Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

Thai horror film.

Experimental film.

Adriano Abbado’s first digital work, derived from the videotape Viaggio, Voyager is composed of a series of static images that dissolve one each other in various ways. The music was created with analog electronic instruments. Voyager is a narration with images from primitive cultures to sidereal spaces.

A film by Pascal Kané.

This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.

A Super 8 short film about a teen suffering from hallucinations after hitting a green creature with his car.

Captain Micro is a floppy disc jockey presenting the first comic you can play on your video!

16mm experimental short film.

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.

Death Squad: Directed by Francis Posadas. With Muhammad Faisal, Jing Abalos, Rex Lapid, Danny Riel.

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

A drama about a girl reluctant to leave the desolation of Birmingham to return to her home on Anglesey.

What’s a star in a movie? A black dot in the film negative. In the nineteen eighties I enjoyed painting on 35mm blank film and painted a negative. That means every frame was painted in reverse color - black became white, blueish green became red, yellow was to be sort of blue. The result: all colors are on black background - like in the windows in old cathedrals. The music was improvised after the film was finished by Jasper van’t Hof, vocals by Eva Mattes. The film was premiered in competition at the Berlinale 1985.

A young woman, Yoriko, who has repeatedly attempted suicide since the disappearance of her beloved brother, runs barefoot through heaven and hell, dreams and reality.

A fictional biography of the Polish composer Mieczysław Karłowicz. The film focuses on several important episodes in the artist's life: his first successes, a strong relationship with his mother, an unfulfilled feeling for his cousin, love for the mountains. Karłowicz died during a lonely hike in the Tatra Mountains, under a snow avalanche. He was only on the threshold of a great career. He was 32 years old.

On a country road, a car catches sight of a man standing on the side of the road. The man gives a signal to the car. But the car passes by. Using a large number of still photographs, this experimental animation shows the hitchhiker's inability to wait for a car. A dizzying amount of work has gone into this 9-minute film.

A portrait of the folk music, culture and lifestyle of the people of Qeros, high in the Peruvian mountains.

The wife of a wealthy peasant cheats on him with a resident of a nearby town. The husband decides to bring the lovers to justice.

The film traces the last year of the life of the great Bulgarian poet Peio Yavorov. A real love tragedy started from the shot that took the life of the poet's wife to the last moment of Yavorov's life.

In this episode of The Live! Show, created in collaboration with Texas Tech University, "Dr. Videovich" goes to Texas. He takes the pulse of the public by asking the residents of the town of Lubbock for their opinions on art, television, and art-on-television. An affectionate portrait of a diverse community, Saludos Amigos! is also Davidovich's comedic masterpiece. In this satirical inquiry into American television viewing habits, Davidovich investigates the complicated dynamic that can exist between specific local histories and a more over-arching sense of national identity. The piece includes footage of Bob Hope fielding the artist's questions on the topic of video art at a press conference.

Short film by Helena Villovitch

This film describes life in San Francisco through the windows of the director’s apartment.

Short 8mm film by Kawamura Mitsuhiko made in the third year of university. A twenty year old broken heart, Showa romance.

A visual/aural non-linear narrative. A layering of ideas, facts, opinions, prejudices, fears, and styles. The story is based upon the innuendoes and interrelationships of four main characters – Gary, Gina, Jeanette and Paul. Distinct video forms are used to build the narrative and to handle the complex range of information and technical styles. The video’s intent is to develop a broader understanding and tolerance by its viewers towards a new sexual attitude.

The film tells the story of writer Regīna Ezera. The writer swims in a lake, shops at the market, writes on a typewriter at home, and writes the book "Nostalgia." R. Ezera rides a train at the Riga Railway Station. Regīna Ezera at a congress in Moscow.

The band performed 15 songs at the concert, which was edited down to nine songs for this release. Originally it came out in the UK as a free album with initial 30,000 copies of the Dreamtime LP and also as side 2 of the Dreamtime cassette. In November 1996, it was remastered, and the full show released on video and CD. Vinyl bootlegs of this do exist, where the recording has been tested with the original, and is known to be poor.

Humanity does not learn from its mistakes, every time a situation of survival arises, people act selfishly, and are ready to bite their throats, and only when an incorrigible disaster occurs, they realize the perniciousness of their act. And in the story, two people meet in the desert, an Asian and an Eurasian, each going their own way and looking for something different. But they enter into a conflict over a water skin, and while they are fighting, the water flows out and only then they realize that they could share. And now they were both without water.

"The tellingly titled Dialogue for Two Players, also 1984, moves into quasi-dramatic space, in which the seemingly spontaneous relationships, are revealed not just as a construct but also as a complex puzzle. It implicitly comments on and critiques the 'confessional' modes of video and its illusion of real presence. It thus rejects that was at the time a dominant style in artist's video, turning on its head the simpler versions of the slogan that 'the personal is political'. At the same time it is a political work in a different sense, questioning the popular TV format of the in-depth personal interview which it ironizes. As such, and with Partridge himself playing the part of interviewer/director, it is his most overt 'intervention' into documentary drama even as he subverts it." - Al Rees

Super 8mm. Colour. Silent. 10 minutes.

In this video, visit Yorktown, Virginia, scene of the culminating battle of the American Revolution. Relive the dramatic events leading to the capture of General Lord Cornwallis and the British defeat in the autumn of 1781. As the narrator relates the historical significance, strategy, and tactics of this intense siege, regiments in period costume re-enact scenes of the battle between the British Army, and the combined American and French forces led by General George Washington.

"I have been working with found materials since 1980. For me the process has been similar to nostalgia. In both experiences there is an overwhelming desire to perfectly recreate the original. Although this seductive temptation is deadening and also impossible, it is nevertheless a powerful motivating force. In the midst of this tug-of-war between continual embrace and perpetual rejection, I created PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS."

We are put in a world where television has complete power. "Flaming Arrow", the hero of the film, is the only one among the masses of TV dependent people who still knows genuine feelings. We feel with him. He takes up the fight against the power of the media. He meets with the same problems as we do: to recognize what is reality and what is film.

The film focuses on the relation between image and sound. A movement through space and emptiness describes a state of desire.

Made for a piece of music that David Burnand had given to Andrew Kötting. He had sent a copy on cassette to Miles Davis in the hope that he might hear back from him. He never did. Remixed for the film with additional voices on the director's 4 track “Portastudio”.

The film is about a proud bird.

A film about the former partisan commander Vilis Samsons.

Stop motion animation about a hunter and his dog

Documentary about the organization -Mujeres Libres- that narrates, through interviews, their participation in the Spanish civil war and their day-to-day struggle as anarchists and as women, in war and in the revolution. The protagonists talk about how they got involved in the war, about their relationships with other anarchist organizations and about their lives since then. Decades later, Mujeres Libres is still a model of revolutionary feminism.

The West is alive (Der Westen Lebt) is a highly charged work, a powerful visual metaphor of desire within the symbolism of Western cultural mythology. A man and a woman fighting for a kiss collide on-screen with a repeated film fragment of the thrusting pistons of an oncoming train. The couple's erotic interplay is at once passionate, violent and ironic.

A film by Leslie Singer

Pretenders perform live at Rock Pop Festival, Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany as they tour for Learning to Crawl. Also included a live clip of "Waterloo Sunset" filmed for UK television.

A film by Jill Westwood

The Nicaraguan Revolution and the US presence in the country since the 1930s, highlighting the overthrow of the Somoza regime in 1978–79.

Director Derek Hart takes us where we've never been and shows us what we've never seen backstage at St. Petersburg's famed Kirov Ballet--arguably the best classical ballet troupe in the world. The company was responsible for producing Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker as well as Baryshnikov, Makarova, Nureyev, Pavlova and Nijinsky.

"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to domesticity (kitchen implements), clothing (shoes), the housing situation (want ads), feminist film (Annette Kuhn's book Women's Pictures), relationships, claustrophobia. The final shots show the dollhouse outside, up in the branches of a tree - by the effort of cinema, the dollhouse has become a tree-house. This thematic movement mirrors the movement of Barbara Hammer's films in the last few years: from preoccupation with inside/the body, to a claiming of outside/the landscape." —Claudia Gorbman, Jump Cut.

Life is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." William Shakespeare, with words written four centuries ago, inspired animator Jacques Giraldeau to dwell on man's passion for life, and his propensity to destroy himself. The result, Opéra zéro, is a technically complex and fascinating animation film using cut-outs, drawings, xerography, prints, photography, etching and engraving techniques, and requiring more than 50 000 different manipulations of the material.

"...the main thing, both during filming and during editing, was not to pay attention, simply to wait to be surprised by a detail and let myself be carried away to another visualization in a dance-like movement."

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.