All Films

Sound in Synch, Parts I and II

1984 • 19 min

Sound in Sync (1984) consists of two ten-minute takes; Aoki films people on Michigan Avenue but soon pans up into the blue. The long middle portion of each take consists of almost imperceptible camera movements across the sky while the sound track continues to record people talking on the street, presumably in perfect sync with the image. The film refocuses our attention from what we’re most accustomed to looking at to a world almost of pure color.

Balada del Mar No Visto

1984 • 23 min

In a large village nestled among the mountains, far from the sea, one day a man appeared on the shore carrying a canoe. "Where do you go to the sea?" he asked. "But when I was born, I knew the sea." Between jokes, he's challenged to follow the course of the waters.

The Lame Wolf

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

After an injured wolf gets left behind by his wolf pack, a kind she-goat nurses him back to health.

How a Son Saved His Father

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

After a brave young man disobeys the authorities by refusing to abandon his father, the old man covertly helps him by using his wisdom and wit.

Miffy's House

1984 • 5 min • Netherlands

Miffy lives in a small cozy house. When you look inside you see that she has her own room, her toys are in a red basket. She has a special outfit for playing or doing work. Miffy knows how to tell time.

Skeletal Family: Live At Sheffield University, October 1984

1984 • 30 min • United Kingdom

1. Hands On The Clock 2. Don't Be Denied 3. Burning Oil 4. Promised Land 5. Trees 6. So Sure 7. 11:15 8. She Cries Alone 9. Someone New 10. Waiting Here 11. Black Ju Ju 12. The Wind Blows 13. No Chance (Cool Hand Luke)

Blood On The Cats

1984 • 55 min • United Kingdom

1. Bone Orchard – The Mission 2. The Milkshakes – Red Monkey 3. The Sharks – Short Shark Shock 4. The Stingrays – Blue Girl 5. The Jazz Butcher – The Jazzbutcher Meets Count Dracula 6. Guana Batz – King Rat 7. Crazy Tim And Sid – Goin Bowling 8. The Ghost Riders – Rockin In The Graveyard 9. Screaming Lord Sutch – The Wolfman Strikes Again 10. The Meteors – Graveyard Stomp 11. The Turnpike Cruisers – I Wanna Be Like You 12. The Blubbery Hellbellies – I Dont Wanna Get Thin 13. Living In Texas – Godemokrafasc 14. Folk Devils – Chewing The Flesh 15. Inca Babies – Jericho 16. Ausgang – Weight 17. Alien Sex Fiend – Wish I Woz A Dog

This Borrowed Land

1984 • 29 min

The Peace River Valley in British Columbia is an area of rich farmland threatened by the construction of a hydro-electric dam. This Borrowed Land gives the women who farm the Peace the chance to voice their growing concern over the conversion of farmland to uses not related to the production of food. They ask: "Will we leave our children enough land to grow food on?" They are firmly committed to their lifestyle despite the difficulties, both concrete and imponderable. A film about agriculture, ecology, land misuse, and stout-willed farmers who happen to be women.

Camera People: Home Movie Stars

1984 • 7 min

Friends react to being "on camera."

I'm Afraid to Draw My Mom

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

About the foster home where orphaned children live with their living parents.

Men & Films - Gay Health Conf: Altman

1984 • 2 min

A harm reduction film made during the AIDS crisis.

Satellitenis

1984 • 33 min

Exchange of nine video letters sent between New York and Santiago since 1982. Fragments that employ associations and reiterations to examine the influence of experience on the creative act.

Men & Films - Berkowitz & Vance

1984 • 3 min

A short documentary made during the AIDS crisis.

Bunkyo Special

1984 • 3 min

Educational Technology Seminar “Practical Training in Educational Material Production Using 8mm Film” Assignment 1984 8mm Film.

Mama, Papa, Zombie

1984 • 45 min • Germany

Towards the end of the 1970s, when VHS entered the market and video stores were springing up in West Germany, the conquest of the living room began. In 1984, ZDF conducted research into the extent to which brutal films had an influence on children and young people and the extent to which censorship authorities, schools and parents had to counteract this.

The Garden of Eden

1984 • 28 min

The Garden of Eden is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Roger M. Sherman. The film posits that in the next 30 years, 20% of all forms of life will cease to exist. It argues that it can be for good business to save the environment: discoveries in the plant, animal, and microbiology worlds show that what you might think of as unimportant could be the cure to a major disease, save an entire species of plant, or ward off pests. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Sirens

1984 • 4 min • East Germany, Germany

The song of the sirens, sitting on the rocks, attracts to her kingdom sailors from beyond: Greeks, Vikings, Pirates ...

Rainbow Diary

1984 • 17 min • Australia

Hand-drawn directly onto 16mm film, this animation is a 'diary' of daily drawing-on-film practice by Ivor Cantrill over a period of 18 months. Drawing style ranges from bold geometric patterns, to a delicate calligraphy.

The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes: Not Just Tea and Sandwiches

1984 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

Metamorphose Works No.1

1984 • 16 min • Japan

A donut-shaped image floating in the center of the screen begins to move like a living creature. The colors and patterns are constantly changing, gradually gaining strength, and eventually leading to an explosive radial movement.

Venise n'existe pas

1984 • 11 min • France

"if he leaned out the window, if he did that movement, if he risked to fall or to drop the camera, if he leaned to fall, then he would see and it would be seen, through the doorway, inhabited islands, churches and palaces where the boats dock. "

Cold

1984 • 5 min • Poland

A little girl's cold spreads all over town in this short pop-art styled animation.

SpiritMatters

1984 • 6 min

A silent monologue on the simultaneous perception of space and time. The film was constructed without a camera by writing directly on clear celluloid and then ‘translated’ by refilming the resulting strips on a light table so that they appear as ‘subtitles’ beneath the original inscription.

Digital Speech

1984 • 13 min

1984 Peter Rose short work