All Films

Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

1984 • 25 min

A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

Bitzbutz

1984 • 3 min • Israel

In Israeli director Gil Alkabetz's playful study in contrasts, a white bird and a black monster compete for common territory, but, as they soon find out, it's a zero-sum game.

Winged Donkey

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How a baby ant turned into a kind donkey.

Pillow For the Sunny

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How the little animals found out where Sunny sleeps.

Plyukh and Plikh

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two ordinary boys, brothers Paul and Peter, rescue two little dogs from the evil Kaspar Schlich.

The Old Man and the Rooster

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Of a quarrel and friendship between an old man and his rooster. Based on a Ukrainian folk tale.

Three Bears

1984 • 10 min

Varvarushka, the restless main character of the cartoon, went with her goat friend to pick flowers in the field. She ran and walked through the grass, and didn't even notice how she ended up in a dense forest. She came across a hut in the forest in which there was no one. In the hut, as usual, there were three beds, three chairs and three bowls on the table. Varvara sat on all the chairs, tried all the bowls, jumped on all the beds, and fell asleep on the smallest one. Meanwhile, the owners of the hut - three bears - returned home.

Clean and Neat with Harv and Marv (Second Edition)

1984 • 15 min • United States of America

Harv and Marv (animated characters) observe real children practicing good habits of personal hygiene. Marv decides he wants to be a human but Harv tries to discourage him by explaining that he would have to keep his hands clean, bathe, brush his teeth, comb his hair, etc. This is an updated version: In the 1974 version the kids are seen playing football, in this, the second they are painting a mural.

The Graven Face

1984 • 25 min

Realized on the occasion of one of my photographic exhibitions of the same title dedicated to the Etruscans of Volterra. I intended to bring alive the funerary faces on sarcophagi, that, curiously, in shape resembled tv sets. I shot faces in color of living acquaintances in order to superimpose them on marble faces of dead people unknown to me, trying to give them an identity like those of the living. Using a battery of devices composed of a Super-8 projector, a 16mm projector and another one for slides, I rephotographed everything with a video camera directly on a unique screen effervescing with three cones of images in color, in black and white and at various speeds. The dissolves, both manual and non-manual, are manual in the proper sense of done by hand, mine and those of others; they were added simultaneously, to create variable human shutters.

N.e.w.s.

1984 • 5 min

1984 short by Paul de Nooijer

Popsicles

1984 • 5 min • Chile, United States of America

“This work is an interaction of the space, the symbols and the historical context in which I live as a woman on this side of the continent. It is a rosary of alarm, eternal and circular; the alarm of a woman who desires life, light, truth, and solidarity, but who instead sees and receives death and fear. It is a rejection of all that is destruction, and death, yet is depicted almost attractively as innocence.”

Bricolage

1984 • 11 min • Canada

A TV movie sequence is repeated in slow motion: the sound gradually gets out of sync with the image. The point moves on the soundtrack while the viewer anticipates the meeting of the image and sound.

Framed

1984 • 2 min

16mm / color / sound

The Magic Egg

1984 • 15 min • United States of America

A digitally made short film, compiled from short clips made by different institutions.

Baignoire

1984 • 42 min • France

Gerhard Bohner: Dancer and Choreographer

1984 • 6 min

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

Je sais que j'ai tort, mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose

1984 • 10 min • France

A drawing teacher instructs 10 and 15-year-olds to create a Picasso portrait, revealing the surprising juxtaposition of the resulting drawings and the comments from the young artists.

Parisian Blinds

1984 • 7 min

A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen much like a camera shutter, Hammer questions the perceptual experience of mass tourism as the Bâteau Mouche endlessly circles the île de la Cité.

Palestinian Identity

1984 • 38 min • Palestinian Territory

In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied its capital, Beirut. The film is a rare example of a PLO film made after the PLO’s departure from Beirut. It documents the burned and destroyed cultural and educational centers from which Israelis stole films, photographs, and historical and contemporary manuscripts. It includes interviews with key members of the Palestinian cultural scene such as Mahmoud Darwish and Ismail Shammout and those in charge of cultural and educational centers that were destroyed.

Space-Time Dynamics in Video-Feedback

1984 • 16 min • United States of America

"Abstract Video feedback provides a readily available experimental system to study complex spatial and temporal dynamics." Physics professor Jim Crutchfield talks about, and demonstrates video feedback.

La esfera

1984 • 7 min • Spain

In this experimental short film, a man reflects with the sphere of the world in his hands and, as if he were a visionary, watches the calamities that devastate us. Through him we perceive a critical vision of the world in our era. Wars, catastrophes, destruction and death. Powerless in the face of so much adversity, he evokes the figure of Mahatma Gandhi as a symbolic image of peace: "There is no way to peace, peace is the way."

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

1984 • 28 min • Hong Kong

This documentary / fund raiser film was produced in 1984 by the Hong Kong Salvation Army to raise sponsorship for their educational activities in the infamous Kowloon Walled City. The project was filmed in 16mm film.

Do you still like her?

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Short 8mm film by Kawamura Mitsuhiko made in the third year of university. A twenty year old broken heart, Showa romance.

People who shoot Hakone

1984 • 5 min • Japan

A trip to Hakone shooting training at Tokyo Senmon Gakko, 1984.