All Films

Feelings

1985 • 3 min • United States of America

His first film shot with sound, Feelings is a two and a half minute movie made as an NYU film school assignment in 1984. Solondz himself takes the lead role of a sensitive young man who finds he can no longer endure life without his beloved. Photographed by Andy Day, the film is set to Todd Solondz's personal rendition of the song "Feelings" by Morris Albert.

1984

1985 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Crococat

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

This story is about how the ability to read books helped rescue a friend from trouble. So, one day Drakosha lit lanterns in the city, and the evil Trapper caught him and put him in an iron cage. Girl, Owlet and Cat decided to free their friend.

Ear-Responsibility

1985 • 7 min

A sequel to Ear to the Ground, Ear-Responsibility finds avant-garde percussionist David Van Tieghem roaming the streets of New York, discovering the inherent rhythms and music in ordinary objects, from sidewalks to subway cars.

The New York Centerfold Massacre

1985 • 57 min

Aspiring models in a Soho photo studio, aiming for the centerfold, are getting molested, tortured and killed by a mysterious perpetrator, who hides its identity by wearing a cloth bag over its head.

Lived and Drank

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Agitational social animation for adults dedicated to the fight against drunkenness.

Around Cape Horn

1985 • 37 min • United States of America

Captain Irving Johnson sailed aboard the bark "Peking" in 1929, as the sun set on the day of commercial sail. During his voyage on the big German windjammer, Johnson compiled unequaled footage of the crew's daily activities, and spectacular images of a wild storm as the ship made the dangerous passage around. Johnson's narration of the trip is a delight.

Harvest of Peace

1985 • 24 min

Portrait of a group of 150 U.S. citizens who spent two weeks participating in the cotton harvest in a remote village in Nicaragua, seeing for themselves the impact of the U.S.-backed Contra war.

The Dummerer

1985 • 25 min

Roo remains mute as he fends for survival with his sister collecting recycle bottles, working in a run down paper factory and living in a squat. A social worker arrives and tries Reiki therapy to heal what she feels is a deeper pain inside him, which begins to uncover the sinister past and events of this brother sister relationship, leading to a final twist.

Nearer – Further

1985 • 3 min • Poland

Robakowski directs the camera to zoom back and forth.

Metamorphosis: Hitomi Kurita

1985 • 30 min

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Red/Green

1985 • 5 min

"A minimal experimental film. A moving painting that demonstrates the principles of fugitive sensations. Not for everyone"

La Vieja Guardia

1985 • 25 min • Colombia

Moments At The Rock

1985 • 11 min • Japan

“Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations from the strong sunshine in the desert of Australia, and I was quite surprised by the result which surpassed the color change caused by nature over the rock. This film was awarded Grand Prize at the Edison International Film Festival.

S&M Hunter: Begins

1985 • 59 min • Japan

This prequel to the pink cult hit S&M Hunter tells the origin story of how an average salary man became the world's first S&M superhero! How did he lose his eye? Why is bad girl Meg chasing him in the first place? And why did Maria become a masochist? Long out of print and hungered for by Pink Eiga fans the world over, Pink Eiga Inc. is proud to release the only true superhero movie that matters in a flooded market of comic book adaptations!

The Game

1985 • 8 min • Soviet Union

About good needle and thread create comfort and beauty around, and harmful and cruel scissors try to stop them. The characters embroidered with a needle and thread have their personalities, and they want to have fun and do good, but they have to hide from the scissors that destroy everything on their path. Will they be able to defeat the evil, having won the right to exist?

John Cage Performs James Joyce

1985 • 15 min • United States of America, Japan

A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens Wake" by James Joyce. Cage freely composed the letters according to a chance operation using the I-Ching.

Louie Bluie

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Crumb director Terry Zwigoff’s first film is a true treat: a documentary about the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. As beguiling a raconteur as he is a performer, Louie makes for a wildly entertaining movie subject, and Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, Louie Bluie is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to excavate in the coming years.

The Drip

1985 • 14 min • Ireland

McAdam’s debut, a comical short, about Jack (Jack Lynch, who co-wrote the film) and the catastrophic effects of a night’s drinking. This marked McAdam’s first film collaboration with actors Donal O’Kelly and Pom Boyd.

The Perforated Epoch

1985 • 15 min

In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.

Dhaulagiri, Mountain of Winds

1985 • 27 min • France

In October 1984, Pierre Béghin, an engineer from Grenoble, and Jean-Noël Roche, a high-mountain guide, completed the Himalayan ascent of Dhaulagiri (8,172 m). The expedition's context: seven people crossed Nepal to Muri, collected accounts from trekkers—including that of the author Robert Rieffel—and attended Sherpa prayers at base camp. Then, the two of them embarked on a rocky and snowy route without supplemental oxygen. At over 5,000 meters, on the mountain of winds, Jean-Noël Roche made a paragliding flight. The climbers brought back footage with their Super 8 camera from 6,500 meters, but only photographs have been able to confirm their presence on the summit ridge of the seventh highest peak in the world.

The 29 Minute Workout

1985 • 30 min • United States of America

Goodtimes Home Video brings you this 29-minute long aerobic workout that is straight out of the 1980s.

Ett porträtt av John E. Franzén

1985 • 45 min • Sweden

About the artist John-Erik Franzén and his work to portray the Swedish Royal family 1984-85.

Do You Know Where Herr Kisch Is?

1985 • 19 min • Czechoslovakia, East Germany

The “Raging Reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) was one of the most significant journalists of the 1920s and 30s. He wrote from a communist point of view, in language that sparkled with humor. Historic photographs and footage describe Kisch’s eventful journalistic and political life, which brought him to important cities including Berlin, Moscow, Sydney, and New York.