1985 Movies

A little silent film from 1985, shot on Super8 and blown up to 16mm/reworked on the optical printer at the LFMC. The film comments on its time through...

Loosely based on August Strindberg’s play. Tale of house madness. Living together in the same house, driving each other mad.

Based on his own short story, the film deals with the theme of infidelity.

Mike Builds a Shelter is a performance comedy with apocalyptic overtones, a narrative extension of Smith's installation Government Approved Home Fallo...

Józef comes to Krakow, where he is to participate in the jubilee of Nowa Huta.

This film is one of nine animated shorts released on 16mm in the mid-1980s by Benchmark Films as part of the educational “Fairy Tale Series.”

Saint Moses was a bought slave of a wealthy landowner. He had a tough and awkward character and created a lot of problems every day, until his boss go...

Short animated dinosaur film.

Student film entered into Channel 4's Time Piece competition in 1987. Third prize winner.

The Paris-Dakar Rally is one of the last great motorsport adventures, travelling thousands of miles through the most challenging terrain on Earth. In...

Words of the poet Mahmoud Darwish float through this film: “Tell me. Perhaps I will remember my home whose perfume is only on my lips.” A 17-year-old...

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

Film created by off camera light projection and bonding foreign emulsion layers (Super 8 and 35mm).

A video to encourage people to work for the Prague metro.

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 deta...

A young girl named Mu lives alone on the roof of a building. She is a whale from the sea. She has a black back and a white belly. One day, her back wa...

This is one of the earliest GWAR videos in existence, from PB Kelly's in Richmond, VA. According to the titles, it was shot by Michael D. Moore and Hu...

Short film for CRETEIL film festival

An avantgarde collage of stylized scenes set to a banging soundtrack.

An Iraqi drama produced in 1985, written by Sabah Atwan and directed by Salah Karam. It unfolds within an Iraqi social drama framework, featuring a ca...