All Films

Well, Just You Wait! 14

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Volk tries to make amends with Zayats but it doesn't go as planned. Some other time he follows Zayats to a science fair, but finds there something he won't be able to handle.

43/84: 1984

1984 • 2 min

Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture, but the viewfinder did not match the lens entirely so that the television screen in the picture was very little. That was not the plan, but Kren decided to "adopt" the film in the end.

Welcome Home, Jellybean

1984 • 45 min • United States of America

A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.

Doctor Who: The Wrath of Eukor

1984 • 30 min • United States of America

The Doctor regenerates in London, 1911, but there's no time to rest. In this fan production she meets her new companion, chimney sweep Carl Evans, and they set off to 1980s Seattle. There, Vietnam war veterans living in an urban park are mysteriously disappearing by the day; what's the cause? And could it be as alien as the Doctor herself?

Barres

1984 • 14 min • France

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

The Bells of Fraggle Rock

1984 • 25 min

Gobo thinks the Fraggles' own Solstice holiday, the Festival of the Bells, is a big waste of time. Despite Cantus' warnings, Gobo goes on a journey to find out if the mythical Great Bell at the heart of Fraggle Rock is real. When the Rock slows down in the winter, the Fraggles hold the Festival of the Bells to make sure it keeps moving. As part of the celebration, they ring bells to awaken the Great Bell at the heart of the Rock. They also dress up as a Weebabeast, who used to guard the Great Bell when the Rock was small. Meanwhile, Doc and Sprocket explore mid-winter holiday traditions from around the world.

Vibration

1984 • 3 min • Japan

"A flicker film made using only intense shock-zooms, Vibration is one of a series of films Matsumoto made in the 1980s that explored proprioception through a mixture of minimalist effects and modernist architecture." - filmlinc.org

The Discovery

1984 • 18 min • East Germany

A little bumblebee is tired of her daily routine and the other boring bumblebees. She flies to the place of her dreams and meets a frog who is also seeking something new. Despite their differences, the two animals become friends and start their adventure together. This children’s animation film was a success in East German cinemas. Older viewers, however, saw it as a metaphor for their longing to escape – daily life, or even their walled-in country.

Thin Walls

1984 • 12 min

Comedy short.

Recollections of Pavlovsk

1984 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Soviet documentary, historical and biographical film of 1983, directed by Irina Kalinina. In a 30-minute tape shows the selfless work of Anna Ivanovna Zelenova, the director of the Pavlovsky Palace Museum, who devoted her entire life to him, survived with him years of occupation and rebirth from the ashes.

Soldier's Lamp

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

In memory of the feat of fathers and grandfathers - winners of the Great Patriotic War.

Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema

1984 • 26 min • France, Venezuela

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Fourth episode: in Cuba, the ICAIC, created in the aftermath of the Castro revolution, is at once a film school, a production company and a state cultural branch. Cuban filmmakers testify to the situation and themes specific to their national cinema.

Sexy Oral: Uwakina Kuchibiru

1984 • 51 min • Japan

A woman rejects her clingy female lover and pursues a female co-worker. The spurned lover plots revenge and the co-worker has a kinky secret.

Community Plot

1984 • 20 min

This satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case worker from family court is accidentally killed in their building.

Destruction

1984 • 3 min • United States of America

The aftermath of an experience with Heroin causes a man to destroy anything within his path.

Kalle and Bogey

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day, the boy who loved mischief more than anything else in the world came to the wizard in the castle. Just before that, he took the teddy bear from the girl, threw it at her, and also slipped a beetle into her candy wrapper. How will the boy behave now? Will they let him go home? After all, here everything becomes known about his past pranks.

Gary Numan: Berserker

1984 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Filmed and recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London 11th December 1984. Set-List: We Are Glass Berserker Remind Me To Smile Sister Surprise Music for Chameleons The Iceman Comes Cold Warning This Prison Moon My Dying Machine We Take Mystery (To Bed) This Is New Love

Extreme Rock

1984 • 30 min • United Kingdom

In 1984 Ron Fawcett, is one of the most athletic climbers, he takes pleasure in taking up the challenge of climbing "free" without artificial aids, the equipment and rope being used only for safety, a revolution at the time. The documentary is part of "Pushing The Limits", a 10-episode series by Leo Dickinson documenting sporting adventures that push the limits of human endurance. Each episode focused on an extreme sport, ranging from rock climbing to hot air ballooning.

Legend of Sunshine Mountain

1984 • 29 min

Children learn to trust God for strength and courage in face of danger.

Turnaround: A Story of Recovery

1984 • 47 min • Canada

The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs, street drugs, or a combination of these. This documentary focuses on the lives of five women at various stages of their rehabilitation. In the supportive and healing atmosphere of women helping other women, they are confronting the issues and feelings they had previously drunk or drugged out of consciousness.

Amuse-gueule

1984 • 28 min

Humurous short on the theme of hunger around the world that combines animation and fiction.

Erinnerung an ein Gespräch

1984 • 4 min • East Germany

A conversation between King Pyrrhus and Kineas about the increasingly terrible campaigns of conquest is illustrated. When world domination is achieved, the earth will be a deserted wasteland, with only Pyrrhus and Kineas remaining. They wonder what they will do then.

Dragon

1984 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Based on the short story by Ray Bradbury. Two knights travel across desolate lands to face the Dragon in a doomed battle.

Quality Control

1984 • 13 min • France