Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

An aerobics instructional video that is pure 1980s.

This U-matic video incorporates a number of frequent images from Wada's oeuvre: a camera advancing down a colonnaded pedestrian walkway beneath an elevated train line, the figure of a woman with her back to the camera retreating down a street toward a vanishing point by walking or running, and various seascapes. These scenes are spliced together in seemingly random order, sometimes inserted into each other or reshot through close-ups of video monitors. At times the footage is so heavily mediated and re-mediated that images blur into shadow and light, disappear into CRT phosphor dots, or shift hues and patterns from oversaturation and noise. A soundtrack by Hideki Yoshida accompanies the entire sequence, featuring echoing electronic patterns and long tones interspersed with ambient sounds of traffic and beachfront waves. This work was first screened at the Worldwide Video Festival in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands, in 1986.

A stop-motion work in which illustrations were drawn on the surface of a three-dimensional object, such as a regular polyhedron, and filmed as they were replaced. My first three-dimensional animation. (Yuko Asano).

Film by Shirouyasu Suzuki, 1985, 16mm, 54min

Explains the importance of paying attention, asking for help when it's needed, being prepared, developing good study habits and respecting school property.

Filmed for Rai 3 and aired on two evenings on 29 March and 5 April 1986, A train in the heart of the south is a journey that follows the "marginal" railways of the south and the marginalized who are found along them. Filmmakers and travelers Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi reveal the confined and marginalized Italy that has nothing in common with the glossy images of the 1980s. As always with the couple of filmmakers born on the wave of underground cinema, the filmed space is a conflictual space, which "fists with reality".

From the "James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met" DVD box set. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s landmark production of Mozart’s most human comedy provides the perfect setting for this superb cast under James Levine’s ebullient leadership. The philandering and arrogant Count Almaviva (Thomas Allen) is no match for his wily servant Figaro (Ruggero Raimondi), whose soon-to-be-wife Susanna (Kathleen Battle) is as manipulative as she is charming. Add in one beautiful, disillusioned Countess (Carol Vaness) and one irrepressible, testosterone-laden teenage boy (Cherubino, played by Federica von Stade), and it’s no wonder some critics say this is the perfect opera.

Obituary for a young man.

Hawkwind's classic stage production of "The Chronicle of the Black Sword" as performed at London's Hammersmith Odeon 1985. Based on the "Elric" stories by Michael Moorcock.

An intimate portrait of filmmaker Peter Pewas.

Two funny stories about useful plants and forest creatures.

Scottish romantic comedy.

One morning, the little mouse crawls out of its hole and decides to have a look around. He hops over hill and dale, marvels at grasses and flowers, overcomes holes and hills, experiences a thunderstorm and an adventurous trip on the water and finally returns tired to his hiding place at home. She proudly believes she has seen the whole wide world.

About the General director of the Leningrad association "Electrosila" B.I.Fomin.

Using the example of a number of farms in the Tula, Gorky regions, and the Estonian SSR, the film tells about the development of local industry in rural areas - one of the factors in solving the problem of securing rural personnel.

In this short film, made on the occasion of a visit by Maurice Hasson to Mérida to perform in concert, he evokes in a warm conversation his indelible memories and deeply human experiences of his life in Mérida.

Mike Bidlo’s performative re-creation of Yves Klein's, "Anthropométries de l'époque bleue" at the Palladium in NYC.

The Pink Windmill Kids look for ways to amuse themselves in their spare time. They soon find, however, that dabbling in things that shouldn't be dabbled in can lead to disappointment, frustration, inconvenience, and mass murder.

The story takes place in the past, the present and the future. A medieval witch returns as a ghost.

Here any movement is quickly evacuated to make way for something transgressive. The alternation is tumultuous.

Experimental short.

Experimental short.

AN EROTIC MYSTERY. AN INNOCENT GIRL BY DAY AND A VAMP BY NIGHT. NENE MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR THE HERO TO KEEP THE DEVIL IN HIM FROM COMING OUT.

Most people believe their home is their castle. But it isn't. If the council want it, it's theirs. Billy and Gordon Howard still believe Rose Cottage belongs to them. Barnsley Council knows better. It has placed a compulsory purchase order on the cottage and surrounding land. Legally the council is the owner. The bachelor brothers are 65 and 73. They are set in their ways and absolutely refuse to budge. They doggedly refuse to recognise the validity of an order confirmed by a Secretary of State. Their stance is a symbol of the impossibility of reconciling individual freedom with community needs. For when the bailiffs come, the brothers say they will shoot, rather than give up their birthright.

A moral film about the life and optimistic work of transport drivers led by Dondog, and how they take care of their colleagues and the upbringing of their children.

Early filmed theater performance by avant-garde artist Wen Pulin.

A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Your First Step Towards True Enjoyment of the Sport. Improve your performance! Learn to Ski Naturally in Powder, on Ice!

The Hawaiian people have a rich historical and cultural tradition. Their values, art, music, gods and legends reach back thousands of years to ancient Polynesia, where they lived before sailing to the islands we know as Hawai‘'i. Recently, there have been efforts to revitalize these traditions and teach them to young Hawaiians. Hawai'i: Continuing Traditions looks at ways in which the “"spirit of the land" lives today, as we explore special places, where old ways are thriving in the modern world. Visit a working taro plantation in Maui and an isolated fishing village on the isalnd of Hawai‘'i. Discover how a small community in Kaua‘'i creates beautiful shell necklaces, and voyage back in time on an ancient Polynesian sailing canoe.

A man arrives home from work and relaxes. Who is he?

Staged under the 4th St Bridge in LA. Sponsored by LACE. Featuring the one and only Pig-Pull, as well as Machines by Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert and Eric Werner.

Augusta Christmas special. The gifts she's bought aren't what they seem.

Holy Cross is the first in a series of video paintings that Fitzgerald generated with the Fairlight Computer Video Instrument and then manipulated in real time. Fitzgerald writes that "Holy Cross encompasses apocalyptic images of religion, repression and universal destruction, with the underlying question, 'Is religion salvation or an age-old provocateur of death and destruction?'" Highly gestural, at once vividly colorful and ominously dark, this work reveals the gesture of the human hand through a maelstrom of electronic brush strokes evocative of Expressionist painting.

Bogota misunderstandings about the tribulations of a street vendor who tries to honestly earn his daily bread.

Dean Decent studies the organic relationship between Love/Sex.

Film by Jochen Gerz.

Another Holiday Diary film from George Kuchar

Memories and wishes are giving some color to the non-sense.

Life and paintings of the Uruguayan artist during his American period in New York.

A man recalls his life's story while on a train.

Short film.

Animated short film