All Films

Los niños que vinieron

1985 • 16 min • Peru

The drama of the children of Ayacucho, forced to emigrate to the capital due to the extreme violence exerted on them by the protagonists of a conflict that is alien to them. They will remember through their testimonies the land they left behind: the landscape, their houses, their friends, their dead…

Woman at the Wheel

1985 • 8 min

A woman takes each of her boyfriends - one poor and one rich- for a drive in her new car. Each argues with her and insists on taking the wheel. She beats one of them up, before crashing into a group of youths and, finally, a wall.

How a Cat Fought with Mice

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A hand-drawn cartoon based on the fairy tale "The Cat and the Mice" by Ubaid Zakoni.

Old Stair

1985 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Based on a poem by I. Pivovorova

Riquet with the Tuft

1985 • 17 min

A story about a dwarf-like prince with a tuft of hair on his head, able to give intelligence to the one he loves. Based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Afghanistan 1362: Memories of a Journey

1985 • 51 min • East Germany, Germany

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited Kabul and neighboring provinces. Koepp met a cross-section of people, such as soldiers, intellectuals, kids, and nomads, and with sensitive intensity told stories of their daily lives in the turmoil of an “undeclared war.” This travelogue, which was undertaken with the GDR’s consent, took a political risk because it expresses Koepp’s doubt that conflicts can be solved through military invention.

April

1985 • 29 min • Soviet Union

In April (Armenia 1985), on the 70th anniversary of the genocide, on April 24, 1985, Vigen Chaldranyan stages a conversation between the generations in a mixture of comedy and bitter seriousness. As every year, the veterans talk about the days of the war. But while their sons can no longer hear all this, the grandchildren feel called upon to "solve the Armenian question".

Rita e Roberto

1985 • 40 min • Brazil

Deadpan

1985 • 5 min

A pan through the labyrinth of time and space, ever decreasing circles of focus, words, conversation. Who is this man, what does he want?

Daughters of the Midnight Sun

1985 • 40 min • Sweden

In the film about "the land of eternal light and eternal darkness" we meet some women who talk about their lives. The women have all grown up in reindeer herding families and as children they lived in kotas, moved with reindeer and lived a life in nature. Their own children, on the other hand, have grown up in "normal" Swedish society. None of them have lived like their parents. The film addresses Sami culture, language, school. How modern technology has affected the lives of the Sami.

Mist Melodies of Paris

1985 • 23 min • France

Richard, a West Indian man in his forties, remembers "his war" in Algeria. More than twenty years later, he still carries internal trauma.

Creation Myth

1985 • 2 min

To create the tree sequences in this video, Allen used a custom software based on fractal mathematics. This gave form both to the tree and to the sequence of movements. It is one of the earliest animated generative artworks where an algorithm imitates organic growth. the video follows different stages of a creation myth, from particles of energy and light to animal and plant life. It was one of a series of artist commissions made for the opening night of the New York nightclub Palladium.

Portrait of a Terrorist

1985 • 28 min

In 1969, Fernando Gabeira was among terrorists who kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick, then the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Eventually Gabeira was captured and tortured before being exiled from his homeland for eight years. He talks candidly about his experiences in captivity as well as the abduction and the motivation behind choosing Elbrick.

Plotting the Grey Scale: 2 or 3 Quick Traverses

1985 • 7 min

“A monochromatic field study of sorts, along perpendicular axes. Varying shades of grey flicker in increasing intensity, giving way to a kinetic study of activated organic forms deriving from rapidly changing optically printed freeze frames of trees. A variation on the grey flicker recurs, climaxing in a modestly manipulated study of leaves moving in the wind. Overall, this unusual and visually affecting film brings together some of Worden’s most elemental interests, including stasis, motion, rhythm, visual consonance and dissonance, and the tension between the pictorial and the abstract, all with a characteristic phenomenological undercurrent.” —Mark Toscano

The Tale of the Wonderful Potato

1985 • 22 min • Denmark

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

End of the Battle... Not the End of the War

1985 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Ken Loach documentary on the end of the 1984 - '85 miners' strike.

Exit

1985 • 20 min • Italy

Exit is a 1985 Italian short film directed by Pino Quartullo and Stefano Reali. It is set in the future where, on 12 July 3503, a research team explores remnants of humans past and find themselves in a very unusual and strange place: a movie theater. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

James Brown - Live At Chastain Park

1985 • 57 min

The hardest working man in show business is back--and some say better than ever--in this live concert filmed in 1985 at Georgia's famed Chastain Park. Performances include 1. Give It Up Or Turn It Loose 2. It's Too Funky In Here 3. Try Me 4. Get On The Good Foot 5. Prisoner Of Love 6. Get Up Offa That Thing 7. Georgia On My Mind 8. It's A Man's Man's Man's World 9. Cold Sweat 10. I Can't Stand Myself 11. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 12. I Got You (I Feel Good) 13. Please, Please, Please 14. Jam

Interference

1985 • 44 min

When Mum and her three children rent a country cottage, the arrival of Dad coincides with the manifestation of a ghostly crying woman on the telephone, radio, record player and television. Made for ITV Schools' 'Middle English' strand, this three-part drama was later turned into a stage play by writer Jan Mark and published in Longman's 'Star Plays' series in 1987.

Sonata No.1

1985 • 40 min • Japan

The piece is composed of four movements, imitating classical sonata form, and features photographs of walls, gravel roads, etc., which are likened to musical scales. At the climax, the photographs are shredded into pieces and their colors are changed by adding paint, creating a dazzling "visual music."

Fake Previews

1985 • 5 min

The preview format has always appealed to me: short, sweet and action packed. I decided to make my own to a fictitious film never to be made called 'Blondie + the Sheik,' starring Hester McMarkup and Angelo Q. Trashwad. –H. M.

Ethiopia

1985 • 29 min • United States of America

A brief visit to the unique wildlife and peoples of Ethiopia. Expect the unexpected.

Maurice Hasson

1985 • 17 min • Venezuela

In this short film, made on the occasion of a visit by Maurice Hasson to Mérida to perform in concert, he evokes in a warm conversation his indelible memories and deeply human experiences of his life in Mérida.

Pyrotechnics

1985 • 11 min

A study of fire, death, and rebirth.