Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

A visual poem where a woman visits various Buddhist temples in Nara and winter turns to spring.

The American Ballet Theatre, performing at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, June 1983, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, present Cervantes' story about the adventures of the Knight of Rueful Countenance.

In a Transylvanian village, a pastor tries to convert a local peasant to his religion, for personal interests.

Experimental short.

Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer.

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dying on its feet. There are no jobs, the young emigrate, the old have given up hope and government aid often goes astray. While Dino is determined to fight for his town, his wife Angela sometimes feels that the struggle is not worth it. A massive dam is being built just outside Montemilone. It's a new threat to the town and to Dino's position as mayor.

The film is set in a Turkmen village in the early years of collectivization. With the arrival of the new regime, much has changed. The film's protagonist, Ataniyaz, is overcome with agonizing doubts about what to do next. Bahram Khan, who has arrived from abroad, suggests that Ataniyaz take all his wealth and leave the country. But moving flocks of sheep is no easy task: it requires loyal shepherds. Now Ataniyaz-bai pins all his hopes on the young shepherd Kerim, who is passionately in love with his daughter, Ziba.

Stoica, a poor man from a small village, asks for Călifar's help to make him rich. Călifar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoica.

“An innocent couple, scraping pennies together to afford a night on the town, stumble into a local eatery and witness for themselves the kind of service that could only be provided by ‘Conan…the waitress.’ This musical fantasy was written and produced by Mark Addy for Adzo Video, directed and edited by Graham Dent, and stars Glen Shadix as Conan.”

The neurotic but perceptive Walter "Radar" O'Reilly joins the police force after the Korean war.

"I think of Fragments of the Angel and the sequence with Françoise and Ermina in the countryside, and I ask myself how to "justify" it throughout the film and tell myself that the text could say: "The angel is leading me to... ” [...] There are a thousand arrows embedded in the framework of reality." -Hernández

Swedish documentary about music and counter-culture in the United States.

A Yugoslav TV drama based on Luis Bunuel’s novel.

Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”

A visual poem on identity. Crafted from one of S. Pearl’s poems, it encourages women to reject imposed beauty standards and invent their own identity. Featuring actress Barbara-O. The version has an audio remix with vocals by Sharp and Dwight Trible. 1984 & 2009 4 min.

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town several times to examine life of the female workers in the textile industry. He interviewed them about their work, spare-time, thoughts and feelings. Three of them were questioned repeatedly for a long-time overview. This is the outcome of 10 years of Koepp's work. Written by Tom Zoerner

Film made with dancer Stella Hyedann who worked on the dances of the whirling dervishes.

Lisa Lyon takes her clothes off under 80s pop and coloured lights in a beautiful building.

A documentary film about Basque independence movement.

The film documents the situation of the underage pregnant girl Simone before and shortly after the birth of her son Daniel.

A Vietnamese woman from an ethnic minority is grieving over the death of her husband caused by the U.S. bomb. An American fighter pilot is shot down and desperately trying to survive under the U.S. bombing in the jungle where the woman lives.

In 1920s Ljubljana, a student of theology decides to leave his studies and dedicate to music.

A documentary short about the life and work of social reformer and the Father of the Bengali Renaissance, Raja Ram Mohun Roy

Actress Joanne Woodward narrates the story of an emerging Republic (Palau Islands) in America's Pacific Trust Territory as it tries to maintain history's first nuclear-free national constitution.

A young couple find out that their parents (her father and his mother) are having a romance. A series of problems arise because the young couple can't accept that relationship.

After the story of the same name of S. Veliyev. It's devoted about life concerns of oil workers and their children.

The permanent chairman of one of Ukraine's leading collective farms, a former front-line soldier, is caught off guard by the unexpected: the spring is unusually difficult and does not bode well for the harvest, his health has deteriorated, and his best foreman has been transferred to a struggling farm. However, Zakhar Platonovich does not complain to his superiors and relies solely on his fellow villagers...

Mexican feature film

Rebecca is born to a poor family, a young woman whose life is defined by poverty and deprivation. But of the many things she has to endure, it is the insults that other people hurl that hurt the most. Yet despite of everything, Rebecca remains ambitious and unabashed. She pledges to herself that she will one day raise herself and her family from poverty and when that time comes, she will get back at those who had oppressed them.

Quiet Night is an old Vietnamese film produced in 1984 by director Tran Phuong with the participation of actors People's Artist Nhu Quynh, Bui Bai Binh, and Tran Phuong

Peter Harris and Major Scott team up together to save the country form a communist uprising.

Play about a pregnant cleaner in a North Country museum who becomes entranced by one of the exhibits, a baby's lace christening cap, and its dead maker.

Abstract feature film.

A naive village girl follows her sister to Jakarta and gets involved with female pimp Mrs. Joy.

“The bus stopped on the Mexican highway, placing us in full view of a young boy, motionless, on the hot pavement. In this film, the incident is revealed through a poetic text, derived from my written journals. The poetry mixes primarily with Mexican streetscapes which compliment the text in a tonal sense. Most images are twenty-eight seconds long, the ‘breath’ of the 16mm Bolex camera. A lone saxophone (Mike Callich) weaves its way through the narrative, blending to make stronger the tomes and accentuations of the images.” (PH)

A part documentary/part dramatic reenactment tale that examines religions from around the world.

Bhaskaran had been jailed under a fake charge of killing his wife, who actually committed suicide, when Velayudhan had tried to molest her. Post release, Bhaskaran intends to avenge Velayudhan.

A film about various aspects of how humans interact with water, using Germany as an example. The contradictions that were already apparent at that time were scarcity, pollution, and privatization, but also soil sealing.

This documentary describes Bonnard’s relationship with contemporary artists such as Gauguin, Matisse, Cezanne, Seurat and Renoir, his personal relationship with his models and his personal vision expressed through his paintings and sketchbooks. A life dedicated to ‘colour, form and reason’ over content and feeling.

Neil Young and the International Harvesters - Austin City Limits, recorded September 25, 1984. Track list: Are You Ready For The Country? / Are There Any More Real Cowboys? / Comes A Time / Field Of Opportunity / Amber Jean / Roll Another Number / Heart Of Gold / Let Your Fingers Do The Walking / The Needle And The Damage Done (solo) / Helpless (solo at start) / California Sunset / Old Man / Powderfinger / Get Back To The Country / Down By The River

This performance was recorded live on Red Skelton's 70th Birthday on 18 July 1983 and released on the pay cable channel HBO on 22 April 1984. The recording took place before the Royal Family at London's Royal Albert Hall and before a packed house of Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen. Red tosses off jokes, one-liners, and works through elaborate pantomime routines both classic and new. Highlights include Skelton's uproarious "Guzzler's Gin" routine, his "Fisherman and the Little Boy" mime, and his heartbreaking "Old Man Watching a Parade." Additionally , he mimes a scarecrow and an old golfer. His legendary rapport with audiences is clearly evident here.

20-th years. In the mountainous regions of the Pamirs, a dangerous epidemic is rampant. There was sent a caravan with a vaccine, followed closely by the local bandits as the hostage in the caravan should be, as they learned, their leader. It is not known to them only one thing: the leader is a double ...

A 1984 Filipino Western film by Angel Labra.

Bourne's first fiction film, which stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as an unemployed musician who falls for a dancer on the streets of Hollywood. - Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960's American Experimental Cinema

More or less a Thai version of The Exorcist. A couple and their young daughter move into an old, remote house. Bones are found in the attic where strange noises are heard and the creepy voyeuristic caretaker (who spies on the family through hidden passageways) calls for an evil spirit that thrives on virgin's blood. The daughter is finally possessed, speaks with a male voice, develops extreme strength and goes on a rampage.

Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon December 1983 1 - I'll Tumble 4 Ya 2 - Mister Man 3 - It's A Miracle 4 - Karma Chameleon 5 - Black Money 6 - Love Twist 7 - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me 8 - Miss Me Blind 9 - Church Of The Poision Mind 10 - Victims 11 - Time 12 - White Boy 13 - Melting Pot.

An ecstatic exploration of a Chicago parking garage

A family who, at the beginning of the story gives up the plan to buy toys, forms the frame for the film. Finally the same toys, the doll and the goose, find their way to them through the Christmas night. The toys’ journey ends with an extraordinary miracle that fits for a Christmas night.

Chang-su, Byeong-gi and Yeong-bae are pickpockets and work together. Chang-su's role in the team is to lure the chasers out. Chang-su is displeased with the payment he receives because what he does is tougher than what the other two do.

Amos Gitai explores the international traffic in contract labor through parallel movements of Thai women in the sex trade and men migrating to the Gulf states. Through interviews and observational footage, the film exposes the economic forces and human consequences shaping lives across borders.