1985 Movies

It's about the complex relationship between a mother and an abandoned son. His hope is to be together again - but the mother does not want to admit he...

Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.

Marc Karlin looks at film production in Britain.

March 29, 1983 (2:30 p.m.): filming of "Sur la voie" begins. Along the way the words guide me; It is about reaching them on the fly to try to reveal t...

The story of the freewheeling Flappers of the 1920s, told by the Flappers themselves.

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...

This film utilizes a telephone answering machine as the basic structure. During the past year I kept all the messages recorded on this machine, and th...

Great Society-era, social services, "how to" films from the 1960s and other footage from travel, education, documentary, edited with densely-painted f...

A piece of abstract video art in which split-second snippets of broadcast TV are spliced together to punctuate moments of black and silence, recreatin...

It was after watching the executioner prepare the guillotine and the public ceremony that would follow that Victor Hugo decided to write "The Last Day...

More than one hundred years ago the winner of the very first motor race was a Panhard-Levassor using a Daimler engine made under licence. Ever since...

Debut documentary film essay and initial film work of Joachim Polzer from 1985. A meditation on what's important in life plus a study in film editin...

Alaska's number one storyteller, Larry Beck, and his traveling Christmas show crew perform in four of Alaska's most exciting and colorful Arctic commu...

The West Highland Extension - the "Road to the Isles" is a masterpiece of railway engineering. When filmed, in 1985, the line was still signalled by s...

A suspense tv-movies based on a story by Dick Haskins. A woman is confined to a room by a vengeful maniac. He as child felt like the center of humili...