All Films

The Flying Trunk

1983 • 30 min • East Germany

A young merchant's son spends his entire fortune to be able to throw lavish parties with his cronies. All he has left in the end is an old magic suitcase that can be used to fly.

Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

This unusual look at plant reproduction investigates the diversity of plant adaptations for pollination with an emphasis on unusual co-evolved relationships with animal pollinators. Sexual encounters of the floral kind includes unusual bird and mammal pollinators, flowers that smell like rotting flesh, and orchids that lure male wasps with the promise of sex. Includes examples from Australia, the Arctic, Central America, and Great Britain.

All Fucked Up

1983 • 8 min

A caustic send-up of adolescent anxiety, as seen through a barrage of clips from sex ed and social hygiene films of the 1950s and '60s.

The Spectre of Marxism

1983 • 55 min • United Kingdom

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical development, and at its most direct outcome: the failed Soviet Union.

What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?

1983 • 23 min • United States of America

As they begin their journey home from their student exchange term, Charlie Brown and the gang find themselves sidetracked. They have severe car trouble and more importantly, they pass by various monuments to World Wars I & II. With Linus guiding them through these memorials, they learn about the events of the wars and the sacrifices required of the troops who fought them.

Flying Gopher

1983 • 9 min • Soviet Union

How the little gopher got into the eagle's nest and became friends with the eaglet.

Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives

1983 • 8 min • France

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he denounces the repression, torture and racism. In 1983, René Vautier discovered, by the light of a flashlight, his films cut up and scattered at Fort du Conquet. Police also came to check the damage.

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

1983 • 60 min • United States of America

Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business is slow. One evening, Mr. Lovejoy shows up to offer Zack the same deal he gave to Joe. It could turn his business around, but what will he have to give in return?

Camera Obscura 2

1983 • 3 min • Japan

Short film made using a pinhole camera

The Little Elephant and a Letter

1983 • 8 min • Soviet Union

YMO JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan

1983 • 60 min • Japan

Yellow Magic Orchestra playing songs from the album Service in the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan in the 22 Dec. 1983

It's Got to Be Funny, Hasn't It...

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A documentary examining the life and career of British comedy legend Max Wall.

Les Havres

1983 • 12 min • France

Document on the city of Le Havre. Luc Moullet sets out to show Le Havre not as a single city centered on its port, but as a multitude of neighborhoods and annexed communes, making Le Havre a city of rare diversity. Commentary by Luc Moullet, said by himself. First part of an aborted "Le Havre seen by ...".

Georgiy Millyar

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union

Documentary on actor Georgiy Millyar.

Falasha: Agony of the Black Jews

1983 • 28 min

Filmed at great personal risk, this documentary exposes the plight of "the last tribe of Israel", the Falashas of Ethiopia. They are persecuted by the Ethiopians for being Jewish and subject also to Israeli discrimination. The impoverished Falashas live in tiny, mountainous villages where the film crew found them practicing their religion in isolation, as they have done for the past 2,000 years. These Ethiopian Jews long to go to Zion, but the government will not allow them to emigrate and deals harshly with those who endeavor to escape.

The Question of Instrument

1983 • 57 min • Canada

Part I of the series "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" is devoted to Bach's "Art of Fugue." Gould's performance is followed by a lively repartee with Monsaingeon, in which the pianist provides dazzling insights illustrated by music examples. He explains, for example, why he plays some pieces extremely slowly, and bemoans the "musicological overkill" of scholars who insist that Bach's keyboard music should only be played on a harpsichord.

Asia Strikes Back

1983 • 30 min • Japan

At an isolated location training camp for soldiers with supernatural powers makes a man revolt, causing a war to break out among the soldiers.

The Wings

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Uncle Kyrylo receives wings as a New Year's gift and becomes so proud of them, that he starts to teach birds how to fly, but then realizes that he knows very little about it himself.

The Greatest Story Never Told

1983 • 45 min

Jeff Williams is a young man with a busy life. Work, school, church, sports. But when a missionary family stationed Africa comes home to the United States for a visit, Jeff learns that sharing his faith doesn't necessarily require leaving home. Jeff comes to realize that his ideas about what a mission field really is have kept him from being a witness to those around him, including his boss, his friends and even the kid next door.

Пилюля

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The Pill

Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns

1983 • 57 min • United Kingdom

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work of Xie Jin.

Four American Composers: Philip Glass

1983 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his signature minimal sound.

The Skilfull Master's Present

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The continuation of the animation of The Skilfull Master

Reisen til planeten Nazar

1983 • 18 min • Denmark, Norway

The story of the young student Nils Klim and his journey to the strange planet Nazar and meeting the people who live there.