All Films

The Painted Door

1984 • 24 min • Canada

The Painted Door is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Bruce Pittman and released in 1984. Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, the film was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Atlantis Films of Toronto. It follows a housewife who struggles with loneliness after her husband ventures into a blizzard. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

1984 • 3 min

Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying friend Bill Cronshaw: a passage from the journal of Charles Lindbergh.

The Dreams and Past Crimes of the Archduke

1984 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Jeff Keen's daughter gave him some music and sound effects recorded at the cinema and invited him to use it as the basis for a film. He added a plastic Hitler mask from Brighton pier and created this red and blue-dominated film that runs at a distinctly different pace to the rest of his work. Its reflective tone matches the mood of its title and features such imagery as a blindfolded artist painting.

Sad Gadolf

1984 • 20 min • Japan

Contre un Ex-Créateur Devenu Porc

1984 • 27 min • France

This film is composed of images collected then scratched, colored, scratched, etc. which have no direct or indirect relation with the sound column. As in almost all Lettrist films, sound comes first over image. 16mm / color / sound

The Great Smoke

1984 • 6 min • Philippines

Animated film with several bizarre scenes.

A Marriage

1984 • 6 min • Bulgaria

A groom-to-be wakes up in the morning of his wedding to strange visions triggered by his impatience... Though the nuptial feast is in full flow, the groom is still daydreaming. On the wedding night, the bride ups and melts away before his eyes exhaling air as a deflated balloon...

Winston Tong In Studio

1984 • 10 min

Winston Tong and collaborators are interviewed during a busy day at the recording studio.

Scrooge's Rock 'N' Roll Christmas

1984 • 44 min • United States of America

Scrooge is visited by a girl with a snow globe—which shows him people like Mike Love and Three Dog Night singing Christmas carols—to teach the crotchety old skinflint the True Spirit of Christmas.

Twisted Sister: Stay Hungry Live

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Recorded live at San Bernadino's Orange Pavillion on May 19th, 1984. Presented by KMET & MTV. 1. The Kids Are Back 2. We're Not Gonna Take It (Music Video) 3. I Wanna Rock 4. Under The Blade 5. The Beast 6. You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll (Music Video) 7. The Price 8. Stay Hungry 9. Burn In Hell 10. S.M.F.

La première journée de Nicolas

1984 • 22 min • France

Nicolas is a young man just released from jail. He spends his first day of freedom watching and hesitating, in a community care centre, in a hotel room. Loneliness.

A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's

1984 • 58 min • United States of America

Explores the paths being forged by six modern artists, giving us rare insight into the minds behind this rousing new wave of painting.

Rothenthurm

1984 • 48 min • Switzerland

A documentary about a proposed military training area in Rothenthurm, Central Switzerland, and the village's resistance to those plans.

Wolf and Calf

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

One day, the Wolf stole the newborn Calf and brought him home to eat, but regretted it and decided not to eat it, but wait until he grows up. The Wolf becomes attached to the Calf, takes care of him, feeds milk, sings lullabies, reads books. For the sake of the Calf, the Wolf keeps cleanliness - "children - they can not grow in the mud." And the Wild Boar, which smokes a cigarette, the Wolf literally drives a rag. Gradually, the Wolf and the Calf are so used to each other that they began to live like a father and son.

Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair

1984 • 58 min • Canada

Paul Cowan's film captures the spirit of the legal battle over abortion waged by Dr. Henry Morgentaler in Quebec and in federal courts between 1970 and 1976. Using a combination of newsreel footage, interviews and re-enactments, this docudrama unravels the complexities of the case that began as a challenge to Canada's abortion laws and turned into a precedent-setting civil rights case.

Heroes of Today

1984 • 49 min • Austria

A cheerful music film with the Austrian pop star Johann Hölzel (better known as Falco), in which he travels around the world.

Choko and Boko: Olympic Visa

1984 • 8 min • Bulgaria

The fun adventures of Choko the stork and Boko the frog are full of rivalry. They cheat on each other all the time, but there's a strong bond between them. Maybe one day they will be friends.

Claudel in Reims

1984 • 5 min

Sarah Maldoror observes a stage production of Paul Claudel’s The Hostage at the Théâtre de la Comédie in Reims.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier

1984 • 30 min • United States of America

Version of the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen with the American mime team Shields and Yarnell.

Vincent Price's Halloween Thriller

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Vincent Price playing host to a mix of “Halloween” music videos, including Halloween playlist staples like ‘Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me,” Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters,” and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Bark at the Moon.” The special also features two performances from illusionist Abb Dixon, who performs a “cremation” and “the table of death.”

The Business of Hunger

1984 • 27 min • United States of America

One of the major causes of world hunger lies in the unequal distribution of the earth's resources. Many people go hungry while their governments continue to export vital foodstuffs, such as soy beans and groundnuts to the industrialised countries. This film describes this reality in Asia, Africa and Latin and North America suggesting a more just distribution of agricultural resources.

G - som i Gemutredningen

1984 • 30 min • Sweden

A day in the life of Ivar Lo Denisovitj.

The Passionate Pilgrim

1984 • 23 min • United Kingdom

A pilgrim attempts to gain entry to a castle by any means possible, to get to a beautiful maiden, but the lord of the castle will go to in order to stop him

Pirate Apprentice

1984 • 34 min

The story of the special is about a pirate (Ramón Valdés) who is searching for a treasure with the help of his nephew (Luis Miguel), which also serves as a way for him to learn this activity. Throughout the dialogues, Luis Miguel performs some famous songs and concludes by delivering a message for young people.