All Films

Живу надеждой

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Story of a mother who has been searching for 40 years for her son, who disappeared during the siege of Leningrad in 1942. Every May the 9th she comes to Moscow with his name written on the sign.

Allston's Parking Lot (American Still Life)

1983 • 3 min

Images of cars more or less broken: broken windows replaced by sheets or plastic flying in the wind, held together by construction bricks, broken headlights. These shots are interlaced with others of damaged plastic tarps on construction sites.

In the Shadow of the Capitol

1983 • 60 min

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, [despite being] run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry

Rovdehorn

1983 • 13 min

Film recalling the Norwegian government's gift of the car ferry 'Rovdehorn' to Shetland and historical links formed between Shetland and Norway during World War II. [Re-editing of original black & white footage shot in 1965, with colour prologue. Epilogue recorded in 1988].

Three Brave Friends

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A kid, a lamb and a baby camel make friends and bravely set out on a journey to catch up with their herds.

Grace, a Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross

1983 • 50 min • United States of America

Documentary chronicling the career of Grace DeCarlton Ross (1890-1983) from her days acting in silent movies to the 1980s when she was living in Portland, Maine and still dancing in her nineties.

Who Sees Farther?

1983 • 9 min • Bulgaria

The eagle, the sun, the mole, the owl and the fish argue over who sees farther. Each of them passionately claims that his gaze is the most important and sings the song "Further Away" aloud. While the answer lies elsewhere.

Au Pays D'amaria

1983 • 15 min • France

The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amaria grew up and went to school in France, and she must now return to her parents’ homeland to marry a man she barely knows and doesn’t love. As she leaves this country where she grew up and studied, she also leaves her parents and friends from high school, one of which she is in love with. The school year comes to an end. Her future is somewhere else. Although the film was inspired by a real situation, it unfolds like a fiction film in that it takes us to a third land, the land of dreams and hopes, where everyhting finally works out for everyone. Reality, however, is stubborn, and Amaria will be forced to leave and do her duty to the end.

The Voice of Soviet Women

1983 • 27 min • Soviet Union

This documentary covers Soviet women's efforts for peace, friendship, and mutual understanding between peoples.

In my end is my beginning: Part One, Joseph Verge

1983 • 42 min

In my end is my beginning: Part One, Joseph Verge, by Norman Cohn with Gillian Robinson. Springdale, Newfoundland. One day in the life of Mr. Verge, age seventy-nine, reflecting on life and love.

The Doll Village

1983 • 16 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Dreams Fluff and Spit

1983 • 15 min

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Men & Films - Berkowitz & Callen #2

1983 • 1 min

A harm reduction film about sex during the AIDS crisis.

Jiminy Cricket, P.S. (Problem Solver)

1983 • 10 min

Educational short film from Disney

Men & Films - Dr. Sonnabend [Eviction]

1983 • 1 min

A short documentary made during the AIDS crisis.

Demyan Bedny

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

A documentary on the life and works of Bolshevik poet Demyan Bedny.

Histrionic Response Section

1983 • 3 min

I heard some old pipe organ music which suggested "desperate fear" to me, and I envisioned a relentless series of faces looking terrified, as if they were in a horror movie and had just seen some terrible monster. I had about 50 people do two things for the camera: act horrified, and act relaxed and blissful. The resulting footage was edited to conform to that particular piece of organ music which is heard on the soundtrack. At once terrifying and comical.

Pigeon

1983 • 18 min • France

A moving camera opens up and fluidifies the world. In its audio version, this journey is drawn into an inner reverie.

The Haunted Mansion Mystery

1983 • 46 min

When Angel Wilson and her family move into a spooky old house, their new neighbour Billy informs her the place is haunted by an old miser -- who is rumored to have disappeared with a million dollars in cash. Learning of a secret room in the mansion's basement, the two sleuths make an astonishing discovery -- only to be trapped by a near-fatal cave-in. Now, they'll have to solve the mansion's baffling mystery, or end up missing...just like the miser and his legendary loot!

Liquidator

1983 • 15 min • Yugoslavia

The work related to the liquidation of the ‘Bogoslovec’ asbestos mine, in the village of Bogoslovec, has been entrusted to a man who has been doing the job for seventeen years. The mine's facilities and the crumbling machinery themselves speak for the absurdity of the entire procedure.

The Cloud’s Hat

1983 • 32 min

8mm film work from 1983 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

Happy Birthday

1983 • 6 min

8mm film work from 1983 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University.

Jack Nicklaus: Golf My Way

1983 • 34 min • United States of America

Jack Nicklaus' insights and instruction broken down through playing lessons that focus on various aspects of the game and appeal to golfers of all skill levels. The footage, much of which was filmed 25 years ago in the midst of Nicklaus' record-setting career

Double Suicide Story

1983 • 16 min

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1983 8mm Film Production.