All Films

Molly's Pilgrim

1985 • 24 min • United States of America

Molly's Pilgrim is a 1985 American short film directed by Jeffrey D. Brown, based on the children's book of the same title by Barbara Cohen. It tells the story of Molly, a young Russian immigrant. When Molly's class is given a special holiday assignment, she shows her classmates the true meaning of Thanksgiving. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Mr. Bungle: Bister Mungle - Eureka High School Talent Show

1985 • 19 min

Mr. Bungle formed in 1985 in Eureka, California while the members were still in high school. The band initially consisted of Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton, Trey Spruance, Theo Lengyel, and Jed Watts.

Incubus

1985 • 6 min • Italy

A high-rise apartment dweller suffers through a series of nightmares.

Return

1985 • 31 min • Japan

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga.

Kidnapped Girls Agency

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

Aspiring actress Cathy and her roommate are kidnapped and tortured by Cathy's evil stepmother and her lover. It's up to private eye Tracey Tailor and her partner Andy Baltimore from the Kidnapped Girls Agency to rescue them.

Vegetable House

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence), and Aaron Freeman (America's Political Satirist) team up, nothing is sacred. The Vegetable House players include some Chicago's brightest comedy stars drawn largely from the famed "Second City" comedy troupe. At Vegetable House, Brussels sprouts shiver in their sheets while above lurks the menace of the Vegomatic. Suburban housewives submit to weekly games of bondage bridge. Meet Tokai Lokoto, the 3rd World's funniest man, and Gordon, whose nailbiting has gotten out of hand. Follow the adventures of "Kaa Kaa of the City" who was abandoned at birth and raised by pigeons in Grant Park. And the Veggie Video, don't forget the Veggie Video. Hot Pop. Hot Veggies. Hot Video.

Uriah Heep: Gypsy

1985 • 60 min

Uriah Heep's progressive heavy metal sound made the British band one of the most popular hard rock groups of the 1970s. The boys are still at the top of their game in this live 1985 concert at the Camden Palace in London. Tracks include "Sell Your Soul," "Stealin'," "The Other Side of Midnight," "Gypsy," "Bad Blood" and more. (Incidentally, Uriah Heep is the wicked clerk of Mr. Wickfield in Charles Dickens's classic novel "David Copperfield".)

Well, Just You Wait! 15

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

At a concert that Zayats is hosting Volk tries to catch him yet again.

Bridge to Terabithia

1985 • 60 min • Canada

Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.

Tenderloin

1985 • 48 min • United States of America

A Cannibal horror story

The Target is Your Brain

1985 • 57 min • Soviet Union

A scientific documentary about propaganda and crowd manipulation

The Big Pile

1985 • 48 min

Dotie Fields (Barbie Levy), an ambitious and brilliant Vassar student, becomes disillusioned with the banality of her world. Cursing her existence, she hysterically decides to pursue a career in New York as a top fashion model.

Youth Suicide Fantasy

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

Based on their book, “Why Knock Rock?”, and their church lectures, Dan and Steve Peters examines how rock music's obsession with sex, drugs and suicide is dangerous to young people. Since the dawn of Rock and Roll, there has been ministers howling about its evil affects. Ministers would tour the country's churches and college campuses with sermons and slide shows illustrating the Devil's influence on the rock music. In this film we certainly see that rock stars aren't the best role models for kids and teens, but the Peters brothers often miss the musician's point – especially with some of the lyrics. Dan and Steve do however seem to take a delight in presenting some of the 1980s more perverse album covers to young people.

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

1985 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.

The Body Electric

1985 • 24 min • Canada

Red Sector A was a paradise...for man's machines. The domed city was home to the last of the human race, where they lived in comfort, served by their robotic servants. Until one day a mysterious force turns the robots against their masters, and the machines cast the people out of Red Sector A into the wastelands outside. Years later, the robots have collapsed into dust without human maintenance, leaving two young people - Woody and Andrea - to live in the city. But the city is on the verge of a exploding as the shield generator approaches meltdown. Andrea and Woody have a few hours to escape Red Sector A, but the unknown force that caused the revolution is still present, and has it's own plans for them.

Chronicle Of The Pied Piper

1985 • 13 min • Czechoslovakia

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece.

In a Jazz Way: A Portrait of Mura Dehn

1985 • 30 min

Provides a colorful portrait of dancer Mura Dehn. Born and trained in Russia, she went to Paris in 1925, met Josephine Baker and discovered jazz. Tells how she came to New York and choreographed jazz tunes. Includes a live interview with Mura Dehn along with archival footage. In the 1930’s, the heart of jazz dancing was Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom. Mura Dehn, a Russian dancer who was converted to jazz dance by Josephine Baker, spent her life documenting this cultural explosion from jazz to be-bop. As excerpts of her film, THE SPIRIT MOVES are shown, she discusses the eras. The film concludes with Dehn, at 82, filming a break-dance troupe. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival.

My Wife in 5

1985 • 14 min • Germany

In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly between the styles, as if this record had a jump – Irving Berlin's This Is The Army, Mr. Jones, an Ave Maria Variation and Jacques Offenbach's world-famous Infernal Galop can be heard. Equally to the music the pictures also have scratches. The music film MY WIFE IN FIVE was created during a sound seminar by Christoph Schlingensief with students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. It already contains all forms of cinematic means and alienation, which he later used in his theatre and opera productions.

The Family

1985 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A young woman tries to finish her dissertation while family chaos rages around her.

Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One

1985 • 30 min

In 1950 in the USA ten communist filmmakers were jailed. The same year Frank Hardy faced a long prison sentence in Australia for writing a novel. An experiment in documentary form working in the border region between narrative/fiction and documentary/fact.

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

1985 • 57 min • United Kingdom

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Badass Grandmother

1985 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.

This Is What She's Like

1985 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A promotional film for Dexys Midnight Runners' 1985 single in which Kevin Rowland attempts to explain the indefinable qualities of woman to bandmate Billy Adams. This dialogue is intercut with scenes of Rowland singing and dancing through a desolate Wall Street and footage of the extended group performing in-studio. Directed by Jack Hazan (David Hockney: A Bigger Splash, Rude Boy).

The Harvest Festival

1985 • 9 min • East Germany, Germany

A little mouse is struggling terribly to bring in her harvest. She has overestimated her strength, the load is too heavy. He suspiciously refuses any help, but has to realize that others think more selflessly, because they have secretly grabbed the load and pushed it along. Together with her helpers, the mouse celebrates the harvest festival.