All Films

Pot of Porridge

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Automated porridge production system provides the city with food for 3 years.

Dead Endless

1984 • 12 min • Japan

Rhiannon

1984 • 48 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama based on work by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas.

These blessed children

1984 • 32 min

Bjössi, an eight year old living with his divorced mother reflects on the past when his father was still with them.

Opera Vertical

1984 • 27 min • France

Vertical Opera is a documentary film directed by Jean-Paul Janssen, with climbers Patrick Edlinger and Jean-Paul Lemercier in the Gorges du Verdon. The film opens with a training sequence of Patrick Edlinger then he links the routes with Jean-Paul Lemercier "L'Ange en décongelation" (7a), in which he falls voluntarily to demonstrate the usefulness of the rope, then "Le Septième Saut" (7b+). Finally, the final scene, an anthology, consists of a close-up of Edlinger who climbs free solo and barefoot the route "Débiloff", still in the Verdon, above hundreds of meters of void, all to lyrical music. It is "Wie Furchtsam Wankten Meine Schritte", the aria for alto voice from Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata BWV 33, music not unrelated to the subject of the documentary: "How faltering and fearful my steps were".

Oda kaoru sen'nyū taiken repōto shinjukukabukichō

1984 • 45 min • Japan

A reporter goes undercover the red-light district of Kabukicho, Shinjuku, and experiences a first-hand experience of the entertainment industry, which takes an unexpected turn...

Hotel New York

1984 • 53 min • United States of America

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

1984 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

An adaptation of the book by Verna Aardema

King Crimson: The Noise (Live at Frejus)

1984 • 51 min • United States of America

A concert by King Crimson recorded at the Arena Frejus, France on August 27th, 1982. Track Listing: Waiting Man, Matte Kudasai, The Sheltering Sky, Neil and Jack and Me, Indiscipline, Heartbeat, Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II and more.

Robert Lapoujade, peintre

1984 • 5 min

Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

Book of Joe

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

J.C. is arrested for the assassination of Senator Baxter. J.C. insists that he's innocent and requests that cynical lawyer Joseph Able defend him in court. Pandemonium ensues after J.C. claims that he's the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

Or D'Ur

1984 • 33 min • Canada

Male prostitution in a Montreal brothel run by a hard-nosed procuress.

Goodie-Two-Shoes

1984 • 35 min

Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Eisenstein en México

1984 • 28 min • Mexico

Inspired by the social changes that the Revolution brought to our country and the admiration he felt for Mexican art, the Russian filmmaker Sergei M. Eisenstein traveled to Mexico with the intention of filming a film mosaic that culminated in the most beautiful non-existent film. The details of this odyssey are exposed in this episode of the classic television series Those Who Made Our Cinema.

A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques

1984 • 40 min • Spain, United Kingdom

Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a cafe in a remote town they meet two Australian girls who have picked up a scruffy hitch-hiker and a would-be rapist dressed as a matador.

Oda kaoru sen'nyū taiken repōto shibuyadōgenzaka rabuhoteru 24-ji

1984 • 45 min • Japan

Kaoru Oda goes undercover to cover the Shibuya Dogenzaka Love Hotel District. A camera enters her room. Interview after the vivid play of the hotel lady. The staff leaves and Kaoru Oda is left alone with the man. The video records the interaction between just the two of them. A man approaches Kaoru Oda. A vivid live play begins...

Masquerade

1984 • 28 min • Canada

The magical fingers of master animator Co Hoedeman, whose film The Sand Castle won an Oscar in 1979, has created yet another world of piquant creatures. Papier mâché puppets ride machines and manipulate robots strange to the human eye. A great masquerade is in the planning, and the air crackles with excitement. Plunged into the joys and frustrations of creating costumes, the zealous puppets produce a bumper crop, each one more elaborate than the last. The film illustrates the creative process, with its inevitable pitfalls and rewards. It says that to create is to be alive.

Last Day of Summer

1984 • 56 min • United Kingdom

A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

The First Navigation

1984 • 45 min • Albania

In the crew of the ship "Eagle" the debate about the zones of fish hunting continues. Petrit, a new marine officer, supports captain Borak, who insists on introducing new fishing methods.

Linda Ronstadt | in Concert: What's New

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Musical performance by Linda Ronstadt.

The Smurfic Games

1984 • 30 min

The Smurfs engage in athletic competition to settle a dispute between both ends of the village over misquoted compound words, which turns deadly when the medal Clumsy is awarded actually causes an earthquake.

Red Star Over Khyber

1984 • 58 min

Correspondent Richard Reeves reports on the ongoing struggle of the Afghan Muslim resistance against the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan. Examines Pakistan's role as a haven for Afghan guerrillas and refugees and as a conduit for arms supplied to the guerrillas by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

1984 • 27 min • United States of America

Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch

1984 • 42 min • Germany

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 and 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.