All Films

To Be

1982 • 6 min

A bunch of young people, more or less hippies, waste time at the cinema with a dull film. On-screen, a man lies on the railway and awaits his end. But at some point the screen and reality become the same.

Golden City Of The Gays

1982 • 35 min

Originally aired on "Four Corners". In 1982 a government report stated 1 in 10 Australians were 'probably' gay. Sydney was being dubbed the San Francisco of the Southern Hemisphere, yet homosexuality was still illegal. Delve in to Sydney's '80s gay scene.

Les Libanais, otages de leur ville

1982 • 9 min • Palestinian Territory

Jocelyne Saab toured the city of Beirut devastated by Israeli bombings. She assesses the number of victims and the extent of the destruction.

Videoflashs

1982 • 8 min • France

An unusual play on television images.

The Face in Art

1982 • 4 min • United Kingdom

Through varying appropriate materials: mosaic; fresco; tempera; oil paint – the film traces the approach to the human face by artists from Egyptian to modern times.

Alan Vega: Live at Rockpalast

1982 • 56 min

The concert was filmed on June 4th, 1982 at Sartory Säle in Cologne (Germany) during the 82' COLLISION DRIVE tour. In 1981 Alan Vega had released his second solo LP under the title Collison Drive.

Mirror's Tale

1982 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A naive villager goes to town to sell wool. On the way, he meets a cunning trader who buys all his goods by paying just a mirror. But who would imagine it is magical?

Jugendwerkhof

1982 • 31 min • East Germany

Teenagers at risk who are cared for and trained in a "Jugendwerkhof", a borstal - a problem almost totally suppressed officially. The film enquires after the causes and chances for the future.

Livstecken

1982 • 53 min

About the author Elsa Grave, her sources of inspiration and subject areas.

Grandpa and Grandma

1982 • 14 min • Poland

Mists drifting among the cottages, a barn, a hearth, water from the stream, bread. And then again: hay in the barn, pitchforks in the field, potatoes and sour milk. The even rhythm of nature and the rhythm of human work and human life inscribed in it. A life in common. As in Kraszewski's poem: "There was a grandfather and a grandmother, both very old" Only the punch line is different: "My life is good. I don’t want a different one”. A warm, intimate portrait of two old people.

Geschlechtskrankheiten

1982 • 6 min

The film draws attention to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, especially among adolescents and young adults, and identifies partner changes and alcohol as factors that promote the spread. As basic preventive information about the sexually transmitted diseases gonorrhea and syphilis, the film explains symptoms in men and women and possible consequences such as permanent infertility or agonizing infirmity.

The Forssa Syndrome

1982 • 2 min • Finland

An expedition to a peculiar small town where even the swans swim backwards and water in puddles is antimatter.

The Bomb

1982 • 6 min • Bulgaria

Solo

1982 • 6 min • Bulgaria

Strugatskiy, Saratov. 'Poisk'

1982 • 7 min • Soviet Union

Follows the Arkady Strugatsky's trip to Saratov.

The Crown of Nature

1982 • 9 min • Soviet Union

A bureaucrat decides to flee the cacophonous hyperstimulation of modern city life to find peace in the countryside. Is the natural world, free of industrial machines and the relentless pace of urban life, as good as it seems to be?

Provincial Life

1982 • 13 min • Soviet Union

A bunch of friends adapts to the rural lifestyle.

A Letter to the Future

1982 • 26 min • Soviet Union

The saga of Pushkin and the Decembrists, based on a letter by Matvey Muravyov-Apostol, found in Yalutorovsk during the Soviet era.

In His Father's Footsteps

1982 • 29 min • United States of America

An American family visits a concentration camp in Germany. At the museum, the father makes the acquaintance of an older man who questions his prejudices.

The Gammadovs. Balkhar

1982 • 26 min

Short documental movie on Lak Balkhar culture presented by Dagestani television.

Landscape

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

About a silly bear who didn't like the painted landscape.

One Evening

1982 • 2 min • Soviet Union

A satirical cartoon about electricity wasters.

Of People and Atoms

1982 • 50 min • Soviet Union

A film about the history of the development and problems of nuclear physics.

A Number Out of Light

1982 • 13 min • Yugoslavia

Short documentary film about the Church of the Holy Cross in Nin, Croatia, whose form, according to art historian Mladen Pejaković, is designed to follow the position of the sun.