All Films

Fragrance

1985 • 38 min • United States of America

A man is trying to decide if he should go to Vietnam with the US army.

Mick Jagger - Whistle Test Special: It's Only Rock and Roll

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

David Hepworth interviews Mick Jagger about his career with The Rolling Stones and his solo work. Includes film clips and videos spanning Jagger's career.

Paul Celan Liest

1985 • 5 min • Germany

Paul Celan reads Paul Celan. The words which we hear are seen on the screen - the optical sound negative became the visible image.

And So On...

1985 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Experimental short.

Tokyo Panorama Hunting

1985 • 12 min

The content is a development of sorts of 「時∞」. Several scenes that were supposed to be inserted into the section where the white leader appears were omitted (they were never filmed), which resulted in an abrupt and nonsensical progression afterwards. Since this work was not originally intended to be shown to others, I suppose it's fine as it is... It's too late to do anything about it now. The film originally had a recording of a certain famous piece of classical music, but the YouTube version was re-edited with different music and sound effects as a copyright measure.

A Letter of Love

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

A young man receives a letter from Jesus.

The Lemon Grove Incident

1985 • 57 min

On Jan. 5, 1931, Mexican-American students were barred from attending their local elementary school. The parents took the school district to court.

The Chosen One of Hell

1985 • 36 min • France

Two year old little Cindy has been chosen by the Devil to become the antichrist.

La última pelea de la noche

1985 • 11 min • Argentina

A security guard experiences some weird events while watching a boxing fight on his night shift.

Downside Up

1985 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A film which, by the use of a simple camera movement, explores and reviews some relationships to the ground. The viewpoint continuously orbits places, objects, people and events. The observations gradually speed up to reveal a double sided ground flipping like a tossed coin, then slow again to oscillate about the earths edge.

Ivanko and the Crow King

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Based on Ukrainian folk tales. The crow king stole the only ox, without which a poor rural family cannot do, so Ivanko decided to free it.

U.s.s.a.

1985 • 11 min • France

USA + USSR = USSA. My film is about blurred boundaries, probably due to my own personal history. I was born in New York, to Russian and Czech parents, raised in Brazil and educated in France. As a result, the film is a cultural cocktail shot on super 8 in New York, Berlin, Milan and Paris.

Pesadilla

1985 • 47 min • Mexico

Mexican feature film

Kałasznikow

1985 • 7 min

The film shows the exercises of soldiers of the Polish People's Army with a Kalashnikov

Yaroslavl Portrait

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film was shot in the year of the 975th anniversary of Yaroslavl. The painting is based on portraits of Yaroslavl residents from the distant past and Yaroslavl residents of the late twentieth century: workers, restorers, engineers, artists. The frame contains many recognizable places of the city, as well as courtyards, factories, and cultural institutions. This 10-minute film perfectly conveys the atmosphere of life in Yaroslavl in the mid-1980s.

Reception For Personal Matters

1985 • 19 min • Soviet Union

About the General director of the Leningrad association "Electrosila" B.I.Fomin.

Mike Bidlo: NOT Klein

1985 • 13 min

Mike Bidlo’s performative re-creation of Yves Klein's, "Anthropométries de l'époque bleue" at the Palladium in NYC.

That's Stealing

1985 • 16 min • United States of America

Kathy decides friendship with a kleptomaniac might not be the best idea after her locket disappears.

Imitation Interior

1985 • 45 min • Japan

With her father dead and her mother hospitalized, Futami lives with her grandmother suffering from dementia. Then a friend, who just ran away from home, comes to “visit” Futami. Winner of the “1st 16mm Film Production Assistance Award”, which preceded the PFF Scholarship award .

Who Are You?

1985 • 10 min • Poland

Children visit the museum - they see exhibits important to Polish culture. They are accompanied by the text of "Catechism of the Polish Child" by Władysław Bełza. Young people learn the history of Poland and then present it in their paintings.

Sugino Risa reinbō rāge

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Risa Sugino is into fashion. After finishing a still shoot in her studio, she spends the night with her lover in her room on the way home. The studio assistant who works for her girlfriend sneaks into her room...

To the World's End: Scenes and Characters on a London Bus Route

1985 • 51 min • United Kingdom

Follows the No. 31 London bus from Camden Town to World's End, Chelsea, meeting characters who live and work along the route. The soundtrack features the Carl Davis composition Variations on a Bus Route, commissioned to celebrate London Transport's 50th birthday in 1984.

Birgitta Trotzig

1985 • 39 min • Norway

A conversation with the Swedish author Birgitta Trotzig (1929-2011) , member of the Swedish Academy between 1993 and 2011. Trotzig's language is strongly driven and honored, often dark and hard-to-reach, but with a sharpness penetrating deeply into the reader susceptible to her prose. The main themes of her books are guilt and liberation, often with a Christian vocabulary, and the balance between ethics and ethics.

Chicken Thing

1985 • 12 min

Bobby goes to bed, with a thunderstorm raging outside. He listens to music and reads a comic book before lights out, then the storm causes the electricity to fail. A huge chicken-like creation assembles itself from various items inside Bobby's room. Is Bobby's imagination running wild, or is this really happening?