All Films

The Garden of Eden

1984 • 28 min

The Garden of Eden is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Roger M. Sherman. The film posits that in the next 30 years, 20% of all forms of life will cease to exist. It argues that it can be for good business to save the environment: discoveries in the plant, animal, and microbiology worlds show that what you might think of as unimportant could be the cure to a major disease, save an entire species of plant, or ward off pests. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Sirens

1984 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

The song of the sirens, sitting on the rocks, attracts to her kingdom sailors from beyond: Greeks, Vikings, Pirates ...

Rainbow Diary

1984 • 17 min • Australia

Hand-drawn directly onto 16mm film, this animation is a 'diary' of daily drawing-on-film practice by Ivor Cantrill over a period of 18 months. Drawing style ranges from bold geometric patterns, to a delicate calligraphy.

The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes: Not Just Tea and Sandwiches

1984 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

Metamorphose Works No.1

1984 • 16 min • Japan

A donut-shaped image floating in the center of the screen begins to move like a living creature. The colors and patterns are constantly changing, gradually gaining strength, and eventually leading to an explosive radial movement.

Venise n'existe pas

1984 • 11 min • France

"if he leaned out the window, if he did that movement, if he risked to fall or to drop the camera, if he leaned to fall, then he would see and it would be seen, through the doorway, inhabited islands, churches and palaces where the boats dock. "

Cold

1984 • 5 min • Poland

A little girl's cold spreads all over town in this short pop-art styled animation.

SpiritMatters

1984 • 6 min

A silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. The film was constructed without a camera by writing directly on clear celluloid and then ‘translated’ by refilming the resulting strips on a light table so that they appear as ‘subtitles’ beneath the original inscription.

Digital Speech

1984 • 13 min

1984 Peter Rose short work

Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

1984 • 25 min

A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

Bitzbutz

1984 • 3 min • Israel

In Israeli director Gil Alkabetz's playful study in contrasts, a white bird and a black monster compete for common territory, but, as they soon find out, it's a zero-sum game.

Winged Donkey

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How a baby ant turned into a kind donkey.

Pillow For the Sunny

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How the little animals found out where Sunny sleeps.

Plyukh and Plikh

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.

The Old Man and the Rooster

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Of a quarrel and friendship between an old man and his rooster. Based on a Ukrainian folk tale.

Three Bears

1984 • 10 min

Varvarushka, the restless main character of the cartoon, went with her goat friend to pick flowers in the field. She ran and walked through the grass, and didn't even notice how she ended up in a dense forest. She came across a hut in the forest in which there was no one. In the hut, as usual, there were three beds, three chairs and three bowls on the table. Varvara sat on all the chairs, tried all the bowls, jumped on all the beds, and fell asleep on the smallest one. Meanwhile, the owners of the hut - three bears - returned home.

Clean and Neat with Harv and Marv (Second Edition)

1984 • 15 min • United States of America

Harv and Marv (animated characters) observe real children practicing good habits of personal hygiene. Marv decides he wants to be a human but Harv tries to discourage him by explaining that he would have to keep his hands clean, bathe, brush his teeth, comb his hair, etc. This is an updated version: In the 1974 version the kids are seen playing football, in this, the second they are painting a mural.

The Graven Face

1984 • 25 min

Realized on the occasion of one of my photographic exhibitions of the same title dedicated to the Etruscans of Volterra. I intended to bring alive the funerary faces on sarcophagi, that, curiously, in shape resembled tv sets. I shot faces in color of living acquaintances in order to superimpose them on marble faces of dead people unknown to me, trying to give them an identity like those of the living. Using a battery of devices composed of a Super-8 projector, a 16mm projector and another one for slides, I rephotographed everything with a video camera directly on a unique screen effervescing with three cones of images in color, in black and white and at various speeds. The dissolves, both manual and non-manual, are manual in the proper sense of done by hand, mine and those of others; they were added simultaneously, to create variable human shutters.

N.e.w.s.

1984 • 5 min

1984 short by Paul de Nooijer

Popsicles

1984 • 5 min • Chile, United States of America

“This work is an interaction of the space, the symbols and the historical context in which I live as a woman on this side of the continent. It is a rosary of alarm, eternal and circular; the alarm of a woman who desires life, light, truth, and solidarity, but who instead sees and receives death and fear. It is a rejection of all that is destruction, and death, yet is depicted almost attractively as innocence.”

Bricolage

1984 • 11 min • Canada

A TV movie sequence is repeated in slow motion: the sound gradually gets out of sync with the image. The point moves on the soundtrack while the viewer anticipates the meeting of the image and sound.

Framed

1984 • 2 min

16mm / color / sound

The Magic Egg

1984 • 15 min • United States of America

A digitally made short film, compiled from short clips made by different institutions.

Baignoire

1984 • 42 min • France