All Films

Socialism

1983 • 1 min • Yugoslavia

Video dissects a sentence taken from a propaganda statement by a party politician. With gradual decostruction author leaves only traces of a word socialism.

El Negro, María y José

1983 • 7 min • Venezuela

Rosario lives alone in the slums (barrio) with her dog Ringo. She always wanted to be a truck driver but her mother never let her. One day she bought three miraculous prints from the " Lady in Black", who was initiated into the mysteries of "Sorte". (Sorte: A Rain Forest area in Venezuela where, priests from different religions worship Indian and African mythical entities). With the first print the Negro Primero saves her from the street gangs. With the second one, Maria Lionza makes the captain of police, who wanted to displace her from her home, falls in love with her. And with the third one, José Gregorio Hernández, doctor to the poor, rescues her from the debris of her destroyed home after it collapse from a storm. Rosario awakes after eating the stamp in front of the gangs and with her market bag scares them away. Rosario still lives in the same barrio with her dog Ringo.

My house

1983 • 10 min

Labor protection film warning against the usage of improper footwear, commissioned by the Ministry of Light Industries, the Department of Cotton Industries.

Music for the Millions

1983 • 3 min • Netherlands

Music for the millions is also considered the thirteenth film in the Jute project. Supported by a hardcore punk soundtrack, the remodelled images of television commercials are contrasted with recordings of starving masses in the Third World.

Put down

1983 • 15 min

Texts by Kerouac and Lamantia Preserved and digitized by the National Film and Business Archive

No End

1983 • 8 min

The subject of this video is the disturbing mental state of a woman whose life is turning into a routine which leaves her no opportunity to experience a world in its richness and complexity. Although she tries to understand her situation she is not able to find a way out. Therefore she concludes: “There will be no end because I have forgotten the beginning.” (Sanja Ivekovic)

Outbuilding

1983 • 9 min

Longin Szmyd’s darkly atmospheric, neo-noir-ish vision of a world that is hidden and yet in plain sight.

Radio Belén

1983 • 12 min • Peru

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru.

The Soldier's Caftan

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day two foreign military men arrived to serve the Russian Tsar Peter. They were dressed in luxurious kaftans. Peter appreciated the beauty of their uniforms, but noted that it would not be easy for them to endure different weather conditions in them. This angered the guests. Thus began a dispute between the admiral, the general and a simple Russian soldier. The one who can withstand both cold and heat in his attire is destined to win.

Photomontage Today: Peter Kennard

1983 • 35 min

An analysis of the use of photomontage to distort meaning and create subversive and oppositional art, exemplified by the work of Peter Kennard.

Five Year Diary, Reel 31: Niagara Falls (August 19–28, 1983)

1983 • 27 min • United States of America

Anne takes a road trip to Niagara Falls trip with her family in this exceptionally beautiful Diary reel. (Liz Coffey)

Mutiny

1983 • 11 min • United States of America

Mutiny employs a panoply of expression, gesture, and repeated movement. Its central images are of women: at home, on the street, at the workplace, at school, talking, singing, jumping on trampolines, playing the violin. The syntax of the film reflects the possibilities and limitations of speech, while “politically, physically, and realistically” flirting with the language of opposition.

Mortgage on My Body

1983 • 24 min • United States of America

Stations throughout Connecticut and even New York City. Riding around with my father and back to the gas station.

Ironing to Greenham

1983 • 1 min

Lis Rhodes' poem dwells on the moments before a political thought is translated into a distinctive physical organisation, such as the women who surrounded the Greenham missile base. Part of 'Hang on a Minute', a series of thirteen 1 minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by Lis Rhodes, reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women's lives (pornography, violence, nuclear weapons) and the many forms that resistance takes. Made with the artist Jo Davis and commissioned by Channel 4 for television broadcast.

The Question is...

1983 • 13 min • United Kingdom

An exploration of personal and intimate spaces. video, colour, sound

... And the soup is right on time

1983 • 19 min • Soviet Union

The staff of the workers' canteen of V. Klementi sewing enterprise make an effort to prepare food every day despite the deteriorating machinery and defective produce.

In & Out

1983 • 3 min

A lyrical study of the World Trade Center occupying space and reflecting space.

Sakuhin

1983 • 2 min • Japan

Yumi Shima's animated short film is an experiment with geometric objects.

Insect

1983 • 3 min • Japan

8mm film directed by Teruo Koike

City

1983 • 15 min

The content of the film is a set of reflections of the author reflected in unusual combinations of trick shots based on the principles of geometric division of the frame. People and the city walls around them, their everyday life presented in an unusual way, create conditions for personal perception of the film by each viewer individually.

Box of Treasures

1983 • 28 min • Canada

In 1921 the Kwakiut'l people of Alert Bay, British Columbia, held their last secret potlatch. In 1980 at Alert Bay, the U'mista Cultural Centre (U'mista means "something of great value that has come back") opened its doors to receive and house the cultural treasures which were seized decades earlier and only then returned to the people. The center also took up activities such as recording stories told by elders so that some part of the past would always be alive and teaching children about their heritage in order to make them feel connected to their ancestors. This film documents the cultural significance of these events for today's Kwakiut'l people. It is an eloquent testimony to the persistence and complexity of Kwakiut'l society and to the struggle for redefining cultural identity for them.

Iron Boots

1983 • 15 min • Czechoslovakia

A fairy tale about the love of a mermaid and a young fisherman, which had to overcome many adversities before reaching its fulfillment.

Hanyas vagy?

1983 • 7 min • Hungary

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Souvenirs/Rouen

1983 • 11 min • France

Fugitive images of the northwestern city of France.