All Films

Mike Builds a Shelter

1985 • 23 min

Mike Builds a Shelter is a performance comedy with apocalyptic overtones, a narrative extension of Smith's installation Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter/Snack Bar. In this darkly humorous morality play, Smith contrasts Mike's rural adventures in a pastoral landscape with his home fallout shelter. Throughout, the dual narratives are intercut with episodes of "Mike's Show" on cable, in which Mike's banal domestic activities are eagerly if passively received by living-room TV viewers. The government-approved provisions for nuclear fallout that Mike so readily accepts, typical of the naivete of 1950s' public safety policies, are seen in stark contrast to the reality of the contemporary crisis of a radioactive environment.

La Fuite

1985 • 53 min

In 1915, in the heat of the first World War, two german nationals escape the Spirit Lake internment camp in Abitibi, Quebec, and go into hiding in the woods.

Con la primavera en el bolsillo

1985 • 11 min • Argentina

A young boy dreams and draws about an apparently fictional father figure. He materializes in real life, starring surrealist and colorful scenarios.

Imusi

1985 • 57 min

When a frontier family, living in Kwa-Zulu Natal’s Old West, is beset upon by a band of thugs seeking to steal their homestead’s title deed by any means necessary, a father will have to fight to protect not only the safety of his wife and children, but his right to farm the land he inherited from his father before him, and in so doing, teaching his children the value of a family standing united together against all odds.

Probability

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

"Probability" (1985) presents a series of handmade signs featuring wild headlines taken from the tabloid "Weekly World News". Stark temporarily intervenes into the everyday scene of a bustling corner of San Francisco’s Financial District where he held a day job.

Kafka Kamera

1985 • 3 min • United States of America

Super 8mm. Colour. Sound. 3 minutes.

Dark Exodus

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white population that still sees Blacks as property, an African American family in the South sends its sons away to a better life. Visualizing the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North in sepia tones, director Iverson White’s period film captures the atmosphere of early 20th century America.

Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley: Rock 'n' Roll All Star Jam

1985 • 52 min

In 1985, Bo Diddley put together a band that included Ron Wood, John Mayall, Mick Fleetwood, Kenny Jones, Carmine Appice, John Lodge, Ronnie Lane, Carl Wilson, and members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Chicago, Quiet Riot, and Three Dog Night. He cooked them all a barbecue dinner, and then they put on a show. It's a 55-minute Rand B jamfest.

Myth Makers 4: Carole Ann Ford

1985 • 55 min

Carole Ann Ford portrayed a unique character in Doctor Who. As Susan, The Doctor’s granddaughter, she left Gallifrey with the errant Time Lord before the very first episode, An Unearthly Child. This Myth Makers combines two interviews by Nicholas Briggs, the first at Carole’s home in 1985 and the second at a London TV studio in 1996. Together they give a very personal view of the early days of Doctor Who and the effects the programme had on Carole’s life and career.

The Elephant and the Whale

1985 • 9 min • France

An elephant saves an unfortunate whale from being paraded in front of the public and takes it away with the circus caravan to put it back into the sea.

Perfect Film

1985 • 27 min • United States of America

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to consider, and to leave for others in just that way, the evidence uncontaminated by compulsive proprietary misapplied artistry, "editing", the purposeful "pointing things out" that cuts a road straight and narrow through the cine-jungle; we barrel through thinking we’re going somewhere and miss it all. Better to just be pointed to the territory, to put in time exploring, roughing it, on our own. For the straight scoop we need the whole scoop, or no less than the clues entire and without rearrangement. O, for a Museum of Found Footage, or cable channel, library, a shit-museum of telling discards accessible to all talented viewers/auditors. A wilderness haven salvaged from Entertainment."

Manufractur

1985 • 3 min • Austria

A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the "to the left, to the right, back and forth" grammar of narrative space, discharged from all semantic burden. What remains is a self-sufficient swarm of splinters, fleeting vectors of lost direction, furrowed with the traces of the manual process of production.

Becoming Real Forever

1985 • 30 min

A deeply moving story of the shared love between a sick little boy and his favorite stuffed bunny. When the toy becomes real forever, we all learn a wonderful lesson. Colorful video pictures draw themselves as you watch. Words magically appear as story unfolds.

Serenade

1985 • 4 min • Japan

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Verandah

1985 • 52 min

Bronislaw Malinowski changed the way that field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands—the Trobriands—and lived for long periods among the people he was studying. A brilliant linguist, he quickly learned their language and later published books which brought the islanders to life. The idea that native peoples were primitive savages was altered for good with Malinowski's insight into their mastery of their world.

Une journée avec Pascal Martin et André Robillard

1985 • 15 min • France

EE Control

1985 • 3 min • Japan

It was produced to be exhibited at the “Personal Focus” (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized the original 8mm film that Matsumoto had been stored. The concept of this works is same as Delay Exposure, but in this film, it begins with a sequence that sets the aperture to excessive exposure. During a one to two-second-long shoot, the camera zooms in, the automatic exposure device also follows the movement of the image, and immediately lights the screen with proper exposure. This short sequence combined with a series of shots in the background, is processed.

Aroma fra Fakarava

1985 • 16 min • French Polynesia, Norway

On an island in the Pacific Ocean, 20,000 km from Norway, lives Aroma who is 12 years old. With a camera in his suitcase, the filmmaker traveled to visit him with his family.

Ariel

1985 • 13 min

After the short story of Franz Kafka “Unhappiness”. A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: “Go out of my way, you seem to have strayed.” Says the other: “For thousands of years I’ve been looking for a formula to find you, please do not send me away again.” The first one is already slightly pissed: “The destiny of a parallel is to be eternally alone, on the way to infinity.” “No, no,” the second one desperately screams: “One parallel is nothing, alone you are only an undefined line.“ a.levi '83

The Golden Leaf

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A porcupine finds and tries to protect a golden leaf.

Gucia

1985 • 16 min • Poland

Tomek and Gucia are a pair of seven-year-olds. On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, they engage in typical children’s games after school – playing hopscotch and hide-and-seek, doing somersaults on the beater and climbing the wall. But above all, they play with each other – the boy tries to turn the girl into a boy named Piotrek. However, behind childhood games there is something much more serious – the first feeling.

Hands Off

1985 • 17 min • Netherlands

Educational film for a campaign against wife battering in 1985 in The Netherlands.

Vida de Perros

1985 • 25 min

Bogota misunderstandings about the tribulations of a street vendor who tries to honestly earn his daily bread.

Augusta Is in a Hurry

1985 • 4 min • Hungary

Time moves rapidly for Augusta, much to her detriment.