All Films

I Want the Moon

1984 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The sick princess promises the king to recover if he gets the moon from the sky. A resourceful buffoon easily finds a way out.

Hishoku rîsuzuma

1984 • 58 min • Japan

Return to Waterloo

1984 • 60 min • United Kingdom

A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1984 • 46 min • Australia

The adventures of a teen-aged boy and his friend, a runaway slave, as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Waterbag

1984 • 7 min • Ireland

A precursor to Reefer and the Model, Waterbag involves the relationship between two fishermen and a pregnant woman, and ends with an apparently self-induced miscarriage.

The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'

1984 • 51 min

A documentary following the various stages in the production of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot 2

1984 • 4 min • Japan

The second of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

A Matter of Principle

1984 • 53 min • United States of America

A miserable man who doesn't believe in the holidays must contend with his 11 children and wife celebrating the most wonderful time of the year.

Love Skills: A Guide to the Pleasures of Sex

1984 • 56 min • United States of America

Every man and woman has the potential to experience lovemaking at its best. All you need is desire. Love Skills shows you how to express it. This carefully produced documentary is introduced by Joshua S. Golden, M.D., the directory of U.C.L.A 's Human Sexuality program, who, along with a prestigious team of doctors, counselors and therapists has designed a unique way for people to expand their sexual horizons.

The Adventures of André and Wally B.

1984 • 2 min • United States of America

There's nothing like a restful nap in a pleasant wooded valley. But when André awakens and is greeted by a pesky yellow-and-black striped insect with a nasty stinger, he ends up taking a quick (and painful) hike.

Attack of the Budworm

1984 • 4 min

Educational film on the insect pest. Created at a children's animation workshop run by David Ehrlich & Wilson Lazaretti.

Street Trash

1984 • 15 min • United States of America

The original 16mm short film which inspired the film of the same name

Train of Thought

1984 • 58 min • Japan, United Kingdom

Anthology music film starring Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya. It takes place on a train intercut with a series of flashbacks or daydreams which serve as long-form music videos.

Juuroku-sai no Graffiti

1984 • 56 min • Japan

A MAKING OF 愛情物語/ Curtain Call, narrated by Harada Tomoyo.

Space Sheriff Shaider: The Movie

1984 • 24 min • Japan

An alien assassin, Omega, who makes a living by hunting down Space Sheriffs, arrives on Earth. Adapting a helmet, twin shoulder cannons, and other weapons into his fighting style after losing to Gavan and Sharivan, Omega is now targeting Shaider and challenges him to a fight to the death. Space Sheriff Shaider is the film adaptation of the Metal Heroes series of the same name. This movie takes place between episodes 19 & 20 of the TV show.

Ryoko Watanabe - Lesbian Stewardess

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Veteran stewardess Ryoko tries to relax in her apartment the night prior to embarking on an overseas airplane flight. Her co-worker, a nervous novice stewardess named Yoshikawa, comes over unexpectedly and the pair partake in a torrid lesbian encounter. Matters get complicated when Ryoko's boyfriend Hiroshi, who Ryoko invited over earlier, also shows up looking for sex.

Radio City Fantasy

1984 • 52 min • Japan

Hiroshi is a high school student who dreams of one day writing a children's book. But knowing that dreams need money to become a reality, he works hard and saves for the day when he can be a writer. A chance meeting with Hiroko on the subway leads to love and is vital in helping him finally realise his ambitions.

Simulation Exercise

1984 • 30 min • United Kingdom

'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice then he knew.

Kinnikuman: Great Riot! Justice Chojin

1984 • 48 min • Japan

When Bibimbap, the last daughter of the Horumon Clan falls in love with Kinnikuman during her mission to assassinate him, her father Horumon Yaki enlists the aide of Shishkeba Boo of the Barbecue Clan, promising him Bibimba's hand in marriage. Shishkeba Boo himself has joined forces with the "Dark Monarch" Black Emperor, who looks to destroy Kinnikuman.

Jumping

1984 • 6 min • Japan

A boy walks down the street and as he goes along his strides increase. Eventually he leaps over towns, forests, and oceans, seeing many things and surprising many people along the way.

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

1984 • 58 min • France, United States of America, Germany

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).

Benriya K-ko

1984 • 60 min • Japan

Herbicide Trials

1984 • 49 min • Canada

In 1983, fifteen Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, landowners went to court to stop the spraying of herbicides by the local subsidiary of a Swedish multinational on forests adjacent to their properties. They found that the testimony of scientists and the support of public opinion, both here and abroad, were not enough to win their case. The film shows their ordeal and the landmark Sydney trial. Concerns raised included potential conflict-of-interest situations where a government must protect citizens' health while supporting certain kinds of industry; the relative value of the political and judicial processes in mediating social problems; and the need for a public forum for debating environmental issues. The film contains outstanding footage from chemical-industry films of the 1950s and recent material about Vietnam veterans affected by Agent Orange.

Real Inside

1984 • 12 min • Canada

Hopeful job candidate Buck Boom is dynamic, forceful, confident and creative. But can he convince Mr. Mudgin, the personnel manager, to hire him? You see, Boom is an animated character in a live-action world and Mudgin is not used to dealing with someone who is different.