Cinematic Era: 1985 Vintage

Koreans fight against the Japanese.

In a fusion of text and image, Rosler re-presents the NBC Nightly News and other broadcast reports to analyze their deceptive syntax and capture the confusion intentionally inserted into the news script. The artist addresses the fallibility of electronic transmission by emphasizing the distortion and absurdities that occur as a result of technical interference. Stressing the fact that there's never a straight story, Rosler asserts her presence in a character-genererated text that irolls over the manipulated images, isolating excerpts from her sources. In Rosler's barrage of media information, the formal structure is inseparable from her political analysis.

One of the longest films ever made

Directed by Orna Ben-Dor Niv.

A humorous explanation of the fears we share: fear of the darkness, of monsters, of aging, of being overweight, and of global destruction.

Performed as part of the world-famous Arena di Verona festival, this memorable retelling of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera features renowned Russian bass Evgeny Nesterenko in the title role, with supporting performances by bass Silvano Carroli as the Roman general Ezio and soprano Maria Chiara as the vengeful Odabella. Set in fifth century Italy, the story follows the notorious Hun's advance across Europe -- and his subsequent downfall.

American composer Leonard Bernstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in his works Serenade for Violin and Orchestra and Symphony no. 2, "The Age of Anxiety." Additionally, Bernstein leads the Vienna Philharmonic in his composition Divertimento for Orchestra. Violinist Gidon Kremer and pianist Krystian Zimerman contribute their talents in this program, which features special footage of Bernstein explaining his work.

Ranga, a goon, changes his way of life after he falls in love with a simple girl and marries her. He buys a factory and works very hard to transform it into a successful venture.

Bollywood 1985

1980s motion picture starring G.N. Rangarajan

Bollywood 1985

A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens Wake" by James Joyce. Cage freely composed the letters according to a chance operation using the I-Ching.

Short film in which Sid Laverents chronicles his life story. Part 1 of 3.

Confusion, underlying meaning and unspoken truths are often associated with the dialectic of sexual communication. Mingled with the intensity and unpredictability of a “one night stand,” they generate unique sensations – mixed emotion, risk, and excitement. The film employs formal devices in a manner that is exceedingly simple, yet very effective. Its subject matter, sexuality and communication, gains depth and poignancy through the artist’s decision to shoot the film’s three scenes for projection in a “double screen” configuration.

Directed by experimental artist Robert Darroll.

Issa is a traditional weaver in Burkina Faso who loves his trade. However, so as not to lose his clientele and continue making enough to keep his wife, Issa finds himself forced to sell Western clothes.

George Kuchar received his only funding grant for this film ($20,000 from the NEA), and so, freed from the usual financial restraints, he was determined to have a good time and make a “spectacle” with “tons of color” and dazzling superimpositions. A big, colorful tapestry about rumors that are in all of the previous UFO movies. A loose story line that weaves in and out of the UFO phenomenon.

An Educational Film From 1985 By Centron.

The first week of July 1985 finally saw the release of the band's debut album, A Secret Wish. Receiving considerable critical acclaim and some commercial success, it reached number 16 on the UK Album Chart. The album was followed by another single, "p:Machinery", in August 1985, which only reached number 50 in the UK, but was a bigger hit in France, the Netherlands. Recorded at 26th October 1985 during Veronica's Rock Night, Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Taken from a TV broadcast. Very good quality 26th October 1985

Video version of Playboy Magazine, Volume 7

An overview of the daily work of an industrial farm

Peter Rabbit finds himself in a dangerous situation when he disobeys his mother.

A boy lives in a wooden house surrounded by untouched nature. He roams through the forest; in the distance, a lynx pads along. In the dream, the boy and the lynx are friends. The forestry machines begin to devour...

Hong Kong film

David Attenborough introduces the mammals of Britain.

A film about the successive stages of the inner loss of one's homeland.

Another animation demo reel from Cranston/Csuri Productions, circa 1985. Mostly "flying logo" commercials and TV station IDs, but also a few experimental bits that might be recognizable from various computer animation compilations.

A single mother with her son visits an old lady who enjoys reading her old friend Elin Wägner's books and pondering man's relationship with nature.

Experimental short by Visual Brains.

A year in the life of star fourteen-year-old Welsh boy soprano Aled Jones.

Computer vision and interaction work done at Connecticut's Artificial Reality Lab.

A video about the emotional experience with nature. A woman with a tale meets sirens, mermaids and other fantastic creatures in the garden of Lusts — between Paradise and Hell.

An Animated short film by Jim Reardon

Short film.

Experimental Gothic Video Art

When the war broke out, two brothers—Askhat and Murat—left for the front. Only Askhat returned home. Murat, however, was taken prisoner; he ended up in Germany, where he was recruited into an intelligence school. After the war, he lived in the West. Thirty-five years later, Murat—now an agent for the anti-Soviet émigré community—returned to his native village as a tourist. His former fiancée, Bermet, had married Askhat, and the couple was now raising their grandchildren. Upon learning that Bermet had given birth to a daughter back during the war, Murat realized that both the daughter and the grandchildren were his. Yet, he made no claims to them; instead, he silently accepted the role of a mere observer—and in that capacity, he returned to Munich.

Like the boy who caught and caged birds, he was turned into a bird by a forest fairy and finally learned to be compassionate.

You are about to enter the sea, to spend half an hour with some of the most fascinating and enigmatic animals on earth, the whales and dolphins. You will meet the petite spinner dolphin, named for its tendency to jump and spin, the humpback whale, whose eerie songs fill the ocean realm with natural music, the killer whale, master of the oceans, the mighty blue whale, largest animal ever to live on earth, and more.

The ultimate journey along the Kimberley coast in a luxury charter boat. Visit the scenic gorges, Montgomery Reef, the waterfalls and rivers.

Portrait of Tobagonian calypsonian Shadow performing in London and discussing his music.

The short film is dedicated to the restoration of fish stocks in the Sea of ​​Azov.

Evangeline Galicia profiles the late Jose de Vega, a celebrated Filipino American dancer and actor who made his acting debut playing “Chino” in West Side Story. He subsequently appeared in numerous stage and film productions and served as the artistic director of Great Leap Productions for many years.

This experimental music film, ranging from punk to classical music and loosely based on E. A. Poe, depicts a man on a quest. What is fascinating about it is that you may know that what you are looking for does not exist, but you continue searching anyway. Why?

Everything is far-fetched: vague images appear. Nothing happens except the happening itself. Puzzle pieces fit together anagrammatically... A film anagram about the myth of the labyrinth, Ariadne, and Minos. While a painter paints the picture of a woman, the woman becomes a victim of her imagination while washing her hair. Her hair becomes an allegorical Ariadne's thread, which gets caught in the labyrinth of her imagination and ultimately becomes the painter's brush.

The performers imitate a world of work, entertainment, and emotions, as well as its language. In doing so, they create a new world composed of an unmanageable number of patterns and stereotypes.

Al Helween Forest is a children play about rabbits and wolves.

"Julian Józef Antonisz's 'Polish Non-Camera Chronicle No. 6' was honored at the 30th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen (1984) with the Grand Prize and the FIPRESCI Award. On this occasion, the film's director participated in a tour of cities in the Federal Republic of Germany, which he documented in a non-camera reportage. As this was his first official festival trip, his observations are relatively spontaneous," the narrator states at the beginning.

Memorably bizarre TV version of Ruth Page's ballet. Alice goes down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass to win her crown, but she also takes a detour to the moon where she meets stars, an astronaut, and signs of the Zodiac.

Short film that registers the life of the toba community in Bermejo, Chaco, at the end of 1985.