All Films

Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion

1985 • 15 min

Yvonne Jacquette: Autumn Expansion, filmed in 1981, explores the artist's creative process as she creates a triptych that is approximately 26 feet wide, commissioned by the General Services Administration for the Federal Building and Post Office in Bangor, Maine.

Mr. Pip's Courtships

1985 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

A courtship journey of Mr. Pip

Visit israel with Dr. W. Cleon Skousen - The Last Days in the Life of Jesus (Part 2)

1985 • 28 min

Explore the setting for the greatest event in history. You'll witness the place called the Garden Tomb where Jesus was resurrected and finished the great work of the atonement, and you'll hear the wonderful Easter story told in a way that you'll never forget. Imagine the spirit your family can feel as you discuss the importance of the sacrifice that Jesus made? Elder James E. Talmage in writing Jesus the Christ devoted nearly half of his book to the story of the last days in Christ's ministry. Now, you can have the opportunity to see, as well as hear, this beautiful story that is the center of our hope and faith.

Beach Umbrella

1985 • 7 min

In the mesmerizing Beach Umbrella, 1985, a shapely woman in a white bathing suit tears across the sand at a panicked clip, pursued by the Technicolor trio of the Three Caballeros. When the woman at last collapses, the cartoon characters descend, seething in a manic swarm over her body, a scene somewhere between a feeding frenzy and a gangbang. Once satisfied, the trio zoom off, allowing the woman time to stand before they begin the chase anew.

The Sun and the Little Snow Men

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This story took place one day in winter, when snowmen in the woods were afraid that the heat radiated by the sun would bring them irreparable harm. These kind creatures just did not want to melt and decided to find the sun, urged him not to warm the earth. They did not even know how it looks like when they started their path, and then they realized all living things need it...

Evol

1985 • 28 min

In EVOL (love spelled backwards), the audience is voyeur, peering into the delirious and erotic dreams of a young man (Oursler). We drift with him through anecdotes that poke fun at the disparity between the culturally accepted stereotypes of sex and love we are taught as children and the realities we discover in adult life.

Yeah You Rite!

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orleans express themselves - why they talk the way they do, where the words come from, and what it means to talk with a New Orleans accent.

Hanjuku shōjo 2 inoue kana watashi “hōnyō” yurushite ageru

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 08

1985 • 58 min

5 part Busty Boobs TITBITS starring HONEY BEE and SONJA DORAN in highlight clips and more super-stacked classic color of the outrageous LEE GERMAINE, the buoyantly buxom MICHELLE ANGELO, curvilinear LILLIAN PARKER, and introducing ravishing redhead bra buster ANN HOWE.

Serpent Mother

1985 • 27 min

Serpent Mother is about devotion to the Goddess of Snakes and the importance of divine female power in West Bengal Indian life. The film's focus is the Jhapan Festival, the great celebration of snakes. Shown are festival preparations, the role of traditional arts and crafts in the worship of the Goddess, devotional singing, and an exposition of ritual action. The difficult and complex symbolism of the ritual is explained by the participants themselves. In addition to the commentary, this makes accessible what is, at first glance, exotic and inexplicable behavior.

Planet 888

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Two cosmonauts arrive on a barren world and begin a clean-up operation. In the course of their duties, they revive the planet’s civilisation and discover the real reason for its devastation- thermonuclear war. Produced after the peak of tensions in the late Cold War, this animated short from Armenfilm reflects a muted optimism that humanity might- just- avoid total destruction. It also demonstrates the strength of animation under the Soviet system, where even the smaller state studios were capable of inventive but technically polished work.

The Human And The Lion

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day a man was walking through the desert and was thirsty. When he reached an old abandoned town, he drunk water and was about to leave, but saw a trapped lion, who was weakened and emaciated. The lion would have been doomed, but the man had compassion on him, stretching out a helping hand. The lion intended to repay the man with evil, but a wise serpent helped restore justice.

El Papá de Simón

1985 • 25 min

The story of a peasant boy with an unknown father, his anguish and the rejection of a society that blames him for his bastard brand.

Totem

1985 • 36 min

A personal description of the part of the youth culture called the no future generation or punk culture.

24 Hours of Training: Cruel Edition

1985 • 60 min • Japan

The moment the 180-day abstinence life was released, the woman's body became a sex toy craving pain...

Yuki, Moemasu! Making of Sukeban Deka

1985 • 46 min • Japan

Le temps des bouffons

1985 • 15 min • Canada

A short film created (and narrated) in 1985 by Québécois director Pierre Falardeau. It compares English rule in Ghana with Canadian dominance in Quebec by showing the 200th anniversary celebration of the Beaver Club of Montreal.

L'étang

1985 • 22 min • France

A walk within a place which possesses its own rhythm, in the heart of the city: the garden. A dream amongst the trees, children, birds and strollers. Like mental images of the dreamer, fishermen watch over these scenes. A line links them to the mysterious world where fish evolve. This video was filmed in October 1984, at the Saint-Mandé Park, and contains images taken at the Trocadero Aquarium.

Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress

1985 • 27 min

Performance clips and biographical anecdotes from the life of Spalding Gray.

Taiga

1985 • 45 min • Soviet Union

After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.

The Way I Like It

1985 • 30 min • Chile

Agüero interrupts the filming of 5 films that are being made in Chile in 1984, to ask each director the meaning in their work, at a time when making films in Chile was almost prohibited.  

Other Beats

1985 • 26 min

Swedish punk documentary from 1985 about Anti Cimex, more specifically Sixten Andersson. Shows the edgier side of Swedish music in the 80s, the anarchist ideals of the members and friends of the band and an overall discontent with the 'promising' future of the "Svensson life".

Paths of liberation

1985 • 20 min • Peru

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues.

Glass Cluster Game

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A cut-out animation about ice and fire, the victory of the sun's life-giving warmth over icy nothingness.