All Films

Together with Lutz Dammbeck, dancer Fine Kwiatkowski explores myths, political systems and their impact on society.

A dramatic discussion starter which confronts the social issue of racial prejudice shown through the eyes of a young Asian Australian woman, Lily. The film has the advantage of being both open-ended and humorous, allowing students to identify with the characters within the film and working as a stimulus to class discussion.

Invocation originated as a sequence within the documentary Orpheus Through the Ages made by Pelicula Films to accompany Orpheus and Eurydice. It was designed to illustrate the Ancient Greek myth of the Creation of the world. It was shot on 16mm and subsequently enlarged onto 35mm for festival screenings. The techniques employed were a test run for those which ultimately were used within Ra; the Path of the Sun God. Two versions exist; one with narration and one without.

A fascinating lovestory between a woman and a piece of meat.

We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various combinations of dyeing, cutting, scratching and painting the film strip – as well as much of the imagery in Migraine Particles are strongly reminiscent of Lye’s work, with certain key differences. The organic shapes resembling indigenous figuration of sea creatures, the intersecting vertical lines, the animation of forms which appear to interact and the moments of striking three dimensionality all recall Lye’s Tusalava (1929), Free Radicals (1958) and Color Box (1935). De Bruyn’s film seems somewhat free-form at first but in ways that also nod to Lye’s work, a structure of developing sections and a layered repetition of shapes in a loose fugal pattern becomes clearer as the film progresses. -Steven McIntyre

A stranger promises to one greedy man to fulfill his every wish. And he desires to be able to turn everything he touches into gold.

A film about the Northern Urals and its nature, as well as about the life of a local forester and his family.

Documentary on the relationship between the Basque language and its immediate cultural universe.

How mosaics are made.

The story of a little chess pawn who saved an almost lost game and managed to achieve victory.

Puppet Space-Western by DAICON FILM

The villain plans to attack peaceful settlers. His first target is a child. As the arrow flies, the boy's entire life flashes before his eyes.

SWEATER GIRLS 9 famous loops of the literally outstanding VIRGINIA BELL & 5 more of the statuesque SHERRIE KNIGHT display every inch of the naked majesty that launched these 50’s sweater girls into the Big Bosom Hall of Fame. These films are the definitive works of these 2 super-stacked sirens.

A story based on estonian folk song about the girl Salme, who is choosing between three fiancés – Sun, Moon and Star.

The Cure - Barrowlands, Glasgow, Scotland. August 25, 1984 - TV Broadcast

A story about one of the houses inhabited by those who are forced to choose housing at the lowest price. Poor people live here, who have to struggle for existence every day. But despite the difficulties, people do not lose their dreams and help each other in a difficult moment.

A film about the desire of people to live carelessly. In exchange for the life they want, they have to solve a riddle.

Independently produced cel-animated film produced by U. Manabuken of Kyushu University, with the cooperation of Manabuken at the time and volunteers from the Animation Research Institute and others. Completed in May 1984 after about 2 years of production. Total number of drawings: approximately 2,000. The work is full of passion for depicting the action of beautiful girls and effects such as explosions and rock splitting, and is a tour de force in terms of drawing and backgrounds, as well as experimenting with filming techniques such as double exposure, transmitted and incidental light, etc. The story, however, is forced, or should not be considered in depth.The extras include some of the settings and moving images, some of the lost cuts, test and play videos, doodles, etc. As the extras, it was introduced in the Dec 83 issue of the animation-related magazine Fan Road

Cleto Rojas, a peasant painter in Venezuela, discusses his artwork. From movies and Roman mythology to his own dreams and scenes of rural life, Rojas takes inspiration from all sources and transforms the world around him into fantastic visions. He teaches village children his technique of using house-paint on canvas, as his wife goes about her own housework, singing slowly. The painter is bemused by the attention of anthropologists and art critics, and he talks about the pitfalls of attention. He remembers traveling to Caracas as a young man to meet famous painters and being disappointed in them. His ambitions are more focused on the content of his work - Rojas wishes he could envision and paint one of Venezuela's heroes, Simon Boilvar, as he really was, as no accurate representations exist now. Without looking for fame, he continues painting all kinds of images as he sees them.

The film is dedicated to the mother of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Anna Timofeevna Gagarina.

Video of Rachel Rosenthal’s elaborate performance staged as part of 1984’s Carplay series at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. KabbaLAmobile, commissioned by Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Mark Taper Forum in 1984, was performed in the Department of Water & Power parking lot. Seven expert drivers and cars from Tom Anthony’s Precision Driving Team and music by performance artist The Dark Bob support Rosenthal’s text. While the cars dance and perform stunts in Kabbalistic formations, Rosenthal chants and declaims both twelfth-century Kabbalistic poetry and copy from automotive magazines in order to show how materialism has supplanted spiritual values in our culture.

In Television Interview, a two channel video installation, we again meet Atherton as interviewer/inquisitor, haranguing the cast of the popular soap opera Coronation Street on the status of video art, the monodirectionality of broadcast television, and the disempowered status of the viewer/consumer. Whilst taking television to task for its condescending attitude toward its viewers, Atherton also takes a few swipes at video art, telling the hapless Coronation Street character who professes no knowledge of the medium that “you have to force yourself to watch video art”. Thematically and procedurally in this piece, the artist lays bare and discusses the construction of the media image, both in relation to televisions mode of representation, and video arts appropriation/deconstruction of these modes. Blending wry humour with sharp observation, Atherton succeeds in crystallising several of the themes that were central to the burgeoning field of video art at that time. – Jeremy Welsh

Although Ivan Tatíček's Metrofilm was inspired by period video clips from Austrian television, it is not a musical in the true sense of the word. In the film, a pair of allegorical figures of disorientation and order (David Pacholík and Ivana Málková) navigate the metro spaces in repetitive movements and confront a system of rules, procedures and geometric order. It authentically illustrates the period atmosphere of personal choice between social resignation, tacticianism in public space or the search for inner freedom, which could be provided by relatively free movement in a parallel world.

Offers passersby the opportunity to don a mask and become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.