1985 Movies

By using television images as its raw material, Scratch positioned itself, and video more generally, as the medium for a more dynamic, more interactiv...

An eight film series by Lewis Klahr

An brief overview of the history of Mount Athos and the lifestyle of its residents

The second entry in Velu Viswanadhan's series of experimental documentaries. This film traces the Ganges river upstream.

Spy film set in southern Vietnam after liberation. Thach Thao befriends Thanh, the son a police official, so she can easily pass police posts. She p...

In March of 85, I filmed the stainless steel square in Boston on a very cold, windy and bright day. The piece of steel is much alive with sound and ha...

Five dynamic women have an intimate conversation. Shot in extreme close-up, the film gives insight into their world view and mine.

In the work two monitors are displayed at head height on pedestals. The head and shoulders of a young black man appear on one; on the other is an olde...

A railroad worker has arrived at a halt in his life, at the same stopping point as his locomotive - a place situated between memory and imagination wh...

Helena Lindgren's film begins with her grandmother recounting how she was ashamed when she got her first period. Then follows a film collage in which...

By Bev Zalcock & Sara Chambers, 1985/95

Doctor Pantaleon converted to Christianity by performing many miracles until he witnessed the end of the 3rd century. An impressive event makes Pantal...

Experimental film on 16mm by George Sabau as part of Kinema Ikon.

Fragment reimagines water ripples as a mesmerizing shadow play.

A video by Dale Hoyt

Unfolding buildings drawn across the screen in spectrums of grey reflecting buildings in their surfaces cutting the sky into triangles.

A man is annoyed by a fly he just can't seem to kill.