All Films

In the Blue Sea, in the White Foam...

1984 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Musical fantasy based on Armenian fairy tales.

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are discovered and taken under the wing of rock manager Johnny Tremaine (played by Steven McDonald) who uses them for sex and his own aspirations of wealth. The Love Dolls set out to get revenge on those who have wronged them, and rise to the top of the rock world.

A Man in Your Room

1984 • 6 min

A priest wakes repeatedly from a dream in which he sees attractive, partially-disrobed man in his room. The hypnotic repetition and anxiety of his vision gains tension from the minimalist score.

The Fall of the House of Usher

1984 • 10 min

Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.

The Singing Cowboys

1984 • 9 min • Bulgaria

A little boy is watching a cowboy movie on TV. Suddenly, one of the characters reaches across the screen and steals the child's food. In turn, the boy enters the screen and takes part in the action. The time of the film and reality are mixed.

Hide and Seek

1984 • 57 min • Canada

In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.

Privatdeckarna: Uppdrag Gran Canaria

1984 • 41 min • Sweden

At the Falk Detective Agency every assignment is taken seriously.

Factory: Play at Home

1984 • 51 min • United Kingdom

An examination into Factory Records. The members of New Order interview founders Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett, who speak on the philosophical and cultural purpose of their label, and their associates, who mostly appear frustrated or confused. Rob Gretton, Factory founder and manager of New Order, interviews himself. Also includes three live performances of New Order at the Haçienda.

Incident at Restigouche

1984 • 46 min • Canada

Incident at Restigouche is a 1984 documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restigouche) by the Sûreté du Québec in 1981, as part of the efforts of the Quebec government to impose new restrictions on Native salmon fishermen. Incident at Restigouche delves into the history behind the Quebec Provincial Police (QPP) raids on the Restigouche Reserve on June 11 and 20, 1981. The Quebec government had decided to restrict fishing, resulting in anger among the Micmac Indians as salmon was traditionally an important source of food and income. Using a combination of documents, news clips, photographs and interviews, this powerful film provides an in-depth investigation into the history-making raids that put justice on trial.

Reel Around The Fountain: The Smiths on Tour 1984

1984 • 50 min

A film intended as a tour souvenir for the band, roadies and tour staff was put together in 1984 by sound engineer Grant Showbiz with Jonathan Barnett and Hetty Church using stage, soundcheck and backstage footage filmed on this date.

Evil Madness

1984 • 29 min • Canada

In 1984, Moncerf, a village in the Haute-Gatineau region, is stricken by cases of porphyry, the werewolf disease. Several families evacuate the region, where teenagers who have morphed into wolves may have devoured a sheep and a dog. Some of the residents in Moncerf attribute the apparition of this phenomenon to unemployment and general misery among the youth of the region.

GMM contro Dracula

1984 • 11 min

Castle Dracula, Transylvania. The old Count, tired and disillusioned, is visited by the GMMs who wish to be vampirized in order to live forever. Infected by their diseased blood, Dracula dies. Finally, as he himself says, 'a mourning full of joy'.

Motherwell/Alberti

1984 • 15 min

Motherwell/Alberti explores the artistic connection between Robert Motherwell's Open Series and Rafael Alberti's poetry cycle, A La Pintura. Infatuated with Alberti's text, Motherwell uses his words as the subject for his first venture into aquatints at Tatyana Grosman's printmaking workshop. Historic footage shows Alberti, the last member of the Garcia Lorca generation, reading his poetry aloud. His poetic themes voice an homage to painting, which Motherwell's set of abstract "windows" delicately complements.

Hizoban Higasa no onna

1984 • 56 min • Japan

A shop girl is sold to a military officer as a mistress. She endures his cruelty until she meets an aspiring writer.

Making a Splash

1984 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.

Leopold the Cat Asleep and Awake

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Leopold the Cat sunbathes and reads Robinson Crusoe, while the mice try to scare him. When he falls asleep on the beach, he dreams that he has landed on a desert island.

Steve Martin: Homage to Steve

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

This video contains three segments: First, the Oscar-nominated short The absent-minded waiter (1977), then a fake interview with Steve Martin about his art (comedians-segment) and finally a full live performance from September 28, 1979, at the Universal Ampitheater

Computability: How to Make the Most of Your Home Computer

1984 • 55 min

Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows teach viewers computer terminology, basic functionality and the many common uses of home computers.

A Merry Mirthworm Christmas

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

A Merry Mirthworm Christmas is an animated television special, produced by Perennial Pictures. It premiered on the Showtime Cable Network in 1984. The film features a cast of Mirthworms which are described as cuddly little critters about two inches long, who live in the tiny town of Wormingham.

Mai Inoue: Blue Rape Attacked

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Mai, a high school girl who was raped in a hotel, meets the man again two years later at a hotel on top of a mountain. She hates him! The intensity of her heart turns into a force she cannot control and transforms into SEX energy.

Toto Bissainthe

1984 • 5 min • France, Haiti

A portrait of Haitian singer Toto Bissainthe, whose musical journey is marked by her desire to disseminate creole singing.

Tras el horizonte

1984 • 42 min • Mexico

A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too

Gallagher: Melon Crazy

1984 • 43 min

A concert by stand-up comic Gallagher, featuring his usual plays on words and his patented bizarre use of props, climaxing with his finding a new use for watermelons.

Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War

1984 • 60 min

Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics. The second world war was the perfect vehicle for Coca-Cola distribution (including to the Nazis), with bottling plants on front lines paid for by the US war department.