All Films

Hyster Pulsatu

1984 • 20 min

Video art by Jaap Drupsteen

Little Chicken

1984 • 6 min • Soviet Union

When and where this was is unknown. Only one day at dawn, a chicken, as soon as it was born, called the sun its mother.

17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"

1984 • 12 min • France

Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country

1984 • 26 min • France, Venezuela

Documentary in four parts on Latin American cinema. Third episode: from the 1960s, France and Europe showed a real enthusiasm for Latin American cinema, but the latter remained hampered by numerous economic and political obstacles.

Unruhe

1984 • 19 min • East Germany

During a routine visit to an acquaintance, an old, single Sorbian woman reflects on her life.

Citron pressé au Blue Bar

1984 • 12 min • France

The banner of the Cannes Festival shows its three premises: glory, money and politics. If you film the banal, the naive and the superficial of the atmosphere in Cannes at that time, it is for nothing more than to rescue the beauty of the water of its sea.

Wooden Tableware

1984 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Aging and family memories, grandfather, son and grandson.

Race Against Prime Time

1984 • 60 min

This classic case study in media bias examines how the three network affiliates covered urban unrest in Miami's predominantly African American Liberty Hill neighborhood, following the 1980 acquittal of police officers for the killing of a local resident; how it framed the uprising as "riots," chose the community's "spokespersons" and focused on the inconvenience to white commuters.

The Mind of a Murderer: Part 2

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

A look at the trial and the use of psychiatric evidence in the criminal proceedings of mass murderer 'The Hillside Strangler' Kenneth Bianchi.

Saving Mother

1984 • 55 min • China

Another classic film from Shanghai Animation Film Studio, "Saving Mother" was one of the most popular animations in China. The story is based on the traditional Chinese folklore about a boy named Chen Xiang. His mother was a goddess and his father a mortal. His uncle, Erlang Shen, punished Chen Xiang's parents because their marriage was against the rules of the heavens. Chen Xiang's mother was locked in a mountain until her son split the mountain and saved her.

Blue Movie

1984 • 3 min

The somnambulist caressed by shadows disappears into light. Doppelgänger in blue.

The Master of the Winds

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on a Nenets fairy tale about how the Master of the Winds punished a greedy sister and helped a kind one.

Three Jolly Fellows

1984 • 30 min • Soviet Union

“Three Jolly Fellows” tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, the irritable city dweller Halfshoe, and the sensitive poet Muff. An old woman’s inexplicable love of cats has lured many felines to the city. Risking their lives, the diligent and ready-to-help fellows lure the gang of cats out of the city, with the result being trouble in both the city and nature.

Catch the Golden Ring

1984 • 18 min

USC student film by Elizabeth Storer which won fourth place and the Women in Film award at the 1984 FOCUS Awards

Flash That Smile

1984 • 16 min

In 1984, a fashionable young woman spontaneously lectures her friend about good oral hygiene. Produced by the American Dental Association.

A Special Letter

1984 • 5 min

This gentle tribute, in animated form, celebrates the courage and enduring faith of a mother. The filmmaker resolves her feelings of impatience towards an aged mother while recalling their shared wartime experiences in a concentration camp. Through shimmering sepia images and an evocative musical score, the film shows that the gift of life can be reciprocated as the aging parent becomes the child.

Ma'loul Celebrates Its Destruction

1984 • 33 min • Belgium, Palestinian Territory

Since the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948, countless Palestinian villages have been erased from the map. This film uses poignant images of bombardments, destroyed buildings, and disfigured people to illustrate this. All that remains are ruins, bearing silent witness in the landscape. Ma'Loul, just west of Nazareth, is one such ruined village. It was inhabited principally by Palestinian Christians, who were forced to leave in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence. A detailed painting still bears testimony to the existence of the village, which had seen Jewish, Roman, Ottoman, and Palestinian rulers come and go since ancient times. But Ma'Loul also lives on in the memories of its former -- now elderly -- inhabitants, who tell the story of exactly what happened.

Lucy

1984 • 47 min • Germany

Lucy, the alleged missing aunt of the filmmaker Verena Rudolph, emigrated from a village in Lower Bavaria to America in 1934. Since then, she has never heard of her again. Fifty years later, Rudolph, armed with a Bolex camera and a tape recorder, heads to New York to search for her aunt.

Quadro a Quadro - Newton Cavalcanti

1984 • 10 min • Brazil

"The artist's statement, in his studio, where he traces the different phases of his work. Newton Cavalcanti speaks of his foray into painting, his concern with subtleties and color variations, the variety of themes he addresses and the vehicles he uses. is valid to manifest your art."

Hooray for Sandbox Land

1984 • 12 min

Animated short by Marv Newland

The Music of Satyajit Ray

1984 • 51 min • India

Based on interviews with Ray himself, and packed with clips from his films, as well as rare-to-come-by footage of his recording sessions, the documentary follows Satyajit Ray’s journey as a music director and composer of his own work on screen.

Kamenné varhany

1984 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia

Guided by a mysterious pink butterfly, a teenage boy discovers a gigantic organ hidden in a cave full of strange creatures.

Flower of the Night

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Rudi Dörfert

1984 • 14 min • Germany

Short film by SCHMELZDAHIN