All Films

Miniatures: Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf

1983 • 16 min • Germany, Austria

On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a "country outing,“ an impressive number of artists from Berlin went to a small village in Schleswig-Holstein; their intention was to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art. This event included presentations of dance, music, performance art, painting, land art and film. Back in Berlin the footage was manipulated in several ways to produce an “experimental examination.” —independent film and video database

Syntagma

1983 • 18 min • Austria

The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and sexuality. Valie Export's notion of "body language" poses an ironic relation to these questions that acknowledges "the end of the body" or at least the final break with the way in which we understand it to be a biological, existential, or metaphysical entity. Export has broken away from any notion of unity - either body, space, or time - into the fragmented world of doubling and difference that is caught in representation.

The Planets

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar System.

Unfair Competition

1983 • 22 min • Greece

Dimos Avdeliodis pays homage to Charles Chaplin and all his favorite silent heroes. This is the first film he directed.

She Even Chewed Tobacco

1983 • 40 min

The Gold Rush. A new frontier. Nineteenth century California offered women the opportunity to pioneer new roles for themselves. Meet Babe Bean, the "trouser puzzle" who escaped the hot glare of tabloid headlines by disguising herself as Jack Garland and serving in the Spanish American War. Or Jeanne Bonnet who scored a record of 22+ arrests for wearing male attire, went to prison for her indiscretions and later organized a group of prostitutes into a shoplifting ring!

The Old Man and the Crane

1983 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Based on Belarussian folk tale. The poor old couple finds the crane who gives them a magic craft to produce the food. But the landlord and the pope see it and want to take it from poor couple...

Do I Kill Them?

1983 • 34 min • Brazil

The extermination of the last indigenous from the reserve of Mangueirinha, at the southeastern of Paraná, with the connivance from those who should protect them. With a biting irony, those questions develop with a structure of a multiple choice test.

Sluice

1983 • 5 min

Six images of water are brought together in a composition in which rhythmical combinations of frames, presented in repetitive but slightly varying sequences, build up a silent yet dramatically developing performance. The individual images of water, either standing still, falling down, or collecting in the lower part of the sluice, are broken into small segments as if they were the founding notes of a piece of modern music. Again, qualities of time and movement prevail in the creation of a highly sensual cinema in which logic is replaced by a new order.

On the Corner

1983 • 5 min • United States of America

An urban ballet performed by street children.

Fragment Video

1983 • 12 min

1983 German super 8 short work

A Color Movie

1983 • 5 min • France

"Film combining short sequences shot with the camera by myself and short ones created on underexposed materials manipulated with the artist's tools or coming from reels shot by my father. It's a "suite" of visual experiments cut with an overexposed self-portrait." -CF

Efpsychi

1983 • 20 min

“The details of the young actor’s face – his eyes, eyebrows, earlobe, chin, etc. – are set opposite the old buildings in the market quarter of Athens, where every street is named after a classic ancient Greek playwrite. In this setting of intense stillness, sometimes interrupted by sudden sounds and movements in the streets, he speaks a single word, “teleftea”, meaning the last (one), and as he repeats this word, it moves differently each time across his face and gains another sense from one scene to the next, suggesting the uncanny proximity of eroticism, the sacred and chance.” (Robert Beavers)

Cursed Woods

1983 • 19 min • United Kingdom

A group of camping enthusiasts embark on a weekend of fun in a local woodland, only to stumble across an abandoned car carefully hidden under foliage. Shortly after an unknown assailant begins to murder the group one by one.

Humpty Dumpty

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Humpty Dumpty plays the banjo, and mice, fairies and what might be a cat play different games and rhymes.

Pies

1983 • 13 min

This animated film about blind prejudice is based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley. Mrs. Cherwak is Polish and owns a cow. Mrs. Meuser is a German with entrenched notions of cleanliness. She does not appreciate the cow's inevitable by-product. The film describes their conflict and its curious resolution over coffee and mincemeat pie. While the author chose to write about the Germans and the Poles she grew up with on the outskirts of Regina, the situation she describes could apply anywhere in the world.

American Hotel

1983 • 13 min • Germany

Film by Telscher.

Antics of the Artists

1983 • 10 min

In and around the pool, an array of creatures move about. A scene of the famous novel "Seven Days at the Silbersteins" by Etienne Leroux to the music of Peter Klatzow, "Still-life with Moonbeams".

Waiting For the Big Bang

1983 • 44 min

Rabaul, New Britain is sitting on a time bomb. It’s hard for the Tolai inhabitants to cope with the constant threat of volcanic eruption as they wait and prepare for the next big one. For them, the town is their beloved madapai (home or place of origin) and cannot be abandoned. The last time the volcano under which Rabaul lies erupted was in 1937, when an estimated 500 people died and again in the early 1940s, with no loss of life. Waiting For the Big Bang includes historical footage showing the luxuriant lifestyle of German colonialists pre World War II and then the occupation of the Japanese army. It also shows contemporary scenes of the easygoing Tolai lifestyle, interspersed with full-blown evacuation exercises and scientific excursions into the craters of active volcanoes.

Eva and Maria

1983 • 29 min • Sweden

Invitation to Marilyn C

1983 • 12 min

This short drama is a humorous exploration of a woman regaining power as she challenges male supremacy in culture, the porn industry and film with clues for sweet dyke revenge.

Turnaround

1983 • 58 min • Australia

A spiritual journey, symbolized by the spiral, through images and sounds selected from the physical world over several years as the filmmaker moved between city and country and journeyed to the Center. Lee added some sounds and music to enhance the mood and sees the film as a mirror in which the image is distorted by his own consciousness.

Paracas

1983 • 19 min • Chile, United States of America

A three-dimensional animation of a pre Columbian textile. The Paracas textile, 300-100 BC, was found in a tomb in the south coast desert of Perú, and is a part of the collection of The Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Bus Stop

1983 • 7 min

An animated ride through an American urban landscape in the early 1980s.

Lontano, ancora

1983 • 13 min