Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Director: Efren C. Piñon Writer: Mauro Gia Samonte (screenplay) Stars: Rudy Fernandez, Stella Strada, Eddie Garcia

While ill and experiencing some difficulty in completing the editing of this film, Brakhage was reading the Marguerite Young novel, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling." Coming upon the following passage in her book, he found renewed energy to continue and complete the work: "Why should she give birth, though she had worked in a pottery, to an urn, to a stone angel, to the face of a cracked sundial? Why should she be, she screamed, this common clay, this tortured dust?" From "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling" by Marguerite Young... to whom this film is gratefully dedicated.

Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his family, he captures a microcosm of Southern society.

Amateur footage of a young couple on a trip.

A look at the education received in the Franco era in Spain, through a woman who lives anchored in her past.

New Zealand's most successful music export Split Enz is performing its last live show concluding the 'Enz With A Bang' farewell tour on December 4,1984, at home in Auckland.

Voyeuristic Tendencies is not so much a film about voyeurism as it is our tendency to be voyeuristic. That tendency, nurtured by the filmmakers carefully crafted succession of visual teases and exploited by the camera's ability to become our eyes, becomes in increasingly evident as the film progresses. The camera teases the viewer, in this case, co-voyeur, not with sexual or erotic innuendo, but rather with graphic and aesthetic challenges. The partially opened window of a woman's dressing room forces us to realize our urge to see more about these hidden worlds. This type of cinematically- induced self- realization makes Voyeuristic Tendencies a powerfully human film.

Magyarszurdok does not receive a penny from the county budget, and there are rumours that the settlement would like to be merged into neighbouring Tatarszeg. In order to save the town, the director of the local museum invents an Arpad-era hero, the heroic hero Bodony. At first the council president is reluctant to cheat, but for the right reasons his wife persuades him to commit fraud. The town begins to develop, and tourism revenues increase. However, this uninterrupted development is fundamentally threatened by the emergence of a pair of conmen who outwit even the inventors of the valiant Bodony.

Tall buildings and cars are shot through the Kinemacolor process, variable color filters and a water lens. Sturdiness jousts with fragility, past with present, alienation with tenderness, abrasiveness with sensuality, red with green. The camera is moving in the slick of space. Shapes vibrate selectively out of the image; others at different points in space and in turn, vibrate or flash as vibrations also vary in rhythms and intensity. The Kinemacolor process was use in 1915 to obtain fairly illusionistic colors from black and white films by filming and projecting them through synchronized, alternating red and green filters. This film, while already in color, takes advantage of many of the particularities of the system.

Drama, from the Greek, to do, act, or perform. A composition in which a story is related by means of dialogue and action and is represented with accompanying gesture, costume and scenery, as in real life, a play. The simplest story; a cow in a field, a day passes, articulated by a sequence of simple actions. Another day passes and the actions only vary with the chance events that make one day different from any other. Between the days three traditional songs about work, love and death are sung. These are stories too, but of generalisation, metaphor and myth, whereas the cow's drama follows only the surface pattern of events, the specific.

Style film that has him pulling practical jokes on average citizens, such as when he convinces people that an alien spaceship has landed in Tel Aviv. Other gags include an ATM that speaks English to bewildered patrons, a family aghast to find their Mohel wielding a butcher knife and a buxom pedestrian convinced to audition for a topless

A man released from prison after serving his sentence decides to visit his son who he has not seen for a long time and spends the whole day with the boy. An adventurous, intelligent boy awakens fatherly feelings in him, but unexpectedly he finds out that the boy is not his son.

In the relaxed holiday atmosphere at the Baltic Sea, the director questions 9th grade pupils about their first experiences with the other sex.

A topsy-turvy world.

A highschool student arrives in a small village from Seoul but cannot adapt to the attitudes of the country people.

One shift in the life of a taxi driver.

An experimental essay shot by Luiz Rosemberg Filho on video.

A short film created for Spanish TV touching on the subject of Catalonia's struggle for independence, interspersed with symbolic images.

The story of the settlement of Irish immigrants in the North Bronx, New York, and how the once predominantly Irish neighborhoods are changing because of the influx of other groups.

Ceil and Enis are a happy if wacky female couple until giant baby son Junior (who sports a mustache but fits in his crib just dandy) develops a fondness for hot dogs and other symbols of manliness (along with many things edible, phallic or not) and decides to bust out of his confining crib to raid the fridge and avenge his overly protective mothers.

Seventeen hundred eager attendees braved a snowstorm to hear this extraordinary debate. Held at the University of Toronto in 1984 - when academics still believed that socialism was the wave of the future - this event kept the audience captivated for over 2 1/2 hours. The debate centered on moral fundamentals eliciting profoundly opposing views on issues from the nature of man to the justification of government. Don't miss this electrically charged confrontation.

At a futuristic construction site, a giant robotic ant and other robots and automated machinery build a reflecting dish.

Based on text from Chico Buarque de Holanda's Fazenda Modelo, the film is a parable about a construction worker and the foreman of the plant.

A film about circus veterans. The main characters of the film are Barnabas, a power juggler, Jonas Ramanauskas, a folk artist of the LSSR, and Jadvyga Stankutė-Ramanauskienė, an acrobat. Both are long retired, but even in their cosy homes, their memories of the circus do not leave them, so the film recalls the interesting and sad history of Lithuanian circus.

Leopold the Cat sunbathes and reads Robinson Crusoe, while the mice try to scare him. When he falls asleep on the beach, he dreams that he has landed on a desert island.

The video work “Frankensteins Scheidung” by Monika Funke Stern takes up the motif of an artificial human being, which reaches back to the early nineteenth century. The artist develops her own story of an artificially created woman.

Set in rural Galicia in the middle of the century, it tells the drama experienced by a peasant family.

This fully animated study in movement and perception employs the point of view of a frog as a basis for this “minimalist cartoon”

Alberi's family takes a vacation to separate Alber from his actress girlfriend and to convince him to break up with her.

Four women in the throes of frustrated sexual desire. Not making fun of them but rather sending up the absurdities of passion and the ways in which it undermines our dignity. One woman, given to heady, long-winded monologues and carrying on like a silent screen vamp, envisions herself as a kind of Eve in the Garden of Eden about to seduce her Adam--but instead of being overcome by the fabled scents of Araby (or such) she is assaulted by the odor of "old socks, gasoline and aftershave."

Dust, grain, flour. Negative/positive; film ‘history’ re/presentation, figure antics and play. (After George Albert Smith)

1984 performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Cecil Taylor

The worker Adam, a man angular and a little funny, did not have a personal life or business at work for a long time. It was only out of respect for his mother that Adam was enlisted in the squad of high-rise installers. But as soon as the guy started his new duties, a "burning" ticket to a high-altitude campsite turned up. The unexpected adventures that happened to him in the mountains of the Trans-Ili Alatau became special days in his life...

Young members of a pop band seek their first sexual experience.

Recently, Ko-ko loses a longtime friend due to a widely publicized phenomenon known as the “beautiful suicide.” Intuitively sensing that it may actually be a murder, she asks her part-time colleagues from a handyman service, Kirishima and Sakai, for help but they refuse to take her seriously.

Famous drag queen Holly and her scheming sister Beryl (both played by Doug Lucas) battle over the wishes of their recently deceased grandmother, who wants to be buried with her canine companion, Dingo. Defying all health codes and decorum, Holly and her long-suffering manservant hatch a plan to fulfil her grandmother's wishes, while Beryl plots a much darker fate for her deluded sister.

A short film by Maurice Deveraux and Tony Morello

Night-Poster-Subway shows shots of modern urban life at high speed, accompanied by music from Circle X. As they pass by, the film captures houses, their facades and individual parts of them, trams, blue lights, advertising posters, all above and below ground. And in the middle of it all, Anna loves Maria – as it says on a white billboard.

Cleto Rojas, a peasant painter in Venezuela, discusses his artwork. From movies and Roman mythology to his own dreams and scenes of rural life, Rojas takes inspiration from all sources and transforms the world around him into fantastic visions. He teaches village children his technique of using house-paint on canvas, as his wife goes about her own housework, singing slowly. The painter is bemused by the attention of anthropologists and art critics, and he talks about the pitfalls of attention. He remembers traveling to Caracas as a young man to meet famous painters and being disappointed in them. His ambitions are more focused on the content of his work - Rojas wishes he could envision and paint one of Venezuela's heroes, Simon Boilvar, as he really was, as no accurate representations exist now. Without looking for fame, he continues painting all kinds of images as he sees them.

Animated film by Kouji Nanke.

Summary of the documentary series 'Ikuska', directed by its promoter Antxon Ezeiza.

The history of Kensal House, in West London, is seen through the experiences of some of its occupants from the early 1980s, who are juxtaposed against archive film. It shows how the house has declined in status since its construction in 1936 – a showpiece for the Gas, Light and Coke Company.

Short film by the basque filmmaker Jose Ordorika.

"...the Arc de Triomphe. Among many variations offered, we have selected about thirty which were cut vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The film, very dense, compact, tries to shape perception by means of specific cinematographic treatments which accumulate contradictory, divergent and paradoxical information." -YB

The series’ latest Harald Vogl feature (from 1984) completes the filmmaker’s gradual movement away from narrative toward a vérité-style essay film. Gone are the post-punk streets of the East Village, replaced with on-the-ground footage of antiwar protests and visitors to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, and observational scenes of union parades, marching bands, street dancers, and Chinatown residents back in Manhattan.

An unknown writer written under the pseudonym of Laure at the beginning of the century. Readings. Geography. The places of a writing. The forces that create, traverse and lose it. The two image strips will be contiguous on the same screen. Their continuous and simultaneous operation. Two mirrors. The voices and their silences are reflected in it. Fade away.

1984 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

It is a wildlife film on flights of birds when glowing sunsets. On the soundtrack, a hum noise radio, which resembles the sound of a plane and that seems to criticize the human desire to fly, sometimes absurd when comparing this flight to the flights of birds. "WELTENEMPFANGER, marine and desert landscapes are filtered red, interspersed monochrome red, pure color serves fade, the birds fly into the red and yellow. The color is applied in water on the image which respects the framework, the existence of plan and the analog dimension. She unreal and alter but which works here is its color, not its figurales powers: it remains discreet, less virulent that the brilliant forms of disharmonic sequence that characterize the work of SCHMELZDAHIN

The story of a father and daughter's desperate struggle to survive the ravages of the Vietnam war.

Black Mountain, a giant elephant, is considered untrainable and is soon to be destroyed! The only one who can go close to him is a young boy whose father is head of the elephant training camp where Black Mountain lives. Against his father's orders, the boy cares for Black Mountain, bringing him food and water. Black Mountain learns to love the boy and the two develop a deep friendship. They spend much time together playing in the rivers and taking long rides in the forest. But when Black Mountain's own child threatens to destroy the camp, his dream of freedom could become a reality. Will be betray the trust the boy has put in him? An action-packed adventure for everyone to enjoy! -Shoppingcartplus.com