Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

A short documentary about the visit of the Soviet delegation to India on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the city of Bhilai.

A harm reduction film made during the AIDS crisis.

Short film based on the story by Sergio Ramirez Mercado

The lazy farmer wakes up dark from sleep. He banishes his wife, his pig, his chickens, his horse. Finally, he's all alone. He falls asleep and dreams of all those he has banished.

Montage of images depicting Glasgow in 1984. Shot on super 8mm and subsequently duped unsuccessfully to second mute 8mm and 16mm sound print. filmed in 1983, completed in December that year. Filmic ideas used in this film developed in later Clyde Film (1985).

Miffy lives in a small cozy house. When you look inside you see that she has her own room, her toys are in a red basket. She has a special outfit for playing or doing work. Miffy knows how to tell time.

The years after the First World War. Captain Abarov sees that his dreams, feelings, and ideals are in ruins. His family is broken. His friends are desperate. There is only one way out for Abarov-to leave this world.

Cesar-nominated documentary short film from 1984.

Released two years before the 1986 People Power uprising in the Philippines, this documentary shows the unwavering commitment to justice of political prisoners during the Marcos regime. Featuring prominent activists such as Satur Ocampo and Fidel Agcaoili, the film offers a rare glimpse of the times leading to the fall of the dictatorship.

Offers passersby the opportunity to don a mask and become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.

In Television Interview, a two channel video installation, we again meet Atherton as interviewer/inquisitor, haranguing the cast of the popular soap opera Coronation Street on the status of video art, the monodirectionality of broadcast television, and the disempowered status of the viewer/consumer. Whilst taking television to task for its condescending attitude toward its viewers, Atherton also takes a few swipes at video art, telling the hapless Coronation Street character who professes no knowledge of the medium that “you have to force yourself to watch video art”. Thematically and procedurally in this piece, the artist lays bare and discusses the construction of the media image, both in relation to televisions mode of representation, and video arts appropriation/deconstruction of these modes. Blending wry humour with sharp observation, Atherton succeeds in crystallising several of the themes that were central to the burgeoning field of video art at that time. – Jeremy Welsh

Scheirl’s body, with brightly painted genitals and harshly lit face, is portrayed in fragments by the camera; Pürrer is also naked. Scheirl is then shown wearing a pink dress with a floral pattern. She lifts it up and pees while standing, before climbing into a tub next to a laughing Pürrer.

It consists of 5 episodes, each exploring a different possibility of animation...

Sound in Sync (1984) consists of two ten-minute takes; Aoki films people on Michigan Avenue but soon pans up into the blue. The long middle portion of each take consists of almost imperceptible camera movements across the sky while the sound track continues to record people talking on the street, presumably in perfect sync with the image. The film refocuses our attention from what we’re most accustomed to looking at to a world almost of pure color.

Young people from a village decide to mass-produce drums so they can find a solution to the development issues.

Centered around the enthusiastic live performance at Shibuya Public Hall in '84.

How to go from fatness to fitness is described in this fun 1984 animated public service announcement from Participaction.

Short Film from Himeda Tadayoshi.

An experimental associative film. One day of a person's life or an entire lifetime is depicted with abstract techniques of conditional cinema, inspired by the surrealist movement. Participants : Igors Linga, Žanete, Viktors, Ints, Vija.

Short movie

Documentary produced by the Canadian Union of Public Employees that traces the experiences of women in the CUPE union. Topics covered include the need for women’s leadership, the fight for equal pay for work of equal value, the importance of bystander intervention, the impacts of precarity on women workers and struggles with balancing caregiving responsibilities.

A gloomy sketch about the Great Patriotic War, about the executioner of a partisan detachment who went crazy from the need to execute prisoners.

"Dr. Madblood's Halloween Howl" was a hosted horror movie show with host Jerry Harrell as "Doctor Madblood".

Grendon prison in Buckinghamshire, Britain's only voluntary psychiatric prison.

Bob Hope plays bloopers from his previous TV specials.

A gypsy girl in love with a young thief is chased by an international gang because he hides gold in his possession, and the girl tries to know his secret, and the gang kidnaps him, and one of the young athletes saves the young hero, and hosts him with him, the young gypsy seeks to get closer again to the young thief in order to know the location of the hidden gold

Two children see a hat blown away by the breeze that lands at the top of a tall tree.

A gang leaves the school. They go for a bike ride, and when they find a wallet, the mystery begins. An amateur film made by primary school students from the Lekeitio ikastola.

Documentary about the dangers of toxic waste and its long-term consequences.

THAT HIS KIDS MAY GROW UP FAR FROM THE MADDING EVIL AND CORRUPTION OF CITY LIFE, A FATHER HERDS HIS BROOD TO A DISTANT, SECLUDED ISLAND.

The artist has described the making of Chant Down Greenham as follows: “‘This was a seminal work. It came out of a moment when many of us from Ireland gathered at the women’s peace camp, nuclear missile base at Greenham Common (1983), England. The protest ‘Sounds Around the Base’ had 30,000 to 50,000 women surrounding the 9-mile perimeter fence all making sounds on the hour every hour. There I heard a small group of women keening. I was very struck by this. It was moving, powerful. Back in my studio on Gardiner Street, Dublin my work changed. I changed. It became necessary to use my voice and my body.  Though the equipment was basic or non-existent, it happened, and was essential and seemed vital. I developed a series of calls and out of silence the ‘caoin’ emerged. With the prompt and help of women artist friends I understood something really important and necessary there. I understood I had to pursue this.”

A look at 3-star chef Eckart Witzigmann creating a 13-course meal at his restaurant "Aubergine".

A dramatic discussion starter which confronts the social issue of racial prejudice shown through the eyes of a young Asian Australian woman, Lily. The film has the advantage of being both open-ended and humorous, allowing students to identify with the characters within the film and working as a stimulus to class discussion.

Handpainted film by Diana Barrie.

Humorous grassroots video.

The action-packed coverage features highlights of the 1984 Rothman’s Acropolis Rally, including star names like Rohrl, Vatanen, Alen, Mikkola, Blomqvist, Salonen, Toivonen, Biasion and Mouton. The car and spirit-breaking Acropolis Rally is one of the World Rally Championship’s legendary events. The searing heat, billowing dust and energy-sapping gravel surfaces demanded the finest car-handling skills, exceptional consistency, complete reliability and more than a little luck.

16mm short by Masaru Noto.

A cinematographic production (1984) by filmmaker Mercedes Ramírez A. the first filmmaker who speaks in the first person as a woman in Costa Rican cinema, documenting the great Costa Rican artist Emilia Prieto Tugores born 1902-1986, political activist, defender of the rights of workers, painter, engraver, singer-songwriter, writer, researcher of the folklore of the Central Valley of Costa Rica, one of the most notable intellectuals of the 20th century.

A season review of Newcastle United 1983 - 1984.

A personal perspective of creative block, artistic process, and a basic how-not-to guide with a sense of humor. Sensitively filmed, intriguing and sensual.

A reasonable opinion of our times, this is our strongest political statement this year.

At a New Year's Eve gathering at Pittsburgh Filmmmakers, guests attempt to persuade right-to-die advocate Elizabeth Bouvia (Constance Hanna) that life is worth living.

Short film produced at a children's animation workshop.

A film for young people set in Venice in the 1930s.

Short film.

Four actors go down the Magdalena River with the purpose of locating the scenes in which a play will take place. It seeks to narrate the story of a sentimental relationship established in 1812 between Simón Bolívar, then 28 years old, and Ana Lenoit, a 17-year-old Frenchwoman, living with her parents in a small town on the banks of the Magdalena.

THE COMES A TIME WHEN EVEN EVEN PROUD REALIZES THAT HE IS BUT A HANDFUL OF DUST ON EARTH.

16mm experimental short film.

16mm experimental short film.

The documentary explores one of Istanbul’s most significant art monuments, tracing nearly 700 years of cultural and artistic history through the mosaics and frescoes of the Kariye Mosque (Chora Church). By combining visual analysis with a distinctive soundscape—from Byzantine hymns and Orthodox prayers to the Islamic call to prayer and Ottoman takbirs—the documentary emphasizes Istanbul’s layered cultural continuity and enduring intercultural dialogue.

The problem of pollution in the city of Almaty.

Made with Telidon, a Canadian videotex system that was in use in the 1980s. Although its primary function was to transmit textual and illustrative information, this system has been used by a number of Canadian artists as a creative tool to make graphic or video work. These films possess the rudimentary and primitive charm of the beginnings of the digital image era. [arcSea, spirale, inTO, TO]

A fifteen-year-old girl and her younger siblings return to Warsaw (which has been destroyed) after the war, where, hiding from social services, they await the return of their mother.