All Films

Chutes de Souvenirs/Marseille

1984 • 3 min • France

Outtakes from the movie

Five Year Diary, Reel 40: Visiting Grandmother ‘84, Wyoming (July 17–August 26, 1984)

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

Anne travels west with her camera to visit family. (Liz Coffey)

Forgive Me

1984 • 9 min • United Kingdom

Made for a piece of music that David Burnand had given to Andrew Kötting. He had sent a copy on cassette to Miles Davis in the hope that he might hear back from him. He never did. Remixed for the film with additional voices on the director's 4 track “Portastudio”.

To the Edge of Danger

1984 • 56 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the role of a victim in crime.

Whistling Boy

1984 • 15 min • Japan

8mm work from the director

Making of Lensman

1984 • 29 min • Japan

An interesting peek into an anime studio in 1984, with a heavy focus on early usage of computer graphics in anime.

Nipponese Girls

1984 • 59 min • Japan

One day a red paper arrives for Takao, and he disappears. His girlfriends Yoko and Keiko search for him. Eventually, they find him abducted by two men, and their relentless pursuit of him begins. The frequent use of long, light moving shots and the unearthly reticence of the characters gives the film a strange flavour.

The Body on Three Floors

1984 • 50 min • United Kingdom

THE BODY ON THREE FLOORS was a collaborative project that emerged from a dance class, between a dozen people with different professional art form and science skills and featuring the pianist, Keith Tippett. A project by filmmaker Mike Leggett and produced with the technical and financial assistance of a regional arts board and a regional television station in Britain. The program approach utilises the method of essay, and the essay of imagination, working across television genres in a manner intended to be both serious and entertaining.

The Metal Foundry

1984 • 18 min • France, Papua New Guinea

A Lae is a little metal foundry whose owner has gone back to Australia and which the workers have taken over, with some help from the provincial government. An experience in cooperative-management that is new in Papua-New Guinea.

Rock Around The Clock 84 - The Cure Live In Glasgow

1984 • 60 min

The Cure perform live at Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow on 25th August 1984. Main Set: Shake Dog Shake, Primary, The Walk, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, Give Me It, A Forest, Piggy In The Mirror, Happy The Man, Play For Today, The Caterpillar. Encore: 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

Authentic Wing Tsun Kung Fu: Demonstrated By Yip Man

1984 • 60 min • China

A must-have Wing Tsun (Wing Chun) Video. This is the video you can see the AUTHENTIC WING TSUN KUNG FU demonstration of the Siu-Nim-Tau form and the most advanced 116 wooden dummy techniques by the late Great Grandmaster Yip Man. Grandmaster Leung Ting demonstrates the Chum-Kiu form, Biu-Tze form and the Six & A Half Point Long Pole techniques as well as the Double-Knives techniques. You can also see the demonstrations of "CHI-SAU" techniques, fighting, footwork, etc. both in normal and slow motion in this video.

Qui es tu Johnny Mac?

1984 • 6 min

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer.

A Common History

1984 • 38 min • United Kingdom

A record of the unity and continuity of black struggle in Britain. Underlines the fact that the 'new' black communities consist of workers from different countries in Asia and the Caribbean joined in the same struggles against racism in Britain since World War Two. The film focuses on discrimination in employment against black workers, looking particularly at the 1974 dispute at Imperial Typewriters in Leicester. Here black workers faced opposition not only from the bosses, but from some Trade Unions as well as fellow white workers. And the film demonstrates that the outrage of young black people (many born in Britain) as seen in the dramatic events of Summer 1981, is related to the disappointed hopes of their migrant-worker parents.

Reaganocchio

1984 • 5 min

An anti-war, short humorously but seriously depicting and criticizing the contempt Ronald Reagan had for people and nations. Through the combination of animation and still photography, we see the former President physiognomically trapped by his own words in this ironic transformation of his nose.

Profeten

1984 • 56 min • Sweden

With the gloomy, mountain of the Cévennes in the backdrop, the filmmaker interviews an aging village clergyman, who shares his wisdom and perspective on life.

The House That Was Built by Everybody

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon about children on a playground who at first did not want to play together, but united in order to resist an over-aged bully...

Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murrieta

1984 • 55 min

About Joaquín Murieta , from Valparaíso, who arrived in California in the 1850's during the Gold Rush , transforming himself into a legendary assailant and representative of the protest against the extreme exploitation conditions that characterized mining of the time.

Magic Shovel

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on the poems of A. Barto about the lazy Vasya, who did not want to take part in public life.

An Audience with Joan Rivers

1984 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The shockingly controversial, outrageous, and wickedly funny comedienne performing live in front of a celebrity audience.

Frame Line

1984 • 22 min • Sweden

Frame Line is a collage film in black and white. Glimpses (both visual and audial) of Stockholm, people, gestures, flags and the Swedish national anthem appear through drawings, paintings and cut-outs. It is a film with an eerie flow between the ugly and the beautiful about returning, about roots and also about reshaping.

Ballett 16

1984 • 4 min • Austria

256 frame enlargements of a continuous dance movement were dissected into 16 segments, each consisting of 16 frames. These segments were rearranged and rephotographed frame-by-frame. The resulting synthetic composition of movement was rephotographed off a screen running at twice its normal speed in order to accelerate the final film.

Weltenempfänger

1984 • 5 min • Germany

It is a wildlife film on flights of birds when glowing sunsets. On the soundtrack, a hum noise radio, which resembles the sound of a plane and that seems to criticize the human desire to fly, sometimes absurd when comparing this flight to the flights of birds. "WELTENEMPFANGER, marine and desert landscapes are filtered red, interspersed monochrome red, pure color serves fade, the birds fly into the red and yellow. The color is applied in water on the image which respects the framework, the existence of plan and the analog dimension. She unreal and alter but which works here is its color, not its figurales powers: it remains discreet, less virulent that the brilliant forms of disharmonic sequence that characterize the work of SCHMELZDAHIN

Tortured Dust Part 3

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling." Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: "Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?" From "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Marguerite Young... to whom this film is gratefully dedicated.

A Blue-Eyed Girl

1984 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Russian fairy tale about the love of a young couple.