All Films

The Dance of the Hawk

1984 • 13 min

Legendary characters in medieval and oriental costumes meet near a well. A slow ritual punctuated by races that the shot transforms and expands through slow motion. Choreographic tale by Ma Danse Rituel Théâtre, based on the show Le Puits de l'épervier by Hideyuki Yano. Legendary characters in medieval and oriental costumes meet near a well. Slow ritual punctuated by races that the shot transforms and expands through slow motion.

Cinematon n°342: Jean-Marie Straub

1984 • 4 min

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

The Wizard's Apprentice

1984 • 20 min

The cartoon tells about the amazing adventures of two braggart friends - the boy Vasya and the cat Vaska, about what unexpected and even dangerous consequences the most harmless at first glance boasting can lead to.

Arrows

1984 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Arrows uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to communicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition. 'I am so aware of my body', we are told on the soundtrack, whilst images of caged wild birds are intercut with images of the rib cage of the film's subject, the film-maker herself. The pressures placed upon women to be thin are articulated by an account of a new technique for surgical removal of fat. Once again, a woman who does not conform to male expectations in terms of her body-shape is classified as sick, in need of surgery. The constantly recurring motif of cages, bars and railway lines reiterates the feeling of entrapment throughout the film. Yet, taking the camera into her own hands, and revealing this process to the spectator by using a mirror, the film-maker shows herself in control of this representation of a woman's body.

Jerry Cotton

1984 • 3 min • Germany

The Mayor of Montemilone

1984 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dying on its feet. There are no jobs, the young emigrate, the old have given up hope and government aid often goes astray. While Dino is determined to fight for his town, his wife Angela sometimes feels that the struggle is not worth it. A massive dam is being built just outside Montemilone. It's a new threat to the town and to Dino's position as mayor.

Night in Tunisia

1984 • 60 min

A widower tries to spark his son's interest in music in this period drama set in a seaside holiday setting in Ireland in the early 1960's.

Careful, Monkeys!

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Second film. Adventures of little monkeys, secretly from their mother escaped from a zoo to the city.

The Fir

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An exquisite little fir tree is curious about what he will become later. Based on the tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Meilė ir išdavystė

1984 • 45 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the post-war struggle against "bourgeois nationalists".

Drogenkonsum

1984 • 10 min

Hoffmann has no sympathy for drug addicts - he could always do without his beloved beer! So: a total ban on alcohol! On the other hand ... nobody can refuse a schnapps, and everyone is responsible for themselves. Afterwards, Hoffmann can try out where you can go without restrictions.

Flying Hair

1984 • 8 min • Poland

Under the starlight, a boy and a girl are running. A thunderstorm breaks out, trees are shattered, and a rain of silver needles turned into hair floats through the air.

Rouge Capucine

1984 • 59 min • Switzerland

The life of the actress and model Capucine inspired this film by Michel Soutter, played by Capucine herself in the company of Heinz Béat, Antoinette Moya, Corinne Corderey and Jean-Pierre Malo.

Blackberry Subway Jam

1984 • 8 min • Canada

This short animation based on a popular children's story by Robert Munsch tells the story of a young boy with a major problem: his apartment has become a subway station but his mother doesn't believe him and blames him for the commuters' mess.

Man and Woman Intimate

1984 • 26 min • East Germany

A married couple looks for answers to their sexual problems. Leading GDR sexologist Dr. Siegfried Schnabl gives advice.

Pretenders Live in Dortmund

1984 • 36 min • Germany

Pretenders perform live at Rock Pop Festival, Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany as they tour for Learning to Crawl. Also included a live clip of "Waterloo Sunset" filmed for UK television.

What Under the Sun?

1984 • 60 min

What Under The Sun? is a private view of Mexico and it's history up to the present, loosely based on Bernal Diaz's account of Cortez's Conquest of the Aztecs. The work was initiated by a desire to apply electronic stream of consciousness techniques, as utilized in previous works, to a more specific topic, in this case Mexican history. The work is composed of six chapters, each conveying some aspect of Mexico's history or its psyche.

Six Into One: The Prisoner File

1984 • 53 min • United Kingdom

After Channel 4 screened the finale of their 1984 repeats of The Prisoner, they broadcast this special show to delve into the mysteries about the enigmatic series. Featuring interviews from actors, writers, and directors of the show, it most importantly featured an interview with the man himself, Patrick McGoohan, then living in Canada. The story behind the making of this special was revisited in the 2017 documentary 'In My Mind'.

Geotropism

1984 • 18 min

Atomic footage video collage starring Sakevi of G.I.S.M.

Rusty Knight

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A parable about love and chivalry in which a mechanical bird sacrifices itself to save a living bird that it has fallen in love with.

Shell Game at Maxwell Street

1984 • 3 min

A short film by filmmaker Tom Palazzolo with his students of an informal illegal gambling type of game on a sidewalk of the Maxwell Street Market. “Grown folks, now, not young folks. If you ain’t 18 or over I can’t give you a bet–show me three IDs. I might make an exception if you got ten bucks.”

Ikuska 18: Bertsolaritza

1984 • 10 min • Spain

Documentary on 'bertsolaritza' (or bertsolarism), the art of singing extemporaneously composed songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns.

Van att få som han vill

1984 • 57 min • Sweden

Municipal councilor Håkan Davidsson in Hjo is the strong man of the small community. A film about power and people in a very ordinary Swedish society.

Rectangle & Rectangles

1984 • 8 min • Canada

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.