Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Conversation between a woman (Duras) and a man (D. Noguez) about a woman and a man.

The eleven musicians from the orchestra introduce themselves and talk about their instruments.

The Cure perform live at Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow on 25th August 1984. Main Set: Shake Dog Shake, Primary, The Walk, The Hanging Garden, One Hundred Years, Give Me It, A Forest, Piggy In The Mirror, Happy The Man, Play For Today, The Caterpillar. Encore: 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab.

An independent feature-length documentary about women, food, fat, and dieting.

USC student film by Elizabeth Storer which won fourth place and the Women in Film award at the 1984 FOCUS Awards

War Machine presents prime warzone Scratch with a re-interpretation of a TV ad that mixes images of warfare with Reagan's voice and a picture of war victims

A camera races through the city, a camera licks its way around a room. Their gaze identifies with the artist's eyes, sits in his daily life, and looks around him. A high school girl, a grandmother in a liquor store, Pico the chicken. The author screams chases and beats up a man like a madman. This is a diary film in which we are forced to identify with the filmmaker through a hand-held camera that records the entire film.

One mother-in-law and seven daughter-in-laws. Traditions of one Uzbek family.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Independently produced cel-animated film produced by U. Manabuken of Kyushu University, with the cooperation of Manabuken at the time and volunteers from the Animation Research Institute and others. Completed in May 1984 after about 2 years of production. Total number of drawings: approximately 2,000. The work is full of passion for depicting the action of beautiful girls and effects such as explosions and rock splitting, and is a tour de force in terms of drawing and backgrounds, as well as experimenting with filming techniques such as double exposure, transmitted and incidental light, etc. The story, however, is forced, or should not be considered in depth.The extras include some of the settings and moving images, some of the lost cuts, test and play videos, doodles, etc. As the extras, it was introduced in the Dec 83 issue of the animation-related magazine Fan Road

A remarkable film from the National Geographic's daring EXPLORER series, ICELAND RIVER CHALLENGE follows twelve modern-day pioneers on a treacherous expedition down a remote Icelandic river. Crash through waterfalls and glide through sparkling glacial tunnels on this breathtaking journey. Using kayaks, inflatable rafts, and ultralight aircraft, the adventurers journey through the beauty and isolation of this dangerous waterway. Come explore a river that has, until now, defied exploration; witness the heart-stopping power of nature in all its glory with ICELAND RIVER CHALLENGE.

Three Fifty Year old widowers pursue young women

A love story between an arab man and a jewish woman.

Hjalle and his colleague get over a large amount of money at a break. This changes their lives to a more luxurious existence, but one day, Hjalle meets a woman who has good contact with God, and this affects Hjalle's conscience ...

A story about an extremely honest and straight man.

This video shows the studio recordings of Charly García and his band for the album Piano Bar

After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there.

A huge influence on world music, Nigerian artist Fela Kuti played many instruments, pioneered afrobeat music and served as a prominent activist for human rights in Africa. This 1984 documentary examines the life and music of the remarkable man. Using his music to raise awareness, Kuti embraced social justice themes. He died in 1997 of complications from AIDS. Footage from his legendary show in Glastonbury, England, is included.

A father and his 13-year-old son approach new media in quite different and rather haphazard ways; one with vague fears, the other completely uninhibited.

Japanese horror anthology from 1984.

Thai horror film.

The story revolves with the last life crisis of Jamini Mohan and his wife. After the retirement Jamini Mohan and his wife Santoshini continued to be despised in the family of their earning sons. At this time, Gobinda, an orphan of the distant relative, became their mental hope. After facing various humiliation from their blood relationship Jamini Mohan died and as the mother of three sons, Santoshini became a burden to this family. Eventually Gobinda became Santoshini's absolute refuge.

Through the presence of a shack, this animation refers to fundamental moments of Cuban history (colonization, wars of independence, Yankee intervention, an obstructed republic and the Revolution).

Two couples who travelled together to Mexico watch the footage of their vacation. They laugh at scenes of dropping in on a Mexican family unannounced, frolicking on the beach and bargaining for souvenirs. When the doorbell rings and three Mexicans ask to use the phone, however, the tables are turned and the mood becomes frosty.

His Majesty's Sergeant is a film produced by the late Ghanaian director Ato Yanney. A story of racial conflict set in the war-torn Burmese forest during 1944 when three soldiers, an African, an Indian and a Briton, end up hiding together. Three disparate bands, Jafa (Tommy Ebow Ansah), Singh (Surinder Singh Ghuman) and Jake (Tony Trent) are embroiled in their own differences of attitude, prejudice, rank and race equality. The film is a fascinating portrayal about the fight for Independence and the Commonwealth nations which helped Britain to win the war.

Rare documentary chronicling Keith Haring's visit to Australia in 1984, including working and painting at the National Gallery of Victoria and the New South Wales Art Gallery.

Pattama has an opportunity to get good education owing to a kind help from her friend’s father. Because of her beauty, her good heart and her numerous friends, there are many people who are quite jealous of her, especially Praguyrat, Ratana’s daughter. The truth finally opens up to everyone when her father’s older sister meets her and sees Prapas’s necklace on Pattama’s neck. Prapa wants to redeem her sin from what she has done to Manee in the past by signing all of her belongings to Pattama, but she doesn’t accept anything: all she wants is just to know the truth about who she really is.

Lou Reed and band (featuring guitar legend, Robert Quine) filmed in concert at Palacio de Municipal, Barcelona, Spain on December 10, 1984 during the New Sensations Tour. Originally broadcast on La Edad de Oro.

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.

Describes the intimate and external journey of a young man who struggles to confront his sadomasochistic obsessions. While on a remote Canadian island, he is violently haunted by dreamlike images from his childhood and an affair with a radiologist who he supposes is trying to peer inside. The origin of the complex psychic panorama of the protagonist is homosexual violence. X-Ray received a full grant from the American Film Institute.

Recorded Live In Tokyo, Japan, August 11 & 12, 1984.

When Montse goes to Barcelona for a summer English course, she brings a head full of false ideas and a heart full of dreams and love of life. Staying at his sister's, a hostess, free and unbiased, only serves to increase her confusion. Along with her ​​classmates, Nuria and Marimar, Montse is willing to lose her virginity and find guys to start on sex.

The film is about the life of insects that develop for 3 long years under water and come to land only for one day, after which they die.

The Smiths live in concert at Rockpalast, Hamburg May 6th, 1984

Videotape produced by Ferruccio Marotti for Roma's University theatre students. A presentation of Carmelo Bene's "Performative matrix": not a performance yet, but it's not just text or ideas. Essentially, a work-in-progress on his Macbeth.

Bahraini Monodrama base on the novel of Anton Chekhov

“If you meet me, pretend you don't know me”, “I'm not like you”, are now classic phrases in the “furtive and veiled” homosexual relationship. This is for those who, out of fear, compromise or a thousand other reasons, decide to live their sexuality in a dissociated way. The "official" one, heterosexuality, and the clandestine one, homosexuality. Some do it very well ... others less so. Situations of this kind are more frequent than they appear. This short film wants to give the idea of ​​how easy it is to border on melodrama in such cases.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Fu and his son Lou-yang ran wild terrorizing the vassal state of Henan. Their only block was the 500 monk-soldiers protecting the Shaolin Temple. Under the pretense of an order from the Emperor, Prince Fu sent all 500 monk-soldiers away to fight bandits, leaving Shaolin Temple unprotected. Guang Ci had been training some of the young monks in martial arts. With the 500 monk-soldiers gone, Prince Fu planned his ambush and his army began surrounding the Shaolin Temple. Aware of Prince Fu's evil intentions, the young monks defend the temple with Tong Deng leading. Only his "Tong Zi Gong" can overwhelm Prince Fu's "Light Kicking" in this struggle for consummate power. Superb Wu Shu fights in the tradition of Jet Li's, Shaolin temple.

The parable of a monstrously large bull that was raised by villagers, who did not know how dearly it would cost them.

Soviet Ukrainian animated film directed by Elena Barinova, based on Lewis Carroll's letters to children and his drawings.

the play’s central focus on Hamdi, who initiates the smoke and then vanishes within its murky haze

Series of educational short films on cinematographic language made up of: - "The movement" - "The light" - "The noises" - "Music" - "Continuity"

Very rare Australian ozploitation erotic-musical-comedy.

Eun-ji, Mal-suk, and Da-hi live in the dorms of Han-yang Hospital. A series of strange occurrences happen. In the midst of these happenings, Eun-ji surprisingly discovers in her room a necklace she gave to her old boyfriend. In the past, Eun-ji and Baek-chu, the boyfriend, loved each other. But when Baek-chu got severely burned, Eun-ji left him. Baek-chu came after Eun-ji trying to kill her. He missed a step and fell into the ocean and died. With a foreboding premonition, Eun-ji goes to the villa she and Baek-chu frequently stayed in the past. Eun-ji discovers Baek-chu there alive. Eun-ji is thrown into a fire by Baek-chu. When she is half-dead, Baek-chu pulls her out and throws himself into the fire and dies.

All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The event itself (the hacker conference) was inspired by Steven Levy's classic book "Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution"

How did ordinary Egyptians live in the time of the pharaohs? Renowned British Egyptologist John Romer explores the ruins of an ancient village just outside Thebes, where generations of craftsmen and artists built and decorated royal tombs. There, relics reveal the most intimate details of the people's daily lives: their meals, their loves, their quarrels, and even their dreams.