Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.

Gantar has finished his education in a boarding school and decided to return home. On his way, he found an unkown dead body. The body was hugging a box. Gantar decided to take the box but did not open it. He thought that he will meet the owner of the box one day.

The film provides information about the course and symptoms of AIDS, the effect of AIDS viruses on the immune system, the routes of infection, the main risks of infection and the protective measures against them.

Camera and film inter-relate: the camera is massaged by the film at 24 frames per second, the film is massaged by the camera.

A woman feels like she is being followed in a park. Maybe she is ?

The life and work of Halle-born Georg Friedrich Händel, the Händel Museum, and the Händel Festival in Halle are presented.

A road appears on the horizon, a star passes above the road. A journey begins. It turns out to be a journey through life and the 20th century. We can see the character’s point of view.

They went to keep the peace. But 241 died-caught in a military and political cross fire. One year after the pullout of American Marines from Lebanon, Frontline correspondent William Greider examines the decision and asks: Where should Americans die, and what should they die for?

It tells the story of Tuya, an engineer who is refurbishing old factory equipment, shows the process at a match factory, and falls in love with the three families of an old-fashioned boss.

Documentary about the tango singer and composer Carlos Gardel. It includes fragments of his films and testimonials from friends and biographers.

In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Four years later—the Islamic calendar's year 1362—, director Volker Koepp visited Kabul and neighboring provinces. Koepp met a cross-section of people, such as soldiers, intellectuals, kids, and nomads, and with sensitive intensity told stories of their daily lives in the turmoil of an “undeclared war.” This travelogue, which was undertaken with the GDR’s consent, took a political risk because it expresses Koepp’s doubt that conflicts can be solved through military invention.

After getting married Nína and Hjörtur decide to use the money they got as wedding gifts on drugs, but not everything goes according to plan.

Survivor - Live In Japan 1985

Just Friends - A classic Australian children's telemovie about growing up, peer pressure, friendship and family. When Susan Foster moves to a new suburb she has difficulty fitting in. Susan's home life is uncomfortable with an unemployed father, a distant mother and an unexpectedly pregnant big sister. Susan seeks refuge at the local Roller Skate rink where she meets Buzz, the brash young gang leader and the best skater in town. Susan becomes part of Buzz's gang but is soon confronted with his selfish behaviour and cruel treatment of his friends. Susan must decide which is more important to her - fitting in or being fair. Just Friends is part of the Winners series of television programs created by the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

A poetic documentary on the Italian poet Cesare Pavese and his connection to two particular locations - the city of Turin and the village of Santo Stefano Belbo. 16mm, color

Lunatics in the subway Take a break at the diner Goggles seen from near Astrid is very seductive and reprimands the child Favorite family-shots sneaking in Make a move upside down Toilette and confusion in orange light Marching on the meadow and the simultaneous fall in the counter-post Astrid cannot hold back the laughter Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah (Scheirl)

It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown is an animated documentary television special based on characters from the Peanuts comic strip. Hosted by Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, the television special originally aired on the CBS network on 14 May 1985. The special featured highlights of the Peanuts specials produced over the last twenty years,

A film about the joys, affection and rivalry in a childrens' singing camp.

The head of a newly created office against illegal employment exchange is supposed to stop undeclared work and the shadow economy in his sphere of influence. At the end of the investigation, an international building tycoon, a desperate small businessman and an unemployed man are caught in his investigative net.

Bujang is a village boy who is always bullied by the slaves of evil. In one day, it was announced that a martial arts tournament to be held in the village. Bujang register himself to play, but the village children make fun of him. Bujang upset because he always despised went to see a martial arts teacher. At first martial arts teacher would not accept Bujang but after much persuasion, he began teaching martial arts teacher Bujang ways to learn martial arts so unusual.

See and learn what real firearms and bullets will and won't do. Forget the Hollywood nonsense. Machine guns, shotguns, assault rifles, and pistols are demonstrated and explained. Will a bullet really knock a man down? Which bullets will penetrate a car door? How quiet is a real silencer? How effective is full-auto fire? This program is used by thousands of law enforcement and military agencies.

Dutch 1980s hard rock band Vandenberg perform a blistering set of tunes live in Japan, such as "Heading for a Storm," "Ready for You," "Back on My Feet" and "Friday Night." Music videos for "Burning Heart," "Love In Vain" and "Different Worlds" are also included. Featuring member interviews and details about the band's history, the bonus documentary segment entitled "Single Luck" explores the group's one-hit wonder status.

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to consider, and to leave for others in just that way, the evidence uncontaminated by compulsive proprietary misapplied artistry, "editing", the purposeful "pointing things out" that cuts a road straight and narrow through the cine-jungle; we barrel through thinking we’re going somewhere and miss it all. Better to just be pointed to the territory, to put in time exploring, roughing it, on our own. For the straight scoop we need the whole scoop, or no less than the clues entire and without rearrangement. O, for a Museum of Found Footage, or cable channel, library, a shit-museum of telling discards accessible to all talented viewers/auditors. A wilderness haven salvaged from Entertainment."

A young Dublin couple illegally move into a local authority flats complex with their two young children in an effort to start a new life together. Things begin to unravel for the young couple and they soon come into contact with the hard pressed local social services.

A synthesis of documentary, dramatic, and experimental styles, this film follows two women recollecting their personal and familial experiences from World War II. One woman recounts the story of an aunt from story Hiroshima whose father had been a member of the peace party when the militarist government forced its way to power. Exiled from Japan they were then interned with Canadians of Japanese descent. The other woman recounts the details of her experience as a young nurse on the morning of August 6, 1945.

The film tells the story of Adile, a day laborer.

Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves.

A barrage of incidents are images connected, in sense, by nonsense. Fish leap on the heads of men riding camels in the desert./Ants crawling over planes flying upside down and in the water. A bear that can't get out of the frame by force of an optical printer. Animation, live, and found and filmed footage with similar soundtrack.

Trygaeus visits Gods to make them stop all the war on Earth.

Emphasizes the uppercase alphabet and beginning sounds in seven short segments using original music, animation, puppets and live action.

The documentary shows the living and working conditions of two categories of women working in the fishing port of Lorient in Brittany. Close on 800 women work there in conditions that have barely changed in 50 years. They are on their feet all the time, carrying heavy loads and working with ice in the cold and the damp. At night, women sort the fish, by day others filet the fish (tidal and processing workers).

Made in the wake of the Brixton uprisings, Street Warriors explores the tensions that exist between community building and the increasing professionalisation of a south London street hockey team.

Aristotle's Mistake was commissioned by Talk Back to the Media and was broadcast on Dutch television. The video concerns the Onassis/Callas/Kennedy triangle explored from the point of view of six different cultures: Dutch, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Malay and Polish. Here Carrión appropriates and experiments with the television genre of documentary. Each of the six interviewees recounts their love of Maria Callas and her music and their disgust at Onassis for leaving her for Kennedy. This video explores, deconstructs and critiques 'reality' as conjured up by the mass media. This is made all the more pertinent and effective by its insertion into mainstream television programming.

A dystopian view of the future in the year 2005. Disa applies for a job in the data section of the department of traffic safety.

A young boy, who is never loved by his father, grows up to become a spoilt and alcoholic man. However, he turns his life around when he falls in love with a simple woman.

The young lovers were excited to see the masochist woman's training play, and ended up training both of them at the same time...

A compelling account of the return by a group of dispossessed Aboriginal people to their ancient tribal grounds in the Northern outreaches of this continent.

A colorful image processing work incorporating figurative and abstract imagery. Video begins with the buildup of individual pixels, which soon gives way to animated abstract patterns and, sometimes built around a silhouetted head of a man. Scored to Steve Reich’s’ “Music for 18 Musicians.”

Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

Night. A man drowns in a rough sea. A lighthouse guard risks his life to save a drowned man. He gives him food, gives him his bed. When the lighthouse guard falls asleep, the rescued man steals his boat. As the next lighthouse approaches, he submerges the boat and starts shouting for help.

The akashic record of certain past lifetimes of the Cosmic Visionary, Uriel, provides the viewer with a glimpse of the magnitude of the accomplishments of this Spiritual Being! As a Wayshower to mankind, Uriel has incarnated as a king, queen, artist, scientist, priest, and poet, reflecting to mankind a science of life that has helped develop a spiritual climate in eastern and western civilizations. Not limited in concept, her lifetimes have not been isolated to one planet but have extended to many other earth worlds as well. You are invited to enter these pages of history, perhaps to find your place in one or more of these civilizations of the past.