded or condensed; it is generally perceived subjectively. Remembering is a distinct effort to collect again what one knows, but memory can be deceptive and past events may be disordered upon recall. In the animated and re-scanned sequence at the end of the tape, the woman exists dislocated from any actual concrete space. She also exists dislocated in time.” -S.R.

Two hybrid characters become fixated by an idea. As they talk to each other they become more and more obsessed with the idea, but the more they talk the less capable they are of translating their ideas into action. Witty, wicked and kinky in concept innovative in use of animation. Prequel to the short film Crust.

An interview by Anna Maria Federici with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in June 1985, created for Italian TV channel RAI.

Lane Wyrick's "Easter Bunny From Hell!" was shot in Iowa City in the summer of 1985.

an CGI Animated Short Film

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

At the end of the 1940s, when the worst of the Partisan Violence began to worsen in the fields and towns of Colombia, a popular music duo, in search of work, walked the road from the town of Sucre to the town of Liborina. One of them, Cesáreo, is blind, but the other, Antonio, seems to suffer more from the inclement weather of the route.

Contains all the previews for each episode narrated by Ginga Banjou, and is a collection of famous scenes featuring the three characters Cocona, Vanilla, and Gouto.

A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.

Early filmed theater performance by avant-garde artist Wen Pulin.

On one of the days of their stay in Paris, the florists went up to Montmartre, where art and love, need and hope have always lived side by side...

At the age of 8 Michael Cooper (known as Mini) began setting things on fire. Eventually he tried to burn down his own house, with his father inside. Ten years ago an award-winning BBC film told the story of this astonishingly attractive and intelligent child arsonist (Mini wasn't allowed to see it at the time). Since then, for more than half his life, Mini has been locked up in high-security psychiatric care. Mini is now 21. He has recently been released on conditional discharge. Hoping to become a magician, he has taken the stage-name 'Johnny Oddball '. Tonight's film, juxtaposing scenes from past and present, follows Mini's first steps in the outside world, and his struggle to build a career on the fringes of show business. He and his parents battle to understand why they failed in the past and what hope there is for the future. And Mini comes face to face, for the first time, with his actions and their horrifying consequences.

Huey Lewis and the News in concert at San Francisco's Kabuki Theater during the band's 1985 Sports Tour. They are backed by the Tower of Power.

Experimental short.

nico perfoming live

"Meiko TV" is a special video release by Japanese artist Meiko Nakahara, featuring music videos of her most iconic songs. Released in 1985 on LaserDisc, it showcases Nakahara’s dynamic style and musical versatility through captivating performances. Each track highlights her influence on the Japanese pop music scene of the 1980s, blending vibrant visuals, engaging choreography, and catchy melodies to celebrate Nakahara’s artistic legacy during a period of innovation in Japanese pop culture.

Strange events in Sapmiland, winter 1985. Featuring Sami music, with Mattis Hætta making a comeback after his Grand Prix appearance in 1980. Sami folk singer Mari Boine Persen, the Sami pop group Captain Morgan, and Ellen Marit Eira Solbakke perform traditional joik. Contemporary Sami music is also presented by Halvdan Nedrefjord.

Based on Russian fairy tales.

Documentary about Yugoslavian music parody group, and their leader Boris Bizetic.