All Films

Optic Nerve

1985 • 16 min

"Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing and editing, is layered and manipulated to create a compelling meditation on her visit to her grandmother in a nursing home. The sense of sight becomes a constantly evolving process of reseeing images retrieved from the past and fused into the eternal present of the projected image. Hammer has lent a new voice to the long tradition of personal meditation in the avant-garde of the American independent cinema." -- John Hanhardt, Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987

Requiem for a Fillet

1985 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The modest notary at the symphony orchestra of Gen Munkin did not like his mother-in-law. She was especially repelled by his work. Having identified her son-in-law as a loader in a butcher shop, she did not expect that the first piece of meat taken out by Gena from the store would end up in the circus...

Der Zug der Zeit

1985 • 13 min • Germany

The Deutsche Bundesbahn presents the intercity train system.

Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli

1985 • 19 min

Presented in Naples by the Napolinovantove Foundation, it received in the same year the panansonic Filmmaker Award 1985, Milan.

The Rain During the Holiday

1985 • 25 min • Soviet Union

After the story of the same name of Natig Rasulzadeh.

Break!

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.

On Your Way, Riley!

1985 • 52 min

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

Le Train

1985 • 6 min

A railroad worker has arrived at a halt in his life, at the same stopping point as his locomotive - a place situated between memory and imagination where the spectator may integrate himself into the poetic fiction.

Terry 100 Channels

1985 • 28 min • Japan

Through a series of obscene animations, the work of iconoclast animator Teruhiko "King Terry" Yumura lampoons a range of cultural icons and taboos: California bodybuilding culture, onanism, hyperviolent cinema, marital bliss, and more. Soundtracked entirely by American funk/soul, each short matches the inherent depravity of its subject matter with an equally crude style, from fake commercials to slice-of-life stories and pornographic picaresques.

Wo ist der Bahnhof?

1985 • 55 min • Netherlands

The brothers Gé and Arie Temnes return to the home where they used to live as teenagers during WWII. Arie talks about the role that he played in the resistance movement.

Thrust in Me

1985 • 8 min • United States of America

Zedd plays dual roles in this short-film as a street-wandering guy and a suicidal female.

Follow Us...to Walt Disney World

1985 • 29 min • United States of America

An overview of the Walt Disney World Resort in 1984, including the then new EPCOT Center.

Das gestohlene Gesicht

1985 • 34 min • Germany

A nasty witch has stolen the Princess’ beautiful face. When the three little bunnies try to help the Princess, they also get bewitched and experience an adventurous chase. Only after the witch loses the magical crystal are the Princess and her friends saved.

Myth Makers 6: Nicola Bryant

1985 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Undoubtedly, Nicola Bryant’s portrayal of Perpugilliam Brown has become one of the most popular assistants in the history of Doctor Who. When Nicholas Briggs first talked to Nicola in 1985, Doctor Who had been cancelled (for the first time) and its future was uncertain. Eleven years later in 1996, they met again to discuss her last season in the programme and life after Doctor Who. Both interviews are combined in this Myth Makers, giving us a fascinating insight into Nicola’s evolving life and career.

Tintarella di Luna

1985 • 18 min • France

After a volcanic eruption, a small village from which no one can escape. The plague spreads, and among the survivors, famine rules. For a piece of bread, Charlotte sleeps with the grocer. Night is falling. At the top of a hill, someone is watching.

Public Enemy No. 2: Maraming Number Two

1985 • 59 min • Philippines

A story about a man who has lots of different women and families.

Звездные годы конструктора Бабакина

1985 • 15 min • Soviet Union

River Lethe

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

A non-narrative and abstract visual poem in five parts. Its title refers to the underworld river of forgetfullness.

The Dumb Waiter

1985 • 52 min • United Kingdom

In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.

Portrait of Isa Mulvenny

1985 • 60 min

It is the 1950s: Bill Thompson is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family, and forms an attachment to his landlady, Mrs Mulvenny , which is to affect his life for the next 20 years

José Feliciano Festival de Viña del Mar

1985 • 53 min

The singer performs at the famous Chilean festival.

I Am Sono Sion!

1985 • 35 min • Japan

Sono's first film, 30 minutes long and shot on 8mm. A free-wheeling intimate cinematic journal in which the artist contemplates his life as he approaches his birthday.

A Steven Wright Special

1985 • 60 min

Steven Wright, the Confucius of Comedy, recorded his first album, I Have A Pony, in 1985. That Grammy - nominated album, along with an HBO special the following year, established Wright as one of the most inventive, peculiar and admired comedians of our era. Surreal and cerebral, his languid voice and deadpan delivery of ironic, witty and sometimes even deeply philosophical one-liners made him a unique and unforgettable performer.

Elton John at Live Aid

1985 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Elton John performs with Wham! and Kiki Dee at Wembley