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Talking to Myself

Talking to Myself

1985 • 3 min • United States of America
A MassArt student film that finds Robertson experimenting with the complex multiple voices that would play a major role in "Five Year Diary".
Vitriol

Vitriol

1985 • 19 min • France
Images accompanied by an epistle intoned by the filmmaker himself.
Bad Spirit

Bad Spirit

1985 • 6 min • France
Ecoutez vos murs

Ecoutez vos murs

1985 • 52 min • France
It is the poetic chronicle of a city: Paris. A city critique, but a good natured one (the declaration of intention is bloody : Cities are illegal slaughterhouses). The experimental reality of everyday life is explored with insight and humour through improbable dialogues between pigeons, statues, and even a tap and a washbowl! There is on the one hand, the individual at home, grappling with its walls (which are fully fledged characters in this film) and on the other hand, we see the outside world composed of the rhythms and colours of daily urban activities. A mixture of special effects, animation, features reworked into montage, and realism consolidates the fantastic, bizarre and ironic style of the film. M. Mazé
Alles ist gut

Alles ist gut

1985 • 15 min • Germany
Debut documentary film essay and initial film work of Joachim Polzer from 1985. A meditation on what's important in life plus a study in film editing and in human voice montage.
223

223

1985 • 5 min
"With 223 I used Photographs from my past as a base. It gives the eyes something to come back to from the faster abstract shapes. The Pos/Neg flickering gives a feeling of depth. Its called 223 because I had some letterset of the numbers 223. There is a layering of images and techniques." – D. bB. from "Where's Our Satellite," Melbourne, Australia (1985)
Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground

Punks and Poseurs: A Journey Through the Los Angeles Underground

1985 • 60 min • United States of America
At its core, “Punks and Poseurs” is a narration-free concert film, but it’s cut with terrific interview footage that explores the changing nature of punk, from insider and outsider perspectives. There’s a lot of great footage with writer/performers Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, torpedoing the influx into the music scene of neophyte phonies who just didn’t get it, explaining title of the program. (After this first aired in 1985, a bunch of the new waver/Durannie chicks at my high school—which is to say all the girls who were trying their suburban Ohio best to look like Gehman and Berry—started calling everyone “poseurs,” which was pretty funny.) There’s also a hilarious interview with employees at a store called “Poseur,” which sold punk fashions and accessories—people had to get that shit somewhere before Hot Topic forever banished punk to the mall, no? Also keep an eye out for the kid giving a primer on how to fashion liberty spikes with Knox gelatine.
Girls From Another Time

Girls From Another Time

1985 • 26 min • Brazil
The woman interviewed in Meninas De Um Outro Tempo, who were born at the turn of the century and live in the same nursing home, open up to filmmaker Maria Inês Villares about sex, loneliness and their dead husbands. Villares’s connection to the home is only revealed, obliquely, towards the end of the film. In her words, the film is "a reflection on life when there is little of it left".​
Beach

Beach

1985 • 7 min • Bulgaria
A peaceful day at the beach for the frogs is thwarted by an invasion of birds.
Blue Requiem

Blue Requiem

1985 • 14 min • South Korea
The author writes that at the moment the sun retrieved its last ray of light, the girl "sensed sensuality in the dark and watched death". The Woman at the Toy Store (OH Jeonghee) was transformed into a film, and the sexuality of the girl and woman gained the rhythm of requiem. The thrill of the moment when the positive changes to negative is, therefore, the sensuality of the cinema. Blue Requiem, the queer experimental work dedicated to the girl and the woman, arrived in the Winter Republic in 1986.
The Myth of the Fishes

The Myth of the Fishes

1985 • 8 min • Canada
A woman enjoys her first fishing trip, until a fish is caught and she is pressured into killing it. Fishing is a common activity that provides a rare opportunity for the hands on experience of killing.
Angoch Tanomb (An Ancient Wedding)

Angoch Tanomb (An Ancient Wedding)

1985 • 11 min • Mexico
Stories from San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca's village elders highlight traditional elements such as clothing, ancient customs, a natural well, clay pots, and courtship rituals.
Yamamoto Returns

Yamamoto Returns

1985 • 10 min • United States of America
Dennis Dallison recounts his past life, and how he overcame the scars of it by joining Unarius.
The “General” Election

The “General” Election

1985 • 59 min • Mexico, Uruguay
This is an account of the years of the dictatorship in Uruguay, told with archive material and interviews with witnesses who remain anonymous. There is a focus on the 1984 elections and the euphoric festivities afterwards, as the people celebrated not so much the winner of the election as the end of the dictatorship and the start of the campaign for truth and justice.
Le mouvement Gutenberg

Le mouvement Gutenberg

1985 • 45 min
Following the assassination of young Abdennbi Guemiah by a trigger-happy man in the Gutenberg transit neighborhood in Nanterre, France, residents are fighting for justice for Abdennbi and for the relocation of the families.
Cat

Cat

1985 • 3 min • Japan
Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.
G.I.S.M. 「Performance」

G.I.S.M. 「Performance」

1985 • 32 min
Official VHS recording of G.I.S.M.'s live performance at Nakano public hall, May 30th 1985.
Yawar Mayo (Rio de sangre)

Yawar Mayo (Rio de sangre)

1985 • 10 min • Peru
Lucifer and Derrepente, are danzaqs (dancers) of Tijeras from Huancavelica, who perform an Atipanakuy (competition).
Zdroj nákazy: Člověk

Zdroj nákazy: Člověk

1985 • 16 min • East Germany
Adopted from the CSSR, the surreal film deals with the increase in sexually transmitted diseases, especially among young people between the ages of 18 and 25, and presents the problem of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cold at the Spring's Beginning

Cold at the Spring's Beginning

1985 • 29 min • Soviet Union
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The village in which the boy Kastus lived was located in the partisan zone. He soon made friends with the partisans, who became close people to him. The loss of his older friends was unexpected and difficult for Kastus...
Zange M dorei heya

Zange M dorei heya

1985 • 40 min • Japan
The young lovers were excited to see the masochist woman's training play, and ended up training both of them at the same time...
Gingerbrook Fare

Gingerbrook Fare

1985 • 40 min
A fun packed musical video showing kids and grown ups too the positive results of living by Gods priorities!
Coincidences

Coincidences

1985 • 45 min • Iran
A theater directed by Rasoul Najafian
Heiduque

Heiduque

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union
Follows the people's avenger, leading the fight against injustice and cruelty