All Films

Imitating the Flower of Hydrangea

1985 • 54 min • Japan

Film by Shirouyasu Suzuki, 1985, 16mm, 54min

How To Conduct Yourself At School

1985 • 13 min • United States of America

Explains the importance of paying attention, asking for help when it's needed, being prepared, developing good study habits and respecting school property.

S.F.3.D Original Video: Nutrocker

1985 • 27 min • Japan

The year of 2884 A.D., December, a battle broke out between the Mercenary troops and Shutral Forces in the Australian desert. Surrounded by strong electromagnetic active waves, without any hope of reinforcement, the battle was getting furious and also, it was getting dark.

The Night Could Last Forever

1985 • 9 min

35mm experimental film by Dean Snider.

Better Dead - Then and Now

1985 • 39 min • United States of America

As well as the original film, Better Dead, this programme contains a follow-up of some of the addicts originally featured. Some have given up drugs altogether and are working to help others through rehabilitation; of some there is no trace. But Steve, the most persuasive and articulate of the original group, is still addicted and still talking, nearly 15 years later. Includes notes.

Com Um Monte de Beijos

1985 • 10 min • Brazil

The government decides to change the way people kiss. There is a youth competiton to invent a new kind of kiss, and the final is between two groups, one from the north and one from the south of São Paulo.

The People United

1985 • 49 min • United States of America

Boston, 1978: It was an intense period of racial conflict over school bussing and escalating incidents of police brutality in the predominantly Black section of Roxbury. In the wake of growing racial tension and violence, 12 black women were brutally and mysteriously murdered within an 18-month period; their murders remained unsolved. There are moments in the history of any community when its people are sorely tested and the floodgates break. This film captures one of those moments and the community's united response.

Coca Strip

1985 • 6 min • Sweden

Coca Strip was shot in a bathtub. The film is a visual representation of the ‘Coca empire’s artificially flavored, canned music. A black and white walk in the subterranean ruin of the Empire builders alone with Felix the cat. Pursued by submissive, radar-controlled dogs, in a shadowy world with no return. Hanging in the umbilical cord of Imperialism, force-fed and preserved on the point of total disintegration before final misery.’ (Olle Hedman, 1991)

Showtime

1985 • 5 min

A montage tribute to motherhood to the song of the same name by Minimal Man.

Whispering Light

1985 • 11 min • Japan

Whispering Light, 1985, film, 10:50 min, color In this emblematic personal film, light and shadow of plants is successfully constructed over the subjective gaze of the narrator who is working through her mother’s death.

The Unwritten Letter

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A penetrating and psychologically subtle story of one separation and what remains after it. How much a letter, which never saw the light, meant in the life of a loving couple? The palette of the human senses comes alive with graceful images. The beauty of the figure, a variety of techniques and mesmerizing melody of musical accompaniment subdued the jury of Animated Film Festival in Minsk in 1987, in Czechoslovakia and in Kyiv.

Diario di Manarola. Appunti per un film sull'esperienza di Telemaco Signorini alle cinque terre

1985 • 30 min

Made for the Liguria program: 90 years of cinema. The precious superimposition of two diaries: the personal one, written and filmed by the director and his companions of moments lived in Manarola, and that of Telemaco Signorini, an artist focused on the Cinque Terre who feels the need to nourish his figurative obsession with theoretical insights for that same place where Amico's daily life takes place with Olympic prosaicity.

Film n. 13

1985 • 7 min • Italy

Last abstract movie made by Veronesi. The work is obtained by working directly on the individual frames of the film. Veronesi developed a systematic method for the visual transposition of sound, fully exposed in some theoretical writings published in the 1970s.

Artsistria

1985 • 30 min • Yugoslavia

A video art based on “Zaludna mistrija” (A Vain Trowel) by Bogdan Bogdanovic, a book that deals with indoctrination and practical use of golden (black) numbers.

Halloween Make-Up

1985 • 30 min

A Halloween Make Up tutorial by The Salt Lake Costume Company

The Animal Alphabet

1985 • 29 min

The alphabet is brought to life in a montage of songs, film footage and animation. A friendly giraffe animates each letter of the alphabet which are accompanied by clips of animals furnished by the National Geographic Society.

Stranger

1985 • 50 min

Zhenya Rodimtseva has to switch schools after her parents' divorce. Most of her classmates are from wealthy families. To blend in with the 'golden' youth and to get her classmate Boris to like her, Zhenya starts making up stories about her secure and carefree life. Unfinished film by Dinara Asanova, one of the most bright directors of «Lenfilm» studio and Soviet cinema as a whole.

Eldorado

1985 • 5 min • Italy

An Animated Short Film by Bruno Bozzetto

聖エルモの灯

1985 • 2 min • Japan

Neunzig Verweht: der Schriftsteller Ernst Jünger

1985 • 42 min

Documentary produced by ORF and NDR in 1985 about the German author and soldier Ernst Jünger

The Loved One

1985 • 53 min • United States of America

The Loved One is a home-made film created by Mick Foley and Dan Zucker, detailing the fictional life of Dude Love, from his roots as pathetic loser Mick Foley into a wrestling superstar who captures the WWF gold as well as the hearts of ladies all over the world.

Profiles

1985 • 3 min • Japan

A short animation with photo collage, scratch, watercolour painting.

24 Hours

1985 • 18 min

The film was commissioned by South West Arts and Watershed as a community project celebrating the longest day of the year, 21st June in Bristol, UK, 1985. The project was shot on Super 8mm film, edited on video and played later on a screen as part of a photographic exhibition at Watershed Media Centre.

Più vivo di cosi non sarò mai

1985 • 13 min

Through the reading of some of Sandro Penna's poems a boy, as if by magic, visually “relives” some of them, as if he were the Poet himself. A tribute to Sandro Penna, this short film, also dedicated to the "solar" beauty of these guys, immortalized by the poet's lyrics in time and space (in fact they will always be there and so, even between 10, 100, 1000 years). A tribute to purity, to the simplicity of unspoken things... to the beauty of images stolen from the monotony of the real world. In short, an attempt, through his unwitting complicity, to make a film-poem to dedicate to him.