All Films

麻衣子・ほほづえ

1983 • 30 min • Japan

Notre Dame de la Croisette

1983 • 53 min • Switzerland

A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room.

A Parcel From Bombay

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A man from India was staying in one of the villages. After a wonderful time spent with the friendly owners of lands far from his home, he returned to his homeland, and to please those who liked him so much, he sent a real elephant with the help of a delivery service. What are ordinary citizens to do with this miracle that has fallen on their heads?

Burden

1983 • 30 min • Soviet Union

After the death of her mother, little Olya lives alone with her father. One evening, a girl hears her father inviting his beloved girl Sveta to stay with them forever. But she offers to send the girl to a 24-hour kindergarten so that she does not become a burden for them. Olya asks the teacher Varya what this word means? Olya is very attached to her teacher and she would like to see her as a new mother.

An Art of the Fugue

1983 • 58 min • Canada

In Part II of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach", Gould concentrates on the fugal form in Bach's works, showing us how Bach uses keys like stops on an organ, and how they give him ideas and colours. He performs various fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier and reveals why he feels the "Art of Fugue" is the work that summed up Bach's life.

YMO: Winter Live '81

1983 • 57 min • Japan

Yellow Magic Orchestra concert recorded in late December 1981 at the Shinjuku Koma Theater.

The Pimp’s World

1983 • 28 min • United States of America

The world of pimping in early 1980s America offers a rare, unfiltered glimpse into a controversial underground lifestyle. Through exclusive interviews with the notorious figure “Harold” and his associates—Alice, Lori, and Karen—the film provides a nuanced exploration of the lives of pimps and streetwalkers and the ways their paths intertwine. With a focus on both the allure and inherent dangers of this lifestyle, the documentary reaches a sombre climax, shedding light on the tragic murder of Alice Franklin, one of Harold’s streetwalkers, later that same year.

Costakis: The Collector

1983 • 54 min

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art. Its walls were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Kandinsky, Chagall, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, and Kliun; public figures such as Edward Kennedy, Stravinsky, and Alfred Barr visited. Barrie Gavin met the collector in 1982 at his home in Athens. Costakis, a Greek born in Russia, passionately shares his story and those of the great Russian avant-garde artists. Their works are his legacy – without him, they would not have survived the political upheavals in Russia.

Joe Jackson: Sight and Sound in Concert

1983 • 44 min

Steve Blacknell introduces a concert by Joe Jackson from the Regal Theatre, Hitchin

An Evening With Kitten

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

Fantasize to your Heart's Content as you watch the Incredible Kitten Natividad Frolic in this Hilarious Burlesque Extravaganza.

Party in Rio

1983 • 56 min

This is a short travel log of the night and beach life of Rio de Janeiro during the annual Carnival. Arnold spends some time with beautiful models in the Club Oba Oba, on the beach, at the parade, at a costume party, in a couple of restaurants, and at a street side cafe.

Garland of Kids

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

First film. On a trip to the zoo come a group of children, each of them holding a hand over the rope. Monkeys are introduced to the group, mingling with the children, and begin to misbehave.

The Miraculous Circumstance: Bartok, Folklorist

1983 • 38 min

In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe, and he called his discovery 'a miraculous circumstance'. In this film the late A. L. Lloyd retraces Bartok's journeys through Hungary and Romania to rediscover that treasure of native music.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't

1983 • 26 min

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't is the 1983 direct-to-video program, which is presented by Chuck E. Cheese's/Showbiz Pizza Restaurants. It centers around Chuck E. Cheese and Jasper T. Jowls as they set out to the North Pole in order to save Christmas.

Die blaue Distanz

1983 • 25 min

A woman on a train.

Nami Matsukawa (Secret) Torture Hell

1983 • 30 min • Japan

BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Okiana

1983 • 37 min

An imaginary journey on a ship. We turned the building of the Film Academy into a ship. Claire and Solange from a Jean Genet piece, a polish woman with her Madonna, screaming sailors are a few of the passengers on this artifical journey.

Adventure of an Ant

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A 1983 short film directed by Eduard Nazarov about an ant who gets blown away with the wind from its home and the adventures it goes through in desperately trying to find its way back.

Micro Cosmos 1-4

1983 • 15 min

In Micro Cosmos, a series of four short computer-animated works, the image of an orb is transformed into a pulsating, energetic evocaton of life forces.

Passage du thermomètre

1983 • 15 min • France

Film made by passing - passing through - passing through - passing from an erotic desire to a filmic desire. The eye slipping from one object of desire to another. Some pass, others enjoy. Ejaculation film during the transition from winter to spring. Suites d'enfilades, suites d'enculades. Suites of variations on the theme of the passage. Passage from underground to overground. Switch from black and white to color. Passage from day to night - passengers in the shade. Passage of desire. Switching from one image to another. Passage - message. Passage from the near to the far, from the far to the near: setting in the abyss. New fleeting visions in a public passage that does not lead to the metro.

Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

A teenage girl is traumatized after being assaulted by a stranger from whom she hitched a ride.

Isoppu Monogatari

1983 • 28 min • Japan

Three animated episodes taken from some of the most famous fairy tales created by the Greek philosopher and writer Aesop, whose main protagonists are none other than animals. Each fable has at the end a wit or a moral, suitable to educate children to the values ​​of life, to behave in the right direction and to avoid danger and bad deeds. In fairy tales various metaphors and transformations are used to represent everyday life in ancient Greece.

James Bond in India

1983 • 29 min • India

The making of the James Bond movie Octopussy (1983) in Udaipur, India during 1982.

Zwisch!

1983 • 2 min • Norway

A character animation which attempts to compress the life of a common working class man into 90 seconds.