All Films

It's a Cold City for Street Artists

1983 • 14 min • Canada

Experimental short film by Josephine Massarella

The Bread's Light

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short animated film set to music about hard grain-grower’s work

Knot

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

In the metamorphosis of two ordinary pieces of rope there is a clear meaning - all people in the world are inseparably related. It is better to live in friendship.

Kong's Island

1983 • 16 min

Back in 1983 there were still waves men were forbidden from riding. On Kong’s Island you were only going to score the most perfect wave you’d ever seen if you traversed its jungle with Kong himself. But aside from the spectacular surf there were also amazing electric guitar riffs, whacked out sound effects that coincided with each bash against the lip, and the classic creative genius Jack McCoy himself narrating your entire journey. Kong’s Island is The Three Stooges Gone Surfing, with Rabbit Bartholomew, Chappy Jennings, and Gary “Kong” Elkerton getting barreled silly. It’s such a classic it was featured for the crowd at the 13th annual Surfilm Festibal in San Sebastian. This is one you must watch and reminisce.

Touch

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animation short

Anegdote

1983 • 5 min • Bulgaria

Born in Chains

1983 • 2 min

A game of visual associations between ‘whiteness’ and ‘blackness’; ‘freedom’ and ‘constraint’.

Plague

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A dark creature turns up in a city and starts turning everything it touches black.

Vanina Vanini

1983 • 58 min • Soviet Union

Vanina Vanini is a Roman aristocrat, “a black-haired girl with a fiery gaze,” who despises the timid and insignificant-hearted young people of her circle, but selflessly fell in love with the young Carbonari, whose courage and willingness to die for the liberation of Italy from the Austrians corresponds to her passion and pride. Faced with the need to make a sacrifice to duty, Vanina and Pietro, like the characters in classic literature, must choose between loyalty to their homeland and loyalty to their feelings, and this is the choice of fate. Vanina chooses love; In order to save Pietro, she betrays to the police the remaining members of the Venta he leads.

El banquete del gobierno o el ventarrón de las doce

1983 • 24 min • Venezuela

In a far forgotten village there are great expectations for the arrival of some important government authorities.

Pour Que Ses Jours Fleurissent

1983 • 39 min

Six o'clock in the morning, the sun rises behind the Djurdjura mountain. With precise gestures, learned since childhood, Ouardia raises the water, crouches down to splash his face with cool water. Soon her baby will be born. Hadjila, the traditional midwife, prepares herself internally to help the mother complete the transition from separation. This film talks about the knowledge surrounding birth that Kabyle women have passed down for centuries; knowledge that European women seek to rediscover in order to reclaim this founding passage of our lives.

Safely Walk To School

1983 • 13 min

A boy and a girl successfully walk to school in the eighties.

Mister Perks

1983 • 40 min

Documentary about Bernard Perks, who has spent 15 of his 20 adult years in prison, his impending release, and his problem in combating alcoholism.

The Golden Record

1983 • 29 min • Soviet Union

The following guests take part in the music concert-documentary: Rosa Rymbaeva, Dmitry Pokrovsky folklore Ensemble, Elena Kamburova, Alla Pugacheva, Bulat Okudzhava and the Nergebi children's vocal ensemble from Georgia.

Ingot

1983 • 2 min • Soviet Union

Instructional film about saving metal.

Nico - Live in Amsterdam

1983 • 58 min

nicos cconcert in amsterdam in 1983

Lähikuvassa: Hassisen Kone

1983 • 30 min • Finland

A TV documentary about the Finnish band Hassisen Kone and its frontman Ismo Alanko.

Desapropriado

1983 • 59 min

After a year and a half of filming, Frederico Füllgraf releases this feature-length documentary focusing on the families displaced from their land, condemned to submersion by the future reservoir of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant. Important records of social movements and the leaders involved in the struggle for life and for productive land for those whose destinies were harshly altered by the plant unfold in a vital journey preserving the memory of one of the greatest disasters in the history of Paraná.

Thistledown

1983 • 15 min

A commentary-free documentary looking at the cotton-like down produced by thistles to disperse their seed. The film follows down drifting through various settings including the Water of Leith and the pitch at Partick Thistle Football Club.

Hands

1983 • 15 min

An artistic interpretation of the capability of the human hand.

A Chinese Affair

1983 • 60 min

For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. Now they want to know much more, and a political struggle is underway to determine how Taiwan will relate to the mainland

The Morey Brothers

1983 • 54 min

Documentary about four East End criminal brothers who all discovered their artistic talents while in prison.

The Statue

1983 • 6 min • Romania

A man orders a statue.

The End

1983 • 9 min • Poland

A young woman waits on the platform for the train to arrive. The first one doesn’t even stop. Another one carries luxury goods, another one is a train full of film stars and the last one carries vodka and it crashes against a wall. It turns out that the woman is not alone in the pursuit of goods, career and alcohol.