All Films

Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor, Live in Paris

1984 • 16 min

1984 performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor

A gift for the Elephant

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Observational Hazard

1984 • 4 min • United States of America

Bill Kopp's Student Academy Award-winning animated short film from Calarts, 1984

The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine

1984 • 30 min

The special, a follow-up to the previous installment The Land Without Feelings (from 1983), sees the return of the ten original Bears and the rarely-seen Cloud Keeper, as well as the villain Professor Coldheart. In addition, the special introduces Baby Hugs, Baby Tugs, Grams Bear, and Professor Coldheart's sidekick, Frostbite.

Daydream

1984 • 19 min • South Korea

The Tower

1984 • 10 min • United States of America

In this early work and collaboration between sisters Emily and Georgia, a figure journeys through a bewildering, menacing world. The film was created using a plethora of materials, including color-changing children’s markers and spray paint, and many of the specialized supplies, like cels, cel paint, and grease pencils, were leftovers from their parents’ famed Hubley Studios.

Trickfilmladen Animation

1984 • 1 min • Switzerland

Characters drawn from a graffiti by Keith Haring are dancing to wild breakdance music when a prowling wolf turns up and does everything it can to ruin the party.

The Egg

1984 • 45 min • Poland

It tells a story of a bird-monster from South America originally treated as god by Incas. Long believed to be extinct, due to genetical experiment gone awry its egg fossil hatches and the monster starts to search for females to impregnate.

We Treat Ourselves to the Best

1984 • 25 min

Two couples who travelled together to Mexico watch the footage of their vacation. They laugh at scenes of dropping in on a Mexican family unannounced, frolicking on the beach and bargaining for souvenirs. When the doorbell rings and three Mexicans ask to use the phone, however, the tables are turned and the mood becomes frosty.

Dinosaurs (KABC Special)

1984 • 24 min • United States of America

The first Dinosaurs show starring Eric Boardman and Gary Owens, which aired on ABC on 11/22/1984.

The Double Face of Peter Lorre

1984 • 59 min • Germany

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at the time, whilst such success meant recognition, it also weighed on the Hungarian actor as a constrictive burden. Using photographs and film extracts, Das doppelte Gesicht reconstructs the ups and downs of Lorre's career, taking into consideration the economic imperatives and workings of the film industry at the time. (Arnold Hohmann, 1984)

Piemule

1984 • 43 min • Czechoslovakia

Jakub, The Old Believers, and Piemule are three documentaries about forgotten people by director Jana Sevciková. All three are distributed on the same DVD under the name Old Believers. Piemule offers a close look at the descendants of Czech immigrants in Romania.

And You, Are You Lucky?

1984 • 26 min • Canada

Pierre is a dwarf, as are his parents, who are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. He has difficulty sharing their joy because he is single and lonely and dreams of a normal life.

The Lover of Tales

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

The Thief Lives in Hell

1984 • 19 min • Canada

A man loses his job and starts to tumble. Social assistance awaits him at the first level, a poor neighborhood in the second. In the third, the wildlife of its neighbors affects its mental state. Believing that he has hallucinations in relation to those around him and to restore his objective banality, he begins to film him, secretly, like a thief, from the window of his slum. Once developed, rather than reassuring him, the films will make him go from disarray to psychosis.

Motörhead Live in Toronto

1984 • 50 min

Filmed at Maple Leaf Gardens during the Iron Fist Tour on May 12, 1982. Songs include: Overkill / Heart of Stone / Shoot You in the Back / The Hammer / Jailbait / America / (Don't Need) Religion / Capricorn / (Don't Let 'em) Grind Ya Down / (We Are) The Road Crew / No Class / Bite the Bullet / The Chase is Better Than the Catch / Bomber

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture

1984 • 59 min

In 1982, at the height of the postmodernist adventure in architecture we visit 4 practices: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman – all protégés of Philip Johnson. These innovators rejected the European modernism of Mies and Corbusier in search of alternative directions. Since then their work has made architectural history and has influenced many young architects. Philip Johnson comments throughout the film. The architects show us and discuss their buildings of the time on location and in their offices.

Assaltaram a Gramática

1984 • 12 min

Through performatic acts and some exposition, a group of poets of that 1980's generation make great use of words, poems and rebellious acts criticizing the then current generation and its lack of admiration for the poetic works that were being created.

Lion and Bull

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk.

How the Puppy Was Taught to Swim

1984 • 7 min • Soviet Union

A puppy is taught to swim by a swan, a crayfish and a pike, but nothing comes of it. Puppet cartoon about the benefits of personal experience.

How the Cossacks Celebrated a Wedding

1984 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Tur regrets being single until he meets a charming maiden to whom he promises a new pair of boots. He gets trapped at a witch’s sabbath hosted by the devil, who promises him a pair of boots in exchange for his soul.

Kaiketsu Nōtenki 2: Pure Love in Minato City

1984 • 23 min • Japan

Noutenki faces off against Mecha Noutenki

There is a Demon in the Man's House

1984 • 60 min • Japan

A wealthy old man who has a dull complexion and has to hug a young man every night. The men continue to donate their bodies to the old man's legacy. This abnormally frenzied party eventually heads in an unexpected direction...

Circle Square - It's a Steal!

1984 • 22 min • Canada

The Circle Square Gang learn important lessons about taking something that isn't theirs, and why it's wrong.