All Films

Fluke

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

A barrage of incidents are images connected, in sense, by nonsense. Fish leap on the heads of men riding camels in the desert./Ants crawling over planes flying upside down and in the water. A bear that can't get out of the frame by force of an optical printer. Animation, live, and found and filmed footage with similar soundtrack.

Winter into Spring

1985 • 4 min

A little silent film from 1985, shot on Super8 and blown up to 16mm/reworked on the optical printer at the LFMC. The film comments on its time through its imagery, and at least to its maker still contains some of the feeling of that time.

Une journée avec les Cantrill

1985 • 14 min • France

Untitled 1985

1985 • 6 min

Originally filmed on standard 8mm Kodachrome, double exposed and stretch printed. Virtually abstract imagery shot from a basement looking upwards via a pavement level window towards the side of Southwark Cathedral through dayglo ribbons which were part of some roadworks. A consequence of absorbing Peter Gidal’s theory of Structural Materialist film which I first encountered in 1975 in the issue of Studio International devoted to Avant-Garde Film. It was suggested that I should make more films like this, but it was unrepeatable for reasons hard to define. Apart from the technological issues, the film is very specific to a particular time and place. Passages was something of a sequel.

Não Houve Tempo Sequer Para as Lágrimas

1985 • 15 min

Human sea otter vs Kappa

1985 • 21 min • Japan

A war breaks out between Racco and Kappa. Shouts, outbursts and bloodshed. The camera gets involved and the scene turns into a lawless zone.

Max's Place

1985 • 1 min • United States of America

A bar's neon sign is turned off.

君と世界との戦いならば世界を支援せよ

1985 • 20 min • Japan

Enzyklop

1985 • 35 min • Germany

Enzyklop is a rediscovery and reconstruction of the cyclopean gaze that Odysseus erased to free himself. The search for the lost view leads to intermediate distances, into the realm of association, the multiplicity of dimensions. An anthology, a variety of image/image ideas is created.

A Mulher

1985 • 10 min • Brazil

Adaptation of Juan Bosch's story "La mujer."

Filmkinder

1985 • 16 min • East Germany

Portrait of the two main actors of the children's film "White Cloud Carolin", Andreas Roll and Constanze Berndt. They are observed and interviewed on several days during the making of the film. The two children introduce themselves directly to the viewer and talk openly and self-confidently about how they came to make the film and about their experiences during the course of filming.

James Mullholland, Basketmaker

1985 • 12 min

This short documentary film, made by Roy Spence for the Ulster Folk Museum, focuses on the work of master willow-weaver, James Mulholland of Gawley’s Gate, Co. Armagh. The film traces the various stages in the making of a willow log basket from cutting the raw willow rods through to the completed product.

Liberace Live

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

He had style, he had wit and he had class. Watch this video and enjoy the classical stylings of a true virtuoso: the one, the only, Liberace!

The Golden Sheep

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon based on the legend about how a girl helped the Mistress of the Sky find her sheep - the clouds.

Elk Island

1985 • 24 min

This short documentary focuses on a man-made island that became the first federal sanctuary for wildlife in Canada. Situated an hour east of Edmonton, it houses one of the world's densest collections of wildlife, maintained by Parks Canada. Elk Island offers a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes activity of the island.

Mike Builds a Shelter

1985 • 23 min

Mike Builds a Shelter is a performance comedy with apocalyptic overtones, a narrative extension of Smith's installation Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter/Snack Bar. In this darkly humorous morality play, Smith contrasts Mike's rural adventures in a pastoral landscape with his home fallout shelter. Throughout, the dual narratives are intercut with episodes of "Mike's Show" on cable, in which Mike's banal domestic activities are eagerly if passively received by living-room TV viewers. The government-approved provisions for nuclear fallout that Mike so readily accepts, typical of the naivete of 1950s' public safety policies, are seen in stark contrast to the reality of the contemporary crisis of a radioactive environment.

La Fuite

1985 • 53 min

In 1915, in the heat of the first World War, two german nationals escape the Spirit Lake internment camp in Abitibi, Quebec, and go into hiding in the woods.

Con la primavera en el bolsillo

1985 • 11 min • Argentina

A young boy dreams and draws about an apparently fictional father figure. He materializes in real life, starring surrealist and colorful scenarios.

Imusi

1985 • 57 min

When a frontier family, living in Kwa-Zulu Natal’s Old West, is beset upon by a band of thugs seeking to steal their homestead’s title deed by any means necessary, a father will have to fight to protect not only the safety of his wife and children, but his right to farm the land he inherited from his father before him, and in so doing, teaching his children the value of a family standing united together against all odds.

Probability

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

"Probability" (1985) presents a series of handmade signs featuring wild headlines taken from the tabloid "Weekly World News". Stark temporarily intervenes into the everyday scene of a bustling corner of San Francisco’s Financial District where he held a day job.

Kafka Kamera

1985 • 3 min • United States of America

Super 8mm. Colour. Sound. 3 minutes.

Dark Exodus

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white population that still sees Blacks as property, an African American family in the South sends its sons away to a better life. Visualizing the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North in sepia tones, director Iverson White’s period film captures the atmosphere of early 20th century America.

Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley: Rock 'n' Roll All Star Jam

1985 • 52 min

In 1985, Bo Diddley put together a band that included Ron Wood, John Mayall, Mick Fleetwood, Kenny Jones, Carmine Appice, John Lodge, Ronnie Lane, Carl Wilson, and members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Chicago, Quiet Riot, and Three Dog Night. He cooked them all a barbecue dinner, and then they put on a show. It's a 55-minute Rand B jamfest.

Myth Makers 4: Carole Ann Ford

1985 • 55 min

Carole Ann Ford portrayed a unique character in Doctor Who. As Susan, The Doctor’s granddaughter, she left Gallifrey with the errant Time Lord before the very first episode, An Unearthly Child. This Myth Makers combines two interviews by Nicholas Briggs, the first at Carole’s home in 1985 and the second at a London TV studio in 1996. Together they give a very personal view of the early days of Doctor Who and the effects the programme had on Carole’s life and career.