All Films

Osamu Tezuka: Secrets of Creation

1985 • 44 min • Japan

A Japanese TV documentary, NHK Tokushu Tezuka Osamu: Sosaku no Himitsu (Secrets of Creation.), was originally released as a book-mounted DVD, with cooperation from Tezuka Productions. Screened in Japan in 1986, it was filmed as Tezuka prepared for the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1985. It shows him working in his private studio and with his team, and gives glimpses of his wife, colleagues and old friends.

Fright Show

1985 • 58 min • United States of America

Two obscure film critics host four SF/Horror films: The Thing in the Basement, Illegal Alien, Nightfright, and Dr. Dobermind.

Bird Fancier

1985 • 60 min • United Kingdom

There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.

Running Scared

1985 • 28 min

An intensely jealous boyfriend's spying and scolding ways rapidly escalate to full blown stalking.

Dirty Work

1985 • 60 min

An unsold TV pilot starring Kerrie Keane and Louis Giambalvo.

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood

1985 • 42 min • Japan

A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.

Bon Voyage

1985 • 58 min • United Kingdom

Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.

Ehun metro

1985 • 55 min • Spain

It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.

Sweet Sea

1985 • 30 min • United States of America, Japan

Sweet Sea, an adorable mermaid princess and her friends Mud-Puppy, Purrsia, Sea Star and Goldie stand up to Sheba the Sea Serpent and her squirmy sidekick to retrieve Sweet Sea's stolen magical shell necklace.

Kabuki-chô Bangaichi: Rasuto onanie

1985 • 39 min • Japan

With the enforcement of the new Entertainment and Amusement Law, what will happen when fashionable massage girls have lost their way?

New Caledonia 28 Days

1985 • 59 min • Japan

A MAKING OF 天国にいちばん近い島/ The Island Closest to Heaven, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

Twinkle Nora Rock Me!

1985 • 30 min • Japan

Nora Scholar is now an interstellar bounty hunter, pursuing a powerful psychic on the desolate mining planet, Dazzle. There she befriends a would-be dancer named Max. Together, they take on the ESPer, Fuuchino, and his oversized bruiser of a brother, Touchino.

Dengeki Sentai Changeman: The Movie

1985 • 25 min • Japan

The Changeman must work with an earthquake institute to prevent Earth from being destroyed in a sea of fire by the Gozma.

Captain Tsubasa Movie 02: Danger! All Japan Junior Team

1985 • 60 min • Japan

The return match between the All-Europe and All-Japan Junior teams comes home to Japan, but what sort of problems will occur with the game on Tsubasa's home turf?

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! City of Dreams, Mechapolis

1985 • 38 min • Japan

Children are lured to Metropolis only to find that the renowned, mythical city may not be the happy-go-lucky utopia they'd thought it would be.

Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment

1985 • 43 min • Japan

Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.

The Sum of Them

1984 • 5 min • United States of America

Directed by Christine Panushka.

The Medic and the Duchess

1984 • 6 min • Portugal

Pixilation of the portuguese fado "O Médico e a Duquesa".

Fear in the City (1181 Days Later or Smell of Rats)

1984 • 21 min • Yugoslavia

Super8 post-punk film by Davorin Marc. Paura in citta does not only display a bold and powerful exploration of form and themes that seem to have occupied Marc throughout his oeuvre, the film is also a straightforward document of the spirit of the times and surroundings of its making.

Lyrical Doubt

1984 • 17 min

The domestic hieroglyph reveals the static reality.

Magpies

1984 • 2 min

Public information film warning of the dangers of burglary, using magpies instead of human thieves.

Vault

1984 • 12 min • United States of America

In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Employing the hyperbolic, melodramatic syntax of Hollywood movies and commercial TV, they decode the Freudian symbology and manipulative tactics that underlie media representations of romantic love, and expose the power of this media “reality” to construct personal fictions. Using the psychoanalytic language of advertising, cinematic and television texts to tell the love story of a pole vaulter/concert cellist and a cowboy/Abstract Expressionist painter, they rupture the narrative with psychosexual metaphors and references to pop media and art. Self-conscious strategies such as overtly Freudian symbols, flashback reconstructions of childhood traumas, Wagnerian orchestration and loaded cliches are wielded with deft irony.

Feather-Arrangement

1984 • 3 min

1984 Linda Christanell experimental short

Morning Songs

1984 • 14 min

1984 German super 8 short work