All Films

Orpheus and Eurydice

1984 • 6 min • United Kingdom

This work is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the style of a Greek vase. When his wife Eurydice dies, Orpheus descends into Hell and by charming the gods of the Underworld with his singing wins Eurydice back, only to lose her again at the threshold of the Overworld'.

Pearl Bowser Looks At Early Black Cinema: The Legacy of Oscar Micheaux

1984 • 28 min

Pearl Bowser (born 1931) is an author, television director, film director, producer, and film archivist. At the time of the program, she was the director of Chamba Educational Film Services. She is the author of a book on the first ten years of the career of Oscar Micheaux and is credited for having helped rediscover some of Oscar Micheaux's rare surviving films. She is the founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of visual and oral histories that documents the history of African-American filmmaking.

L'instruction

1984 • 28 min

Filmed in 1983, during the presentation of Peter Weiss' play at the Fred Barry theater at UQAM. This document exposes us to a play dealing with the Shoah, and its intention to present the medium of video as a specific language.

くだらねー朝

1984 • 13 min • Japan

Blanx

1984 • 8 min

A possessive relationship results in passive/aggressive rejection and destruction (in memory of Lorraine Ordaz). (3/4 in. video; black and white)

Bark in the Dark

1984 • 1 min • United States of America

Two people think they hear a BARK in the DARK.

Ana

1984 • 17 min • Yugoslavia

Many have moved to the cities in search of a better life, but Ana remained in the village.

Waiting for the Sun

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Clogs

1984 • 5 min • Japan

With the sound of a beautiful koto (Japanese zither) and the narration "Kaasan, kaasan, kaasan, I'm marching in the desert", the camera roams the city. Facing the ground, the wall, the road, and eventually the red blood on the snow, the filmmaker continues to call out "Mama, Mama, Mama". This five-minute film, made in just one day, is an attempt to convey the artist's dramatic moment of breath in its rawest form.

The Skeletal Animation System

1984 • 2 min • United States of America

A skeleton invites us into its home to demonstrate its acrobatic prowess. Created by the Ohio State University Computer Graphics Research Group.

The Youth of Kantaro Tsurushikubi

1984 • 35 min • Japan

I lived in Aomori until my first year of high school. My memories of Yoriko, the girl in the white blouse. I moved to a new school and after a long time, I came to Aomori. I call Yoriko. The story of my youth is told through subtitled conversations, stills and live-action. The film's fresh visuals, which make use of experimental techniques such as frame stretching and special filters, and the lyrical music permeate the film in a pleasant way.

Still Point

1984 • 6 min • Canada

Woman or myth? Dream or reality? Quietly searching the secret gardens of her mind, a woman explores her past and discovers her present. Man, child, cat--all are travellers through her life. Shimmering, opalescent, Still Point, an evocative voyage into an elusive soulscape, is an animation film that awakens feelings buried in one's own subconscious world.

Confessions of the Taxi Driver

1984 • 56 min • Yugoslavia

Macedonian TV drama.

Oblique Strategist Too

1984 • 13 min

Oblique Strategist Too is a multilayered, tangential portrait of composer Brian Eno, and an evocative essay on the creative process. Eno's perspectives on his music and working methods surface elliptically, through interviews and footage of him in the studio and in lectures. Eno emerges as a meticulous musician, articulate critic, and, ultimately, an inscrutable personality. The tape's title is taken from a set of cards bearing aphorisms, which Eno uses as a random element of advice in his working process. Velez uses intricate audio and video effects to heighten the elusive nature of Eno's music and character. He begins the tape with a quote from Heraclitus: "The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself" a paradox that eminently suits his subject matter.

Kariye

1984 • 27 min

The documentary "Kariye", which introduces an "art monument" of Istanbul with a history of 700 years, showcases the artistic features of the colorful paintings that adorn the galleries of the Kariye Mosque (Chora Church). While the documentary introduces Kariye (Chora), it carries "voices" from all cultures that have existed in and around it for 700 years. The film also interprets a cultural continuity and interaction ranging from Byzantine hymns to Orthodox prayers, from the call to prayer to Ottoman takbirs, with a distinct sound pattern.

Zarico

1984 • 58 min

Zarico is the distinct folk music of the Black francophone Créole culture of southwestern Louisiana. In retracing the footsteps of the Créole population—who came from Africa, the Caribbean and Acadia—the various musical influences and development of the style are shown.

Io non sono come te

1984 • 25 min

“If you meet me, pretend you don't know me”, “I'm not like you”, are now classic phrases in the “furtive and veiled” homosexual relationship. This is for those who, out of fear, compromise or a thousand other reasons, decide to live their sexuality in a dissociated way. The "official" one, heterosexuality, and the clandestine one, homosexuality. Some do it very well ... others less so. Situations of this kind are more frequent than they appear. This short film wants to give the idea of ​​how easy it is to border on melodrama in such cases.

Catherine de Medicis Part 2

1984 • 25 min

DJ Princess Julia and artist Holly Warburton engage in a shadowy, necromantic rite. A particularly ornate, gothic exploration of the shadow world, beautifully realised on Super-8.

On the Banks of the Ozana

1984 • 13 min • Romania

On the banks of Ozana follows the lives of children who dedicate their time to agricultural work.

Dreams Never End

1984 • 9 min • Australia

A look at the life of a 16-year-old girl, focusing on the person she loves and what happens to him, and how it affects her.

Memória do Corpo

1984 • 30 min

Between art and therapy, Lygia explores the patient's sensitivity through a reconfiguration of bodily experiences, expanding the concept of the body as a home of the self to that of the body as a possibility of contact between the personal interior and exterior.

Voyager

1984 • 5 min • Italy

Adriano Abbado’s first digital work, derived from the videotape Viaggio, Voyager is composed of a series of static images that dissolve one each other in various ways. The music was created with analog electronic instruments. Voyager is a narration with images from primitive cultures to sidereal spaces.

Pure Mutation

1984 • 3 min • Canada

A biology lab circa 1920, becomes colourized as the camera engages in a number of pans past strange forms in bottles and under glass. This is the basis for a formalist exploration of shape, colour and tonal loops on the sound track.

Forest Quartet

1984 • 15 min • Soviet Union

An animations is based on Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani’s fable and tells a story of a rooster who makes friend with a dog. Together they decide to build the village but soon are joined by a cunning fox.