All Films

Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40

1985 • 10 min • Brazil

Documentary about Carnival, narrated by anthropologist and photographer Pierre Verger, who came to Brazil in the 1940s. Video tells the origins of Carnival in Salvador, with the Blocos and Afoxés, and the traditions of frevo and maracatu in Recife, with notable images from the Verger archive.

Loving Krishna

1985 • 37 min

Loving Krishna is about the worship of Krishna and the meaning of devotion. It explores the rural and urban character of the town of Vishnapur in West Bengal by examining the royal past, everyday life, work in traditional arts and crafts, bazaar exchange, and sacred rituals and festivals. Public and private devotional life is represented by detailed visual narratives of the Chariot Journey of Krishna, celebrated by the whole town, and the Birthday Festival commemorated on a much smaller scale of intimate family worship.

The North Face of the Camembert

1985 • 8 min • France

While shooting Gerard Mordillat's film, "Billy ze Kick", Christophe Profit, one of the best climbers in the world, was asked to stand in for an actor. He will, without ropes or belay, climb the smooth side of a 60 meter building.

A Human Tube

1985 • 5 min

Analog video art by Paul Garrin with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Friedrichstraße 1985 - Bausituation

1985 • 22 min • Germany

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

The Jungle Boy

1985 • 15 min • Canada

While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband confronts the politics of fantasy and washroom sex. A pseudo-narrative whose disparate threads unite in the final "documentary" sequence.

It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown is an animated documentary television special based on characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Hosted by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, the television special originally aired on the CBS network on 14 May 1985. The special featured highlights of the Peanuts specials produced over the last twenty years,

Latvia from a bird's eye view

1985 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Latvia from a bird's eye view

In Passing - The Party

1985 • 20 min

The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place. People arrive and greet each other-encounters, some dancing, flirtations, a moment of drama. The camera is looking while slowly approaching the lit windows as if someone wanting to take part.

Fluke

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

A barrage of incidents are images connected, in sense, by nonsense. Fish leap on the heads of men riding camels in the desert./Ants crawling over planes flying upside down and in the water. A bear that can't get out of the frame by force of an optical printer. Animation, live, and found and filmed footage with similar soundtrack.

Winter into Spring

1985 • 4 min

A little silent film from 1985, shot on Super8 and blown up to 16mm/reworked on the optical printer at the LFMC. The film comments on its time through its imagery, and at least to its maker still contains some of the feeling of that time.

Une journée avec les Cantrill

1985 • 14 min • France

Untitled 1985

1985 • 6 min

Originally filmed on standard 8mm Kodachrome, double exposed and stretch printed. Virtually abstract imagery shot from a basement looking upwards via a pavement level window towards the side of Southwark Cathedral through dayglo ribbons which were part of some roadworks. A consequence of absorbing Peter Gidal’s theory of Structural Materialist film which I first encountered in 1975 in the issue of Studio International devoted to Avant-Garde Film. It was suggested that I should make more films like this, but it was unrepeatable for reasons hard to define. Apart from the technological issues, the film is very specific to a particular time and place. Passages was something of a sequel.

Não Houve Tempo Sequer Para as Lágrimas

1985 • 15 min

Human sea otter vs Kappa

1985 • 21 min • Japan

A war breaks out between Racco and Kappa. Shouts, outbursts and bloodshed. The camera gets involved and the scene turns into a lawless zone.

Max's Place

1985 • 1 min • United States of America

A bar's neon sign is turned off.

君と世界との戦いならば世界を支援せよ

1985 • 20 min • Japan

Enzyklop

1985 • 35 min • Germany

Enzyklop is a rediscovery and reconstruction of the cyclopean gaze that Odysseus erased to free himself. The search for the lost view leads to intermediate distances, into the realm of association, the multiplicity of dimensions. An anthology, a variety of image/image ideas is created.

A Mulher

1985 • 10 min • Brazil

Adaptation of Juan Bosch's story "La mujer."

Filmkinder

1985 • 16 min • East Germany

Portrait of the two main actors of the children's film "White Cloud Carolin", Andreas Roll and Constanze Berndt. They are observed and interviewed on several days during the making of the film. The two children introduce themselves directly to the viewer and talk openly and self-confidently about how they came to make the film and about their experiences during the course of filming.

James Mullholland, Basketmaker

1985 • 12 min

This short documentary film, made by Roy Spence for the Ulster Folk Museum, focuses on the work of master willow-weaver, James Mulholland of Gawley’s Gate, Co. Armagh. The film traces the various stages in the making of a willow log basket from cutting the raw willow rods through to the completed product.

Liberace Live

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

He had style, he had wit and he had class. Watch this video and enjoy the classical stylings of a true virtuoso: the one, the only, Liberace!

The Golden Sheep

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon based on the legend about how a girl helped the Mistress of the Sky find her sheep - the clouds.

Elk Island

1985 • 24 min

This short documentary focuses on a man-made island that became the first federal sanctuary for wildlife in Canada. Situated an hour east of Edmonton, it houses one of the world's densest collections of wildlife, maintained by Parks Canada. Elk Island offers a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes activity of the island.