All Films

Juego decisivo

1984 • 10 min • Spain

Two pairs of young desnoyed 'yuppies' meet at the house of one of them for the weekend. Wanting to break with the usual monotony, they decide to play a game of chess, but with an incentive, the winner will sleep with the other's wife.

House No.42

1984 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

A yellowish black and white photo of a city square from the late 19th century. At one point everything in it comes alive – people at café tables, women in windows, passers-by. They all become part of a lively street scene.

Razor Head

1984 • 4 min • United States of America

One man shaves another in this highly charged erotic performance.

Back Inside Herself

1984 • 4 min • United States of America

A visual poem on identity. Crafted from one of S. Pearl’s poems, it encourages women to reject imposed beauty standards and invent their own identity. Featuring actress Barbara-O. The version has an audio remix with vocals by Sharp and Dwight Trible. 1984 & 2009 4 min.

American Dreams (Lost and Found)

1984 • 55 min • Canada, United States of America

Scrolling excerpts from the diary of George Wallace's would-be assassin Arthur Bremer at screen bottom, Hank Aaron cards and ephemera from his entire career up top, and alternating audio clips of popular songs and highlights from the news throughout Aaron's career.

Stadt in Flammen

1984 • 5 min • Germany

Film material is subjected to biochemical processes by burying it in the garden, storing it in a pond, or overheating it. The results of these natural processes of decay or aging are then copied back onto film and thus conserved in the state of their dissolution. - Lightcone

Highway Hypnosis

1984 • 60 min

The Los Angeles freeway killer takes a drive to Las Vegas—and back. This video by Ken Camp is both trancelike and troubling, taking the viewer across the desert of California, through Nevada, and into “the frightening zone where lay the genetic codes and memories that make us all killers.”

Our Travel

1984 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Amateur footage of a young couple on a trip.

Madness the Pilot

1984 • 12 min

The ska band is elected as the new British government and they move the cabinet to Camden.

Powell Peralta: The Bones Brigade Video Show

1984 • 30 min

From 1979 to 1983, skateboarding went though its first “dark age”. Popularity plunged, and most skaters ditched the sport. Then came the first of the famous Bones Brigade videos by Powell Peralta. It was filmed at the beginning of the 1980's skateboard boom and intended to show new skaters what had been going on in the sport. The Bones Brigade Video Show is definitely old school, and definitely rad. Packed with low riding & sliding action, pink shirts, high shorts, and the top names in skateboarding at the time and even today. The soundtrack, filming, everything - this is one of the best.

Horror Heaven

1984 • 22 min • Germany

Jörg Buttgereit himself plays a TV horror show presenter, introducing the audience to a variety of "Horror classics”. These are of course all short Super 8 films and he shows here his versatility as a filmmaker. The short pieces are all made in 1984 and range from a spoof on the Mummy to a Frankenstein parody, to an amazingly well-crafted stop-motion animated Godzilla-like monster pic called GAZORRA (starring Daktari Lorenz from NEKROMANTIK) to a down and dirty girl-fights-off-violent-rapist segment named CANNIBAL GIRL. Hilarious horror comedy!

Il colore delle tenebre

1984 • 12 min

In love with a mortal, the demon Aguares has lost his speech and speaks by emitting colors. When her beloved is nearing her end, Aguares sets out in vain search for the cellular regenerator capable of granting her immortality.

Te Rerenga Wairua

1984 • 16 min • New Zealand

The spirit of a person killed in a motorway accident runs through forest and beaches on its journey to Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Rēinga). En route it meets tourist buses and other spirits, before reaching the gnarly pohutukawa and making the leap towards Hawaiki-Nui.

The Role of Chance

1984 • 53 min • France

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.

Myth Makers 1: Michael Wisher

1984 • 28 min • United Kingdom

Many fans will best remember the late Michael Wisher for his definitive performance as Davros, creator of the Daleks. In truth Michael was the most gifted of actors, a chameleon who could transform his voice and appearance, and who worked many times in Doctor Who during the 1970’s. Michael loved his time in the programme and appeared in several spin-off dramas including Wartime and Shakedown. In this special production we recall Michael’s life and career in the company of Nicholas Briggs, Peter Miles, and Michael’s son, Andy.

El bohío

1984 • 9 min • Cuba

Through the presence of a shack, this animation refers to fundamental moments of Cuban history (colonization, wars of independence, Yankee intervention, an obstructed republic and the Revolution).

Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage

1984 • 40 min • France

Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”

Shunters

1984 • 21 min • East Germany

A shunter's job is to slow down, link, and unlink train wagons at a central station. The film documents - without any commentary - the working hours of few shunters at the shunting-station Dresden-Friedrichstadt, which was the largest such station in all of the former German Democratic Republic. They work day and night, amidst snow and fog at the railway tracks, speaking only as much as necessary.

Nice

1984 • 26 min • United Kingdom

A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy.

Black Flag: Live

1984 • 57 min

Henry Rollins and the rest of the infamous punk band Black Flag take the stage in this head-slamming 1984 concert, recorded live at the Bier Keller in Bradford, England. Rollins rocks out with bandmates Greg Ginn, Kira Roessler and Bill Stevenson on some of the group's most legendary hits, including "Black Coffee," Rat's Eyes," "Nervous Breakdown," "Fix Me," "Jealous Again," "My War" and "I Love You."

Añoranzas

1984 • 9 min • Spain

A woman, a diary. A world of reminiscences, dreams, childhood. The longing for the past, for the things you could not take back.

Tove and the Sea

1984 • 30 min • Finland

Artist and author Tove Jansson talks about her thoughts and life at home on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki and in her cottage in the outer archipelago.

The Family of Chimps

1984 • 55 min • Netherlands

A subtle account of the chimpanzees' behaviour in Burgers Dierenpark in Arnhem, on the occasion of the publication of the book Chimpansee Politiek by ethologist Dr. Frans de Waal. A unique experiment shows us how complex the social strategies in the community of this fascinating anthropoid ape are. Haanstra managed to capture almost all aspects of chimpanzee behaviour: display of skill, teasing and pestering, grooming, resting, playing, motherly behaviour, submission, sex and violence. Eventually, the film was also screened to the apes.

Meet Grandma

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The cartoon tells about an ordinary family, where the mother constantly talks on the phone, the father watches TV, and the child, whom no one cares for, throws toys around. Everything changes with the arrival of a grandmother from another city. The family receives her coldly. Only the grandson is happy about her arrival. But as if by magic, order comes into the house, things are put in their places, the dishes are washed in the kitchen, and how delicious the food and pies are from grandma! The parents now argue less among themselves, the son is well-groomed and cheerful. But the grandmother leaves as suddenly as she arrived, and now her arrival is awaited with great impatience, and even the mother hopes that the mother-in-law will stay with them longer.