All Films

Chang-soo Gets the Job

1984 • 14 min • South Korea

Chang-su, Byeong-gi and Yeong-bae are pickpockets and work together. Chang-su's role in the team is to lure the chasers out. Chang-su is displeased with the payment he receives because what he does is tougher than what the other two do.

Rafael agosto 1984

1984 • 12 min • Argentina

The reeds lean over the water. There is no nostalgia. A letter filmed for Rafael Maino in 1984 with stories of the filmmaker as a memoir of a paradise. A paradise formulated over seven years by the friendship between Rafael and Narcisa: "if there was a fight, it is something bigger than you and me, it is the fight between two myths". This film can be considered as part of the series of the diaries together with Orpheus and Eurydice.

Macross Mech Graffiti

1984 • 45 min

Mecha action in space.

A Rose for You

1984 • 60 min • Japan

A dull middle-aged gay man who sells condoms. During the day, he approaches young men in parks and toilets, and at night in public baths and gay bars, but he always gets dumped. Eventually, it became a matter of police involvement... He meets the beautiful boy of his dreams and has sex with him. The film depicts the loneliness of life's journey from beautiful youth to old age through the image of a man who wants to make that dream come true.

Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah /In Four Movements/

1984 • 29 min

Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the enigmatic Sulejman Ferenčak—one of fifty members of the slippery production network OM, which concocted dozens of small-gauge gems in the late 70s and 80s--launches and spins his Super 8 tripod-attached camera in a methodical sequence of 360-degree rotations. Sky and earth are euphorically, deliriously transcended in what is not so much an homage to Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale, but rather its spiritual detonation from within.

Sunday Walks

1984 • 18 min • Soviet Union

Aigerim lives in a boarding school. Her parents divorced and now she sees them only on weekends: the father visits the girl on Sundays, the mother on Saturdays. Long walks with her father help Aigerim come to terms with the circumstances of her life and continue to love her mother.

Raja Rammohan Roy

1984 • 20 min • India

A documentary short about the life and work of social reformer and the Father of the Bengali Renaissance, Raja Ram Mohun Roy

The Aeronauts

1984 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Boys buy an aeroplane and fly to the United States.

Terra Incognita

1984 • 48 min • Soviet Union

Terra incognito. This is a meeting with another Universe, with another world. Who inhabits it? What kind of winds blow on it? Or it happens that you would like to penetrate into the depths of this earth, but any of your attempts encounters landslides, landslides, rockfalls... The Earth does not allow...

Giordano Bruno

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The story of Giordano Bruno, who held various researches and observations of planets and stars around the Earth. He lived in the 16th century, and his innovative views did not bring him anything but persecution at that time. Some moments of his life are ranked as real feats, one of which will be discussed in this animation.

Visual Essays: Origins of Film

1984 • 55 min • Canada

These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, these film essays comprise a critical/structural investigation of silent cinema ending with Segei Eisenstein's works (for Stalin) - from Lumiere and Melies through surrealism and horros, to montage and propaganda, we 're-invent' epochs in cinema that became its language and culture.

Recess III

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon consists of three plots, "The Alchemist," "Our House," and "The Money Changers." In the first cartoon, a two-year-old schoolboy, resorting to chemistry, which he also does not know, tries to get the two out of the diary. The second cartoon tells about an apartment building that is only 10 years old, but looks like 100. And as a little girl, by her example, she forced the boys to look at their native home with completely different eyes. And the main thing is that now they will not paint the walls, but will love their home. The third cartoon is about a money changer boy who changes everything: glasses for old stamps, and stamps for an elephant in a zoo, a dog for a cat, and a cat for a mouse, and he changed the mouse for a bruise and a bump… And only I couldn't change the two to the five.

The Thief of Sydney

1984 • 12 min • Australia

Tells the story of an impoverished young man who dreams/​fantasizes/​hallucinates about his adventures in a post-holocaust Sydney of the future, where all is polluted and survival depends upon the theft of oxygen.

Mondo Elvis

1984 • 28 min • United States of America

A short film from Tom Corboy about devoted fans of Elvis Presley in the years after his death.

Gazorra: Beast from the Bowels of the Earth

1984 • 8 min • Germany

When a giant monster ravages a German town, humanity’s only hope lies in the secret weapon known as the super giant fighting robot

Frankensteins Scheidung

1984 • 45 min

The video work “Frankensteins Scheidung” by Monika Funke Stern takes up the motif of an artificial human being, which reaches back to the early nineteenth century. The artist develops her own story of an artificially created woman.

Cinématon XXXIV

1984 • 30 min • France

Reel 34 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Sigmund

1984 • 2 min • Italy

A young boy is transformed as he watches the Olympics on TV.

And In This Fairy Tale It Was So

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Once Koshchey the Immortal caught the Cat-Scientist and complained that he was bored and had no one to torment. In exchange for help, he promised to let the Cat go. The Cat, as such help, offered Koshchey to marry, but in order not to scare away the brides, he advised the villain to dress up as a good fellow. Despite such a cunning trick, Koshchey failed time after time.

Light Play

1984 • 7 min • Australia

An abstract play of light, colour, geometric shapes and patterns synchronised with synthesised music. The image patterns have been created by scratching, drawing, painting and overlaying directly on clear and opaque film and fragments of photographed positive and negative images.

Skin Matrix S

1984 • 9 min

Skin Matrix S is a short version of the piece Skin Matrix.

Die Schraube

1984 • 3 min • East Germany, Germany

A man tries his hardest to turn a large winged screw. He succeeds. The picture opens with a crack: the screw is stuck in the back of a huge woman who begins to dance. The little man jumps away in horror.

Abbalett

1984 • 59 min

Modern ballet set to the music of ABBA.

The Business of America

1984 • 45 min • United States of America

An exploration of supply side economics and the trickle down myth as exemplified by Pittsburgh's declining steel industry.