All Films

New Left Note

1982 • 27 min • United States of America

As editor of "New Left Notes", the newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Saul Levine was at the center of multiple radical political movements. Filming from 1968-1982, he employs a rapid fire editing style to create a frenetic, kaleidoscopic portrait of the antiwar movement, women's liberation and the Black Panthers.

Arabic Numeral Series 15

1982 • 8 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 18

1982 • 9 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

Arabic Numeral Series 17

1982 • 8 min

“With some exceptions, the Arabics take the idea of the void as their ground. That is, the light we do see almost always seems to be set against darkness, or occasionally against white, these momentary flickers that materialize tenuously out of emptiness. But the darkness is not ‘night,’ or even simply some more abstract absence of light, but a more profound vacuum: it represents a world stripped of all the coordinates of the known, an unmeasurable absence. […] These lushly sensual, pleasurable-to-view films are also terrifying: their unpredictability, continually enacting new dramas of surprise, alternatively swamps the viewer in light and leaves him adrift in darkness.”

The Mole in Town

1982 • 28 min • Czechoslovakia

Khoja Nasreddin I

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

ULTRA III: Peter Kurten, Sadist & Mass Slayer

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. An in-depth documentary of the life & works of Peter Kurten, the monster of Dusseldorf, including previously unpublished pictures and information. With music by WHITEHOUSE, J.S.BACH & BEETHOVEN

Ultra I

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unwholesome fascination with infamous murderers. SUTCLIFFE JUGEND interview and music PETER KURTEN preview WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 1 birthdeath experience side A PHILIP BEST talks to MARY DOWD WHITEHOUSE studio action 1 KINGS CROSS PROSTITUTION 1982

The Great Sky

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Two friends serve as pilots in a military unit near a peaceful and blossoming city. When an accident happens during a flight, they have to decide whether to eject or sacrifice themselves and save thousands of lives. Based on a poem by Robert Rozhdestvensky.

Urban Fire

1982 • 15 min • Canada

A child is given birth in the womb of its dead mother. Child’s eyes perceive the death of a city. The last birth combined with the fire and destruction.

Ultra Iv

1982 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unwholesome fascination with infamous murderers. PETER SUTCLIFFE preview WHITEHOUSE LP TRACKS 3 total sex side A SUTCLIFFE JUGEND interview & music WHITEHOUSE studio action 2 HERMANN NITSCH a study AUSCWITZ / BIRKENAU 1941-82

Recuerdos de Flores Muertas

1982 • 7 min

A poetic study of the Concordia Cemetery.

Home-made Melodrama

1982 • 55 min • United Kingdom

In Home-made Melodrama, Jacqui Duckworth candidly articulates the complexities of an open relationship.

Too Young

1982 • 3 min

Taking off where Brooke Shields left us in her Calvins, this film takes a hard, humorous look at the pressures and frustrations girls feel as they rush out to explore their sexuality with all the taboos and fears that entails.

Balanço do Tempo na Cena de Angola

1982 • 45 min • Angola

A documentary in which Angolan laborers describe their working conditions under colonial rule.

小兔淘淘的故事回声

1982 • 10 min • China

Tao-Tao the baby rabbit has arguments with their friends, then discovers echoes.

Jóvenes de barrio

1982 • 39 min • Spain

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

Self-portrait with the Device

1982 • 9 min • France

"In the 1990 text on his film Autoportrait au dispositif (1981), Lebrat wrote that all his films are in fact self-portraits, including those that are abstract colour films, and the Rothko's painting are the most beautiful examples of self-portraiture in twentieth century art. lebrat notes that the impetus behind self-portraiture comes out of his desire to create another image of his body, which does not necessarily have to be its representation but can suggest another satte of being, for example the infinite and transcendent state aims at overcoming the problem of corps morcelé and mortal flesh." Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof

Task

1982 • 4 min • New Zealand

A closeup of a woman's hands ironing a piece of clothing.

Aleph

1982 • 18 min • United States of America

Omniscient perspectives shoot vibratory gleams through human projectors statically displaced across the screen. Superimpositions at fever pitch falling apart and compressing into new molecular lattices. Peripheral fantasies imagine forth collusioned destinies. A yin/yang interchange makes light's transparency into density, while the darkness metamorphoses into thin lucidity. Hands in peristaltic motion grasp and release, conjuring interstitial embroideries. Landscapes yield their own maps in topographical patterns.

Five Year Diary, Reel 22: A Short Affair (and) Going Crazy (August 23–September 1, 1982)

1982 • 27 min • United States of America

Introduction; a vegetarian dinner; the lover sleeping; sorting garbage; ex-lovers' art; friends and cocaine; moon; composting sable brushes; the kitchen sink; wine; eating with my hands; the kitchen table; self-portraits'; construction machines; hiding behind the curtains; morning-glories at dusk; dinner with my mother; the drawings in the hall, yoga, and the goddess rap; calling the lover; saying goodbye; carnival rides; street scenes; weeping; flowers and bees; shadows on the carpet and empty rooms; esoteric sign language; sorting the compost; walking through Boston, hunting for clues; finding him in a fountain; my favorite statue; the slug incident; paranoia about plastic; putting everything in garbage bags; the construction site outside; calling the lover. (ACR)

Bow Wow Wow: Live Sefton Park 07/09/82

1982 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Bow Wow Wow - the English new wave band performs TV Savage, Cowboy, Orang Outang, Sexy Eiffel Towers, Jungle Boy, Mile High Club, Uoma Sex El Apache, Go wild In The Country, I Want Candy, C30 C60 C90 Go! - An episode of "Pop Carnival". At Sefton Park, Liverpool, UK.

Cinématon n°228 : Raoul Ruiz

1982 • 4 min • France

Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

María del desierto

1982 • 13 min • Peru

María Reiche studied for more than four decades the "largest calendar in the world", located between Nasca and Palpa, and made up of the famous geoglyphs.