All Films

Vice Versa

1983 • 2 min • Poland

Short film showing the relationship between man and nature.

Nightmare Club

1983 • 4 min

Samantha Fearson (Eleonora Vandelli) is a young stripper so devoid of any sort of sex appeal or talent whatsoever, she incorporates her own disemboweling and scalping into her performance

Amžių prisilietimas

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A film by director R. Šilinis about old Lithuanian architectural monuments, their interiors, frescoes and restoration.

Two days to Soft Rock Cafe - Exploring Mount Arthur's Caves

1983 • 47 min • New Zealand

This Feltex Award-winning documentary dives, abseils and squeezes under the mountain — Mt Arthur in Kahurangi National Park — to record the exploration of the subterranean world of the Nettlebed Cave System. At nearly one kilometre underground the system is New Zealand’s deepest cave, and a mecca for cavers from around the world. The cavers relay their motivations and anxieties as they negotiate the uncharted water-carved limestone labyrinth. Directed by Ian Taylor, it screened in the Lookout series. Claustrophobes beware: there are no lattes at Soft Rock Cafe.

Txikot egileak

1983 • 9 min • Spain

A documentary about the process of making mooring ropes.

Ocaña y los Niños

1983 • 15 min • Spain

March 1983. Spanish painter Ocaña held an event for children at the Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, where he introduced them to his exhibition and creative process, answered their questions, and raffled off several artworks.

Last Tango in Paris

1983 • 5 min • Yugoslavia

A short experimental film.

Giingoo

1983 • 59 min • Mongolia

The story of the film was based on the fact that the director of the association told the author of the film while he was working in Bayan Ovo Sum, Umungov Province, "The children of our Sum are trained during the summer holidays and have a task to start the new school year with the tasks they have trained."

鏗鏘集：越南難民

1983 • 48 min

documentary about Vietnamese boat people refuged to Hong Kong during the mid 70s to 80s

Чудо-Юдо

1983 • 7 min • Soviet Union

No Nukes

1983 • 5 min

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Anti-nuclear film intercutting footage from nuclear bomb testing and nuclear power plants with footage of breakdancing, a baby being born, and other scenes of life.

Video documentation of the piece Metal, by Eva Lootz

1983 • 11 min • Spain

Metal is a circular sculpture, measuring 3 metres in diameter. Mercury is poured upon its base until the whole surface is covered in a layer of the metal, the thickness of which is established on the cohesiveness of the mercury itself, the liquid with the greatest surface tension. Once poured, the metal acts like a skin that picks up vibrations from the ground and the air while a spotlight transfers these surface waves onto the wall making them visible. The whole piece is simply supported to show the properties of the material.

Nuke the Duke

1983 • 5 min

An anti-war video game satire inspired by the cancerous deaths of John Wayne and many other cast members of a film being shot near a nuclear test site after the wind changed and blew over the film shoot.. Computer animation was produced at the University of North Carolina by Charles Kesler and Jaap Postma using the Datamax/Zgrass combination,

Greek Scientific Institutions - Evgenidio Planetarium

1983 • 52 min

The documentary begins with a reference to the views and achievements in astronomy up to the present day, followed by a presentation of the mechanical planetariums built from 287 BC until today, including the Greek one that was built in 1963 and is the first in the Balkans. The camera of the show records the Director of the Planetarium, Dionysis Simopoulos and the astrophysicist George Georgopoulos, preparing a projection of the Planetarium, thus presenting to the audience the way of working for the creation of each program, while then the former talks to us about what is really the Planetarium and what it offers to society.

Whirr

1983 • 4 min

A story inspired by the graphic record of national artist Ľudovít Fulla.

Kajagoogoo - White Feathers Tour

1983 • 60 min

31st May 1983, Kajagoogoo played the second of two nights at the London Hammersmith Odeon, and the last night of the 1983 UK tour. This live footage was released on LaserDisc, VHD Videodisc, VHS and Betamax (and later on DVD by MusicVideoResource.com).

Bodyline

1983 • 40 min

Fifty years ago cricket was riven by an acrimonious feud. The cause of the furore was the determination of England's Captain, Douglas Jardine , to regain the Ashes at any cost. Against Australia's ' run machine ' Don Bradman and the rest of the team Jardine unleashed Harold Larwood , one of the fastest bowlers the world has ever seen. As Larwood scythed through the demoralised Australians' batting there were howls of anguish from cricket lovers, who branded it ' unsportsmanlike '. The story of that explosive tour is told by some of the men who played through cricket's darkest hour, and the man whose bowling changed the ethics of international cricket for ever, the former Notts miner - Harold Larwood.

Mezen Seaboard

1983 • 16 min • Soviet Union

The film, shot in the city of Mezen in the Arkhangelsk region, tells about the spiritual culture and traditions of the Pomors, the wooden architecture of Mezen, crafts and the city as a place of exile.

Don't Be Afraid of Computers

1983 • 27 min • United States of America

Danny has just received a computer as a gift and is intimidated by what he perceives to be an enormously complex and alien piece of machinery. Falling into a deep sleep, Danny is visited by his computer who proceeds to explain why he shouldn't be afraid of computers. Starting with identifying the similarities between a typewriter and a computer keyboard and stressing that a computer is nothing more than an information processing machine that combines, sorts, and rearranges numbers, the program quickly dispells much of the mystery surrounding this increasingly important part of our lives. By speaking in simple terms, we are made to understand that the computer is basically dumb until it receives direction from a human operator.

Trumpet Garden

1983 • 10 min

An environmental portrait: a magic garden in which a woman in black engages in rituals with nature and death. Inspired by, and a metaphor for, my pregnancy.

Latvia – My Home

1983 • 29 min • Soviet Union

Intended for foreign viewers, the film explores Latvia’s history and present day, national traditions, culture, and nature, with the filmmakers traveling in a horse-drawn carriage.

Circuit Meter

1983 • 15 min • Japan

“Movies shot on high-sensitivity 8mm film have rough grain, and you can see this grain moving in like a haze on the screen. Oil paintings show the texture of oil paint, and watercolors show the texture of watercolor paint and paper. Movies show the texture of film, and the smaller the area of ​​the film, the larger the grain seems, so its texture becomes more pronounced. The plane that takes off in the film gets smaller and smaller as it moves away, until it becomes smaller than the film grains themselves and is buried in the grains of the blue sky.” (Isao Kota)

Hello From Bertha

1983 • 17 min

Loosely based on a one-act drama by Tennessee Williams about a prostitute dying in a fleabag bordello, Hello from Bertha is played out in a Boston bedroom with spotty Southern accents and loose wigs. One of Morrisroe’s three surviving films (a fourth, centered on the murder of his cat, was censored immediately after it was shown, and has been lost) that all engage with the experimental cinematic language of their time, incorporating elements of horror cinema, a punk ethos, and the outrageousness of artists like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters.

Portrait in Paper-Cut

1983 • 15 min

The artist Edith Simon in conversation and at work creating intricate 'scalpel paintings' from paper. The work featured in this film is 'The Descent', the sitter is Andrea Targett-Adams.