1984 Movies

The Chilean folk band Illapu arrives in East Berlin. Between gigs, they face a di cult question: Should they return home individually if the opportuni...

Body as signal. City as echo. Pola Weiss dissolves into feedback—gesture, skin, static.

Short film by Bertholier Rozenblum

The RAC Rally is always packed with drama, and in 1984 fans were treated to a real thriller. After five days of high-speed competition, the final roun...

The routine is rendered sublime in this highly stylized filming of a car trip, shot from a variety of vantage points, the film is an assemblage of stu...

After her grandmother is pronounced brain dead following a stroke, a teenage girl must make the painful decision whether to continue life support.

A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu orange...

Using bits and pieces of other people's home movies, Dean Snider has created a movie about his own growing up.

A GOOD MAN IS IMPLICATED IN A BANK ROBBERY AND HOMICIDE CASE AND SERVES TIME JAIL DESPITE HIS INNOCENCE.

Hunt the Infiltrators: Directed by Franco A. Deocareza. With Vic Vargas, Eddie Garcia, Yusuf Salim, Tony Ferrer.

The film is based on the story of the Russian writer Yuri Trifonov, entitled "Obmen".

This gentle tribute, in animated form, celebrates the courage and enduring faith of a mother. The filmmaker resolves her feelings of impatience toward...

"The tellingly titled Dialogue for Two Players, also 1984, moves into quasi-dramatic space, in which the seemingly spontaneous relationships, are reve...

“The Limits of Human Possibilities” is an example of on-camera performance, a sequence of poses reminiscent of asanas in yoga adapted by the artist, f...

Film made with dancer Stella Hyedann who worked on the dances of the whirling dervishes.

A two minute epic of sorts. Desires surface. A kind of decay sets in. Water gives in to gravity carrying off the fading effects of gaudy, carnal dawn.

A film by Melanie Berry

Waiting for X to Happen playfully uses Super 8mm synch-sound images to do just that.