All Films

Zarico

1984 • 58 min

Zarico is the distinct folk music of the Black francophone Créole culture of southwestern Louisiana. In retracing the footsteps of the Créole population—who came from Africa, the Caribbean and Acadia—the various musical influences and development of the style are shown.

Io non sono come te

1984 • 25 min

“If you meet me, pretend you don't know me”, “I'm not like you”, are now classic phrases in the “furtive and veiled” homosexual relationship. This is for those who, out of fear, compromise or a thousand other reasons, decide to live their sexuality in a dissociated way. The "official" one, heterosexuality, and the clandestine one, homosexuality. Some do it very well ... others less so. Situations of this kind are more frequent than they appear. This short film wants to give the idea of ​​how easy it is to border on melodrama in such cases.

Catherine de Medicis Part 2

1984 • 25 min

DJ Princess Julia and artist Holly Warburton engage in a shadowy, necromantic rite. A particularly ornate, gothic exploration of the shadow world, beautifully realised on Super-8.

On the Banks of the Ozana

1984 • 13 min • Romania

On the banks of Ozana follows the lives of children who dedicate their time to agricultural work.

Dreams Never End

1984 • 9 min • Australia

A look at the life of a 16-year-old girl, focusing on the person she loves and what happens to him, and how it affects her.

Memória do Corpo

1984 • 30 min

Between art and therapy, Lygia explores the patient's sensitivity through a reconfiguration of bodily experiences, expanding the concept of the body as a home of the self to that of the body as a possibility of contact between the personal interior and exterior.

Voyager

1984 • 5 min • Italy

Adriano Abbado’s first digital work, derived from the videotape Viaggio, Voyager is composed of a series of static images that dissolve one each other in various ways. The music was created with analog electronic instruments. Voyager is a narration with images from primitive cultures to sidereal spaces.

Pure Mutation

1984 • 3 min • Canada

A biology lab circa 1920, becomes colourized as the camera engages in a number of pans past strange forms in bottles and under glass. This is the basis for a formalist exploration of shape, colour and tonal loops on the sound track.

Forest Quartet

1984 • 15 min • Soviet Union

An animations is based on Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani’s fable and tells a story of a rooster who makes friend with a dog. Together they decide to build the village but soon are joined by a cunning fox.

Herakles

1984 • 11 min • East Germany, Germany

Together with Lutz Dammbeck, dancer Fine Kwiatkowski explores myths, political systems and their impact on society.

Lily

1984 • 9 min

A dramatic discussion starter which confronts the social issue of racial prejudice shown through the eyes of a young Asian Australian woman, Lily. The film has the advantage of being both open-ended and humorous, allowing students to identify with the characters within the film and working as a stimulus to class discussion.

Invocation: An Ancient Greek Creation Myth

1984 • 5 min • United States of America

Invocation originated as a sequence within the documentary Orpheus Through the Ages made by Pelicula Films to accompany Orpheus and Eurydice. It was designed to illustrate the Ancient Greek myth of the Creation of the world. It was shot on 16mm and subsequently enlarged onto 35mm for festival screenings. The techniques employed were a test run for those which ultimately were used within Ra; the Path of the Sun God. Two versions exist; one with narration and one without.

Johnny oder das rohe Fleisch

1984 • 4 min

A fascinating lovestory between a woman and a piece of meat.

Migraine Particles

1984 • 12 min

We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various combinations of dyeing, cutting, scratching and painting the film strip – as well as much of the imagery in Migraine Particles are strongly reminiscent of Lye’s work, with certain key differences. The organic shapes resembling indigenous figuration of sea creatures, the intersecting vertical lines, the animation of forms which appear to interact and the moments of striking three dimensionality all recall Lye’s Tusalava (1929), Free Radicals (1958) and Color Box (1935). De Bruyn’s film seems somewhat free-form at first but in ways that also nod to Lye’s work, a structure of developing sections and a layered repetition of shapes in a loose fugal pattern becomes clearer as the film progresses. -Steven McIntyre

A Golden Horseshoe

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A stranger promises to one greedy man to fulfill his every wish. And he desires to be able to turn everything he touches into gold.

Gray Ural

1984 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A film about the Northern Urals and its nature, as well as about the life of a local forester and his family.

Ikuska 19: Euskal kulturaren zabalpena

1984 • 12 min • Spain

Documentary on the relationship between the Basque language and its immediate cultural universe.

Stone Chips

1984 • 10 min • Bulgaria

How mosaics are made.

Invitation To Play

1984 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The story of a little chess pawn who saved an almost lost game and managed to achieve victory.

The Big Hill of Gonzaless

1984 • 40 min • Japan

Puppet Space-Western by DAICON FILM

The Arrow's Flight

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The villain plans to attack peaceful settlers. His first target is a child. As the arrow flies, the boy's entire life flashes before his eyes.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 04

1984 • 56 min

SWEATER GIRLS 9 famous loops of the literally outstanding VIRGINIA BELL & 5 more of the statuesque SHERRIE KNIGHT display every inch of the naked majesty that launched these 50’s sweater girls into the Big Bosom Hall of Fame. These films are the definitive works of these 2 super-stacked sirens.

Star Bride

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A story based on estonian folk song about the girl Salme, who is choosing between three fiancés – Sun, Moon and Star.

The Cure - Live At Barrowlands

1984 • 60 min

The Cure - Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. August 25, 1984 - TV Broadcast