All Films

Gravitation Impact on Naive Beings

1984 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Whereas Lična Disciplina is a straight forward documentation of Terek’s performance, in The Effects of Earth's Gravity on Naive Beings Petrovic conveys his pessimistic message with a wide range of formal effects of the image and the sound. This film was produced at the Amateur Film Club of House of Youth Belgrade (Amaterski Filmski Klub Doma Omladine Beograd) and not in the AFC.

Farrukh and Zumrad

1984 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Based on an oriental legend about young lovers.

The Drop

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Meeting with a river, sea, ocean, a drop learns the properties of reservoirs and water, which can be both a blessing and a destructive force.

Object Conversation

1984 • 10 min

A series of source objects are presented, defined, demonstrated, discussed, spoken about, juxtaposed and progressively re-invented during the course of a multi-layered visual and aural "conversation".

Coal Not Dole

1984 • 45 min • United Kingdom

Documentary shot just three months into the 1984/'85 miners' strike

Alarm

1984 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Cheerful screensaver-song for the program "Alarm Clock", where the main characters are the Cockerel and the Alarm Clock.

From the Old World

1984 • 30 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

La fissure

1984 • 2 min

Inspired by Len Lye. Contacts of torn film segments, representing the head of a man with cap.

Alice Underground

1984 • 28 min

A surrealistic interpretation that remains true to the spirit and plot of​ ​Lewis Carroll’s original version of “Alice in Wonderland.”

My Genie

1984 • 8 min

A garage door opener named Genie is able to let loose when it's owner's not around.

Nightfall

1984 • 2 min

16mm / color and b/w / sound

Rodamorfosis

1984 • 22 min

"Shot in Madrid, in a carnival. The subject of the film is suggested by the spanish title. From "roda", I kept 2 connected meanings : the circular motion and movie shooting. As for "Morfosis", it is linked to the idea of metamorphosis. With the whole word, I wanted to suggest a metamorphosis of reality (places and characters) in a motion where everything is going round circles : what is on camera, camera itself and film inside."

Enjeux

1984 • 5 min • France

"...the Arc de Triomphe. Among many variations offered, we have selected about thirty which were cut vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The film, very dense, compact, tries to shape perception by means of specific cinematographic treatments which accumulate contradictory, divergent and paradoxical information." -YB

Voyeuristic Tendencies

1984 • 17 min • United States of America

Voyeuristic Tendencies is not so much a film about voyeurism as it is our tendency to be voyeuristic. That tendency, nurtured by the filmmakers carefully crafted succession of visual teases and exploited by the camera's ability to become our eyes, becomes in increasingly evident as the film progresses. The camera teases the viewer, in this case, co-voyeur, not with sexual or erotic innuendo, but rather with graphic and aesthetic challenges. The partially opened window of a woman's dressing room forces us to realize our urge to see more about these hidden worlds. This type of cinematically- induced self- realization makes Voyeuristic Tendencies a powerfully human film.

Jean Sibelius: The Early Years

1984 • 52 min • United Kingdom

This is an intimate account, using film and Sibelius's music and words, of a great artist's struggle with his medium, with the world and with himself. The films set out also to try and free Sibelius's reputation from some of the unnecessary encrustations of history by looking at the composer's own declared intentions, so poetically expressed, which are earning the increasing attention and respect of composers today.

Le Vaillant Petit Soldat

1984 • 25 min

Growth

1984 • 12 min

Directed by Ian Breakwell

Witness to Revolution: The Story of Anna Louise Strong

1984 • 28 min

The daughter of a Nebraska minister, Anna Louise Strong earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Chicago. But it was in the Pacific Northwest, where she witnessed the 1916 Everett massacre and chronicled the 1919 Seattle General Strike, that her political vision took shape. In Moscow she helped found the first English language newspaper, in Spain her many visits resulted in her book, Spain in Arms; and in China she interviewed Mao in a Yan'an cave in 1946. She is buried in Beijing in a special cemetery for martyrs of the revolution.

Abhängig

1984 • 23 min • East Germany

Eberhard Kunstmann, a shipbuilder at the Neptune Wharf in Rostock, counsels collegues who are struggling with alchohol addiction.

My Urban Garden

1984 • 26 min

In this short film, Halifax gardener Carol Bowlby harvests a mouth-watering crop from her small backyard plot. In considering soil quality, lack of space and a short growing season challenges rather than obstacles, she offers a wealth of practical growing tips for urban gardeners. By heeding Bowlby's advice, bountiful organic gardens work equally well on apartment balconies, in small or large city lots or in a rural setting.

Dévotion

1984 • 18 min • France

An auspicious day to fill as Paris wakes up under a thick layer of snow; Dévotion is wandering to the Palais de Chaillot through a paralyzed Paris.

Hit the Turnpike!

1984 • 2 min • United States of America

The ultimate rejection film. A compilation of many of the rejection notices and letters that I have received during my fifteen years of making films. "Films that offer an intelligent glimpse of the personal struggle and/or foibles of their creators seem destined for a warm reception in any festival. In the world of independents, a short like HIT THE TURNPIKE! is the finest way to end a lengthy screening. For those unfortunate enough to have suffered the agony of rejection or decision, HIT THE TURNPIKE! is the kind of film that encourages you to leave the disappointment behind.

Les tribulations de saint Antoine

1984 • 40 min

Evokes the life of 3rd century hermit Saint Antoine via the paintings of Bosch, Rops, Ensor, Ernst & Dalí.

Tortured Dust Part 2

1984 • 20 min • United States of America

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling." Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: "Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?" From "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Marguerite Young... to whom this film is gratefully dedicated.