All Films

Tu vois, mon fils, l'espace ici naît du temps

1984 • 16 min • France

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Chutes de Gaël

1984 • 15 min • France

Special Effects

1984 • 56 min

Presents a historical overview of special cinematographic effects, also demonstrating current techniques of computer-controlled camerawork and computer-generated sequences.

Starview HCT-5808

1984 • 51 min

A slideshow of sci-fi space illustrations composed of slow dissolves and an equally futuristic and space-y music.

Bull

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The parable of a monstrously large bull that was raised by villagers, who did not know how dearly it would cost them.

House in Oikoshi

1984 • 5 min

In this impressionistic work, the artist captures the feeling of an interior space. Her intention is to make the artifical appear more beautiful than reality.

Getekende Mensen

1984 • 21 min • Netherlands

Animation film about the problems of heroin users. Harrie Geelen uses interviews with dealers, prostitutes, unhappy parents and outsiders to put together a sound play in 20 minutes. He drew pictures to accompany the words. In 1985 it was awarded a Golden Calf.

El rito

1984 • 5 min • Spain

A young girl invokes the spirits. "The Rite" introduces us to the mysterious and unknown world of the afterlife.

Confused: Sexual Views

1984 • 59 min • Canada

The installation Confused: Sexual Views was part of a three-phase project that also included Confused [the videotape] and Confused [the performance]. It was produced just before AIDS had reached epidemic proportions. Twenty-seven individuals face the camera head-on as they speak about bisexuality, especially its more complex and engaging aspects, such as the relationship between sexuality, love, and friendship. Without mincing words, they challenge the conventions of behaviour and human relations conveyed by commercial film and television, and refute the myths surrounding the notion of romantic love. The intent here is to question the constrictive mores that sanction only one style of love, and to examine the many forms of desire and sexuality experienced in our culture, approaching them from a variety of perspectives.

Wild Dead I, II, III

1984 • 7 min

Two-channel video on four CRT monitors with soundtracks by Stuart Argabright and Michael Diekmann.

ほたる

1984 • 12 min • Japan

Rescue

1984 • 30 min

Nichy determined to get to the basketball tournament in town, storm or no storm! "You're only a substitute!," cried one of his sisters. What really happened weaves an unforgettable adventure for young and old. A presentation of the gospel and Christian values long to be remembered. Running Time 30 minutes. A Ken Anderson Films Presentation.

Suzanne

1984 • 51 min

About Danish author Suzanne Brøgger's strictly scheduled everyday life, interleaved with conversations and philosophical reflections.

Only For a One Day

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film is about the life of insects that develop for 3 long years under water and come to land only for one day, after which they die.

Turn off the lights when you leave

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An experimental associative film. One day of a person's life or an entire lifetime is depicted with abstract techniques of conditional cinema, inspired by the surrealist movement. Participants : Igors Linga, Žanete, Viktors, Ints, Vija.

Longing for Spring

1984 • 13 min • Japan

A visual poem where a woman visits various Buddhist temples in Nara and winter turns to spring.

The Silent Scream

1984 • 29 min

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist and founder of NARAL, teaches the audience about the specifics of suction abortion, followed by an actual abortion of an 11-week old fetus as seen through ultrasound.

Rodney Rude - Live

1984 • 58 min • Australia

In the early 1980s Rodney Rude was hired by his friend Barry Wain to set up the first stand-up comedy venue in Sydney, The Margaret Lane Comedy Store. With Rodney Rude as the driving force, the comedy scene became huge and Rodney was as busy as a five peckered spider. This was the heyday of pub comedy and this video of the 'Rodney Rude Live, I Hate That' album, is a glimpse into this very funny period. This first Rodney Rude album epitomised his early comedy store period and along with his television appearances made Rodney Rude, with his catchphrase 'You Know What I Hate', a household name. The most frequently asked question over the years by Rude fans has been when will the 'Rodney Rude, I Hate That' video be available on DVD? The answer is: NOW

The Garden of Melons

1984 • 10 min • Vietnam

Rabbit, Squirrel and Monkey help Bear realize that if you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you must know how to sow.

Gradiva

1984 • 16 min • United States of America

Gradiva deals with a man who constructs/creates an idealized image of a woman, seductive but false.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Valentine

1984 • 30 min • United States of America

In this musical adventure, Alvin develops an alter ego after Brittany rejects his offer to the Valentine Ball. In a dream state, he becomes a dashing Don Juan, the Valentine heartbreaker extraordinaire CAPTAIN CHIPMUNK. Brittany is quickly won over and eagerly accepts his offer to the Valentine Ball. Hilarious consequences follow when Alvin wakes up at the dance and realizes he’s not the dashing debonair Captain Chipmunk.

Being and Doing

1984 • 55 min • United Kingdom

About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa Partum (Poland), Jan Mlcoch (Czechoslovakia), Sonia Knox (Northern Ireland), Jerzy Beres (Poland) and Stuart Brisley (England). The film also records the Haxey Hood and Padstow Hobbyhorse folk dances from Lincolnshire and Cornwall respectively.

Temporal

1984 • 11 min • Brazil

In the same house, on the same night, two groups meet. One, made up of very serious gentlemen, members of a religious-monarchist order. The other, a bunch of crazy people in animal costumes, at a party with sex and rock’n’roll. When the storm starts and the lights go out, anything can happen.

The Box Theory (Ireko Riron)

1984 • 16 min • United States of America

In The Box Theory, Owen Land, the uncanny American structuralist, king of the absurd and a religious addict, recreates the image of the Indian girl, holding the butter box with the image of herself, to produce an ad-eternal video zoom. This operation generates a vertiginous and hypnotic mise-en-abyme centered on the female body. This moving mantra raises the figure of the girl to the status of medieval icon – Our Lady of the O – a fertility goddess from the prodigious and polysemic land Of Land.