All Films

Arena

1985 • 58 min

Call my name, and I'll be there. Dr. Duran Duran escapes the punishment of the Matmos at the height of British rock group Duran Duran's 1980s popularity. Mistaking the cries of teenage girls at crowded concerts for devotees screaming his name, the Doctor makes his way to Earth so he can lead his faithful masses. Once he discovers the kids don't want an evil Doctor, he goes about trying to destroy the source of the real desires a rock concert taking place at the Oakland (Calif.) Colesium.

The Dreamers

1985 • 23 min • United States of America

Footage shot for Orson Welles' unfinished and unreleased film project, edited into a short documentary.

The Rug

1985 • 10 min

A story of loss told through a daughter looking back on her mother’s life in rural Ireland who receives a package one day from the postman.

Phoebe

1985 • 53 min • United Kingdom

England, during World War II. A girl from a very religious background comes to work as a kitchen maid in a girls' school. She meets another maid comes from London, who is much more sophisticated.

The Wisdom Tree

1985 • 33 min • India

A young woman looks after her aging grandmother to receive her wisdom.

Rainbow War

1985 • 20 min • Canada

Three kingdoms, floating separately in space, can each see the other nearby kingdoms but have no means to communicate or visit. Each has developed a fanatical obsession for a specific color for clothing, architecture, and even plant life: one blue, one red, one golden. A forbidden inter-kingdom romance and a war of conquest ensues when a means of travel between the kingdoms is abruptly found. This short film was created for Expo 86, the World Fair in Vancouver in 1986.

Boca Aberta

1985 • 20 min • Brazil

A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole.

Grim

1985 • 8 min • Japan

"With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making GHOST of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the skins in midair and then sticking them on different objects. This film was also shot entirely frame-by-frame with long-exposures. Along with GRIM, its meaning is 'as if to do forever.'" - Takashi Ito

Combat

1985 • 60 min

A mother wants her son to marry but has to accept he is living with a man.

Osamu Tezuka: Secrets of Creation

1985 • 44 min • Japan

A Japanese TV documentary, NHK Tokushu Tezuka Osamu: Sosaku no Himitsu (Secrets of Creation.), was originally released as a book-mounted DVD, with cooperation from Tezuka Productions. Screened in Japan in 1986, it was filmed as Tezuka prepared for the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1985. It shows him working in his private studio and with his team, and gives glimpses of his wife, colleagues and old friends.

Fright Show

1985 • 58 min • United States of America

Two obscure film critics host four SF/Horror films: The Thing in the Basement, Illegal Alien, Nightfright, and Dr. Dobermind.

Bird Fancier

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.

Running Scared

1985 • 28 min

An intensely jealous boyfriend's spying and scolding ways rapidly escalate to full blown stalking.

Dirty Work

1985 • 60 min

An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood

1985 • 42 min • Japan

A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.

Bon Voyage

1985 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.

Ehun metro

1985 • 55 min • Spain

It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.

Sweet Sea

1985 • 30 min • United States of America, Japan

Sweet Sea, an adorable mermaid princess and her friends Mud-Puppy, Purrsia, Sea Star and Goldie stand up to Sheba the Sea Serpent and her squirmy sidekick to retrieve Sweet Sea's stolen magical shell necklace.

Kabuki-chô Bangaichi: Rasuto onanie

1985 • 39 min • Japan

With the enforcement of the new Entertainment and Amusement Law, what will happen when fashionable massage girls have lost their way?

New Caledonia 28 Days

1985 • 59 min • Japan

A MAKING OF 天国にいちばん近い島/ The Island Closest to Heaven, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

Twinkle Nora Rock Me!

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Nora Scholar is now an interstellar bounty hunter, pursuing a powerful psychic on the desolate mining planet, Dazzle. There she befriends a would-be dancer named Max. Together, they take on the ESPer, Fuuchino, and his oversized bruiser of a brother, Touchino.

Dengeki Sentai Changeman: The Movie

1985 • 25 min • Japan

The Changeman must work with an earthquake institute to prevent Earth from being destroyed in a sea of fire by the Gozma.

Captain Tsubasa Movie 02: Danger! All Japan Junior Team

1985 • 60 min • Japan

The return match between the All-Europe and All-Japan Junior teams comes home to Japan, but what sort of problems will occur with the game on Tsubasa's home turf?

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! City of Dreams, Mechapolis

1985 • 38 min • Japan

Children are lured to Metropolis only to find that the renowned, mythical city may not be the happy-go-lucky utopia they'd thought it would be.