All Films

The Little Donkey's Dream

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A little donkey dreams of becoming a butterfly.

Ponaroshka

1984 • 11 min

Friends help a puppy nicknamed Ponaroshka.

Prisoners of Incest

1984 • 55 min

Docudrama examining the effects of incest on a family - the secrecy, guilt, fear, and lack of communication that distort the structure of a family's relationships and make them prisoners.

Thaumatropes

1984 • 7 min • Belgium, France

The 16th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. Mr Seymour, the hero of the book by London doctor Mr Paris, shows his invention – the thaumatrope – to a little girl and explains how it works. The superimposition of the images is not perfect, so he invents the use of elastic instead of the usual string. Only by recording the two successive images of the thaumatrope on a title bench can they be viewed perfectly. Numerous examples are shown.

No More Hiroshima

1984 • 26 min • Canada

This short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film follows them on their mission to New York as representatives of the Japanese Peace Movement at the second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament held in June 1982.

More and More Love

1984 • 60 min • Japan

The story of a popular singer who finds love, the journalist who exposes him, the hysterical reactions of his Christian parents, his fear that he has caught AIDS and his supportive gay friends. The film is a strong indictment of the negative effect Christianity has had on Japanese society.

Let Me Take Your Dog for a Walk

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

It's like can I invite you for polonaise but only with a dog instead.

Nada Será como Antes, Nada?

1984 • 43 min • Brazil

...discussion of leftist attitudes towards democracy and popular movements; in parallel, a discussion about the role of militant cinema in relation to real political struggles.

The Real Presence

1984 • 59 min • France

Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of the Festival d'Avignon. This became a fiction about the theater because if I had filmed the actual performances at Avignon I would have had to respect their staging, I would not be able to change anything. As such, I wouldn't be doing anything more than a retransmission of Antenne 2 or FR3. And since a lot would have to be paid for rights to each play, it would end up costing as much as a fiction feature. So it is a story about the theater, a bit Rivette-ish. I shot all the exteriors in Avignon, the interiors in Paris a few days later and I finish the film next Tuesday."

Risto Jarva, My Colleague

1984 • 59 min • Finland

Finnish TV documentary featuring archival interview footage of Jarva and clips from his films

Кубик и Тобик

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Animals are trying to share children's toys.

The Guest

1984 • 9 min • France

A character lives alone in a hut in the forest. One day, tired of waiting in vain for someone to visit him, he decides to leave his hut.

Corduroy

1984 • 16 min • United States of America

CORDUROY (Live Action--Based on the book by Don Freeman) Corduroy longs for someone to take him home from the department store. He thinks that finding his lost button may help, so he searchers the store when no one is around. Will Corduroy find the button on his adventure?

Bear - Lime Leg

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A clumsy bear gets stuck in a beehive. Who will help him? On the plot of a Russian folk tale.

Talk Talk - ZDF Rock Pop in Concert

1984 • 40 min

Talk Talk play at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, a concert that was televised on the German TV show Rock Pop

Well, Just You Wait! 14

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Volk tries to make amends with Zayats but it doesn't go as planned. Some other time he follows Zayats to a science fair, but finds there something he won't be able to handle.

43/84: 1984

1984 • 2 min

Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture, but the viewfinder did not match the lens entirely so that the television screen in the picture was very little. That was not the plan, but Kren decided to "adopt" the film in the end.

Welcome Home, Jellybean

1984 • 45 min • United States of America

A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.

Doctor Who: The Wrath of Eukor

1984 • 30 min • United States of America

The Doctor regenerates in London, 1911, but there's no time to rest. In this fan production she meets her new companion, chimney sweep Carl Evans, and they set off to 1980s Seattle. There, Vietnam war veterans living in an urban park are mysteriously disappearing by the day; what's the cause? And could it be as alien as the Doctor herself?

Barres

1984 • 14 min • France

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.

The Bells of Fraggle Rock

1984 • 25 min

Gobo thinks the Fraggles' own Solstice holiday, the Festival of the Bells, is a big waste of time. Despite Cantus' warnings, Gobo goes on a journey to find out if the mythical Great Bell at the heart of Fraggle Rock is real. When the Rock slows down in the winter, the Fraggles hold the Festival of the Bells to make sure it keeps moving. As part of the celebration, they ring bells to awaken the Great Bell at the heart of the Rock. They also dress up as a Weebabeast, who used to guard the Great Bell when the Rock was small. Meanwhile, Doc and Sprocket explore mid-winter holiday traditions from around the world.

Vibration

1984 • 3 min • Japan

"A flicker film made using only intense shock-zooms, Vibration is one of a series of films Matsumoto made in the 1980s that explored proprioception through a mixture of minimalist effects and modernist architecture." - filmlinc.org

The Discovery

1984 • 18 min • East Germany

A little bumblebee is tired of her daily routine and the other boring bumblebees. She flies to the place of her dreams and meets a frog who is also seeking something new. Despite their differences, the two animals become friends and start their adventure together. This children’s animation film was a success in East German cinemas. Older viewers, however, saw it as a metaphor for their longing to escape – daily life, or even their walled-in country.

Thin Walls

1984 • 12 min

Comedy short.