All Films

Falling Shadow

1985 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A young architect, under the guidance of an old teacher, builds a beautiful building. Wanting to try his hand at a big business, he leaves the master teacher and accepts the invitation of a rich ruler. Fate returns the experienced hero to his origins.

Issa le Tisserand

1985 • 19 min • Burkina Faso

Issa is a traditional weaver in Burkina Faso who loves his trade. However, so as not to lose his clientele and continue making enough to keep his wife, Issa finds himself forced to sell Western clothes.

Hot Autumn of '41

1985 • 25 min • Albania

Film set on the 8th of November 1941, the day the Albanian Communist Party was founded.

Pit

1985 • 15 min • Soviet Union

World War II. Three German soldiers and two civilians are relaxing in nature. Laughter, dancing, and songs gradually turn into cruel games and violence.

The Story of the Kinks

1985 • 54 min • Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America

Discover the inside story of the most influential English rock band of the '60s. Inspired by a mix of genres including rhythm and blues, folk and country, their music created a British Invasion around the world. Their third single "You Really Got Me" became an international hit and went straight to the top of the charts in the UK. With seventeen top 20 singles and five top ten albums in the UK, the Kinks had an incredibly successful career spanning over 30 years. Featuring interviews with key members of the group, this is their story.

Contacts... Conflicts... 2

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Comic stories for adults about the problems of family life.

Про шмелей и королей

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Bosch Envoltation

1985 • 11 min • Soviet Union

An extravagant recreation of Bosch's paintings.

Shades

1985 • 9 min • United States of America

Unfolding buildings drawn across the screen in spectrums of grey reflecting buildings in their surfaces cutting the sky into triangles.

The Making of the Terminator

1985 • 22 min

This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Terminator, the now-classic science fiction film about an ordinary woman being pursued by an unstoppable assassin robot sent from the future to kill her before she can give birth to a child who will one day become the leader of a resistance army. Included are interviews with stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, along with the cast and crew who share their experiences from making the film, as well as discuss the efforts that went into it.

Electric Blue Special: Bra Busters

1985 • 55 min

86 all new bazooka boobs

A Young Children's Concert with Raffi

1985 • 45 min • United States of America

After a million sales of his best-selling records, this internationally acclaimed children's entertainer is all yours in concert with an irresistible program -- songs for singing, clapping, and moving -- featuring Raffi's inviting voice, 6-string guitar, and kazoo, supported by an active audience. 45 minutes of singalong fun for you and your loved ones. Singable Songs: - child tested, - for home and school, - great with a peanut-butter sandwich. Includes: Workin' On The Railroad, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Wheels On The Bus, Baby Beluga, Six Little Ducks, Shake My Sillies Out, and much more!

The Fogbrook Thing

1985 • 22 min • Australia

In 1965, a busload of boy scouts go for a camping trip, where they start telling campfire tales. One of the older scouts, in attempt to scare the youngers, tells the "true story" about The Berko Brothers , which according to the legend, used to be a pair of Italian brothers who crashed their plane near the area years ago.

Soft and Hard

1985 • 49 min • France, United Kingdom

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

Chuuhai Lemon: Love 30s

1985 • 42 min • Japan

Bug-eyed Katsumi (known as Chuhai to his friends) is a muscle-bound detective determined to use his strength and pig-headed stupidity to rescue his teenage girlfriend from a succession of embarrassing situations. Based on a manga by Sho Fumimura and heavily seeded with background music from the 1960s U.S. hit parade.

The Galactic Garden

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A pair of space travellers arrive on Earth to study the planet's lifeforms, landing in an English garden. However, on Earth they are about three quarters of an inch tall and therefore find themselves encountering its natural and giant indigenous life, such as worms, spiders, goldfish and a tortoise. A drama documentary on natural history with a science fiction twist.

Art is Power

1985 • 9 min

The ritual transmission of a military parade from Moscow’s Red Square: On every anniversary of the October Revolution, this was loyally broadcast by all the television stations in the so-called people’s democracies. In Robakowski’s work, this material is used to reconstruct and deconstruct public spectacle. The substitution of the original  television commentary with a song sung in German by Laibach (a group from what was then Yugoslavia and is now Slovenia) removes the spectacle from its pompous temporal context and reveals the absolutism of its alluring power. The totalitarian display is in itself art – politically active art, the art of all-out pathos – even if we call it only “quote art unquote”.

Barricade

1985 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

What can happen on Friday the 13th in the animated grotesque by artist Miroslav Barták...

From The Life Of Birds

1985 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Animation for adults. Includes short stories: "Duet", "Big Laundry", "Point of View", "Dreams, Dreams".

A Present for Mamma

1985 • 4 min • Bulgaria

A Class Divided

1985 • 53 min • United States of America

William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm about Jane Elliott's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids by their eye color. The episode intercuts footage from Eye of the Storm with new footage of the students, who are now adults. The film takes us through the journey of a young class learning the unfairness of racism. Elliot teaches the lesson through eye color and different treatment. All of the students admit that this is wrong. In footage of the students as adults, we are able to see how this shaped the experiment changed their lives.

About Bunny Oi and Bunny Ai

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How two cute little bunnies - Bunny Oi and Bunny Ai - built a house, and their friends helped them with this.

Herbert Von Karajan - Berliner Philarmoniker - Debussy: La Mer, Prélude A L'après-midi D'un Faune - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé Suite No. 2

1985 • 53 min

Works include Debussy’s multifaceted La Mer, and his lascivious, dream-like Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, and Ravel’s Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, a work which combines shimmering transience with uncompromising energy from 1985.

Honoo no Alpenrose: Sweet Memory Ongaku-hen

1985 • 30 min • Japan

A music-video style recap OVA. This release covers episode 1-11. Some music used is full song versions with accompanied singing, other sections of the recap are entirely classical Austrian music.