All Films

East Coast

1982 • 12 min

East Coast responds to the textures, forms and elemental light play observed along a stretch of coastline in Happisburgh, Norfolk. It was first screened on BBC 2 television in the UK, where it was likened to the work of visionary film maker Pat O'Neil and his innovative multilayering of images using optical printing. This film creates similar effects by exposing each roll of film up to five times, using a Bolex 16mm camera. The film opens at Wells Next the Sea, and observes beach life in the gaps between the long row of beach huts. A fast film stock adds an intense painterly grain to the scene. The movement of waves drying on sun bleached sand are overlapped and rendered as kinetic abstractions. Each sequence is accompanied by a montage of natural sounds, which seek to suggest a musical equivalence of treatment, alongside the visuals.

As Cegas

1982 • 10 min

A film about three blind women struggling to survive in Paraíba.

The Loves of Azra Livac

1982 • 29 min • Yugoslavia

Azra is a smelter by occupation and surname (Livac – smelter), one of the few in the male-dominated profession. But she does not aspire to identify with her male counterparts, and despite the burden of hard work, Azra is open to the new love challenges.

True Romance, Etc.

1982 • 33 min • United Kingdom

Hackney teenagers - black, white, gay and straight - talk sex, love and marriage in this compelling drama-documentary.

Caracol

1982 • 2 min • Argentina

A boy climbs a wall to take a closer look at a snail that slowly moves along its edge and encounters an alien world. Among sheets and white clothes drying in the sun, there are two young girls playing with a bag that floats above them as if by magic.

Cidade dos Homens

1982 • 28 min • Brazil

With statements by actor and director Ednaldo do Egito, the film reflects on the male presence in the city of João Pessoa.

Johnny Mathis - Live in Chicago

1982 • 57 min

Johnny Mathis, byname of John Royce Mathis, (born September 30, 1935, Gilmer, Texas, U.S.), American pop singer who achieved wide and enduring popularity as an angelic-voiced crooner of romantic ballads. He was perhaps best known for his affecting rendition of the Erroll Garner composition “Misty” (1959). Mathis grew up in a large working-class family in San Francisco. He developed an appreciation of music from his father, a former vaudeville performer, and, as a child, he sang regularly in church and at school events. From age 13 he also took vocal lessons, which provided him with a classical foundation for his burgeoning talent.

Thumbelina

1982 • 20 min • Japan

A stop-motion puppet animation adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina.

Vã-Pirações

1982 • 4 min • Brazil

A vampire is frightened by the reality of urban violence.

Mr. & Mrs. Fish Present The Treasure in the Eel's Cave

1982 • 25 min • United States of America

"A fun-filled story for young children explaining how the shape of fish help them to survive and adapt to their surroundings in the ocean. Children will laugh as they learn, watching the zany duo of "Mr. & Mrs. Fish" fool a hungry, bumbling, big fish. They are successful thanks to the help of a jolly pirate, a wizard, a balloon man, and an Italian chef. Live footage of sea creatures, a lot of bad jokes, and wonderful musical score by recording artists "Schooner Fare" add to the merriment."

Mergulho

1982 • 3 min • Brazil

A man jumps into the abyss holding the key to love.

Cosmonaut's Nomad Encampment

1982 • 16 min • Soviet Union

With talk of Soviet Cosmonauts just then in space, Kenzhe, the youngest son of the family, does not want to be part of the ‘train’ of children playing at going on the long journey to Moscow and instead tells his mother he is going to be a cosmonaut.

Superficiale

1982 • 10 min • Italy

A film by Valentina Berardinone

Cosmotropics

1982 • 7 min • Germany

Animation for an unrealized visual album by Supersempfft, previously unreleased.

I-ii-iii

1982 • 8 min

Three short formal films: image planes are projected on top of each other. The staggered and flickering images have been shot on Super8 film.

Arte y Restauración

1982 • 9 min • Peru

Immersion in the artistic restoration work carried out in the convent of San Francisco de Lima.

The Saving of the President

1982 • 31 min

The events immediately following the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in Washington DC on March 30, 1981 .

Le Jardin (du Paradis) The Garden

1982 • 22 min • Canada

Set in a Referendum torn Quebec between two languages, between two cities drawn between two cultures, a young immigrant tries to find his way while simultaneously dealing with the loss of his own father.

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

1982 • 25 min

Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Shoshone French Cree painter, discusses her abstract paintings, which depict her Indian heritage with scenes of early plains lifestyles.

O, This Unidentifiable Love

1982 • 7 min

The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

1982 • 19 min

1982. 15'50". A French black and white experimental film. Bloody, violent, and disturbing. Full production credits unconfirmed.

Ga

1982 • 5 min

This work is Stephanie Maxwell's Master of Fine Arts film thesis production at the San Francisco Art Institute. The imagery was created using a variety of experimental hand painting and hand engraving techniques directly on the surface of 35mm black and clear film stocks. Animal motifs are represented in a diurnal, abstract motion world. The music is a prerecorded vocals and percussion work from Ghana.

Missing Is Living

1982 • 6 min

Joint film work by Sikorski and artist Asia Ciba documents the atmosphere of the first months following the imposition of martial law. The atmosphere of isolation, precariousness, waiting for it to end and the need to break away from the external, political and social realm. The film was made without any specific intention, on a certain “dead” afternoon, in a cramped basement in Radna St. in Warsaw, where the artist dwelt at the time.

Itxoiten

1982 • 13 min • Spain

Waiting for aita to take me in her arms. Waiting for the first day of school. Waiting for the breasts to grow.