All Films

Special Request

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

After having a close call performing self-bondage, Jan Collins, a wealthy divorced woman, goes to a discreet wish fulfillment service. After agreeing to their terms of service, she's blindfolded, taken to a warehouse, and chained up to become the submissive slave of a blonde dominatrix. Her new mistress might have more evil plans in her mind for her though.

The Comical Game

1984 • 12 min • East Germany

A card game is introduced: “Nuclear War". An entertaining, jolly card game for between two and six players, reads an ad for a game made in USA.

Dealers in Death

1984 • 47 min

Broderick Crawford narrates factual accounts of Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and other '30s gangsters.

Klipperty Klöpp

1984 • 13 min

"A post punk piece of pagan sensibility, complete with beastiality buggery and boundless energy. Maniacal filmmaking at its best. He takes his horse with him everywhere." Andrew Kötting

Babies, Snakes and Barking Dogs: Keith Haring in Australia

1984 • 42 min • Australia

Rare documentary chronicling Keith Haring's visit to Australia in 1984, including working and painting at the National Gallery of Victoria and the New South Wales Art Gallery.

По дороге с облаками

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The Road to Bresson

1984 • 54 min • Netherlands

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.

Either a Bird or an Animal

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a bat that could not decide whether it was a bird or an animal, and remained alone. Based on a Mongolian tale.

High Schools

1984 • 59 min • United States of America

High Schools is a 1984 American documentary film produced and directed by Charles Guggenheim. It is based on Ernest L. Boyer's book, High School, and was filmed on location in seven American high schools. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor, Live in Paris

1984 • 16 min

1984 performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor

A gift for the Elephant

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Observational Hazard

1984 • 4 min • United States of America

Bill Kopp's Student Academy Award-winning animated short film from Calarts, 1984

The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine

1984 • 30 min

The special, a follow-up to the previous installment The Land Without Feelings (from 1983), sees the return of the ten original Bears and the rarely-seen Cloud Keeper, as well as the villain Professor Coldheart. In addition, the special introduces Baby Hugs, Baby Tugs, Grams Bear, and Professor Coldheart's sidekick, Frostbite.

Daydream

1984 • 19 min • South Korea

The Tower

1984 • 10 min • United States of America

In this early work and collaboration between sisters Emily and Georgia, a figure journeys through a bewildering, menacing world. The film was created using a plethora of materials, including color-changing children’s markers and spray paint, and many of the specialized supplies, like cels, cel paint, and grease pencils, were leftovers from their parents’ famed Hubley Studios.

Trickfilmladen Animation

1984 • 1 min • Switzerland

Characters drawn from a graffiti by Keith Haring are dancing to wild breakdance music when a prowling wolf turns up and does everything it can to ruin the party.

The Egg

1984 • 45 min • Poland

It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate.

We Treat Ourselves to the Best

1984 • 25 min

Two couples who travelled together to Mexico watch the footage of their vacation. They laugh at scenes of dropping in on a Mexican family unannounced, frolicking on the beach and bargaining for souvenirs. When the doorbell rings and three Mexicans ask to use the phone, however, the tables are turned and the mood becomes frosty.

Dinosaurs (KABC Special)

1984 • 24 min • United States of America

The first Dinosaurs show starring Eric Boardman and Gary Owens, which aired on ABC on 11/22/1984.

The Double Face of Peter Lorre

1984 • 59 min • Germany

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at the time, whilst such success meant recognition, it also weighed on the Hungarian actor as a constrictive burden. Using photographs and film extracts, Das doppelte Gesicht reconstructs the ups and downs of Lorre's career, taking into consideration the economic imperatives and workings of the film industry at the time. (Arnold Hohmann, 1984)

Piemule

1984 • 43 min • Czechoslovakia

Jakub, The Old Believers, and Piemule are three documentaries about forgotten people by director Jana Sevciková. All three are distributed on the same DVD under the name Old Believers. Piemule offers a close look at the descendants of Czech immigrants in Romania.

And You, Are You Lucky?

1984 • 26 min • Canada

Pierre is a dwarf, as are his parents, who are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. He has difficulty sharing their joy because he is single and lonely and dreams of a normal life.

The Lover of Tales

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The Thief Lives in Hell

1984 • 19 min • Canada

A man loses his job and starts to tumble. Social assistance awaits him at the first level, a poor neighborhood in the second. In the third, the wildlife of its neighbors affects its mental state. Believing that he has hallucinations in relation to those around him and to restore his objective banality, he begins to film him, secretly, like a thief, from the window of his slum. Once developed, rather than reassuring him, the films will make him go from disarray to psychosis.