All Films

Gerhard Bohner: Dancer and Choreographer

1984 • 6 min

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

Je sais que j'ai tort, mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose

1984 • 10 min • France

A drawing teacher instructs 10 and 15-year-olds to create a Picasso portrait, revealing the surprising juxtaposition of the resulting drawings and the comments from the young artists.

Parisian Blinds

1984 • 7 min

A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen much like a camera shutter, Hammer questions the perceptual experience of mass tourism as the Bâteau Mouche endlessly circles the île de la Cité.

Palestinian Identity

1984 • 38 min • Palestinian Territory

In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied its capital, Beirut. The film is a rare example of a PLO film made after the PLO’s departure from Beirut. It documents the burned and destroyed cultural and educational centers from which Israelis stole films, photographs, and historical and contemporary manuscripts. It includes interviews with key members of the Palestinian cultural scene such as Mahmoud Darwish and Ismail Shammout and those in charge of cultural and educational centers that were destroyed.

Space-Time Dynamics in Video-Feedback

1984 • 16 min • United States of America

"Abstract Video feedback provides a readily available experimental system to study complex spatial and temporal dynamics." Physics professor Jim Crutchfield talks about, and demonstrates video feedback.

La esfera

1984 • 7 min • Spain

In this experimental short film, a man reflects with the sphere of the world in his hands and, as if he were a visionary, watches the calamities that devastate us. Through him we perceive a critical vision of the world in our era. Wars, catastrophes, destruction and death. Powerless in the face of so much adversity, he evokes the figure of Mahatma Gandhi as a symbolic image of peace: "There is no way to peace, peace is the way."

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

1984 • 28 min • Hong Kong

This documentary / fund raiser film was produced in 1984 by the Hong Kong Salvation Army to raise sponsorship for their educational activities in the infamous Kowloon Walled City. The project was filmed in 16mm film.

Do you still like her?

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Short 8mm film by Kawamura Mitsuhiko made in the third year of university. A twenty year old broken heart, Showa romance.

People who shoot Hakone

1984 • 5 min • Japan

A trip to Hakone shooting training at Tokyo Senmon Gakko, 1984.

Orpheus and Eurydice

1984 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This work is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the style of a Greek vase. When his wife Eurydice dies, Orpheus descends into Hell and by charming the gods of the Underworld with his singing wins Eurydice back, only to lose her again at the threshold of the Overworld'.

Pearl Bowser Looks At Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux

1984 • 28 min

Pearl Bowser (born 1931) is an author, television director, film director, producer, and film archivist. At the time of the program, she was the director of Chamba Educational Film Services. She is the author of a book on the first ten years of the career of Oscar Micheaux and is credited for having helped rediscover some of Oscar Micheaux's rare surviving films. She is the founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of visual and oral histories that documents the history of African-American filmmaking.

L'instruction

1984 • 28 min

Filmed in 1983, during the presentation of Peter Weiss' play at the Fred Barry theater at UQAM. This document exposes us to a play dealing with the Shoah, and its intention to present the medium of video as a specific language.

くだらねー朝

1984 • 13 min • Japan

Blanx

1984 • 8 min

A possessive relationship results in passive/aggressive rejection and destruction (in memory of Lorraine Ordaz). (3/4 in. video; black and white)

Bark in the Dark

1984 • 1 min • United States of America

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.

Ana

1984 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

Many have moved to the cities in search of a better life, but Ana remained in the village.

Waiting for the Sun

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Clogs

1984 • 5 min • Japan

With the sound of a beautiful koto (Japanese zither) and the narration "Kaasan, kaasan, kaasan, I'm marching in the desert", the camera roams the city. Facing the ground, the wall, the road, and eventually the red blood on the snow, the filmmaker continues to call out "Mama, Mama, Mama". This five-minute film, made in just one day, is an attempt to convey the artist's dramatic moment of breath in its rawest form.

The Skeletal Animation System

1984 • 2 min • United States of America

A skeleton invites us into its home to demonstrate its acrobatic prowess. Created by the Ohio State University Computer Graphics Research Group.

The Youth of Kantaro Tsurushikubi

1984 • 35 min • Japan

I lived in Aomori until my first year of high school. My memories of Yoriko, the girl in the white blouse. I moved to a new school and after a long time, I came to Aomori. I call Yoriko. The story of my youth is told through subtitled conversations, stills and live-action. The film's fresh visuals, which make use of experimental techniques such as frame stretching and special filters, and the lyrical music permeate the film in a pleasant way.

Still Point

1984 • 6 min • Canada

Woman or myth? Dream or reality? Quietly searching the secret gardens of her mind, a woman explores her past and discovers her present. Man, child, cat--all are travellers through her life. Shimmering, opalescent, Still Point, an evocative voyage into an elusive soulscape, is an animation film that awakens feelings buried in one's own subconscious world.

Confessions of the Taxi Driver

1984 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

Oblique Strategist Too

1984 • 13 min

Oblique Strategist Too is a multilayered, tangential portrait of composer Brian Eno, and an evocative essay on the creative process. Eno's perspectives on his music and working methods surface elliptically, through interviews and footage of him in the studio and in lectures. Eno emerges as a meticulous musician, articulate critic, and, ultimately, an inscrutable personality. The tape's title is taken from a set of cards bearing aphorisms, which Eno uses as a random element of advice in his working process. Velez uses intricate audio and video effects to heighten the elusive nature of Eno's music and character. He begins the tape with a quote from Heraclitus: "The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself" a paradox that eminently suits his subject matter.

Kariye

1984 • 27 min

The documentary "Kariye", which introduces an "art monument" of Istanbul with a history of 700 years, showcases the artistic features of the colorful paintings that adorn the galleries of the Kariye Mosque (Chora Church). While the documentary introduces Kariye (Chora), it carries "voices" from all cultures that have existed in and around it for 700 years. The film also interprets a cultural continuity and interaction ranging from Byzantine hymns to Orthodox prayers, from the call to prayer to Ottoman takbirs, with a distinct sound pattern.