All Films

Meilė ir išdavystė

1984 • 45 min • Soviet Union

A documentary about the post-war struggle against "bourgeois nationalists".

Drogenkonsum

1984 • 10 min

Hoffmann has no sympathy for drug addicts - he could always do without his beloved beer! So: a total ban on alcohol! On the other hand ... nobody can refuse a schnapps, and everyone is responsible for themselves. Afterwards, Hoffmann can try out where you can go without restrictions.

Flying Hair

1984 • 8 min • Poland

Under the starlight, a boy and a girl are running. A thunderstorm breaks out, trees are shattered, and a rain of silver needles turned into hair floats through the air.

Rouge Capucine

1984 • 59 min • Switzerland

The life of the actress and model Capucine inspired this film by Michel Soutter, played by Capucine herself in the company of Heinz Béat, Antoinette Moya, Corinne Corderey and Jean-Pierre Malo.

Blackberry Subway Jam

1984 • 8 min • Canada

This short animation based on a popular children's story by Robert Munsch tells the story of a young boy with a major problem: his apartment has become a subway station but his mother doesn't believe him and blames him for the commuters' mess.

Man and Woman Intimate

1984 • 26 min • East Germany

A married couple looks for answers to their sexual problems. Leading GDR sexologist Dr. Siegfried Schnabl gives advice.

Pretenders Live in Dortmund

1984 • 36 min • Germany

Pretenders perform live at Rock Pop Festival, Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany as they tour for Learning to Crawl. Also included a live clip of "Waterloo Sunset" filmed for UK television.

What Under the Sun?

1984 • 60 min

What Under The Sun? is a private view of Mexico and it's history up to the present, loosely based on Bernal Diaz's account of Cortez's Conquest of the Aztecs. The work was initiated by a desire to apply electronic stream of consciousness techniques, as utilized in previous works, to a more specific topic, in this case Mexican history. The work is composed of six chapters, each conveying some aspect of Mexico's history or its psyche.

Six Into One: The Prisoner File

1984 • 53 min • United Kingdom

After Channel 4 screened the finale of their 1984 repeats of The Prisoner, they broadcast this special show to delve into the mysteries about the enigmatic series. Featuring interviews from actors, writers, and directors of the show, it most importantly featured an interview with the man himself, Patrick McGoohan, then living in Canada. The story behind the making of this special was revisited in the 2017 documentary 'In My Mind'.

Geotropism

1984 • 18 min

Atomic footage video collage starring Sakevi of G.I.S.M.

Rusty Knight

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A parable about love and chivalry in which a mechanical bird sacrifices itself to save a living bird that it has fallen in love with.

Shell Game at Maxwell Street

1984 • 3 min

A short film by filmmaker Tom Palazzolo with his students of an informal illegal gambling type of game on a sidewalk of the Maxwell Street Market. “Grown folks, now, not young folks. If you ain’t 18 or over I can’t give you a bet–show me three IDs. I might make an exception if you got ten bucks.”

Ikuska 18: Bertsolaritza

1984 • 10 min • Spain

Documentary on 'bertsolaritza' (or bertsolarism), the art of singing extemporaneously composed songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns.

Van att få som han vill

1984 • 57 min • Sweden

Municipal councilor Håkan Davidsson in Hjo is the strong man of the small community. A film about power and people in a very ordinary Swedish society.

Rectangle & Rectangles

1984 • 8 min • Canada

This is a didactic film in disguise. A progression of brilliant geometric shapes bombard the screen to the insistent beat of drums. The filmmaker programmed a computer to coordinate a highly complex operation involving an electronic beam of light, colour filters and a camera. This animation film, without words, is designed to expose the power of the cinematic medium, and to illustrate the abstract nature of time.

The Long Trip

1984 • 25 min • Brazil

A trip throught brazilian 60's/70's hippie universe.

First Screening: Computer Poems

1984 • 10 min • Canada

In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen programmed, kinetic poems. He distributed First Screening through Underwhich, an imprint he started in 1979 with a small group of poets. The Underwhich edition of First Screening consisted of 100 numbered and signed copies distributed on 5.25" floppies along with printed matter.

The Meeting

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

An alien decides to find out how much humans actually know about extra-terrestrials. The directorial debut of Mykhailo Titov, a master of chimerical animation of the 80s, is based on the story of the Ukrainian science fiction writer Volodymyr Zayets.

How the First Letter Was Written

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale by Rudyard Kipling.

Ein Bett mit Passagieren

1984 • 25 min • Germany

Short film by Dagmar Knöpfel. Based on a story by Italo Calvino.

The Unfortunate Kafina

1984 • 45 min • Yugoslavia

A musical drama adapted from a play written by Jovan Jovanović-Zmaj.

Kids Corner: Jasper's Hospital Experience

1984 • 20 min • United States of America

A 1984 special from Kids Corner that teaches kids what happens at the hospital.

Twisted Sister: Stay Hungry Tour

1984 • 60 min

Twisted Sister Stay Hungry Tour '84. Twisted Sister Stay Hungry Tour 84 and videos This is Twisted Sister when they ruled the world in 84 on the Stay Hungry Tour with added bonus videos. Track list: 1. Stay Hungry Live 2. The Kids are Back 3. I Wanna Rock 4. Under the Blade 5. Nature of the Beast 6. You Can't Stop Rock n' Roll 7. The Price 8. Stay Hungry 9. Burn in Hell 10. S.M.F. Come Out and Play videos: 1. We're Not Gonna Take It 2. Leader of the Pack 3. I Wanna Rock 4. Be Chrruel to Your School

Harold of Orange

1984 • 33 min

Tribal trickster Harold Sinseer and his Warriors of Orange make an unusual proposal to the white board members of the Bily Foundation. After having received a grant to grow miniature oranges at their Great Lakes region reservation, they now plan to get funds for growing pinch coffee beans and building coffee houses on the reservation.