All Films

Bullwackie

1985 • 56 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Founded in the Bronx by Jamaican expat Lloyd ‘Bullwackie’ Barnes in 1976, Wackie’s take on dub and reggae was nothing if not distinctive. Idiosyncratic by nature, and textually lo-fi by necessity, this unique mojo long served as the label’s de facto sonic aesthetic. A protégé of Prince Buster, and a former engineer at Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle label, Barnes’ touch can be felt across dozens of records including sides from Wayne Jarrett, Sugar Minott, Prince Douglas, Horace Andy, Love Joys, and fellow producer, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. Released in 1981, the following hour-long documentary, Bullwackie In New York, provides a priceless snapshot of the independent label and the culture surrounding it. Live performances, interviews, studio footage and more.

Metamorphose Works No.3〈Mixed juice〉

1985 • 16 min • Japan

In front of a train station in the suburbs, a man chopping dried fish, chicken bones, and logs. When the man strikes with his machete, the entire scene begins to rotate. As if it had been put through a juicer, it was broken down into small pieces and eventually put into the glass the girl was holding.

Niños desaparecidos

1985 • 28 min • Argentina, Cuba

A portrait of the courageous efforts of Argentine grandmothers to locate their missing grandchildren, victims of state terrorism during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Some were kidnapped, others were born in captivity. The film includes interviews with military personnel and grandchildren who were found and reunited with their families.

Theater '85

1985 • 3 min • Germany

In Search of Maria

1985 • 15 min • Colombia

Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA (1921), by directors Máximo Calvo (Colombia) and Alfredo del Diestro (Spain), IN SEARCH OF ‘MARIA’ combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of a lost film.

Knöchel

1985 • 6 min • Germany

The last few years of collaboration with Schmelzdahin were mainly devoted to the chemical processes during and after the development of the film material. This led to a number of very interesting phenomena such as: shifting of the color balance within individual layers of color, etc.

And Umai Saw a Dream

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A girl named Umai got tired of toys, she threw them aside, and then went to bed. And Umai saw a dream in which the offended toys decided to leave her.

As the Lights Go Down

1985 • 58 min

Duran Duran's Oakland, California concerts that were filmed for the Arena (An Absurd Notion) movie were also edited to form the one-hour As The Lights Go Down concert video. As The Lights Go Down is essentially the Arena video without the theatrical sequences, although the live footage for many songs was edited differently. This version was first aired on the Cinemax cable television channel, and later on MTV and other music channels.

Incidents in an Expanding Universe

1985 • 45 min • United Kingdom

The year 2037. Rugged soldier Max and weary sculptress Nicky try to sustain a relationship in a bleak totalitarian future plagued by war, nuclear fall-out, and overpopulation. Flashbacks show Max and Nicky's doomed romance throughout the years as things get worse and the world deteriorates all around them.

A Statlers Christmas Present

1985 • 51 min

Sit back and enjoy the music and merriment of A Statlers Christmas Present. This special DVD release is a delightful mixture of Christmas classics and original songs, with the Statler Brothers singing and telling heartwarming stories from earlier holidays. Winner of four Grammy Awards and one of the most successful vocal harmony groups in the history of country music, the Statlers are sure to add a melodic touch of nostalgia to your holidays.

M'hamed Issiakhem

1985 • 43 min • Algeria

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi Sahraoui produced by the RTA in 1985 and filmed a few months before the painter M'hamed Issiakhem 'turns off this sentence is spoken. A very interesting docu-fiction in which Issiakhem delivers himself with finesse, passion and generosity.

Hot Love

1985 • 29 min • Germany

A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby.

Thedebadfilm

1985 • 30 min • Germany

Documentary to prevent the closing of the Thedebad in Hamburg-Altona.

Boi Aruá

1985 • 60 min • Brazil

Boi Aruá is a feature film of Brazilian animation, directed by Chico Liberato. The film is based on the book "O Boi Aruá" by Luís Jardim.

Stray Dogs

1985 • 10 min • United States of America

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.

Cannibal Orgy

1985 • 60 min • Italy, United States of America

Heavy Metal band Insane Albino and their manson-like leader go on a cannibal rampage in chicago.

Por una tierra nuestra

1985 • 23 min

The documentary portrays the occupation of land in the town of San Francisco Solano

Buckaneezer Scrooge

1985 • 25 min • Canada

This Canadian adaption features real-life Scrooge interacting with puppet characters.[

Bio and Bones

1985 • 10 min • United Kingdom

An educational children’s animation by Sheila Graber about the workings of the human body. The film features a one celled character called Bio as he guides the viewer on the structure of the skeleton.

Sister Suzie Cinema

1985 • 22 min

Sister Suzie Cinema is a fantasy about fantasies - about the way movies, music and other cultural artifacts shape what we feel.

Sampo from Lapland

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale by S. Topelius "Sampo Lappelill".

1985 World Series Home Video: Kansas City Royals vs. St Louis Cardinals

1985 • 30 min

The Road to Royalty

Dancing of the Dolls

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The tale of how toys came to entertain a sick girl.

Cali, Calido, Calidoscopio

1985 • 25 min

Documentary aspects of the city with old archive shots that allude to the “450 years of the founding of Cali.” A parallel is drawn between the memory of the past salvageable in photographs and the visual freshness of the present printed in each of its manifestations. The statue of the founder De Belalcázar, the chorus of “Hey, see”, the rumba in the peripheral neighborhoods, the photographer Fernell Franco and the afternoon light of Cali.