All Films

Einstein Shmeistime

1985 • 1 min • United Kingdom

Student film entered into Channel 4's Time Piece competition in 1987. Third prize winner.

Psychological Experiment: A day at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital

1985 • 19 min • Paraguay

Observational documentary about the Paraguay Psychiatric Hospital.

Face the Challenge

1985 • 56 min • China

Documentary on the political topic of economic reform.

I Ask Myself

1985 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A short film featuring gifted children, including virtuoso pianist Zhenya Kissin (now the winner of many international awards, honorary doctor of music at the University of Hong Kong and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Manhattan School of Music, honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music (London), artist Rusiko Petvishvili (now holder of the International Ambassador of Peace Award, the Order of Honor of the Republic of Georgia, and the Presidential Order of Radiance); Nika Turbina (Torbin), whose poems, as it later turned out, were written by her mother, Maya Nikanorkina.

El Pico Duarte

1985 • 27 min • Dominican Republic

A reckoning and a warning against deforestation, blending poetic landscape photography, scientific discourse, and rural testimonies. On their way to Pico Duarte, the filmmakers meet Juan Canela, protector and guardian of the Cordillera Central, as described in the merengue composed for the film: the man who came and learned to talk to the pines.

U.K. Subs - Live From London At The Camden Palace Theatre

1985 • 59 min

Recorded May 1985 captures the U.K. Subs in an uncompromising performance at the Camden Palace Theatre, London.

Hystèry

1985 • 11 min

A transmutation of mystery/history/hysteria, where sex and sacrifice mix with death and voyeurism. Soundtrack by Einstürzende Neubauten and Psychic TV.

Das neue Hamburg

1985 • 45 min • Germany

In 1937, on behalf of Hitler, a competition was announced among the most important architects in Germany. The task was the redesign of the Hamburg Elbe bank. The face of the city was to be moved from the Alster to the Elbe. In addition to Berlin, Linz, Nuremberg and Munich, the Hanseatic city was thus declared a "Führerstadt". Representation and administrative buildings for the party and the private economy were to be created. The architects involved in the project are interviewed. They reflect their activity and function at that time.

L'ora dell'inconscio

1985 • 12 min

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

The Sid Saga Part 1

1985 • 27 min • United States of America

Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 1 of 3.

Pabostría

1985 • 10 min • Spain

A man is stalked by a flying cape in this short film with multiple endings.

Grandfather's Pipe

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About a girl who was taught by a magic pipe to help around the house.

Borghesia: So Young

1985 • 31 min • Yugoslavia

A compilation of the Borghesia video clips (So Young, The Wild Bunch, He, Too Much Tension, Cindy, A.R., ZMR), issued in 1985 as the first video cassette by the FV Label. These are short, almost 'film-like' stories focused primarily on the iconography of the body in urban surroundings. One of the clips presents a pioneer use of computer graphics.

La boucane

1985 • 35 min

In 1972, Jean Gaumy took some of his first photos in a smoked herring factory in Fécamp. Particularly attracted by one of the workshops, that of the women who cut up the fish, he decided to make his first film with them. Some of them have been doing this tedious work for over twenty-five years. All of them are full of enthusiasm, full of a vitality that contrasts with the dirt and difficulties of their work.

Nazareth: Live From London

1985 • 56 min

Recorded and filmed live at the Camden Palace, London in 1985, this is the classic Nazareth line-up performing some of their greatest worldwide hits including Love Hurts, perhaps their best-known hit single and a heartbreaking ballad that became a worldwide hit in1975.

Wizards

1985 • 5 min • Hungary

Lost visions, forgotten dreams, ancient images with magic.

Cesare Pavese. Turin – Santo Stefano Belbo

1985 • 60 min

A poetic documentary on the Italian poet Cesare Pavese and his connection to two particular locations - the city of Turin and the village of Santo Stefano Belbo. 16mm, color

Gay Tape: Butch And Femme

1985 • 28 min

Cecilia Dougherty’s first video, made while she was a student at Berkeley, Gay Tape: Butch and Femme applies “a little fine-tuning” to the question of representation, honing in on the subjective particularities of the butch-femme dynamic as experienced by members of Dougherty’s local Bay Area dating pool.

Athos: The Holy Mountain

1985 • 46 min • United Kingdom

An brief overview of the history of Mount Athos and the lifestyle of its residents

Teat Monteok: The Tale of the God of Lightning

1985 • 19 min • Mexico

A grandmother tells her granddaughter the origin story of the Ikoots people, while the everyday life of San Mateo del Mar unfolds on screen.

Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction

1985 • 8 min

In an homage to Walter Benjamin and his essay The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, Buchanan's video questions how image processing transforms the role of the artist in society, as well as the nature of contemporary society itself, by juxtaposing images of the making and eating of a television-shaped cake, distorted text from writers Georgi Plekhanov and Herbert Marcuse, and footage of herself working.

水鹿

1985 • 28 min

Two young sociopaths are bested by an old blind woman and an ancient deer spirit.

Christmas Time for Teddy Bears

1985 • 20 min • United States of America

Read-along and sing-along for preschoolers.

Botco

1985 • 1 min • United States of America

An Animated Short Film by Pacific Data Images