All Films

Stations

1983 • 23 min • Australia

Set in working class Brisbane in 1953, Stations is an evocative short drama featuring Noni Hazelhurst as a young woman coning to terms with her romantic illusions. “A sensual piting of black-and-white social realism against memory-hazed fantasy sequences . . . It is a film of immediate and engaging feel for human weakness and strength”

Sizmara

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

The king, tormented by nightmares, seeks for the best dream to be able to sleep peacefully.

Rich Little's Robin Hood

1983 • 50 min

Rich Little plays all the major characters in the retelling of the Robin Hood story. Little plays each character through a classic Hollywood personality. Groucho Marx is Robin, Carol Channing is Maid Marion, Humphrey Bogart is Prince John, John Wayne is Little John, and Laurel & Hardy are the Sheriffs of Nottingham.

The Ransom of Red Chief

1983 • 56 min • Soviet Union

Based on the novel of the same name by O. Henry.

Memories of War

1983 • 16 min • Canada

This haunting animation film, rich with symbolism, is the filmmaker's plea for a peaceful world in which to raise his newborn son. Using the menacing imagery of the howling wind, the artist provokes viewers to reflect on the insanity of war. While the film is symbolic, its message is unmistakably clear: unless there is an end to conflict, we will continue to see our children swept away like leaves in the wind.

About the Mouse Who Wanted to Become Strong

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Based on the Moldovan folk tale about the Little Mouse, who dreamed of becoming the strongest, so as not to be afraid of anyone in the world.

Jazz Is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi

1983 • 58 min • United States of America

Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi.

Mrs. Silly

1983 • 60 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money. Confronted with these losses, Mrs. Silly realizes she must regain her identity. Desperately trying to keep up appearances, to be cheerful, busy, and dignified, she only succeeds in living up to the derisive nickname she invented for herself.

Fish Story

1983 • 3 min • United States of America

A naked man jumps off the deep end from a diving board into a surrealist watery world of fish and cellar stairs.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 03

1983 • 59 min

Opens with SALLY RAND’s immortal Bubble Dance and a Burlesque masterpiece, ‘Hubba Hubba Girl’ with the legendary EVELYN WEST and original soundtrack. A dozen more gems from as early as the 30’s show the lush variety of classic stripping. Vol. 3 concludes with the glorious original stage striptease of the 50’s saudest stripper CANDY BARR, and the sophisticated glamour of the great LILY ST. CYR.

Chico Antônio, o Herói com Caráter

1983 • 40 min • Brazil

The rescue of a real character from the work of Mario de Andrade. Chico Antônio is a singer and poacher of the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. As he climbed the stems to reach the fruits, he sang and enchanted those who passed by. And Mário de Andrade was one of those spectators, because he loved the warm climate of the equatorial lands

Indelible, Inedible

1983 • 8 min

Images to accompany the lines of a poem by John Ashbery. "Rudy Burckhardt's film is a brilliant extension of my poem, perhaps the film I might have made myself if I were a filmmaker." – John Ashbery

Aivazovsky and Armenia

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Aivazovsky's paintings on historical Armenian themes. His works were not only on marine subjects. In this short we can also see the church of St. Sarkis, where the artist was baptized. He was married within the walls of this ancient temple, and his funeral service was held there in 1900. Modern photos of Armenia and Western Armenia, where Aivazovsky's ancestors were from, harmoniously complement the film. And at last, the picturesque views of Feodosia, the city where the artist lived and worked for many years.

A Clay Tale

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a dragon who does not want to be evil as the folk tale says he should be, but only wants some friends.

Krapps letzter Film

1983 • 13 min • Germany

Raspberry Jam

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Based on the tales of the English writer Donald Bisset.

Into Another Dimension

1983 • 30 min

Sarah Erulkar revisits the world of stamp collecting, in this short narrated by Tom Baker.

Zero Times Zero

1983 • 22 min • Japan

You

1983 • 5 min • Romania

An experimental art animation.

Julien

1983 • 46 min • France

An intimate exploration of Raymonde Carasco’s father.

A Puppy and Seven Goslings

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How friends punished a bully cat.

Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director

1983 • 46 min

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators discussing her film work, from her debut feature HESTER STREET through her romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.

Ballad of an Unsung Hero

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

Using rare historical footage, vintage musical recordings, and interviews with 88-year-old Pedro J. Gonzalez and his wife, this film chronicles Gonzalez’s long and colorful life, from his early days with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, to his career as a popular radio personality in Los Angeles in the 1930s, to the controversial court case that sent him to San Prison, a victim of the repressive forces operating against the Chicano/Mexicano community during that period.

Pneuma

1983 • 28 min • United States of America

The images in this film come from an extensive collection of out-dated raw stock that has been processed without being exposed, and sometimes rephotographed in closer format. Each pattern of grain takes on its own emotional life, an evocation of different aspects of our own being.