All Films

Chapeleiros

1983 • 24 min • Brazil

An attentive and time-consuming observation of the daily life of workers in a hat factory - entering the factory, the rhythm of the machines, the rhythm of manual work, the steam, the brief and precious break for lunch, the mechanical gesture of the worker repeated over and over again countless times, the silhouettes of bodies. The only foray into direction by the prolific photographer and art director of Brazilian cinema, Adrian Cooper.

The Man In The Case

1983 • 18 min • Soviet Union

The story about one teacher of the Greek language in the gymnasium - Byelikov. He was so distrustful that he turned his whole life into a "case existence".

The Bowls

1983 • 11 min • Burkina Faso

In a Mossi village (in Burkina Faso), two elderly men make traditional wooden bowls used for everyday purposes. The work is difficult and meticulous, and has been abandoned by young people who seem to have left the village.

Punk em São Paulo: Garotos do Subúrbio

1983 • 43 min • Brazil

In 1983, director Fernando Meirelles read an article in the newspaper about the punks circulating in downtown São Paulo. Half suspicious, he went to see what it was all about. The result is Boys From The Suburbs, his first "most worked"Film.

Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

1983 • 54 min • United Kingdom

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

Rich

1983 • 21 min • United States of America

A young man living in the inner city, runs into conflicts with his mother when he decides to pursue a college education instead of accepting an offer for a full-time job.

The Battle of Waterloo

1983 • 50 min • United Kingdom

For the infantrymen, old hands and raw recruits, 36 hours of forced march and a night in pouring rain are followed by a day in a muddy cornfield, facing cannon, cavalry, and infantry. If they're still standing as the day ends, they've won.

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

1983 • 52 min • United Kingdom

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway

Hit Women of the Swedish Mafia

1983 • 5 min

Top Swedish model Inga Swenson is also a secret agent on a mission to eliminate the foreign dignitatires The Godmother tells her to.

Dangerous Trifles

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A short film commissioned by the traffic police.

Disciples of the Crow

1983 • 19 min • United States of America

A couple passing through a small Oklahoma town discover that it has been taken over by a homicidal cult that worships a crow god--and that all the cult members are children.

News from Durham

1983 • 12 min • United Kingdom

Combines footage of the 100th Durham Miner's Gala held in 1983, with extracts from a miners' weekend school held two months later, to raise the central issues that were of concern to the mineworkers' union during the lead up to the national strike of 1984.

Euskadi, Summer 1982

1983 • 55 min • France

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Otar Iosselani looks at the Basque region and its inhabitants.

Act Iii

1983 • 6 min

Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.

Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?

1983 • 24 min • United States of America

Linus has to break devastating news, his father has a new job and has to relocate his family. Charlie Brown and the gang make their goodbyes and prepare for Linus and Lucy's departure.

What Happened to Magdalena Jung?

1983 • 13 min • Germany

Christoph Schlingensief puts an end to the misery of "new German film production" and at the same time kicks off a new start without stale romanticism and mysticism.

Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc

1983 • 25 min • France, Soviet Union

"Before we started work on the film "Les Favoris de la Lune" , I tried to capture on film my first impressions of the city and the people who inhabit it. This etude of Paris, slightly shortened, was shown on television." -- Otar Ioseliani

11 testaments

1983 • 14 min • France

The vogue for video wills being all the rage in the United States, the 'I Am' team asked celebrated personalities and anonymous viewers to make their video wills, each reacting according to their temperament.

Playboy Playmate Workout

1983 • 60 min

Lynda Wiesmeier, Playmate of the Month July 1982, along with other Playmates

Shell

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

How the Jerboa gave the Porcupine a shell in which the sea roared.

Pornoscopie

1983 • 7 min • France

The tribulations of a bisexual who's a bit of an exhibitionist.

Another Side of the Moon

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A comic film about traditional Caucasian hospitality.

"Cat and Mouse" at the Home

1983 • 5 min • United States of America

A spoof of "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.

Peel

1983 • 9 min • Australia

A family drive in the countryside turns into a battle of wills between a young boy and his father and aunt.