All Films

Visit israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen - The Last Days in the Life of Jesus (Part 1)

1985 • 25 min

This DVD will help you to feel the great emotion of Christ's mortal ministry as it draws to a close. You'll see the area in Bethany where Jesus went to visit His beloved friends at the house of Lazarus. You'll hear the story and see the traditional place where He raised Lazarus from the tomb. Visit the ancient gnarled monarch olive trees, and hear Dr. Skousen's moving description of Jesus Christ's great suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. Some of these ancient trees were probably there during the time of Jesus.

Sabra

1985 • 21 min

Four film students, Josy Meier, H. Nicol Meyerdierks, Armin Schneider and Martin Zawadzki, ask people on the streets of Berlin about their visions. By chance they meet Sabra, a migrant from Lebanon, who is a filmmaker himself.

An Artist's Self-Portrait

1985 • 18 min • Poland

A collective, moving self-portrait of Polish painters of the turn of the century, composed of paintings presented at the exhibition "Symbolism in Polish art" at the National Museum in Warsaw in 1985.

David Bowie at Live Aid

1985 • 17 min

David Bowie performs in front of 70,000 people at Wembley

Plus grandir

1985 • 8 min • France, United States of America

A story about a girl who doesn't want to grow up

Waylon Jennings: Live from Austin, TX '84

1985 • 41 min • United States of America

Looking back, why did it take ten years to finally lure Waylon Jennings to the Austin City Limits stage for his first performance? Like everything else about the man, he did things his own way - when he was damn good and ready. Maybe it had something to do with that other Texas singer, that Red-Headed Stranger who shook things up in Austin and country music in general. Waylon wasn't sure what the fuss was all about (as he sang, It don t matter who is in Austin, Bob Wills is STILL the King! ). This special package contains both a CD and DVD of Waylon Jenning s FIRST Austin City Limit s performance, recorded in August 1984.

Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol

1985 • 30 min

Kenny gives us his rendition of Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, "with apologies to C. Dickens, Esquire"

The Return of Gods and Ancestors: Paiwan Five Year Ceremony

1985 • 35 min • Taiwan

The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. During the festival, the Paiwan people expect to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors by piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; however, they also try to prevent any harm caused by evil spirits. The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the living, but a meeting of the old and the new.

From Chris to Christo

1985 • 24 min • France

In the fall of 1985, Christo "packed" the Pont Neuf. In the space of a week, enthusiasts, critics and curious people drastically change the perception of this place whose presence has never been felt as much as since it was veiled. And that's what Christo wanted.

Chutes de Midi

1985 • 9 min • France

Discarded images from the movie “Midi” (1985) mounted to give rise to a new film.

The Marriage of Mariamu

1985 • 36 min

Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and those around her find themselves in conflict with their traditional values.

Father Guido Sarducci Goes to College

1985 • 59 min

Father Guido Sarducci (played by comic Don Novello), the "gossip columnist" for the Vatican City newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, relates the goings-on at the Vatican to college audiences.

Mushroom Rain

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Once a baby elephant found a pencil in the forest, on which were wound wonderful ribbons. And since he was terribly disturbed by ears, he decided to tie them with ribbons and immediately became like a girl. A small hippopotamus was very interfered with by the stomach, and the second ribbon, which the elephant lent him, he tied his torso to himself. The giraffe took friends for the girls, but they explained that they were boys, just tied themselves up what they were prevented from moving and playing. Then the giraffe also decided to keep up and bandaged his neck so that he would not cling to the clouds. When the cheerful trio met a real girl with long hair, she told them that it was her ribbons, and that without them, her hair hindered her very much.

Home Improvements

1985 • 29 min • United States of America

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Frank’s life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined. It was made cheaply with a half-inch video porta-pak. Home Improvements takes place in New York and Nova Scotia and in the mental space between these two opposing worlds

H. Halef

1985 • 3 min • Germany

The Human Voice

1985 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

Harvest of Despair

1985 • 55 min • Canada

Via the New York Times: "...a frankly biased, angry recollection of the great, "man-made" famine of 1932-1933 in which up to seven million people starved to death in the Ukraine. It is the film's thesis that Stalin was directly responsible by his ruthless expropriation of virtually all of the grain harvested in the Ukraine over a two-year period."

Interviews With Interviewers… About Interviewing

1985 • 51 min

Professional interviewers talk about the art of interviewing.

Teryokha's Wagon

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The merry blacksmith shows miracles of ingenuity and nobility. Magic cartoon based on Siberian folklore.

Tony de Peltrie

1985 • 8 min

An aging piano player looks back on his life.

Dance for Love

1985 • 21 min

A 16mm record of the anti-nuclear demonstration in Melbourne, Australia on Palm Sunday 1985. The soundtrack is made from several group chants recorded at Down to Earth Confests during the 1980's.

El General constante y la bella Féferes

1985 • 29 min

Short film from the project “With Music Inside” in 13 chapters, of the musical ingenuity of the inhabitants of Mexico City: traveling troubadours, rockers, bohemian romantics, danzoneros, mariachis.

Daryl Hall & John Oates: The Liberty Concert

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

On July 4th, 1985 in front of 60,000 fans, Hall & Oates performed at an outdoor benefit concert for the restoration of the Statue Of Liberty. The duo performed most of their soul-funk classics such as: "Family Man," "Rich Girl," "Say It Isn't So," "Method of Modern Love," and more.

In Line

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s license, revealed as figures of parental authority. How peculiar that people like being an audience because they enjoy their submission to the authority of the program. This ritual of being dominated is a conspiracy with themselves that we enjoy but refuse to acknowledge. “Oh, no. I don’t like TV because I’m submissive; it’s because it makes me feel good.” The programs are always carefully crafted to be sensitive to people’s selfprotectiveness, even if they offer a good scare, or a good cry. Well, if this is all true, what happens when, by chance, you submit to a program that refuses to be polite about your closet masochism? That tells all? —Tony Conrad