All Films

Chutes de Midi

1985 • 9 min • France

Discarded images from the movie “Midi” (1985) mounted to give rise to a new film.

The Marriage of Mariamu

1985 • 36 min

Suffering from a serious illness, Mariamu and those around her find themselves in conflict with their traditional values.

Father Guido Sarducci Goes to College

1985 • 59 min

Father Guido Sarducci (played by comic Don Novello), the "gossip columnist" for the Vatican City newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, relates the goings-on at the Vatican to college audiences.

Mushroom Rain

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Once a baby elephant found a pencil in the forest, on which were wound wonderful ribbons. And since he was terribly disturbed by ears, he decided to tie them with ribbons and immediately became like a girl. A small hippopotamus was very interfered with by the stomach, and the second ribbon, which the elephant lent him, he tied his torso to himself. The giraffe took friends for the girls, but they explained that they were boys, just tied themselves up what they were prevented from moving and playing. Then the giraffe also decided to keep up and bandaged his neck so that he would not cling to the clouds. When the cheerful trio met a real girl with long hair, she told them that it was her ribbons, and that without them, her hair hindered her very much.

Home Improvements

1985 • 29 min • United States of America

Home Improvements, Robert Frank’s first video project, is a simple and poignant diary of consequential events. It is about the relationship between Frank’s life as an artist and his personal life, and how the two are inevitably intertwined. It was made cheaply with a half-inch video porta-pak. Home Improvements takes place in New York and Nova Scotia and in the mental space between these two opposing worlds

H. Halef

1985 • 3 min • Germany

The Human Voice

1985 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

Harvest of Despair

1985 • 55 min • Canada

Via the New York Times: "...a frankly biased, angry recollection of the great, "man-made" famine of 1932-1933 in which up to seven million people starved to death in the Ukraine. It is the film's thesis that Stalin was directly responsible by his ruthless expropriation of virtually all of the grain harvested in the Ukraine over a two-year period."

Interviews With Interviewers… About Interviewing

1985 • 51 min

Professional interviewers talk about the art of interviewing.

Teryokha's Wagon

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The merry blacksmith shows miracles of ingenuity and nobility. Magic cartoon based on Siberian folklore.

Tony de Peltrie

1985 • 8 min

An aging piano player looks back on his life.

Dance for Love

1985 • 21 min

A 16mm record of the anti-nuclear demonstration in Melbourne, Australia on Palm Sunday 1985. The soundtrack is made from several group chants recorded at Down to Earth Confests during the 1980's.

El General constante y la bella Féferes

1985 • 29 min

Short film from the project “With Music Inside” in 13 chapters, of the musical ingenuity of the inhabitants of Mexico City: traveling troubadours, rockers, bohemian romantics, danzoneros, mariachis.

Daryl Hall & John Oates: The Liberty Concert

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

On July 4th, 1985 in front of 60,000 fans, Hall & Oates performed at an outdoor benefit concert for the restoration of the Statue Of Liberty. The duo performed most of their soul-funk classics such as: "Family Man," "Rich Girl," "Say It Isn't So," "Method of Modern Love," and more.

In Line

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

A trisection of the spectators’ power over their own image language: word, trance, and command are installed as valences of the artist’s license, revealed as figures of parental authority. How peculiar that people like being an audience because they enjoy their submission to the authority of the program. This ritual of being dominated is a conspiracy with themselves that we enjoy but refuse to acknowledge. “Oh, no. I don’t like TV because I’m submissive; it’s because it makes me feel good.” The programs are always carefully crafted to be sensitive to people’s selfprotectiveness, even if they offer a good scare, or a good cry. Well, if this is all true, what happens when, by chance, you submit to a program that refuses to be polite about your closet masochism? That tells all? —Tony Conrad

Optic Nerve

1985 • 16 min

"Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing and editing, is layered and manipulated to create a compelling meditation on her visit to her grandmother in a nursing home. The sense of sight becomes a constantly evolving process of reseeing images retrieved from the past and fused into the eternal present of the projected image. Hammer has lent a new voice to the long tradition of personal meditation in the avant-garde of the American independent cinema." -- John Hanhardt, Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987

Requiem for a Fillet

1985 • 30 min • Soviet Union

The modest notary at the symphony orchestra of Gen Munkin did not like his mother-in-law. She was especially repelled by his work. Having identified her son-in-law as a loader in a butcher shop, she did not expect that the first piece of meat taken out by Gena from the store would end up in the circus...

Der Zug der Zeit

1985 • 13 min • Germany

The Deutsche Bundesbahn presents the intercity train system.

Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli

1985 • 19 min

Presented in Naples by the Napolinovantove Foundation, it received in the same year the panansonic Filmmaker Award 1985, Milan.

The Rain During the Holiday

1985 • 25 min • Soviet Union

After the story of the same name of Natig Rasulzadeh.

Break!

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This cartoon is directed against the brutality of professional Boxing. In parody form it ridiculed unworthy methods and means used to achieve victory.

On Your Way, Riley!

1985 • 52 min

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

Le Train

1985 • 6 min

A railroad worker has arrived at a halt in his life, at the same stopping point as his locomotive - a place situated between memory and imagination where the spectator may integrate himself into the poetic fiction.

Terry 100 Channels

1985 • 28 min • Japan

Through a series of obscene animations, the work of iconoclast animator Teruhiko "King Terry" Yumura lampoons a range of cultural icons and taboos: California bodybuilding culture, onanism, hyperviolent cinema, marital bliss, and more. Soundtracked entirely by American funk/soul, each short matches the inherent depravity of its subject matter with an equally crude style, from fake commercials to slice-of-life stories and pornographic picaresques.