All Films

Cimarrones

1983 • 24 min • Canada

A dramatic reconstruction of a turn-of-the-century incident involving African slaves in South America.

Ich war ja auch wer - Chefkoch Hermann Reußner, Jahrgang 1891, erzählt aus seinem Leben

1983 • 17 min • East Germany, Germany

A life story from a bygone era. In a retirement home, the 90-year-old Hermann Reußner tells his story. He was born in 1891 in Dessau, back when a duke still reigned there. As a soldier under the German emperor, he participated in World War I. Reußner talks about his beginnings as a cook in the famous hotel Adlon at the Pariser Platz in Berlin. Later, he was head chef there for 30 years. This private life story gets impressively illustrated with photos and film footage.

I Dish

1983 • 15 min

In 'I Dish' a naked woman dredges in filthy water. What is she looking for? Gold? Something she's lost? She brings up a series of barbaric-looking bits of metal, nasty looking hooks. In a film which has considered notions of nourishment, sex, love, cleanliness, silence, obsession and compulsion, Parker demonstrates her poetic by letting imagery have its mystery, resonate unforcedly on its own terms.

Visages perdus

1983 • 11 min • France

Special Jury Mention at Hyères International Film Festival in 1983. "When my eyes, closed for an icy terror, opened again, at my side, scented on the canvas, these faces were shaking confusingly."

Esperalia

1983 • 9 min • Poland

A man living a dream experience linked to memories of his childhood.

Regard Jonathan/Jean Louvet, son oeuvre

1983 • 57 min

The Dardenne brothers profile left-wing playwright Jean Louvet in this documentary focused on memory and revolutionary activism.

Noli me tangere

1983 • 7 min

“The idea behind it is: Feminists claim that men objectify women’s bodies. So this was a revenge or a punishment for men who did that during their lifetimes, by being subjected to objectification by women in the after death state"

And Sometimes the Boats Are Low

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

The man, the woman and their multiples share the same space at different times while being in different places at the same time, creating a paradox of existence. Sometimes they meet and sometimes they don't.

Soldier's Tale

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

When Peter went to the war with the Nazis to the front, his son gave him a rhinoceros beetle he captured near his home, which the soldier took with him. Now they have to plunge into battle and fighting to see how the sky becomes black because of the gunpowder and the enemy siege, and hundreds of bullets are circling around them. But they will go back to where someone waits for them.

Linie 8

1983 • 31 min

Documentary about a subway line in Berlin.

Bloody Demon

1983 • 3 min • Japan

Three young people visit a murder scene in the mountains. As one finds an ice pick, he gets crazy as soon as he picks it up and attacks the two other people.

The Album

1983 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A young girl is glancing through a family photo album. Childhood memories come to life, still pictures start moving. Souvenirs become a metaphorical imaginary story about past and future.

Almada, Um Nome de Guerra

1983 • 40 min • Portugal

In 1969, Ernesto de Sousa planned an experimental film in which Almada Negreiros would be protagonist. He raised funds, filmed Almada, interviewed him and worked on this multimedia project for several years, even after the artist's death. The result was a complex artistic work, with three simultaneous projections of slides and film, music by Jorge Peixinho and the incorporation of other projects by Ernesto de Sousa. In a text titled "Anticinema" he would write: "i do not make a movie / about almada / i make a movie with almada".

Dreamland Court

1983 • 60 min

A video adapted from dialogues from Dale Herd's short novel Dreamland Court. Filmed in Los Angeles and made with the cooperation of Barry Hall and his partner Beth Vanderwater

Julie, Julie

1983 • 25 min

The film starts with voice over by Julie (Jill Delaney) which sets the minimalist plot running as she rides on her Ducati 750 into Melbourne.

Magazine Mouth

1983 • 7 min • United States of America

Among Robertson’s most accomplished animated works is this collage film inspired by her struggles with binge eating and obsessive magazine collecting. Ronald Reagan is referenced in the playfully militarized jelly beans that were his favorite candy.

Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

1983 • 53 min

How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?

Dead People

1983 • 18 min • United States of America

Filmed in 1974 and edited and released in 1983 (and then rereleased by its director in 2005), DEAD PEOPLE purports to document the final years of Frank Butler, a local fixture in the depressed burg of Ellicot City with a particular fondness for drink and tales of the dead. Over hazy 16mm footage two decades later, Deutsch adopted a painfully unsentimental view of his early approach, colored as it was by notions of ethnographic film and an undercurrent of fetishism for a man he considered somehow more "alive" than himself. While it chafes against notions of authenticity in documentary and incisively hints at the complicity of the subject in inventing his own history, DEAD PEOPLE simultaneously oozes nostalgia, transcending its own judgment as a gauzy memorial for the man Deutsch once called a friend.

Caño Mánamo

1983 • 45 min • Venezuela

A documentary about the building of a damn near Caño Mánamo and the effects it has on the environment.

7x7 Facts About the Life of the Poet Tohm di Roes in Present Climes

1983 • 17 min • East Germany, Germany

Snapshots from the life of the eccentric Tohm di Roes, who angrily shouts against the philistines with the wild gesture of punk.

The Rubber Stamp Film

1983 • 7 min

The Rubber Stamp Film was hand stamped on over 5000 index cards. Color was added with water color and felt pen.

Little Squirrel the Hairdresser

1983 • 10 min • China

A squirrel becomes a hairdresser.

The Old Lady's Camping Trip

1983 • 9 min • Canada

In a lively animated lesson about the do's and don'ts of fire and outdoor safety, the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe takes all her children and Cousin Jim off on a summer camping trip. And to make sure that needless accidents won't spoil their fun, she plays it smart by observing the rules. Cousin Jim, however, unaware of rules, has several close calls with disaster until the Old Lady steps in and teaches him the ABCs of safe, enjoyable outdoor living. When it comes to fire prevention, the Old Lady knows just what to do. Do you?

Carnival

1983 • 12 min • United States of America