All Films

Robert Klein: Child of the 50's, Man of the 80's

1984 • 58 min • United States of America

1984 Live Recording from campus of New York University.

Las Lupitas

1984 • 54 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Slipshod House-Painters

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Story about how the plasticine heroes "Any" and "How" paint factorys fence. The film makes fun of slackers and bungler.

Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People

1984 • 10 min • United States of America

An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Lively tunes and witty narration accompany a quick-paced inventory of relaxers, gels, and curlers. This short film has become essential for discussions of racism, African American cinema, and empowerment.

A Rain of Roses (To Rose Lowder)

1984 • 4 min • France

Images from the bridge over Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. The inland waterway vessels Rose and Pluie de roses pass each other. Changes pile up and the camera unravels them, through shooting, for a mise en abyme of the fall.

Love in Exile

1984 • 40 min • United Kingdom

Part of the ,,Forty minute" series of documentaries that have nothing in common besides from their lasting time. This 1984 documentary provides a fascinating account of the lives of the former King Edward VIII and the American divorcée for whom he gave up the British throne in 1936. The Duke died in 1972 but the Duchess lived on until 1986, two years after this programme was transmitted.

7 False Connections

1984 • 60 min • France

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates.

Charade

1984 • 5 min • Canada

A talented, but doomed, gentleman tries to participate in a properly British game of charades.

A Tiger Has Killed Two Cows on the Jailoo

1984 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A resplendent documentary about the ancient art of carpet weaving, the poetics of carpet patterns, and their spiritual and national significance for Kyrgyz people.

The Little Donkey's Dream

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A little donkey dreams of becoming a butterfly.

Ponaroshka

1984 • 11 min

Friends help a puppy nicknamed Ponaroshka.

Prisoners of Incest

1984 • 55 min

Docudrama examining the effects of incest on a family - the secrecy, guilt, fear, and lack of communication that distort the structure of a family's relationships and make them prisoners.

Thaumatropes

1984 • 7 min • Belgium, France

The 16th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Mr Seymour, the hero of the book by London doctor Mr Paris, shows his invention – the thaumatrope – to a little girl and explains how it works. The superimposition of the images is not perfect, so he invents the use of elastic instead of the usual string. Only by recording the two successive images of the thaumatrope on a title bench can they be viewed perfectly. Numerous examples are shown.

No More Hiroshima

1984 • 26 min • Canada

This short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film follows them on their mission to New York as representatives of the Japanese Peace Movement at the second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament held in June 1982.

More and More Love

1984 • 60 min • Japan

The story of a popular singer who finds love, the journalist who exposes him, the hysterical reactions of his Christian parents, his fear that he has caught AIDS and his supportive gay friends. The film is a strong indictment of the negative effect Christianity has had on Japanese society.

Let Me Take Your Dog for a Walk

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

It's like can I invite you for polonaise but only with a dog instead.

Nada Será como Antes, Nada?

1984 • 43 min • Brazil

...discussion of leftist attitudes towards democracy and popular movements; in parallel, a discussion about the role of militant cinema in relation to real political struggles.

The Real Presence

1984 • 59 min • France

Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of the Festival d'Avignon. This became a fiction about the theater because if I had filmed the actual performances at Avignon I would have had to respect their staging, I would not be able to change anything. As such, I wouldn't be doing anything more than a retransmission of Antenne 2 or FR3. And since a lot would have to be paid for rights to each play, it would end up costing as much as a fiction feature. So it is a story about the theater, a bit Rivette-ish. I shot all the exteriors in Avignon, the interiors in Paris a few days later and I finish the film next Tuesday."

Risto Jarva, My Colleague

1984 • 59 min • Finland

Finnish TV documentary featuring archival interview footage of Jarva and clips from his films

Кубик и Тобик

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Animals are trying to share children's toys.

The Guest

1984 • 9 min • France

A character lives alone in a hut in the forest. One day, tired of waiting in vain for someone to visit him, he decides to leave his hut.

Corduroy

1984 • 16 min • United States of America

CORDUROY (Live Action--Based on the book by Don Freeman) Corduroy longs for someone to take him home from the department store. He thinks that finding his lost button may help, so he searchers the store when no one is around. Will Corduroy find the button on his adventure?

Bear - Lime Leg

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A clumsy bear gets stuck in a beehive. Who will help him? On the plot of a Russian folk tale.

Talk Talk - ZDF Rock Pop in Concert

1984 • 40 min

Talk Talk play at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, a concert that was televised on the German TV show Rock Pop