Trick or drinkTrick or drink is an autobiographical tape about… +2 More
From UPF
Vanalyne Green / Mathew Price
Vanalyne Green
Yes
Independent Focus
00:22:00
1984
United States
Documentary
The horrors of addiction, whether it is one’s own or a loved one’s can change a life irrevocably. In this off beat essay, we see a child of alcoholics, and an obsessive personality herself, looking for a way of healing. |
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Certificate of destitutionA poor woman seeks hospital care for her sick… +2 More
From UPF
Moussa Yoro Bathily
No
29' 41''
1982
Senegal
There are people in every society who have no power: the ones at the bottom of the social ladder and have no place to tand. In this story a woman tries desperately to obtain medical attention for her sick child. But at every turn, she is rejected and scorned by petty officials who exercise the only power thay have: the power to not help the powerless. It is Touching, brave and troubling. |
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The crazy monkeyA native stock clerk in a modern department store… +2 More
From UPF
H.J. Koumba Bididi
Charles Mensah
No
26'16''
1986
Gabon
In the fin storytelling tradition from West Africa, the programme tells the tale of poor man who finds himself transformed by accident into a rich man. And discover that, for the first time in his life, he is free to behave any way he chooses: the laws of society no longer apply to him. It is a funny and sad fantasy, full of humour. |
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Canada's sweetheart: the saga of Hal C. BanksThe rise and fall of gangster labour leader on… +2 More
From UPF
Donald Brittain
Adam Symansky / Donald Brittain
Yes
Documentary specials
01:55:00
1985
Canada
Feature film
An intriguing, fascinating mixture of actuality and drama. It is the story of how a nation it could be any of our nations will use any mean to justify what it considers a worthwhile end. In this case the Canadian goverment, in order to forestall communist influence on the waterfront, deliberately imports an American gangster to break the sailors´unions. |
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Southern CrossThe film producer from Hamburg has journeyed to a… +2 More
From UPF
Stephan Köster
Tag /traum, Köln
No
45'58''
1986
West Germany
The ironic diery of a journey to the Galapago Islands, a pretext for a gentle inquiry into the attraction and impossibility of Rouseauistic harmony with Nature. |
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CreationsAn experimental film about 4 metamorphoses… +2 More
From UPF
Erik Drehn - Knudsen
Erik Drehn - Knudsen
No
23'56''
1986
Denmark
The author invites us to enjoy four metamorphoses, each observed in reverse, each counterpointing tex and images. |
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I do not know what it is I am likeI do not know what it is I am like, is an pic… +2 More
From UPF
Bill Viola
The Cat Fund, Kathy Huffman.
Yes
The cat fund presents
89'
1986
United States
A wondrous voyage, reflecting the maker´s personal investigation of the inner states and connections to animal conciousness we all possess. The viewer is guided through many stages of being in a stream of images which mediate between the nature of humanking and the order of the universe. |
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As isThe New York Marathon, the American Stock… +2 More
From UPF
Edin Vélez
Ethel Vélez / Edin Vélez
Yes
New Television
00:14:00
1984
United States
Video Essay
This programme takes us to the canyons of Wall Street for a wide- eyed look at the incomprehensible rituals of urban man. |
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Maids and madamsShot in South Africa, Mira Hamermesh´s… +2 More
From UPF
Maids and Madams: Apartheid Begins in the Home
Mira Hamermesh
Christian Wrangler
No
52'
1985
United Kingdom
Documentary
South Africa is run by men but its daily life is organised by women. Here we see white women both exploiting and trying to help their black sisters.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3208810/ |
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Japan - A man's world1) SUMMARY: 93% of Japanese aged 25 to 35 are… +2 More
From UPF
Mosco
Pascale Breugnon
Yes
La femme au Japon, aux USA, en Egypte, en URSS et a Cuba
57'
1984
France
It is an acurate title.The film was made only with the undertanding that it would never be hown in Japan. |
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Missing childrenDocumentary about the problem of children… +2 More
From UPF
Estela Bravo
Gregorio Cabrera
No
24'
1985
Cuba
This documentary tells of the unbearable search by th 'madres de la Plaza de Mayo'. Their children and grandchildren are among the ' disappeared ' in Argentina. |
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Woman in front of a mirrorDocumentary about the Cuban Ballerina Rosario… +2 More
From UPF
Mujer delante del espejo
Marisol Trujillo et al ...
Array
No
Array
Array
17'
1983
Cuba
Dance
A portrait of a dancer: a victim of her impossible profession and her chosen way of life.
Array
Array
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Cinema, cinemas nº 361) SUMMARY: Orson Welles's death is the… +2 More
From UPF
Michel Boujet, Claude Ventura, Anne Andrieu
Guy d´Arbois
Yes
Cinema, cinemas
60'
1985
France
In this issue the well know monthly magazine presents some not-so-usual interviews with Orson Welles and Marlon Brando, a portrait of a metteur- en -scene on the set - Maurice Pialat directing 'Police'- and last but not at all least, a fascinating trip into the past through the 'memories of Louise Brooks'. |
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George Kuchar: The comedy of the undegroundThis ' Kuchar-style' documentary… +2 More
From UPF
David Hallinger- Gustavo Vazquez
David Hallinger
No
60
1983
United States
It takes you into the world of a subversive, funny and original filmmarker: George Kuchar, the director of many pastiche avant-garde films. |
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Jean GenetA ' Interview' with one of the… +2 More
From UPF
Nigel Williams /Charles Chabot
Anthony Wall/ Nigel Finch
Yes
Arena
60
1985
United Kingdom
A rather unusual interview with one of the most famous outsider of the 20th century. Genet is as controversial in his answers as he was in his art. |
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Small happiness: women of a chinesse villageFilmed over several years without any government… +2 More
From UPF
Carma Hinton / Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon / Kathy Kline / Dan Sipe
Yes
One village in China
00:58:00
1986
United States
Documentary
Women of Chinese village speak candidly about love and marriage, foot-binding, the new birth control policy and work. Filmed over several years without any government supervision, the programme provides an intimate in depth look into their daily lives. |