All Films

Pathos Scatters in Illusion

1982 • 59 min • Japan

Chako's Apa-toru Story

1982 • 30 min • Japan

A Pineapple Vanished

1982 • 10 min • Japan

Une âme à voile

1982 • 9 min • Canada

The sails are hoisted and, leaving the port, a sailboat makes us live its discovery of the sea. Subjected to the capricious mood of the weather, it sails sometimes under a burning sun to the incessant rhythm of the waves, sometimes faces the fury of the waves, then calm returns.

The Selves

1982 • 10 min • United States of America

"I had an idea for quite some time for a film based on an essay by Lewis Thomas taken from a book that Will had lent me. Yes, the essay was ... I was sure … written just for me. It was called 'The Selves' […]" (SH)

The Adventures of Terrific Man!

1982 • 23 min

Bumbling superhero Terrific Man (Keith Parrish) and Commissioner Morton (Steve Labows) have their hands full when The Puzzler (Ed Wandall) threatens to take over the town of Hatboro and eventually the world in The Adventures of Terrific Man!

Simba Wa Nyika

1982 • 10 min • France, Kenya

A man listens to music on a cassette. It seems to have been composed by an amateur. Then, on stage, he is now the conductor of an orchestra and this time, it’s he who is playing this music.

Italian Conflagration

1982 • 21 min

Kiesel, in Incendio Italiano (roughly, Italian Conflagration) takes the metaphor of highway travel as the central axis for an exploration of poetic sensibility in the grand tradition of Goethe's Italian journeys and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

Dung Beetles

1982 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

Sisyphus-esque life of a dung beetle.

Shoplifting Prevented

1982 • 14 min

A short film about preventing shoplifting in the 1980s.

Ish & Vinny

1982 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

A Little Poem for Wednesday

1982 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Ouch, That Was My Penis You Stepped On!

1982 • 31 min

16mm experimental short film.

Zebo

1982 • 1 min

16mm experimental short film.

Specimens

1982 • 16 min • Ireland

Considered to be one of the most ambitious short films made by the Spence Brothers, this stone-age alien extravaganza has everything a true sci-fi fan needs in spades. The mission is simple: aliens must capture and record living specimens from earth. However a violent earthquake forces the ship to take off whilst a giant robot, used to collect specimens, is swallowed up in the eruption. During quarry excavations in the present day the robot is re-animated, and the mission is still on.

The Terror of the Goonie Monster

1982 • 2 min • United States of America

A hump-backed freak terrorizes a small Vermont town.

Citizen Bull

1982 • 52 min

Documentary about celebrated racing tipster Phil Bull, with dramatised parts illustrating his career.

Video Portraits - Men: Ryoichi Enomoto

1982 • 7 min • Japan

A playful portrait of designer Ryoichi Enomato, a former collaborator of the Shuji Terayama and the Tenjō Sajiki theater troupe. Kyoko Michishita: “…when I asked Enomoto, the king of parody, to let me film him at the Japan Graphic Exhibition, an event that has become the gateway to success for commercial artists, he gracefully took his clothes off for me. But he asked to wear sunglasses to hide his embarrassment.”

Hopiit

1982 • 14 min • United States of America

In this lyrical work, Masayesva observes Hopi cultural activities through the cycle of the seasons. Work and play, ceremonial rituals and the rituals of everyday life throughout the year are woven together in a seamless vision that conveys the oral traditions of storytelling, the natural landscape of Arizona, and the richness of Hopi culture.

Linnaloom

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Animals belong to an urban environment and they will always be here since people need a piece of living nature close to them. House plants are not enough - one needs a living creature. What will become of these animals after purchase? How do pets live next to people?

Video Portraits - Men: Issey Miyake

1982 • 22 min

An intimate and loving interview with the late fashion designer Miyake in his Tokyo apartment, alongside glimpses of his groundbreaking creations. In his own words, "When I work, I don't think I'm a man or a Japanese."

Captured by an Unprecedented Task

1982 • 52 min • Soviet Union

A film by the legendary cinema studio KyivNaukFilm, which popularized complex science concepts, and the explanation of what cybernetics is, not just as a “science, but also as a certain position, attitude to the world.

Balloon on Track

1982 • 2 min • Switzerland

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

DC '82 Home

1982 • 5 min

At home, outdoors. Street shots.