All Films

Michael Jackson's Thriller

1983 • 14 min • United States of America

A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry.

Herndon

1983 • 25 min

A high-school nerd goes to his 10-year class reunion.

The Coneheads

1983 • 24 min

In this animated pilot based on the SNL sketch, The Coneheads come to conquer Earth but they soon find themselves becoming domesticated.

Flyers

1983 • 35 min • United States of America

Flyers features the exploits of fictional pilot Kyle Murphy, a World War II veteran who turns his love of flying into an impassioned career - as an aircraft restorer and stunt pilot for the movies. Climb into the cockpit with him and experience the split-second timing of an emergency landing on an aircraft carrier deck

Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: The Movie

1983 • 30 min • Japan

The Dynaman must prevent a powerful new gun invented by a friend of Doctor Yumeno from falling into the hands of the Jashinka.

Wishman

1983 • 48 min

Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.

Great Day

1983 • 30 min • United States of America

When a neighborhood is plagued by break-ins, a family looks to burglar-proof their house. Dead bolts aren't enough, so the father (Tim Conway) has to ratchet things up. Comic situations ensue.

Daicon Film's Return of Ultraman

1983 • 28 min • Japan

The final fan-made Ultraman short film directed by Hideaki Anno. Based on The Return of Ultraman series.

Dimensions of Dialogue

1983 • 12 min • Czechoslovakia

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

Enemy

1983 • 25 min • Philippines

'Enemy' is elegaic science-fiction: a fable about the young men trained as Guardians of the Stars and their failure to ward off an unknon 'enemy' who manifests himself as white light.

Paws

1983 • 2 min • United States of America

A housecat attempts to eat what he doesn't suspect is a piranha.

Midvinterduell

1983 • 52 min • Sweden

The film depicts a stubborn farmer who refuses to adapt to new rules that require him to leave his milk on the village common milk stool instead of his own.

Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! The Great Race Around The World

1983 • 52 min • Japan

Arale and her friends learn of a World Grand Prix being organised by the Radial Kingdom. The prize is marrying Princess Front (a dead ringer to Ms. Yamabuki) or 1 million dollars. Of course they decide to enter for the money. Not so for Dr. Mashirito; he is going for the princess and will stop at nothing to win! The princess though has her own plan, which involves Ms. Yamabuki, and that of course means even Dr. Slump decides to enter with his trusty Borobo. Let the race begin...

The Charmkins

1983 • 24 min • United States of America

The Charmkins is a television film based on an early 1980s toyline by Hasbro, which was broadcast on October 25, 1983.

DAICON IV Opening Animation

1983 • 6 min • Japan

Set to "Twilight" by Electric Light Orchestra, the girl from DAICON III has become a bunny suit-clad fighter, getting around on a mysterious flying sword, taking on the villains of sci-fi and popular fiction. What will become of the world after this?

OMD - Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

1982 • 52 min • United Kingdom

Filmed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London in 1981, this video shows the band singing some of their most famous hits of that time, live on stage. Includes songs such as Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans, Messages and Enola Gay and many more. Originally released as a VHS video, this was also distributed on a Collector's Edition DVD/CD combo in 2007.

Animus

1982 • 6 min

This animated film borrows from the pre-cinematic imagery of Eadweard Muybridge in a self-referential mode. It takes the viewer to the early Edison days when moving images of a man walking or sneezing were a novelty. Schwartz combines those historical sequences with contemporary animation to comment on the progress of movie-making in the twentieth century. This "how-to animation" with its "tongue-in-cheek" mix of live action, animation and xerography serves as an introduction to the concept of structuralism.

Permissible Dreams

1982 • 31 min • Egypt

A documentary portrait of a traditional peasant woman, Om Said.

Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed

1982 • 13 min

"The very first footage I shot in NYC, back in 1975. This version was put together in 1981 when I blew up the original super 8 to 16mmm. All the special effects (wipes of different types) are hand drawn with black ink directly on the super 8 original. The resulting A and B rolls were then superimposed."

Window Painting

1982 • 3 min

Two men in a shop window paint each other.

41/82 Getting Warm

1982 • 3 min

The third of the "bad home movies". Kren moved, along with his Thunderbird from New England in winter to the warmth of Texas. Part of the film was shot in Austin. (Hans Scheugl)

Post-Industrial Fiddle

1982 • 23 min

Explores the importance of music-making in the life of a pulp mill worker in rural Maine.

Condensation Trail

1982 • 8 min

Flashes of changing color (a result of the celluloid being slightly exposed during the changing of reels), mark the first movements of a plane's steady climb into the blue sky, leaving a condensation trail behind. This 22-second long shot is combined with black and white film, in which diagonal lines and parts of the image are cut out. Though these effects may be highly controlled by the director, at the heart of Condensation Trail is an event which is unique and unstaged, and which is unlikely to ever repeat itself. The plane crosses the screen from the lower left to the upper right corner. Halfway on its journey, a bird flies into the frame and crosses the plane's condensation trail exactly at its very end, making a perfectly sharp diagonal as it slowly reaches for its lower right corner.

Yellow Fever

1982 • 3 min

1982 German super 8 short work