All Films

Dal De rerum natura

1985 • 11 min

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Time Waits for Snowman

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Greg Stump and Bruce Benedict capture the original Snowmen. Featuring skiers Geoff Stump, Jeff Coffin, Robert Aguirre, and Scott Kennett.

Mamasunción

1985 • 21 min • Spain

Lyrical and critical look at the effects of the Galician diaspora by the portrait of an old woman who waits for her son to return.

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date

1985 • 30 min • United States of America

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date is a 1985 American short documentary film directed by Jim Wolpaw. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo

1985 • 55 min • United States of America

Little magic and plenty of imagination turns a young man's room into a hub where various adventures await him.

Lumberjack

1985 • 11 min

Violence in the snow! One of the most radical shorts ever made behind the iron curtain, a special document of the Necrorealists' art group, in the former USSR. "Lesorub" (Lumberjack) is a reaction full of energy and morbid rage against the rigid rules of socialist realism - Claus Loeser, Gegenbilder

The Lull

1985 • 3 min • Portugal

A journey through the fears and ghosts of Portuguese popular culture

Valletta

1985 • 3 min

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat, showing these elements individually and then projecting them on top of each other.

Okay, Okay...

1985 • 6 min • Soviet Union

A grandmother tells her granddaughter fairy tales, rhymes, wearing gloves with colorful fingers and portraying the heroes of fairy tales. The first fairy tale was about a white—haired magpie who cooked porridge and fed the children. And the second tale was about a clumsy goat…

The Road to Palestine

1985 • 7 min • Palestinian Territory, East Germany

In Layaly Badr’s documentary short, Road to Palestine, seven-year-old Layla – who has been badly injured in an air raid – lives in a refugee camp outside Palestine. Layla and her friends describe how they imagine Palestine, despite never having seen it.

Calculated Movements

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

Cuba programmed solid areas and volumes instead of the vector dots of the previous two films. It also in four "colors": black, white, light grey and dark grey. In five episodes, he alternates single events involving ribbon-like figures following intricate trajectories, with more complex episodes consisting of up to 40 individual events that appear and disappear at irregular intervals. Electronic sound scores accompany.

Bihotzez

1985 • 25 min • Spain

The documentary makes a tour through the streets of Bilbao, showing the daily life of the people and their customs. The images reflect the recovery of Bilbao's Old Quarter after the floods that took place in August 1983. The documentary shows, on the one hand, the floods that took place at the end of August 1983 and, on the other hand, events such as Santa Águeda Day, the market in Plaza Nueva, Christmas, the Athletic de Bilbao's Gabarra in the Nervión the year in which the Biscayan team won the League and the Semana Grande.

Hemophilia

1985 • 17 min

In a near future : A private underground line team most major cities, security systems are " heavy handed" : firstly , a militia composed of heavily armed mercenaries and secondly , the police ready to intervene immediately. However, in a network , a series of atrocious crimes hits the headlines. Every user is liable to become a death sentence. Including this very old lady , dressed all in black, wearing hat and purple , which, relying on his cane painfully , dared to venture into the Death Row ..

The Animated Haggadah

1985 • 25 min

This telling of the Passover story explains the Jewish people's liberation from slavery in claymation. The film, narrated by a 12-year-old named Danny, begins at a modern-day family Seder complete with parents, grandparents, and siblings. The family is quickly transported to ancient Egypt, where the evil Pharaoh, enthroned amidst a very sandy desert, performs wicked deeds in colorful ways. They witness reenactments of the Burning Bush, the Ten Plagues and other events, along with depictions of ancient Egypt itself, a land of swaying pyramids and wily men.

Negative Man

1985 • 2 min • Germany, United States of America

A talking man and a scratching female artist.

Patas en la Cabeza

1985 • 13 min • Spain

A short film concerned with the more or less imaginary love of its protagonist, who uses a mutual friend for his continuous and nervous messages to the girl who is the object of his desire.

Hommage

1985 • 13 min • Cameroon, France

Filmmaker Jean-Marie Téno pays tribute to his late father.

Merry Christmas Deutschland

1985 • 19 min • Germany

Gray urban architecture is the starting point of an atmospheric appraisal in Raoul Peck's MERRY CHRISTMAS DEUTSCHLAND

Don't Be Afraid of Me

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A fairy tale about how the little hunter Nikita and the puppy Bobik helped Zubrenok find his mother.

Dehors

1985 • 25 min

Landscapes. A utilitarian nature. Contemporary. Cruel images. Changing. Seasons. The watch could be eternal. Each image transparent and non-avenue. Only the sound volumes will unfold an obscure duration.

Cartouche

1985 • 9 min

Cartouche is the third part of an unfinished four-part series (Narratives of Egypt) by Cartmell. It’s an audio-visual tombstone for his friend Cathy (Ca-thy, Ca-rtouche) whose pyramidical face is offered in between glimpses of Egypt and whaling and sex.

Cucumber Horse

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The story of the girl, Masha, who grows a cucumber in the garden and protects it, with the help of a dog, from a goat, a rooster and a crow. At night, Masha dreams about a star rain falling and watering a cucumber patch. At dawn, the girl sees a cucumber horse, which takes her for a ride.

Great Kendo Commercial

1985 • 13 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Nu Wa Patches Up Sky

1985 • 9 min • China

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens