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Five Go Mad on Mescalin

Five Go Mad on Mescalin

1983 • 31 min
On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm they're appalled to meet the vulgar millionaire, Mr Budweiser, and his spoilt son, Willy. Julian and Dick are so incensed, they sleep outdoors where they spy 2 heavies being secretly villainous. The trail leads to Love Island, where they discover Uncle Quentin and his boyfriend Toby.
Boys and Girls

Boys and Girls

1983 • 22 min
Boys and Girls is a 1983 Canadian short film directed by Don McBrearty. It is based on Alice Munro's short story of the same name, written in 1968. It is a coming of age story about a girl growing up on a farm having to accept that in her lifetime she will always be considered "only a girl." The film won an Oscar in 1984 for Best Short Subject.
The Cosmic Conspiracy

The Cosmic Conspiracy

1983 • 47 min • United States of America
Documentary from 1983 about suppressed technology and UFOs based on Stan Deyo’s book of the same name.
He Saw Her Burning

He Saw Her Burning

1983 • 20 min
He Saw Her Burning, which is based on a 1983 performance, is a provocative narrative collage, a surreal juxtaposition of two narrated texts. A man and a woman begin their respective tales: He saw a woman burst into flames on the street; she saw an American soldier go berserk and drive a tank into a crowd. Produced while Jonas was living in Berlin on an artist's fellowship, the disjunctive narratives are pervaded with a sense of cultural dislocation and alienation. The man and woman occupy separate narrative spaces as they tell their stories, which are intercut with a pastiche of word games, narrative reenactments, filmed sequences, isolated gestures and objects. Memory — elusive and ephemeral, personal and collective — is the catalyst for this complex work.
See What You Hear What You See

See What You Hear What You See

1983 • 3 min
Optical sound!
Dio - Live in Holland

Dio - Live in Holland

1983 • 39 min
Live at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands - Dec 4 1983
Good Forest

Good Forest

1983 • 15 min • Soviet Union
About baby squirrels that were re-educated by the entire forest.
Just an Overnight Guest

Just an Overnight Guest

1983 • 38 min • United States of America
A family takes in an abused girl and eventually decide to adopt her.
Gary's Story

Gary's Story

1983 • 24 min • Australia
A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.
The Day the Shopping Carts Came to Life

The Day the Shopping Carts Came to Life

1983 • 4 min • United States of America
Shopping carts come to life with a thirst for blood.
Blake: The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

Blake: The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell

1983 • 48 min • United States of America
A portrayal of artist/poet William Blake's effort to capture "an eternal world of the permanent realities of everything we see reflected in the vegetable glass of nature." Winner of the Columbus Film Festival "Chris" and the Cine Golden Eagle.
A Moment in Time

A Moment in Time

1983 • 60 min
Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself to a regime of rest, exercise, and starvation rations. When he meets the attractive Deidre Mackay, he finds himself experiencing emotions he never thought he'd feel again. From each other they learn how to live and how to love. They relive their youths-pulling pranks, laughing and dreaming. With a love so powerful, their time together is of no consequence. For it is a moment that stands still in time. A Moment In Time will make you laugh and cry and share a love that you'll never forget!
The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?

1983 • 58 min • United States of America
Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona – homeland of the Hopi and Navajo.
How Oppression Strikes

How Oppression Strikes

1983 • 40 min • Sweden
Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden, to make a documentary on PIDEE (Protection of Children Harmed by the State of Emergency) and on FASIC, a Catholic organisation for the defence of human rights. It is one of the first clandestine films to be made during the period of the dictatorship, and provides an insight into the state of repression in which the population was living. The filmmakers entered the country in 1982 and clandestinely shot several films in the country. Among the testimonies is an interview with the widow of Hugo Araya, "El Salvaje", filmmaker and photographer assassinated on 11 September 1973. The film's credits list "Sergio Bustamante" as co-director, a fictitious name invented by Gonçalves because he was still in exile. "How oppression strikes " won the FIPRECI prize at the Oberhausen Festival, Germany, in 1983.
Verdon-Saussois 1983

Verdon-Saussois 1983

1983 • 20 min • France
In 1983, the French Mountain Federation (FFM) organized a landmark climbing gathering in Saussois and the Verdon, bringing together generations of the greatest climbers of the time, including Patrick Edlinger, Jean-Claude Droyer, Jerry Moffatt, Jean-Claude Droyer, Robert Paragot, Lucien Bérardini, Ron Fawcett, Jean-Pierre Bouvier, and other major figures. This event symbolized the emergence of modern sport climbing as a practice in its own right in France, with the liberation of legendary routes and the rise of freestyle climbing, notably under the leadership of Droyer and Edlinger. This gathering was a key moment in the dissemination of the freestyle ethic and the evolution of grading, while Saussois and the Verdon were at the forefront of high difficulty in the world.
Metropolitan Cats

Metropolitan Cats

1983 • 25 min • United States of America
From ancient Chinese sculpture to the modern Broadway stage, cats have long been a source of inspiration for artists. This unusual film juxtaposes famous depictions of cats from the Museum's collection with their contemporary counterparts. Curators and staff muse on our feline friends' legendary stubbornness and implacable curiosity, their endless capacity for mischief, and ultimately how they have held our attention for millennia.
Police in Montserrat

Police in Montserrat

1983 • 47 min
This BBC 47 minute documentary "Police in Montserrat" was shown on UK television back in the 1980's and it hasn't been broadcast outside of the UK. This version includes several clips that did not make one of the previous broadcasts. There is an extended intro, and additional footage of all three band members being interviewed. Other special features include two live tracks from October 1978's appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show , 'Can't Stand Losing You' and 'Next To You'. This was The Police's big break on UK television and showcases early Police at their best.
Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner

Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner

1983 • 47 min • Germany
By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. Nonetheless, Raganelli visited Arzner’s desert home and retraced the pioneering filmmaker’s career in this documentary, using Arzner’s trove of photographs, as well as interviews with her leading lady Esther Ralston, to create this nuanced portrait of a woman who bucked every norm and defied societal expectation.
One Minute for One Image

One Minute for One Image

1983 • 26 min • France
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)
Pat Benatar : Live in New Haven

Pat Benatar : Live in New Haven

1983 • 60 min • United States of America
Rock-n-roll maven Pat Benatar performs live in concert on the 1983 "Get Nervous" world tour.
Les vacances d'Elvis Gratton

Les vacances d'Elvis Gratton

1983 • 28 min • Canada
Elvis Gratton wins the contest organized in memory of Elvis Presley, which earns him a trip to the Republic of Santa Banana. We find him, clumsy and cartoonish, on the beaches of this shabby republic, ruled by a veritable petty dictator.
The Smiths: Live at The Haçienda, Manchester

The Smiths: Live at The Haçienda, Manchester

1983 • 38 min • United Kingdom
This was the first hometown gig where the Smiths were headliners. As the band came on stage Morrissey greeted the fans "Hello you little charmers... we're the Smiths, how d'you do?" then launched into "You've Got Everything Now". Throughout the show, in one song out of two (faster numbers), Morrissey - who still looked ill at ease on stage at the time - had something to shake in his right hand while with the left one he held the microphone.
Carlin at Carnegie

Carlin at Carnegie

1983 • 60 min • United States of America
Recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City in 1982, released in 1983. Most of the material comes from his A Place for My Stuff, the album released earlier that same year. The final performance of "Seven Dirty Words," his last recorded performance of the routine, features Carlin's updated list.
Nevermind The Grief

Nevermind The Grief

1983 • 10 min • Soviet Union
A soldier served a long time service. He took as a reward an old drum and went where his eyes were looking. He walked for a long time, and went to the hut, and in it the small girl was crying, because the fierce witch has destroyed her parents.