All Films

Daughters of the Midnight Sun

1985 • 40 min • Sweden

In the film about "the land of eternal light and eternal darkness" we meet some women who talk about their lives. The women have all grown up in reindeer herding families and as children they lived in kotas, moved with reindeer and lived a life in nature. Their own children, on the other hand, have grown up in "normal" Swedish society. None of them have lived like their parents. The film addresses Sami culture, language, school. How modern technology has affected the lives of the Sami.

Mist Melodies of Paris

1985 • 23 min • France

Richard, a West Indian man in his forties, remembers "his war" in Algeria. More than twenty years later, he still carries internal trauma.

Creation Myth

1985 • 2 min

To create the tree sequences in this video, Allen used a custom software based on fractal mathematics. This gave form both to the tree and to the sequence of movements. It is one of the earliest animated generative artworks where an algorithm imitates organic growth. the video follows different stages of a creation myth, from particles of energy and light to animal and plant life. It was one of a series of artist commissions made for the opening night of the New York nightclub Palladium.

Portrait of a Terrorist

1985 • 28 min

In 1969, Fernando Gabeira was among terrorists who kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick, then the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Eventually Gabeira was captured and tortured before being exiled from his homeland for eight years. He talks candidly about his experiences in captivity as well as the abduction and the motivation behind choosing Elbrick.

Plotting the Grey Scale: 2 or 3 Quick Traverses

1985 • 7 min

“A monochromatic field study of sorts, along perpendicular axes. Varying shades of grey flicker in increasing intensity, giving way to a kinetic study of activated organic forms deriving from rapidly changing optically printed freeze frames of trees. A variation on the grey flicker recurs, climaxing in a modestly manipulated study of leaves moving in the wind. Overall, this unusual and visually affecting film brings together some of Worden’s most elemental interests, including stasis, motion, rhythm, visual consonance and dissonance, and the tension between the pictorial and the abstract, all with a characteristic phenomenological undercurrent.” —Mark Toscano

The Tale of the Wonderful Potato

1985 • 22 min • Denmark

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

End of the Battle... Not the End of the War

1985 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Ken Loach documentary on the end of the 1984 - '85 miners' strike.

Exit

1985 • 20 min • Italy

Exit is a 1985 Italian short film directed by Pino Quartullo and Stefano Reali. It is set in the future where, on 12 July 3503, a research team explores remnants of humans past and find themselves in a very unusual and strange place: a movie theater. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

James Brown - Live At Chastain Park

1985 • 57 min

The hardest working man in show business is back--and some say better than ever--in this live concert filmed in 1985 at Georgia's famed Chastain Park. Performances include 1. Give It Up Or Turn It Loose 2. It's Too Funky In Here 3. Try Me 4. Get On The Good Foot 5. Prisoner Of Love 6. Get Up Offa That Thing 7. Georgia On My Mind 8. It's A Man's Man's Man's World 9. Cold Sweat 10. I Can't Stand Myself 11. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 12. I Got You (I Feel Good) 13. Please, Please, Please 14. Jam

Interference

1985 • 44 min

When Mum and her three children rent a country cottage, the arrival of Dad coincides with the manifestation of a ghostly crying woman on the telephone, radio, record player and television. Made for ITV Schools' 'Middle English' strand, this three-part drama was later turned into a stage play by writer Jan Mark and published in Longman's 'Star Plays' series in 1987.

Sonata No.1

1985 • 40 min • Japan

The piece is composed of four movements, imitating classical sonata form, and features photographs of walls, gravel roads, etc., which are likened to musical scales. At the climax, the photographs are shredded into pieces and their colors are changed by adding paint, creating a dazzling "visual music."

Fake Previews

1985 • 5 min

The preview format has always appealed to me: short, sweet and action packed. I decided to make my own to a fictitious film never to be made called 'Blondie + the Sheik,' starring Hester McMarkup and Angelo Q. Trashwad. –H. M.

Ethiopia

1985 • 29 min • United States of America

A brief visit to the unique wildlife and peoples of Ethiopia. Expect the unexpected.

Maurice Hasson

1985 • 17 min • Venezuela

In this short film, made on the occasion of a visit by Maurice Hasson to Mérida to perform in concert, he evokes in a warm conversation his indelible memories and deeply human experiences of his life in Mérida.

Pyrotechnics

1985 • 11 min

A study of fire, death, and rebirth.

A Trilogy

1985 • 46 min

See and Learn Colors

1985 • 30 min

Let the colorful characters in this exciting educational program teach your youngster today! The See & Learn series helps your childs mind develop and grow with fun pictures, stories, and sing-a-longs. This episode gives your child a rainbow of information that they soon wont forget!

We Are Born of Stars

1985 • 11 min

WE ARE BORN OF STARS is the first Anaglyph single projector 3D film created for IMAX/IMAX Dome projection. Using computer graphics, the film traces the development of life from the formation of atomic nuclei in stars to the molecular structure of water and DNA, zooming the audience through the five-billion-year evolution of our solar system.

Concerto Grosso Modo

1985 • 7 min

An animated film about the magic of music. A group of musicians plays on stage. Suddenly, the audience is drawn through a cello into a mysterious world where musical notes assume human qualities. They discover how music is made. A combination of live action and cel animation emphasizes the transition from reality to fantasy. The film works as entertainment and as a teaching tool for children and adults. Film without words.

Deep Purple: Rises Over Japan

1985 • 31 min • Japan

A 5 song concert filmed at Budokan Hall on December 15th, 1975.

Lone Breaker

1985 • 5 min • United States of America

Follow Hot Feet as he break dances around the world and outer space, breaking his way into everyone's heart! Based on the video game BREAK DANCE created by Steve Beck and published in 1984 by Epyx. This Break Dance cartoon was made in 1985 with an Apple II computer and custom "moviemation" software developed by Steve Beck and his team at Beck-Tech in Berkeley

Kingdom Of The Lyrebird

1985 • 52 min • Australia

Australia's strange and often beautiful wildlife is no more apparent than in the Lyrebird with its exotic courting displays and its ability as a mimic, which is unrivalled in the world of birds. Following its life for a year through Australia's great rain forests, we see a large variety of songbirds and the marsupials who share its natural environment.

The Fog

1985 • 37 min • Soviet Union

Boy’s first encounter with human cruelty occurs as hunters kill and skin a bear. The gruesome scene sparks physical disgust, spiritual anxiety, profound guilt, and growing alienation from the adults.

Hooligan

1985 • 51 min

Documentary which examines the motivation behind the organisation of football violence by groups such as West Ham's "Inter-City Firm", who often travel by first class ticket. It questions the members of the ICF about their motives and attitudes. It gives the views of Leicester University sociologists who have for five years studied the social roots of football spectator violence. It offers evidence to judge the degree to which the politicians, the sociologists, the Popplewell report and public opinion have got it right.