All Films

Los totos

1983 • 21 min • Argentina

Produced in almost marginal conditions, Los Totos is a portrait of life in impoverished neighbourhoods

Ikuska 16: Donibaneko arrantzaleak

1983 • 10 min • Spain

Tour of the city of San Juan de Luz, located on the southwestern coast of France (North Basque Country), whose economic activity is mainly fishing.

Fun with Father

1983 • 2 min • United States of America

A kitten helps his father defeat a pack of marshmallows.

Holiday Film

1983 • 9 min • Austria

A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt. The camera films with a powerful telephoto lens. This idyll is radically destroyed when the woman suddenly looks directly into the camera. There is an immediate cut (the voyeur has been discovered) and the whole sequence of events begins from the beginning again, but each time re-filmed from the last till finally, only a completely abstract, flickering picture remains.

Die optische Industriegesellschaft oder darf's ein viertel Pfund mehr sein?

1983 • 46 min • Germany

The film combines documentary scenes, TV clips, and passages from an interview with the then Postmaster General Christian Schwarz-Schilling in a fictional plot and mixes video and 16mm film. A film on videotext and the brave new media world, in which the – presumably first – female hacker redirects a few things into other channels. It is also a critique of the working conditions in the emerging information service industry.

The Naughty Slingshot

1983 • 9 min • Czechoslovakia

A stop-motion animated fairy tale about good and evil using wooden folk toys.

El Sitio del Anís

1983 • 20 min • Venezuela

Documentary about the struggles of the people of El Sitio del Anís, in the Venezuelan Andes.

Sundae in New York

1983 • 4 min • United States of America

A character closely resembling then-mayor Ed Koch sings a variation on the "Theme from 'New York, New York'" in an entirely clay-animated film depicting a variety of locations and celebrities associated with New York City. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

The Butterfly Springs

1983 • 25 min • China

In the middle of a secluded and peaceful deep mountain and old forest, a beautiful Bai girl holds a sweet spring for a drink, and sometimes plays with the birds in a friendly manner. At this moment, she saw a deer panicking, followed by a hideous falcon.

Copacabana Beach

1983 • 12 min • Brazil, United States of America

A humorous glimpse of what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana Beach. Physical fitness, Brazilian style, with a dash of soccer and hints of Carmen Miranda.

Disney's Haunted Halloween

1983 • 8 min

A 1983 Disney educational animated short. It is a montage piece telling children about the history of Halloween, hosted by Goofy and the pumpkin from Disney's Halloween Treat. Intermixed throughout are numerous clips from many different Disney cartoons, plus footage of the Disney attraction The Haunted Mansion.

Latvian Folklore

1983 • 20 min • Soviet Union

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia.

Conflict

1983 • 7 min • Soviet Union

The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned.

Obsession

1983 • 8 min • Yugoslavia

A free association of Poe’s theme. In Poe’s work, all evil comes from and inside of a man. Marks went the opposite way. Here, the cat is the personification of evil, which provokes human aggression with its aggression. This – actually fictitious – animal causes in man hatred and the desire to kill.

At Colonus

1983 • 45 min • Greece

The history of the ancient neighborhood of Colonus in Athens, by a novelist and script writer who lives in modern-day Kolonos.

Taunt

1983 • 17 min

Mystery and menace abound in this debut film from Alison Maclean (Crush, The Rehearsal). Made when Maclean was an Elam art student, the experimental short plays with gender and racial stereotypes by constantly thwarting narrative expectations. What there is of a plot consists of a woman emerging from the sea and a 'centrepiece' pursuit leading to a confrontation between two characters: a man and a woman.

The Little Witch

1983 • 25 min • East Germany

The little witch is not interested in the basics of magic. She does not want to study at all! But everything changes when she meets the handsome Prince and falls in love with him. She helps the Prince with her magical powers, protecting him from dangerous obstacles and marriage to a woman he does not love.

Sex Without Glasses

1983 • 13 min

An amalgam of sex without guilt and sight without glasses. The importance of being able to see what you are doing. A film about confusing relationshops, telephones and wetness; and starring a preverbal somnambulist floating between word and object. –R. M.

Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait

1983 • 56 min • United Kingdom

South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.

Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover. The final fifteen minutes of the film are the premiere performance in its entirety.

Ibland tänker jag på Ingvar

1983 • 30 min • Sweden

Ingvar lives a normal life until one day an old friend needs a ride home.

Tamanawis Illahee

1983 • 59 min

A film of the Pacific Northwest, the native people, poetry, history and the forces of change. This was an homage to the Indian heritage of the Pacific Northwest and a study in the contrast of how native people used the land, as opposed to European settlers who gradually took it over. It is experimental in style, combining time-lapse photography, archive footage, classic photographs by documentarist Edward Curtis, museum artifacts and other image sources.

Running

1983 • 2 min

This is the first animation I made for a university class when I was around 21 years old. I cut up pieces of black paper and pasted them one by one on a white wall, then filmed them. I traced a photo book by Eadweard Muybridge to create the material. It was made on 8mm film. The background music uses some of the soundtrack from the film "Ragtime." I created it with the sole focus of matching the music to the movement of the pictures and the scene changes. It is a memorable work for me.

Trapped at Boarding School

1983 • 24 min • Denmark

A boy is being bullied at a Boarding School. Things get out of hand and he will need his revenge.