All Films

Polygamous Polonius Revisited

1985 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous Polonius.

Spécial Mad Max

1985 • 47 min • France

French making of documentary / set visit on Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Love Beyond Reason - The Video Album

1985 • 35 min

Chronicling the making of five all new videos of Randy Stonehill's "Love Beyond Reason" album.

Get Out of My Room

1985 • 53 min • United States of America

Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are shown attempting to finish a "video album" for their novelty record Get Out of My Room.

Inside Mishima

1985 • 10 min • United Kingdom

Short report on the making of Paul Schrader's film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, aired as part of the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985.

Too Smart for Strangers

1985 • 41 min • United States of America

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl and the rest of the gang discuss all the dangers of strangers and how you should handle yourself should you ever come face to face with a stranger.

Riddle of the Sphinx

1985 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Soviet animation inspired by the ancient Egyptian paintings.

Lollipop Dragon: The Great Christmas Race

1985 • 30 min

In Lollipop Dragon: The Great Christmas Race, the Lollipop Dragon and his friends must stop Baron Bad Blood from winning the Christmas Race and forcing everyone to eat his liver flavored lollipops on Christmas.

Bin Defa Ölürüm

1985 • 60 min • Turkey

As a child, Kemal witnesses his father being killed by three men. From that day on, he is left alone and grows up in an orphanage. Twenty years pass, and he prepares to take revenge for his father's death. Kemal will seek revenge on each of the three men who killed his father, one by one.

El crimen de la calle Fuencarral

1985 • 54 min • Spain

July 1, 1888. The body of a woman is discovered during a house fire, but the examination reveals that she died victim of a stabbing, not the flames. Her maid and pet dog are found drugged in another room.

Kams - tokerier från Ådalen

1985 • 45 min • Sweden

Jonas has to stay at home on the farm and look after his seven younger siblings, because stepfather and stepmother are going to a wedding with eldest daughter Anna. But Jonas is curious about how the party goes and when it might be his turn to get married.

Boomtown

1985 • 6 min • United States of America

The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.

Home of the Brave

1985 • 58 min • Brazil, Switzerland, United States of America

In this film Indians—and only Indians—talk about the contemporary threats they are facing today. They are no longer the Conquerors or the American Cavalry. Now it is industrial development that is wiping out traditional land. Shot on three continents: the USA with the Hopi and Navajo; Amazonia, and on the Bolivian highlands, and in Geneva where Indians of the Americas come together to create an international indigenous network.

Television Parts Home Companion

1985 • 40 min

A 40-minute compilation of comedy skits and music taken from the series "Michael Nesmith in Television Parts."

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1985 • 52 min • United States of America

Ichabod Crane becomes the headmaster at a schoolhouse. He falls for Katrina Van Tassel but she has a lover: Brom Bones. Brom scares him off acting as the Headless Horseman only to meet the real one himself.

The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn

1985 • 30 min

Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.

Shithaus

1985 • 12 min • United States of America

Experimental film / music video by Jon Spencer.

Vic Silayan: An Actor Remembers

1985 • 43 min • Philippines

Silayan talks about his beginnings as an actor in the 1950s, his working method in front of the camera and on stage and the realities of working in mainstream Philippine movies.

The History of White People in America

1985 • 47 min • United States of America

In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have made to the USA, visits the Institute of White Studies, and follows a typical white family as they go about their everyday lives.

Woodshock

1985 • 7 min • United States of America

It's just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby waterfall, whilst listening to musicians like Daniel Johnston.

Manhattan Love Suicides

1985 • 35 min • United States of America

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.

Big Foot And The Muscle Machines

1985 • 53 min • United States of America

a graduate student named Jennifer pursued by goons of millionaire industrialist Adrian Ravenscroft, who hides Ponce de Leon's map to the Fountain of Youth inside Bigfoot in the midst of a stunt driving show. This forces Yank Justice and Bigfoot, Red & Redder and Black Gold, and Professor D. & Dilly and the Orange Blossom Special, into a cross-country trek to rendezvous with Ravenscroft at the Fountain and stop him. Ravenscroft is so powerful he can impose his will onto county sheriff's offices and get the group arrested. They are saved by Close McCall and his souped-up stunt car War Lord, so he joins the team after initial resistance the first time he tried.

The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'

1985 • 46 min • Australia

Follows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central Australia.

Matylda and her Spare Head

1985 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

Surreal short animation about a clever girl with an amazing memory. Things go well for her until she can't remember facts about polar bears for a school project.