All Films

Imagining October

1984 • 27 min

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Britain. The title refers to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda film October: Ten Days That Shook the World 1928. The project began during a trip to the Soviet Union sponsored by the British Film Institute in October 1984. Jarman was invited to present The Tempest in Moscow and Baku with fellow filmmaker Sally Potter and film theorist Peter Wollen and asked in return to make a short film for the London Film Festival in November.

Speed

1984 • 25 min • United States of America

A documentary on the history on mankind's attempts to reach high speeds. Starting with the invention of the bicycle, going on to sports cars, cars with jet engines, rocket-powered cars, attempts to break the sound barrier, and rocket-engine airplanes. Each achievement is documented by title card indicating the speed reached in miles per hour.

Kate Asabuki: The Woman in the Peep Room Part 2, Sexy Doll

1984 • 30 min • Japan

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Fine Line

1984 • 46 min • United States of America

Lee’s award-winning thesis film for NYU parallels a young man running from the Mafia and a young woman hiding from the INS, and its blend of the comic and the melodramatic sets the tone for the first feature films to follow. The title refers to Manhattan’s Canal Street, which separates Chinatown from Little Italy.

The Pilot

1984 • 23 min

Although Carla is a very gifted break-dancer, her insecurities prevent her from displaying this in public. In order to help break her fear she puts on a mask and becomes "The Pilot."

Koichiro Uno's Wet and Swinging

1984 • 55 min • Japan

A high school girl has a crush on the leader of the girls tennis team. But off court she always ends up scoring with the boys. A parody of Aim for the Ace! (エースを狙え Ace wo nerae!?), a tennis manga.

The Kabocha Wine - Nita's Love Story

1984 • 24 min • Japan

Nita, a dog that lives in Sunshine Academy's student dormitory, brings home with him a puppy that suspiciously looks like him—this sends everyone into an uproar as it is eventually concluded that Nita likely had a puppy with somebody else. Elle, Shunsuke, and the others collaborate with one another to take care of it, but a delinquent biker boy named Takizawa uses this opportunity to trick Elle into joining him on his yacht for nefarious purposes. Shunsuke & the others, having realized this, rush in to save Elle from Takizawa before it's too late.

Trasformazione

1984 • 4 min

Short film produced at a children's animation workshop.

C.q.

1984 • 60 min

Life changes dramatically for radio amateur Norman when he gets in touch with a round-the-world yachtsman who introduces him to a different life - and a taste of fame.

Zyklopen-Uschi

1984 • 36 min • Germany

1998: After being committed to a drunkard's home by her friend Uschi, Edith is released 16 years later. Now she can finally take revenge on Uschi - by mixing mutation powder into her drink. But things turn out differently than expected! By coincidence, the two get into a timeslip and Uschi wins millions in the lottery, which she uses to buy a house with her mother and husband. Strange things start to happen there after the mutation powder takes effect...

Slimming Down

1984 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Mr. Shrigley, a small businessman dealing in office equipment, believes that the recession happens to other people. Unfortunately he is wrong, and, when it catches up with him, he comes up with a plan for some unusual cutbacks.

The Dress

1984 • 22 min • United Kingdom

A BAFTA award winning drama about a mistake when buying a dress for his mistress leads Howard to look again at his wife.

The Cry

1984 • 50 min

Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?

Cheeseball Presents

1984 • 60 min

A raunchy sketch comedy special created by and starring members of the Groundlings comedy troupe.

Monaco Forever

1984 • 29 min

An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery.

Choudenshi Bioman: The Movie

1984 • 45 min • Japan

Bioman must rescue two boys who possess an ancient treasure map that leads to Biobase, making them targeted by Gear.

The Snowman

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

Child Proof

1984 • 2 min • United States of America

A sickly elephant father struggles to open a jar of aspirin.

Story of White Coat: Indecent Acts

1984 • 56 min • Japan

A trainee has dream is to become a nurse and live a comfortable life. But that dream turns into a nightmare when she becomes the object of obsession for the sex crazed son of a major shareholder at the hospital where she works. When he is admitted to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, no nurse is safe! Will she escape his clutches or will she finally succumb to his amorous appetite?

Peter Frampton: Live In Brazil

1983 • 51 min

Peter Frampton Live In Brazil 1983 Setlist: 01. Introduction 02. Don't Think About Me 03. An Eye For An Eye 04. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) 05. Baby, I Love Your Way 06. Show Me The Way (Yacht In Rio) 07. Do You Feel Like We Do 08. Guitar Solo 09. (I'll Give You) Money 10. I'm In You 11. Band Introduction / Breaking All The Rules The Band: Peter Frampton - Vocals & Lead Guitar John Regan - Bass Harry Stinson - Drums Mark Goldemberg - Guitar

Chanoyu

1983 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

Quotes from Okakura’s The Book of Tea are a connecting tissue and the tea ceremony is a dramatic scene of juxtaposing personal and public space in the video work of Sanja Iveković and Dalibor Martinis. Opposed to the stylized and highly spiritual-meditative dimension of the Japanese ritual, the omnipresent background of its metaphorically impregnated and pseudo-narrative staging of the Croatian artists is a TV image. The order of objects and the peace of the tea drinkers is penetrated by chaos; the calm ritual is turning into a drama...

Deutschlandbilder

1983 • 60 min • Germany

This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The Will To Live" (1944) that preceded the feature films in German movie theaters between 1933 and 1945. The shorts reveal that men and women workers were idealized, uniformity was stressed, optimism in the face of adversity was the goal, and, in general, all the classic lies that dictatorships use to control and mold their citizens are featured.

Sibling Arrival

1983 • 3 min

A coarse but intimate documentary of birth. The eight year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.

The October Garden

1983 • 10 min • United States of America

After a farmer accidentally shoots a child, he buries the body in his garden. To avenge this crime against nature, the garden comes to life. Winner of over ten awards in international film festivals as an official entry representing the United States.