All Films

Let's Give Kitty a Bath!

1985 • 11 min • United States of America

A couple of enfant terribles terrorize a poor, defenseless cat in a foolhardy attempt at giving it a bath.

Miracle-Tree

1985 • 4 min • Soviet Union

Based on a poem by K. Chukovskiy. Two worlds coexist in it: the world of idleness and laziness, of which Miron is a representative, is contrasted with a working family in which a tree grows with wonderful gifts.

Andy Williams and the NBC Kids Search for Santa

1985 • 30 min • United States of America

Andy and the NBC kids search for Santa, starring from Finland.

Muppet Video: The Kermit and Piggy Story

1985 • 57 min

The Muppets tell the magical story of the chorus pig who rises from barnyard obscurity to super stardom and finds the short, green and handsome frog of her dreams.

Adventures of Brownie

1985 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Prequel to Kuzya's story tells about his adventures in the woods, and how he got into Natasha's apartment.

Crawling From the Wreckage: Dave Edmunds Live at the Capitol Theater

1985 • 25 min • United States of America

Dave Edmunds --"The Welsh Wizard" - leads his crack band through rocking selections from throughout his storied career. Recorded live at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. Tracks include: "Crawling From The Wreckage", "Fine, Fine, Fine", "I Hear You Knocking" and more.

Page 3 Girls

1985 • 40 min

Page 3 Girls 2 Fifteen-year-old Sharon from Rotherham wants to be g a Page 3 Girl. A year ago she sold her pony and started writing to the leading glamour model agents. One agreed to see Sharon; so, with her mother at her side, she went on her first trip to London. Samantha Fox is Sharon's idol. When Samantha was just 16 she appeared topless on the front page of a national newspaper - and left school the next day. Since then she's become Britain's best-known Page 3 Girl - said to make a lot more money than Mrs Thatcher. Samantha says: 'I've been lucky - I don't think it happens all the time.' It happened to Linda Lusardi - 'Star Bird of 84'. In the 70s it happened to Vivien Neves , Jilly Johnson and Nina Carter the original newspaper glamour models. But will young Sharon find fame and fortune after her first photo session in Balham?

Quiet Man with Welding Torch: A Portrait of the Sculptor Julio Gonzalez 1876-1942

1985 • 60 min

Friend, instructor and student of Picasso, a welder at Renault, a painter and goldsmith – Julio González was all of these. The Catalonian gained fame as the father of modern iron sculpture and as the creator of linear sculptures. Using a welding torch, he began making sculptures from iron and developed a formal language reduced to basic elements. Film-maker Barrie Gavin travelled from Paris to the Riviera via Barcelona, re-tracing González’ footprints. He visited art experts such as Margit Rowell and friends such as Hans Hartung, and in doing so introduces us to the life and work of one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century.

Qâf: The Sacred Mountain

1985 • 27 min • United Kingdom

Footage of a volcano eruption set to music

Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur

1985 • 8 min

Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters.

Macías, ensayo general sobre el poder y la gloria

1985 • 50 min • Chile

Video that records the play "Macías, general essay on power and glory" by Sergio Marras. Monologue in which an actor face the audience to give life to the role of Macías, a dictator of an imaginary country but who suffers from the “misunderstanding” of his detractors and enemies. A text full of profound observations about the despotic use of power. This video participated in the Fifth Franco-Chilean Video Art Meeting, Santiago de Chile, November 1985. U-matic Project

Миссис Уксус и мистер Уксус

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Ship of the Desert

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A porcupine, a jerboa, and a turtle build a wooden ship in the desert.

Road To School

1985 • 10 min • Poland

One winter day in the life of a village boy.

A Wigwam For The Storks

1985 • 55 min • Germany, East Germany

In the village of Medela, the village elder Fritz Schmal is buried with great sympathy. Beforehand, Till goes with his father to his property to check on the stork on its new nest. When they join the funeral procession afterwards, the stork has just returned from Africa and joins her husband on the nest. So it comes as Grandad Schmal had predicted. The following flashback shows how it all began.

Molly's Pilgrim

1985 • 24 min • United States of America

Molly's Pilgrim is a 1985 American short film directed by Jeffrey D. Brown, based on the children's book of the same title by Barbara Cohen. It tells the story of Molly, a young Russian immigrant. When Molly's class is given a special holiday assignment, she shows her classmates the true meaning of Thanksgiving. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Mr. Bungle: Bister Mungle - Eureka High School Talent Show

1985 • 19 min

Mr. Bungle formed in 1985 in Eureka, California while the members were still in high school. The band initially consisted of Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton, Trey Spruance, Theo Lengyel, and Jed Watts.

Incubus

1985 • 6 min • Italy

A high-rise apartment dweller suffers through a series of nightmares.

Return

1985 • 31 min • Japan

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga.

Kidnapped Girls Agency

1985 • 56 min • United States of America

Aspiring actress Cathy and her roommate are kidnapped and tortured by Cathy's evil stepmother and her lover. It's up to private eye Tracey Tailor and her partner Andy Baltimore from the Kidnapped Girls Agency to rescue them.

Vegetable House

1985 • 60 min • United States of America

Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence), and Aaron Freeman (America's Political Satirist) team up, nothing is sacred. The Vegetable House players include some Chicago's brightest comedy stars drawn largely from the famed "Second City" comedy troupe. At Vegetable House, Brussels sprouts shiver in their sheets while above lurks the menace of the Vegomatic. Suburban housewives submit to weekly games of bondage bridge. Meet Tokai Lokoto, the 3rd World's funniest man, and Gordon, whose nailbiting has gotten out of hand. Follow the adventures of "Kaa Kaa of the City" who was abandoned at birth and raised by pigeons in Grant Park. And the Veggie Video, don't forget the Veggie Video. Hot Pop. Hot Veggies. Hot Video.

Uriah Heep: Gypsy

1985 • 60 min

Uriah Heep's progressive heavy metal sound made the British band one of the most popular hard rock groups of the 1970s. The boys are still at the top of their game in this live 1985 concert at the Camden Palace in London. Tracks include "Sell Your Soul," "Stealin'," "The Other Side of Midnight," "Gypsy," "Bad Blood" and more. (Incidentally, Uriah Heep is the wicked clerk of Mr. Wickfield in Charles Dickens's classic novel "David Copperfield".)

Well, Just You Wait! 15

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

At a concert that Zayats is hosting Volk tries to catch him yet again.

Bridge to Terabithia

1985 • 60 min • Canada

Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.