Cinematic Era: 1984 Vintage

A woman positions a knife handle against a closed door, with the blade pointing back at her. Should anyone try to enter the room, she will almost certainly die.

Inspired by Len Lye. Contacts of torn film segments, representing the head of a man with cap.

1984 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

Based on the title and a premise from my undergraduate thesis, this one also goes back to the impact of seeing my first Brakhage film, MOTHLIGHT. From that experience and later graduate studies with him, to the eventual making of this film, the inherent visual beauty of his work.

Based on the poem "For Children" by Nazim Hikmet.

All hell breaks lose in a haunted house.

The life of the Lenca indigenous community in Honduras develops according to the agricultural cycle of corn. The film is a description of the religious rituals they preserve.

The third theme of the series: A Few Tunes Going Out. A collection of songs, stories, scattered and interchangeable conversations during the Memorial Day demonstration.

Rock Ross' goddess film. Whimsy. Remarkable whimsy of hyperactive proportions.

The frantic opacity of being alive.

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

1984 Linda Christanell experimental short

Short experimental film by Austrian filmmaker Linda Christanell

1984 German super 8 short work

A troubling nightmare vision of the Moroccan past from which the protagonist cannot free himself.

Made using footage from USA Olympics in Los Angeles 1984 and snippets of Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States. The footage was combined at Goldsmith's Art Department using an unusual Grass Valley mixer that had oscillating wipes which created the signature colours and wiggly lines. (Modern Art Oxford) Barber was always the most polished of the Scratch video artists, and Tilt shows his ability to make seductive, easy-viewing pieces, while maintaining a subversive undercurrent.

The complete 2 hour performance that was lensed at London's Hammersmith Odeon in 1984! The footage include 5 songs that the band thought had been erased by their record company, but had merely been misplaced in the archives. Onstage personnel included Andrew Latimer (guitars, flutes, vocals), Colin Bass (bass, vocals), Paul Burgess, Ton Scherpenzeel & Richie Close (keyboards) and Chris Rainbow (vocals).

Commissioned by Projects UK in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and featured on the Pieces compilation VHS. "A polemic - of a sort."

Men At Work: Live In San Francisco Or Was It Berkeley

The thirteen animated films in Tales of King Matthias are a tribute to the work of perhaps the most demanding animation team in the country, the artists of the Kecskemét Studio.

Aduththaduththu is a 1984 Malayalam film directed by Sathyan Anthikkad. The film stars Mohanlal, Lizy Priyadarshan, Ashokan and Bahadur in lead roles.

Brilliant conductor Andre Previn leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a stirring performance of Brahms's "Symphony No. 4." As part of the recorded series Sounds Magnificent: The Story of the Symphony, Previn introduces the Brahms piece before offering historical background by discussing the composer's fascinating life. Other installments in the series include works by composers such as Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

The Garden of Eden is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Roger M. Sherman. The film posits that in the next 30 years, 20% of all forms of life will cease to exist. It argues that it can be for good business to save the environment: discoveries in the plant, animal, and microbiology worlds show that what you might think of as unimportant could be the cure to a major disease, save an entire species of plant, or ward off pests. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

1.Fast as a Shark 2.Restless and Wild 3.Love Child 4.Turn Me On 5.Princess of the Dawn 6.Guitar Solo 7.Son of a Bitch 8.London Leatherboys 9.Balls to the Wall

Pixilation of the portuguese fado "O Médico e a Duquesa".

A mystery thriller directed by Jo Baier.

Documentary about the process canned pineapple takes from cultivation to sale.

On New Year's Eve's “Blue Light” program, Soviet film expert Dal Orlov interviews the cartoon character Leopold the Cat.

Jimmy Page's The Firm

A diary film. A university student reflects on his time at uni, longing for the days when he was "pretty naive".

Raivo and Martin are teammates. Martin was a kicked out from the Soviet Union team, but hopes to get back there. Raivo has everything to reach top, but hasn’t decided what to do. His relationship with Kristiina is also messed up. There is no consensus at home either - in mother's opinion it is wiser to go to school and acquire a proper profession. However, the multi-day race of the Spartakiat of nations is ahead.

A boy looks into a magical microscope and discovers a world of strange creatures. Upon seeing the boy's huge eye, the creatures begin to worship him. An ambitious evil emperor oppresses and forces the other creatures to build a tower so that he can get hold of the eye.

Like a bulletin board that has all kinds of notices next to each other, Jenoe Farkas’ documentary on the various inhabitants of Copenhagen, filmed over a several-year period, has all sorts of people and events on display, but not one unifying theme or any cinematic artifice to link them together.

The film portrays six women oyster farmers in the Marennes-Oleron Bay (Charentes-Maritimes). It explores their working and living conditions, the hardships of the profession, the division of tasks between men and women and the professional status of female farmers. Several women in the oyster-farming bay form a professional association.

A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

Filmed live during D.O.A.'s 1984 tour of the United Kingdom, this full-length concert captures the unrestrained energy that made the band famous and helped them establish the punk phenomenon in Canada in the late 1970s and early '80s. The Vancouver natives perform "Seething Wells," "Burn It Down," "Rich Bitch," "Slum Lord," "America," "New Wave Sucks," "The Enemy," "I'm Right You're Wrong," "Our World" and more.

Timelapse-photography of the afternoon sunrise in Tromsø on winter solstice. Sound is from a news broadcast the same day.

Based on Itou Keiichi's novel "Elegy for the Setting Sun".

The Peace River Valley in British Columbia is an area of rich farmland threatened by the construction of a hydro-electric dam. This Borrowed Land gives the women who farm the Peace the chance to voice their growing concern over the conversion of farmland to uses not related to the production of food. They ask: "Will we leave our children enough land to grow food on?" They are firmly committed to their lifestyle despite the difficulties, both concrete and imponderable. A film about agriculture, ecology, land misuse, and stout-willed farmers who happen to be women.

Short movie

It shows the characteristics of the work and life of mining workers, which is a major industry of socialist society, and how the consciousness of the working class develops over generations.

Hyun, Yeni, and Ttoki are invited to the Green Planet, where they meet Prince Byzantine, who has lost his courage to a one-eyed tyrant from the Red Planet. Determined to help him, they journey there, escape captivity, discover the villain’s weakness, and defeat him before returning safely. When they later arrive on Earth, the prince becomes the target of exploitation after they’re swept into a circus, forcing him to part ways with his friends—though their bond remains unbroken.

Lost episode which contains R. Bradbury's "Smile".

In 1984, everyone started making versions of Carmen, which passed into the public domain (presumably). the Masters of the World could not deviate from this fashion... This video was broadcast in "Haute Tension" ("Les Enfants du Rock"), an antechamber of canal + emerging...

Pete Drummond introduces a concert by Curtis Mayfield from the Marcus Garvey Centre, Nottingham.

A character lives alone in a hut in the forest. One day, tired of waiting in vain for someone to visit him, he decides to leave his hut.

Winner of the World Amateur Film of the Year, The Magic Man stars Rowel Friers (Artist and Political Cartoonist) as Mesmero, a magician who tours with his wife around remote villages with their magic and mind-reading act. When three local thugs convince themselves that the magic man will reveal their crimes to the police, they hatch a plan to steal his mind-reading glasses. However, things go awry and the brutes get more than they bargained for.

Made in Butetown, Cardiff, shows that black communities have been developing since the 1850s. Whereas in the 20th century the 'new' communities are made up of black industrial labour, in the 19th century they began with black colonial seamen. The Tiger Bay community faced official, as well as everyday physical harassment which culminated in the 1919 race riots and a scheme for repatriation. The people of Butetown lived through the Depression in the 1930s and many of them served and died in World War Two. Since the 1950's they have come to share the broader experience of the newer black communities.

In Paris, there is a network of men married to young Filipinas, chosen through an international agency. Here is the portrait of a couple from this business: immersed in a happiness that drowns the spectator.

Short film by John Latham for Channel 4.

DJ Princess Julia and artist Holly Warburton engage in a shadowy, necromantic rite. A particularly ornate, gothic exploration of the shadow world, beautifully realised on Super-8.

I lived in Aomori until my first year of high school. My memories of Yoriko, the girl in the white blouse. I moved to a new school and after a long time, I came to Aomori. I call Yoriko. The story of my youth is told through subtitled conversations, stills and live-action. The film's fresh visuals, which make use of experimental techniques such as frame stretching and special filters, and the lyrical music permeate the film in a pleasant way.