All Films

Hitchhike Break

1984 • 9 min • Japan

On a country road, a car catches sight of a man standing on the side of the road. The man gives a signal to the car. But the car passes by. Using a large number of still photographs, this experimental animation shows the hitchhiker's inability to wait for a car. A dizzying amount of work has gone into this 9-minute film.

VOX on 12.11

1984 • 19 min • Japan

Short film by Shin Harada, 8mm. A video work produced for the birthday of Masahide Nokuni, a friend of the Kita Senri High School Film Studies Department.

Night

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Based on A. Platonov's tale.

Fountain of no Water

1984 • 14 min • Japan

A young girl dressed in white rolls runs and eats watermelons with abandon. The camera follows the girl's gestures incessantly. Occasional inserts such as a red umbrella, a necklace or three men pulling down their trousers, give the film a unique image of a female artist and the heroine's vibrant body. Yuko Ishimaru, who plays the leading role, is an indispensable figure in Hokkaido's independent film scene.

Bioscope

1984 • 9 min • Canada

Animated film on the human condition which symbolically illustrates the different states of mind experienced by an individual, from birth to death.

Pursuit / Flight

1984 • 5 min

Animator Marilyn Cherenko continues her exploration of the poetic and spiritual qualities of life. The most lyrical of her films, "Pursuit / Flight" explores a woman's fascination with a bird and the consequences of trying to "capture" freedom.

Begeigerung - Solo für eine Großstadt

1984 • 8 min

Solo for a big city in the age of speed, when everything is at the point of vanishing. Only fleeting impressions remain.

Bounds

1984 • 8 min • Canada

A Chaplinesque mime goes through the pixilated motions of his workaday existence. Functioning inside a black frame that manipulates him and restricts him to his daily routine, he struggles to free himself. Through an act of creative energy, he stands his life on end and starts anew. A wonderfully fresh and freewheeling film that tells a serious story lightly.

4 Œuvres "Télidon"

1984 • 11 min

Made with Telidon, a Canadian videotex system that was in use in the 1980s. Although its primary function was to transmit textual and illustrative information, this system has been used by a number of Canadian artists as a creative tool to make graphic or video work. These films possess the rudimentary and primitive charm of the beginnings of the digital image era. [arcSea, spirale, inTO, TO]

Hong Kong Topography II: For Rent

1984 • 9 min • Germany, Hong Kong

Ssecond film in two filmmakers’ view on Hong Kong shortly before the UK sold its former colony to China. First part was directed by Ingo Petzke.

白い犬

1984 • 6 min • Japan

This film features "Shi-chan", a dog kept by the Hirano family.

Romeo Juliet

1984 • 10 min

Short movie by Crudelity Stoffe.

Inficiati dal male

1984 • 45 min

"Man is projected towards the stars, the landing on Mars is near, the fifth generation computer is almost ready, the intelligent one... yet, and yet today one can still die because of homosexual prejudice". “We kill ourselves because the moral condemnation of the people would have made our life impossible”, wrote two homosexual boys before committing suicide. "Prejudice killed them," wrote the newspapers. All this happened on the threshold of 2000, in a southern country, due to the disinformation of the people and the moral condemnations of the church.

No Nothing Woman

1984 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Stink

1984 • 6 min

16mm experimental short film.

The Photograph

1984 • 5 min • Taiwan

That Photograph is an 8mm experimental film made from an animated still. From the Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka’s photography book, KAO chose a photo of his family beholding a body and made copies of it in a myriad of ways. The photo and the camera are stationary; however, the relationship formed between them through production is in motion.

One Halloween Night

1984 • 20 min

Halloween special about Jason and his dog Spunky who witness a spaceship land on Earth from afar, and two aliens emerge who are out to conquer the planet. The boy and his dog track the aliens to a Halloween party and they must figure out who the intruders are to warn the party goers.

Encounters with Eve and Adam

1984 • 26 min

Short film.

Minamata no amanatsu

1984 • 55 min • Japan

A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu oranges.

Dave's Bike

1984 • 8 min

Short film by John Latham for Channel 4.

I.o.d.

1984 • 9 min

Short film by Jeremy Welsh alongside help from the London Video Arts (LVA)

Cold Day with Chuck

1984 • 5 min

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Sinisukka 1948

1984 • 6 min • Germany

A child’s hands play with a small lizard. A woman’s fingers are masked as blue stockings. First, they caress a thick dark hair. Then the blue stockings perform a mysterious choreography on a looking glass.

Andrés from La Victoria

1984 • 50 min • Chile

During a protest, French priest André Jarlan was shot and killed on September 4, 1984, in the La Victoria neighborhood of Santiago. The residents arrived on foot to the Cathedral demanding justice, also offering a testimony of love and solidarity with their pastor. In parallel, the documentary tells the story of the 1957 occupation that gave rise to the town. It also reveals the strong organization of the residents, essential in addressing the economic hardship and repression suffered by one of the main popular bastions of opposition to the military dictatorship. Pierre Dubois, the parish priest of La Victoria, played a leading role in the attempt to stop the violence against the residents of the town. In recognition of his work, he was granted Chilean nationality in 2001.