All Films

Chronopolis

1983 • 52 min • France, Poland

In a gargantuan city lurking in the sky, powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive.

Trick or Treat

1983 • 30 min

Town miser Gideon Hackles spends Halloween hiding IOU's in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the IOU's so he can scare them. This year, he gets his comeuppance.

Reeling in TV Time

1983 • 4 min

In Reeling in TV Time, VanDerBeek experiments with imaging capabilities and early computer graphics.

Underwold

1983 • 13 min • Spain

Novelist Quim Monzó is going to create new characters. Pinxa, Riqui and Txordi are black series heroes who had the misfortune of being born in Girona, instead of the Chicago of the thirties.

Kind Hometown Spirits

1983 • 27 min • Soviet Union

As a result of the initiative of the youth programme of Estonian Television, a phenomenon known as "Hometown" was born in Estonia in October 1975. Tens, hundreds, even thousands of schoolboys and schoolgirls gathered in the Tallinn old town on Sundays in order to work, explore the miracles of old town, to edit their own newspaper, to organize meetings, excursions etc.

Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock

1983 • 58 min

This vibrant and engaging video profiles the a capella activist group, Sweet Honey in the Rock. Singing to end the oppression of Black people world wide, SWEET HONEY embraces musical styles from spirituals and blues to calypso, and concerns ranging from feminism to ecology, peace and justice. This dynamic video features individual portraits, powerful concert footage and commentary by Angela Davis, Alice Walker and Holly Near.

Boys Will Be Boys

1983 • 59 min • Japan

Yukihiro Takahashi Live 1983

My Film, My Film, My Film

1983 • 3 min

Three animators collaborate on a film.

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

1983 • 26 min • Germany

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

The Big Southerner

1983 • 25 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about Thomas Edwards, better known as Yr Hwntw Mawr, a murderer and the last murderer to be publicly hanged in Merionethshire.

Tram Calf

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The mischievous antics of a small tram car create a dangerous situation in the city, ultimately reminding the young tram of its daily duty - to transport people.

Detour

1983 • 12 min • Germany

Experimental film about a train ride. The carriage window becomes a screen, the landscape a mood, the mood a landscape.

War

1983 • 27 min

1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after witnessing a bunch of incompetent commandos kill each other, they get separated.

Resurrection Trial

1983 • 54 min • United States of America

His job: Silence the Christians once and for all. His method: Prove the resurrection never happened. Can your faith stand up to The Prosecutor?

Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire

1983 • 21 min • United Kingdom, Ghana

Produced while the Black Audio Film Collective were undergraduates, Expeditions 1 – Signs of Empire is the first of a two-part 35mm slide-tape text entitled Expeditions; part two is entitled Images of Nationality. The work toured England from November 1984 to March 1985, using a Kodak dissolve unit to sequence images into narrative. The soundtrack to Signs of Empire, which consisted of tape loops of musique concrete and political speeches, was amplified to create a powerful environment of dread.

Im Zeichen der Spinne

1983 • 48 min • East Germany

Heynowski and Scheumann infiltrate the ultra-right-wing Chilean organization Patria y Libertad

How Old Man Became a Brood-Hen

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The wife tells her husband to hatch the chickens, but the cheerful soldier is ready to save him. Puppet cartoon based on a folk tale.

Kite in the Attic

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Star Suburb: The Suburb of the Stars

1983 • 27 min

In an HLM in space, Mireille, a little girl, gets up at night, attracted by strange noises and lights.

A Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific

1983 • 55 min

Recorded in 1983 during a ten-day gathering in Vanuatu, a newly independent island nation in the south Pacific that had recently declared itself a nuclear-free zone, this program takes a look at the Pacific-wide movement towards independence and de-nuclearization. 
Testimony is presented by Pacific islanders and Pacific Rim representatives who experience various aspects of the nuclear cycle, from uranium mining in Australia and Canada to nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands and Tahiti. Health, social, economic, military and political effects of the nuclear presence in the Pacific are the subject of the conference and the focus of a march through downtown Port Vila to the French consulate on Bastille Day.
 


Crossroads-Pocket Money

1983 • 21 min • Hong Kong

Decision: Ma Ji (Liu Dehua) and Zhu Nu (Liu Yijun) are good brothers who have sympathy for brotherhood. They have experienced all kinds of storms and waves together, and their feelings are very firm. However, in an accident, the two unintentionally set off a fire which caused heavy casualties. Ma Ji decided to make a good man from now on, but Zhu Nv still went her own way and gradually drifted away. "Pocket money": A Bang (Stephen Chow) is a son-in-law born with a golden spoon, but in an accident, he became addicted to drugs, and from then on he went deeper and deeper into extinction. Wrong Way: Arvin (Tony Leung) is a kind and filial boy who always takes care of his sick mother. One day, on the basketball court, Ah Wen was repeatedly harassed and provoked by gangsters. Untolerable, he clashed with the other side, resulting in a homicide. Ah Wen was immediately pursued by the police.

Battling Beauties

1983 • 60 min

Root for your favorite buxom boxer among the Valley Girl, Nancy the Naughty Nurse, Cactus Kelly and more. This is boxing like you've never seen it before. Duke it out with the prettiest pugilists on the planet.

The World of 'The Dark Crystal'

1983 • 57 min • United States of America

A documentary which explores the making of Jim Henson and Frank Oz's 1982 fantasy film 'The Dark Crystal', which originally aired on PBS in the United States on January 9, 1983. This one-hour documentary details the technological innovations in the field of animatronics, art design, film making, and Henson's own brand of magic. Requiring 5 years of production, including over two years of pre-production, The Dark Crystal was inspired by the imagination of artist Brian Froud and conceived by scores of talented designers, builders, technicians, and performers. The World of the Dark Crystal shows how Jim Henson's Creature Shop in London and the Muppet Workshop in New York brought Brian Froud's art and Jim Henson's vision to life.

The Great Bear Scare

1983 • 24 min

As Halloween approaches, the bears of Bearbank begin to fear an invasion of monsters from nearby Monster Mountain. As most of the bears prepare to leave the city, one brave little bear, Ted E. Bear, sets out to confront fear!