All Films

The Delusion of Rodamus Querk

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The blacksmith's apprentice makes a contract with the devil and exchanges his soul for respect from the most famous people of the city. However, he realises soon that true respect can only be won by hard work. Based on short story by Arkadiy Bukhov.

Rabies Advice

1983 • 1 min

British Public Information Film detailing what to do when one has been exposed to rabies.

Note to Poli

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

NOTE TO POLI is, in the words of his student and fellow experimental filmmaker Marjorie Keller, "a note to the filmmaker Poli Marichal 'about' penetration." P. Adams Sitney observed that the film revealed "the visionary power of sexuality for the filmmaker" and it is indeed one of his most sexually visceral. Levine contrasts the startling frankness of the sexual activity that opens the film with the calm of a young person at rest with a cup of coffee and the serenity of post-coital cigarette smoke hanging in the air.

Ch'an

1983 • 6 min • United States of America

1941 was Francis Lee's first film; CH'AN his last. In between, he became an expert Sumi-e watercolorist and here he combines eloquent ink paintings with masterful animation methods. This film moves through mysterious shapes, takes the viewer on an explosive meditative journey across the imaginary landscapes of his creations.

The Story of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

1983 • 60 min

Documentary / Music/Musical - At the forefront of the folk revival movement since the 1950's, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem are a highly influential group of Irishmen. Popularizing the traditional music of their homeland, the Brothers brought Celtic music into America, and remain some of its most avid performers.

A Tale Within a Tale

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

About how, despite the machinations of the witch and the evil spirit Davy, the old man managed to tell the children a fairy tale with a happy ending.

Attack of the Galactic Monsters

1983 • 55 min • Japan

A bizarre edited movie that contains footage from the Japanese sci-fi film "War in Space" and Godzilla scenes from the TV series "Zone Fighter." Reported to be made for Hawaiian TV.

Family Crypt – A Love Poem to My Mother

1983 • 11 min • Germany

A portrait of Maria Lang's mother, which is also a family portrait of the filmmaker. The film shows an excerpt from the Lang family's everyday life. It follows the parents as they go about their daily chores and small rituals.

The Water of the Seine

1983 • 11 min • France

Teo Hernandez films the water of the Seine and its reflections for a film at once material and luminous.

Początek

1983 • 5 min • Poland

Etude of women's work in one of the textile factories in Łódź. The protagonist of the film, after finishing his shift, goes home, where a small child is waiting for her.

(Voici), Eis

1983 • 1 min • Brazil

Fragility, transience of the image here is between its appearing-disappearing.

En voilà 2

1983 • 15 min • France

Second part of the Jacques Toumoy trilogy.

At the Door of Darkness

1983 • 8 min • United States of America

Short film by Jay Woelfel (Beyond Dream's Door)

Journey Through Time: The Human Story

1983 • 11 min • Canada

Where do we come from? In a dazzling sprint through twenty million years, this animated short evokes the great episodes that led to the birth of man.

Great Mother (YUMIKO)

1983 • 25 min • Japan

The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. Yumiko, a rebellious young woman from an affluent family, encounters resistance from her mother, a successful career woman, when she becomes pregnant and marries. The mother is an icy, assured presence, seen only on a television screen as a superego who monitors Yumiko's behavior. The television becomes a powerful metaphorical device, underlining the disunity of the familial structure and acting as a psychological presence. As Yumiko's marriage deteriorates, her pain is juxtaposed with the banal rituals of her mother's life (instructing her subordinates at work, scrubbing the floor at home), an irony ultimately heightened by the viewer's awareness of the reflexivity of this drama-within-a-drama.

Ein Herbst im Ländchen Bärwalde

1983 • 29 min • East Germany

The everyday work and life perspectives of a family of farmers from Brandenburg.

Lato 'D'

1983 • 30 min • Italy

A worn record by Lou Reed, clips of film, texts that run on the video and are erased: traces of D. Sounds and images collected and rearranged, which recompose a simulated portrait, perhaps not resembling its original, but in which an attempt has been made not to lose that found charge of poetry and provocation. This film was made in 1982, on randomly recovered Super 8 material, shot by D., a seventeen-year-old boy, between 1977 and 1978, and completed with texts taken from interviews recorded in the same period. We have tried to transform forgotten finds, made of hallucinated and lucid self-portraits, significant of an original way of experiencing the condition of youth into active and narrated documentation.

Liu Huanzhang the Sculptor

1983 • 26 min

Documentary about sculptor Liu Huanzhang.

Geschlechtsorgane

1983 • 15 min

The first part of the film explains human reproduction, the female and male organs and bodily functions. In the second part, the problem of the increase in sexually transmitted diseases in the context of free sexual contact is mentioned and symptoms are explained. In addition to real film scenes, the commentary film contains microscopic shots, cultural-historical depictions and animated drawings. The film was obviously intended to appeal to young men and adolescents in particular. Part of the Du und deine Gesundheit series.

Jubilee

1983 • 30 min • Soviet Union

Animators from the distant future fly to another planet to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Soviet animation. Once in a meteor shower, the spaceship makes an emergency landing on an unknown planet, where live monsters with the ability to transform. Unknown formless creatures attack the ship and take away all things from there, along with films on which were recorded cartoons for display. While watching the collection of the best Soviet cartoons, monsters, being very impressed by what they saw, turn into cartoon characters, after which they decide to make peace with people and help them get everything back in place.

Save the Panda

1983 • 57 min

High in the bamboo-forested mountain ranges of central China live the elusive and endangered giant panda. Over time, their numbers have dwindled due to human encroachment and climatic changes. Join scientists as they track these rare creatures through nearly impenetrable bamboo in an effort to learn more about the panda and ultimately increase its chances of survival.

Tree

1983 • 5 min • Soviet Union

Based on Lithuanian folk tales.

The Return of a Library Lover

1983 • 16 min • France

Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world. This other world is cinema, the mechanical gaze of a Super 8 camera. This eye sees very deeply, even beyond reality and brute memory.

Hell Spit Flexion

1983 • 1 min • United States of America

"My moving-visual response to William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell," this hand-painted film seems the most rhythmically exact of all my work: it was inspired by memories of an old man coughing in the night of a thing-walled ancient hotel... a triumph of rhythm thru to inspiration. Dedicated to Bill and Stella Pence." - S.B. "Although it was later incorporated into The Dante Quartet in 1987 in a slightly modified form, this film was initially completed in 1983 by Brakhage, and prints exist of the standalone version, which features main and end titles, and a small amount of additional material at its very beginning, including a few small film flares and two frames of a leader lady (which are part of the film, but were removed in 1987)." - Mark Toscano