Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Portrait of a family emigrating to Sweden.

Children learn to trust God for strength and courage in face of danger.

1. Hands On The Clock 2. Don't Be Denied 3. Burning Oil 4. Promised Land 5. Trees 6. So Sure 7. 11:15 8. She Cries Alone 9. Someone New 10. Waiting Here 11. Black Ju Ju 12. The Wind Blows 13. No Chance (Cool Hand Luke)

A conversation between King Pyrrhus and Kineas about the increasingly terrible campaigns of conquest is illustrated. When world domination is achieved, the earth will be a deserted wasteland, with only Pyrrhus and Kineas remaining. They wonder what they will do then.

The 25-minute documentary reconstructs the events leading up to Maurice Bishop's assassination and the United States invasion of Grenada. Bishop was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of New Jewel Movement that removed Eric Gairy from office. Bishop headed the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada from 1979 to 1983, when he was dismissed from his post and shot during the coup by Bernard Coard, a staunch militaristic element in the government.

Duschca's Bordello

An educational short about jobs.

In Mozambique, the role of women is changing. After liberation from Portuguese colonial rule, women actively participate in the construction of socialist society. The film presents its theme through conversations with three women who talk about their work (in the countryside, in a factory and in a hospital), their family life, their education and their participation in the fight to keep "the armed bandits" from South Africa away from the country . Along with the presentation of the women, the film also gives an impression of Mozambique's development from the time when the liberation movement FRELIMO broke the country from the Portuguese yoke.

The story begins in the first year of Danjong’s reign, in July of the Gye-yu year, as the Seungjeongwon Ilgi records how Hwangbo In and Kim Jong-seo are accused of treason and executed to send a warning to Suyang, while Anpyeong, despite being advised to hide, chooses to face the turmoil but is eventually sentenced to death along with his loyal servant Musang, paving the way for Suyang to rise as King Sejo.

Lagan College in Belfast, a school planned for the integration of protestants and Roman Catholics.

Film based on a phrase by Teo Hernández: "Each new film is for me a step into the void, into darkness, into mystery." Film-poem about the possibility of making an entire film about a face of the moon, a face of tears; Mother of souls, mother of our souls, the moon illuminates our cinematic nights – from its enigmatic roundness arises the origin of our tears at the end of the day, the dawn of our souls, the dawn of our tears.

The 1984 Scary Awards was a special hosted by Count Scary, in which he gave awards to local Michigan people and news events.

When and where this was is unknown. Only one day at dawn, a chicken, as soon as it was born, called the sun its mother.

Yellow drops don't want to play with a red ball at first, but they make a good flower together.

A brief chronicle of the filming of Los chané.

“In this documentary depicting a self-defence course for women. How can one’s strength and anger be used to prevent men’s violence towards women, in order to no longer be a victim?” (Centre Simone de Beauvoir)

Joon comes from a wealthy family, but he has never been himself, his parents dictate everything for him to do, even about his girlfriend. He leaves the house and lives on the street with homeless kids, earning his living by selling his drawings on the street. One of his old friend sees him, and then calls his parents to pick him up. They put him through a psychological treatment, but things are still the same at home when he comes out of the treatment, so he just runs away to live in the upcountry, away from his parents.

Short film by Bertholier Rozenblum

Gradiva deals with a man who constructs/creates an idealized image of a woman, seductive but false.

The Polytechnic World allows us to see images created by sounds, thanks to a Casio PT-30. We see the yellow and grey image of the small Casio melting down and then becoming whole again. The soundtrack fades, then rises; it's a theme with variations on a theme. This tape would interest those looking for video with an emphasis on special effects, or who like to watch things metamorphose before their very eyes. This is poetry in motion and we are drawn to it.

A nine-part miniseries by Miklós Jancsó which played at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1984.

Documentary about the resumption of popular participation, with the country's redemocratization, in public city planning policies. It gives examples of community councils and Neighborhood Friendly Societies in the health sector in Franco da Rocha, transport in Osasco and Santo André, community kitchens in communities and councils of employee representatives in companies such as Metrô and Emplasa, which still carried out training in auxiliary inspection system, with the presence of civil society, in the inspection of water sources and public transport areas.

Short film about trams.

The first part of a trilogy of Silesian westerns by Jozef Klyk - an amateur, a great film lover who has been making amateur productions since 1967, the most famous of which are westerns. In them, Klyk combines western mythology with Silesian mythology. The film covers the period 1874-1881.

A TV gossip columnist’s obsessive pursuit of the final months of a TV weather reporter’s affair with a powerful, socially prominent married man.

In Erz Schmerz, pain prevails on Erzberg, the “Styrian loaf of bread” that can hardly nourish the population anymore.

In the garden the dreamer dreams about sweet smelling metaphors. Over the course of this film animation, transformations occur that dissolve human violence into peaceful tranquility.

A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu oranges.

Fields of Grain, 1984 – ongoing project/ sound:.For twenty years I have collected 16mm footage from travels around the US: a ride down the Cuyahoga River, shots of Civil War battlefields, walks through fields of growing flowers, grain and fruit, water systems, rail systems, malls and parades, and kudzu growth in Mississippi. This project mixes traditions of landscape cinema with improvisational real-time editing and digital to analog “glitches” to make transparent an archiving and representation process, my own road movie archive.

This film documents the festivities and different stages of an initiation ritual of a Balanta community in Guinea Bissau. The filmmaker Sana na N'Hada, belonging to that same community, at the time of the film production was himself not initiated. Many years later Sana na N'Hada finally experiences the process through Fanado, what produced the acknowledgement of a personal conflict with his own film: the modernist ethnological look casted upon the events, articulated with his comments in the French language contrasts with the ungraspable, implicated in the opacity of those practices.

Oblique Strategist Too is a multilayered, tangential portrait of composer Brian Eno, and an evocative essay on the creative process. Eno's perspectives on his music and working methods surface elliptically, through interviews and footage of him in the studio and in lectures. Eno emerges as a meticulous musician, articulate critic, and, ultimately, an inscrutable personality. The tape's title is taken from a set of cards bearing aphorisms, which Eno uses as a random element of advice in his working process. Velez uses intricate audio and video effects to heighten the elusive nature of Eno's music and character. He begins the tape with a quote from Heraclitus: "The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself" a paradox that eminently suits his subject matter.

The film tackles Filipinos’ dissatisfaction towards the Marcos regime by documenting the historic “Lakbayan” or “Lakad ng Bayan Para sa Kalayaan” (People’s March for Freedom) held from March 1 to March 7, 1984.

The film is based on the story of the Russian writer Yuri Trifonov, entitled "Obmen".

Steel bridges and oil refineries and container ports. An ode to the shapes of industry, set in motion with music by Glenn Branca and operatic exerpts. –M. G.

Animated film on the human condition which symbolically illustrates the different states of mind experienced by an individual, from birth to death.

Short film by Shin Harada, 8mm. A video work produced for the birthday of Masahide Nokuni, a friend of the Kita Senri High School Film Studies Department.

The black and white collage film was originally made by Pilař at a time when he was getting acquainted with the expressive language of the Nordic band Cobra. At the same time, it falls into the period of his parting with academic modernism in favour of the new language of pop-art. He revisited his film collages and decollages supplemented with animated fluids accompanied by music by The Residents in 1984 as a screener projected onto various surfaces.

Live At Rockpalast in Zedhe Bochum, Germany November 12th, 1984

16mm, 5'00

A film about Stalín not being here

The young Viennese gypsy musician Joshi Szalay travels to India and takes the same route that his ancestors had followed but in the opposite direction. His trip covers Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Anatolia and finally the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. The pop musician encounters gypsies who still retain many of the authentic customs, traditions, morals, taboos, legends and music of their nomadic ancestors.

Enticed by the promise of jobs and fair wages, 100,000 Filipinos immigrated to the U.S. between 1924 and 1935 to toil on California’s farmlands. Because of the exclusion of Filipina women and U.S. anti-miscegenation laws, they survived the loneliness of racial discrimination by creating close-knit bachelor societies where cockfights, poker games and dance halls served as their entertainment, and by entering into common law marriages.

Mexican feature film

West Virginia industrial landscapes are collaged on an optical printer through a series of jagged shapes that transform the photographed scenes into a semi-abstract kinetic field. The technique developed by Brand in his earlier films, extends the already complex visual idiom by inlaying social, sexual, personal and political subject matter. Woven into the fabric of the film is the story of Fred Carter, a retired coal miner and black lung activist who was framed by the Federal Government in its effort to undercut the black lung movement and to stop his bid for president of the United Mine Workers Association. His story is told through fragments of documentary interviews and by a poet whose narrative forms a counter theme within the film. The film’s thematic content and formal visualizations sit in precarious balance.

Waiting for X to Happen playfully uses Super 8mm synch-sound images to do just that.

An ongoing series of static shots of train stations around the world.

A fairy tale about a wonderful ball that laughs merrily and gives adults and children a good mood, making them forget about problems and troubles.

A digitally made short film, compiled from short clips made by different institutions.

Images from the bridge over Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. The inland waterway vessels Rose and Pluie de roses pass each other. Changes pile up and the camera unravels them, through shooting, for a mise en abyme of the fall.

“This work is an interaction of the space, the symbols and the historical context in which I live as a woman on this side of the continent. It is a rosary of alarm, eternal and circular; the alarm of a woman who desires life, light, truth, and solidarity, but who instead sees and receives death and fear. It is a rejection of all that is destruction, and death, yet is depicted almost attractively as innocence.”

The story revolves around the Ajasco family and their comic interpretations to major societal issues

Explores through interviews, photos, and old movies, the development of the tobacco industry in Puerto Rico, focusing on the role of women in their family environment, work, and community.

Documentary short written and directed by Vladimir Tatenko.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1984 directed by Jose Antonio Alonzo and starred Anthony Alonzo, Marianne dela Riva, Fred Montilla, Tita Munoz, Alicia Alonzo, Max Alvarado, Joonee Gamboa, Renato del Prado, and Rodolfo 'Boy' Garcia.