All Films

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment

1985 • 43 min • Japan

Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.

The Sum of Them

1984 • 5 min • United States of America

Directed by Christine Panushka.

The Medic and the Duchess

1984 • 6 min • Portugal

Pixilation of the portuguese fado "O Médico e a Duquesa".

Fear in the City (1181 Days Later or Smell of Rats)

1984 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

Super8 post-punk film by Davorin Marc. Paura in citta does not only display a bold and powerful exploration of form and themes that seem to have occupied Marc throughout his oeuvre, the film is also a straightforward document of the spirit of the times and surroundings of its making.

Lyrical Doubt

1984 • 17 min

The domestic hieroglyph reveals the static reality.

Magpies

1984 • 2 min

Public information film warning of the dangers of burglary, using magpies instead of human thieves.

Vault

1984 • 12 min • United States of America

In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Employing the hyperbolic, melodramatic syntax of Hollywood movies and commercial TV, they decode the Freudian symbology and manipulative tactics that underlie media representations of romantic love, and expose the power of this media “reality” to construct personal fictions. Using the psychoanalytic language of advertising, cinematic and television texts to tell the love story of a pole vaulter/concert cellist and a cowboy/Abstract Expressionist painter, they rupture the narrative with psychosexual metaphors and references to pop media and art. Self-conscious strategies such as overtly Freudian symbols, flashback reconstructions of childhood traumas, Wagnerian orchestration and loaded cliches are wielded with deft irony.

Feather-Arrangement

1984 • 3 min

1984 Linda Christanell experimental short

Morning Songs

1984 • 14 min

1984 German super 8 short work

Gravitation Impact on Naive Beings

1984 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Whereas Lična Disciplina is a straight forward documentation of Terek’s performance, in The Effects of Earth's Gravity on Naive Beings Petrovic conveys his pessimistic message with a wide range of formal effects of the image and the sound. This film was produced at the Amateur Film Club of House of Youth Belgrade (Amaterski Filmski Klub Doma Omladine Beograd) and not in the AFC.

Farrukh and Zumrad

1984 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Based on an oriental legend about young lovers.

The Drop

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Meeting with a river, sea, ocean, a drop learns the properties of reservoirs and water, which can be both a blessing and a destructive force.

Object Conversation

1984 • 10 min

A series of source objects are presented, defined, demonstrated, discussed, spoken about, juxtaposed and progressively re-invented during the course of a multi-layered visual and aural "conversation".

Coal Not Dole

1984 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Documentary shot just three months into the 1984/'85 miners' strike

Alarm

1984 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Cheerful screensaver-song for the program "Alarm Clock", where the main characters are the Cockerel and the Alarm Clock.

From the Old World

1984 • 30 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

La fissure

1984 • 2 min

Inspired by Len Lye. Contacts of torn film segments, representing the head of a man with cap.

Alice Underground

1984 • 28 min

A surrealistic interpretation that remains true to the spirit and plot of​ ​Lewis Carroll’s original version of “Alice in Wonderland.”

My Genie

1984 • 8 min

A garage door opener named Genie is able to let loose when it's owner's not around.

Nightfall

1984 • 2 min

16mm / color and b/w / sound

Rodamorfosis

1984 • 22 min

"Shot in Madrid, in a carnival. The subject of the film is suggested by the spanish title. From "roda", I kept 2 connected meanings : the circular motion and movie shooting. As for "Morfosis", it is linked to the idea of metamorphosis. With the whole word, I wanted to suggest a metamorphosis of reality (places and characters) in a motion where everything is going round circles : what is on camera, camera itself and film inside."

Enjeux

1984 • 5 min • France

"...the Arc de Triomphe. Among many variations offered, we have selected about thirty which were cut vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The film, very dense, compact, tries to shape perception by means of specific cinematographic treatments which accumulate contradictory, divergent and paradoxical information." -YB

Voyeuristic Tendencies

1984 • 17 min • United States of America

Voyeuristic Tendencies is not so much a film about voyeurism as it is our tendency to be voyeuristic. That tendency, nurtured by the filmmakers carefully crafted succession of visual teases and exploited by the camera's ability to become our eyes, becomes in increasingly evident as the film progresses. The camera teases the viewer, in this case, co-voyeur, not with sexual or erotic innuendo, but rather with graphic and aesthetic challenges. The partially opened window of a woman's dressing room forces us to realize our urge to see more about these hidden worlds. This type of cinematically- induced self- realization makes Voyeuristic Tendencies a powerfully human film.

Jean Sibelius: The Early Years

1984 • 52 min • United Kingdom

This is an intimate account, using film and Sibelius's music and words, of a great artist's struggle with his medium, with the world and with himself. The films set out also to try and free Sibelius's reputation from some of the unnecessary encrustations of history by looking at the composer's own declared intentions, so poetically expressed, which are earning the increasing attention and respect of composers today.