All Films

BNP: les Temps modernes

1983 • 1 min

An engineer is sitting at his desk designing a computer-generated logo providing a printed circuit board made with the BNP effigy, a sign of modern times.

FANROAD Opening Animation

1983 • 9 min • Japan

Produced for "Gebocon I", a convention organized by Fanroad magazine, an anime/manga/doujin magazine in the 80s and 90s.

URACON II Opening Animation

1983 • 7 min • Japan

Opening animation for URACON II.

ハシ

1983 • 20 min • Japan

A drama in which the main character Hashi, a motherf*cker, heads towards a shocking end. The green clothes Hashi wears were hand-drawn by Gyoshu.

Zhang le Tui de Mangguo

1983 • 20 min • China

The mangos are ripe. Working hard together, Bunny, Monkey, and Black Dog pick up a very big heap of mangos from the mango tree. At first, Bunny and Monkey wanted to take the mangos home in a basket, but there are too many mangos to do that. They decide to take turns instead, each keeping guard for one night to make sure no one steals their mangos. Little White Bunny isn't brave, but he doesn't want to be laughed at by his friends, so he volunteers to keep guard for the first night; but when he notices the mangos being stolen during the night, he's so afraid that he goes hide instead. When his friends come back the next day, he lies, saying the mangos grew legs and run away by themselves.

The Water of Words: A Cultural Ecology of an Eastern Indonesian Island

1983 • 30 min • Australia

This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the many practical uses of the palm; a poet tells of its origin and mythic significance. The film complements Fox’s book, The Harvest of the Palm, as well as his essays on ritual language.

Features of the Kinetics of Biological Processes

1983 • 18 min

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.

Make 'Em or Brake 'Em

1983 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Cloud Nine

1983 • 3 min

16mm experimental short film.

Company Town

1983 • 25 min

The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston Corporation in 1963. Ricky Leacock said of the film, "I find Company Town to be a beautiful film that I can enjoy over and over. It manages to avoid the obvious cliches but causes one to wonder 'why do they stay?' and at the same time to understand that this place, these activities, these people, with all their limitations, are unique and wonderful."

Hang On a Minute

1983 • 22 min

Hang On a Minute addressed issues topical to the political landscape of the period – many of which are still urgent today, from Greenham Common to domestic violence – with formal ingenuity, wit and contained but steel-edged anger at injustice. Here language unrolls across the screen in the form of statistics, newsprint, legal document, poetry, prose and hand-written words; it is spoken, sung and recited.

Miserere Nobis

1983 • 20 min • Brazil

An experimental film from Paraíba that recreates the Last Supper.

Ground level in New York & D.C

1983 • 5 min

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

Celebration: I Am All of These

1983 • 9 min

CELEBRATION re-enacts the symbolic union between male and female forces within one individual. Unique special effects recreate the inner experience of transformation through original music, images, and dance. The resulting union gives birth to a vibrant, integrated sense of Self.

Time

1983 • 11 min • Soviet Union

Filmic study of time by Estonian director Mark Soosaar.

Statistic

1983 • 27 min

‘Who needs a pregnant waitress?’ is just one of the questions that fills Ellie Connolly’s mind when she discovers she is pregnant in 1980s Ireland. Statistic was made by film student Alison Kelly in 1983, the year which saw the passing of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution Act (which effectively criminalised abortion in most circumstances).  Ellie (Edel McCrann) is pregnant as “the result of a drunken screw between two people who hardly knew each other”.  She broods in her flat and discusses her predicament with her good friend Anne – she must tell her boyfriend Paul but she knows ’In the end it’s inside me, not him’.  She finds information in a magazine about abortion services in the UK and Anne accompanies her to the ferry – following the footsteps of the many women before her.

Four Corners

1983 • 15 min

Divided into seven segments, Bundy's film contemplates the physical and spiritual landscape of the U.S. 's "four corners," an area embracing the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Jet streams divide the celestial quadrant marked by the movements of sun and moon. On the earth's surface, the camera captures the play of light as it lingers on mystical, geological landmarks - canyons, craters, sculpted rock formations and the cave drawings etched by the ancient dwellers of the Southwest.

Dream House

1983 • 2 min • Australia

Animated short.

Antanas Jonynas

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union

A documentary short film about writer Antanas Jonynas.

L.A. Nickel

1983 • 8 min

L.A. Nickel envisions the urban landscape of Los Angeles as nightmare and dream. Recording from a window to suggest a vantage point of surveillance, Miller positions the viewer as a voyeur when she documents the interaction of people and policemen on the Skid Row street below. A harsh, "scratch" aural collage heightens the sense of confrontation and aggression. A lush, dramatic orchestration accompanies the second sequence, an evocative night drive through the streets of Los Angeles. This passage is blocked by the presence of a police car, which Miller transforms into an abstracted dance of lights. The thwarting of mobility by authority becomes a metaphor of social confinement.

Texas Transformed

1983 • 29 min

My 1984 summer vacation to the Republican National Convention in Dallas Texas. A 10 minute film that unfortunately lasts 30 minutes.

A Making Of FANTASTIC JOURNEY

1983 • 28 min

Making-of the film realized by the students of the Osaka Municipal High School Film Study Group.

Warning, Attack, Recovery

1983 • 17 min

Made as part of my degree show at Sheffield Polytechnic, this was originally presented as part of a performance piece involving a large number of monitors and a lengthy middle section in which I dropped water onto a hot iron (hence the black part of the video). The piece was constructed using old family Super8 footage, off-air TV material and some live footage shot in Sheffield. The soundtrack was constructed using some very basic monophonic synthesisers and a 4 track recorder on which I remixed some material found in the art school library.

Wraak

1983 • 8 min

A maniac is on the loose.