All Films

Felix's Couch

1985 • 21 min

An intimate conversation between Félix Guattari and psychiatrist Danielle Sivadon.

Lazy Little Camel

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A young camel wakes up one day to find a shrub growing where his tail used to be.

Sometime City

1985 • 37 min

A young Dublin couple illegally move into a local authority flats complex with their two young children in an effort to start a new life together. Things begin to unravel for the young couple and they soon come into contact with the hard pressed local social services.

Firing Range

1985 • 18 min • Soviet Union

During field trials at a military range, the inventor unveils the secret and true purpose of his latest weapon. Based on a short story by Sever Gansovsky.

Eduardo Chillida

1985 • 58 min

The fusion of modern aesthetics with Basque tradition in monumental works is what has made Chillida a legendary sculptor all over the world. Using wood, stone and iron, he created forms based on his surroundings, thus exposing their sculptural essence. Chillida even inspired the great Heidegger to write “Art and Space” which was published in 1969 and accompanied by 7 of the sculptor’s litho prints. This film shows Chillida at work, taking its viewers to towns like San Sebastián and Hernani. Alongside his major works, it also depicts the fascinating artist himself as he candidly philosophises on space, limits and materials.

The Sleepers

1985 • 16 min • United States of America

“Memory, as well as the residue of information in text and film from Sudan, led me to make The Sleepers in order to resolve the impression that the third world is present in the first world as an idea and a condition.” --LaPore

Natural States

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

Shows scenes of the Southwest accompanied by New Age music composed and performed by David Lanz and Paul Speer.

Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

1985 • 52 min • Pakistan

Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the city of Peshawar in northern Pakistan through the experiences of the musician Amir. The aspirations of Afghan refugees are expressed through their political songs dealing with the civil war in Afghanistan, with exile, with Afghan nationalism and with the Islamic revolution. In highly charged and tragic circumstances, music can be used in very direct ways, both to promote solidarity and as an agent of catharsis.

Céline Dion En Concert

1985 • 50 min

During her first tournée, Céline Dion held several shows in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick. On this TV special, broadcasted in Canada, the diva performs some of her classic French songs, as well as some covers in English.

La dama nera

1985 • 12 min

Texts by W. Shakespeare Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Christophe

1985 • 28 min • France

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 meters of vertical and smooth rock. Christophe will achieve the feat of climbing the wall in free solo, without using a rope or any belaying technique. At 4:10 p.m., barely more than three hours after the start of his ascent, the new climbing star can embrace the Virgin of the Drus at the same time as the career of a high-level mountaineer. Three years later, on July 25, 1985, he climbed the north faces of the Matterhorn, the Eiger and the Jorasses in the same day. Awarded at many mountain film festivals, this great documentary is a magnificent testimony to one man's passion for climbing, the mountains and adventure.

Through the Looking Glass

1985 • 17 min • India

Short documentary on how television and advertising construct the image of modern Indian women.

Viel zu klein

1985 • 13 min • East Germany, Germany

A little duckling is left behind and meets other animals of the forest. Together they try to find out what the duckling is best at: digging, climbing or jumping?

Mara

1985 • 58 min • Netherlands, Portugal

A Dutch woman visits a girlfriend in Portugal, but first spends a few days in a deserted villa by the sea. In flashbacks it becomes clear that her life is dominated by fear. She slowly starts to bring more order to her existence.

Prima neve

1985 • 7 min • France

The first snow of the year...

Carnaval Brasil — Anos 40

1985 • 10 min • Brazil

Documentary about Carnival, narrated by anthropologist and photographer Pierre Verger, who came to Brazil in the 1940s. Video tells the origins of Carnival in Salvador, with the Blocos and Afoxés, and the traditions of frevo and maracatu in Recife, with notable images from the Verger archive.

Loving Krishna

1985 • 37 min

Loving Krishna is about the worship of Krishna and the meaning of devotion. It explores the rural and urban character of the town of Vishnapur in West Bengal by examining the royal past, everyday life, work in traditional arts and crafts, bazaar exchange, and sacred rituals and festivals. Public and private devotional life is represented by detailed visual narratives of the Chariot Journey of Krishna, celebrated by the whole town, and the Birthday Festival commemorated on a much smaller scale of intimate family worship.

The North Face of the Camembert

1985 • 8 min • France

While shooting Gerard Mordillat's film, "Billy ze Kick", Christophe Profit, one of the best climbers in the world, was asked to stand in for an actor. He will, without ropes or belay, climb the smooth side of a 60 meter building.

A Human Tube

1985 • 5 min

Analog video art by Paul Garrin with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Friedrichstraße 1985 - Bausituation

1985 • 22 min • Germany

Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.

The Jungle Boy

1985 • 15 min • Canada

While a TV journalist examines the contradictory homo-eroticism and imperialism of a film version of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, her husband confronts the politics of fantasy and washroom sex. A pseudo-narrative whose disparate threads unite in the final "documentary" sequence.

It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown is an animated documentary television special based on characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Hosted by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, the television special originally aired on the CBS network on 14 May 1985. The special featured highlights of the Peanuts specials produced over the last twenty years,

Latvia from a bird's eye view

1985 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Latvia from a bird's eye view

In Passing - The Party

1985 • 20 min

The film has elements of documentary, narrative and avant-garde. In a big house a party is taking place. People arrive and greet each other-encounters, some dancing, flirtations, a moment of drama. The camera is looking while slowly approaching the lit windows as if someone wanting to take part.