All Films

El Doble

1985 • 50 min

A politician who is emerging as a presidential candidate for his party loses his voice on the eve of the great convention that will elect him. His advisor, an unscrupulous and bold man, urged by the limited time they have left, hatches the idea of ​​replacing him with a “double” since he remembers a character who looks strikingly similar to the candidate. A modest barber prepares intensively and the applause for his first speech is thunderous.

Un Ascensor de Película

1985 • 25 min

On four different floors of a commercial building, funny stories unfold that an elevator operator must connect to clear her confusion.

Momentos de un Domingo

1985 • 24 min

Flipping through an album of old family photographs, a mother reminds her daughter of the beautiful kites she made when she was little. Although the parents do not agree and argue in front of their children, the father makes a beautiful colorful kite while the mother prepares lunch. Everyone collaborates with the paste, the cutting of the paper and the framework of the skeleton. Rosita runs happily in the field and unrolls the kite that she herself saw being born step by step.

Publicitate (D’ale publicității)

1985 • 10 min • Romania

A satire of artificiality in advertising, especially surprising due to the moment when it was made, in the mid 1980s. The ironic clichés anticipate the sexualized imagination of the 1990s: young women biting lasciviously from a piece of chocolate that melts on their face, lovers sipping allusively on a champagne, the cork of which pops under pressure. Advertising is, at the same time, a tribute to the efforts of the shooting crew, forced to work in difficult conditions - that are hyperbolized in the film - and to find all sorts of ingenious solutions so that the implausible situations they present look as polished and as desirable as possible.

Ypolipsi

1985 • 55 min

Two women fight for a man's heart. A television film by Lena Voudouri.

Dokyumento za meiki tokkun PART - 2 suikomu

1985 • 45 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Tomorrow at 11 AM

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A story about a romantic robot who loved art. But the evil aliens don’t like this, and then, in revenge, the robot begins to create new types of weapons.

Grimaces

1985 • 8 min • Switzerland

The “king” secretly dreams of showing his ass to his subjects, and they do just that. Dominant and dominated share the same fantasy of social rites. A carnivalesque temptation whose hallmark is not to touch the reality of social relations, but only to play on their reversal.

If Only the Generals of the Whole Earth...

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The fantasy is that generals will stop fighting and start growing flowers.

Steve Lacy: Lift the Bandstand

1985 • 50 min

The accomplished soprano saxist details his life and musical adventures with the likes of Cecil Taylor, and performs with his band. Includes interviews and footage of a concert at New Jazz at the Public Theater, New York City, New York, on October 29, 1983. "Lacy shows how jazz continually becomes world music... That makes for a video that gives more and more, a real investment" Kevin Lynch, DOWNBEAT "This is one of the better jazz documentaries. The virtuosic soprano saxophonist talks about his entire career... and performs with his group" Scott Yanow, AMG

Kuulugu

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

The lunar calendar of the Estonians at the time and related beliefs and customs. In the film, archival footage alternates with staged scenes depicting the work and activities of the peasantry. The wisdom and teachings of the ancient people are shared about which jobs could be done during the old moon and which during the new moon.

A Well

1985 • 6 min • Bulgaria

Cowboy Games

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The winner of the computer games will receive a $5,000 prize. However, the game goes beyond the game salon and turns into a tragedy.

Whose House Is It Anyway?

1985 • 40 min

Most people believe their home is their castle. But it isn't. If the council want it, it's theirs. Billy and Gordon Howard still believe Rose Cottage belongs to them. Barnsley Council knows better. It has placed a compulsory purchase order on the cottage and surrounding land. Legally the council is the owner. The bachelor brothers are 65 and 73. They are set in their ways and absolutely refuse to budge. They doggedly refuse to recognise the validity of an order confirmed by a Secretary of State. Their stance is a symbol of the impossibility of reconciling individual freedom with community needs. For when the bailiffs come, the brothers say they will shoot, rather than give up their birthright.

Deadly Dangers: Jack in the Box Training

1985 • 5 min

A training film for Jack in the Box employees on potential safety hazards in the workplace.

Jerry Baker's Lawn Care Tips & Tricks

1985 • 26 min

Is the grass always greener on your neighbor's side of the fence? No more! Jerry Baker, America's master gardener, shows in this video how you can have a gorgeous lawn without back-breaking work or bank-breaking expense, It's easy to serrate, de-thatch, feed, mow, and protect your lawn using Jerry Baker's techniques and such surprising household items as golf shoes, beer, soap, ammonia, tobacco, and mouthwash. What's the best time of day to cut your grass? How can you conserve water without jeopardizing your lawn? How can you control insects without poisonous sprays? Baker answers all these questions and more in this informative step-by-step video guide to a better lawn. After all, as he says, "Grass is the hair of the earth and nobody likes a bald lawn!'

An Hour Before the End...

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A surreal satire on the religious subconscious of the audience of lectures on scientific atheism.

That's It, Forget It

1985 • 5 min

"That's It, Forget It," Miller's first collaboration with young people, celebrates pop culture, fashion, and music video, L.A. style. Miller follows six West Hollywood teenage girls as they shop, dress up, dance, flirt and drive down Melrose Avenue — all to an audio track of disco music and scratch dialogue (with the title phrase forming a constant refrain). A brief excerpt from MTV self-consciously and ironically places the work in the music video realm, even as it acknowledges the influence that music video has had on contemporary teenage life(styles).

Golden Room, or 16 Positions for Self-identification

1985 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Experimental short.

Beni Rouge Miyuki Kageyama

1985 • 45 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Tokimeki Kaze Matsue

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

After the Inundation

1985 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

After their village was flooded because of the dam construction, some of its inhabitants refused to leave. They are spending their final days by the reservoir.

Hyaloïde

1985 • 27 min

A still from the Hollywood film Dracula, a small pink spade, and a nursery rhyme are the keys that unlock this enigmatic narrative labyrinth. In Hyaloïde, the Nysts create a "beautiful confusion" of childhood memories, associative games, verbal and visual analogies, metaphorical objects, self-referential humor and poetic metamorphoses. This dreamlike, semiotic voyage through memory, language and representation emerges at the psychological and linguistic origins of narrative: "Once upon a time..." The characters Thérèsa and Codca (played by the Nysts) imagine that one can "pass under the level of the story, insinuate ourselves in the mesh of signs as we were able to when we were children... where the opacity of the image becomes transparent (hyaloid) and lets in the light of a legendary world." This enchanted universe of signs articulates the Nysts' unique system of "writing" through video.

A Single Log

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The ant was too lazy to find a suitable log for the bridge, which almost caused him to drown.