All Films

Investigation Held by Bychkov's Team

1983 • 60 min • Soviet Union

Follows the persistent, but not always noticeable battle for the moral foundations of the individual, for the future of young people.

The Devil and Tom Walker

1983 • 13 min • United States of America

Claymation adaptation of Washington Irving's 1824 short story about a miser who makes a bargain with the devil, only to find he cannot worm his way out of it after all. Winner of the 1983 Young People's Film and Video Festival in Portland, Oregon. Filmmakers were high school students for entirety of the production. Filmed in Super-8mm, the audio was recorded live on two tracks on the film.

En Galnings Dagbok

1983 • 58 min • Sweden

The story of a minor civil servant and his descent into madness.

The Lonely Olympics

1983 • 56 min

This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater boat). Every night he stays up all night playing mahjong and drinking. Masao lives his life aimlessly, and even the university he got into after failing the entrance exam twice is on the verge of repeating the year. One day, a high school classmate and friend who graduated from Tokyo University and got a job at a top bank is invited to his wedding reception, and Masao is invited as well. However, Masao feels uncomfortable with the glamor of the surroundings, and when Rie, who is also attending, comforts him, he blurts out, half-jokingly, that he might compete in the Olympics.

Red Was the Color of Their Lips

1983 • 12 min • Brazil

Filmed with a Super 8, this independent production portrays discrimination among homosexuals themselves and stereotypes often attached to gay men. At a Carnival camp, two boys meet and get involved. One of them catches the other dressed as a woman. A disagreement ensues.

The Boy and the Blue Sea

1983 • 40 min • Japan

History threatens to destroy the friendship between Hiroshi and Adel whose countries were once enemies. Will Adel forget their quarrel when Hiroshi is in danger?

Autour de Boutavant

1983 • 20 min • France

At the edge of the Brocéliande forest is a site where a castle was built, that of Boutavant (Boutavam). We interrogated the ruins and discovered an original defense system.

Beyond Dream's Door

1983 • 21 min • United States of America

This 1983 short film by Jay Woelfel served as the inspiration for his 1988 low-budget cult classic, Beyond Dream's Door.

Bis weit über's Jahr 2000

1983 • 33 min • East Germany

The Bitterfeld lignite combine includes a large number of lignite plants, open-cast mines, power stations and briquette factories. The film presents several mining professions, shows miners' jobs, mostly in connection with modern mining technology, and points out the great prospects that mining offers in a wide variety of professions.

Condemn Me, It Does Not Matter

1983 • 15 min

Testimony of the events that took place during the assault on the Moncada Barracks in July 1953, based on the texts written by President Fidel Castro in the former prison of Isla de Pinos, currently Isla de la Juventud.

Dream Works

1983 • 11 min

In the whimsical Dreamworks (1983), a narrator recites a parody of Freud that analyzes the dreams of cats against abstract images that seem to represent those dreams and shots from a cat’s point of view, moving about a room close to the floor.

Helgi Tomasson

1983 • 45 min • Iceland

A film about the famous Icelandic ballet dancer Helgi Tómasson.

Futbol Jarana Peruana

1983 • 9 min • Peru

Short film about street soccer players on the eve of the 1982 Peru-Uruguay match

Ghost Stories

1983 • 37 min

Ghost stories opens with a sequence of polemical shots: a mysterious shadow, an ambiguous advertisement which has deeper ambiguities unknown even to itself, and a lengthy quotation from Roland Barthes on the nature of autobiography. These opening shots outline the context in which I hope the bulk of the film will be seen: as a critique on so-called visual literacy, which is frequently based on a complacent mis-reading of images, and also as a rejection of film-biography, whose efficacy depends on such visual complacency. The body of the film consists of fragmentary views of the interior of a house, in which desultory activity occasionally takes place, sometimes in front of the camera, sometimes not. A ghost story is told, firewood is sorted.

Is This Just a Story?

1983 • 27 min • India

This short improvised fiction film is affectionately called Yugantar’s ‘hit’ film. In the midst of the very active autonomous women’s movement in India, Yugantar collaborated with the research and feminist activist collective Stree Shakhti Sanghatana, provoked by an urgency to broaden discourses and political practice on domestic violence. Through an intense period of a consciousness raising style sharing of their own varied and multi-layered experiences of domestic violence, members of both collectives created a script that focuses on isolation and depression while also developing a complex female character in the process of articulating her situation and finding support in female friendship.

Dont Shout

1983 • 4 min

Shot at an old butchers in Lee Green, South East London with Heilco Van der Ploeug. Designed to run as a super 8 projection for the performances that we were making in and around London as BEING KARNAL. Music BEING KARNAL (Heilco Van der Ploeug and Andrew Kotting)

Pepos

1983 • 56 min • Colombia

One night, a group of punks goes around the city in search for new adventures.

Lousy Little Sixpence

1983 • 52 min • Australia

Tells of Aborigines' removal from their families to be sent to work as servants for white people and the rise of the first Aboriginal organisations in the 1930's, in particular the Aborigines Progressive Association.

The Ploughman's Fatigue

1983 • 50 min • Soviet Union

Expressively bold and critical documentary about the failure of the Socialist production system in the Soviet agriculture.

Blue Tit's Calendar

1983 • 32 min • Soviet Union

An animated film about forest dwellers based on the stories of Vitaliy Bianki.

Sacré-Coeur

1983 • 17 min • France

Teo Hernández's unmistakable camera movements portray the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Paris.

Selbe: One Among Many

1983 • 33 min • Senegal

This revealing documentary offers a rare view of daily life in West Africa. Shot in Senegal, Selbe focuses on the social role and economic responsibility of women in African society. Because men often leave their communities to earn money in the city, women are left with sole responsibility for their families. Through the character of Selbe we observe how one woman's personal struggle reflects the broader issues faced by many women in developing countries.

Change in Tuvalu

1983 • 41 min • Australia, Tuvalu

Funded by the Australian Development Assistance Bureau (ADAB), this was the first English-language film made in Tuvalu. The first visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to the new Pacific nation of Tuvalu brings Taliu Eli, a twenty-one year-old primary teacher, from her island of Nui to Funafuti to take part in the celebrations.

The Breakaway

1983 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The closeness of three girlfriends is shattered when Pat takes a sudden shine to a boy she knew, now back on leave from the army.