Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Solo for a big city in the age of speed, when everything is at the point of vanishing. Only fleeting impressions remain.

Woman or myth? Dream or reality? Quietly searching the secret gardens of her mind, a woman explores her past and discovers her present. Man, child, cat--all are travellers through her life. Shimmering, opalescent, Still Point, an evocative voyage into an elusive soulscape, is an animation film that awakens feelings buried in one's own subconscious world.

Mushrooms are deceiving. They can play tricks with your head. In this animation film, mushrooms are a powerful metaphor. Their metamorphosis suggests that life is a vast "food chain." If this is indeed our reality, can we, the consumers, escape being consumed? A film that serves up a riveting "plat du jour.

A young girl dressed in white rolls runs and eats watermelons with abandon. The camera follows the girl's gestures incessantly. Occasional inserts such as a red umbrella, a necklace or three men pulling down their trousers, give the film a unique image of a female artist and the heroine's vibrant body. Yuko Ishimaru, who plays the leading role, is an indispensable figure in Hokkaido's independent film scene.

There is a nationwide epidemic of "the symptom of running through time", in which a person's body suddenly begins to flash in and out of existence, becoming faster and faster until it finally disappears. As a countermeasure, the high school's health club started a daily treadmill exercise program to encourage regularity. This film is a sincere question by the 17-year-old filmmaker about the meaning of his own existence and the society in which he lives.

A short cine-calligraphy animation.

Many have moved to the cities in search of a better life, but Ana remained in the village.

A hardworking farmer wins a free holiday at a sea resort. For the first time in his life, Mikolaš can rest and relax in peace. A satire about agricultural policy and social differences.

"[This] is my first attempt to construct a video piece using one set of generative intervals for both sound and color. All of the color in the piece is orchestrated in brightness ‘octaves’ corresponding to the registration of the pitches in the soundtrack. Each hue from a circle of twelve corresponds to one of the pitches of a tempered scale. The articulation of the piece consists of a series of loudness and brightness ripples which move across the piece in speed relationships derived from the hue and pitch proportions. The image content, or the ‘instruments’ through which the colors resonate, are an alphabetical set of identifying symbols for 32 of the largest corporations in the world." - Bob Snyder

A documentary reconstruction of the events of June 1956 in Poznań based on accounts of witnesses and participants of the strike as well as security service employees. The picture is dominated by photographic and film archives from state resources and unique materials from private collections.

Spies have too many eyes looking out where they don't belong. (3/4 in. video; color)

Footage of the gradual installation and deinstallation of a private exhibition of calligraphic self-portraits hung on the gate of a cramped backyard is intercut with a short shot cut from a family film showing a close-up of a child's face in an open landscape. In contrast, the face of the adult artist is not visible; even his body gradually disappears under the layers of sketches.

Pearl Bowser (born 1931) is an author, television director, film director, producer, and film archivist. At the time of the program, she was the director of Chamba Educational Film Services. She is the author of a book on the first ten years of the career of Oscar Micheaux and is credited for having helped rediscover some of Oscar Micheaux's rare surviving films. She is the founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of visual and oral histories that documents the history of African-American filmmaking.

A film is ceremonially screened on the 40th anniversary of the murder of the resistance group around KPD (Communist Party of Germany) functionary Georg Schuman. Present is Horst Schumann, son of the resistance fighter and 1st Secretary of the SED Leipzig District Authority. The filmed document and the documented screening become propaganda accomplices: The GDR present perpetuates the history of NS resistance.

A short film by Ahmed Zir.

In an enigmatically arranged tableau vivant, the painter Christine Schlegel permits the messiahs and other saviours to meet. Their ideals are, however, doomed to failure due to timidity, greed and betrayal.

Gabriel Bories is the director's father: an anarchist worker in 1936, he did time in prison, the Moroccan Rif, the children's prison... A mysterious itinerary, reinforced by a troubling resemblance to Jean Gabin. This portrait is built like a cinematographic quest with its montages, its cuts, its lightings and its shadowy zones. The viewer is also taken on a journey through history and landscapes. The journey of this father is traced with subtlety, without emotional overflow, and yet, we are moved.

This film, made from the rhythms of the flow of colored fluids, reminds us of magmatic outpouring as well as continental drift. We witness the formation and unfolding of a world whose impulses seem unpredictable because they are made up of chain reactions - what scientists call "sensitivity to initial conditions", which is the basis of chaos theory. The film is built in three parts that follow a montage plan by color, successively: black - red - blue - yellow - white. The choice of primary colors, which conditions a large part of the work of Frederic Grandpré.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Munich Rock from Alabama 27.8.1984

Travel the last frontier aboard the passenger train between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Then drive your auto aboard the Whittier Shuttle for a car/train ride like nowhere else. You'll also see special passenger trains along with freight service and more. See the last of the F-units.

In this impressionistic work, the artist captures the feeling of an interior space. Her intention is to make the artifical appear more beautiful than reality.

Bombay, January 9, 1915. After two decades of momentous stay in South Africa, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned home. As Nehru later commented, “His coming was like a beam of light that pierced the darkness.” This documentary narrates various events around Gandhiji’s entry into the Indian political life. Gandhiji’s first task was to lead the Champaran farmers’ agitation against the British planters. Gandhi applied his ‘satyagraha’ strategy here.

A presentation that explores strange creatures, monsters, and other cryptids that get very little exposure.

The initial concept of film as film remains unchanged, but the interest or point of attack has shifted, from the levels of mechanism and materiality of the medium, to the psychological and psychophysical level, where meaning and affection - in other words the mental processes of the image - play a major role. To this is added an approach based on a totalizing, synthetic and eclectic notion of the image and no longer according to an analytical and reductionist approach. According to this new approach, any image is made up of several elements which are heterogeneous or even contradictory.

A man out for his daily jog is terrorized by a stalker in a ski mask, only to find that he has made a comic mistake.

Evocation of the paths taken by Glauber Rocha in Monte Santo and Cocorobó, Serra de Canudos, Bahia, when he was filming 'Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol'. Parallelism between the vigor and rigor of Antonio Conselheiro and the filmmaker's purposes, driven by eagerness to awaken the conscience of men and promote freedom.

’25 years ago I was asked by Chiatt Day Advertising in Los Angeles to cover the making of ‘1984’ for Apple Computers. This commercial was to be directed by Ridley Scott to introduce the Macintosh to the world. ... The message of the whole enterprise was: ‘If you miss this, then you’re going to be at a disadvantage’. This sentiment in itself set the tone for the definition of the self at the end of the 20th century, when the self was to be defined by its likes and its dislikes. Prisoners as a work derived from the footage shot during the making of the commercial deals with the problem of ideology, the potential manipulation of meaning and the hotness or coldness of the medium as expressed by McLuhan as well as several other issues. ... So therefore those people depicted in my work, the capitalists, the neo-Nazis, Thatcherites , communists, corporatists and us the anarchists video crew, were all held Prisoner by our own set of beliefs.’ – Terry Flaxton

“The Limits of Human Possibilities” is an example of on-camera performance, a sequence of poses reminiscent of asanas in yoga adapted by the artist, for which the outline of a mountain range is a kind of point of reference.

The relationship among 3 friends suffers when a woman comes between them.

Agent of Paradise captures a time and place in the East Village that is rapidly fading away as gentrification is transforming the neighborhood rendering it unrecognizable. This film is an historic document of the East Village, featuring the artists and performers that worked and lived there, with appearances by: Tom Murrin the Alien Comic, Tabboo!, John Kelly, Philly, Arleen Schloss, and the Dumas Attack Group. James Oseland plays a talent agent auditioning a cadre of performance artists and musicians.

A documentation of the seminal video art show by Ira Schneider edited in 1984.

Silent Soldiers tells the stories of soldiers on the battlefield. The film is set amongst the opening of the campaign against Buon Ma Thuot. The troops hid in the rubber forest waiting for orders. Old Lung and his daughter Ho May are the silent soldiers operating in the enemy's heart, as scouts for the army. News of Gia Lung's father and son helped the army capture Buon Ma Thuot.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

A Mexican youth basketball team competes against another from the United States, overcoming obstacles.

A two minute epic of sorts. Desires surface. A kind of decay sets in. Water gives in to gravity carrying off the fading effects of gaudy, carnal dawn.

An unfinished documentary by the late great film critic and historian Agustin "Hammy" Sotto. Hammy passed away in 2001 at the age of 51

A portrait of the Chicago street market.

Follows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.

A little boy on vacation at the seaside meets an invisible girl who takes him to her world.

'In Our Hands, Greenham" uses video to convey women's struggle against nuclear weapons. The soundtrack is a collage of interviews, songs and music, and the images are of actions at Greenham Common, filtered through the outline of a woman's hands.

Driven by a desire to uncover often forgotten or ignored women’s histories, this documentary from the Sheffield Film Cooperative follows the attempts to discover the story of women’s activism during the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915.

Film about the destruction of a music box playing the internationale.

‘New York Hot Springs’ (1984) is scenes of steam coming out of many streets of New York, a typical scene in winter, in repeated cycles of short shots. Though the scenes are shot at the same locations, the timings are differed slightly in every cycle.

The division of objects into small point of mobile clarity gives them a paradoxical existence, which dissolves constantly at the same time as it maintains itself. These objects then radiate their own light.

In Out of Order six former Catholic nuns tell why they entered and why they left religious life. The women (filmmaker Diane Christian is one of them) describe their years in the convent and their return to the secular world. The former nuns talk about single life and marriage (three are married, one to a former priest), about the changed place of religion in their lives, about sex roles, about institutional supports and burdens, about work. Three of the women teach - one at a state university, one in an inner city grammar school, one at a suburban high school. One woman is an artist, one an insurance agent, one a private investor. The film shows them at work and at home in New York, Massachusetts, Texas and Maryland. Out of Order offers unique insight into female socialization and identity in modern America by probing ideals and realities of womanhood, sex, work and service from an unknown and unusual perspective.