All Films

Jonah, or the Artist at Work

1984 • 35 min • Soviet Union

A painter lives with his wife and four children in a studio. Due to creative frustrations and the irritation of admirers and hangers-on he becomes increasingly reclusive, finally sealing himself away in the attic. Based on an Albert Camus story.

Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster

1984 • 50 min • United Kingdom

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

George Carlin: On Campus

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

George Carlin hits the boards with the former Hippie-Dippie Weatherman's take on Brooklynese pronunciations of the names of sexually transmitted disease ("hoipes"), plus a prayer for the separation of church and state, feuds between breakfast foods, and the absurdity of wearing jungle camouflage in a desert.

Fatima

1984 • 60 min

This 60-minute documentary uses the reported miracle at Fatima in 1917 as a springboard for an examination of the relationship between religion and science in the 20th century. Participants include: Pope John Paul II, James H. Billington, philosopher Paul Kurtz, and writers Malcolm Muggaridge and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. It is hosted by Ricardo Montalban.

Bedrooms

1984 • 60 min • United States of America

Tales of love and marriage are spun in four short adult comedy stories.

Dangerous Knowledge

1984 • 30 min • Sweden

Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by artists such as Dürer, Grünewald, Holbein the Younger, Hans Weiditz, Sebald Beham and Hans Baldung.

W.A.S.P. | Live at the Lyceum, London

1984 • 57 min • United States of America

In September and October of 1984, within weeks of the release of their self-titled debut album, W.A.S.P. undertook their first headline World Tour, taking them to England, Europe, and Japan. This Video was shot at London's famous Lyceum on Monday, September 24, 1984, in front of a capacity crowd.

Ah, Amerika!

1984 • 30 min • Hungary

Documentary with animated sequences about that massive Hungarian exodus to the US which went on from the end of 19th century till the outbreak of WW1. The history of the nameless crowds presented in the film submerged under the surface of official history.

Bad Cat

1984 • 23 min • United States of America

Bad Cat (voiced by Bart Braverman) is a lively cat who sets out to prove that a feline does not need to be tough to have class.

Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros

1984 • 60 min • Portugal

The movie centers around the rape ritual of a minor by four young men, with the intention of freeing one of them of his past relationship with the girl.

Svatohor

1984 • 30 min • Czechoslovakia

This animated puppet film based on Russian folk tales tells the story of the hero Svätohor and his battle with the dragon Goryn Gorynych.

Love Cycle: A Soap Operetta

1984 • 28 min • United States of America

A ghost appears from a laundromat dryer seeking vengeance against her husband for leaving her for another woman.

Chameleon

1984 • 7 min • Canada

An animated allegory densely packed with fast-moving images, this film is about fear. A dissenter masks his true colours. Chameleon-like, he blends in with his surroundings. Because he lacks the courage to act on his beliefs, he cheats himself and others. He dies as he has lived, unnoticed.

Birthday

1984 • 45 min • Soviet Union

Follows the grandson minds his own business, forgetting about his grandmother.

Abortion: Stories from North and South

1984 • 55 min • Canada, Colombia, Ireland, Japan, Peru, Thailand

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.

Pot of Porridge

1984 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Automated porridge production system provides the city with food for 3 years.

Dead Endless

1984 • 12 min • Japan

Rhiannon

1984 • 48 min • Yugoslavia

A TV drama based on work by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas.

These blessed children

1984 • 32 min

Bjössi, an eight year old living with his divorced mother reflects on the past when his father was still with them.

Opera Vertical

1984 • 27 min • France

Vertical Opera is a documentary film directed by Jean-Paul Janssen, with climbers Patrick Edlinger and Jean-Paul Lemercier in the Gorges du Verdon. The film opens with a training sequence of Patrick Edlinger then he links the routes with Jean-Paul Lemercier "L'Ange en décongelation" (7a), in which he falls voluntarily to demonstrate the usefulness of the rope, then "Le Septième Saut" (7b+). Finally, the final scene, an anthology, consists of a close-up of Edlinger who climbs free solo and barefoot the route "Débiloff", still in the Verdon, above hundreds of meters of void, all to lyrical music. It is "Wie Furchtsam Wankten Meine Schritte", the aria for alto voice from Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata BWV 33, music not unrelated to the subject of the documentary: "How faltering and fearful my steps were".

Oda kaoru sen'nyū taiken repōto shinjukukabukichō

1984 • 45 min • Japan

A reporter goes undercover the red-light district of Kabukicho, Shinjuku, and experiences a first-hand experience of the entertainment industry, which takes an unexpected turn...

Hotel New York

1984 • 53 min • United States of America

A comedy about New York and its eccentric inhabitants. A French filmmaker comes to New York to show her film at MOMA. Fascinated by the city, she decides to stay.

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

1984 • 10 min • Czechoslovakia, United States of America

An adaptation of the book by Verna Aardema

King Crimson: The Noise (Live at Frejus)

1984 • 51 min • United States of America

A concert by King Crimson recorded at the Arena Frejus, France on August 27th, 1982. Track Listing: Waiting Man, Matte Kudasai, The Sheltering Sky, Neil and Jack and Me, Indiscipline, Heartbeat, Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II and more.