All Films

Rock Around The Clock 84 - The Cure Live In Glasgow

1984 • 60 min

The Cure perform live at Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow on 25th August 1984. Main Set: Shake Dog Shake, Primary, The Walk, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, Give Me It, A Forest, Piggy In The Mirror, Happy The Man, Play For Today, The Caterpillar. Encore: 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

Authentic Wing Tsun Kung Fu: Demonstrated By Yip Man

1984 • 60 min • China

A must-have Wing Tsun (Wing Chun) Video. This is the video you can see the AUTHENTIC WING TSUN KUNG FU demonstration of the Siu-Nim-Tau form and the most advanced 116 wooden dummy techniques by the late Great Grandmaster Yip Man. Grandmaster Leung Ting demonstrates the Chum-Kiu form, Biu-Tze form and the Six & A Half Point Long Pole techniques as well as the Double-Knives techniques. You can also see the demonstrations of "CHI-SAU" techniques, fighting, footwork, etc. both in normal and slow motion in this video.

Qui es tu Johnny Mac?

1984 • 6 min

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer.

A Common History

1984 • 38 min • United Kingdom

A record of the unity and continuity of black struggle in Britain. Underlines the fact that the 'new' black communities consist of workers from different countries in Asia and the Caribbean joined in the same struggles against racism in Britain since World War Two. The film focuses on discrimination in employment against black workers, looking particularly at the 1974 dispute at Imperial Typewriters in Leicester. Here black workers faced opposition not only from the bosses, but from some Trade Unions as well as fellow white workers. And the film demonstrates that the outrage of young black people (many born in Britain) as seen in the dramatic events of Summer 1981, is related to the disappointed hopes of their migrant-worker parents.

Reaganocchio

1984 • 5 min

An anti-war, short humorously but seriously depicting and criticizing the contempt Ronald Reagan had for people and nations. Through the combination of animation and still photography, we see the former President physiognomically trapped by his own words in this ironic transformation of his nose.

Profeten

1984 • 56 min • Sweden

With the gloomy, mountain of the Cévennes in the backdrop, the filmmaker interviews an aging village clergyman, who shares his wisdom and perspective on life.

The House That Was Built by Everybody

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A cartoon about children on a playground who at first did not want to play together, but united in order to resist an over-aged bully...

Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murrieta

1984 • 55 min

About Joaquín Murieta , from Valparaíso, who arrived in California in the 1850's during the Gold Rush , transforming himself into a legendary assailant and representative of the protest against the extreme exploitation conditions that characterized mining of the time.

Magic Shovel

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on the poems of A. Barto about the lazy Vasya, who did not want to take part in public life.

An Audience with Joan Rivers

1984 • 50 min • United Kingdom

The shockingly controversial, outrageous, and wickedly funny comedienne performing live in front of a celebrity audience.

Frame Line

1984 • 22 min • Sweden

Frame Line is a collage film in black and white. Glimpses (both visual and audial) of Stockholm, people, gestures, flags and the Swedish national anthem appear through drawings, paintings and cut-outs. It is a film with an eerie flow between the ugly and the beautiful about returning, about roots and also about reshaping.

Ballett 16

1984 • 4 min • Austria

256 frame enlargements of a continuous dance movement were dissected into 16 segments, each consisting of 16 frames. These segments were rearranged and rephotographed frame-by-frame. The resulting synthetic composition of movement was rephotographed off a screen running at twice its normal speed in order to accelerate the final film.

Weltenempfänger

1984 • 5 min • Germany

It is a wildlife film on flights of birds when glowing sunsets. On the soundtrack, a hum noise radio, which resembles the sound of a plane and that seems to criticize the human desire to fly, sometimes absurd when comparing this flight to the flights of birds. "WELTENEMPFANGER, marine and desert landscapes are filtered red, interspersed monochrome red, pure color serves fade, the birds fly into the red and yellow. The color is applied in water on the image which respects the framework, the existence of plan and the analog dimension. She unreal and alter but which works here is its color, not its figurales powers: it remains discreet, less virulent that the brilliant forms of disharmonic sequence that characterize the work of SCHMELZDAHIN

Tortured Dust Part 3

1984 • 23 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.

A Blue-Eyed Girl

1984 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Russian fairy tale about the love of a young couple.

The World Lies Down in Scrap

1984 • 12 min • Japan

History of Philippine Cinema

1984 • 59 min • Philippines

An unfinished documentary by the late great film critic and historian Agustin "Hammy" Sotto. Hammy passed away in 2001 at the age of 51

View

1984 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Man's view of the world around him in different eras.

Cahier

1984 • 38 min • Japan

Taeko Ohnuki performs songs from her 1984 album, 'Cahier'.

The Terror of the Disgusting Worms from Outer Space

1984 • 35 min

A flying saucer crash lands near an abandonded chemical plant somewhere in Germany, bringing with it evil spacemen and alien worms, which have the ability to turn people into zombies. A 35 minute SOV short from the German underground.

The Ball

1984 • 8 min • France

A César award winning short stop-frame animation with blue men who live in yellow tubes counterbalanced by a ball that swings overhead.

Mikolaš Farmer Worker's First Holidays

1984 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A hardworking farmer wins a free holiday at a sea resort. For the first time in his life, Mikolaš can rest and relax in peace. A satire about agricultural policy and social differences.

Yalaltecas

1984 • 27 min • Mexico

The documentary captures the struggle of the Yalatecas Women’s Union, in a remote Zapotec indigenous community, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. It recreates the seizure of the Municipal Palace that led to the end of the cacicazgo (ruling of the caciques), the organization of the Union, and achievements such as the cooperative of artisans, the communal mill and the support for the Castilianization Center and musical instruments for the band that is the heart of community.

Teekond mäe südamesse

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

In a short film about his brother, actor and director Jaan Tooming, Peeter Tooming transports him from between theater decorations to nature, a village street, a field, a forest, a waterfall, a rocky seashore. Actor Jaan Tooming recites thoughts from his plays that match his state of mind.