1985 Movies

Margaret Thatcher gives the audience a lecture whilst being wooed by a miner in Bob Godfrey's remake of his classic earlier cartoon Polygamous Poloniu...

Documentary about the forefathers of animation.

Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite o...

Experimental short.

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker To...

On an island in the Pacific Ocean, 20,000 km from Norway, lives Aroma who is 12 years old. With a camera in his suitcase, the filmmaker traveled to vi...

News from Peru.

A young girl develops a crush on the family employee, but she must help him clear his ex-wife's name of murder.

Documentary on Greenland.

A short documentary by Andreas Kleinert about a cashier in Clärchens Ballhaus, one of the last surviving ballrooms from the 1920s in Berlin.

A widow is expecting a child.

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 consi...

Directed by Orna Ben-Dor Niv.

A uniquely psychedelic animation of sordid and chaotic images.

Explains that heat is really a form of motion, a form of kinetic energy and that it can be converted to other forms of energy and transferred through...

A man tells his dying daughter a story about an angel. From a story by Hans Christian Andersen. 16mm.

A brothel in Tierra Caliente interrupts its activities during the Semana Mayor celebration. Although one of “those” women assumes a devout attitude an...

A puppet comedy about a sleeper disturbed by an unwearying rooster.