Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

It is dedicated to the moral ideas of Socrates' philosophy.

An extravagant recreation of Bosch's paintings.

A cartoon based on the legend about how a girl helped the Mistress of the Sky find her sheep - the clouds.

"The Return of Roland" was a hosted horror movie show special with John Zacherle as "Roland" presenting movies on WCAU-TV Channel 10, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for one night in 1985.

Haitians make up the largest black community in Quebec: there are over 40,000 of them, the vast majority of them living on the island of Montreal, where they are often the target of prejudice, hostility, and contempt.

Chronicles the history of blacks in Des Moines, Iowa from the mid-1800s to the present. Vintage photos and film clips are used with interviews to detail the contributions of blacks from their first appearance via the Pre-Civil War "underground railroad" to the emotional issues of today. Includes early photos of black businesses and neighborhoods, the beginnings of the Iowa Bystander newspaper, first-hand recollections of the 1920s and 1930s, disruption caused by the freeway construction and urban renewal, and the many innovations and achievements made by Des Moines blacks. Originally aired on WOI-TV on September 10, 1985.

At its core, “Punks and Poseurs” is a narration-free concert film, but it’s cut with terrific interview footage that explores the changing nature of punk, from insider and outsider perspectives. There’s a lot of great footage with writer/performers Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, torpedoing the influx into the music scene of neophyte phonies who just didn’t get it, explaining title of the program. (After this first aired in 1985, a bunch of the new waver/Durannie chicks at my high school—which is to say all the girls who were trying their suburban Ohio best to look like Gehman and Berry—started calling everyone “poseurs,” which was pretty funny.) There’s also a hilarious interview with employees at a store called “Poseur,” which sold punk fashions and accessories—people had to get that shit somewhere before Hot Topic forever banished punk to the mall, no? Also keep an eye out for the kid giving a primer on how to fashion liberty spikes with Knox gelatine.

Juan Torres lives in an isolated house in the shore of an Amazonian river. With a wisdom learnt from life itself, from nature itself he tells us his story.

"A film that creates connections between image and text material and whose appeal lies in its fragmentary [...] destructive, strongly associative character; To see the film as a gloomy fantasy of doom, as a difficult poetic puzzle or simply as an idiosyncratic document of a bizarre fantasy is left to the viewer for himself." -Bielefeld Magazine

Experimental short film preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1985 directed by Pepe Marcos and starred Ramon Revilla, Jr., Lani Mercado, Lyka Ugarte, George Estregan, Raoul Aragonn, Perla Bautista, Rez Cortez, Conrad Poe, and Bomber Moran.

Ken Loach documentary on the end of the 1984 - '85 miners' strike.

“I Hate You Now” is about when you’re in a relationship, and the person you’re in a relationship with starts doing everything you do. So in the film the guy has a burned up face, and his girlfriend burns her face so she can be like him. — Richard Kern

With black humor, presents a bizarre fairy tale set in the Minnesota Territory of 1848 involving a frontier couple and a visitor. Portrays the macabre way they confront madness and isolation.

Film exploring the sensitive issue of disclosing child sexual and physical abuse through the depiction of peer and trusted adult relationships.

Fragments of images emerge from the empty space, and before you know it, a heavy wall surface is built. If you break through it, a flood of light will overflow.

Compilation of early video and film experiments with a live, fried tape manipulation soundtrack by Andrews (The Horse He's Sick, Kurt Volentine, Cut With The Kitchen Knife).

Documentary recording the liberation struggle and the actions of the ANC and the UDF from the blowing up of the Sasol oil plant in 1980 to Nelson Mandela’s rejection of a conditional release from prison, read by his daughter in 1985.

At the age of 8 Michael Cooper (known as Mini) began setting things on fire. Eventually he tried to burn down his own house, with his father inside. Ten years ago an award-winning BBC film told the story of this astonishingly attractive and intelligent child arsonist (Mini wasn't allowed to see it at the time). Since then, for more than half his life, Mini has been locked up in high-security psychiatric care. Mini is now 21. He has recently been released on conditional discharge. Hoping to become a magician, he has taken the stage-name 'Johnny Oddball '. Tonight's film, juxtaposing scenes from past and present, follows Mini's first steps in the outside world, and his struggle to build a career on the fringes of show business. He and his parents battle to understand why they failed in the past and what hope there is for the future. And Mini comes face to face, for the first time, with his actions and their horrifying consequences.

The story was told about the heroism of Luvsantsereng Ayuush, a hero of the People's Republic of China from Togrug Sum, Uvorkhangai Province, who fought tirelessly for his country and freedom at the age of 23.

The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. During the festival, the Paiwan people expect to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors by piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; however, they also try to prevent any harm caused by evil spirits. The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the living, but a meeting of the old and the new.

After a million sales of his best-selling records, this internationally acclaimed children's entertainer is all yours in concert with an irresistible program -- songs for singing, clapping, and moving -- featuring Raffi's inviting voice, 6-string guitar, and kazoo, supported by an active audience. 45 minutes of singalong fun for you and your loved ones. Singable Songs: - child tested, - for home and school, - great with a peanut-butter sandwich. Includes: Workin' On The Railroad, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Wheels On The Bus, Baby Beluga, Six Little Ducks, Shake My Sillies Out, and much more!

A man finds a mannequin torso in the woods and takes it back to his lair

Super 8mm. Colour. Silent, or with live narration. 13 minutes.

This film tackles criticism of our media society according to various self-referential images. To do this, all strategies are good. For example, the citation of classics, the use of traditional films or daily TV programs, the use of pseudo-narration as a pretext, as well as the inclusion of clichés and banalities ...

Film about a provincial worker's life.

Approaches topics such as reproductive welfare, gender, and women’s participation in local society and politics.

The Teatro Regio di Torino from Italy stars in this 1985 performance of Rossini's classic opera. Leading the all-star cast are Lella Cuberi, Daniela Dessi, Rockwell Blake, and Antonio Savastano. The orchestra is conducted by Gabriele Ferro.

This classic feminist tape deviates from David Byrne’s and Jonathan Demme’s popular 1980s versions of suburban life, True Stories. Rather than poking sarcastic fun at the woman locked in the split-level, Suburban Queen poignantly evokes a daughter’s longings. Portraying the relationship of a mother and daughter inextricably bound yet puzzled by each other’s lives, Faber recounts her frustration with her mother’s depression and passivity, and her fantasy of how her mother might transcend these conditions.

The reliefs come to life; hunting and fighting take place. The well-known Assyrian bas-relief of a lioness stabbed with a spear appears. After a while, everything disappears and the image of the cobblestone street returns.

The concept of visual music is explored in this quirky collage of imagery animated directly onto the celluloid surface of 16mm film. In the spirit of Dada, there are recurring themes that include graphic abstraction, mechanical rhythms and the absurd.

"Velkommen hjem, Anders" is the story of how much adversity a former criminal drug addict can experience when he returns to his home village.

In an apocalyptic future, a couple takes refuge in an abandoned building to protect themselves from an epidemic that has caused the annihilation of much of mankind.

During the Iran-Iraq war an orphan boy is taken in by an old man who lives in a cabin deep in the forest.

Little magic and plenty of imagination turns a young man's room into a hub where various adventures await him.

One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within the American Catholic Church and its ongoing struggle with the Vatican.

Between the “red cuts” are dynamic images of Pürrer and Scheirl, some filmed from a screen, often against a red background or completely in red. You can see Pürrer lustful, rolling her eyes back, and throwing combative glances. On the hectic soundtrack you hear screams, sounds of fighting, things breaking.

Richard Loring, Anne Power, Bill Flynn

The winner of the computer games will receive a $5,000 prize. However, the game goes beyond the game salon and turns into a tragedy.

After offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the first 5 minutes of their second reel) entitled "Une histoire A/B du cinéma" (A/B history of cinema), Jean-Luc Godard becomes a film historian, reflecting live and in public on his future Histoire(s) du cinéma (History(s) of cinema), which will not be considered complete until 1998. Edited from Betacam cassette rushes recovered in 2023 and digitized by the Cinémathèque française.

Shows a virgin lesbian in search of her first sexual experience.

A pair of lovers, separated for a decade, meet in a parking lot on the transit route through East Germany.

The street poll proves that the memory of Nowa Huta has faded in the Poles' consciousness. The documentary filmmaker and his team decided to seek out the heroes of those events from 1949-1954, from the beginning of the works to the smelting of the first pig iron from the first furnace.

Zhenya Rodimtseva has to switch schools after her parents' divorce. Most of her classmates are from wealthy families. To blend in with the 'golden' youth and to get her classmate Boris to like her, Zhenya starts making up stories about her secure and carefree life. Unfinished film by Dinara Asanova, one of the most bright directors of «Lenfilm» studio and Soviet cinema as a whole.

The life of a Cuban worker is confronted when his mother, who flew to Miami abandoning him when he was an adolescent, announces her arrival and intention to stay with him, in her old apartment in La Habana.

Uncle Theodor has died and is giving three million guilders to whoever finds the blue diamond. There are two heirs, Mrs. Kakel and Mrs. Ter Beek. They have seven days to find the diamond. Both receive a tape with information on how and where to find the diamond. Mrs. Ter Beek goes searching with her son. Mrs. Kakel, however, has Bram, Lam, and her son follow Mrs. Ter Beek so that the three of them can take the diamond from Mrs. Ter Beek. Who will have the last laugh?

The film is the cinematic encounter of two looks (that of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and that of the filmmaker Boris Lehman) with one voice: that of the singer Esther Lamandier (who goes by the same name as Arié: Mandelbaum means «I'amandier»).

From the material he shot during a three month journey, Peter Mettler edited a lyrical film which is no ordinary travelogue or diary. Without occupying himself in advance with anticipated images, he attempted as often as spontaneously as possible to respond and react to his surroundings, improvising with the camera as one would on a musical instrument. These visual notes allow insights into perceptions, feelings and emotional states in various situations.

A portmanteau of two films about Uluru (then known as Ayres Rock). "A huge isolated rock in the midst of desert in Australia: Ayers Rock. I produced two films around this rock; however, the method of the filming are different. The first, "Moments At The Rock," shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations from the strong sunshine in the desert of Australia, and I was quite surprised by the result which surpassed the color change caused by nature over the rock. This film was awarded Grand Prize at the Edison International Film Festival. In "A Rock In The Light", I requested the music of Haruyuki Suzuki, a contemporary composer. This music is unified with the image, which is visually structured, setting the rock at the center, along the axis of light. For the new DVD version, I titled "Air's Rock" - Takahiko Iimura

The story of a man who lived alone in an atomic fallout shelter after the A-Bomb was dropped, so he can’t read, write or speak. 20 years later the shelter opens and he wanders into a barbaric world full of sex and depravity.