Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

A short documentary made during the AIDS crisis.

Love, migration, and longing through the photographic archive of Sunil Gupta, blending image and narration to explore queer self-making

In this interview with Craig Owens the artist discusses her early family influences and her time at the University of California. "There was a tremendous amount of alternative culture that completely took place... without any relation to the high art world of New York,” she remembers. A historical interview originally recorded in 1984 and re-edited in 2005 with support from the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund.

A little boy is watching a cowboy movie on TV. Suddenly, one of the characters reaches across the screen and steals the child's food. In turn, the boy enters the screen and takes part in the action. The time of the film and reality are mixed.

Documentary on 'bertsolaritza' (or bertsolarism), the art of singing extemporaneously composed songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns.

A look into the lives of kingfishers.

Short documentary about Polonsky and his Hollywood years.

A game ranger and his chief ranger set out on a daring rescue mission when his two nephews are kidnapped by dangerous poachers deep in the African bush.

Tim, a junior in high school, is sent off to a summer Christian camp to get reformed from his wayward path. But something more than that happens, he gets regenerated and comes to a true saving faith in Jesus Christ. He then comes back for his senior year and has to deal with his old worldly friends plus fit in with his new Christian friends.

Joey Johnson reluctantly finds himself the Courier of Death. Assigned to deliver a locked briefcase, Johnson is besieged by all sorts of shady-looking types.

An animated film in which a comic strip character, painfully self-conscious of the medium in which he exists, tries desperately to escape from the context that the medium gives him. This, of course, is impossible

One of the major causes of world hunger lies in the unequal distribution of the earth's resources. Many people go hungry while their governments continue to export vital foodstuffs, such as soy beans and groundnuts to the industrialised countries. This film describes this reality in Asia, Africa and Latin and North America suggesting a more just distribution of agricultural resources.

This is a video fantasy about Vicki Morgan, scandalous ex-lover of Alfred Bloomingdale. Vicki thoughtfully goes shopping—to beat the heat.

The film is about a village in the mid-1980s and Gorodetsky painting.

Guided by a mysterious pink butterfly, a teenage boy discovers a gigantic organ hidden in a cave full of strange creatures.

About self-taught inventor Anatoly Georgievich Ufimtsev, his work on the use of wind energy.

A couple enjoys a night of bowling with their friends, until the haunting demon of competition ruins the fun, turning the night into a rampage of Blood Bowling hell.

A 1984 special from Kids Corner that teaches kids what happens at the hospital.

In the spring of 1981, 28 young men and women, between 20 and 25 years old, occupied a house in Winterfeldtstraße in Berlin-Schöneberg. Until the fall of 1981, they lived and worked there together: renovating the rooms, painting the facade, publishing a newspaper for the neighborhood, setting up an autonomous cultural center, and establishing a "parents' meeting" there for parents of squatters. Despite an intensive press campaign and ongoing public relations work, the house at Winterfeldtstraße 20/22 was evicted by the police on September 22, 1981. After the eviction, some squatters move in with their friends, others move into a squatted house on Potsdamer Strasse.

A wild assortment of devilish and weird characters take over the streets of Hollywood Boulevard on Halloween night.

An educational training film.

A documentary on the history of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches and its founder, Reverend Troy D. Perry.

Mexican feature film

A film by Leslie Singer

In the Barza village, people grew accustomed to see doctors leave with the migratory birds. With the new doctor, they will have a surprise...

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.

A mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie.

A fanciful retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".

Directed by Ian Breakwell

From an early age Yossi Klein received a special education. He was prepared for another Holocaust. So were other children in Boro Park, the largest Orthodox survivor community in America, and this candid portrait of a young Jewish activist coming to terms with his father's traumatic history is as bracing as any fiction. Through his writing and activism, Yossi attempts to carry on the legacy of struggle passed on to him. A portrait emerges of a young man whose world view and personal outlook have been principally shaped by an event that took place before he was born.

1984 short by Paul de Nooijer

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.

1984 Peter Rose short work

In NavelFable Mara Mattuschka subjects herself to a second birth through endless pairs of tights. Her body struggles so hard and in such a deformed manner from out of the layers of nylon that the sheer struggle for survival becomes visible.

On these rare images of many lettrist protests, the director evokes all the creative women of History through the symbolic figure of Joan of Arc. This film was actually completed by Maurice Lemaître. The soundtrack is in French from the trial of Joan of Arc

Beginning with his work for a certain public television show that featured a big yellow bird, Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia and boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters and counting vampires. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion, and cell animation with simple objects found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation.

Six years in preparation & three years in filming, World Safari 2 covers one of the largest Australian cattle musters, the wild New Guinea highlands and finally discover the terrorist controlled jungles of South America.

A short, sweet tape. Kind of painterly in its use of camera as it moves in a fluid way over a set that consists of a white picket fence, a plastic goose and hen, plastic, larger-than-life daisies, and some miscellaneous electronic gismos.

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

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

After an injured wolf gets left behind by his wolf pack, a kind she-goat nurses him back to health.

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.

A film about the desire of people to live carelessly. In exchange for the life they want, they have to solve a riddle.

TV movie, a part of a Canadian series titled "The Legends of the World", telling the legend of the White Lady of Wieliczka reportedly haunting the grounds of the mine.

Terra incognito. This is a meeting with another Universe, with another world. Who inhabits it? What kind of winds blow on it? Or it happens that you would like to penetrate into the depths of this earth, but any of your attempts encounters landslides, landslides, rockfalls... The Earth does not allow...

Produced by Shanghai Film Studio in 1984. Director: Shu Shi, starring: Ma Lan/Huang Xinde/Wu Yaling/Zhang Hui. Performed by Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe. "Dragon Girl" was originally named "Dragon Girl's Love", a mythological drama adapted from a folk story. In 1984, it was filmed by Shanghai Film Studio as a stage art film and renamed "Dragon Girl". The play added birthday celebrations in the Dragon Palace, medical diagnosis in the inner court, and interviews in the Golden Palace. The carp spirit in the play was renamed Black Shark General.

A chauffeur and a babysitter deceive their employers.

This short film serves as a poem-on-film about the coming of the machine age on the eve of World War I. Images and sounds combine to recreate a bygone era of scratchy phonograph records, faded photographs, hand-cranked movie cameras, staccato Morse telegraph messages, and rhythmic steam pumps. Machines of every description were shaping peoples' lives and changing them more rapidly than at any other time in history.