All Films

Frankensteins Scheidung

1984 • 45 min

The video work “Frankensteins Scheidung” by Monika Funke Stern takes up the motif of an artificial human being, which reaches back to the early nineteenth century. The artist develops her own story of an artificially created woman.

Cinématon XXXIV

1984 • 30 min • France

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Sigmund

1984 • 2 min • Italy

A young boy is transformed as he watches the Olympics on TV.

And In This Fairy Tale It Was So

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Once Koshchey the Immortal caught the Cat-Scientist and complained that he was bored and had no one to torment. In exchange for help, he promised to let the Cat go. The Cat, as such help, offered Koshchey to marry, but in order not to scare away the brides, he advised the villain to dress up as a good fellow. Despite such a cunning trick, Koshchey failed time after time.

Light Play

1984 • 7 min • Australia

An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by scratching, drawing, painting and overlaying directly on clear and opaque film and fragments of photographed positive and negative images.

Skin Matrix S

1984 • 9 min

Skin Matrix S is a short version of the piece Skin Matrix.

Die Schraube

1984 • 3 min • East Germany, Germany

A man tries his hardest to turn a large winged screw. He succeeds. The picture opens with a crack: the screw is stuck in the back of a huge woman who begins to dance. The little man jumps away in horror.

Abbalett

1984 • 59 min

Modern ballet set to the music of ABBA.

The Business of America

1984 • 45 min • United States of America

An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's declining steel industry.

O Som, ou Tratado de Harmonia

1984 • 17 min • Brazil

film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing more should be said. The final conclusion, while the spectator flies over an infinite sea, talks about spreading fragility open. That is the Sound.

Pots

1984 • 27 min

The relationship between two potters from the village of Busintsi, famous for its ceramics, with two different life positions towards the vocation, one of art and one of work.

The Eye in the Sky

1984 • 8 min • Philippines

A boy looks into a magical microscope and discovers a world of strange creatures. Upon seeing the boy's huge eye, the creatures begin to worship him. An ambitious evil emperor oppresses and forces the other creatures to build a tower so that he can get hold of the eye.

L'Hiver a fui, l'avril est là

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)

Wilderness: A Country in the Mind

1984 • 20 min • United States of America

Nature is our common impressional and biological ancestor. Its history is now, an open book of essences which we have largely, through the intervention of the industrial state, forgotten how to read. This film is a return to immanence, a restorative immersion, and does what film is best at: inducing a mood of informative ecstasy.

RuPaul's Trilogy Of Terror

1984 • 25 min

RuPaul teamed up with filmmaker Jon Witherspoon for this short spoof of Karen Black's Trilogy of Terror, which was one of the finest made-for-tv movies ever. From the Funtone USA Video Archives

C'est Salonique

1984 • 24 min • France

"During the invitation to a film festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, where I presented the Cinématon and my feature film Blue Heart (which won a prize), I filmed the daily life of the city. The seafront, the university and the city where I was staying."

U2: A Fire in Dortmund

1984 • 49 min

U2 perform in Dortmund at 'Rock Pop In Concert' on November, 21st 1984. The concert is broadcast - unfortunately incomplete - for the first time on German television on January 12, 1985.

Killing Spree

1984 • 48 min • France

A crazed killer wanders around killing several young women with various weapons. Is there a motive for these crimes or is it purely for the joy of killing?

How the Frog’s Eye Sees

1984 • 6 min

This fully animated study in movement and perception employs the point of view of a frog as a basis for this “minimalist cartoon”

226-1690

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

Rogers created this "minimalist soap opera" out of messages left on his telephone answering machine over the course of an entire year. Together with the accompanying visuals of scenes shot from the windows of the filmmaker’s New York loft, the recordings provide an amusing account of life caught between the public and the private; we see weddings take place in the church across the street, passersby struggling through the snow on the sidewalk, and gradually become submerged in the meditative rhythms of Rogers’s interior world.

Baby Kake

1984 • 6 min

Marie Antoinette offers to babysit a difficult child while a single mother tries to regain her happiness and identity. (3/4 in. video; color)

Gleissprung

1984 • 14 min • Germany

A dance group forms at Gleisdreieck station, Berlin. More and more people join in until the next train leaves the station.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 06

1984 • 57 min

Starring the amazing Tit Queen quartet of LEE GERMAINE at her most memorable, MICHELLE ANGELO, gigantically torpedoesque JANE REYNOLDS, and LILLIAN PARKER in the best “naked girl rolling around on a bed film” ever made. All in Living Color with 5 part Cleavage Queen TITBITS

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 05

1984 • 56 min

More VIRGINIA and SHERRIE, plus introducing the curvaceous LEE GERMAINE, pneumatic MICHELLE ANGELO and the opulently upholstered GEORGIA HOLDEN, all in full 10 min. films with 10 more minutes of Big Boob TITBITS Heavenly Highlight scenes from 14 more Big Bust films.