All Films

The Estonian Language Lesson

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A film about Jonas Kaušpadas, a teacher at the Eight-year-old school of the Viru district of Estonia, who came to Estonia to get acquainted with Estonian culture, bring Lithuanian and Estonian people closer together.

Autograph

1984 • 58 min • Soviet Union, Italy

A musical television movie is a concert by the famous Italian singer Loredana Berte.

Rent Boys

1984 • 40 min

Documentary following young male prostitutes in Birmingham and Manchester

Waterfall

1984 • 18 min • Australia

It's a three-colour separation study of MacKenzie Falls in the Grampians, Victoria.

Lin and Katazan

1984 • 10 min • Brazil

Based on text from Chico Buarque de Holanda's Fazenda Modelo, the film is a parable about a construction worker and the foreman of the plant.

Genova Genova

1984 • 24 min • France, Italy

A song of love to the city of Genoa. The film wanders the streets of the city center and explore the beautiful cemetery and then climb the hills which offer an amazing view over the old town crossed by a highway and port.

Digital Still Life

1984 • 8 min

A single performance made at the National Film Theatre against a blank screen – the performer twice leaves the stage on one side, exits the building and re-enters the stage on the other side – the duration was determined by the time it took to walk out of sight around the theatre.

El eco

1984 • 3 min • Argentina

A little girl talks with a tramp lady.

Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality

1984 • 23 min • United Kingdom

Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 2 – Images of Nationality is the second of a two-part 35mm slide- tape text entitled Expeditions; part one is entitled Signs of Empire. The work toured England from November 1984 to March 1985, using a Kodak dissolve unit to sequence images into narrative. The soundtrack to Signs of Empire, which consisted of tape loops of musique concrete and political speeches, was amplified to create a powerful environment of dread.

My Dinner with Louis

1984 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV programme "Arena".

Forgotten Birthday

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

That will happen, if to forget about such important holiday as Birthday.

Etienne et Sara

1984 • 16 min

Under the watchful eye of a father, a child is born (first steps, named things) to a brand new awareness of the world.

Somewhere Between Jalostotitlan and Encarnacion

1984 • 6 min • Canada

“The bus stopped on the Mexican highway, placing us in full view of a young boy, motionless, on the hot pavement. In this film, the incident is revealed through a poetic text, derived from my written journals. The poetry mixes primarily with Mexican streetscapes which compliment the text in a tonal sense. Most images are twenty-eight seconds long, the ‘breath’ of the 16mm Bolex camera. A lone saxophone (Mike Callich) weaves its way through the narrative, blending to make stronger the tomes and accentuations of the images.” (PH)

Profession: Conchylicultrice

1984 • 34 min • France

Shellfish harvesters from the Marennes-Oléron basin (Charente-Maritime) testify to their living and working conditions: difficulties in the profession, distribution of tasks between men and women, advantages of co-detention, creation of an association to end their isolation and improve their status. Interviews and scenes of work at sea and at the "cabin" help to paint a moving portrait of courageous and energetic women.

Hollis Frampton 1936-1984

1984 • 7 min • United States of America

Die lange Nacht der Kaiserpinguine

1984 • 4 min • Germany

In the Heart of My Blonde

1984 • 40 min • Yugoslavia

This poetic TV drama, loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s short story, tells about wo soldiers in their leisure time who are having fun with a milkmaid. Later one of them dies in the battle, leaving the milkmaid in sorrow…

The Temptation

1984 • 48 min

Virginia is a strong businesswoman. She is an old woman in the company and no man has fallen in love with her. She is so desperate for love that when she sees other women dating, she is so envious that she pretends to have a date to comfort herself. Virginia meets Frankie, who is six years younger than she is, and becomes a couple, but she is pressured to break up with him because he is younger than she is and has no career. Despite the fact that Frankie approaches her, she refuses to fall in love and ends up with a man who owns a business.

Not Only About Fashion

1984 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Interview with Leopold the Cat

1984 • 3 min • Soviet Union

On New Year's Eve's “Blue Light” program, Soviet film expert Dal Orlov interviews the cartoon character Leopold the Cat.

My Aunt Dudu

1984 • 35 min • Soviet Union

A comedic novella about an elderly woman named Dudukhani. A wise and exceptionally kind person, she has preserved the youthfulness of her spirit, but no one, except for her nephew Nikusha, is able to appreciate her inner qualities.

Agami

1984 • 25 min • Bangladesh

A story of hope, despair and the burden of human life during the war in Bangladesh.

The Hare's Tail

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The hare has lost its magnificent tail - everyone is suspected.

Opéra zéro

1984 • 6 min

Life is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." William Shakespeare, with words written four centuries ago, inspired animator Jacques Giraldeau to dwell on man's passion for life, and his propensity to destroy himself. The result, Opéra zéro, is a technically complex and fascinating animation film using cut-outs, drawings, xerography, prints, photography, etching and engraving techniques, and requiring more than 50 000 different manipulations of the material.