All Films

Dancing with Trees

1985 • 3 min • Poland

The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks, turns and spins with his head up in the woods.

Birthday Party

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker Tony Buba.

The Bag Lady

1985 • 2 min • United Kingdom

In Candy Guard's debut film, an overweight woman with a bag on her head sits down and swears at everyone she sees.

Sylvia

1985 • 10 min • Canada

A mother chooses her dream of the day from the shelves of magazines: she will therefore be “Sylvia, the-beautiful-heroine-courted-by-two-men”.

Canada Vignettes: Catapult Canada

1985 • 1 min • Canada

This model-animation vignette takes a humorous look at the theme of transportation.

The Magic Quilt

1985 • 13 min • Canada

Visual gags, humour, sound effects, live action and cut-out and embroidery animation combine to make this an enchanting parable of good will and understanding. A group of children finds a magic quilt that is their passport to a voyage of discovery. They step inside the quilt and as they travel through its velvet farmlands and satin cities, they experience the multiculturalism of Canada. The quilt is torn and the magic broken when a quarrel breaks out. Once the quilt is repaired and harmony restored, the children have learned that patience and goodwill are needed to mend and maintain quilts, friendships, and nations.

Living At Risk

1985 • 59 min

Originally broadcast on PBS, the film features the Barrios, a middle-class family both activated and fractured by the conflict. Instead of fleeing their country, the siblings are guided by a religious and socialist desire to help those most vulnerable and destitute, mostly peasants in the rural areas.

One Woman Waiting

1985 • 8 min • Canada

One Woman Waiting evokes questions of subjectivity in the mirrored performance of two women. The single take, tableau composition forms the structure for catalytic change between the characters. The sensuous desert environment accentuates the poetic and ephemeral quality of this film.

Christmas In Alaska

1985 • 32 min • United States of America

Alaska's number one storyteller, Larry Beck, and his traveling Christmas show crew perform in four of Alaska's most exciting and colorful Arctic communities. Experience Eskimo villagers' drumming and dancing. Join the crew in dog sledding, ice fishing, and share their visit to these delightful and friendly Alaskan "Bush" areas.

National Geographic: Land of the Tiger

1985 • 60 min

Take a spectacular journey. It starts right here... Explore a strange and mysterious world. Explore the LAND OF THE TIGER. A rare and fascinating study of the enormous jungle cats, LAND OF THE TIGER features spectacular footage of tigers stalking their prey, caring for their young, swimming, playing... and fighting- as well as glimpses of the other animals with which the tiger shares its domain. Come as close as you dare to these wild cats in all their royal splendor as you and National Geographic journey deep into the LAND OF THE TIGER.

Departure

1985 • 26 min • East Germany, Germany

Dresden old and new, in between photo documents from 1945/46, the time of resurrection, enriched by very personal commentaries by woman director Annelie Thorndike. Music for solo trumpet, composed by Reiner Bredemeyer and played by Ludwig Guettler, is set to this film.

Filmy Film 000 – First Breathing

1985 • 4 min • Japan

Lost Portraits

1985 • 58 min • Mexico

Between documentary and painting in movement, poetry and magic, these film portraits intend to capture the spirit of each of its subjects, as well as that of a genetration (early 80’s). The portraits present generally Mexican and New York City artists, friends and contemporaries of the filmmaker.

Fumée

1985 • 3 min • France

The real is consumed and goes up in smoke. All that's left is an elusive shape, endlessly transforming. The frame limits its ascent to the top, depriving us of its disappearance in the air.

Floréal

1985 • 25 min • Belgium

"Floréal" is the name of a garden city in a district of Brussels (Boitsfort). Hundreds of small houses with black and yellow woodwork, in streets named after flowers. This garden city was a first attempt to solve the problem of workers' housing after the First World War. A cooperative system ruined any hope of speculation since the land capital had to remain the property of the community. The director, who lived in Floréal until he was 18, filmed his "encounter" with this neighbourhood. A double portrait of its inhabitants and its architecture, sometimes reduced to abstract motifs, punctuated by the minimalist music composed by him.

Love Aborted

1985 • 51 min

In the year leading up to a 1985 international conference on gender equality in Beijing, filmmakers all over the world took part in a series of documentary films exploring changing relationships between men and women. Amiralay, invited to explore the changing social and economic status of women in Egypt, chose his female protagonists from across classes—lawyers, actresses, domestic workers—and dared them to reveal the intricacies of their interior worlds.

Ka

1985 • 5 min • France

City

1985 • 17 min

A sequence of shots from a fourteenth floor flat in the City of London, starting with a building shattered by the IRA, focusing on a crane and its driver, roadworks, a building site, passing seasons. The last minutes of the film pass into abstraction accompanied by sounds which could be fireworks or gunfire. Footage dates from the 1980s up to 2015. Soundtrack composed by Daniel R. Wilson in 2018.

Buzz Box

1985 • 15 min • United States of America

Experimental animated short about television five days a week.

Suspicious Circumstances

1985 • 10 min

A pair of dancing duck heads and a squadron of flying hands invade Herbert and Lenores' happy home. Herbert gets his revenge though. Sort of...

Intellectual Properties

1985 • 60 min

'Intellectual Properties' is a noir about romantic meetings, betrayal, surveillance and intrigue. But it is also a deconstruction of these genre tropes. As in much of his practice, Adams examines the intersections between personal lives and mass media in a self-referential and ironic style. The artist has constructed a multi-layered text that asks if linear narratives, intellectual property, and holistic experience can exist in a media-saturated, decentered, and fragmented social realm.

Oltremare

1985 • 9 min • France

Nagel

1985 • 9 min

‘Nagel’ is the result of the interaction between two creators, Andrés Nagel and José Julián Bakedano, a sculptor and a filmmaker (Azkuna Zentroa).

Where the Rats Are King

1985 • 56 min • Netherlands

Once, the Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood in Amsterdam was an autonomous state for squatters, punks and the original inhabitants who united in the 'Woongroep Staatsliedenbuurt'. The city council's authority had eroded to virtually nothing after years of failing housing policy. The neighbourhood took matters into its own hands, which became painfully apparent when Amsterdam's mayor Van Thijn was roughly kicked out of the area at the close of 1984.