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Guadalupe Pineda, un poco más

1985 • 57 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Deep Ellum Blues

1985 • 10 min • United States of America

Deep Ellum is a place -- a part of Dallas, Texas. Deep Ellum, along with its legendary music scene built by the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely, all but disappeared with the construction of Central Expressway in the 1950s. This film is one of three short films in the Living Texas Blues series which explores the 1920's and 1930's night life in Dallas through the music of Bill Neely.

La Sieste Pittoresque

1985 • 6 min

As I was visiting my great friend the painter L ..., I surprised him during his nap. Indeed, after several exhibitions, he took a well-deserved rest. When he woke up, he told me: "It is not so easy to rest from Art. I have the pretty formula 'a workshop in my head.' I just dreamed of a painter."

Theater

1985 • 33 min

Condoms: A Responsible Option

1985 • 11 min

Made during the AIDS epidemic, this film lightheartedly tackles the issue of “safe sex”.

Sweet Sugar Rage

1985 • 45 min • Canada, Jamaica

A popular Jamaican women's troupe uses improvisation and theater as consciousness-raising tools for both rural and urban audiences. Their performances speak directly to the daily experiences of women--the least empowered workers, who labor long hours for low wages with no benefits or rights to organize for better conditions. Using role-play and interviews with female cane workers, the collective develops dramatizations which analyze social issues and pinpoint their concerns.

Tejiendo mar y viento

1985 • 39 min • Mexico

Weaving Sea and Wind is a documentary about the First Indigenous Cinema Workshop in Mexico, which was taught to women from the community of San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca.

Alphabet Uppercase

1985 • 19 min

Emphasizes the uppercase alphabet and beginning sounds in seven short segments using original music, animation, puppets and live action.

Fun Learning: Alphabet Elephants

1985 • 23 min

Hey, gang! What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming? "Here come the elephants!" Oh no...

See & Sing: Silly Songs

1985 • 30 min

Kidd Stuff Kid Vid Interactive Video

The Stone of Sisyphus

1985 • 21 min • Soviet Union

A dialogue about fate and mission between sculptors Arta Dumpe, Aivars Gulbis, Oļegs Skrastiņš and the authors of this film.

Area Striata

1985 • 3 min

The film is a film of Japanese traditional fabric stencil in a non-repeating single frame pattern.

Conductors

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The 1985 Song Festival performance highlights the expressions of the chief conductors at various stages of the event, allowing us to experience the emotional nuances through the perfect combination of visuals and soundtrack, without any behind-the-scenes commentary.

That's Hot

1985 • 1 min • United States of America

Abstract computer animation by G. G. Aries set to music by Larry Gibbs

Xérophile

1985 • 11 min

This film tackles criticism of our media society according to various self-referential images. To do this, all strategies are good. For example, the citation of classics, the use of traditional films or daily TV programs, the use of pseudo-narration as a pretext, as well as the inclusion of clichés and banalities ...

Concierto para una escalera

1985 • 4 min

"A stepladder or book drops its steps and becomes a character that is reduced to two triangles in an inverted position, one with respect to the other, joined by a vertex. A couple of sticks make up arms. The concert takes place in the movement of the concert player's arms. Finished this, there is a flight of the concert performer that ends up transforming into a diabolo that plays on the screen until it disappears." Gerardo Armesto

Jason & The Nashville Scorchers: Live at the Capitol Theater

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

Jason & The Scorchers play selections from their seminal major-label debut.

Rêveries du peintre solitaire: Paul Delvaux à Furnes

1985 • 38 min

A remarkable tribute to Paul Delvaux, one of the great masters of Belgian surrealism of the first generation. Filmed at his home in Furnes, he talks about his women, religion and mysticism, his childhood memories (trams, trains ...). He also delivers reflections on loneliness, the refusal of political engagement. He evokes his interest in Roman history, nature, reality and dreams...

Pauline

1985 • 18 min

Pauline is a film that explores the friendship of two artists, obliquely, through the exploration of a house, a garden and a painting. The qualities of light and time are used to heighten the properties simple acts and objects may take on when mediated by these two elements. The primary subject of the film, then, is not an event, nor a story, but a sense of an artist's process and her relation to the world.

Run after the Wind

1985 • 42 min • Japan

Camera turns on, the film runs and the wind occurs. A work that follows the wind, chases the image, and goes far to the image of Africa. A movie that talks about the fact that the wind carries words. The music was borrowed from an African folk music album.

The Balloon

1985 • 6 min • India

A short film warning people against rumor mongering. Rumors can make a mountain out of a molehill.

Time ∞

1985 • 4 min • Japan

It's a work that I didn't originally think about showing to people, so I wonder if this is all right ... I can't help it anymore.

When the Snake Bites the Sun

1985 • 57 min • Australia

A compelling account of the return by a group of dispossessed Aboriginal people to their ancient tribal grounds in the Northern outreaches of this continent.

The Brave Little Tailor

1985 • 11 min

This film is one of nine animated shorts released on 16mm in the mid-1980s by Benchmark Films as part of the educational “Fairy Tale Series.”