Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Documentation of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election, which saw Tony Benn returned to parliament, and the early days of the Miners’ Strike which began shortly after.

Documentary about Voeren, officially a Dutch speaking municipality with language facilities for the French-speaking community and hence a politically highly charged region in the Belgian political context.

After Hadda, a young woman in a poor, arid village in the Moroccan countryside, is raped by Hamid, a young landowner who has returned to the village to reclaim his inheritance, she is forced to leave and fend for herself in the desert.

An essay on photography as chemical memory.

A young man struggling with his sexual identity is driven to the gay BDSM underworld. There he is preyed upon by other men who exploit him for their own desires. Realising his dire situation he decides get shocking revenge on the people who wronged him.

Experimental short film

Showcasing a meditative exploration of untouched natural scenery. Without dialogue or traditional narrative, the 22-minute film presents a series of static, meticulously framed shots that capture the fleeting beauty of pristine landscapes. Created during a time of rapid industrial growth in Japan, the film serves as both a celebration of nature’s purity and a quiet protest against its encroachment by modernity. Shot on 16mm film, Nakamura embraced imperfections like grain and natural lighting to reflect the fragility and authenticity of his subject.

It is the most important sacred space in the Andes, from pre-Hispanic times to the present day. Here, observations and rituals were performed by the amautas, or Inca and pre-Inca sages. When the colonizers encountered this pilgrimage by the indigenous people, they fabricated the first miracle in the Andes as part of the extirpation of idolatry, with the aim of making the indigenous people stop believing in their ancestral gods. In this respect, we are the first to point out its importance and its true dimension within the Andean worldview.

Super-8 film by Venezuelan filmmaker Víctor Rodríguez Castillo.

A camera expedition to the Sioux Indians of South Dakota. They were driven from their land by the exploitation of mineral resources. Now they live on the edge of the Badlands, a lunar landscape of clay and marl. The film describes red and white, poor and rich America.

Uses animated graphics to describe a sonic boom and explain how it is produced. Illustrates how sound waves spread out from a stationary source, as well as from sources moving at different velocities up to twice the speed of sound, and then shows the intersection of a jet aircrafts's sonic boom cone with the ground

The film is made up of sequences filmed from the television screen, such as advertisements and excerpts from the show “Aktenzeichen XY” (“File No. XY”) and shots of Pürrer and Scheirl. Pürrer poses with metal objects that she balances on her head or uses as a weapon; Scheirl wears a transparent tulle dress. They mark and count her birthmarks.

On the annual motorcycle tour of big friends, there's trouble this time. Markus has brought his girlfriend Marion along, even though no one has ever had his girl with them. And Werner, who actually wants to get married and to whose bachelor party everyone is invited after the tour, is missing.

This film tells about the life and friendship of young workers.

Two women gardening on a sunny day.

Short film.

A new water pump has been proposed by a local firm. The film traces the parallel portraits of a technician-demonstrator of the new pump and that of a villager who owns two old models of water pump. Attached to his machines, he isn’t convinced that they need modernizing.

Children's program from the 80s. Kento Girubāto & Jun Marī's song "After the Fight"

This work was made as a "myth" with the poet Nejime Shoichi as the main character. Nejime Shoichi, who aims to be a reading poet, rides a train to visit senior poet Iwao Abe and asks for the secret of reading. Nejime Shoichi is good at being "naked".

Gorgo saves a drunk American from the sea and takes him back to his home where he lives with his wife. The drunk American, Rep, tries to rape Gorgo's wife after he gets sober and thus is thrown out of the house and beat up. Gorgo is bankrupt now and has to work in a Road Construction company, where Rep also works as one of the main engineers. The story goes on with a series of unfortunate events consisting of death and rebellion and false accusations...

Based on the traditional Madhubani-style paintings by Lalita Devi, this movie addresses the issue of the dowry system of India.

Renate is finishing her trainee year as a social service worker when she is assigned her first patient: The young Alfred Hauser, who was submitted to the psychiatric ward four years ago because of a psychosis. Alfred's anxiety condition is worsening while the hospital staff is lying to him about the possibility of an early discharge. Renate is commited to help him.

A sad and lonely donkey wanders through the desert, seeming to find no reason for its existence. One day he offers help to a couple of pilgrims who pass by with a child. Together, they face Roman patrols, sandstorms and many other pilgrims. They finally arrive safely at their destination. The donkey returns to the desert, but he still has a danger to face.

A flour mill owner's servant threatens to quit if he does not receive a hike in his wages. However, the former does not pay heed to his demands and flirts with the mill's female customers.

Hovhannes Tumanyan's tales retold in very unusual manner.

Lost sequel to Zombie Hunter by Richard Kern.

Two years after the Produce Wars, gangs of renegades rove the countryside in search of greens. All they need is a leader.

This short animation based on a popular children's story by Robert Munsch tells the story of a young boy with a major problem: his apartment has become a subway station but his mother doesn't believe him and blames him for the commuters' mess.

Documentary about the work of South African intelligence agencies in Britain, with an interview with Information Secretary in the South African government, Eschel Rhoodie, and former agents.

This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The Will To Live" (1944) that preceded the feature films in German movie theaters between 1933 and 1945. The shorts reveal that men and women workers were idealized, uniformity was stressed, optimism in the face of adversity was the goal, and, in general, all the classic lies that dictatorships use to control and mold their citizens are featured.

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.

Glimpses of life on the run. Shot in Juarez, Mexico, Austin and El Paso.

Towards the end of the 1970s, when VHS entered the market and video stores were springing up in West Germany, the conquest of the living room began. In 1984, ZDF conducted research into the extent to which brutal films had an influence on children and young people and the extent to which censorship authorities, schools and parents had to counteract this.

Experimental short by Yosuke Okawado.

Video art by Jaap Drupsteen

An encounter at a zoo between people and gorillas. The video blurs the relationship between the observer and the observed; the bias that people place upon an animal that has such human characteristics; the institutionalization of animals for our cultivation and illumination.

It seems that Christmas Eve is celebrated in accordance with the tradition. However, the society of the future has different customs: lack of religious freedom and strict surveillance of the society.

Two-channel video on four CRT monitors with soundtracks by Stuart Argabright and Michael Diekmann.

A poetic feature film about Estonian nature, briefly about cities, industry and agriculture.

Intimate Interviews: Sex in Less than Two Minutes is a poetic repartee on the subject of sex, featuring performance artists.

Shock film about prostitution and homosexuality among young boys. Two unemployed young men can't realize their plans because they have no money. They both need friendship and love. They decide to prostitute themselves. Unfortunately, what appeared to be an easy solution quickly becomes a dead end.

An animation that combines the motion of abstract lines and the motif of an apple.