All Films

Tenderloin

1985 • 48 min • United States of America

A Cannibal horror story

The Target is Your Brain

1985 • 57 min • Soviet Union

A scientific documentary about propaganda and crowd manipulation

The Big Pile

1985 • 48 min

Dotie Fields (Barbie Levy), an ambitious and brilliant Vassar student, becomes disillusioned with the banality of her world. Cursing her existence, she hysterically decides to pursue a career in New York as a top fashion model.

Youth Suicide Fantasy

1985 • 28 min • United States of America

Based on their book, “Why Knock Rock?”, and their church lectures, Dan and Steve Peters examines how rock music's obsession with sex, drugs and suicide is dangerous to young people. Since the dawn of Rock and Roll, there has been ministers howling about its evil affects. Ministers would tour the country's churches and college campuses with sermons and slide shows illustrating the Devil's influence on the rock music. In this film we certainly see that rock stars aren't the best role models for kids and teens, but the Peters brothers often miss the musician's point – especially with some of the lyrics. Dan and Steve do however seem to take a delight in presenting some of the 1980s more perverse album covers to young people.

Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire

1985 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.

The Body Electric

1985 • 24 min • Canada

Red Sector A was a paradise...for man's machines. The domed city was home to the last of the human race, where they lived in comfort, served by their robotic servants. Until one day a mysterious force turns the robots against their masters, and the machines cast the people out of Red Sector A into the wastelands outside. Years later, the robots have collapsed into dust without human maintenance, leaving two young people - Woody and Andrea - to live in the city. But the city is on the verge of a exploding as the shield generator approaches meltdown. Andrea and Woody have a few hours to escape Red Sector A, but the unknown force that caused the revolution is still present, and has it's own plans for them.

Chronicle Of The Pied Piper

1985 • 13 min • Czechoslovakia

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Barta’s masterpiece.

In a Jazz Way: A Portrait of Mura Dehn

1985 • 30 min

Provides a colorful portrait of dancer Mura Dehn. Born and trained in Russia, she went to Paris in 1925, met Josephine Baker and discovered jazz. Tells how she came to New York and choreographed jazz tunes. Includes a live interview with Mura Dehn along with archival footage. In the 1930’s, the heart of jazz dancing was Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom. Mura Dehn, a Russian dancer who was converted to jazz dance by Josephine Baker, spent her life documenting this cultural explosion from jazz to be-bop. As excerpts of her film, THE SPIRIT MOVES are shown, she discusses the eras. The film concludes with Dehn, at 82, filming a break-dance troupe. Blue Ribbon winner, American Film Festival.

My Wife in 5

1985 • 14 min • Germany

In MY WIFE IN FIVE, Schlingensief composes tracks and takes to a shimmering cinematic music piece. The playlist changes constantly between the styles, as if this record had a jump – Irving Berlin's This Is The Army, Mr. Jones, an Ave Maria Variation and Jacques Offenbach's world-famous Infernal Galop can be heard. Equally to the music the pictures also have scratches. The music film MY WIFE IN FIVE was created during a sound seminar by Christoph Schlingensief with students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. It already contains all forms of cinematic means and alienation, which he later used in his theatre and opera productions.

The Family

1985 • 25 min • Soviet Union

A young woman tries to finish her dissertation while family chaos rages around her.

Hollywood Ten, Melbourne One

1985 • 30 min

In 1950 in the USA ten communist filmmakers were jailed. The same year Frank Hardy faced a long prison sentence in Australia for writing a novel. An experiment in documentary form working in the border region between narrative/fiction and documentary/fact.

Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future

1985 • 57 min • United Kingdom

While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.

Badass Grandmother

1985 • 16 min • Yugoslavia

One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.

This Is What She's Like

1985 • 12 min • United Kingdom

A promotional film for Dexys Midnight Runners' 1985 single in which Kevin Rowland attempts to explain the indefinable qualities of woman to bandmate Billy Adams. This dialogue is intercut with scenes of Rowland singing and dancing through a desolate Wall Street and footage of the extended group performing in-studio. Directed by Jack Hazan (David Hockney: A Bigger Splash, Rude Boy).

The Harvest Festival

1985 • 9 min • East Germany, Germany

A little mouse is struggling terribly to bring in her harvest. She has overestimated her strength, the load is too heavy. He suspiciously refuses any help, but has to realize that others think more selflessly, because they have secretly grabbed the load and pushed it along. Together with her helpers, the mouse celebrates the harvest festival.

35 Photos

1985 • 7 min • East Germany

A woman born in 1949, the year the GDR was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This short was to premiere on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of East Germany. Officials rejected it, however, as an ostensibly negative portrait of GDR family life presented by an atypical woman. It was released under a different title a year later.

French Lovers

1985 • 8 min • France

A woman is waiting for the bus. A man in a car offers her a lift but she rejects till he points that it is Sunday and the bus is not running on Sundays. In their short travel together through the streets of a deserted Paris the man tries to seduce the woman without apparent success.

Hamaseigarrenean aidanez

1985 • 58 min • Spain

Domingo is a bookmaker obsessed with gambling. Martzelina, his wife, has the constant feeling that her husband, always accompanied by Kornelio, is going to meet with misfortune because of gambling.

Genesis Climber Mospeada: Love Live Alive

1985 • 53 min • Japan

After the original run of the television series, an OAV music video titled Genesis Climber Mospeada: Love Live Alive was specially (mostly due to demands of hardcore Mospeada fans) released in Japan in September 1985. The music video consisted of both old and new footage. The story of Love Live Alive chronicled the events after the ending of the original Mospeada, featuring Yellow Belmont as the main character. The music video focused on Yellow's concert and also on his flashback of past events.

Me and the Girls

1985 • 53 min • United Kingdom

Ken Taylor's adaptation of the Noel Coward short story, "Me and the Girls", one of a series called "Noel Coward's The Master's Collection". George Banks, a homosexual dancer, looks back over his life as he lies dying in a Swiss sanatorium.

From the Diaries of Ijon Tichy: A Voyage to Interopia

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Amusing adventures of star pilot Ijon Tichy on planet Interopia where he hunts a giant animal called Squamp. Adapted from Stanislaw Lem's story from his Star Diaries series.

Dire Straits at Live Aid

1985 • 19 min

The band with Sting perform at Wembley

About Sidorov Vova

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A screen adaptation of the satirical poem by Eduard Uspensky. Vova Sidorov is the only child in a big family, growing up without a father. Everything he cherished, but a summons from the recruitment office turns everything on its head!

Frederick Douglass: An American Life

1985 • 33 min • United States of America

This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.