All Films

Au Coeur De La Lumière

1983 • 8 min • France

Two sketches on the decomposition of the light spectrum, the relationship between light and the screen and its projection frame.

Brick and Tile

1983 • 14 min • Australia

“You can have a weatherboard house, a fibro house, or a brick and tile house. Here in Australia real estate is very strong, and ‘brick and tile’ is what we call a solid house. In this film I experimented with optical printing for the first time [i.e. re-combining images after shooting, rather than in-camera]... pretty much purely for my own aesthetic pleasure. I showed the film at a documentary festival in Germany but the audience were less than impressed when I explained that the film would hopefully assist potential home builders to select their desired brick and tile combination.” (Paul Winkler)

Soma

1983 • 3 min

Digitally manipulated shapes and photographs.

Written on the Wind

1983 • 40 min

What do you remember about a film when you haven’t seen it for ten years? James McCourt’s memory is prodigious. In an office in the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, the American writer recounts his favourite film, Douglas Sirk’s 1956 melodrama WRITTEN ON THE WIND, scene by scene, sometimes almost shot by shot.

Võrokese

1983 • 26 min • Soviet Union

The physionomy of a city through its people.

Christmas Greetings

1983 • 9 min

An amateur home movie made by Betty Cook of a Christmas Day in 1983 with close family and relatives at home in Mandale Road, Middlesbrough. The group open presents around the Christmas tree, have dinner, and play Scrabble before falling asleep. Some parts of the film were re-staged the following July as certain family members were not available at the time. Betty Cook was the President of the Cleveland Cine Society and the North East Cine Society.

Teddy Bear Maelstrom

1983 • 1 min • United States of America

An Animated Short Film by Glen Entis

Morning Dew

1983 • 50 min • Japan

Kirapan

1983 • 3 min • Japan

Last Festa

1983 • 50 min • Japan

Melancholy in the Refrigerator

1983 • 20 min • Japan

Marges de l'imarge

1983 • 9 min • Japan

New Impersonation (Facial Fantasy)

1983 • 17 min • Japan

A Sight of a Beautiful Girl's Hell

1983 • 42 min • Japan

Downstream

1983 • 60 min • Japan

The Night Nothing Happens

1983 • 8 min • Japan

Mandala1983

1983 • 3 min

Primitive computer graphics featuring a 3D visualization of a mandala. Shown at SIGGRAPH 1983 Detroit.

Give my Shadow a Voice

1983 • 11 min • Japan

15 Soldiers, 11 Machines, 8 Cows

1983 • 7 min • Canada

This video is a collage of images that takes the viewer down a path between their own virtue and cosmic morality. A quiet anxiety emerges as the strip explores the non-mathematical possibilities of the violent destruction of matter, as well as the habits into which people seem to push their fellows.

Aloud

1983 • 6 min • Canada

Canadian poet Earle Birney indulges his love of trains in this performance of his sound poem To Swindon from London by Britrail. In fluent "trainish," he interprets the experience of excursions by rail. Imagination sparked by the rhythm of wheels and the clink of couplings, Birney hums, hisses and hoots his way through archival footage of vintage trains and the English countryside. A must for language, animation and train buffs.

Strangers and Kin

1983 • 59 min

Using funny, often poignant examples, Strangers and Kin shows the development and effect of stereotypes as technological change collides with tradition in the Southern mountains. The film traces the evolution of the “hillbilly” image through Hollywood films, network news and entertainment shows, dramatic renderings of popular literature, and interviews with contemporary Appalachians to demonstrate how stereotypes are created, reinforced, and often used to rationalize exploitation. Strangers and Kin suggests how a people can embrace modernity without becoming “strangers to their kin.”

Webs

1983 • 5 min • United States of America

Short by Nancy Buchanan.

Here’s Chicago! The City of Dreams

1983 • 13 min

A travelog that was shown from 1983-1993, Here’s Chicago! features breathtaking shots of the city by helicopter and “Where’s Waldo” scale opportunities for watching the inhabitants of the city of Chicago.

California Stories

1983 • 10 min • United States of America

Short by Nancy Buchanan.