All Films

Carrete de verano

1984 • 57 min • Chile

A portrait of the summer vacation of some young Chileans from different socioeconomic statuses during 1984.

Money Makes the Man

1984 • 60 min • Sweden

Hjalle and his colleague get over a large amount of money at a break. This changes their lives to a more luxurious existence, but one day, Hjalle meets a woman who has good contact with God, and this affects Hjalle's conscience ...

Paysage Natal

1984 • 3 min • France

Paysage Natal is a confrontation between a film-maker and the country where he was born. It is also a way of recording with the camera as much information (psychological / emotional) on places once familiar, without contracting a "diary".

Nymph-o-maniac

1984 • 45 min

Morrisroe's longest film, Nymph-O-Maniac, tells the story of a portly phone sex operator and her insatiable girlfriends, one of whom comes to a grisly end at the hands of two sadistic young toughs. One of Morrisroe’s three surviving films (a fourth, centered on the murder of his cat, was censored immediately after it was shown, and has been lost) that all engage with the experimental cinematic language of their time, incorporating elements of horror cinema, a punk ethos, and the outrageousness of artists like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters.

The Last Trip to Harrisburg

1984 • 9 min • Germany

A soldier and a beautiful blonde on a train to Harrisburg.

El lenguaje misterioso

1984 • 53 min

Series of educational short films on cinematographic language made up of: - "The movement" - "The light" - "The noises" - "Music" - "Continuity"

Creation

1984 • 33 min

The first 12 minutes would later be released as "Fountain of Dreams"

In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet

1984 • 52 min • Canada

This feature documentary profiles poet Milton Acorn, who left his home in Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter, and wound up in Toronto as one of Canada's most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures. Dubbed "The People's Poet" by fellow poets, he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1975. Burned out by personal crises, Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981. This film, directed by a P.E.I. filmmaker, brings out Acorn's wit, love of nature, unorthodox political views, and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions.

Moa Moa

1984 • 1 min • Italy

Two lovers are stranded on nearby tropical islands separated by shark-infested waters. How can they get together?

Fela Kuti: Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense

1984 • 59 min

A huge influence on world music, Nigerian artist Fela Kuti played many instruments, pioneered afrobeat music and served as a prominent activist for human rights in Africa. This 1984 documentary examines the life and music of the remarkable man. Using his music to raise awareness, Kuti embraced social justice themes. He died in 1997 of complications from AIDS. Footage from his legendary show in Glastonbury, England, is included.

The Almost Royal Family

1984 • 52 min • United States of America

Family inherits a house on a tiny island between Canada and the US, and is not the jurisdiction of either country.

The Mind of a Murderer: Part 1

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

A look into the mind of one of the Hillside Strangler murderers, Kenneth Bianchi.

On the 8th Day

1984 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A documentary exploring the possible ecological and atmospheric consequences of nuclear war, particularly as they would be expressed in a "nuclear winter."

Elvis Presley’s Graceland

1984 • 56 min

Priscilla Presley takes you through Graceland in 1984. See the mansion as it was when it first opened in 1984.

Epiphany

1984 • 25 min • United Kingdom

By the end of the punk movement in the mid-80s, London’s vibrant club scene had become a source of inspiration. Cerith Wyn Evans’ Epiphany is a colorful documentation of this underground hedonism.

At the Pike's Behest

1984 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool.

Puppy Does the Gumbo

1984 • 5 min

Color UCLA Student Film part of the Animation Workshop, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Collage & Paper Cut animation with live action dance sequences of a boy and his dog turning the world on to the "gumbo" dance. Inspired by the whimsical lyrics of her friend’s funk song of the same name, which was a visual story of a dog traveling to other dimensions.

Черно-белое кино

1984 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Heaven is Real

1984 • 60 min

This spiritual documentary examines the Bible’s take on heaven and hell, as well as the mysteries that surround these eternal locations.

Made for TV

1984 • 15 min • United States of America

Combining Rubnitz’s skillful manipulation of the familiar “look” of TV shows with an extraordinary range of characters, performer Ann Magnuson convincingly impersonates the array of female types seen on TV in a typical broadcast day. From glitzy to drab, from friendly housewife to desperate evangelist, Magnuson is a one-woman universe appearing on every channel, the star of every program—giving her all as the chameleon woman who is always on display.

The Cost of Treachery

1984 • 49 min • United Kingdom

In 1949, at the height of the Cold War, the British and American Governments decided to fight back at the growing Soviet Empire with a secret plan, the Albanian Subversion, in which the CIA and MI6 attempted to overthrow the Albanian government and to weaken the Soviet Union and the role of double agent Kim Philby.

Bearskin, or The Man Who Didn't Wash for Seven Years

1984 • 19 min • United States of America

A soldier can not return home after he leaves the army, and can not find a job. Desperation drives him to make a deal with the Devil, who makes a bet with him. For the next seven years, he will carry a purse of gold that's always full. However, he must wear a bearskin and neither pray nor wash nor cut his hair in all that time. If he survives, he can keep the purse, but if he dies, the Devil gets his soul.

Image Noise (Osmin's Windows)

1984 • 26 min • France

"...the main thing, both during filming and during editing, was not to pay attention, simply to wait to be surprised by a detail and let myself be carried away to another visualization in a dance-like movement."

Les Sylphides

1984 • 30 min

Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.