All Films

Cat

1985 • 3 min • Japan

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

G.I.S.M. 「Performance」

1985 • 32 min

Official VHS recording of G.I.S.M.'s live performance at Nakano public hall, May 30th 1985.

Yawar Mayo (Rio de sangre)

1985 • 10 min • Peru

Lucifer and Derrepente, are danzaqs (dancers) of Tijeras from Huancavelica, who perform an Atipanakuy (competition).

Zdroj nákazy: Člověk

1985 • 16 min • East Germany

Adopted from the CSSR, the surreal film deals with the increase in sexually transmitted diseases, especially among young people between the ages of 18 and 25, and presents the problem of sexually transmitted diseases.

Cold at the Spring's Beginning

1985 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The village in which the boy Kastus lived was located in the partisan zone. He soon made friends with the partisans, who became close people to him. The loss of his older friends was unexpected and difficult for Kastus...

Zange M dorei heya

1985 • 40 min • Japan

The young lovers were excited to see the masochist woman's training play, and ended up training both of them at the same time...

Gingerbrook Fare

1985 • 40 min

A fun packed musical video showing kids and grown ups too the positive results of living by Gods priorities!

Coincidences

1985 • 45 min • Iran

A theater directed by Rasoul Najafian

Heiduque

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Follows the people's avenger, leading the fight against injustice and cruelty

Felix's Couch

1985 • 21 min

An intimate conversation between Félix Guattari and psychiatrist Danielle Sivadon.

Lazy Little Camel

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A young camel wakes up one day to find a shrub growing where his tail used to be.

Sometime City

1985 • 37 min

A young Dublin couple illegally move into a local authority flats complex with their two young children in an effort to start a new life together. Things begin to unravel for the young couple and they soon come into contact with the hard pressed local social services.

Firing Range

1985 • 18 min • Soviet Union

During field trials at a military range, the inventor unveils the secret and true purpose of his latest weapon. Based on a short story by Sever Gansovsky.

Eduardo Chillida

1985 • 58 min

The fusion of modern aesthetics with Basque tradition in monumental works is what has made Chillida a legendary sculptor all over the world. Using wood, stone and iron, he created forms based on his surroundings, thus exposing their sculptural essence. Chillida even inspired the great Heidegger to write “Art and Space” which was published in 1969 and accompanied by 7 of the sculptor’s litho prints. This film shows Chillida at work, taking its viewers to towns like San Sebastián and Hernani. Alongside his major works, it also depicts the fascinating artist himself as he candidly philosophises on space, limits and materials.

The Sleepers

1985 • 16 min • United States of America

“Memory, as well as the residue of information in text and film from Sudan, led me to make The Sleepers in order to resolve the impression that the third world is present in the first world as an idea and a condition.” --LaPore

Natural States

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

Shows scenes of the Southwest accompanied by New Age music composed and performed by David Lanz and Paul Speer.

Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

1985 • 52 min • Pakistan

Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir. The aspirations of Afghan refugees are expressed through their political songs dealing with the civil war in Afghanistan, with exile, with Afghan nationalism and with the Islamic revolution. In highly charged and tragic circumstances, music can be used in very direct ways, both to promote solidarity and as an agent of catharsis.

Céline Dion En Concert

1985 • 50 min

During her first tournée, Céline Dion held several shows in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick. On this TV special, broadcasted in Canada, the diva performs some of her classic French songs, as well as some covers in English.

La dama nera

1985 • 12 min

Texts by W. Shakespeare Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Christophe

1985 • 28 min • France

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 meters of vertical and smooth rock. Christophe will achieve the feat of climbing the wall in free solo, without using a rope or any belaying technique. At 4:10 p.m., barely more than three hours after the start of his ascent, the new climbing star can embrace the Virgin of the Drus at the same time as the career of a high-level mountaineer. Three years later, on July 25, 1985, he climbed the north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Jorasses in the same day. Awarded at many mountain film festivals, this great documentary is a magnificent testimony to one man's passion for climbing, the mountains and adventure.

Through the Looking Glass

1985 • 17 min • India

Short documentary on how television and advertising construct the image of modern Indian women.

Viel zu klein

1985 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

A little duckling is left behind and meets other animals of the forest. Together they try to find out what the duckling is best at: digging, climbing or jumping?

Mara

1985 • 58 min • Netherlands, Portugal

A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.

Prima neve

1985 • 7 min • France

The first snow of the year...