All Films

Reception For Personal Matters

1985 • 19 min • Soviet Union

About the General director of the Leningrad association "Electrosila" B.I.Fomin.

Mike Bidlo: NOT Klein

1985 • 13 min

Mike Bidlo’s performative re-creation of Yves Klein's, "Anthropométries de l'époque bleue" at the Palladium in NYC.

That's Stealing

1985 • 16 min • United States of America

Kathy decides friendship with a kleptomaniac might not be the best idea after her locket disappears.

Imitation Interior

1985 • 45 min • Japan

With her father dead and her mother hospitalized, Futami lives with her grandmother suffering from dementia. Then a friend, who just ran away from home, comes to “visit” Futami. Winner of the “1st 16mm Film Production Assistance Award”, which preceded the PFF Scholarship award .

Who Are You?

1985 • 10 min • Poland

Children visit the museum - they see exhibits important to Polish culture. They are accompanied by the text of "Catechism of the Polish Child" by Władysław Bełza. Young people learn the history of Poland and then present it in their paintings.

Sugino Risa reinbō rāge

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Risa Sugino is into fashion. After finishing a still shoot in her studio, she spends the night with her lover in her room on the way home. The studio assistant who works for her girlfriend sneaks into her room...

To the World's End: Scenes and Characters on a London Bus Route

1985 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Follows the No. 31 London bus from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, meeting characters who live and work along the route. The soundtrack features the Carl Davis composition Variations on a Bus Route, commissioned to celebrate London Transport's 50th birthday in 1984.

Birgitta Trotzig

1985 • 39 min • Norway

A conversation with the Swedish author Birgitta Trotzig (1929-2011) , member of the Swedish Academy between 1993 and 2011. Trotzig's language is strongly driven and honored, often dark and hard-to-reach, but with a sharpness penetrating deeply into the reader susceptible to her prose. The main themes of her books are guilt and liberation, often with a Christian vocabulary, and the balance between ethics and ethics.

Chicken Thing

1985 • 12 min

Bobby goes to bed, with a thunderstorm raging outside. He listens to music and reads a comic book before lights out, then the storm causes the electricity to fail. A huge chicken-like creation assembles itself from various items inside Bobby's room. Is Bobby's imagination running wild, or is this really happening?

Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes - Episode 1

1985 • 29 min

Episode one of Warhol's MTV talk show featuring interviews with artists, including Robin Leach, Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, the Pyramid Club, Jelly Joplin, Hapi Phace, John Kelly, Dagmar Onassis, the Lady Bunny, Dean Johnson, Terry Toy, Area, 4D, Katharine Hamnett, Marla Kay, Anna Johnson, Eric Perram, Tracy Johns, Paulina Porizkova, Sally Kirkland, The Parachute Club, Bryan Adams, John Oates, Billy Bryans, Lorraine Segato, Moon and Dweezil Zappa, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Tama Janowitz, Lypsinka, and Carla Steimer.

Kids Praise! 5: Psalty's Camping Adventure

1985 • 58 min

In Kids Praise! 5 PSALTY'S CAMPING ADVENTURE, kids learn about solving problems and facing challenges. The story is an allegory. As the kids climb a mountain and encounter various troubles along the way we learn to let God be our strength and put our Whole hearts into what we do (as Unto the Lord). We discover that our limitations can be an opportunity for God to be glorified through our weakness. We also learn the valuable lesson that we solve problems and face challenges one step at a time...with Jesus by our side." We pray that you would encourage your children to apply these truths in their everyday lives. Watch them grow as you help them discover their God-given potential...and learn to "glow" and give the glory all to God.

Every Day, Every Night

1985 • 25 min • Australia

Five hundred Australians were killed in combat in Vietnam. Four hundred and seventy Australian veterans have committed suicide since returning. Based on actual events, this drama tells the story of Paula Voltz whose husband, a Vietnam veteran, hanged himself at Christmas 1980.

Good Boy Bad Boy

1985 • 17 min • United States of America

In the work two monitors are displayed at head height on pedestals. The head and shoulders of a young black man appear on one; on the other is an older white woman. They both speak the same sequence of a hundred phrases five times, beginning in a flat neutral tone, and becoming increasingly animated and intense until by the fifth recitation they appear very angry. Their techniques of delivery are quite different, and result in a slippage of time, so that played on a continuous loop, the two tapes become out of sequence.

Ratt: The Video

1985 • 36 min

Ratt: The Video features 5 music videos, including songs from the albums "Out Of The Cellar" and "Invasion Of Your Privacy". It also includes band member interviews intermingled between the videos and highlights of their triumphant tour in Japan.

The Girl and the Hares

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a little girl who lived in a small house near the woods and once met hares in the icy times and decided to help them. She shared her warm scarf with them, drove a foxaway from them , feed them with delicious homemade pies, and then built a cozy house for the greyish leverets, so that the wind did not make them shiver.

Regular Polyhedra

1985 • 6 min • Japan

A stop-motion work in which illustrations were drawn on the surface of a three-dimensional object, such as a regular polyhedron, and filmed as they were replaced. My first three-dimensional animation. (Yuko Asano).

Nicaragua Part 1: Voyages

1985 • 43 min

Composed of stills by renowned Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas taken in 1978 and 1979 during the overthrow of the fifty-year dictatorship of the Somoza family. Written in the form of a letter from Meiselas to Karlin, it is a ruminative and often profound exploration of the ethics of witnessing, the responsibilities of war photography and the politics of the still image.

The Old Hunter's Grudge

1985 • 50 min • Soviet Union

The film tells about man's love for nature and the importance of preserving the environment.

Bitter Spring

1985 • 35 min • Albania

At the center of the film is a patriot photographer, who sees how the city moves on the eve of invasion by focusing his camera at the heroic resistance of the people.

The Land of the Tarayoun

1985 • 52 min

Through the history of the traditional female costume and the sum of the signs with which it is charged, the heroine of the film goes in search of her identity.

Falling. Desert. Syn

1985 • 15 min • France

In "Falling. Desert. Syn" there is the body of repetition—not of tautology but of smooth resurrection; a body dying and being resurrected in a dance without suffering. A body of the desert, which is not deserted, but instead possessed by a force of attraction towards the sky, a force as strong as the one towards the earth. A body for the stars, the same one which plunges into the underworlds.

Roadworks

1985 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Documentation of an hour-long performance in which the artist walks barefoot through the streets of Brixton, South London, with Dr. Martens boots tied to her ankles. The work was made in response to the Brixton's uprisings of 1981 and 1983 and in solidarity with Black communities.

Windham Hill: Autumn Portrait

1985 • 54 min • United States of America

Features the beauty of colors and lights of Autumn in New England.

Erst die Arbeit und dann?

1985 • 45 min • Germany

Gerhart Ramm is a simple minded farmer's son with much an interest what life means downtown. When he tries to spend the night in Hamburg, he gets no attention at first. But there is Chantalle who is kind of amused by Gerhart's behaviour.