All Films

Trong Thư Viện

1985 • 7 min • Vietnam

A day at the library

I Like To Read While I'm Drivin

1985 • 2 min

Animated short with music, the title says it all

Journey to the Wall

1985 • 25 min

Travelogue depicting a road trip from Stockholm to the Berlin wall. The film is mostly shot from a car window but includes found footage as well.

If This Ain't Heaven

1985 • 28 min

If This Ain’t Heaven introduces us to Mr. G, a 50-year-old Black man, and his cat, Africa, he both talks to and talks for, alleviating his loneliness through these conversations and deep friendship.

Neglītais pīlēns-cilvēka bērns

1985 • 20 min • Soviet Union

About Andris Grīnbergs, a drawing teacher at Mazirbe Boarding School, and his students.

Jiazi Saves the Deer

1985 • 20 min

The young boy who lived in the deep mountains since his childhood is kind-hearted. He not only respects his parents very much, but also loves the small animals in the forest like a family. One day, the king took a hunting team into the mountain to hunt. He couldn't bear to see the peaceful forest being destroyed and quickly helped the birds, squirrels, deer and other animals escape.

Fantasy Transmission

1985 • 2 min

Before cell phones, modems, and the internet, some folks tapped their sexual fantasies in Morse Code.

Rock Heart Fire

1985 • 17 min • Australia

Shot mostly at Uluru, the rock in the heart of Australia. The extreme heat damaged the emulsion of the film which is subsequently incised by the filmmaker. A ceremonial death and rebirth. The soundtrack was made by the Orchestra of Skin and Bone comprising of Ollie Olsen and John Murphy. The aborigines were from Narwietooma Station. 16mm.

Winds

1985 • 6 min • Japan

16mm to digital, 6'00

What Is This

1985 • 9 min • United States of America

With the aid of the Computer Department at Rutgers University, Montañez Ortiz devised a software interface that allowed him to digitize a videotape by scratching it forward and backward, completely disrupting its temporality.

Shimmer

1985 • 9 min • United States of America

"This work was recorded during a live performance (1985) in front of an audience. It was created with custom built hardware and software in "real time" using a single b/w live camera input. The props used were retro-reflective sticks and wrist bands that were "waved" or "manipulated" [...] The music "Hikari" was not performed live. We worked live to the prerecorded track by Maggi Payne. She created it specifically for these performances." -ET

The Magic Box

1985 • 1 min • Norway

The vignette Tryllekassen (1985) by Inside Karine Melbye was in use for so many years that it is probably Norway's most watched animated film.

Dusk

1985 • 4 min • Japan

A uniquely psychedelic animation of sordid and chaotic images.

Ocular

1985 • 5 min

In close proximity, through slow movements of the camera, the eye becomes an unknown organic planet floating in black space. The delicate double exposure does not disturb the clarity of its patient, strictly black-and-white gaze, which works its way through hairs and eyelashes, through pores and wrinkles, crevices, and craters.

Vision

1985 • 3 min

"...No photographed images. All handmade. It's all these squares, lines. The main techniques were bleaching and dyeing and sticking letraset material to the film strip. The images don't rush: they much more fold over the top of one another. Palimpsest. Using the pos/neg flickering helps to sustain the images..." – D.B. from "Where's Our Satellite," Melbourne, Australia (1985)

Lovestruck

1985 • 33 min

Silent comedy short.

The UFO Experience

1985 • 59 min • United States of America

This is a video you cannot afford to miss! Through the personal experiences of seven different individuals this video: Explains why intelligent, advanced societies of Space Brothers, who look like us but behave more compassionately, are now contacting Earth! Describes how spaceships travel, using interdimensional, electromagnetic principles of mind and matter! Explains why the Interplanetary Confederation plans to send 33 Starships to Earth on a positive peace mission! Reveals how Earth people attempted, in past lives, to take over and control other worlds--deeds that created our current fear, guilt, and confusion about aliens! Exposes the role governments have played in keeping the Earth people ignorant of extraterrestrial civilizations!

Mujeres

1985 • 23 min • Argentina

Women in different situations of life, accompanied occasionally by images of nature. Men appear alone in different roles, like a ski athlete, a musician, and a judge, the latter, in a scene from Dreyer's film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

The Pool for Rain

1985 • 11 min • Japan

A naked woman in the water, two women caressing each other in a pool without water, a woman in a cage, four half-naked women standing in a room. The fragmentary images of the various women are chained together in a discontinuous manner, and as a whole, a dry eroticism with ambiguous meaning drifts from the screen. The laughter, murmurs, and screams of the women overlap to form a unique internal world that the artist, a woman, has captured with her physiological sensibility. A film that attempts to confirm the uncertainty of our existence.

The Wizard

1985 • 10 min • United States of America

Based on the Book by Jack Kent

He Was Here, and You Are Here

1985 • 8 min • Japan

The narration of the filmmaker begins with the image of the "you" in her mind, as she repeatedly crosses a crosswalk. The image leaves the screen and is projected everywhere. The image leaves the screen and is projected everywhere, even on the toilet bowl and the artist's body. And the "you of now. A very personal monologue, like reading one's own diary, is beautifully expressed through the narrative style and the experimentation of the images.

Prime Time

1985 • 2 min • Japan

Au nouveau forum

1985 • 2 min • France

Construction sites and architecture in Les Halles.

Jumped Out

1985 • 12 min • Canada

"This tape is comprised of a sensual drift of images which allude to or trace evidence of psychic energy that surfaces within the image. The tape begins with a tableau of architectural stone to a saxophone player (Charlie Braden, a musician from Minneapolis) who is playing through a 34 foot elevated rectangular tube wood structure. The intention was to support a "physical soundtrack." The piece then moves to an outdoor garden restaurant setting during the credits, where a mental patient speaks of various subjects, shifting the emphasis away from the previous content." - David Askevold