All Films

Лифти бар үйдөгү тепкичтер

1984 • 26 min • Soviet Union

Two elderly women from a remote mountain village must climb the stairs of a tall apartment building to visit a relative. As they make their way up, pausing to rest and talking about life, memories, and moments from the past, the stairwell becomes a space where stories, encounters, and quiet reflections unfold.

Tartu

1984 • 9 min • Estonia, Soviet Union

A mosaic city portrait of Tartu, Estonia.

The Odyssey of Panoramas

1984 • 13 min • Belgium, France

The 9th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. A ‘panorama’ was a large painting on a cylindrical canvas. It provided a realistic and compelling view of a city, landscape or historical event, giving viewers the feeling that they were part of it. Viewers were positioned in the centre of a circular building or tent, with the canvas stretched around them. This provided a 360-degree view that gave a sense of depth and immersion.

Men & Films - Berkowitz

1984 • 1 min

A short documentary made during the AIDS crisis.

Huascaran - Andes ‘82

1984 • 21 min • Macedonia

In 1982, a fifteen-member Macedonian mountaineering expedition leaves for South America, in the Cordillera Blanca region in northeastern Peru, to realize the planned climb. The film follows the entire journey of the expedition – from Skopje, through Paris, to the peaks of Huascaran.

This is Brazil

1984 • 4 min • Brazil

A short film that summarizes, in three acts, a portrait of Brazil: the constitution, the presidency, and capital – This is Brazil. The contradictions of a country divided between dictatorship and democracy are the focus of the production, which uses fiction to portray Brazil in the early 1980s. Divided into three acts, the short film analyzes the importance of the Brazilian Constitution, the power of capital, and the role of the poet in ambiguous times.

Bodybuilding

1984 • 3 min • Austria

Games with muscles, games with power, SM games. The naked body employed as a prop. Perceptions of one's own body are the focus of Body-building, and it leaves the good-girl role far behind, sometimes in striking poses, sometimes in martial dress.

Laure

1984 • 45 min • France

An unknown writer written under the pseudonym of Laure at the beginning of the century. Readings. Geography. The places of a writing. The forces that create, traverse and lose it. The two image strips will be contiguous on the same screen. Their continuous and simultaneous operation. Two mirrors. The voices and their silences are reflected in it. Fade away.

Chips

1984 • 11 min • Poland

A study of loneliness and passing away.

Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue

1984 • 21 min

The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer jumble of late 20th century icons.

Ace of Light

1984 • 8 min

"Light animation and original poetry in this initiatic journey by Dennis Pies, who is now known as Sky-David." - Daily Psychedelic. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Szapito

1984 • 29 min • Poland

Szapito is one of the best and most beautiful films about circus artists in the history of Polish documentary cinema. The filmmaker managed to persuade the retired artists of the Szapito group to go back to the circus arena. The spectator knows that the life, characters and their acts recorded on the film stock will soon be gone forever. It is with sympathy and reverie that Dziworski observes this world fade away.

Skin Matrix

1984 • 17 min • United States of America

Emshwiller writes that the visually complex and densely textured Skin Matrix is a "video tapestry... a layering of different manifestations of energy: electronic (light, video, computer), inorganic (dunes, rocks, mud), organic (wood, plants), human (skin, hair), individual (faces, eyes), imagination (sculpture, robot)." His intricate electronic transformations of tactile surfaces, landscapes and human faces signify a metaphysical process that simultaneously masks and reveals; he achieves an uncanny spatial illusion of depth through layering and movement. Creating sophisticated image patterns and structures with the simple Bally Arcade computer (used for playing video games), Emshwiller weaves together the lush textures and kinetic energy of the organic and the technological.

You Taste American

1984 • 24 min

Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams meet the police in Orillia, Ontario, in this mixed media performance film about the 1983 Canadian washroom arrests.

Tortured Dust Part 1

1984 • 22 min • United States of America

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling." Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: "Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?" From "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Marguerite Young... to whom this film is gratefully dedicated.

Tu vois, mon fils, l'espace ici naît du temps

1984 • 16 min • France

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Chutes de Gaël

1984 • 15 min • France

Special Effects

1984 • 56 min

Presents a historical overview of special cinematographic effects, also demonstrating current techniques of computer-controlled camerawork and computer-generated sequences.

Starview HCT-5808

1984 • 51 min

A slideshow of sci-fi space illustrations composed of slow dissolves and an equally futuristic and space-y music.

Bull

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The parable of a monstrously large bull that was raised by villagers, who did not know how dearly it would cost them.

House in Oikoshi

1984 • 5 min

In this impressionistic work, the artist captures the feeling of an interior space. Her intention is to make the artifical appear more beautiful than reality.

Getekende Mensen

1984 • 21 min • Netherlands

Animation film about the problems of heroin users. Harrie Geelen uses interviews with dealers, prostitutes, unhappy parents and outsiders to put together a sound play in 20 minutes. He drew pictures to accompany the words. In 1985 it was awarded a Golden Calf.

El rito

1984 • 5 min • Spain

A young girl invokes the spirits. "The Rite" introduces us to the mysterious and unknown world of the afterlife.

Confused: Sexual Views

1984 • 59 min • Canada

The installation Confused: Sexual Views was part of a three-phase project that also included Confused [the videotape] and Confused [the performance]. It was produced just before AIDS had reached epidemic proportions. Twenty-seven individuals face the camera head-on as they speak about bisexuality, especially its more complex and engaging aspects, such as the relationship between sexuality, love, and friendship. Without mincing words, they challenge the conventions of behaviour and human relations conveyed by commercial film and television, and refute the myths surrounding the notion of romantic love. The intent here is to question the constrictive mores that sanction only one style of love, and to examine the many forms of desire and sexuality experienced in our culture, approaching them from a variety of perspectives.