All Films

The Elephant and the Whale

1985 • 9 min • France

An elephant saves an unfortunate whale from being paraded in front of the public and takes it away with the circus caravan to put it back into the sea.

Perfect Film

1985 • 27 min • United States of America

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to consider, and to leave for others in just that way, the evidence uncontaminated by compulsive proprietary misapplied artistry, "editing", the purposeful "pointing things out" that cuts a road straight and narrow through the cine-jungle; we barrel through thinking we’re going somewhere and miss it all. Better to just be pointed to the territory, to put in time exploring, roughing it, on our own. For the straight scoop we need the whole scoop, or no less than the clues entire and without rearrangement. O, for a Museum of Found Footage, or cable channel, library, a shit-museum of telling discards accessible to all talented viewers/auditors. A wilderness haven salvaged from Entertainment."

Manufractur

1985 • 3 min • Austria

A tangled network woven with tiny particles of movements broken out of found footage and compiled anew: the elements of the "to the left, to the right, back and forth" grammar of narrative space, discharged from all semantic burden. What remains is a self-sufficient swarm of splinters, fleeting vectors of lost direction, furrowed with the traces of the manual process of production.

Becoming Real Forever

1985 • 30 min

A deeply moving story of the shared love between a sick little boy and his favorite stuffed bunny. When the toy becomes real forever, we all learn a wonderful lesson. Colorful video pictures draw themselves as you watch. Words magically appear as story unfolds.

Serenade

1985 • 4 min • Japan

One night Mr. K went for a walk with his pet...

Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Verandah

1985 • 52 min

Bronislaw Malinowski changed the way that field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands—the Trobriands—and lived for long periods among the people he was studying. A brilliant linguist, he quickly learned their language and later published books which brought the islanders to life. The idea that native peoples were primitive savages was altered for good with Malinowski's insight into their mastery of their world.

Une journée avec Pascal Martin et André Robillard

1985 • 15 min • France

EE Control

1985 • 3 min • Japan

It was produced to be exhibited at the “Personal Focus” (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized the original 8mm film that Matsumoto had been stored. The concept of this works is same as Delay Exposure, but in this film, it begins with a sequence that sets the aperture to excessive exposure. During a one to two-second-long shoot, the camera zooms in, the automatic exposure device also follows the movement of the image, and immediately lights the screen with proper exposure. This short sequence combined with a series of shots in the background, is processed.

Aroma fra Fakarava

1985 • 16 min • French Polynesia, Norway

On an island in the Pacific Ocean, 20,000 km from Norway, lives Aroma who is 12 years old. With a camera in his suitcase, the filmmaker traveled to visit him with his family.

Ariel

1985 • 13 min

After the short story of Franz Kafka “Unhappiness”. A young woman is visited by a ghost while vacuuming. Suddenly, her apartment is located in the cellar. They argue and the ghost leaves. 2 parallels meet in the infinite, says the one: “Go out of my way, you seem to have strayed.” Says the other: “For thousands of years I’ve been looking for a formula to find you, please do not send me away again.” The first one is already slightly pissed: “The destiny of a parallel is to be eternally alone, on the way to infinity.” “No, no,” the second one desperately screams: “One parallel is nothing, alone you are only an undefined line.“ a.levi '83

The Golden Leaf

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

A porcupine finds and tries to protect a golden leaf.

Gucia

1985 • 16 min • Poland

Tomek and Gucia are a pair of seven-year-olds. On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, they engage in typical children’s games after school – playing hopscotch and hide-and-seek, doing somersaults on the beater and climbing the wall. But above all, they play with each other – the boy tries to turn the girl into a boy named Piotrek. However, behind childhood games there is something much more serious – the first feeling.

Hands Off

1985 • 17 min • Netherlands

Educational film for a campaign against wife battering in 1985 in The Netherlands.

Vida de Perros

1985 • 25 min

Bogota misunderstandings about the tribulations of a street vendor who tries to honestly earn his daily bread.

Augusta Is in a Hurry

1985 • 4 min • Hungary

Time moves rapidly for Augusta, much to her detriment.

As Cobras

1985 • 6 min

They play football. They laugh, they cry, they swim. They love. They witnessed the discovery of Brazil and are present in the conquests of unknown planets. They are not just snakes, they are also slugs. As Cobras is based on these characters created by writer Luís Fernando Veríssimo, published daily in Brazilian newspapers and, between one joke and another, a vignette that satirizes a well-known film distributor.

To Be Or... To Drink?

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the disastrous power of alcohol over a person.

Friends From Far Away

1985 • 5 min • Bulgaria

The King and The Bird

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The tale of the greedy king and the restless bird. Based on a Georgian folk tale.

Little Hero

1985 • 6 min

In 1933 a young boy tries sneaking into a movie theater.

Hanjuku shōjo 3 Sanada Mayumi watashi “hentai” yurushite ageru

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Sway

1985 • 8 min • Japan

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

Augusta and Sport

1985 • 5 min • Hungary

Augusta watches sport on the television, mimicking the activities in a strange fashion.

Kipling Meets the Cowboys

1985 • 22 min

Kipling is touring North America, hoping to recruit boy scouts, and he is trailed undercover by a CIA-TV reporter. Meanwhile, a travel agent, watching a film during his lunchbreak, meets Kipling - all three are arrested and the journalist is fired.