All Films

Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies

1986 • 50 min • Japan

The great King Gurumes is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. A young girl named Pansy who lives in the nearby village has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek Muten Rōshi for assistance. Can our heroes save the village and put a stop to the Gurumes Army?

Cosmos Pink Shock

1986 • 35 min • Japan

Micchi thrusts though space on her spacecraft Pink Shock, hoping to be reunited with her long lost lover.

Space Police

1986 • 53 min • United States of America

A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organized crime.

Captain Tsubasa Movie 04: The Great World Competition!! The Junior World Cup

1986 • 57 min • Japan

Japan and Europe goes continental! This time, they arrange a tournament with 4 teams: Japan, USA, "All-Europe", and "All-South America". South America is rising to the tops of the bracket with their hidden weapon, Carlos Santana, who manages to avoid the tricks of his international opponents. How will Team Japan counter this impressive player?

Mr. Boogedy

1986 • 44 min • United States of America

A novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns that the house is haunted by people who lived in the house 300 years previously.

Battery Film

1985 • 9 min

The latest work in this anthology, Battery Film is an independent work that presents a unique look at New York City. Seen through animated sequences that dissolve into actual photos from the city, the film makes the viewer see this large city in a different light.

The Wizard of the Strings

1985 • 27 min

Profiles Roy Smeck, a former vaudeville star known as "The Wizard of the Strings" because of his virtuoso talents on the guitar, banjo, ukelele and Hawaiian guitar, and who is shown to be still active, in his mid-80s, teaching students and giving occasional public performances.

Windham Hill: Winter

1985 • 55 min • United States of America

This program has been hailed as a natural moment so perfectly described that it will never be forgotten. Scenes captured in Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California during the months of December 1984 and January 1985 accompanied by the music of 12 Windham Hill artists. Includes an original composition by Mark Isham created and scored for this video.

Criminal Tango

1985 • 5 min • France

A man is chased by mysterious figures through an apocalyptic urban landscape. In a final confrontation, he realizes that he cannot escape his final destiny… an animated version of film noir style.

Looking Back to the Future: Raymond Loewy, Industrial Designer

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

The Battle For Orgreave

1985 • 52 min

The miners' strike 1984 was one of the longest and most brutal in British labour history. A community fighting for jobs and survival was wholly denigrated and depicted as violent by the majority of the media. THE BATTLE FOR ORGREAVE puts the record straight, as miners recount their own history, their economic and political struggles over decades and the trial they endured for 48 days in Sheffield when charged with riot at Orgreave - facing life imprisonment. Containing compelling testimonies, emotive cinematography, in depth analysis coupled with meticulous detail of the mass picket and the ensuing events of June 18 1984 at the Orgreave coking plant, the documentary also has unique footage of police violence -- all these make this an historic and important document of our time

In the form of the letter X

1985 • 5 min • Canada

The second film of the series Narratives of Egypt (1984-87). In the form of the letter ‘X’ is a signature – a filmic equivalent of Cartmell’s name (which is reduced by exhaustive transcription to a simple X). X is the mark of those who cannot write, or who do not know their own names. Photographed over time against a backdrop of the Canadian Shield, X shows Cartmell’s son Sam running in slow motion towards the camera, and, in the film’s second half, away from it. The shape/structure of the movie is chiasmatic, part of the old avant-garde dream of creating movies that could be run backwards and forwards. The movie is in two parts that form an X.

Black Heat

1985 • 5 min • United States of America

Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep shades of black.

Navajo Talking Picture

1985 • 40 min

Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite of her grandmother's forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy. Ultimately, what emerges is a work which abruptly calls into question issues of "insider/outsider" status in a portrait of an assimilated Navajo struggling to use a "white man's" medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past.

Somos +

1985 • 15 min • Chile

SOMOS + follows a political demonstration by women who rise up with a unified voice against Pinochet’s military regime.

The Answering Furrow

1985 • 20 min • United States of America

Georgic I: The annual produce first seen in spring. The furrowed earth ready for planting. The distribution, support and protection of young plants. The implements of the garden. Georgic II: The life of Virgil is recapitulated in summer, with a digression on the sacred. The sheep of Arcadia. The handling of bees. The pagan Lion of Kea. Georgic III: The skill and industry of the old man in autumn. Ancient custom and modern method. The use of implements of the garden. Georgic IV: The compost is prepared at season's end. The filmmaker completes THE ANSWERING FURROW with the inclusion of her own image. Note on the music: The music works with the image to parallel the trace of history. Charles Ives recalls Protestant hymns, which recall the origin of the hymn in 12th century Milanese music, which allows for that music closest to the hum of bees and of amplifiers, the Orthodox Greek chant.

Dadabai and the Alarm Clock

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Like a lazy person, Dadabai swallowed the alarm clock.

Hora of Stars

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

About a cheerful autumn holiday in a Moldavian village.

Street Kids

1985 • 21 min • Canada

In this short documentary, a succession of black and white photographs provides a gritty look at juvenile prostitution and at the young people, male and female, struggling to get off the streets. Highlighting the links between being sexually abused as a child, loss of self-esteem, and turning to the streets, the film quickly dispels the images of glamor and big money usually associated with prostitution, and shows the positive efforts of child-care workers to help juvenile prostitutes find a way out.

Flower Song

1985 • 5 min • Soviet Union

About a boy growing flowers on the balcony.

A Brief Visit with Hermann Glöckner

1985 • 32 min • East Germany

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with undiminished creative energy.

Plötzlich ist das Ende da

1985 • 45 min • Germany

An intimate portrait of filmmaker Peter Pewas.

Heaven Is Square

1985 • 10 min

Compositions of planes, which originate from cross-sections of a cube, parallel to its three main axes.

Panteley and the Scarecrow

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union