All Films

Herbie Hancock Trio: Hurricane!

1984 • 57 min

Three masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum of the art of Jazz...a display of lyrical sensuality and sizzling pyrotechnics. Features Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Billy Cobham performing 7 tracks plus 2 bonus concert performances: "Speak Like a Child" and "Little Waltz." Three masters explore their roots and capture the full spectrum of the art of jazz in this display of lyri

Pandora

1984 • 30 min • Netherlands

This very early horror short fan film by Wim Vink, shot on 8mm on a very low budget, has lots of fog, some zombies and bloody mayhem to offer, as most of his works do. It uses prominent music by Goblin, from other composers too and it´s his only one that was made in original Dutch language. The idea of plot wafts around a book that may have the power to call up the flesh loving undead, inspired by "Evil Dead" and the work by George Romero.

Ruido (Noise)

1984 • 13 min • United States of America

A naked body curls up with a broken TV.

Lus

1984 • 22 min • Denmark

Lisa is 6 1/2 years old and goes to kindergarten. One day she gets lice. The film shows how the peers and the adult environment react.

A Town Under Siege

1984 • 38 min • United Kingdom

Looks at Southall, one of the major Asians centres in Britain, and shows how this community organised to resist fascist attacks from 1976 to 1981. Southall's militancy goes back to the community organisations of the 1950's which were created to help black workers combat racism at the workplace and deal with discrimination in the community. As racism increased, the community has fashioned and forged new weapons of struggle.

The Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer: Prague's Alchemist of Film

1984 • 54 min • United Kingdom

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled as a separate short.

Motion Picture (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory)

1984 • 3 min • Austria, France

In the darkroom, 50 unexposed film strips were laid across a surface, upon which a frame of "La sortie des ouvrier de l'usine Lumière" was projected. The stringing together of the individual developed sections make up the new film, which reads the original frame like a page from a musical score: within the strips from top to bottom and sequentially from left to right.

Isaak Stern

1984 • 28 min • Israel

A short documentary about the Jerusalem Foundation’s projects. The Jerusalem Foundation funds educational and cultural activities as well as development initiatives in the Israeli capital. This film reviews some of the foundation’s projects, including theater performances for children and adults, summer camps, activities in community centers, the inauguration of urban parks, the development of the Mishkenot Sha’ananim quarter, the planning of the Museum on the Seam, and even a masterclass by violinist Isaac Stern. Harvey Rothenberg, one of the Foundation’s donors, calls on other philanthropists to donate to it at the end of the film.

Carmín

1984 • 7 min • Spain

A man a woman. The secrecy of certain relationships. The subconscious world of the human being.

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV626

1984 • 60 min

Live performance of Mozart's immortal Requiem in D minor from the Herkulessaal in Munich, 1984. Soprano Edith Mathis, alto Trudeliese Schmidt, tenor Peter Schreier, and bass Gwynne Howell, with the The Bavarian Radio Symphony and Orchestra, are conducted by Sir Colin Davis.

School With a Bias, or an Opera Lesson for Parents

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

As Darkness Sets In

1984 • 18 min • United States of America

Mid '80s slasher with teens being picked off one by one by a masked killer.

Election Tape '84

1984 • 2 min

Steeped in black humor, this concise political critique is Acconci's contribution to artist Jenny Holzer's collaborative Sign on a Truck project, which was presented on a Diamond Vision Screen in New York in response to Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984. Acconci portrays Reagan as a ventriloquist's dummy, a two-dimensional puppet's head that is a mouthpiece for the ideology of the Right. Smiling like a TV evangelist or the host of a children's TV show, the Reagan puppet intones a litany of "Family Values" that is at once comic and chilling.

Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

1984 • 14 min • Canada

In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their respective media. This cinema/music performance recreates, impressionistically, the dehumanizing environment of the urban subway. Drawings etch the outlines of people hurtling through space in underground tunnels. The sound track, elemental and atonal, gives compelling expression to their alienation.

Murmurando

1984 • 36 min • Poland

Patients of the holiday and treatment center take part in trying to overcome the tobacco addiction by singing.

The Dance of the Hawk

1984 • 13 min

Legendary characters in medieval and oriental costumes meet near a well. A slow ritual punctuated by races that the shot transforms and expands through slow motion. Choreographic tale by Ma Danse Rituel Théâtre, based on the show Le Puits de l'épervier by Hideyuki Yano. Legendary characters in medieval and oriental costumes meet near a well. Slow ritual punctuated by races that the shot transforms and expands through slow motion.

Cinematon n°342: Jean-Marie Straub

1984 • 4 min

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

The Wizard's Apprentice

1984 • 20 min

The cartoon tells about the amazing adventures of two braggart friends - the boy Vasya and the cat Vaska, about what unexpected and even dangerous consequences the most harmless at first glance boasting can lead to.

Arrows

1984 • 15 min • United Kingdom

Arrows uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to communicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition. 'I am so aware of my body', we are told on the soundtrack, whilst images of caged wild birds are intercut with images of the rib cage of the film's subject, the film-maker herself. The pressures placed upon women to be thin are articulated by an account of a new technique for surgical removal of fat. Once again, a woman who does not conform to male expectations in terms of her body-shape is classified as sick, in need of surgery. The constantly recurring motif of cages, bars and railway lines reiterates the feeling of entrapment throughout the film. Yet, taking the camera into her own hands, and revealing this process to the spectator by using a mirror, the film-maker shows herself in control of this representation of a woman's body.

Jerry Cotton

1984 • 3 min • Germany

The Mayor of Montemilone

1984 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dying on its feet. There are no jobs, the young emigrate, the old have given up hope and government aid often goes astray. While Dino is determined to fight for his town, his wife Angela sometimes feels that the struggle is not worth it. A massive dam is being built just outside Montemilone. It's a new threat to the town and to Dino's position as mayor.

Night in Tunisia

1984 • 60 min

A widower tries to spark his son's interest in music in this period drama set in a seaside holiday setting in Ireland in the early 1960's.

Careful, Monkeys!

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Second film. Adventures of little monkeys, secretly from their mother escaped from a zoo to the city.

The Fir

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An exquisite little fir tree is curious about what he will become later. Based on the tale by Hans Christian Andersen.