Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Demonstrates the importance of parks and open spaces in an urban environment through a young woman's exploration of New York City's variety of environments over a period of three seasons. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

An animated holiday film from Sweden, based on a song composed by Anders F. Rönnblom.

This film is a record of life in a now-submerged village in the mountains of Niigata Prefecture.

Fiction film with essayistic elements on the life of German general Lettow-Vorbeck.

About Green Flutes, a republican flute band in Govan, Glasgow. Unemployed members of the band outline the creative and political reasons for joining the band and women in Govan talk about the changing attitudes towards their traditional roles. A journey by the band to Northern Ireland places their music within a longstanding cultural tradition in republican history and also highlights parallels between the conditions of life for the working class in Belfast and Glasgow. Made with the collabaration of the James Connolly Flute Band, Joi Leatherbarrow and Keith Lucas.

A wedding ceremony, a reception in an inn, and the first waltz for the newlyweds. Next to a river, a different group appears.

The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and tries to help her out.

SAS Australia: Battle for the Golden Road documents the entry conditions, training, and lifestyle of Australian Army's Special Air Service Regiment (SASR).

This superficial, psychological travelog is about a young man who goes to India, leaving behind the woman he once loved, to search for a spiritual awakening. His first such awakening comes in Calcutta when his baggage is stolen, but undaunted, he jumps on a cargo boat going up the sacred Ganges River and thus begins a journey that will take him to the home of a family in a small village and eventually up into the mountains -- long held to be the best places for spiritual discovery. If the internal life of the young man was described in terms of a turbulent past history, unconquerable emotions, trauma, or whatever it was that drove him to India, then viewers might find some inspiration in his journey. As it stands, most audiences would be hard put to sympathize with his search without a good reason -- though the external journey is poetically and eloquently filmed.

Hand-drawn directly onto 16mm film, this animation is a 'diary' of daily drawing-on-film practice by Ivor Cantrill over a period of 18 months. Drawing style ranges from bold geometric patterns, to a delicate calligraphy.

Maduro, D. Lourenço manages to take away Joao Bolandas, to be with the woman, Florinda, his old love, that returns that feeling to him. Simão discovers the mother's connection with D. Lourenço and, from then on, only one desire guides him: to kill Florinda's lover.

Film shot in Super 8 in 1984. Filming took place in a neighborhood in the city of Amarante/PI, located on top of a hill, in the courtyard of Mr. João Bitu's residence, with participation by Raimunda Pau Pombo, Nazaré Cambão, Ely Sibita, Tio Zuza, Joaquinzinho, Chico do Boné, among other pagodeiros.

Frieda Müller actually wanted to emigrate to America. She moved to the neighboring village and stayed there. Lina, her little sister, went to Florida. The film attempts to connect the two destinies. At the same time, it is also a film about photography and being filmed.

From 6 P.M. on July 4, 1983, until 6 P.M. on July 4, 1984, Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano were tied together continuously with an 8-foot rope which passed loosely around their waists and was sealed at each end. Their intention was not to touch each other except accidentally—about 60 brush-bys and one brief hug by Montano occurred during the year. They slept in separate beds a few feet apart. When one showered, the other waited outside the door, but aside from this they were never in separate rooms. Both remained celibate for the duration. This film was shot on black-and-white super 8mm. [Overview courtesy of Artforum]

Live at the Marquee Club, London, UK 19th December 1983! The long-awaited release of the best footage of HANOI ROCKS at its peak, including “Blitzkrieg Bop.”

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. A man tries to seduce the woman of his dreams, only to be trampled on.

That Photograph is an 8mm experimental film made from an animated still. From the Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka’s photography book, KAO chose a photo of his family beholding a body and made copies of it in a myriad of ways. The photo and the camera are stationary; however, the relationship formed between them through production is in motion.

Swissair (Jari Härkönen, Pietari Koskinen, Mikko Kuusaari, Anton Nikkilä, Juha Soivio and Mika Taanila) were formed in the early 80s. This film (1979-1984) is an oddball summing up of edited-in-camera reels combined with a soundtrack consisting of some dynamite tracks from their punk and post-punk inspired cassette albums.

Following an accident, a physicist working on an antidote to the consequences of nuclear radiation is forced to continue his research at a laboratory owned by a mysterious western private corporation in a secret project.

The Super-8 films include some of Huot’s most impressive filmmaking and some of the most impressive Super-8 filmmaking I’ve seen anywhere. Ironically, the handling ease and lower expense of the smaller gauge have resulted in finished films much less personally revealing than the earlier 16mm diaries and much more consciously directed toward audiences: for example, what sexuality we do see in the recent films is in the nature of performance; often Huot and his wife, painter Carol Kinne, design environments, costumes, and sound tracks for comic, pixilated sexual escapades. The Super-8 films continue to reveal Huot’s life, but there is no longer the sense of personal investigation evident in Rolls : 1971. In its place is Huot’s pleasure in recording the beautiful and enjoyable elements of his life and sharing them with viewers.

Documentary about the Awuajunti, natives of Peru, where their habitat, their way of life and their members' rejection of their territory being invaded are shown.

July 1972 in Iran. Mohammed is arrested for illegal spreading of flyers. He is put in jail and tortured. After one year he is released and flees to Sweden. He arrives at a refugee camp where he is taught Swedish. He is surrounded by people without hope.

Directed by Abdallah Zerouali.

The Garden of Eden is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Roger M. Sherman. The film posits that in the next 30 years, 20% of all forms of life will cease to exist. It argues that it can be for good business to save the environment: discoveries in the plant, animal, and microbiology worlds show that what you might think of as unimportant could be the cure to a major disease, save an entire species of plant, or ward off pests. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

the story of a failing radio station's quest to kidnap a religious puppet because listeners are tired of sweatsock poetry.

Black and white UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An existential and absurd meditation on being a film student at UCLA, wandering the corridors, falling in love, and competing against your peers.

Taking place in a laundromat, this film is an exploration of territoriality, paranoia and voyeurism. The space itself exerts an oppressive force on the characters as they strive to define and maintain their individual semi-private spaces in an essentially public place. The watched and the watcher are constantly shifting roles in a "hand-off" of the point of view.

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

A document of a scandal...

Pink parody of Cats the musical.

A story about a train switchman, his cat Velja and friends at work. Once tidy and upright after the death of his wife, he became unfit even at his job, which he did diligently. Soft-hearted, sociable, he began to associate with a glass and a bottle.

Young women are kidnapped and held prisoner at a remote slave labor camp in the jungle, where they're forced to don skimpy outfits while trying to fend off lecherous guards, a whip-wielding lez warden and other types usually found in this kind of movie. There's torture, botched escapes, attempted rapes, etc. leading up to the obligatory break-out conclusion.

The poems of Alexander Blok are read by Alla Demidova and Vladimir Simonov.

We are told at the beginning that “this film is dedicated to Len Lye” and indeed the camera-less techniques used here – various combinations of dyeing, cutting, scratching and painting the film strip – as well as much of the imagery in Migraine Particles are strongly reminiscent of Lye’s work, with certain key differences. The organic shapes resembling indigenous figuration of sea creatures, the intersecting vertical lines, the animation of forms which appear to interact and the moments of striking three dimensionality all recall Lye’s Tusalava (1929), Free Radicals (1958) and Color Box (1935). De Bruyn’s film seems somewhat free-form at first but in ways that also nod to Lye’s work, a structure of developing sections and a layered repetition of shapes in a loose fugal pattern becomes clearer as the film progresses. -Steven McIntyre

When Olle Möller is charged 1959 for the murder of Rut Lind, it becomes Sweden's biggest murder trial of all time. The accused killer Olle Möller is Sweden's most hated man. On March 7, 1941, Möller was sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted rape, assault and manslaughter. He was released conditionally on September 11, 1948 after serving seven years and nine months of the ten-year sentence. Rut Lind disappeared May 26, 1959, and was later found murdered. The indictment against Olle Möller was entirely based on circumstantial evidence and testimony. The court disregarded testimony from Möller's wife and employer, who argued that Möller could not have had the opportunity to do the deed.

After the story of the same name of Akram Aylisli.

Film journals are constantly being made and edited and end in death - Szirtes's intimate social journals are an epic, multi-layered system, a remarkable reflection of an individual and of contemporary mores.

A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Story about a man that need to choose between his wife that been lost for a long time and his sister in law that he already marry after the lost of his wife

Dot Matrix and User Friendly host the first fully-automated computer-controlled interactive all-robot network programming system

In this short, magical film experiment, Shirley Clarke interprets the musical universe of jazz giant Ornette Coleman in best Afrofuturist tradition. With breathless echo effects, superimpositions and artificial light reflections, younger versions of Coleman lose themselves in slot machines, turn gravel into glass marbles and vanish into video-animated supernatural light.

The story of one man seeking justice for the murder of his father. Thus inciting a revenge-driven feud between families. Complicating things, the two youngest of each opposing families, fall in love.

Twisted Sister Stay Hungry Tour '84. Twisted Sister Stay Hungry Tour 84 and videos This is Twisted Sister when they ruled the world in 84 on the Stay Hungry Tour with added bonus videos. Track list: 1. Stay Hungry Live 2. The Kids are Back 3. I Wanna Rock 4. Under the Blade 5. Nature of the Beast 6. You Can't Stop Rock n' Roll 7. The Price 8. Stay Hungry 9. Burn in Hell 10. S.M.F. Come Out and Play videos: 1. We're Not Gonna Take It 2. Leader of the Pack 3. I Wanna Rock 4. Be Chrruel to Your School

Gaver is an actor rather than a reciter and pulls the "text" out of a gold-leaf skull, folds it into an airplane and then tosses it over and over. Scenes of newspaper production and World War II propaganda footage are intercut with this main action, echoing visually the rhythms of the poem.

A story about a youth camp and ubiquitous indoctrination. Ensign Dudziński reveals the secrets of socialist ideology to summer camp participants.

Breakwell's memories of a stranger observed from his window.