All Films

I Saw Jesus in a Tortilla

1982 • 4 min

Entirely comprised both from dissolving still photographs and a simple narrative story line taken verbatim from a newspaper article in the The Arizona Daily Star is I SAW JESUS IN A TORTILLA. It recounts the story of Ramona Barraras, a New Mexican woman, who saw the face of Jesus while rolling her husband's burrito. In an attempt to manipulate the media to her advantage in publicizing this miraculous event, the media ultimately exploited one of the most significant events of Mrs. Barraras' life.

Sax

1982 • 6 min • Germany

1983 German super 8 short work

Berlin Kitchen Music

1982 • 6 min • Germany

1982 German super 8 short work

Terminal City

1982 • 9 min • Canada

Terminal City records the demolition of the Devonshire Hotel in Vancouver; through extreme show motion (200 frames per second) and symmetrical diagonal framing, Gallagher underscores the passage from order to chaos within the event. The sparseness of this centering and he patience required of the viewer heightens the literally explosive climaxes of the film, and transforms the everyday violence of the events into moments of convulsive beauty. – Jim Shedden, Michael Zryd, The Independent Eye

Contemporary

1982 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

An interesting, seemingly plotless fast-paced animation, consisting of a line of objects transforming and melting one into another to a punchy jazz soundtrack.

Waterworx (A Clear Day and No Memories)

1982 • 6 min

The waterworks in the beaches area of Toronto is the source of an image, perhaps eidetic, from my early childhood. It always had an enigmatic quality, and even after returning years later to shoot this film. I was still not satisfied that it was merely a filtration plant - its architecture functioned more metaphorically. Wallace Steven's ironic and equally enigmatic poem 'A Clear Day and No Memories' was brought into the film later to address these issues, and to provide an interruptive graphic function for the same reasons the style of editing is interruptive, that is, to both underscore the alluring nature of the image, and to force an intellectual distancing. Just as the supposedly clear air is used as the protagonist in Steven's poem, the Precisionist clarity of the imagery is foreground in Waterworx, while the soundtrack develops the air's subtext.

The Tale of the Magic Pomegranate

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day, trouble came to the palace — the beautiful princess fell seriously ill. The doctor said that only the juice of a magic pomegranate can cure her. And only a person with a kind heart and pure, sincere thoughts can get it.

You Have to Pay For Mistakes

1982 • 8 min • Soviet Union

A film about a small, clumsy donkey, that "didn't mean to do that," to whom for the excuse, and everyone responded, "for not meaning to they’re mighty mean to you," except for the kind girl...

The Fairy Tale on Wheels Continues Its Journey

1982 • 15 min • Soviet Union

A grandfather and granddaughter with their fairy-tale theater travel to an enchanted city to make its inhabitants laugh and free them from witchcraft. Baba Yaga and her assistants try in every possible way to prevent this, but having failed, they join the fairy-tale theater.

Everything For the Stork

1982 • 10 min • Bulgaria, Soviet Union

A flock of storks was flying south, but one bird lagged behind and fell to the meadow without strength. A little girl found the stork and called the adults for help. There were rallies and actions to save the bird. Only a little girl thought to give water and fish to the tired stork, after which it flew away.

In Need of Space

1982 • 5 min

Inspired by Steve Reich’s music, a cube rotates with the same dimensions as the film frame.

Old Jug

1982 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on an oriental parable about two neighbors - a good one and an envious one.

In/Side/Out I

1982 • 2 min

Various geometric lines are put out of their figurative context into a set of multiple oppositions, all articulated with respect to the edge of the frame. It was built as a self-contained, intentionally short-lived whole.

Episodes from the Secret Life

1982 • 30 min

"Two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously." - Barry Gerson Poetic structure created through masking out of two separate images juxtaposing opposite motions, resulting in two visions of the world being viewed simultaneously. Our ideas about space and time, and about what and how we perceive are challenged.

Portraits of Two Artists

1982 • 28 min

Features master painters Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence. In addition to visual sequences of the artist's work, the program includes an inside look at a class taught by Lee-Smith at New York's prestigious Art Students League; both artists working in their studios; a trip by ferry to an island in Puget Sound where Lawrence works on a commissioned mural; and an animation of the illustrations from Lawrence's children's book "Harriet and the Promised Land". From the collection of the Black Resource Center at the County of Los Angeles Public Library. https://archive.org/details/portraitoftwoartistscompton

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance, Outdoor Piece 1981 - 1982

1982 • 56 min • United States of America

In his third one-year performance piece, from 26 September 1981 through 26 September 1982, Hsieh spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents. He moved around New York City with a packbag and a sleeping bag.

Lie Back & Enjoy It

1982 • 8 min

Lie Back & Enjoy It is a dialectical film about the politics of representation. Its image track consists of technologically manipulated images of women, and some printed titles. Its soundtrack consists of a dialogue between a Man (a filmmaker) and a Woman (of whom he's going to make a film).

Mysteries

1982 • 7 min • United Kingdom

Mysteries is a photomontage film, shot at Penmon, Anglesey and Whiteknights Farm, Hampshire. Beginning with a quotation from a dream, it becomes the filmmaker's interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of the Mysteries: “The women are celebrating the Mysteries on the beach at Penmon... No-one is watching... The sound of the general waves crashing against the bank of pebbles; the sound of the barley waving... Someone holds out her hand, holds it open against the sea. Perhaps it is my hand, the hand holds three ears of barley...”.

Clotheslines

1982 • 32 min

A film that takes laundry seriously as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier and lens for women to reflect on the joys, pains and ambivalences of household chores.

Rescueman

1982 • 14 min

A school bus driver explains to an interested elementary student the different ways to evacuate a school bus.

Holon

1982 • 13 min • France

"Christian Lebrat said he thought of Monet, who painted with the series Water Lilies colors ‘at the edge of the visible;’ those of Holon indeed display colors so intense, so enraged with energy that they release in a pure way the performative, exclamative character, the character of act which, in a more or less underground way, informs every image." Nicole Brenez

Le soleil, la mer, le cœur et les étoiles

1982 • 35 min • France

«The sun, the sea, the heart and the stars / Dawn Aurora Light Heat / The heart serves the body / The spirit dominates the star»

Eclipse Predictions

1982 • 4 min • United States of America

Diana Wilson’s mysteriously beautiful animated tableaux fluidly unfold before our eyes, a generous receptacle for the mournful, harrowing soundtrack, in which the filmmaker recounts a tragedy from her youth. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.

Chuck's Will's Widow

1982 • 13 min • United States of America

Chuck's Will's Widow is a eulogy for my father and mother whose ashes are spread in the Adirondack mountain woods where the film is shot. Visualized through a field of swirling shapes, the fragmented landscapes weave an emotional fabric containing inexplicable personifications and associations.