All Films

The Portrait

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A capricious lord who is blind in one eye orders a portrait from three painters, threatening to condemn them to death should the results displease him.

Cet Autre

1982 • 20 min • France

How far can a group of young people accept the otherness of a marginal person they are trying to welcome among them ? We won't know a lot of things about him. He will depart just as mysteriously as he had come, leaving behind him wall paintings of stunning quality and that sentence painted on a garage door : "Music soothes the savage breast." His brief stay has disrupted that young microcosm. It gave those young people an opportunity to reveal their personality to each other. Some appear as intolerant, others as cowardly and some as braver than the rest. We are tempted to consider this film as a documentary fable. Indeed, it has that eternal quality that is found in all founding narratives, since it raises a question that is as old as humanity : difference.

The Cop and the Anthem

1982 • 23 min

This O. Henry adaptation features Soapy, an affable bum in 19th-century New York City, who starts thinking about going to his "winter home" on Blackwell's Island. To set his plan into motion, all he has to do is break the law.

Gaman...to Endure

1982 • 6 min

An animated film told through a young girl’s eyes, it combines the drawings of Betty Chen and haunting music of Nobuko Miyamoto to tell of 110,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps during World War II.

Robots and Robots

1982 • 8 min • Romania

Short film in the Delta Space Mission film series. In a mission to recover the Delta space station, Dan is caught by a defective robot and mistaken for some radioactive energy source.

Sigh of Relief

1982 • 8 min • Bulgaria

Planet Earth is devastated. A lone man wanders through a dark forest. He sees in the far light and strives for it. He is tormented by cold and thirst. With the last of his strength, he reaches the top of the mountain, where the flames are burning. The man sighs. The air from his lungs extinguishes the flames.

Hand

1982 • 5 min

A hand dance.

Wildflower

1982 • 16 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Foxi

1982 • 12 min • Germany

A lonely old man finds companionship with a toy dog.

Fade

1982 • 7 min

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Cabedal

1982 • 11 min

A worker, tired from another day's work, has a vision in the middle of the night: a large piece of leather is waiting for him, buried somewhere.

Jaco Pastorius: Live in Montreal

1982 • 57 min

Filmed at the Montreal Jazz Festival in the early 1980s, this concert provides nearly an hour of first-class jazz. Bob Mintzer is outspoken on tenor sax in the opening number, underpinned by Jaco’s clear and propulsive bass. Othello Molineaux coaxes a wide range of sounds out of a single steel drum, possibly the most awkward musical instrument ever devised by man, but Othello makes it sing radiantly.

Cat Leopold's Walk

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Leopold the Cat went for a bike ride along the highway, and at the 13th kilometer, the mice were awaiting him.

Wooden Little People

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A tribe of little wooden men lived among the roots of the trees in a dense, over-dense forest, where people almost never appeared. All their years - and they lived a very long time - the little men did nothing, because they did not need to eat, drink, or wear clothes: they were made of wood, and the fiercest frost could not hurt them.

Absent Parents

1982 • 1 min

UK public information film advising parents to watch small children when near open stretches of water.

Personal Cuts

1982 • 4 min • Yugoslavia

Video by Croatian artist Sanja Iveković, a performative stripping of personal identity by the interpolation of excerpts from public service TV shows.

Call It Sleep

1982 • 40 min • United States of America

A global, strategic evaluation of the social forces comprising the society of the spectacle. It is conceived from the view that, if individuals are to gain control over their lives, the world of hierarchical power must be destroyed.

Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed

1982 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Documents the post-punk period between 1978 and 1981, featuring the looks, the poses, the rucks, the riots and the slaggings of bands and their fans. Includes footage of the Wasted Festival and some of the original bands 25 years on. Also has performances from exponents of Punk, Mod, Oi and Ska - all filmed in the same DIY ethic that spawned punk itself.

The Inwardly Blind

1982 • 13 min

An anti-Mojahedin Khalq film.

The Circular Scene

1982 • 8 min • Argentina

The silhouettes of a couple in the window were filmed with few directions for the protagonists. They suggested the synthesis of cinematic space and the universality of their figures. The camera draws attention to moments, gestures, and actions, all inserted into the parentheses of a fade-in/fade-out. Cinema rediscovered as an effective memory machine.

Self Portrait

1982 • 4 min • Indonesia

In this experimental, stop-motion short, the filmmaker’s self-portrait is continually created, and re-created.

Money

1982 • 5 min • Germany

1982 German super 8 short work for the band Malaria

The Sound Collector

1982 • 12 min • Canada

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exciting fantasies, he creates an adventure story for his older brother in which knights chase away monsters and perform other daring deeds.

Finger-fan

1982 • 9 min

1982 short experimental film by Linda Christanell