All Films

One Evening

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

X-Walk

1985 • 11 min • Canada

Documents the struggles between the Canadian Union of Traffic Employees (C.U.T.E.) and the Canadian government during a strike of crossing guards in Toronto.

Star Paws

1985 • 40 min

Animals used in advertising.

Marrickville

1985 • 28 min

Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in this area including people with Greek, Lebanese, Portuguese and Vietnamese backgrounds.

Something of the Times

1985 • 41 min • Australia

Archival photographs help reconstruct the life of white buffalo hunters, and the Aboriginal labour that supported them, in the remote wetlands of the NT in the 1930s. Former hunter Tom Cole visits hunting camps and discusses the trade.

The Two Rivers

1985 • 58 min • France, South Africa

A personal and metaphoric view of the apartheid conflict: the poet and writer Rakasha Ratshitanga, the narrator of the film, guides the viewer from his village in the south of the country to Johannesburg, revealing the political, economic and cultural origins of the tensions and sufferings which are tearing his country apart.

Mort de trois présidents à vie

1985 • 3 min • France

The three presidents for life of the Morlock Academy are assassinated by the Academy's permanent secretary in a peaceful village in Ardèche.

Die winzig kleine Maus

1985 • 9 min • East Germany

One morning, the little mouse crawls out of its hole and decides to have a look around. He hops over hill and dale, marvels at grasses and flowers, overcomes holes and hills, experiences a thunderstorm and an adventurous trip on the water and finally returns tired to his hiding place at home. She proudly believes she has seen the whole wide world.

Retreat from Beirut

1985 • 58 min

They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire. One year after the pullout of American Marines from Lebanon, Frontline correspondent William Greider examines the decision and asks: Where should Americans die, and what should they die for?

Einstein Shmeistime

1985 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Student film entered into Channel 4's Time Piece competition in 1987. Third prize winner.

Psychological Experiment: A day at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital

1985 • 19 min • Paraguay

Observational documentary about the Paraguay Psychiatric Hospital.

Face the Challenge

1985 • 56 min • China

Documentary on the political topic of economic reform.

I Ask Myself

1985 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A short film featuring gifted children, including virtuoso pianist Zhenya Kissin (now the winner of many international awards, honorary doctor of music at the University of Hong Kong and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Manhattan School of Music, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music (London), artist Rusiko Petvishvili (now holder of the International Ambassador of Peace Award, the Order of Honor of the Republic of Georgia, and the Presidential Order of Radiance); Nika Turbina (Torbin), whose poems, as it later turned out, were written by her mother, Maya Nikanorkina.

El Pico Duarte

1985 • 27 min • Dominican Republic

A reckoning and a warning against deforestation, blending poetic landscape photography, scientific discourse, and rural testimonies. On their way to Pico Duarte, the filmmakers meet Juan Canela, protector and guardian of the Cordillera Central, as described in the merengue composed for the film: the man who came and learned to talk to the pines.

U.K. Subs - Live From London At The Camden Palace Theatre

1985 • 59 min

Recorded May 1985 captures the U.K. Subs in an uncompromising performance at the Camden Palace Theatre, London.

Hystèry

1985 • 11 min

A transmutation of mystery/history/hysteria, where sex and sacrifice mix with death and voyeurism. Soundtrack by Einstürzende Neubauten and Psychic TV.

Das neue Hamburg

1985 • 45 min • Germany

In 1937, on behalf of Hitler, a competition was announced among the most important architects in Germany. The task was the redesign of the Hamburg Elbe bank. The face of the city was to be moved from the Alster to the Elbe. In addition to Berlin, Linz, Nuremberg and Munich, the Hanseatic city was thus declared a "Führerstadt". Representation and administrative buildings for the party and the private economy were to be created. The architects involved in the project are interviewed. They reflect their activity and function at that time.

L'ora dell'inconscio

1985 • 12 min

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

The Sid Saga Part 1

1985 • 27 min • United States of America

Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 1 of 3.

Pabostría

1985 • 10 min • Spain

A man is stalked by a flying cape in this short film with multiple endings.

Grandfather's Pipe

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a girl who was taught by a magic pipe to help around the house.

Borghesia: So Young

1985 • 31 min • Yugoslavia

A compilation of the Borghesia video clips (So Young, The Wild Bunch, He, Too Much Tension, Cindy, A.R., ZMR), issued in 1985 as the first video cassette by the FV Label. These are short, almost 'film-like' stories focused primarily on the iconography of the body in urban surroundings. One of the clips presents a pioneer use of computer graphics.

La boucane

1985 • 35 min

In 1972, Jean Gaumy took some of his first photos in a smoked herring factory in Fécamp. Particularly attracted by one of the workshops, that of the women who cut up the fish, he decided to make his first film with them. Some of them have been doing this tedious work for over twenty-five years. All of them are full of enthusiasm, full of a vitality that contrasts with the dirt and difficulties of their work.

Nazareth: Live From London

1985 • 56 min

Recorded and filmed live at the Camden Palace, London in 1985, this is the classic Nazareth line-up performing some of their greatest worldwide hits including Love Hurts, perhaps their best-known hit single and a heartbreaking ballad that became a worldwide hit in1975.