1985 Movies

A funny tale about how forest dwellers celebrated Spring

Conductor Herbert von Karajan spent much of his career exploring the work of Johannes Brahms and in particular his A German Requiem. This 1985 concert...

Looking back, why did it take ten years to finally lure Waylon Jennings to the Austin City Limits stage for his first performance? Like everything els...

An actor exiled by the dictatorship, back to his country again and is reunited with his friends.

Pilot for TV series released on home video.

Experimental short based on puppets.

Seven-year-old girl Shin is sold off as a servant. She takes with her the 50-cent coin her grandmother gave her. However, at the master's house, Shin...

A compilation of trailers and footage from early low-budget films that are generally considered to be among the worst films ever made.

“I wanted to make a tape about memory, not just ‘about’ memory. I wanted to re-create the actual sensation of memory through texture, colour, mood and...

1985 East German television recording of a production of the play of the same name.

Seduced by the country, in which German director Dieter Schidor saw a decadent tropical charm, he brought together a varied group of people and involv...

Experimental film of a trip around Iceland, filmed on the circular highway with a wide angle lens camera registering one frame every 12 seconds.

Based on a true story from the summer of 1982 when Queen Elizabeth was visited in the middle of the night by a man who managed to get into Buckingham...

A television production based on Bozena Slančíková-Timrava's short stories about social and moral conditions in a Slovak village in the 1930s.

A 16mm record of the anti-nuclear demonstration in Melbourne, Australia on Palm Sunday 1985. The soundtrack is made from several group chants recorded...

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg and many different authors, su...