All Films

The World Lies Down in Scrap

1984 • 12 min • Japan

History of Philippine Cinema

1984 • 59 min • Philippines

An unfinished documentary by the late great film critic and historian Agustin "Hammy" Sotto. Hammy passed away in 2001 at the age of 51

View

1984 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Man's view of the world around him in different eras.

Cahier

1984 • 38 min • Japan

Taeko Ohnuki performs songs from her 1984 album, 'Cahier'.

The Terror of the Disgusting Worms from Outer Space

1984 • 35 min

A flying saucer crash lands near an abandonded chemical plant somewhere in Germany, bringing with it evil spacemen and alien worms, which have the ability to turn people into zombies. A 35 minute SOV short from the German underground.

The Ball

1984 • 8 min • France

A César award winning short stop-frame animation with blue men who live in yellow tubes counterbalanced by a ball that swings overhead.

Mikolaš Farmer Worker's First Holidays

1984 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A hardworking farmer wins a free holiday at a sea resort. For the first time in his life, Mikolaš can rest and relax in peace. A satire about agricultural policy and social differences.

Yalaltecas

1984 • 27 min • Mexico

The documentary captures the struggle of the Yalatecas Women’s Union, in a remote Zapotec indigenous community, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. It recreates the seizure of the Municipal Palace that led to the end of the cacicazgo (ruling of the caciques), the organization of the Union, and achievements such as the cooperative of artisans, the communal mill and the support for the Castilianization Center and musical instruments for the band that is the heart of community.

Teekond mäe südamesse

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In a short film about his brother, actor and director Jaan Tooming, Peeter Tooming transports him from between theater decorations to nature, a village street, a field, a forest, a waterfall, a rocky seashore. Actor Jaan Tooming recites thoughts from his plays that match his state of mind.

Chang-soo Gets the Job

1984 • 14 min • South Korea

Chang-su, Byeong-gi and Yeong-bae are pickpockets and work together. Chang-su's role in the team is to lure the chasers out. Chang-su is displeased with the payment he receives because what he does is tougher than what the other two do.

Rafael agosto 1984

1984 • 12 min • Argentina

The reeds lean over the water. There is no nostalgia. A letter filmed for Rafael Maino in 1984 with stories of the filmmaker as a memoir of a paradise. A paradise formulated over seven years by the friendship between Rafael and Narcisa: "if there was a fight, it is something bigger than you and me, it is the fight between two myths". This film can be considered as part of the series of the diaries together with Orpheus and Eurydice.

Macross Mech Graffiti

1984 • 45 min

Mecha action in space.

A Rose for You

1984 • 60 min • Japan

A dull middle-aged gay man who sells condoms. During the day, he approaches young men in parks and toilets, and at night in public baths and gay bars, but he always gets dumped. Eventually, it became a matter of police involvement... He meets the beautiful boy of his dreams and has sex with him. The film depicts the loneliness of life's journey from beautiful youth to old age through the image of a man who wants to make that dream come true.

Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah /In Four Movements/

1984 • 29 min

Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the enigmatic Sulejman Ferenčak—one of fifty members of the slippery production network OM, which concocted dozens of small-gauge gems in the late 70s and 80s--launches and spins his Super 8 tripod-attached camera in a methodical sequence of 360-degree rotations. Sky and earth are euphorically, deliriously transcended in what is not so much an homage to Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale, but rather its spiritual detonation from within.

Sunday Walks

1984 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Aigerim lives in a boarding school. Her parents divorced and now she sees them only on weekends: the father visits the girl on Sundays, the mother on Saturdays. Long walks with her father help Aigerim come to terms with the circumstances of her life and continue to love her mother.

Raja Rammohan Roy

1984 • 20 min • India

A documentary short about the life and work of social reformer and the Father of the Bengali Renaissance, Raja Ram Mohun Roy

The Aeronauts

1984 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Boys buy an aeroplane and fly to the United States.

Terra Incognita

1984 • 48 min • Soviet Union

Terra incognito. This is a meeting with another Universe, with another world. Who inhabits it? What kind of winds blow on it? Or it happens that you would like to penetrate into the depths of this earth, but any of your attempts encounters landslides, landslides, rockfalls... The Earth does not allow...

Giordano Bruno

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of Giordano Bruno, who held various researches and observations of planets and stars around the Earth. He lived in the 16th century, and his innovative views did not bring him anything but persecution at that time. Some moments of his life are ranked as real feats, one of which will be discussed in this animation.

Visual Essays: Origins of Film

1984 • 55 min • Canada

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, these film essays comprise a critical/structural investigation of silent cinema ending with Segei Eisenstein's works (for Stalin) - from Lumiere and Melies through surrealism and horros, to montage and propaganda, we 're-invent' epochs in cinema that became its language and culture.

Recess III

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon consists of three plots, "The Alchemist," "Our House," and "The Money Changers." In the first cartoon, a two-year-old schoolboy, resorting to chemistry, which he also does not know, tries to get the two out of the diary. The second cartoon tells about an apartment building that is only 10 years old, but looks like 100. And as a little girl, by her example, she forced the boys to look at their native home with completely different eyes. And the main thing is that now they will not paint the walls, but will love their home. The third cartoon is about a money changer boy who changes everything: glasses for old stamps, and stamps for an elephant in a zoo, a dog for a cat, and a cat for a mouse, and he changed the mouse for a bruise and a bump… And only I couldn't change the two to the five.

The Thief of Sydney

1984 • 12 min • Australia

Tells the story of an impoverished young man who dreams/​fantasizes/​hallucinates about his adventures in a post-holocaust Sydney of the future, where all is polluted and survival depends upon the theft of oxygen.

Mondo Elvis

1984 • 28 min • United States of America

A short film from Tom Corboy about devoted fans of Elvis Presley in the years after his death.

Gazorra: Beast from the Bowels of the Earth

1984 • 8 min • Germany

When a giant monster ravages a German town, humanity’s only hope lies in the secret weapon known as the super giant fighting robot