1985 Movies

A deeply moving story of the shared love between a sick little boy and his favorite stuffed bunny. When the toy becomes real forever, we all learn a w...

We won't say where it came from, but we know where it's going.

A chance meeting between our hero, a man named “Spider” (director Handy),and a disoriented powerlifter named Kathy, begets romance after some light d...

One Woman Waiting evokes questions of subjectivity in the mirrored performance of two women. The single take, tableau composition forms the structure...

Patrick, who has had diabetes for 25 years and is treated with insulin, is gradually losing his sight. He has agreed to laser treatment as the only al...

A performance of Zydeco music in Lafayette, Louisiana

A beautiful, gothic film about a mother so desperate to keep her daughter at home that she sews her a lead dress which impedes her movement. (AFW Prog...

Paul Celan reads Paul Celan. The words which we hear are seen on the screen - the optical sound negative became the visible image.

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

Misty grey sea; a small island on the horizon; an approaching ship drifts through the picture; neither its origin nor its destination can be determine...

Documents the struggles between the Canadian Union of Traffic Employees (C.U.T.E.) and the Canadian government during a strike of crossing guards in T...

Super 8mm. Details unknown. 3 minutes.

This classic feminist tape deviates from David Byrne’s and Jonathan Demme’s popular 1980s versions of suburban life, True Stories. Rather than poking...

The resilience of Traditional African Religions Practiced in The United States.

This film was shot in August 1984 in NOROGACHIC, the heart of the Sierra Tarahumara (the same place where Antonin Artaud in 1936, claims to have atten...

Two different positions and perspectives develop images and sounds based on the same things and texts. Montage of different places – "Outside the Ocea...

Horror film using the possibilities of Valga Hotel "Säde" and one apartment. Journalist Jean-Pierre Bertrandt arrives to investigate mysterious deaths...

Segments of quick images from city and country, with original improvised diaglog.

By Bev Zalcock & Sara Chambers, 1985/95