1984 Movies

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite Bri...

A PBS documentary created in collaboration with the celebrated art exhibit of the same name organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

"[This] is my first attempt to construct a video piece using one set of generative intervals for both sound and color. All of the color in the piece i...

Reel 38 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Marie Antoinette offers to babysit a difficult child while a single mother tries to regain her happiness and identity. (3/4 in. video; color)

Mako and Satomi, two high school girls, always talk about boys. Satomi is already having an affair with her tutor, Kobayashi, and has already experien...

A surprise gift sparks a young girl's daydreams back to the Roaring '20s.

A portrait of Picasso young and old, sung by the wind.

Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter...

Experimental film by Janis Lundman.

Pink film by Toei.

The son of a man up for local government tells the story of his family's misdeeds while locked up in his asylum-like home.

A man, Thongphun Khokpho, is released from jail after five years spent for manslaughter. As he tries to make an honest living, he discovers that there...

Mesmerist Jonathan Sage escapes Nazi Germany via a cryogenic tube. In the 1980s, a group of Fascist Americans thaw him out, hoping to use him as a way...

A group of widows come with several frauds and scams in an effort to cheat the system which marginalizes them and to make a better life for themselves...

When Danny’s wife and Linda’s husband run away together, the two neighbors form an unlikely bond.

Ricochet provides a behind-the-scenes portrait of David Bowie during his 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour. Filmed on location in Singapore, Bangkok and Ho...

Blistering live performance by British black metal pioneers Venom captured at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in June of 1984. One of the most legenda...