All Films

Hong Kong Topography II: For Rent

1984 • 9 min • Germany, Hong Kong

Ssecond film in two filmmakers’ view on Hong Kong shortly before the UK sold its former colony to China. First part was directed by Ingo Petzke.

白い犬

1984 • 6 min • Japan

This film features "Shi-chan", a dog kept by the Hirano family.

Romeo Juliet

1984 • 10 min

Short movie by Crudelity Stoffe.

Inficiati dal male

1984 • 45 min

"Man is projected towards the stars, the landing on Mars is near, the fifth generation computer is almost ready, the intelligent one... yet, and yet today one can still die because of homosexual prejudice". “We kill ourselves because the moral condemnation of the people would have made our life impossible”, wrote two homosexual boys before committing suicide. "Prejudice killed them," wrote the newspapers. All this happened on the threshold of 2000, in a southern country, due to the disinformation of the people and the moral condemnations of the church.

No Nothing Woman

1984 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Stink

1984 • 6 min

16mm experimental short film.

The Photograph

1984 • 5 min • Taiwan

That Photograph is an 8mm experimental film made from an animated still. From the Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka’s photography book, KAO chose a photo of his family beholding a body and made copies of it in a myriad of ways. The photo and the camera are stationary; however, the relationship formed between them through production is in motion.

One Halloween Night

1984 • 20 min

Halloween special about Jason and his dog Spunky who witness a spaceship land on Earth from afar, and two aliens emerge who are out to conquer the planet. The boy and his dog track the aliens to a Halloween party and they must figure out who the intruders are to warn the party goers.

Encounters with Eve and Adam

1984 • 26 min

Short film.

Minamata no amanatsu

1984 • 55 min • Japan

A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu oranges.

Dave's Bike

1984 • 8 min

Short film by John Latham for Channel 4.

I.o.d.

1984 • 9 min

Short film by Jeremy Welsh alongside help from the London Video Arts (LVA)

Cold Day with Chuck

1984 • 5 min

Elam films her close friend, Chuck Kleinhans.

Sinisukka 1948

1984 • 6 min • Germany

A child’s hands play with a small lizard. A woman’s fingers are masked as blue stockings. First, they caress a thick dark hair. Then the blue stockings perform a mysterious choreography on a looking glass.

Andrés from La Victoria

1984 • 50 min • Chile

During a protest, French priest André Jarlan was shot and killed on September 4, 1984, in the La Victoria neighborhood of Santiago. The residents arrived on foot to the Cathedral demanding justice, also offering a testimony of love and solidarity with their pastor. In parallel, the documentary tells the story of the 1957 occupation that gave rise to the town. It also reveals the strong organization of the residents, essential in addressing the economic hardship and repression suffered by one of the main popular bastions of opposition to the military dictatorship. Pierre Dubois, the parish priest of La Victoria, played a leading role in the attempt to stop the violence against the residents of the town. In recognition of his work, he was granted Chilean nationality in 2001.

Go for It, Mike

1984 • 5 min

A parodic music video that re-envisions the Horatio Alger myth of the American Dream via 1950s-style cultural cliches, advertising and Reagan-era media propaganda. Smith's 'regular guy' Mike embodies a series of all-American male stereotypes, from the classroom to political candidacy, assuming the roles of college prep, cowboy, train engineer, and real estate developer. Set to an ironic jingle recalling of an 'Up with People' anthem, this lampoon of Manifest Destiny concludes with Mike riding, like an ironic Marlboro Man, into the sunset.

Coelacanth

1984 • 4 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Ultramarina

1984 • 15 min • Sweden

In the film Ultramarina, Edefalk has placed paintings and objects in the ocean to show describe the infinite space. (Filmform)

A Wish for Wings

1984 • 1 min • United States of America

Animated short.

La Libélula del Guararí

1984 • 60 min

A cinematographic production (1984) by filmmaker Mercedes Ramírez A. the first filmmaker who speaks in the first person as a woman in Costa Rican cinema, documenting the great Costa Rican artist Emilia Prieto Tugores born 1902-1986, political activist, defender of the rights of workers, painter, engraver, singer-songwriter, writer, researcher of the folklore of the Central Valley of Costa Rica, one of the most notable intellectuals of the 20th century.

Convergenta spre inutil

1984 • 6 min

Experimental film.

Daina

1984 • 45 min • India

The film is based on the witch-craft practice amongst the villagers.

Village Orchestra

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The film directed by V. Artemenko is dedicated to the members of the village orchestra of his native village of Melnyky, Chornobai district, Cherkasy region, who died during the war and who died of wounds. When the famous sculptor Anatoliy Khorechko saw film "Village Orchestra", he put aside all his affairs, left the city and for three years lived in the village of Melnyky and built a monument to the deceased orchestra players.

Life at Brians: Lean and Hungry

1984 • 49 min

Filmed for UK TV channel CH4. Brian McCaffrey a retired prize fighter running a cafe called ‘Brian’s’ in Liverpool, is interviewed, as well as other colourful characters, customers at the cafe'. Brian's, in the city centre on Stanley Street, hosted night gigs. Liverpool post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen, which used to visit regularly, feature in some jams in between the interviews. In later years the cafe would become the location for the band to announce their return